skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it nearly created an entire country of addicts

An entire country of addicts was nearly created by a Big, i'd say Huge, Business + Government Corporation - Britain's East India Company. These and other addictive substances have existed through the history of human species. They become a huge problem only when big money and/or big power gets involved.

>Vicodin (another form of heroin) is legal, yet there is still a black market for it.

that your statement doesn't make sense - Vicodin is legal for prescribed purposes. People having Vicodin prescription don't buy it at black market. Vicodin is illegal for all other situations, and in these situations people go to black market.
(@aromobile company) If we were just doing pattern recognition (ie. "Edward Wheeler" = "Edward Wheeler") then you'd be totally right about nothing being revolutionary here. However, Aro Mobile is built on top of an advanced natural language processing and semantic data analytics services that basically figure out that "Ed" OR "E.W." OR "Eddie" might all be equal to "Edward Wheeler". Our predictive analysis figures out how likely your usage might be, depending on your past activity with "Edward." Then our system analyzes what information we have associated with "Ed Wheeler" and links information together. It works because it's based on your patterns -- if you regularly call "Edward Wheeler" by the name "Ed," we help by figuring that out. There's a lot more to say, but that's one basic example.

You are also right that we also need to do a lot more to improve the product. We welcome feedback through our beta program, so we can continue to improve our product.
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>if you were so successful shutting down the cartels in Colombia, how come it is still the world's leading producer of Cocaine[1]?

who said that it is the cartels who produce the cocaine nowdays? How about government for example?
It would have been more admirable if her mother could walk on one leg.
Warning! Overly verbose blog post!

Topic: Scary idea = AI ending the human race.
This may end up being a wise choice for the company (I think Ev is happier now), but you don't have to be a detail-oriented leader to be a great CEO. You just have to be great at finding people who complement your strengths and weaknesses as a leader.

There is no perfect CEO, so Ev's situation shouldn't apply to everyone. Zuck kept power as CEO and has done an extraordinary job. Larry and Sergey created a triumvirate for the big decisions, and that's worked out quite well as well.
Maybe I'm going to the wrong theaters. Maybe I'm just that much closer to grumpy old man. Lately my theater experience is crying babies (not just at kid's movies), mouth-breathers incessantly pawing at the bottom of their feed buckets, fiddling noisy wrappers and cellphones opening.

It's about on par with an R5 that has shitty audio. It would be nice if theaters focused more on experience and novelty.

Thanks to OP for announcing the release :)
I enjoy going to a theater as well... but eventually, the only theaters that will exist will be high-end, classy joints like Gold Class Cinemas (http://www.goldclasscinemas.com/).

When I want to see a movie in a theater, I want to receive the best experience possible.

If the movie isn't worth seeing on a high-end screen, with high-end sound in a high-end facility, I want to download (and pay for) a good quality copy of the movie. Recently, I've seen Inception, Avatar, and a couple of other movies that between the sound and the picture deserve an experience.

The Social Network is a great movie that does not deserve an experience. It's a entertaining mockumentary that I really enjoyed watching - I did not miss anything by foregoing the theater. When the DVD comes out, I'll buy it.
True, but I think you're picking at hairs here.

The suggestion in the R5RS spec is that you shouldn't need to worry about the segregation of integer and real types (unless you need to). And indeed, why should you?

It's a conceptual shift away from char, int, long, float and double, which exist only because they're easier for the computer to deal with. Scheme was the first language I used that attempted to treat numbers like numbers.

Besides, Exactness is required in R5RS and the full numerical stack is no longer optional in R6RS.
You want exercises, not a walk-through.

The thing with using higher-order functions isn't learning the definitions (which are rather simple, really,) but figuring out how to use those tools.

And for that you need practice. Start from describing trivial problems (word count, for example), and advance to more complicated ones. Any good book on functional programming would have lots of exercises (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ is probably the most famous, but is surely not the only one.)

I grokked functional programming by learning Calculus of variations, but YMMV.
Not all Research I universities: at MIT, a lot of full professors take teaching very seriously (in my admittedly limited experience, the ones not interested in undergraduates were the exception rather than the rule, although of course not all were able to turn that into great teaching). And there are no adjuncts to speak of, all are tenure track or tenured and all classes are taught by them (I know of one grad student exception in the '80s who proved the rule).

However your point about research is spot on WRT the incentives: at MIT the undergraduates are potentially in the graduate student ecological niche and there's a formal Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) that allows professors to hire them for credit or a "UROP Minimum Wage" ... that doesn't have overhead levied upon it (that's used mostly for January and summer).

Also, a professor who's truly bad or impossible at teaching will not get tenure. And I've watched or rather overhead (sort of an open office setup) a department head force a tenured professor you've probably heard of read every evaluation form submitted for a particular required foundational class, all but one of which (which was a special case) were highly negative, and then tell the professor he'd never be allowed to teach that particular course again.

As for the general topic, MIT's big grade inflation period seems to track pretty well with the Vietnam War and the draft: http://www.gradeinflation.com/MIT.html.
I don't know what people have against overloading either. Nevertheless, "delimited overloading" is like overloading, but safer, since the overloading is limited to some scope, and readers can easily see where overloading is allowed. In OCaml you can now write something like:

Big_int.( 23 567 mod 45 + "123456789123456789123456789")

where only the operators in the parentheses are overloaded.

http://pa-do.forge.ocamlcore.org/
From http://sites.google.com/site/thinkinginanutshell/nootropics :
"Beware of firms that advertise prices significantly lower than the above, because you will probably not get the real thing. The author very nearly got ripped off by a firm that was advertising 100x200mg packages for $90. These will come from countries that manufacture it generically despite the patent."

If you do try these, I would be interested in hearing how they compare to the Alertec.
This guy doesn't even include Pareto principle in his guide to success. This guy has us working most of our time getting coffee.

I say, better to write the script without a job and produce a 2 min trailer with your friends and show a couple people, than to work for months serving coffee that you hate and only to work on a script you can't complete.

[I don't support balls to the walls philosophy, only do stuff that gets results, be ruthless about efficiency. Activity is not productivity.]
Do you mean this one?

http://search.cpan.org/~ewilhelm/lambda-v0.0.1/lib/lambda.pm

It's sort of telling that the manual page has a lengthy explanation about what to do if you can't see the symbol, and a vim macro that you need to install so you can type the symbol. And it's just one symbol saving 2 characters (and no keypresses) :-(
I don't believe there will ever be a clear "winner" because the landscape is constantly changing. Sourceforge was THE place to store your OSS code and provide downloads and there was a really great broad selection of code and a way to discover it. But they didn't build good ways of managing it and the whole experience became cluttered and confusing. I saw many projects move to Google Code who provided a clean interface.

And now I see many of those projects move to github and everyone I know is a big fan of the forking and pull requests.

But the landscape will change again and github keeps needing to iterate and innovate on their product. Just about every time I use github, I curse their disastrous search. There is just so much innovation they could develop around code management which they don't have, a competitor could jump in and they too could become the darling of the development world. They too will have "won".
that would be really nice!
Exactly. When a town's economy is significantly dependent on how reliably biased its courts are, such that hotels and other businesses are sustained by visiting lawyers, that's a clear sign that the courts are messed up beyond any political excuse. Trial by jury isn't due process in that town, because an unbiased jury can't be assembled from its citizens.
Genomic DNA is always present with a ton of other biomolecules within a cell. Extracting pure DNA from the typical cellular mix of DNA, RNA, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, etc. isn't much of a challenge anymore using modern molecular biology, but it is still necessary to study specific genes.

The DNA for a specific naturally occuring gene is only a tiny portion of the total DNA extracted from a cell.

Since 1990 or so, purification of this (relatively) small piece of DNA for a particular gene (from the enormous quantity of genomic DNA) has become pretty trivial in most cases. This is largely due to the invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCR] and the maturation of gene cloning techniques.
Emacs is the obvious answer, and there's nothing "1980" about it.
Actual article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4e10735e-e1f3-11df-a064-00144feabd...
Emacs. While it might look dumb or something from the 80s at first, once you discover its true power, you'll be hooked forever.

Using it since the autumn of 2000, never failed me, no matter what crazy thing I wanted it to do.
Vim. Emacs. There's very, very little they can't do. Once you get over the initial bump, you'll find that the main reason why they (seemingly!) haven't changed much since 1995 is simply that they didn't have to.
There are some things people arguing against professional help should try to understand: not every treatable and serious negative psychological condition is depression; you don't go to a doctor only if you have cancer; occasionally you can succesfully treat serious diseases without professional help - that doesn't make it a good idea.
So yes, maybe he'll just get over it and start living on his own, but if he wants to actually better his chances then he definitely should seek help. Good psychiatrists are definitely capable and willing to assess if he really needs help (and what kind of help).
It can happen. If you get a large enough body of voters that start to live off the government, that government can stay in power for a long time. See New Zealand from late 90's to a couple of years ago.
Minecraft: Halloween Update is out
This reminds me of the usefulness of having multiple user accounts on the iPhone and iPad. Given the social, shareable nature of these devices (especially the iPad), a bit of added complexity would go a long way to customizing the experience (and protecting sensitive data).
this was already submitted. Different url.
Because I don't believe that there are fantastic scripts out there not getting made. The crap we see is the best there is, sadly. (I have several friends in the movie industry.)
I love my TonidoPlug. I bought one last spring and have been using it as my own storage and sharing for photos, videos, and other media.

This sharing feature works very well, I use it quite a bit to share media files with collaborators (mostly to get uncompressed music scores that I produce for web media up to the director). And no, it doesn't take any kind of 3rd party service-- you could just as easily point a different domain at your TonidoPlug and be all set to go.

It has a lot of other useful features too-- I wasn't home when Ubuntu 10.10 came out, but I was able to log in from my phone and get the torrent started, in a simple and easy way. By the time I got home later that day, there it was, waiting for me. (All of this from a "server" that only pulls 2-5 watts and thus keeps my energy bills lower).

I have really enjoyed owning the Plug (and using the software) for its convenience and ease of use. I would recommend it without hesitation.
Seems like Google's continued ability to dominate will hinge upon whether web browsers remain the dominant mode of navigating the internet, right? Future could be a bit tricky for them, then...

More and more internet activity is taking place in 'closed-wall' communities like apps and Facebook that Google Search can't touch (and, hence, can't monetize) for the most part. This trend is gaining real traction as it seems well equipped to satisfy folks' demand for better, more relevant filters. The power of social networking to help build and refine such filters is pretty telling... just think about how much of your 'news' you get off your Twitter or Facebook feed.

Unless Google figures out a way to penetrate closed-wall communities (via strategic partnerships, licensing of some sort or whatever) or innovate some super useful product that brings in revenue on the scale of AdWords (GoogleMe?), we'll probably see a piecemeal dethroning happen.

This is probably one of several reasons why smart people are migrating from Google to Facebook.
I would add that academic econ should put more focus on what is not known and may not be knowable as well. Learn to accept and work within and around that constraint, rather than try to assume it away.

Additionally, academic econ favors optimization and efficiency at the cost of robustness and self sufficiency. It would be in the best interest of the country to reverse that, or at least strike a more healthy balance.
The manufacturer and FDA seem to consider it at least similar to a stimulant, with stimulant-like effects and possible dependence problems typical of stimulants.

From the prescribing information:

In addition to its wake-promoting effects and ability to increase locomotor activity in animals,
modafinil produces psychoactive and euphoric effects, alterations in mood, perception, thinking, and
feelings typical of other CNS stimulants in humans. Modafinil has reinforcing properties, as evidenced
by its self-administration in monkeys previously trained to self-administer cocaine. Modafinil was also
partially discriminated as stimulant-like.

And from the safety information label:

PROVIGIL is a Schedule IV drug. PROVIGIL produces psychoactive and euphoric effects, alterations in mood, perception, thinking and feelings typical of other CNS stimulants. Physicians should follow patients closely, especially those with a history of drug and/or stimulant abuse.
You make a good argument for resolution independence in Mac OS X — which would allow the user to resize interface elements on-demand, without loss of image quality. Apple is working on this, but has not provided an indication of when it will ship to consumers.
Which doesn't necessitates serving coffee.
Not only am I incapable of productive work with music or sound, I temporarily lose speech if I am interrupted. If the phone rings while I am coding I don't even bother to answer: I will not be able to talk anyway, and I wont remember anything you tell me.
> Hopefully now that Atlassian's bought them the service quality will improve over time.

Given the growth of the the bitbucket team thanks to atlassian, I do think it will improve quickly. (I'm not even sure there was more than one full time person working on BB before)
This is as "anonymous" as a public mailbox. This is trivial to monitor, and said monitor could easily perform a diff of the drive after each contact.

Real dead drop locations are typically only known by the involved parties, are ad hoc, and move frequently.

Don't get me wrong -- it's an interesting and sort of amusing project. I don't mind most of the terminology they're using, but I think it's dangerous to call something "anonymous" when it is so far from being so.
If you felt like making a full shell replacement I'd help with Python cmdlets. I have a lot of experience reimplementing shell stuff in pythonic Apis.
The day Google founders asked Steve Jobs to be CEO
F# is going to be tough, but take a look at the Netbeans / Eclipse IDEs. A bit easier to set up, especially if you're migrating from Windows to a graphical linux system like Ubuntu.

Vim and Emacs are great, but I would seriously consider a good IDE. The advantages of built-in project management is not to be underestimated. It's not something that's so ridiculously important later on, as you can obviously use something like git on its own to manage it, but initially it is fairly invaluable.
however much space is available on it
I've never heard of Vuse, and I've never downloaded a torrent of a movie, but maybe I'm not the norm at this point.
Believe me, that's at the top of my list of Things to Do Right After I Get My Time Machine Working. Go back and invest in Apple and Microsoft, bet on the Saints to win the Super Bowl, and try my best to convince the LOST writers that they'd be better off playing World of Warcraft instead.
Agreed.

I'd even go a step further and say the number itself is meaningless. What's the sample size? The stand. dev.? But most importantly, the sampling method sucks.
Wordpress disply total number of members
"at the end of the employee lockout period"

That's why I said it's on paper.

These employees have the opportunity to possibly make 10 to 20 years of their current salary in a day. Most people don't need more of an incentive than that.
The Pareto principal is relatively easily applied by young programmers, but how can young screenwriters apply it? It's an industry of relationships. If they are a great writer they might get attention, or their brilliant script might never be read. If they aren't actually talking to people in the industry they'll never know, and if they aren't actually working in the industry the only way to talk people is to randomly harass them so their first impression of you is annoyance. Under that lens, getting people coffee might actually be the best 20% for an entry-level screenwriter.
This is fantastic news. More opportunities for startups to find support and funding. Startups can probably learn a lot from Digg and Jay's experience.
Your Husband Says, 'I Don't Love You Anymore' - What Should You Do?
It is very painful to hear your husband telling you that he no longer loves you. It can be quite a devastating experience. There is still some hope of bringing back the sparkle in your relationship so long as you are willing to work at it.
And yet it's consumed by about 2 billion people worldwide. The OP's problem is that he's a 21yo boy. Talking about his problems with a shrink and taking little colored pills is not going to help him have the experiences he needs to grow.
Dupe
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1838234
Both Vim and Emacs have some very nice features. Compared to a full-featured IDE, yeah they do look a bit old school. Even so, you can be incredible productive in either of them. I use Emacs myself, and I can't imagine trying to live within the constraints of an editor that I can't extend.
Top 5 regrets of the dying
YCombinator is mentioned by name in the article, describing it as an incubator.

"YCombinator is the most successful of the new breed. Twice a year, Paul Graham along with co-founder and now-wife Jessica Livingston choose 30 or so companies from thousands of applicants, invest about $25,000 in exchange for about 6 percent of a company. They then mentor the groups for a few months, urging them to build and launch quickly..."
Intuition has no transfer encoding
This submission and frankly most of the comments on this HN thread are disturbing. There is a severe lack of understanding of NTLM and the purpose of even hashing, let alone salting, a password... strange.
Google is polluting the internet
I know nothing about the entertainment industry, but this idea of 'putting in your dues' by working your way up from a menial position based on personal relationships has always seemed naive. Either you can do something or you can't, and working as a dogsbody isn't going to impart those skills.

This advice seems like the equivalent of telling someone who wants to be a game programmer to start in the QA department. You're better off just becoming a programmer. Create a game. Someone with a kick-ass demo is going to get ten times as many interviews as a guy who spends the same time pumping his connections.

Maybe I'm naive about the way television works, but if I wanted to be a writer in TV I'd start by trying to write something that was so good, people couldn't ignore me. And if I couldn't find someone to produce it, I would try to produce it myself. More than one career started with a film that only cost a few thousand dollars to produce. And if it didn't work out, at least I'd have spent the time doing something creative and productive rather than wasting my life fetching coffee and dry cleaning.
i wonder what happens when journalists start paying for access to recorded future and put those predictions on the internet. i suppose it will create prediction bubbles that are disjoint from reality. wikipedia cyclic-reinforcement all over again.
Emacs. I've used to to code in Vim/Gvim, but I switched to Emacs just to try and learn about Lisp. Emacs has tons of interesting "plugins" to add, and actually I'm using emacs as my Organizer (using org-mode) too.
Emacs hasn't anything to envy to any of those bloated IDE's like Eclipse or VS. I recommend to you:
* http://www.emacswiki.org
* http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
Steve Yegge has a lot of articles about Emacs/Elisp and it has been a excellent source of information to me.
MGM files for Chapter 11, will only make $50M budgeted movies
This is a timely article:
Google's AdMob, YouTube Chiefs Step Down

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230328460457558...
Have you seen Qooxdoo? I've made some very desktop-like apps with it http://demo.qooxdoo.org/current/showcase/#form
That many, huh?
Sure, it could. But, if you're talking about competing over HTML/JavaScript-type tools, the market there is awfully crowded, and most of the competition is free.
Stop Learning From Your Failures
I'm in love with ActiveState Komodo, and it works great on both platforms (and mac as well). I'm not sure if it has macros, but everything else you mentioned is right there. The editor is free, and the IDE version is not too expensive.
Yes, guilty as charged. We have the ability to have unlimited help.

HOWEVER, when you have a child you don't want to outsource it (at least if you're well adjusted from what I can tell). Do we have a full-time nanny? yes. A full-time house keeper? yes. night nurse, 24 hour folks? nope.

Basically i want to spend the weekend with the kid, not hand her off and go play poker for 12 hours.

well, that's not exactly true... i want to do everything, but realize that until we remove sleep from our list of needs, or develop clones, i've got to choose!

it's hard for EVERYONE, let alone those with limited resources. this is why i have big respect to SINGLE parents. can you imagine doing a startup AND raising a kid--alone!

they should make a move about that. :-)
Don't wireless networks know the other parties MAC IDs?
Well, if you define good as something that is not only a great story but in a list of themes that executives are looking to put up on the screen, then yes, that's probably all it would take.