skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that article is talking specifically about MDMA, but I think the dangers of ecstasy are more due to the fact that in recent years it doesn't actually contain much MDMA and instead uses much less understood chemicals, which are probably more dangerous than MDMA would be.
What happened to http://www.pbworks.com design :/ ? IMHO, the last version was much better.
I have to say I am quite worried about China's economy if I'm honest. Everytime you build a big black box that sucks in and spews money but nobody is entirely sure how it works (think American mortgage market/banking system circa 2008) and anytime you try and question why it works your told to shut up because you just don't "understand the new way" I think you should be deeply suspicious. China is in most respects one giant black box. My main concern is that they've done a fairly similar thing to what Britain did back around 2000. When the US hit a recession from the .com bust we responded by opening up the credit taps and made doing anything and everything on cheap credit very easy. We avoided recession but in doing so we caused one hell of a banking/housing/credit bubble ten years later. I suspect the chinese have unfortunately done the same, they've opened up the credit taps hugely in order to glide through the slowdown in the west, but with that much credit sloshing around there will always be problems. I think those problems are China's regional and local governments, who more or less run their own little fiefdoms and have been financing much of their operations from land sales and off balance sheet investments vehicles...
Neither are a lot of prescription drugs.
Hard liquors are also easier to produce.
She just wants to meet an aesthetically challenged one.
Uncertain, I would love to find out. A good way to do it would be to use data from GitHub/BitKeeper/Google Code to find user platform and dev language (rather than using a survey).

I have had this in the back of my mind for a while now, initially I was going to survey these repos for some numbers on which open source licenses are being used the most - because I have a feeling that more and more code is being released under more liberal BSD/MIT/Apache style licenses over GPL.

Could also collect other interesting stats and publish the results. It would be awesome if GitHub or one of the others had an OKCupid style blog showing trends/stats. Even if they anonymize the data and hand it to somebody else to do (and get it from the others as well)

Actually if anybody wants to work on a weekend project to grep all these repos for some interesting stats, let me know.
Thanks, added to wish list!
It's generally not recommended by doctors, though it's though to be good for your physical health.
In Silicon Valley, I've never noticed a shortage of either Indian or Chinese engineers and executives. Both seem to have a pretty functional diaspora, at least on the west coast. Maybe in Boston, the Chinese community is more insular.

I also think a perpetuation of huge income/lifestyle disparity is much more likely in India and China than it would be in the west -- a middle class of 50mm vs. 300mm in China isn't necessarily going to greatly hinder them if those 50mm are in the right industries. China can continue to trade domestic consumer quality of life for external competitiveness. It's probably not the best thing for maximizing utility for the Chinese people overall, but it certainly maximizes national prestige.
You mean like Diogenes? :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope
It depends on the illness and the severity. My wife's parents and family have never been turned away or made to wait for urgent things, including cancer. The decisions regarding this are made by the doctors. They can expedite things if they think it merits expediting. However, just because something isn't as serious doesn't mean someone wants to live it with, so they can pay extra to get it resolved quicker.
NYC (no remote) - Factor Tree (http://thefactortree.com)

We're a young startup creating an online education platform designed to build a solid foundation in math for kids from preK to 6th grade. We're working on some cool ways to provide every student with a tailored curriculum that adapts as the student progresses.

We're looking for someone who's comfortable in Java (or very similar language) and has a good foundation in web development. You'd be working closely with the lead (only) developer to iterate as fast as humanly possible to put our product in front of kids and parents.

If you're passionate about helping kids learn, send over a few links to things you've worked on (more important) and your resume (less important) to recruiting@thefactortree.com.
I completely agree.

By the way, I know a few people who have taken mephedrone and the general consensus is that its bad: side-effects appear to include not being able to sleep for the next few days, depression, agitation and loss of concentration. I would very strongly advize people to NOT take mephedrone.
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The cliche is that men go to dating sites looking for sex and women go to dating sites looking for wealthy men. A site like this would be a bonanza for men looking for an 'easy' partner.

Someone needs to start a "rich but ugly" site, that would be a winning proposition for both genders, albeit a fertile source of disappointment to anyone who paired up.
I thought about this, too, but I see alot of these jobs with Python requirements being a one-way street, so to speak. A physicist or aerospace engineer might have more chances to work with Python in their jobs, but a good Python developer would have a hard time trying to get a job where the primary skillset requires a degree in Aerospace Engineering.

In general, most of the jobs in Python are side-effects of the field they're used in and not based on being a good Python developer.

I'm sure there are exceptions, but in my localized job searches, Python isn't seen as the primary skillset, merely a 'nice to have' one.
The last sentence there originally said 'until', rather than 'unless'. I meant that distilling alcohol (i.e., liquor) makes it quite a bit more dangerous, that's all.
Exablox — Sunnyvale, CA (partial remote OK, must be available in-person ≥ 1day / week)

Exablox is a data storage company, replacing the traditional storage stack with an integrated experience across local and web storage.

Yup, we're hiring (yes this is redundant ;)

We're a founding team of 3: two systems software guys and a biz guy from an embedded mobile OS company (no, not that one).

Exablox is looking for 2-3 more engineers to fill the following roles (and are psyched if you can crossover between them)

Web folks: Both frontend and backend. You'll be responsible for designing and implementing our online app. This is a great opportunity to leverage your experience with the latest and greatest technologies to build a brand new type of storage app.

Systems folks: You must be well versed in systems software or application design and implementation in C (yes you read correctly!), filesystem experience a plus but not required. The ideal candidate is well versed in POSIX APIs, and isn't afraid to get their hands dirty inside the Linux kernel if necessary. This is the ideal opportunity to help craft the next gen storage stack

Various opportunities available: full time ($$+equity), contract ($$), and internship/co-op ($$)

Contact info in my HN profile
The PhD is a set of projects, but the person is recognized not by the projects but by the degree. (As in "That guy's a doctor" and not "That's that guy who built the awesome Foobsnicator project".)

This is what the argument is about here, that the value of the PhD is being cheapened. If a person was judged by his projects, this would become irrelevant.
So tell me, why is this submission any different from the one you made a few hours ago?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1855821
That's the thing....it wasn't even on my wall. It was a comment on someone else's page who wasn't a mutual friend. The link to the comment was deleted and they still found it, probably through fbs "look what x said on y's page " feature.
Yes. And if you thought you needed to juggle seven balls, you could also learn to do it (that one would take many years of concerted effort, but you could learn to juggle 5 balls in a few months if you really wanted to).

My point is that with some training it is possible to take math (& therefore most of physics/engineering/etc.) notes at high speed using LaTeX, if you practice and set up some shortcuts for yourself. Personally I don’t want to put in the effort practicing to do it, but it’s not unreasonably difficult either (try to transcribe stuff in TeX with an emphasis on speed for a couple hours a week for a few months and you’ll end up quite good at it).
As a pretty active Hacker News member, I think HM can be worth $120/yr.

Here's my particular case. I've been a subscriber since the third issue and 90% of the magazine content I've seen on HN, but the presentation and centralization of the best is of wonderful value. They really do a nice job on the design front. The issues also function like a library of cool articles you can show to a friend or colleague and say "Here's HN in a box, at least one particular filtering of it." I have brought at least a couple contributors to Hacker News, just because they read through an issue of Hacker Monthly.
Fair enough. I'd argue that they're doing a pretty bad job controlling production of illegal drugs too, though. Hell, some illegal drugs (ie mushrooms) can be found walking around the countryside (if you know what you're looking for, at least).
Their register page (https://dm.stanford.edu/register/info/hacker/) uses an expired certificate.
Yes, it was the difference between "His writing style is quirky but his point is interesting" and "I'm not reading that".
Well you don't have the uncomfortable feeling, because you rationalize it away by declaring coffee (caffeine) something entirely different from (other_ neural enhancers (in pill form). Cognitive dissonance is, like you say, the uneasy feeling of having two conflicting views at the same time. Your are 'pills are bad' and 'coffee is ok'. (If I may speculate, I'd say the both come from social conditioning, or rather, accepting the mainstream or conventional views on these issues without thinking about them critically. For which nobody can really blame you, I mean if everybody had to second guess every single thing we see every day ('regular' people drinking coffee), we'd get nothing done at all.)

Anyway so those are the two views, but when you link them through 'they're both cognitive enhancers', a problem arises. Why is one bad, and the other not? So this is then 'glossed over' or 'smoothed out' by the brain by internalizing a third cognition, namely 'they're not the same'. Note that this third cognition does not have to be elaborated on very much (actually this elaboration is what I asked for, because I don't think any argument in it can hold) to put your mind at ease and 'resolve' the cognitive dissonance.

Anyway, my point still stands. I challenge you to explain what is the fundamental difference between taking a chemical in pill form versus taking it in liquid form (this is what it, in my opinion, boils down to). I guess the most obvious argument is going to be that one is man-made and the other 'natural' (which somebody arguing this then usually interprets as "the precursor is readily available in nature, and extensive treatment in the form of drying, grounding, and preparing with hot water is 'pure' enough to all be 'natural".) I won't put any words in your mouth, I'm just pre-empting the usual first response and indicating what I see as weaknesses in that argument ;)

Finally, for the record, I didn't downvote you as far as I remember, but your comment did rub me the wrong way. The reason being that it states a very strong opinion or position, but offers nothing to rationally substantiate that opinion. On the contrary, the only attempt at convincing the reader seems to be in a 'proof by assertion' strategy, repeated across multiple posts. Furthermore from your claim that people only downvoted you because you hold a different opinion it seems that you are not very willing to critically examine your own position, nor to put in the effort to really (as in, rationally and in a dialectically sound way) defend it. I hope I'm wrong on this of course, I'm just letting you know how these couple of posts came across to me, hoping that this may help you understand why people reacted to your post the way they did (well, 'people', just 3 really, but still).
Facebook could start by realising that I'm not interested in Farmville updates from people I have never interacted with beyond accepting their initial friend request, and am very interested in updates from the people whose events I attend and messages I reply to. They have a wealth of data on how I intentionally interact with other Facebook users.

But most of the manual features for managing friends are already in place - you can update particular lists of people through groups, events and private messages. It's really not that tricky to decide who you want to invite to that awesome house party or on the cheap trip to Vegas.

Other features, such as the "how do you know them?" and focus on work/school/city networks seem to have actually been removed due to lack of use despite offering very intuitive and automatic categorisation of friends. Facebook's trajectory towards openness probably reflects a lack of desire towards using it in a structured way. A hypothetical startup whose main strength is removing the spam in the newsfeed and adding in the features they chose to remove probably isn't going to keep Zuck awake at night. I preferred Facebook before Zynga and gratuitous "liking", but I'm not going to persuade my closest friends to move to a clone to get rid of the bloat.

FWIW I think Dave's example of friend bloat is probably more a reflection of his social circle than underlying changes in Facebook itself. He'd have had a lot more friends in 2006 if he'd been attending university, and considerably fewer now if he was working 9-5 for an unglamorous small business and nobody read his blog. The number of friends I had grew far faster in early 2006 than in any subsequent period, and people I shared fleeting conversation whilst waiting for lectures with were arguably far more tangentially connected to me than, say, my sister.
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I always thought that online dating missed the point of how human beings interact, meet and date. And this site is yet another proof.
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5 methoxy dimethyl triptamine IS NOT "Meow" (Mephedrone!) They are not anything like each other in effects or chemistry. Please check your facts, childrens lives are at stake here.
The copy on the front page (specifically the reasons to date ugly people) has a rather mocking tone. I can go along with the idea, but I feel like the site should be showing its members a lot more respect.

If this site becomes known, I could see it being used as a mean insult where someone sends a message on a dating site, and the reply includes a link to TUBB.
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>Yes. And if you thought you needed to juggle seven balls, you could also learn to do it.

I can juggle 3 balls. However, I think even if my life depended on it I couldn't possibly do 7, my reaction times are too long and my coordination is too poor.

My point, in case anyone missed it is that this looks like an edge case to me.
This is the kind of site that will have no trouble attracting press coverage. And that's half the battle.
Submitted within moments of each other, this item is that same:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1856327
In the video, you really just jump right in, and don't do any explaining of what a WYSIWYG site creation tool is or allows you to do. Do some selling! Explain what makes your service so awesome, sets it apart, etc. I watched for awhile and all I saw were some boring text blocks moving around. Also, use a larger video so your visitors can actually see what you're doing.
Submitted within moments of each other, this item is that same:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1856331
3 Life Lessons I’ve Learned Through Blogging
When I quit my last “conventional” job working for a state politician almost a year and a half ago, I had no idea what direction my life would take.
I thought most Chinatowns in the US were basically historical legacies, back from when there was explicit legal discrimination against Chinese.

I sure don't see Chinese university graduates doing H1B work in California living in SF Chinatown; Mountain View, Palo Alto, and SoMA are a lot more popular. Second and third generation Asians (although not necessarily or mostly Chinese) seem to live in specific neighborhoods like Daly City, but this is primarily old people and poor people.

Modern economic immigrants assimilate; modern refugee-type immigrants (e.g. the huge town of Somalis in Maine) self-segregate. The huge Vietnamese community on the West Coast is sort of in both camps -- the older people came right after the Vietnam war as "boat people" refugees, and today a lot of people come from Vietnam for economic reasons and live elsewhere.
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Anyone else thinking this is a bit sad?

# Once with an ugly partner it is unlikely that anyone will try and take them from you meaning you can let yourself go completely once you’re together.

# In these straightened times TUBB is cheaper as a) We don’t charge much as the pretty sites and b) Ugly people have lower expectations – for a first date A Family Bucket will usually do the trick.
Yes, I get the same way.

My CS courses were basically all dependent on exam scores - I would estimate that on average 75% of the course grades came from exams.

In some of the courses, even as late as my 3rd and 4th years, people weren't able to complete projects that had even moderate amounts of coding, even in Java. I would much rather have seen a more 50/50 grading scale (at least in courses that it made sense for - I don't see much of a way to get around exams in theory courses) so that a good grade would require strength in both application and theory.
And don't forget the return journey. I get backscatter scanned (at the gate) around 25% of the time when I travel from Schiphol, NL to Cardiff, UK (a journey I do often).
You made the normal looking guy sound like a douche? That may be the reason he got so many winks and responses. Often being an arrogant douche can be mistaken for confidence and attractiveness.
"The dating game in this country is broken, as evidence I point at the 50%+ divorce rate."

That stat is always brought up as proof of the failure of marriage. To me it validates marriage.

Seriously, if you told a computing engine that two people committed to each other (often when young), and they always had the option of saying adieu, and asked what percentage would over the entirety of their lives, it would probably estimate somewhere in the 100% range of people wouldn't stick it out.

Just look at the evidence: How many people stick to anything they commit to, much less something with a commitment often greater than 60 years.

If almost half of marriages remain, that is just shockingly high.
Microsoft had broken 16bit code earlier with their 64bit implementations of Windows XP, even though the effects were not wide spread and were unfelt at the consumer level. For the consumer, the biggest effect of breaking 16bit code was with hardware drivers. The long cycle was largely due to the development of NT for commercial use with the intent of long support.

Allowing virtualization is very much a customer focused strategy, but one which Apple deliberately avoids at the consumer level with OSX. It doesn't help them in their core business of selling branded hardware with a three year support lifecycle.

What hasn't been explored is virtualization as a high level organizational feature of a desktop operating system. I currently reference a legacy application which relies on 16bit code. Running it in a virtual machine is fabulous because I can save the state and come back to the exactly the same point two months later.

I have another VM which runs Ubuntu. I used it to sign up for Facebook and that's all I use it for. It appears to sidestep the commercial byproducts of Facebook use.
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>a handful of PhD holders who didn't even attend the University that granted it. It's a shame that these qualifications can be purchased

Like this you mean, http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/degrees/honorary/ ?
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"If you look back in history, radical ideas aren’t always received very well. When Galileo suggested the world was round, he was nearly killed for his theory. When Moore said that the power of computers will double every 18 months, people thought he was crazy."

Did he just compare selling televisions online to changing a basic scientific paradigm or heading a fortune 500 company? For that matter did he just put Moore and Galileo in the same league with this comparison?
Mephedrone is horrible stuff, quite similar to methamphetamine in chemistry/effects on the body.[1] It was EXTREMELY popular in the UK when it was legal up until last year. This was due to the total and complete unavailability of the much safer, less addictive and much more well tested MDMA (ecstacy) from the summer of 2008 until mid 2009.

This has been speculated to have happened as a result of international co-operation to make sassafras oil, the main precursor of MDMA less available, and generally crack down on the production of one of the worlds most popular synthetic narcotic drugs. This almost certainly had a lot to do with the 2008 summer olympics in china, where a lot of production of precursors and final products occurs.

The law of unintended consequences rears its head again. Prevent the supply of one drug and the demand switches to a newer more dangerous drug, whose supply you have no ability to control.

[1] http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/drugs/acmd1/acmd-c...
Ask HN: What's the most memorable thing you can do with $8000?
A friend's late grandmother left him about $8000 "to do something memorable". We need some help, since neither of us is familiar with the range of possible experiences outside of going to class, coming home, and doing homework. He's going to graduate in April (at age 22), though, so his time and mobility constraints will be nil.

How could he use the $8000 to the greatest fulfillment of the will?
MDMA is one of the safest drugs you can take. There are long term effects of taking high dosages regularly (to do with mood regulation), but a person using what they have verified to be actually MDMA in responsible doses faces the grave danger of loving everyone and everything for about 4 hours.
Too late for the edit window: I phrased the last sentence poorly, I meant to say, "Also, alcohol is probably made quite a bit more dangerous when concentrated via distillation (into hard liquor), or when people are driving."

The distillation is also where organized crime comes in, whether it's the mob or moonshiners and rum-runners. Making hard cider is easy, but running a still and distribution ring is probably beyond most people, and cider, beer, and wine aren't concentrated enough for smuggling.
I'm a graduate of the U of M, and managed to do so despite being a lazy idiot. This student should be ashamed that they've resorted to bending the rules of the system to complete their degree.