skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my workplace we have a contractor that listens to hardcore speed metal while coding. The really angry kind...

It is hilarious when you realise how calm he is working on the project, completely opposite to what the music is. My colleague prefers listening to old school rock, and my boss (coder as well) listens to classical music.

Definitely a lot of different tastes out there.

I personally am a trance/techno/electronic/dub step/vocal trance kinda person.
It should be noted that in bread, sugar is mostly food for the yeast (and anyway there's very little of it; my bread recipes call for an oz of honey to two pounds of bread flour and a pound and a half of water). This is why using sugar substitutes is a bad idea--the yeast isn't on a diet.
150,000 acres annually.
I'd love to see if it could be waterborn.

It would be great to have something eating all the plastic in the oceans other than the fish. And we really REALLY need to start doing something about the trash gyres in the seas.
awesome. Does get blurry after a while though :(
It's about time tumblr started generating revenue
di.fm has a lot of really good content. Highly recommend any trance channel (I like the classic vocal best) and their Chiptune channel.
Perhaps a scientist took a sample, and the sample ate through the dish?
Good article. I never get why people of one language bash another language. No language is perfect for every task. Use what is good for you and works. Don't bash others because you don't use it.
Ubuntu's live disc creator does support persistent storage. You can have an iso image and then add some of the spare space for the storage. I use this with a 4Gb usb stick myself.

You can also install ubuntu to a stick with 8Gb+ of storage of course.
Exactly. I wonder when we'll get the 'water is toxic' meme going. After all thousands of people have died from water over doses [1]. And what is worst, the younger people are the more likely they are to succumb. Think of the children!

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=death+by+drowning
the last paragraph is the most depressing part, just as weve found a sustainable ecological solution to problem of plastic, we learn that someone has commoditized it into a chemical solution, which no doubt has the accompanying legal patent absurdities,few if any positive environmental interactions and actually endangers a very special species due to corporate anti competative behaviour.
Irony anyone?
Just ask enough insightful questions to show that you really really care about:
1. What your going to work on.
2. The quality of your team members.
3. The system they have now and what's planned for the future.
4. How you can make a big impact.

All this reflects back on yourself and will get you in 80% of the time. The other 20% requires you to answer puzzles, programming problems etc.

I've taken people who can't get to the exact optimized solution I'm looking for but who dint give up easily and whi keep trying till they start to irritate me to no end by nit letting me move onto the next question.
It comes down to that inside the internal rule system of a very powerful, hopefully consistent and ultimately violent organization known as government, they won't hold back in these border crossing situation vs how they would inside their borders.
Well, presumably he does have the right to become POTUS if he was born in the same hospital as John McCain seeing as John McCain was a presidential candidate and thus his eligibility was already predetermined.
Languages are tools. Good carpenters use the right tool for the right job. Can you use sand paper to sand a door down to fit the space? Sure...but there is a reason the plane was invented.
Obvious addendum to that: HN is a very different community from those that most of these startups might target.
Ugh. Pleeeeeeeeease just stop for a second, get your head out of your own head, and actually think for yourself about something. The way you say 'I love the internet' is just such a smug way of brushing off real criticism. This is not an example of 'Some crazy guy on the internet yelling at me for no reason'. The commenter just really in his first claim stated some things, though perhaps a little harsh(the post really was just about happiness, so its a little strange to berate him for making a happiness-centric post when that was the point), was just there to show how his personal opinion differed from how you had(or had not...) actually thought about the quotes. However, there is no excuse for your first reply. Honestly, can you go read what you wrote and justify anything you said?

"Thanks a lot for your comment, disagreement males you question your assumptions and strengthens your understanding of the issue." - Why would you write this? What is the point of writing this statement? No really, pleeeeeeease, stop working on whatever you are doing, and for your own benefit. Put down Flow. Put down your code. Read this, and figure out really what you mean here. Why would you respond with such a condescending sentence to someone who actually read what you said and wrote very really 'personal' arguments against it?

Is there a body of research that supports your counter-claims? I'd love to read anything you can point me to - Same trick again here, go ahead and read this line again, but there is a part 2 to this task. You now need to go read the commenters post. I feel he makes it very very clear in his words and in his tone that all his objections are his just his own thoughts and opinions on the subject. To be honest, I feel like an idiot explaining this to you, but I feel I need to because if I don't you may ask me if I have any 'evidence' to back up my claims. Honestly, please go read that again and if you can justify why you said those words, please reply with them. Please.

Finally, I'm sorry to say all this, and sorry to repeat some of the commeters criticism, but I was just so irritated reading this. As naive and show offy as your blog post was, the kind of behavior shown in your response is 10000X as intolerable, and is just too common with people with that sense of false intellectualism in Silicon Valley. The arrogance and condescension and just lack of respect youve shown creates dividers in people that don't need to exist, and really just decreases everyone's happiness.
We're testing having only Facebook login in our iPhone app, iQila (www.iqila.com) and the number of logins fell about 80-90%!

Now we are going back to FB + Twitter + native but making our lazy login even lazier and I believe that has the most bank for the buck.
Languages require different design principles. If you're calling JavaScript "spaghetti code", then you're doing it wrong.

He's calling node style callbacks spaghetti code. Which it is, and it's a known problem, and there are several half-baked solutions for it.
The problem was the hype. It was hyped as a silver bullet, and we even have issues like people who have drunk too much Node Kool-Aid thinking that Node has the absolute best multithreading solution, and anything else that doesn't work exactly like Node is therefore worse, when Node in fact merely has a polished-but-old-school approach to the problem.

If people are upset that Node isn't a silver bullet, it's because the Node community never worried too much about making sure that people knew it wasn't one. It's why I've been saying that when I actually come onto HN here and try to puncture the hype, I'm actually doing Node a favor, by calibrating expectations closer to reality.

Node isn't useless, but the problems with the Node approach are well-understood since it's an approach the greater programming community has about 20 years of experience with, as are the potential workarounds, and even just how far the workarounds can be taken before you run into problems with the fact the underlying language is only so powerful. This sort of event-based approach just intrinsically scales poorly as program size increases, even with all the grease and goop you can muster up in a language that has closures.
Cop to Google: Why did you ignore my question to Obama about drug policy?
Corning - The Future of Tablets [video]
The Internet drives popular culture now
I don't, my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles don't, my best friend doesn't, several of my favorite past and present colleagues don't. There are times I really wonder where Facebook's massive userbase comes from, and how it can ever possibly occur to anyone, anywhere, under any circumstances, to make Facebook the sole login system for their web startup that otherwise has little or nothing to do with Facebook.
Ask HN: Does Y Combinator have a minimum age to apply?
I'm a 16 year old, PHP programmer, who is planning on starting a startup with a friend. We've got an idea and have began building it. Even though some may think I might not have the dedication or the skill to create a successful startup, I just want to know if our application will even be looked at.
It's great to hear that VsVim is finally accepting contributions from outside of Microsoft.

During my internship at Microsoft last summer, there was one day where the interns in STB got into groups of about 5 and presented on topics of strategic importance to Microsoft. My group presented on how Microsoft could better embrace open source, and during my part of the presentation I focused heavily on how many of Microsoft's "OSS" projects don't accept outside contributions.

I used VsVim to showcase how Microsoft was doing open source wrong. It was a great example, because Jared Parsons seemed to be doing everything he could to be a good OSS citizen and reach out to those who typically use an OSS stack (by putting his project on github instead of codeplex for example), but he had to turn down contributors outside of Microsoft as a matter of policy. I also didn't suspect that Microsoft would be repurposing a Vim emulator plugin written in F# for any of its closed source projects, so it didn't make sense to stop outsiders from contributing out of fear of losing complete ownership of the codebase.

Several high-level execs in STB including Satya Nadella were there, so I would like to believe that my presentation played some small part in Microsoft now allowing outside contributions to VsVim. A discussion of VsVim's contribution policy ate up a lot of the question and answer session after my group's presentation, so it was pretty clear that I wasn't the only there who thought it was messed up.
Any stories of Japanese immigration you'd like to link to/share that might help prepare someone planning on visiting the country?
What version of VsVim are you using? There was a bug with this exact behavior in 1.1 (and possibly 1.1.1). I got it fixed for the 1.2 release which is the current version in the Visual Studio gallery.

Bug Details: https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/issues/672
There was an article about something similar on Slashdot a decade ago about CD/DVD-eating fungi.

http://science.slashdot.org/story/01/06/18/1317218/cd-eating...
Wasn't this already done? http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/boy...
Yes. I have been a happy ViEmu customer for three or four years now. It's basically perfect. Integrates with Visual Assist, too. Very worth the $99.
gtrot.com started with Facebook-Connect login only. We didn't allow any access into the site unless you created account. The primary reason for this was that we used Facebook data to show you where your friends lived, where they've been and allowed you to connect with them on gtrot (through Facebook) so there was no "empty room" feeling when you started.

With our latest updates in November, we allowed a 'generic view' --- a user can search what's happening in a city without logging in. We've put in educational messaging and explain why the Facebook connect is important to being able to personalize results. Based on what you like, what your friends like, where you've been, where they've been etc. The data is core to the experience, but some people still don't want to give access to Facebook. We did, however, see our bounce rate cut in half when we provided a generic view. Customers were spending more time on the site (upward of 5 minutes) and even returning to use the site without the account.

I think the key is giving clarity, but this is a topic we've gone back and forth on as we don't think we can deliver on our promise of 'personalized advice in any city' without having the Facebook basis. We'll be changing this over time but for now, it's generic or Facebook account.
No, he was executed for "advocating for new gods and against the gods of the city" (that was the actual charge).

You know, much alike someone insulting Mongo, Rails or Node in certain communities... (or Java, CL etc in others).
It would be cool to see a breakdown by age/race/occupation/etc... of feedback from Emotiv Epoc ( http://emotiv.com/developers/ ) and Affectiva Affdex ( http://www.affectiva.com/affdex/#pane_overview ) in regards to music choices and how it affects productivity/emotion/etc...
Perceived legitimacy. In the recruiting game, you need a leg up on the next 200 mindless email drones. Saying "We're so good the NY Times covered us!" goes a long way towards considering both sides of the transaction that you're worth the time.
Scanning through the abstract[1], it seems pretty likely to me that they did the actual screening in a lab, and it's merely that the fungus was originally from the rainforest. In fact, one of the 21 authors on the paper is from a Peruvian university, and he's likely the one who's group originally isolated the fungus.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21764951
Sooooo Andromeda Strain.
so... wouldn't it make sense for the other 90% to be acqhired vs taking up space in the bottom 90% of the yc stable?
Yes. Here's the argument being put forth:

Fructose in the diet must be metabolized by the liver, which creates excessive amounts of palmitic acid which induces fat to deposit in the liver which causes abnormal insulin response which leads to metabolic syndrome (an umbrella term including diabetes and obesity) which leads to poor personal health which means poor social health which means fructose is toxic.

The science available can support this: fructose in the diet is metabolized by the liver, which at some point of saturation (in animal studies, at outrageous levels of pure fructose intake) causes excessive creation of palmitic acid which is deposited into the liver as a fat. This liver fat is moderately to strongly implicated in abnormal insulin response which can progress to diabetes which is comorbid with obesity.

Thus, actual science is a long long long long way from ~Fructose is Toxic And Must Be Removed From The Foodstream~. There's also the problem of sucrose, which immediately decomposes into… drumroll… fructose and glucose.

Glucose in this story is beyond reproach - it is the foundation of animal life. Which means that the Fructose Is Toxic hypothesis needs to take into account sucrose consumption. Which his argument doesn't.

This guy isn't completely full of shit, and I don't think his heart is in the wrong place. But he's screaming fire in a very crowded theater.
I'm definitely for cleaning up the gyres, but how do we know that this is something that can be controlled? It's not just plastic that's floating around, either. I'll note that this is a tremendous discovery and I hope we can see it through..
Is there a bugmenot for facebook (a slew of anonymous accounts that can be used to get past these types of walls)?
A lot of people clearly _are_ irresponsible and can't think for themselves.

Not sure if government (especially in US) can help here though. US congress recently declared pizza to be a vegetable. Enough said.
I had hoped to craft a joke about a scientist's iPad disintegrating halfway through his presentation, but that topic has been covered. So instead I'll object to "Yale discovers ...". Really? Yale did it? Imagine a world in which that's the rule -- imagine a headline in 1905 saying "Swiss patent office discovers new theory about the universe."
Flagged. Adam retracted those statements a few weeks later. There is simply no excuse for that site to repost those old statements without also mentioning the retraction.
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I agree that his word choice at points is unscientific, and that he no doubt has an agenda especially being Professor of Pediatrics. But I still feel it's a hugely informative talk in which the science greatly outweighs the sensationalism.
According "Der Spiegel" the injunction has been (temporarily) overruled by the OLG Karlsruhe which is the next-higher instance in the lawsuit. Off to the next round. Iphones are still not available in the store though

Source: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/gadgets/0,1518,813264,00.html

(The linked article has been updated to reflect that as well)
Few years ago I wrote an extreme time stretching software ( http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/ ). You can use it to get a nice audio ambiance from any music or sound.
Cuckoo for cocoa Savor diet Swiss Miss
Hogwash: Top Mobile Designers Are Not Pushing Back Against HTML5
Given that there are ~ 300M americans and facebook has ~850M users, my guess is that most of their userbase is overseas (and oftentimes falling prey to the whole "americans use it, so I should also be using it" mentality)
Why I am coder and so should you
Anonymous's strategy for "defeating" the FBI etc. is to publicly humiliate them and expose them to be harmful and largely worthless[1] - that goal is better served by showing off the FBI's incompetence than by guarding their own rear ends.

[1] That's not to be interpreted as a claim on my part that they are. This sentence, however, may freely be interpreted as such.

(Firefox's spellcheck isn't working for me atm (nightly, so no surprise) - please accept my apologies for any embarrassing typos above.)
You can also use white-space: pre-wrap to allow wrapping in preformatted text.
It's really just the simple economics of demand + cost cutting.
yes, it's very damn tricky. That's why I want the lib to figure it out once and correctly.
How a Poet Learned to Program
This reminds me of last night's Parks & Recreation. Fans of puzzles would have really enjoyed the episode.
Reading the paper (paywalled, unfortunately), it seems that the big breakthrough was not that a microbe can degrade polyurethane (there's almost a dozen other citations), but that this one can do it both aerobically and anaerobically. That means that you can introduce it to a dump, and it will work in both the deep and surface layers.

[1]http://aem.asm.org/content/77/17/6076.abstract
I got it for my first TN visa, although I really don't know if that was necessary, since she seem a bit new. She was really nice too!
This is a good point. Sometimes I definitely experience change aversion. But usually if I'm upset about a change it's because there was something that used to take one click that now takes three, or some kind of new complication or a feature that has been completely removed. It's even more frustrating to users if they make these kinds of points and you respond with "Change Aversion!" The trick is knowing the difference (or knowing when some complicated/removed features are worth overall UI improvements)
Fascinating data.
Yep, add an extra point of help for those suffering with tinnitus (like me) and the site is suddenly made of gold.
I agree with this but with an important qualification: speed of response. On a netbook (Atom processor), there can be a delay when invoking the Dash with a tap on the Windows key, as there can be on older hardware such as Centrino laptops. The delay reduces after the first invocation in a session. There appears to be 'type ahead' so even in the delay you don't lose the first (and most important) character of a program name. Sort of like Spotlight on older Mac laptops.

On a decent PC, you don't notice the delay anything like as much.

PS: before Unity, I just bound the Windows key so that it invoked dmenu (see 'suckless tools', dwm/dmenu for the minimalist approach to GUIs).
All applications are looked at, but I don't think it is a smart idea to work full time on a startup at 16.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3520421

It's basically premature optimization for your life.
Twitter's Bootstrap in the Asset Pipeline
When being a dick on the internet, it's generally best if you at least comprehend what you're being a dick about.

There is a significant difference between "ideal pathway to terrorism" and "ideal pathway to terrorism analogy".
An interesting feature for HN to have: when there's a paywall of this sort, link to the google redirect instead.
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Certain tools are used for certain jobs. Node.js is a different tool and I welcome it. I don't curse a hammer because it is not a screwdriver.
Yes, but the company doesn't necessarily know whether it's going to be in that top 10% when acqui-hire offers occur. They usually occur on the upward trajectory of a company. So most investors would rather the company roll the dice on a bigger exit later than "settle" for the acqui-hire now.

The entrepreneur's perspective may be different.
What hype? Whose hype? I think it's a strawman.

There is a certain class of problem that often appears on the web presentation layer -- the interaction between the browser and a cornucopia of back-end sources and systems -- where nodejs is often a very good fit, and it is almost always what enthusiasts of the platform are speaking of.

That's it. Nothing more.

I've seen various angry retorts that opine that become it isn't suitable for various very unsuitable purposes (see - calculating prime numbers, etc), it sucks. Such misdirection has no place in this industry.
HackerStreet India has been doing ok for the last one year since launch - http://hackerstreet.in/

The objective was never to become the next Hacker News or replace it but just to have India centric discussions there. I would say Hackful has an equally good (or better) chance
Create an Anti Cancer Diet
I quite like Safari myself, save for the visible tab limit (8 or 9 on my monitor, and have to use the drop down on right hand side to get to other tabs; what year is this?!) and no favicons. Do you or anyone else happen to know of any remedies for those?
Memo to publishers: Remind us why you exist again?
how long will it run, i'm unlikely to get out of work before 6
Their stated reason for top programmers being like racecars is rather generic.

%s/racecar/chocalates|women|gold bricks|etc/g.
Tim Tebow + iPad on ESPN
Yes, that is standard. This is just redundant and sounds like a run-on:

<Exclamation>, said <identity and credentials and before that other credentials>. "<Explanation>".
I appreciate your sarcasm, but there is a fine line between "regulations" (in terms of general public safety) and "free will". For example, you could smoke as many cigarettes as you want to, but is that in the interest of the general public?
What happened to the days when you just had to implement a simple website for 1 browser, without having to worry about multiple browsers, supporting iPhone, iPad, Android, and enabling Facebook/Twitter/OpenID logins, and finding friends through facebook/twitter/gmail?

Do you really yearn for those days? Think about what you can build now vs. what you could build then.
What version are you using? Prior to 1.2 there was a nasty perf bug with :hlsearch that caused it to be sluggish with 1) very large files or 2) a good number of files opened. The bug is mostly fixed in 1.2 but there are still a couple of corner cases. Those are addressed in 1.3 which will be released sometime next week. A beta drop is available here

https://github.com/downloads/jaredpar/VsVim/VsVim-1.2-Beta2....

As for crashes I'd love to hear about any you found. Feel free to send me email (hacker news alias at microsoft.com) or post an issue on github.

https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/issues