skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There already was a non-edgy, mainstream Q&A site for normal people before Quora got on the scene: Yahoo Answers. This video is a good summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_RaPOOVX1Y
From the homebrew FAQ (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/FAQ)

Can I install my own stuff to /usr/local?

Yes, brew is designed to not get in your way so you can
use it how you like.

Install your own stuff, but be aware that if you
install common libraries, like libexpat yourself, it may
cause trouble when trying to build certain Homebrew
formula. As a result brew doctor will warn you about
this.

Thus it’s probably better to install your own stuff to
the Cellar and then brew link it. Like so:

$ cd foo-0.1
$ brew diy
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/foo/0.1
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/foo/0.1
[snip]
$ make && make install
$ brew link foo
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/foo/0.1... 17 symlinks created

And really, writing your own formula is easy if manual steps are easy, and if they're hard, well, writing a formula makes you do it only once, since you'll be able to reuse the formula later.

Anyway brew builds in Cellar, and symlinks in /usr/local but never steps on what you would have installed manually.
I've used Quora for all kinds of things outside of tech, including diving deep into shows like Breaking Bad to understand the symbolism and other aspects of it. I've used it to ask questions when I lived in a new area for a few months. It can be very useful beyond just talking startups and technology.
I think you are right that these things were less common 50 or a 100 years ago, but consider this (first comment on the blog)

"It’s not a job that I want, or that I even feel really suited for, and it’s not paying what I need, but after 11 months of unemployment, you take what you can get.
I’m not going to spill all my guts here, but life is really starting to suck for me, mostly because I’m shoulder-deep in debt and can’t see a way to scrabble myself back up. This is an important fact because with how little I make, and how much I owe, I no longer can afford health insurance."

How common was this situation 50 or 100 years ago? And 100 years ago people would have had better support systems from living in smaller communities. Modern life causes depression; I don't think it's necessarily an over diagnosis.
Yes, I would agree with that.

Humans were created to work, the harder they work the better they feel. Animals are the same way - if you give your pet an easy life, they will die early. Make them work (for example put their food where they can reach it, but have to work hard to get to it) and they live longer.
I remember playing Eve with him three years go. Crazy this happened
"A bicycle cannot stop any faster than it's wheels can hold friction."

Nothing can stop faster than "it's wheels can hold friction". But on a bicycle when you brake hard then momentum is transferred on to the front wheel, which is typically ahead of where the bulk of the weight (the rider) is situated.

"You can stop any type of board-device and stay on, as long as the friction between the board and the rider is greater than the wheels and the road."

On a skateboard, the front wheel is MUCH closer to the center and the centre of gravity is MUCH higher. You'll be flung off if you stop as fast as a bicycle with properly maintained brakes can safely.
In many cases, I suppose you might be correct; but, religion is often just a crutch or reason for people to get behind some very ... dedicated? evil? twisted? sociopathic? person's plans and do terrible things.

I downvoted you because religion is not the root of all evil, it's just a visible source of some of the evils in this world. But not all.

Rest in Peace, VileRat. You were called out of this world sooner than any of us expected or wanted...
I don't remember Jobs praising minimalism, but rather beauty. It's all throughout his biography, he was a big fan of beautiful, functional design. I think skeuomorph interfaces are beautiful if done right - yes, they might be more beautiful than functional, but what if Apple values beauty over functionality? I remember reading about an Apple engineer working hard to get rounded rectangles to draw in their early OS without affecting overall performance, and Jobs pushing him further and further until it was done. Rounded rectangles are so not functional.
Is it true that you can start a business by understanding and solving pain points? Yes of course it is.

People who are going through this pain and who are aware of this pain will also likely be motivated to talk with you and articulate their issues.
Wow, excellent write up.
Keep it or kill it?
Hi HN readers,

So here is the background:
I'm need to get peoples opinion about an issue I'm having but i don't feel comfortable disclosing my personal information, I can load the app and ask people to engage in a discussion about my thought or experience. I can resolve my problem and connect with others without having to disclose any personal information.

So we see it as a way for people to share experiences and deep thoughts but some people see it as malicious anonymous posting, I want to know what you guys think. Should this ship sink or continue to sail?

We have the beta version of the boopoohoo published on android and ios market so feel free to play with it.

why the name? because its a place to boo and poo without knowing hoo

TLR: Crazy Australians have built an app called boopoohoo, they want HN readers input as to weather we should keep it or kill it!

Website: http://boopoohoo.org
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eronka.boopoohoo&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5lcm9ua2EuYm9vcG9vaG9vIl0.
App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/app/boopoohoo/id552162849

Cheers,
Armin
Higgs Boson particle discovery confirmed
He lost me at "put in their hours at the gym" and Allen Iverson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI
From doping to trading, the tragedy is that people take it so seriously and thus turn it into a life-and-death game of all-or-nothing.

Taking things seriously robs any chance to just be good enough and be happy about that.

Anyone who can complete Tour de France at all or moderately but steadily grow an investment portfolio over the years should be extremely satisfied with just that already. If you're not, you'll seek greater but less likely and more momentary satisfaction from winning to win, and you'll likely end up more miserable in the average.
Minimal Ring Alarm Clock for Couples
Terrible. RIP. :(

What can we do to stop things like this from happening again? There's clearly no quick-fix overnight solution, but there should be some set of actions we can take to slowly reduce/eventually eliminate this kind of violence. Any ideas?
Instead it's sometimes better to build an app on top of its native environment from the early days rather than spending enormous time to figure out the best workaround for life. You might choose the tool you're most comfortable with to build everything, at the same time just never ignore the quality that the users will experience.
La crisis de la salud mental en el campus,
It's got nothing to do with religion and everything to do with politics.
The trigger event was completely religious in nature. It's a movie that's supposedly insulting to Mohammed. How can you say that religion has nothing to do with it? Your claim is trivially false.
Come on, it's only 45kloc. Do you go around insisting every non-trivial piece of software on hacker news is encumbered?

And in most those cases people were not making a special effort to avoid being effectively encumbered, while Opus was.
I'm sorry, but this is largely irrelevant. There's a reason North Africa is usually included as the latter part of, "Middle East and North Africa".
We decided 'Sleepio' way before .io domains were available!
Wow. Utter disbelief. A foreign more technologically advanced people came in with weapons and technologies that were basically magic to these hunter gather/pastoral people. These people took up a last ditch desperate idea rather than submitting to the holocaust by the Voortrekkers of the Dutch.
"The tribes of africa were largely barbaric and vicious"
The incoming Dutch tribes were vastly more barbaric and vicious despite having had a 400 year head start and education and technology. Tag on to that the subsequent Anglo-Boer war which Boers still describe as their holocaust and you can't distinguish between any of these tribes. Humans are just a nasty evil species when they agglomerate.
A quick Wikipedia check shows that technically venture is actually a subset of private equity...Vcs as investors with a mandate to invest in a specific asset class

A more pointed critique is that these are too simple definitions. Its like saying a student is a person that goes to school. Its the same idea as before at reduced scale.[1] They are threshold definitions.

The point of PGs swans and DM's article here: what is the environment for investing and what are the dynamics of gameplay.

If you want to talk about portfolio theory etc fine. But the conventional wisdom is for all VC's: it's better to copy the <strategy> of the winners and differentiate on the <execution>. Arguably, DM is saying the opposite: we cant compete on the <execution>, so we'll differentiate on the <strategy>.

On the aside, I appreciate the note. I won't overexplain myself here.

___________

[1] see: http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_worst_argument_in_the_world/
Right Software:On Time:Without Bug - What do you do if it is not possible?
Right. This is the advantage of the IETF's patent policy, and it's one of the reasons we wanted to do this work in the context of the IETF.
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
--Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
37 degrees to be exact. Prentiss between Chapman and Powhatten
Tell that to the author of that post. Oh wait....
Your analysis is superficial. Religion is used as a tool for power. It's just an excuse.
It is not religion that is the root of all evil but religious authority.

If you are religious but don't give a dime about what the religious leaders claim, then you will never be led down this path.

In general, humans are wired to find authority figures and follow them. Sometimes, this causes us to make great progress towards a common goal. Sometimes it causes very many people to do something very stupid.

We, even the religious among us, should raise our children with some manner of scepticism towards our authority figures. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Yes, it's absolutely made for that, which is one of the reasons it has extreme bitrate and frame size agility. Though the decoder doesn't have a back channel to the encoder as part of the format (e.g. a duplex pair is not at all coupled by the codec and could have entirely different settings). So if you want to do rate adaptation the application will have to take care of telling the encoder that the decoder is struggling/losing frames/etc.

The codec also includes a pretty good packet loss concealer integrated, and can also use forward error correction to reduce the impact of loss.
August 29th, 2011 yawn
Summary: "compromise on one of them, and that's somehow magically better with Agile."
Battle of the Swans: Why Is Nobody Talking About Solving Tough Problems?
As long as early foodchain players (YC etc) focus on the next AirBnB and DropBox, the world would get AirBnBs and DropBoxs. Nothing against that - they are wonderful profitable entities (and great efforts from the teams), but not the next Google.<p>Why Is Nobody Talking About Solving Tough, Interesting Problems?
It's actually in Firefox 15, not just nightly. People on Reddit are saying chrome's position has reversed but I don't have a link. Works in Opera already if you have gstreamer's opus plugin, and they've apparently said they'll ship it.
The Great Startup Game: Top Ten Entrepreneurial Movies
That's a good word for it.

There was a short-lived trend in design a few years back that used the term ”maximalism” to mean something similar - covering every surface, layering metaphors on top of metaphors, mixing traditions from all over.
"not knowing, she accepted the default paths at compile time, and the [Ruby] binary now lives in /usr/bin" wat? Ruby's default is to install to /usr{/bin,}?? Automake and cmake at least always default to /usr/local{/bin,} as the prefix in my experience. Other than not mentioning that, yes more people should know the various prefix conventions, it would save a lot of installation hassle.
Does it support offline view?
Stalin, Pol Pot, the leaders of North Korea, etc.

Actions of people are the root of all evil. Blaming anything but the people who carry out acts like this is an apology for their individual actions. No matter what a person believes, they make the choice for themselves of what actions they take.
Then you'll probably enjoy this one too:
16.5 Kw peak power with 4 motors (4WD)
http://gnarboards.com/Trail_Rider.html

... with a price to match ($4000).
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
Ask HN? IRC chat 
Is it still what it used to be? Where do you spend that type of time now?
Does it really work?

My guess is that's just how slim people tell fat people that laziness got them fat and so they should do more exercise, i.e. people that never suffered from a certain condition giving advice to people suffering from that condition.

"I failed the test because I'm stupid" - that's just how I felt when I got rejected after an onsite interview with a certain company that's renowned for its hiring standards that yield many false negatives. Thoughts going through my head, like "I was unlucky" or that "I came unprepared", had no effect.

You know how one partner tells the other on the verge of a breakup "it's not you, it's me"? Did that line ever work in the history of man-kind?

The mind is like an onion, having many layers. You can only control the first layer and hope that your actions will cause a reverberation in the layers below. And if you strongly feel a certain way, sometimes there's no stopping it, unless enough time passes to forget about it or make it seem less important (I guess that's why we forget things).

The teacher was in a bad mood when he graded the test

I'm seeing people throw blame all the time, precisely because it's easier to cope with failure. But it's not healthy to pass the blame, unless you have concrete proof that the teacher's mood was in bad shape and that her mood indeed had an effect on the grade. I'm not seeing this as being good advice. Sooner or later you'll start thinking the whole world is against you, when it's a lot better to recognize your own mistakes and not blow the failure out of proportions.

It's also healthy to recognize that maybe you're not as smart as everybody kept telling you since you were in kindergarten, and that in the real world wit is not a substitute for experience and hard work.
> Anyone who can complete Tour de France at all or moderately but steadily grow an investment portfolio over the years should be extremely satisfied with just that already.

(I'm not certain what "should" means in that sentence - a moral judgement? - but I'll interpret it as advice.) I think that this is excellent advice for some people, but poor advice for others. I don't think there is anything wrong, per se, with wanting to be the very best at something. There's just a trade-off: you can be happily excellent, or you can take a chance and be perhaps the best but most likely just unhappy. But this decision is, in my opinion, a personal one: happiness does not have to be the ultimate goal of life.
and just like your immunizations won't save you from a gunshot, flash-blocking is useless here against html5.
You want to talk about statistics, but include anecdotal statements from anonymous sources, and end with an appeal to emotion.

You want to state that psychiatric medicine is mostly placebo, but don't have any good criticisms to levy against double blind studies of antidepressants with placebos.

Given the point of the article was encouraging/helping individuals who have depression to seek medical help, I'm not sure what the purpose of your comments are. It sounds like you had a bad experience with the mental health community.

Just like people who have a bad experience with any public service, I feel for you. I might even look at whether there are systemic issues in the provision of the service, in this case mental health.

But if your intention is to make people question the efficacy and usefulness of mental health treatment for depressed people, then I feel that you are attacking something that many people have fought hard to get, get attention for and get funded, mental health treatment.

Mental health treatment still has a stigma attached to it, that of some inherent deficiency that contributes to mental issues. Adding the unrealistic idea that depressed individuals are going to be locked up and treated like animals isn't helpful in my opinion.

I'm not saying that your experience, or the experiences you are familiar with, was/were invalid. However, hundreds of thousands of individuals who find psychological or pharmacological treatment for mental illness of benefit, and many more could benefit but go undiagnosed/untreated.
Yes, why on earth would a population subjected to invasion and ongoing occupation by imperial western powers find an attack on their culture objectionable and representative of their entire daily situation?

MUST BE THOSE IGNORANT SAVAGES AND THEIR MYSTICAL NONSENSE
What I don't like of this version, is having to install VS with support for languages that I don't use.
I use a 128GB SSD and I hate having those extra GBs wasting space.

And then, those new glyphs in the Solution Explorer, that are making my work a little bit slower. Maybe, that only means that I still need to get used to the new UI. =(
Making a sense out of iPhone 5 (The New iPhone)
Sh*t up, and take my money! Why this is not a real product? "Concept award 2008"?
No, if the winners didn't cheat to get there, then the others have not been robbed of their possibilities.
2011, And yet it uses the phrase, "Deaf Mutes"
Malthus forgot something very basic: Unlike animals, Humans create their own resources, they don't just find them in the environment.

So it doesn't matter how many humans you have, there will always be enough resources.

Remember that from a physical point of view nothing can ever be destroyed. The only thing that happens is the atom moves from one place to another. With application of energy and brains, you can move that atom right back to where you want it.
Interesting reading. If this quote from link above is true:

"Skeuomorphism is a catch-all term for when objects retain ornamental elements of past, derivative iterations--elements that are no longer necessary to the current objects’ functions."

Then Sacha Grief, might be wrong. The example he given, used blue leather and white buttons and he derided the example as not skeuomorphism. But in that example only a part of it was the ornament (i.e. blue leather). I could be wrong but what does ornamental take into account? Whole thing or just a part?

I mean rest of his story does make sense, but it's still an invalid example.

EDIT: It might be a nitpick, but I like to know what is and isn't skeuomorphic.
Apple's Trillion Dollar Baby
I'm noticing some alarming similarities between your description and my current situation. Shit.
Rubbish

Zulu were a war like nation engaged in successful conquering of SAfrican tribes yes. Just like many many others before throughout the world.

If they had learnt to build the infrastructure of civilisation like others before then sub Saharan culture could have had one united pan- culture and developed just like others before it.

But we destroyed that - apparently doing them a favour

Japan shows an excellent example of how to absorb technological advances without getting wiped out - and offers an alternative to your rather insulting White conquer or self destruction theory.
No, you are not the product sigh. Google has to keep users satisfied as much as they can, and they do. E.g., AFAIK, they downrank ads which point to sites which people leave too early again, even if they would generate them more revenue.

Ad clicks is the product, and not users' data. If you setup an ads campaign, you will see that the adwords experience is not nearly as polished as other Google products - and why should they care, businesses just HAVE to use adwords to gain traction. If anything, Google treats its ordinary users as clients, and forces its advertising monopoly on advertisers.
Take off your undergarment throw it by one wall. Assuming the room has 4 walls this is your marker for wall "0". The rest of the walls going counter-clockwise will be walls "1", "2" and "3".

Close your eyes and spin in the room until you lose your orientation then stop and open your eyes. Record the number of the wall you are facing in your head.

Repeat spin and remember next new number.

Repeat spin and remember next new number.

Repeat, repeat, repeat until you have reached the maximum amount of numbers you can remember sequentially. You will have a sequence like 2,1,3,0,2.

Take your numbers, concatenate them sequentially, and translate from base 4 (ex. 21302) to base 10 (ex. 626)
Build good schools. Send people to them.
Harvard Students Take Leave
‎"YC made Fire. 500 stole it.", this is a greate punch line, true or not. You got to give Dave credit for not shying away from conterversy and in fact using it to brining 500 into the discussion
Candid opinion from ex-Project lead of Openindiana (Solaris fork)
What evidence is that then? StatCounter currently show Android to be at least as big as iOS for web hits. http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201108-20120...
That's what I get for skimming to remind myself of facts instead of reading.

I got Universa from the Google search blurb from Wikipedia. I got the over 100% figure from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-06/black-swan-money-ma... which quoted "a person familiar with the matter" as saying that the fund brought in 115% during 2008.

However if I read either closely it was obvious that Taleb does not run Universa.
I'm sorry, I did not mean to be egotistical. I guess I assumed that no "hacker" had typed `cd /usr/local` or `cd /etc` without wondering about origins of the names enough to search out the most cursory explanation.

For what its worth, I never read the TC links;)