skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make It Better: Perspective + Predicament
The paper in question is a humor magazine published annually during May Day celebrations by the students of Helsinki University of Technology during Finnish .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84py
Google should've bought Facebook years ago, when it was still small.
Congrats to the great team at Parse!
https://github.com/couchbase/mobile json database sync
11 SEO insights to increase conversions in 2013
If your theory is true, it's likely that the new CEO requested that the layoffs happen on the current CEO's watch as a condition to accepting the position.
CloudMine is #2 in the mBaaS space
Maybe Im wrong but I dont think its at the level in to which it was applied at the school I attended Im talking every test, every subjectm, rankings where posted . Maybe you had that at your highschool but I was told by several teachers when I came back to the states this pratice would cause some serious legal troubles for any school who tried it here....they also beat you at these schools if you had poor grades so its not a utopia by any means
The "reserve" is usually what's feasible to extract with current technology, with the total amount of stuff present being the "resource". See, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_resource_classification. People often aren't particularly precise about the distinction.
It drains talent by offering smart people salaries that other industries can't afford

This is repeated a lot, but the skills of financial wizards are orthogonal to what most tech companies need.

It's also not the case that the tech industry can't afford to pay people high salaries.
You can check with Kiva Systems, now owned by Amazon.

http://www.kivasystems.com/about-us-the-kiva-approach/career...
What...

Okay, having just followed the link in your profile and looking at your picture, dude, trust me you're not ugly. I actually honestly think you're a handsome guy, judging purely by appearances.

But anyway. You know, I've noticed that people who fixate on appearances tend to be irrationally harsh. You'd be surprised how big a part confidence and charisma plays in the overall attraction people feel for one another. You don't need to spend any dollar on surgery, just work on your confidence, be cheerful, and learn to carry yourself well.
That was a pretty great read. With the crap-storm that has been hitting Bitcoin services lately as well as things like the Linode hack, it's great to see Bitcoin-Central being completely open and transparent with what happened and what their plans are for the future. Bravo.
I'm amazed with how much response this guy gets. This is nothing new. My mother used Herbalife protein powder back in the 90's and it was packed with nutrients, minerals and vitamins. It was advertised for weight loss but could also be your nutrition base depending on dosage.

I am sure they weren't the only company to offer something like this, there must be plenty.
A reporter once asked the Italian giallo director Dario Argento why so many beautiful girls are murdered in his movies. He replied that the dictates of the giallo require that one or more persons die, and that the audience would rather watch beautiful girls being killed than ugly ones.
Wow, I never heard of doing annual mammograms, or even "base-line screening" (!). Wouldn't that actually count as personal injury?

EDIT: Continued to read the actual article -- I didn't know about the mammography madness in the US. AFAIK doing X-Rays or CTs without reasonable suspicion is considered personal injury here (in Germany).
Sunil Tripathi, falsely linked on social media to Boston bombings, found dead
>We don’t live anything like our ancestors. We don’t work like them, talk like them, think like them, travel like them, or fight like them. Why on earth would we want to eat like them?

>After three months I should be finding deficiencies, and I did. I started having joint pain and found I fit the symptoms of a sulfur deficiency.

I like the doublethink here. Reductionism works fine except when it doesn't. And surely the only important components of food are the ones I've identified after a few months of experimentation.

You know, we should eat like our ancestors because that's what we're adapted to. When you try to invent your own environment to live in, there's a good chance you won't be well adapted to that environment. Rhinehart's logic is like asking "why should we want the same gravity as our ancestors? Wouldn't life be better without the hassle of gravity?" Actually, no. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-does-sp...

>If we can make transistors that are cheap, fast, and low power, surely we can make food that is tastier, cheaper, and more nutritious than anything that exists naturally.

This highlights the confusion. Does anyone think for a moment that a manmade device like a transistor is anywhere close to the complexity of a biological one such as a cell? This is laughable. A transistor is literally a device with THREE terminals.
Coram's Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War provides an utterly fascinating glimpse into this type of competitive thinking. Boyd's theories are regularly cited by today's Lean Startup personalities. Here's an excerpt from his magnum opus:

"To comprehend and cope with our environment we develop mental patterns or concepts of meaning. The purpose of this paper is to sketch out how we destroy and create these patterns to permit us to both shape and be shaped by a changing environment. In this sense, the discussion also literally shows why we cannot avoid this kind of activity if we intend to survive on our own terms."

I never managed to finish the one Kilcullen book I bought.
Sometimes unbalanced scales (#4 on this article's list) are appropriate. If you have a five-option list where 95% of your users are answering 4 or 5, then it's time to unbalance the scale so that you can get better information. However, you need to have collected the balanced scale version for long enough to know it's an actual trend.
I should take a picture of my Local home depot's light bulb "selection", it truly is humorous.

I picked up my two cree bulbs in an "end cap"-esque box today, however it was not at the end of any aisle, rather hidden away in the lamp section.
I've noticed that by creating visually appealing levels that are also random, you pretty much cannot avoid art fatigue.

Diablo 2 had pretty bland levels, so all the details of them, including how copy pasted they are, just get blurred together.

However, if you try to make everything look good, like in the Torchlight games, then you start noticing the world around you and with it all the repetition.

I don't feel like there's a good middle ground here, sadly.
Macros in Python: quasiquotes, string interpolation, LINQ and more
There are many people in the US for who "work" necessarily means physical work. From NPR (through the programs Planet Money and This American Life) on how so many Americans are on disability (http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/):

Over and over again, I'd listen to someone's story of how back pain meant they could no longer work, or how a shoulder injury had put them out of a job. Then I would ask: What about a job where you don't have to lift things, or a job where you don't have to use your shoulder, or a job where you can sit down? They would look at me as if I were asking, "How come you didn't consider becoming an astronaut?"
You missed the point by two blocks. Which is that OS have bugs. In my case, i was going to instalk ubuntu either way. I was making a counter argument against a comment above. Still, installing another OS does not void the warranty where i reside.
I'm surprised there's no mention downsides to being an attractive man. I think they certainly exist, but perhaps the net is positive?
Honestly, odds are that if you're not a big bicep type of guy, you're probably not going to like being involved with the women that like big bicep types of guys.
Are push notifications and identity so painful to deal with that there's a business in creating a full platform to deal with it?

Yes. (at least on iOS, not sure about Android or Win)

Parse has an iOS data object that syncs properly, whereas there is no evidence that any developer has ever gotten Apple's own iCloud + Core Data to sync properly at the record level.

Parse is cross platform so you can easily get the same data for a user on a desktop, web, android, iOS and windows mobile app.

Cobbling all this together with Heroku + libs would be possible but would require a lot of work. Parse just works out of the box.
You can't make AAA games with the money those games are making.
I'd say it is more of a "this is more tractable". Given that the barrier to doing a survey is so much lower for your users, the guys who accept "real conversations" will probably be significantly more optimistic about your product than those who don't..
"Making a mistake"

That, along with learning from the mistakes of others, and you have answered your own question.
If you're using Debian, dotdeb[1] comes with the ngnix-extras (includes the push stream module[2]) installed as well as some other goodies like passenger.

[1] http://www.dotdeb.org/2011/12/19/nginx-1-0-11-passenger-3-0-...

[2] https://github.com/wandenberg/nginx-push-stream-module
Being able to write if and while loops with am empty body is due to braces being optional if you only have one statement and due to the empty statement being a legal statement (doing so keepsthings simpler).

As for the second {}, its to allow you to create inner scopes where you can declare variables with a more restricted scope without needing to do something silly like "if(true)".

Empty block statements are OK sometimes with while and for loops when the real action that matters is in the condition:

while(!trySomething()){} //empty body for the loop

And since these language
So, what is Docker and why should we care about a 0.x release? Yes, I looked at the link and no, I was not much the wiser, something to do with virtualization perhaps?
More like the intersection: {colleagues ∩ friends}
Right, thats precisely my point: I think you underestimate how many people eat McDonalds or what-have-you every day. The interesting thing about this phenomenon is that I think it takes place all over the spectrum: the poor do it as well as the rich. Perhaps you do not see this as much because you are a self-described health nut (and thus this diet probably isn't for you, the same way an Alienware computer isn't for someone who knows how to build a PC), but in my developer circle I see eating trash food every day for all meals quite often. And what I've found is often the problem is that you forget about food and then are starving and make a bad decision so you can keep working, not necessarily because you love pizza or whatever. If Soylent can deliver on immediateness, then it has a chance of competing with this lifestyle. And, if the end result is people thinking more about what they eat, it may be a win either way.
>This premise assumes we understand, with no uncertainty, how the human body functions and utilizes nutrients [but] this is still a huge mystery to science

If "no uncertainty" was the golden standard, we'd never do anything new (except perhaps mathematics). Yes, there is uncertainty in what he's doing, as there is always when trying something truly novel. But I'm sure glad someone is making the attempt. Nutrients are not a huge mystery to science - there are entire college courses on biochemistry and such.
What exactly is a "regular luxury car"? It sounds like an interesting designation for any article. If it's regular, is it still a luxury?
Our focus on quality in product and documentation got us to this point so we're not going to change that strategy anytime soon :-)
Well, there's no guarantee that Google would have known what to do with it if they had ;)
Luckily, there's a third category of guys who like being fit, and enjoy physical activity in general and strength training specifically.
Thank you for the advice and insights.
"everyone wants handouts"

"an even playing field"

The argument there would appear to be that the people arguing for a level playing field want no one to get handouts (or, alternatively, for them to get compensatory handouts). Which, in a world with perfect knowledge and perfect implementation, I could probably get behind a government policy enforcing that. After all, a rich kid getting access to a million dollar trust fund is getting a handout just as much as the single mom picking up some food stamps. Or a person with a pretty face making more money than someone with a pock-marked face does simply by that fact.

Requiring perfect knowledge and perfect implementation are, of course, insurmountable caveats.
I recently went in for a checkup and, as a part of that, got a blood test. My liver panel had an elevated ALT, so I was referred to a gastroenterologist. He sent me for an MRI, where he saw what he thought was cancer. So, then it's off for a liver scope, which gave me pancreatitis and put me in the hospital for a solid week of really intense pain and tens of thousands in medical bills.

Turns out the scope found nothing and I'm perfectly healthy (I have a suspicion that the elevated ALT was from riding my bike to the doctor's office). The lesson I learned was that every time you step into a medical facility you're increasing your risk for disease. You shouldn't be afraid of tests, but they are absolutely not without risk. But everyone thinks that more tests and procedures make you healthier and that anything less than the most is "rationing". It's insane.
When the contents of .bash are sourced it will be done in filename order. Some files might rely on others being sourced first. So using the numeric prefix allows controlling the order while still having meaningful names.
...in 2010.
From what I can tell, the way that they've integrated analytics, with e-commerce analytics, the entire service is a direct tie-in to adwords.

Google Analytics is such a complete tool, when integrated with adwords and the power of google search, anyone who doesn't have full-time to dedicate to managing paid search and add networks could just easily integrate into the google walled garden and free up a good portion of their day to do other stuff.
> There is almost certainly someone, somewhere, claiming that sleeping on the floor and/or not showering makes you think better and your body healthier ("The Cave Man Sleep Technique....we didn't evolve in cushy beds now did we?")

On the internet, of course there is :) http://www.paleodietandliving.com/paleo-living/sleep/sleep-w...

Oh and showering to often is linked with everything from fungal infections, dandrufs, psoriasis and acne. Definitely not healthy according to lots of lifestyle strategists out there.
It's weird... Last night I had a completely "arbitrary" dream about this company. Like, my <insert fake company name here> company was struggling with payments and this company was in my dream.

I'll acknowledge that I've been using CPAP for over a year and now can actually remember my dreams (_shudder_) because I sleep so well, and I don't actually use this service, but for some reason my dreams were very vivid. I'm not even sure why they might be relevant to me right now. Maybe I read too much HN before bed... ;)
Isn't it better to attract them all and then pick the ones you want? I am 50 lbs over weight just saying...
When you use Google Analytics you are giving them a treasure trove of useful surfing habits they can use in their other products.

So they are not likely to charge for it anytime soon.
I would also like it if we could just copy everything, but for implementing a competitive browser this gets really hard really fast. Erlang's actors are not really designed to squeeze every cycle out of the hardware. Incidentally, you can get this model with Rust's `flatpipes` module, which allows you to send data across Rust.

We experimented with COW designs in the early days. It seemed pretty hard to implement: hardware MMUs operate on page granularity, not on object granularity, so you need (thread-safe!) guards for all objects. That's pretty tough from a performance point of view. Perhaps it can be done, but it seemed less risky to just use uniqueness.
Nevertheless, TFA spends three-quarters of the article framing 'an open, collaborative exam' as 'cheating' before getting there. Pointless sensationalism. Doubly so since 'game theory' as lived by animals isn't 'cheating', but 'the way to survive'. It was completely irrelevant to bring that term into the article.

Then there seems to be the rather odd point of "the students scored 20% higher than previous midterms", but it is unclear if his previous midterms were the same style - a single open-ended question.
I guess Facebook wants Open Graph (and their other APIs) to eventually be the primary backend for apps. Makes sense.
It's a given that most bulbs are located on the ceiling, unless you have a fan to redistribute that heat to the ground you aren't feeling the warmth. Also, when lights are off you still need to heat the house. Unless you're using the bulbs during the day, your HVAC unit will need to be just as big.
Weirdly enough I did once have a woman find it difficult to believe I worked in IT because I was "too handsome for that". I've also seen comments on technical youtube videos that say stuff like "Dude has pale skin and a neckbeard, you know he's legit!"

I wonder if this is one of the reasons we don't have more women in IT, if there is a public perception of IT people = Ugly. The last thing many women want is to be associated with ugly.
You can also turn online search reults off in the privacy settings
Was the advance notice any better than last year? Last year, you either knew about the sale in the window or you didn't. This year, even if you knew about it, people missed out.
Stackmob[1] and Urban Airship[2], depending on what you'd use it for

[1] https://www.stackmob.com/

[2] http://urbanairship.com/
I can't speak on the push notification part, but I used Parse because it removed the need for backend servers. Parse handles the DB and routes.
They also offer a full mobile back-end (increasingly referred to as MBaaS...admittedly not the nicest acronym): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backend_as_a_service
The only distribution of Linux I've used is 12.10 (and now 13.04). I use the Cinnamon desktop, and it seems great, I've had no problems with it. So now I'm wondering, could you explain a little bit what I'm missing out on?
Really, only in the sense that this source pushes out the aggregate supply curve, delaying the point in time when prices get higher.

Practically, once prices become 3x of current, that's what everyone will pay on average, it just means (in this thought experiment) that some miner sourcing from America is marginally profitable, while some miner from South America is very profitable.
As far as I'm aware being an attractive male doesn't hinder your chances in the STEM fields as it maybe would a female.
Genuine question, is there a truly significant portion of American agriculture that is based on plowing by hand? I was under the impression that most food comes from commercial-level farms that use machinery to plow. My dad works on a pretty small farm, and they definitely don't do anything by hand at this point. I suppose that you could be referring to people who garden as a hobby, but I don't know if I'd count that.
The article covers this topic of confidence. It says that only 15 to 20% of the wage increase attractive people gain is because of confidence. The rest is due to bias from the person in charge of hiring.
I'm keeping white/black and greytones out for now. White/light greys are especially hard... how would you differentiate between the content and the background?

It's definitely on the list of things to address.
Including the colour outside the primary content area wouldn't be very accurate, since this is dependent on the viewer's screen resolution. For example, viewing Facebook on a widescreen display yields significantly more white than on a non-widescreen display.
If you click on the project name at the top of the page, you'll find a README which starts with:

Docker complements LXC with a high-level API which operates at the process level. It runs unix processes with strong guarantees of isolation and repeatability across servers.

Docker is a great building block for automating distributed systems: large-scale web deployments, database clusters, continuous deployment systems, private PaaS, service-oriented architectures, etc.
Do you really think Zuckerberg would have agreed to that? I doubt it. Facebook was still relatively small when Yahoo offered to buy them for $1 billion but Zuckerberg didn't give it much thought at all.
/r/malefashionadvice might help you out some. I've been lurking there for a while, and for so many people it's not that they're ugly -- they're just used to wearing ill-fitting clothes that do not suit their body and face type.
You guys have fixed every single frustration or oddity I experienced when playing with docker just a week or two ago:

* localhost access.
* re-attaching to terminal.
* set your own port.

Brilliant work guys!
It looks to be similar to freeBSD jails
> Only allow the tickets purchased to be used by the person that originally purchased it.

The reason this method can't be used is because of a legal issue. Someone who buys a ticket has the right to resell it. Suppose after buying the ticket, they realize they can't attend -- should they be stuck with a ticket they can't resell?

Also, if reselling wasn't allowed, ticket agents would be driven out of business, and ticket agents vote.

> I'm not talking specific outlets ...

What is an "outlet" but a ticket reseller? If this idea were put into play, that reseller would be prevented by law from doing business.

Concert producers cooperate with, and depend on, resellers to increase the market for their product. So even the ticket's originators would object to the idea of disallowing resales, for a reason given below.

> ... this solution would also provide an "insurance" at a nominal price that would allow a full refund if unused.

That's another objection to the idea. A concert producer would much prefer that the ticket be resold than to have to provide a refund as well as lose one attendee for each refunded ticket.
Here's my speculation: Facebook bought Parse to attempt to own mobile usage data. Draw parallels with what Google did when they bought Urchin to form Google Analytics. I don't think Facebook cares about creating developer experiences. I think they care about having tracking hooks into mobile applications.
Apple's offering second chances at WWDC tickets for failed purchasers
My coworker just got a call from Apple: "Saw you tried to purchase a ticket this morning but couldn't. Good news: we've got one waiting for you if you want it! We'll send you an email, just purchase within 12 hours and you're set."
Cloudmine - https://cloudmine.me

Azure Mobile Services - http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/
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Great story, everyone should read it:

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
Long after the EU has succumbed to gigantism the Swiss will still be around. To believe that the sick should shun the healthy is an inversion of reality.
If you set yourself on fire, your flesh will burn and you will eventually die horribly. It is less clear what happens if you expose yourself to repeated small amounts of radiation. See the problem with your logic?
I dont know enough about these things but that seems like an incredible rate.
Plowing is not done by hand but picking is.

Sugar beet field weeding used to be done by teams of migrant workers with handheld hoes. I think they've figured out how to not have the weeds in the first place with better pesticides. Most fruits and vegetables are picked by hand.
Not everyone knows backend development. And going from 0-60 with rails/django/sinatra/flask is non-trivial for a lot of people with no server-side experience.

I know a lot of college students, for example, who know iOS development after taking a class, but don't know any server-side stuff.