skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "profit" section exists because there's a middleman, but let's forget about that for the sake of this argument. The cost of the stack of glued-together pages costs $3. Everything else pays for the production of the book in some way.

Charging the same for the e-book, which needs marketing, copyediting, graphics design, etc., etc., just like the dead-tree book, means the author (or someone) gets $3 more. In this way, it doesn't seem particularly evil to not give the end-user that $3 discount. Just give the author $3 more.

(As an author, the last thing I want is an App-Store-style race to the bottom. I want more than $0.30 per copy of book I sell, paper or otherwise.)
Links just return back to the same page, and right at the bottom..
It might be true that nobody depends on him, but that's sure a long way from "nothing to lose." Notwithstanding his own self, I'm sure he has a lot of friends and loved ones that suffer when he's hurt.

I don't think it takes extraordinary cleverness to try to attack people by ostracizing them and indirectly threatening others who associate or collaborate with them. That sounds as straightforward as it gets. I guess I don't see what seems silly about it.
Feds want Google to let it monitor its operations
Yes, very cool.

It seems like it only has two temperature settings, but it's very close to the right idea. I guess coffee geeks are willing to shell out $3000 for fancy machines, while tea geeks are not :)
www.uptimerobot.com sends emails, SMS, and/or follow the robot on Twitter (just tweets related to your account).
I can't figure out what your hatred of epsilon-delta proofs has to do with employers setting up a pre-calculus teacher "for failure" and the indoctrination of students as "tools of industry".

I'm sorry that your introduction to real math left you sour, but I assure you that epsilon-delta proofs are not a conspiracy by the industrialist class to brainwash kids away from critical thinking--or whatever you are alleging.
Munin is great for visualizing these sorts of things. From mine:

http://awesomescreenshot.com/025b5a3c5

Interesting that traffic didn't die entirely there.
so why are gay men more likely to like the colour pink than straight men?

Is that even true?
Because I don't want my children to grow up in a world where someone would walk by them getting raped and ignore it. I would rather they grow up in a world where their father died to help someone.

Keep in mind when making this decision that it will still be a world where a rape victim can get ignored.
Crisis Action Planning - Joint Staff Officer's Guide
doesn't change the original point
Fair enough. Perhaps I'd rephrase as: you've weighed the risks against what you have to lose, and determined that it's a risk that you're willing to take in light of the consequences. Others can't make that call, but it isn't out of fear, it's about minimizing risk.
FBI Memo Concerning Roswell Incident - 22nd March 1950
It scales, but only in a massively parallel way.
You're right, I worded it wrong, I meant to say that they are thought to be more likely to like pink (have edited previous comment to be more clear). I also haven't seen any studies proving it one way or another, but certainly (in England, at least, and quite a few other countries from my personal experience) it is an extremely well-spread belief.

If, for example, a 14 year old boy went to school wearing pink gloves, there would be extremely likely that he would hear someone call him gay, either as a friendly joke or as an insult.

But that's why I wrote my comment, hoping something can enlighten me - and, as I said at the end, for all I know my liking the colour pink could well be a coincidence, nothing to do with my sexuality.
What Should Google Do?
Does the "brand name" of an accelerator matter? I figure more well-known accelerators come with a larger, more established network to pool from, but I imagine there must be a great deal of merit to be gained from any accelerator you choose, right?
I keep hearing about PHP's "function parameter order inconsistencies". Has that ever been a real problem for anyone? Guess not. Auto-completion got your back and it's debatable if these are real 'inconsistencies' anyway. The amount of really really helpful built-in PHP functions for a lot of common tasks more than makes up for this.

Definitely hear you on the lack of PHP developers with an understanding of OOP and all though. Seen it myself when my previous company tried to hire one, the 'range' of people applying is incredible.
Plone 4.1 - Is it any faster?
the linked article is wrong.

that, or http://webstaff.itn.liu.se/~stegu/simplexnoise/simplexnoise.... (from euccastro's comment below) is. but the latter looks more authoritative to me and checks against http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noise.

perlin noise is gradient noise (so the gradient is chosen at random, not the height.
Tee Vee "helped to create entirely new products that could never have been sold without TV. "

I'm not sure I buy that. Isn't the accepted wisdom about advertising kind of opposite that? I mean, as an adult residing in the USA, you're not supposed to believe too much that advertising tells you, maybe not anything more than the address of a business or that some particular business sells some particular brand of product.
Does anyone have suggestions for good Android toddler apps?
How dense? I'm interested enough to want to read more than fluff pieces, but I suspect not interested enough to read something really dense,

That said, given it's most likely too subjective for you to really be able to say whether her writing would interest me, if I were to to buy one of them first, which would you suggest?
The inconsistencies are just more mental friction. It's not a huge cost, but it's no benefit either. If you can avoid such friction, why wouldn't you?
My debuts
Another to add to the list:

10xelerator.com was launched last week for this summer in Columbus, OH. It's $20k, and grant-based w/ no equity stake.
There's also MagicBeansInc.com in San Francisco, and Startup-Insights.com in Taiwan.
<sigh> So you're one of these "Code properly written shouldn't need comments" people, uh?

To understand code, you need to figure out "why" and "what". Code gives you one, comments give you the other.
On a related note, if I had a choice, I think I would prefer a Dick Tracy style watch-phone to my current phone. Pockets are actually kind of annoying to deal with on a regular basis.
Granted. I can see your point, but I'd argue that Jacob is a means to the end, not the end. I don't think ruining his life is the goal here. They just want to beat him up until he gives them who or what they really want.
i believe there was textslide that did something similar. Will try it out!
This is not that useful. It's very easy to identify malaria on a peripheral smear with minimal training (and a much cheaper microscope/lens instead of a smartphone).

There's an even easier malaria rapid antigen test that requires no microscopy: http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/diagnosis_treatment/rdt.html

In many nations with endemic malaria, however, treatment is many times just empiric -- diagnostics are a luxury.
Tux - A Shell for Sinatra Apps
Awesome, I love Piet! I wrote the "Alpha" example program on http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html as an exercise to learn Piet while solving Card #234 of Perplex City - http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/1/234/

All of DM's esoteric languages are pretty interesting: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/
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Lissn is blowing up with HN users right now. Its quite nice. Sort of like 2-3 person IRC chat rooms.

Not sure what the real value is, but its fun for the moment.
Part of it is learned behavior, but part of it is not. Boys and girls are different even at a young age. They play in different ways: boys are more likely to build and break things, girls are more likely to make a story. Girls will try and make you like them by acting cute. My parents gave me and my brothers girls toys to try at a young age, which we threw around, and we used them to build piles and to rode on them sliding across the room.

At a later age, social pressures become very important. Boys are encouraged to do boys things and girls are encouraged to do girls things. People tell a boy to walk with his chest forward in a manly way. People tell a girl to be careful and not do dangerous things like climbing trees. The same goes for clothing and other preferences. When I was young and people asked me what my favorite color was I knew that green or blue was the right answer and pink or purple was not.

As for LGBT preferences I think the same applies. There are definitely gay boys who act a bit like girls even at a young age, and lesbian girls who act a bit like boys at a young age, but this is absolutely not a general rule. Societal pressures are another part of why gay men often act relatively more feminine and lesbian women often act more masculine: on LGBT people there is less pressure to act in a way that confirms their gender, and it's easier for them to ignore the pressure. Until recently if a guy wore pink clothing he would be "corrected" by his friends and family. This is less likely to happen if the guy is gay, and if it does happen the pressure is easier to ignore because he or she has already dealt with the far greater pressure to be with the opposite gender. Still there is a large group of men who wouldn't wear pink simply for fear of being perceived as gay. Since openly gay men are already perceived as gay this problem goes away. I conjecture that closeted gay men are less likely to wear pink for this reason.
This post is old. And it doesn't matter one bit.
Agreed, generally. I'd say comments are to express things the code itself cannot. More expressive languages can get by with good naming, some declarations, and clear idioms in many cases.

The most useful kind of comments are "why" comments, about why specific design trade-offs were chosen.
One of these I noticed isn't actually a startup accelerator in the sense that they offer funding. GangPlank is more of a collaborative workspace than anything.
It's also focused on younger applicants -

"At least 50 percent of the team members must have been enrolled in a college within the last three years."
My inflammatory title: The wheels are ACTUALLY coming off at Chevy - WSJ
Matlab or Python+numpy for scientific prototyping. Usually Fortran for translating those algorithms into speed, sometimes C.

Bash or Perl for sysadmin work.

Python for playing around with random crap.
Agree. For online, check out http://www.babyfirsttv.com/babyu -- it's the best I've come across so far. It uses just the space bar and enter keys and the windows easily work at any size. The downside is a bunch of their games are broken, though they are pretty responsive about fixing.
tl;dr

OP is an insider, and therefore I reject his criticism of an outsider.
Just before anyone thinks this is a smoking gun. It is only from an informant. The FBI has this disclaimer:

The FBI’s Reading Room contains many files of public interest and historical value. In compliance with the National Archives Record Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBI’s capability to re-review and/or re-process this material. Please note, that the information found in these files may no longer reflect the current beliefs, positions, opinions, or policies currently held by the FBI.

Posted as it's a piece of history. Whether it is (in)accurate is not for me to say.
40 Things I Learned in My First 40 Years
Startup Chile http://www.startupchile.org
I never, ever participated in Chartoulette, but for some odd reason I immediately tested this out.

And, I have to admit - it's a winner.

It's like the Cracker Jacks of text messaging. Every text is a winner...
Today not anymore, but a couple of years ago this was definitely the case.
I don't like presentations like this. What suggestions or solutions were offered? Perhaps the audio mentioned some good resources to use to learn how to properly architect a complex, Javascript/JQuery heavy application, or perhaps I just missed it in the slides, but to me it just seemed like a rant. Sure it's identifying an issue but it would be a whole lot more useful if it gave some links to books/articles/etc with details on how to layout your code in a maintainable manner.
Wrong. Mr. Khan needs experience teaching real students. Oh yeah, and a PhD in every field he wants to “disrupt”. Just kidding.
I mainly agree with you, but for something like that, "it's an AVL tree, look it up" is all it should need. Names and type declarations handle the rest.

If you want to dismiss me as "one of those" people that is anti-commenting, you're reading too much into what I said. You said, "it doesn't have comments!", I said "actually, it does, and they're even checked." The end.

In a more complex program, I'd add comments. How many, and the nature of the comments, depends on whether I was writing in something relatively low-level (like C) or something high-level (like Haskell, Erlang, or K).
Monkey Preschool Lunchbox (linked in the post) is solid (though I wish they would add new puzzles occasionally): https://market.android.com/details?id=com.thup.lunchbox&...
I know that this is the stated goal of the reprap, but it's practically impossible [1].

Now, if the goal was to build a factory that could build more factories, then sure.

How do you build motors for the rep rap? How do you build the circuit board for the rep rap? How do you build a heating element for the rep rap? How do you build an extruder head than can withstand the heat required to liquify the material that it's made of?

Don't get me wrong, I think that the rep rap is awesome (I carry a little gear that I printed on one at my local hackerspace around on my keychain so that I can tell people about how yes, we're living in star trek and yes, replicators are almost a reality), but it's nowhere even remotely close to being able to print itself, and likely never will be.

I wish that makerbot got more attention. It's a much better, much more reliable printer.

http://www.makerbot.com/

[1] - I want to clarify: I'm not saying that people shouldn't try things that are impossible, in fact my personal philosophy is basically the exact opposite of that (if something sounds impossible, do it). I just think it's important that budding hackers realize that the rep rap has an interesting goal but that the product itself is currently pretty sub-par when compared to other things that are available. If you've already got a makerbot or something like it, and you want to build a rep rap for fun, then I applaud you, but I definitely wouldn't look at it as an alternative to a "commercial" (if you consider makerbot commercial) alternative.
I have never read the original HP stories, and I have read HPMoR three times, just because it's a fun story.
Ask HN: Summer Internships in the Bay Area?
Who is looking for interns in the Bay Area this Summer?

Please post in the following format:

Company Name:

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For those who don't know what Bitcoin is:

It's an open source P2P cyrptocurrency.

Here are some helpful links to get you started:

1. http://bitcoin.org - The main site

2. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_bitcoin_works - How Bitcoin works

3. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getting_started - Getting Started Guide.

4. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ - The Bitcoin FAQ
In the USA, only 26% of the adult population has a college degree. Some thought should be given as to how the other 74% should make a living.
Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe
I've been seriously considering purchasing 18000BTC as an investment. If bitcoins catch on in the next ten years, 18000 will be equal to 0.1% of the total available currency.

Just wish I still had the money to do that (startup is busy digesting whatever I had)
Ask HN: Do you prepare your own taxes?
I'm a single individual with no spouse, children, house or small business. I'm reticent to use programs like TurboTax because I just don't see what value they add above doing it myself.

I could definitely see the advantage of using a program or going to a professional for a small business, but for one person it just doesn't seem that hard.

Am I just being naive?
It's a big gamble, though. The bitcoin community don't know if the currency will succeed but we're trying our damn hardest to make sure it succeed.

Other than that, bitcoin is an extremely fascinating subject. You can spend hours upon weeks upon years talking about it.
I had the benefit of being able to take a 50/50 mix of highschool classes, and classes at the local branch of my state college.

Highly recommended in situations where it is at all possible, and it makes a ton of sense, since there is often so much overlap between the last two years of the one and the first year of so of the other.
Stopping famous people from signing up is a good point.

On the other hand the system is clearly broken now.

> The karma metric is pretty transparent. You learn very quickly which comments are and are not appreciated. Dropping a friendly comment to someone you see who hasn't caught on yet works, as well.

This is not the case as it is currently implemented. If one of your first comments gets downvoted you get hellbanned. There is no chance to learn from your mistakes. Dropping a friendly comment doesn't work either because you cannot respond to hellbanned people. Do you have showdead on? Try it and you'll probably see that about half of the hellbanned people still posting invisible comments are legitimate. For example you will find 3 of those people commenting on this post, two of them having no idea that nobody is reading their comments.

For example look at http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bshock

This guy has been banned for 2 downvoted comments and has been posting legitimate but invisible comments for over a year. You can clearly see the learning effects: his first couple of comments are not HN quality. Unfortunately by the time he got accustomed to HN he had been silenced.
"when Google isn't recommending Opera users to use a supported or modern browser, they outright block the user string of the browser directly or indirectly"

Opera can mask itself as another browser. I've used this feature to circumvent some Google annoyances aimed at Opera.
I disagree that any language that "compiles" into another language can be considered an "alternative." I'm not bashing CoffeeScript; I haven't played with it much and don't know enough about it say anything one way or the other; but at the end of the day, the result is still Javascript.
What do you think the other points are?

To me, it looks like you're being made an example of.

(Thanks, btw, the world needs more people willing to endure that)
Ah, my apologies. Was this related to http://bakedcode.com? If so, we've just fixed an issue with our SSL cert on that domain when using Firefox (FF wasn't recognising our CA).
I just moved the SproutRobot blog from Blogger to Tumblr for one reason: People share stuff on Tumblr. No one really shares stuff on blogs.

You can add a "tweet this" or "like this" button to your blog posts, but the only way to get Tumblr kids passing your stuff around is to have a tumblr. Moving away from Blogger (or Wordpress) doesn't seem to sacrifice any shareability, which is the singular purpose of blogging.
Do you guys have plans to monetize this somehow? I'd gladly pay for a quality cloud based node hosting solution. I could create my own instance on EC2, sure, but for me it's more effective to pay than maintain my own server.
What is eval?
Always spell-check! Thanks.
cellphone providers all over the world are now scrambling to make absolutely, unequivocally sure that this goes viral.
#13 reminds me of one of my favorite PG quotes:

"In most domains, talent is overrated compared to determination--partly because it makes a better story, partly because it gives onlookers an excuse for being lazy, and partly because after a while determination starts to look like talent."
You could as easily say that it's a poignant accusation of the misdirection of educators.
You didn’t follow any of the links, did you?
Software depends on its hardware. If the hardware dies, or no one writes an emulator, that program will stop being used. But even if a particular incarnation of an idea is no longer used, it will exist on modern hardware if it is still a useful thing to do (via a port, a rewrite, or even as a dedicated part of the hardware itself). That isn't to say it won't cost more to keep an older design afloat, but it happens all the time.

Some forms of emulation are not even obvious to end users. For instance, there is an alarming amount of effort spent on Windows operating systems and the Intel architecture to enforce decades-old decisions so that programs expecting certain behaviors don't require code changes. You may not know it when you run something, but its very ability to execute can be the result of a hack upon a hack at both the software and hardware levels. It's not even that uncommon for a platform to say "if program A, apply hack X; if program B, apply hack Y; else hack nothing".
I'd encourage you to bear in mind the original audience of the presentation: the very small number of experienced JavaScript developers who managed to obtain a ticket to the 2010 JSConf.eu in Berlin.

The goal of this presentation wasn't to teach people how to write good JavaScript -- many of the people in the room that day can and do write circles around me. Rather, the goal was to urge them, the experienced JS devs who are inventing the answers to these questions, to take seriously the need for creating exactly the information you point out to be lacking, and to be intellectually rigorous and honest in discussions of various solutions.

I'd suggest that you pay extra attention to the presentation starting at slide 40, and especially to what I said on slide 60: "Sharing what we know is as important as making new things." That, in a nutshell, was the message I sought to convey to the audience in October.
Wasn't there a transaction of > 300,000 BTC? Or does the headline specifically mean a bounty?
One problem is that last I checked LLVM is not really all that portable across different hardware architectures (e.g. you can't use the same LLVM bitcode for both x86 and AMD64 code generation; you can't use the same LLVM bitcode for both little-endian and big-endian hardware, etc, etc).
I'm a straight man and I really like the color pink, but I find that I only can wear pink/lavender in the context of formal wear. A pink polo or t-shirt? No way. Pink accents in a necktie or a lavender dress shirt under charcoal pinstripe suit? No problem.
Eliezer is commenting on the perpetual state of ignorance, not initial ignorance followed by pursuit and locating of an answer.
I did my own taxes from when I started earning enough money to report it (age 19) to when I moved out of my parents house (age 27), because my dad was always distrustful of tax programs or advisors. I switched to TurboTax for the past 2 years.

I've found that TurboTax cut down on the time required to do my taxes from "a weekend" to "about 3 hours", and saves me roughly $300/year in deductions that I didn't know I could take. It's been well worth the $50 or so I pay for it.
Anybody can send 300,000 BTC back and forth between their computers. It doesn't mean something.

However, it is significant when somebody won one of the largest bounty by performing immensely useful work such as the production of a well polished animation video that is designed to introduce users to bitcoin.
How do you avoid a deflationary spiral (same issue as gold standard)?

You can kind of get around it by continuing below 8 decimal places but it seems like a potentially fatal issue as the bitcoin economy expands.
Sorry I am in FL so I did not mention their name, figuring that most on here are interested in CA and NYC, but the name of the Accountant is Swart Baumruk & Company and they are in the greater Orlando area.