skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cough, ahem, well, it was also explained to me that there may be some systematic labor-related problems with construction quality in those buildings. Not exactly related to worker pay-rate, but the gist is that they tend to pour the concrete too wet (because it is easier/faster to work). This is probably because of productivity-based bonus pay for foremen. The difference in strength isn't enough to cause a building to fail under nominal conditions, but catastrophic failure is more probable in some destructive event (weather, earthquake, explosion, etc).
My UI lets me press b to do a substring search on the url/title, which makes managing 100+ tabs trivial. And I often need to have a lot of tickets/revisions/forum threads/stack overflow questions open in tabs at the same time for my work.

Don't project your UI limitations onto other people please :)
Why did people on the Internet donate $700,000 to a bullied bus monitor?
The comments on that article make me feel all :smith:. As if oh yea we can keep this going, raw capitalism will totally work forever.
How about a script: a wrapper to run any other
script or process, that logs both STDOUT and STDERR in
one file, but prepends a short string of your choice for
lines that are from STDERR.
It would be really nice if there was an official Twitter account with status updates for things like this. Might reduce the amount of refreshing.
I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that you misunderstood the post you were replying to. It seems that what your parent post was saying is that people respond that they use "Google" as in "Google search" (whether on Firefox or IE or Chrome or Opera or..), not as in "Google Chrome". THAT mistake is far from just a semantic issue, but demonstrates a lack of understanding of what a browser is, or even its existence as something discrete from the websites they use.

To make the example clearer, I've personally had the experience of asking someone what browser they use and getting "Yahoo" (as in the Yahoo.com homepage) as an answer.
What determines a "wild run?"

As has been shown time and time again in academic and corporate research, the single best predictor of an asset's value is the current market trading price for that asset.
>Miners are encouraged to downgrade to Bitcoin 0.7.2 - at least temporarily - to push the correct blockchain forward.

How does one know who to believe when determining what the "correct" blockchain to forward would be?
I think GP was saying that access to meat is not a survival requirement, or even a requirement to be happy. I know people who would miss steak and ribs in a nostalgic sense, but anyone who hasn't found tasty vegan food hasn't looked very hard.

Access to basic nutrition is a de facto human right, in the modern civic sense. Nature doesn't guarantee that humans are fed, but many governments try to, with welfare and food stamps.
Gina Bianchini On Leaning In So Hard You Fall Flat On Your Face
Interview with Panic's Cabel Sasser and Steven Frank
If something like that was implemented, I would hope that it would be turned off by default and hidden away under the "here be dragons" section of Chrome's settings.
A related, but different project is my own nflgame [1]. Related in that it provides play-by-play data, but different in that it can be used to get it in real time. Also different in that the data only goes back to 2009, so it can't really be used to do the cool kinds of statistical analysis being done in the OP.

The source is JSON data from NFL's GameCenter pages. It contains its fair share of errors, but it is at least structured.

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflgame
You know, I love these posts calling for high taxation by relatively young people who are just starting their careers. Wait until you have kids about to go to college or, if you are unlucky, alimony and child-support obligations. Or major medical not covered by insurance.

We'll see what much higher taxation looks like to you then. It's not that more income equality isn't a good goal, but there are plenty of people with their backs against the wall.

I'm a strong open source advocate, but when I saw Richard Stallman years ago talk about how all software should be free, my first thought was "Easy for him to say. He doesn't have any dependents."

I do consulting work and my rates are high. Believe me, it's not because I'm greedy it's because I'm trying to get by.
The proposal seems to be a joke. For example, this video review of the existing theories is hand-wavy and totally "blond" (sorry). https://www.microryza.com/projects/crowdsourcing-humor-using...

If this was serious she would at least mention this recent book, which presents a deep and subtle evolutionary explanation, along with a thorough review of past theories, and yes includes lots of jokes: Inside Jokes by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams Jr. http://insidejokesbook.com/

Basically, humor is a learning mechanism. It's funny when we take something to be true and then suddenly discover it to be false (as long as there is no immediate danger).
My interest is in not dissuading other readers from considering moves further afield to cultures significantly distinct from their own. We are an extremely lucky group and have this option, it is a shame to see people fail to consider it. I wish you the best of luck whatever your own preferences are in life.
The thing is, unused RAM gets used as disk cache, which helps performance.

Also, good luck figuring out how much is "as much RAM as possible without having to swap out".
I had this problem the other day with a site I administrate, in Firefox only. It turns out that Chrome and other browsers have robust and complete certificate chains built in which allow them to trust certificates that Firefox over zealously assumes are not verified if you don't explicitly define a certificate chain file to link your certificate issuer to a root certificate that Firefox does trust.

So long story short: Firefox demands a chain file for some certificate issues while other browsers just trust the certificate.
the article is calling for 91% marginal rate on the top income bracket. quite different than paying 91% of your income in taxes.
Thanks for spending your time on a site that's essentially one big favor to us all.
Facebook likes correlated with personal traits
Seconded. Moreover, in Chattanooga, the cheapest/slowest option EPB provides is 50Mb, which is quite a bit more than the average connection speed listed for Google Fiber. I'm on that plan and the rate is usually closer to the 60Mb range; fast enough to necessitate plugging in an ethernet cable if I want to max out my connection.
I do not understand the dig against c# being less "efficient" than Ruby or Clojure.
A Town Without Poverty?
What do you do when your animals get sick?

I'm not trying to be inflammatory, I'm just curious.
You do realize the reason they're calling for high taxation is to reduce the costs of kids going to college, child support, and the elimination of major medical not covered by insurance?

Edit: Sorry, child support should be removed from that list; I was thinking of the costs of raising a child, not what you pay after a divorce.
very excited about the new version but probably won't bother upgrading my app until a few weeks. Is there a 'one liner' command to update node on OSX?
Insulin spikes are completely relevant, since insulin signals your fat cells to take up energy from your blood stream. Now you have no energy and feel hungry again.
Can you explain why this is actually a problem? Why not just always have a const T&, is there some negative in the "cheap copy" case to not copy?
Every company I have ever worked at has had these "perks" of a discount store that has a mixed bag of "deals" from a bunch of random consumer companies - I can assure you that no employee is being retained because they get 15% off of movie tickets. Its not meant to be directed at AnyPerk but I have to wonder why these sorts of "perks" are offered at all. Amongst myself and other coworkers they are pretty much irrelevant and usually forgotten. Perhaps Ill use a discount on a cell phone or cable service contract if I remember but saving 10 bucks at Safeway is equivalent to the coupons I get in the mail.
Or we could step away from the keyboard for some fresh air :-)
Very useful. It'd be nice to be able to exclude certain tabs from ever being closed (like gmail) that I want to keep open.
That's a good catch. The browser thing seems logical. I tried all the permutations I could:

Chrome - McAfee

IE9 - Chrome & Google Toolbar

Firefox - McAfee
This is the only way to keep LinkedIn out of your inbox short of using GMail filters. My highest-voted comment ever (27 upvotes) from a few months back:

"Linked-In has the spammiest email protocol out of any service I have ever used. Even after signing-in there is no one-click-to-unsubscribe button (they split it into about 12 scattered categories), and they create new categories periodically and opt you in to them. This is downright deceitful. Pro tip: change your email to one that you never use. It literally came down to doing this or deleting my Linked-in account--unfathomable to me. Also: no more f@#$!ng emails at 4 in the morning. This seems like a jackpot CAN-SPAM class action suit." link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4930040
What REALLY needs to be done is fully automating farming, construction, mining, transport and power plants.

Then we can live for free since no work will be required to provide an house, food and electricity.
Social Media Design Cheat Sheet - Updated
Since attacks are distributed amongst several infected zombie machines with no motive or intent, it can be difficult to pin-point the true source of the attack.
This posting just spoke to me on so many levels. I've personally had a beer thrown in my face by someone who's job I destroyed. I really believe we are have started to eat our own tails.

Approximately 70% of the current jobs can (and will) be automated but what does that mean for my grandkids. How will we as a society cope with >20% unemployment never mind > 40%.
I've been a user of projects where the maintainer basically merged everything. A lot of stuff was broken. The only good thing was that it was easy to get my fixed merged. :)
So at least (13 blocks x 25btc * $40/btc =) $13,000 in block rewards miners thought they had -- and possibly more -- will be reassigned into the favored chain's winners.
But the verity of the argument WRT woodsmoke speaks to the strength of the analogy.

Many here appear to agree that burning of woodsmoke is not always bad [appeal to majority!] and that the article appears# to go far beyond what there is evidence for in claiming wood burning is wrong, period. [of course that doesn't mean it isn't wrong]

Following the analogy to a conclusion on this basis says that those who appeal to scientific arguments for atheism are using poor data and over-reaching often attacking practices which don't match well with real life.

If the woodsmoke argument is poor but the analogy is sound then the conclusion is that those who light wood-fires like those who are religious are justified in rejecting this sort of "scientific position".

He's done for the anti-woodsmoke position what proving the pope is fallible does for atheism.

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# I only read the snippets of the conclusions of the papers in the comments and not the actual papers.
If the cost of those and impact of taxation varied at the same time and the same degree that would be no problem. But that has never happened. Given the state of our governmental problem-solving ability in the US all those numbers can do is diverge.
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Aside: Are you aware of any APIs for the creation of one-time credit/debit cards?
Erm, pre-agriculture, that's all nature did. Hunter gatherers today still literally walk up to their food and pick it up (or pull it from bushes, etc.). Or run it to exhaustion. Sure, it takes a minimal amount of effort (and took a lot less when there weren't 6 billion people crowding out natural food supplies), but the state of nature provides plenty of food for a small population. What you're saying is essentially that there's no natural right to free speech, because nature doesn't provide you with language (it takes other humans teaching you how to speak before you can access your right to free speech).
He's talking about programmer productivity per line of code, not machine efficiency.
Hi, I can't see your email in your profile. Can you send an email to dafeng at strikingly.com? I will make sure this gets fixed.
What about businesses that aren't apps or "sexy?" Say an accounting firm or some other professional services. I always struggle to fill in the massive image requirements of the front page sliders of these kinds of templates for "boring" businesses. I don't think these businesses should be forgotten, though.

The editing interface is fantastic, nonetheless. Great job.
PSA: Emergency Blockchain Fix - Do Not Move Your Bitcoins
I'm still in college so I don't have a ton to look back on, but I am very grateful that hackNY took a chance on me last summer. I certainly wasn't as qualified as many of the fellows and the program changed the direction I plan to take my life over the next few years. I was a Bioengineering Major dabbling in programming and now I'm goingfull-steam-ahead with CS and couldn't be more excited for where programming will take me over the next few years. I now know someone at dozens of cool companies and I got a chance to meet some industry legends, all because whoever read my application thought an Android app or two was enough experience to write production code for pay at an incredible startup (SecondMarket). Best summer of my life and only good things ahead, thanks hackNY.
OK, I'll be "that guy" and disagree (at least in part) with the TFA.

First, this obligatory link and quote:

http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. That sounds like a joke, but it's actually a pretty good description of what happens in a typical startup. It certainly describes what happened in Viaweb. We avoided dying till we got rich.

That said, I don't necessarily agree with the criteria asserted in TFA for being a "zombie" startup (which presumably means it's effectively dead, but just hasn't realized it yet), at least not without a lot more context around when to apply them.

Given the following as identifiers of a "zombie" startup:

You haven’t hit 10% week-over-week growth on any meaningful metric (revenue, active users, etc)

You’re working on the same idea after 12+ months and still haven’t launched

You’ve launched an enterprise service and have less than 2% week-over-week growth in revenue pipeline

I'd say none of those are valid in isolation. If you're doing an enterprise, B2B play, for example, the lead time to get that first sale can be pretty dang big, and from the first sale to the second sale can still be pretty big... you could easily go quite some time without being able to talk about 10% revenue growth. But getting to even one sale and having any revenue is a binary difference between not having revenue. So what do you do until you get there?

Or to use a "hits close to home" example... we have been working on an enterprise startup for some time, and don't have any revenue yet. Zombie? I don't think so, we just made a conscious decision to forego seeking outside funding, and do the bootstrapped, self-funded model (for now anyway) while working our dayjobs. This necessarily means slower progress, but the thing is, we are making progress. Not in revenue yet, but in terms of working through @sgblank's Customer Development process, learning about our customers and their problems, learning more about how to market the kind of stuff we're building, learning more about our competitors, and building the product.

Of course, a cynic might look at us and go "Yeah, you guys are exactly what TFA means, give up now." But we look at it this way: We're running very lean, with almost no burn rate to speak of, learning more every day, and moving towards product/market fit and that first dollar of revenue. And since we have no burn rate to speak of, we can "not die" for a pretty long time, as long as the co-founders stay motivated.

Of course, there probably will be a point in time when metrics like "10% revenue growth over $SOME_TIMESPAN" will be a reasonable metric, but that time isn't now for us.
It's possible your correlation implies you simply aren't aware that you and others not running AV have a virus.

I'm more of a firewall guy myself.
More over, this article should be how to hire people who fit in with your culture better. I find many of the key points to be satisfying to me.
> As far as I understand it, it's very hard to track that kind of obfuscation

You understand it incorrectly, then. Bitcoin is not anonymous and transaction flows through the network are very easy to trace. Additionally, it is very easy to link specific transactions to regions or even specific network addresses/services.
General practice in the industry is not to discuss the details of attacks publicly.

As much as it sucks, the rule of thumb is that you need every advantage you can get when it comes to being attacked. You gain little by talking about these kinds of things publicly and stand to lose much (by giving away how you're mitigating the problem, for example, possibly leading the attackers to adjust their attack). It's just generally safer not to.

If you are someone who runs a web site, once you hit a certain size where you have to worry about DDoS attacks you will certainly have the kind of industry connections where you can talk about the issue privately and get help and/or help someone. Below a certain size you just don't generally have to worry about it -- and if you do get attacked, the response will mostly be done by your provider as there's not usually a lot you can do if you're just a few servers.
Pwned.

Also, it's not a zero-sum game. Your taxes can drive up demand to make you even wealthier. Except, perhaps many wealthy people don't actually want more wealth. They just want to be better off then everyone else...
Does this mean, that basically any functional change in the block verification code can be used to leverage the hashing power of all users of one version into a 51% attack?

The attack would be essentially to create the current situation artificially by crafting a block that is only valid by one version of bitcoind, therefore splitting the block chain. Then one needs to include two different transactions into the two blockchains. ( In the theoretical scenario, by mining another block for one of the chains. ) For this I do not need to have 51% of the hashing power, but the branch of the blockchain needs to be supported by 50% of the hashing power.

EDIT: Thinking a bit more about this, it seems that the probability to suceed with such an attack seems to rely on the attackers abbility to craft a 'splitting block', which should be proportional to the share of the attacker controlled hashing power and the ability of the 'incompatible' clients to outgrow the standard block chain. ( So that a merchant with an 'incompatible' client accepts a payment based on the fork of the blockchain.) This means that the attack is probably impossible, if the one CPU one vote approach is not only used for valid transactions, but also for valid clients.
PG runs HN on his calculator? Makes sense.
Guys, it looks like prices are dropping pretty quick now on mtgox.

This will be another... interesting couple of weeks for bitcoin.
Reminds me of the Armadillo Aerospace designs -- relying on fast dynamic control systems instead of more "stable" rocket configurations.
Elon Musk Wants to Die on Mars
because you can start one of those without risking savings and personal liability, but not a lifestyle business.

Why do you think so? There are quite few types of startups (web based SaaS businesses in particular) that can be built with a minimal investment, bootstrapped while working a $DAYJOB, and entail little personal liability. And creating an LLC as a shield against personal loss isn't terribly expensive either. I'd argue that most people who aren't living in outright poverty could make a reasonable stab at building a business 37 Signals style.
So, your counterargument is that birth control and Saturday Night Fever will have a bigger effect on the evolutionary process than enabling people with congenital diseases to reproduce, and that, moreover, this will somehow continue to produce increases in intelligence at the same rate as we experienced going from ape to human?

I'm not claiming evolution is finished. I'm claiming it is affected and I don't see compelling pressure to select for ever-greater intelligence. Even if I found your argument compelling, you're hardly talking about the same kind of intelligence as the GP. Intelligence is one of those squishy things that resists good formal definition.
Nicely done, nicely done. Reminds me a bit of the early DC-X flights, this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv9n9Casp1o is DC-X flight #8 which I expect GrassHopper to do at some point as well (this was 1995 btw, imagine the computers they had on DC-X vs what they have on Grasshopper!)

Blue Origin is a bit ahead here in terms of take off and landing. But it has the challenge of not benefiting from a paid launch contract like SpaceX currently has.

What I find particularly interesting is that either the Dragon or the Blue Origin craft already have the delta-V to land an return to orbit from the moon, if they can get there. The thing that will break that wide open is on-orbit refueling. The game changes in a particularly compelling way when you can launch "gas cans" to orbit and refuel existing craft that are already in orbit. Not only does that extend the life of satellites but it enables Multi-launch configurations. United Launch Associates gave a pretty compelling talk about how they would meet some of those challenges in their long duration vehicle paper: http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/docs/publications/Integrated%2...

Exciting times, 20 years late but still.
> (Whether I'm being sarcastic is entirely up to you.)

This is the best part of the comment, even if there was a voice echoing in my head "What was the author's intention in writing that sentence?"
Congrats on your success!
I wouldn't worry too much about destroying jobs - at least as far as the tech market is concerned. For every tech job that's destroyed, is seems at the very least 1 new job is created. Engineers should be flexible to take advantage of these new job opportunities.

For example once the mobile market started booming, lots of people wanted apps for their devices, ergo lots of jobs were (and still are) "created" to build those apps. Eventually the mobile platform as we know it will whither and some other platform will take it's place, requiring many new applications build with different technology and techniques (computer languages, design paradigms, etc...).
I've been watching too much Warehouse 13. I thought it was a SETI-like project to find Artifacts at first.
Creating Indestructible Self-healing Circuits
A DDOS of HN is quite strange indeed. There should be some kind of ransom involved, but seeing as HN doesn't make money (I assume) from these forums, there is nothing to ransom.
Pwned? You really think those problems are going to be solved in the near term? Given the state of our government?
People are calling for high taxes to reduce child support? Do you just put random words in a blender and dump out the results?