skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any time I've asked a local why the densities aren't higher, why a ten story apartment building is such an anomaly, I get some vague grumbling about earthquakes.

For whatever reason, very few people make the connection between supply, demand, and prices in metro areas, which is a point I wrote a lot more about here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/connecting-the-dots... .
Ruling Is Victory for Drug Companies in Promoting Medicine for Other Uses
We have a few 'well-regulated' militias in the United States. The Coast Guard, the Army Reserves, and the rest of us.

10 USC chapter 13 defines the militia as, basically, all able-bodied men aged 17-45, and women's suffrage has effectively expanded that definition to include women.

We don't have conscripted military service at the moment though.
I fail to see how. People use GoPro in generally sporting or rugged situations.

Google Glass is pretty fragile and in those situations having a one inch glass/perspex cube in front of your eye is very dangerous.
Those unexpected downloads on a bunch of the links is... unexpected, and not cool.
> well, an important part of science (especially chemistry) is knowing appropriate safety procedures.

And an important part of childhood is being able to make mistakes and learn from them without them ruining your life.
Could be a billion things. I'm simply expressing what I've observed in my humble little life. I've worked in retail, dug ditches, journalism, design, high tech. I've lived in red state and blue, in big cities and small rural farming communities and everything in between. I've befriended every kind of person you can imagine, from Ivy league stars to GED earners to drop outs, drug addicts, executives and criminals.

I'm not saying any of this necessarily gives my opinions more weight, but I like to think I've seen enough to feel I can recognize a pattern when I see it.
But thats not what the article claimed they did, and thats extremely hard to do with eBay's affiliate program.
There was a lot of awesome things about NeXT machines and NeXTStep but there were also crappy things. The endless list of nested menus for example was nice in that it was standard and you knew what to expect in every application, but also could be less than ideal in some applications.

Nostalgia favors remembering the good things and forgets the frustrations of daily usage.

In the end NeXT failed not because the machines were too expensive (it was competing against Sun, DEC and SGI workstations which were also very expensive, so the price was not really out of line in that context -- only if you compare it to PCs, which you shouldn't.) It lost for a variety of other reasons, and I'm sure if you talk to 20 different people who placed the PO's for workstations in the early 90's you'd get 20 different reasons.

A lot of the times it just came down to "Our guys are used to SunOS/Irix/etc. and don't want to adjust." Or "Our software works best on X." or only works on X. etc.
I have no control over what people in Chengdu think about me. I can only control what I think. I think I'm stronger as a result of free trade, and I even think that's true for my family, community, state, and nation.
What is emg?
My point is that there's no curiosity when we're not encouraging girls to care the way we do with boys.
OP here, and Director of Community at Toptal. This is the first live article, but we've got loads more in progress covering a bunch of different projects and technologies.
Does any web mail not do this? And did Gmail ever not do this?
conversely, this also means if:

drug A treats disease B with + outcomes

and

drug A treats diseace C with + outcomes

They rename the drug A'

Drug A and Drug A' differ in price by a multiple.

This just seems wrong.
Some distros store the words file in /usr/dict/words. Debian (and ubuntu) uses /usr/share/dict/words
The premise of the thread is hackers saying "yes, I blew stuff up when I was a kid"

gavinlynch's premise is (literally) "Right. But you didn't do it during school." (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5651679 )

So which is it? Is the problem that she did something "dangerous" (meaning many of the posters here should have been punished, even if lightly so)? Or is she a special case because she did it at school?

And what if she didn't have anywhere else to do it? Do we know if she actually has a backyard or a playground/park to conduct this experiment? Do we know if she has a home? (I suspect she does, but I haven't seen it stated conclusively).
Britannica costs $5 a month. Their articles are excellent.

A free source written by top philosphers is Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosphy. That should be the first hit.

If Wikipedia wants to be a link farm with citations and links to every source on some topic, that might be an OK service. That's not what they are. They claim to be an encyclopedia. They get it 80% right, but 20% wrong is unacceptable for the world's go-to source for information. Especially when the better alternatives are just as accessible; they only lack SEO.
Not sure how widely this is know but you can use Safari Books Online [1] for a monthly fee (about the price of a typical book) and just read them on-line. I generally read the book and use them as referenced in real life and this translates perfectly to an on-line media. Also, there is no waiting for the books to show up!!

p.s. my office also has a corporate account with books24x7 [2], but thier on-line format is not as good as Safari's.

[1] http://www.safaribooksonline.com/

[2] http://books24x7.com/
He should have used a "==" though...

Edit: Oh wait sorry no... I suck!
To be fair I clicked on the article and immediately came back to the comments expecting the absolutely inevitable sprawl of comments about the title edit. :P

So not strange, methinks. :P
Some things to take note of:

Scroll bars are on the left, and the scroll buttons are at the same end of the scroll bar.

NeXTSTEP GUI programs adhered to a well-defined concept of an application: they're stored on-disk as self-contained app bundles that appear in the file manager as a single file, there's one Dock tile per application, one menu per application, and zero or more windows per running application. OS X has somewhat weakened this.

Menus are vertically arranged, and can be re-positioned. Sub-menus can also be torn off and re-positioned.

Unlike OS X's Dock, when you fire up an application that isn't already in the Dock, the app icon goes in the bottom-left corner of the screen (which is also where minimized windows go). The app icons in the Dock are only the ones that you have selected to stay in the Dock even when the application isn't running.

The window close and minimize buttons are in different corners, and the close button provides visual indication of a window containing an unsaved document.

The display is grayscale, but the software supports color.
Why would you assume I'm a peon? Or that I haven't climbed the six figure ladder? In fact, you don't know anything about me, why would you react this way?

One of the things you learn as you get a little more maturity is that: a) it never pays to be rude or uncivil to anyone you don't personally know, b) no matter how much of a hot shit you think you are, you will look like a giant douchebag when you try to pull it on other people, c) there's always the possibility that you are wildly wrong.

You actually hit on all three of those points in this particular situation. Good luck with your startup.
Large Hadron Collider through Google Glass
The Chrome example brings up a good point: it's a lot easier to fix niggling details on small projects than big ones. We could probably stand to see some innovation in architecting open products to be easy to install only part of into a development environment. The GitHub editing interface helps here, though project culture is another barrier. I fixed a typo on AngularJS and started to discover a heavier project structure than I'm used to:

https://github.com/angular/angular.js/pull/2374

Maintaining a culture of innovation at scale is a challenge for both open and closed companies.
An excellent comment on a compelling article from January:

"As a lifelong resident of Silicon Valley, I can only laugh. Our patented brand of NIMBY liberalism married to Asperger's-induced libertarianism makes this plan an utter pipedream."

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/13/01/a-grand-...

Previous discussion of article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5032555
I was referring to the reasons I started using Gmail.

I started using Gmail when it was still invite only. At the time Gmail's interface was refreshingly clean.
People live in the Peninsula partly for the house with a yard. People live in SF for the city life etc...

Its been self selecting for a long time. You will get a lot of opposition to high rise apartments in those areas especially since the existing residents don't 'need' or even want these developments.

You don't even have BART in middle to lower parts of the Peninsula. Where you do see Bart, you see a little bit of the developments that you speak of (Millbrae, South San Francisco, etc...)

There is increased demand. It translates into higher prices for the Peninsula and increasing development and somewhat higher prices in the outskirts (East Bay, South Bay, etc...). Also, see a bit more in fill in the Peninsula. Previously, subpar empty lots are being bought and built on.
Part of me (the part that watches Better Off Ted) thinks this is just another change along the lines of the recent Gmail minimalism.

The new logo which drops the word "territories" looks much cleaner and switching to Palestine from Palestinian really tightens things up.
I wonder if it is true, or if it is someone just clicking on it for shits and giggles. I've often wondered who exactly reads HN.
Reminds me of early reviews of the DynaTAC 8000X
Google CN home page?
One usecase I can think of is when UI developers are working on a set of expected response from an API while the API is currently being developed by backend developers. Once the API is ready, UI devs can swap the uri.
As claimed by someone who...

> haven't worn Glass.
SpamAssassin is a great tool, nice work.

I understand your point. I'm not convinced that spam with its dangers as we know today can be gone with any solution. I think it needs a long process to reach a point where sending out spam will cost more than profits coming out from it. I'm probably naive and too ambitious but I am going that path.

I don't want to belittle anyones work on fighting spam. It's very complicated and I do know the responsibility of the job and how all of us rely on it.

To be clear on our launch, it will start out as a mail hosting with a nice client having some cool features. All this questionable stuff on spam, parsing receipts, etc. is coming in the future if we're lucky enough to have your support to be around that long.
I used to have a cube with a NextDimension board in it: it was a dedicated i860 with 32MB of backing store. Whoa. 24bpp color with 8bpp alpha. Hot shit!

That was the best computer I've ever owned.
Check again now ;)
Does it look like this throughout the world? http://cl.ly/image/3q3x1t3y1O3y
If you're going to change the title, at least add NSFW to it...
The truth doesn't matter anymore. The meme that "QWERTY was designed to be inefficient, caught on, and now we're stuck with it" has mythical emotive power, much like "women were worshipped for their mysterious ability to give birth, before agriculture gave us the patriarchy", so much so that Alan Kay still uses "a QWERTY keyboard situation" to describe "network effects of something designed to suck"; and layout hipsters will be touting the superiority of their Dvořák layouts long after the time_t-pocalypse twenty-five years hence.
Why does organic milk last longer than regular milk?
Right now it has almost no apps, and it's a year away from launching as a consumer device. The verdict is certainly "not in".

There is a good reason why you almost never see BusinessInsider articles on HN. This is a good reminder why.
I believe the original quote to that effect was by Robert Hare and the basic premise of it is that if any part of you worries you might be psychopathic, you're probably not psychopathic enough to worry about it. The worryingly psychopathic don't see psychopathy as something to worry about.

Everyone places somewhere on the spectrum, the question is only where.
I find these profiles amusing because it doesn't matter which way the results turn out, you'll be happy.

Psychopath's don't care what the world calls them. They see it as an advantage. So if you tell a non-psychopath that he isn't a psychopath he is relieved, if you tell a psychopath that he is a psychopath he is also relieved.

So the only way this test can change someone's paradigm is if it is erroneous.
Why Startups Are Like Modern Abstract Art
The Idled Young Americans
I would argue that the intent of the question is asking what matters to you, and on that basis I picked "disagree somewhat".

Of course I'm still just not-executing-my-nonexistent-utility-function, but the point is that said utility function cares about people other than myself. In aggregate, more so than myself.
The verdict is in: Business Insider is blogspam (ghostery 17, disconnect 24)
Is there an open source project that accomplishes something similar?
Others have chimed in with some corrections, but this one seems to have been missed:

"And you don't need a serial number on a gun either but if you are found with a gun sans serial number it's a felony with huge prison time."

That's not exactly true. It is illegal to remove the serial number from a gun that has one, but it is not required that all guns have serial numbers. Guns manufactured before serial numbers were required of licensed manufacturers obviously don't have them, but also, if you manufacture a gun for yourself, which is perfectly legal, you are not required to manufacture it with a serial number.

In short, you're absolutely right that the removal of a serial is a felony. Also true for the sale, purchase or possession of a firearm that has had its serial number removed. It is also true that all guns manufactured by firearms dealers for sale in the US after 1968 are required to be manufactured with a serial number. But simply having a gun without a serial number is not necessarily a felony, depending on whether or not it ever had one or who manufactured it.
Suicide Rates Rise Sharply in U.S
You know, even if she had been told it would pressurize the bottle until it ruptured with a loud bang, it is valid scientific curiosity to want to see it and validate it for herself.

Shit the number of things we got away with in my high school electronics and metalworking classes is absurd. Lots of stuff was tested for "explosiveness" or otherwise destructive fun. The teachers, deans, and even the in-school cop used to stop by just to watch our antics.

In chemistry one year I was doing experiments to validate various compositions of gunpowder for burn rate, and was allowed to cary around the components in my bag. The shenanigans when we combined it with some electronics and metalworking were fantastic. We made a little rocket car, then modded it to blow up at the end of the run, then made little poppers to startle the teachers. Not one bit of actual trouble, just a few "talkings to". During the actual demo of the results, we put a little too much in the crucible and it exploded, sending burning shrapnel onto the front row of students' desks. Again, no trouble.

So I'm not sure that it even counts as something that needs reprimand. Curiosity is something that should be rewarded. At worst she should get a "hey, be a bit more careful" talk. And then given access to facilities where she could be more careful while being curious at the same time.
I think (hope) we are in a transitional period. There is an "old guard" in the design crowd who came up in the era where web and print design were still pretty mixed, and so the idea of knowing code seems unfathomable. I know and have worked with designers who, while I know they are perfectly capable of learning HTML/CSS, just put up a wall when you try and talk to them about code of any kind. It's a shame, and I see the trend changing in younger folks, so hopefully that continues and companies will adjust their orgs appropriately.

I certainly know if/when this project I'm on gets some legs and money behind it and we are hiring, the designers I hire will be writing HTML/CSS ;)
Essential News from The Associated Press
How a copied excerpt of a story will no longer outrank an original article
+1

If you're a student, its likely that your University library has purchased this on your behalf. Mine has, and I get all oreilly books online, free :)
Did you read my post? I do not agree with these felony charges at all. I don't know what the reprimand should be, whether it's a lecture or 1 detention or expulsion. But I know the felony charges are wrong based on the few facts we currently have.
Striking to me that you posted a link that directly supported what I was explaining.

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As of January 2011, foreigners owned $4.45 trillion of U.S. debt, or approximately 47% of the debt held by the public of $9.49 trillion and 32% of the total debt of $14.1 trillion.[71] The largest holders were the central banks of China, Japan, Brazil, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Switzerland and Russia.[73] The share held by foreign governments has grown over time, rising from 13% of the public debt in 1988[74] to 25% in 2007.[75]
As of May 2011 the largest single holder of U.S. government debt was China, with 26 percent of all foreign-held U.S. Treasury securities (8% of total U.S. public debt).[76] China's holdings of government debt, as a percentage of all foreign-held government debt, have decreased a bit between 2010 and 2011, but are up significantly since 2000 (when China held just 6 percent of all foreign-held U.S. Treasury securities).[77]

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The key fact here is: China holds 8% of US debt. Eight Percent.

Also worth mentioning that according to those same numbers we hold a majority of our own debt. So please, tell me more about how "wrong" I am.
Some electric trains actually do this, they dump the energy as heat in a bank of resistors.
The motor on a tesla is on the rear axel, but most braking power is dissipated from the front axel due to the weight transfer. The question is if you also had a front axel motor (like the Model X), how much regen could you do. I remember reading somewhere that induction motors don't regen that well at low RPMs, hence you need to supplement with friction brakes. Anyone with a better understanding care to comment; would it be possible to build a car with no friction brakes, just 100% regen? I suppose you could always apply a counter torque to the motor.
Nvidia Face Works Tech Demo; Renders Realistic Human Faces
No, I've heard of it; in fact after typing that I thought "does that explain sacred cows in India?"

But worshiping domesticated animals isn't as universal or persistent as patriarchy supposedly is.
East Coast U.S.A. looks like that.
The author admits those bullet points can be fixed. The core argument against Glass is it is trying to upheave social norms well before society is ready for them. Are people ready to have conversations with each other where there is a distracting screen in the corner of their eye at all times? Are you going to be annoyed when it's clear someone is only giving you half their attention, but doing so less overtly than if they were staring at their phone? I put my phone away at dinner, will people be continually turning Glass on and off as they enter and exit conversations?

The fact is phones and tablets had analogues going back hundreds of years in the form of books and wristwatches in terms of social norms. You check your watch, you check your phone. You sit down and read a book, you sit down and read your iPad. Society accepts local distractions where the user overtly makes it clear they are looking at something. There is no equivalent to Glass where the user has a distracting bit of information floating right within their view, but invisible to other people. This is a genuinely new disruption of social norms and it's wide open how people will react to it, and if they will ever accept it.

I don't agree that "it's all a matter of execution." Putting a cyborg-like eyepiece on people and an always-available HUD in front of them is not a foregone conclusion as something most people will ever want in their lives.

I've always said it's going to come down to how stupid you look to other people. And yes, I realize cell phones, etc, were viewed as douchey when they first came out. But the key difference between cell phones (and this is important) is that you could put the cell phone in your pocket, nullifying the douche-factor until you took it out again. If you take off your Glass because you look like a tool, you just completely eliminated the purpose of Glass.

I think the most likely path for Glass is that of the Segway: an uncool device that has amazing practical applications for professionals in certain domains. You'll see them on cops sooner than teenagers at the mall.
Amusing juxtaposition:

"More recent research has debunked any claims that Dvorak is more efficient, but it hardly matters. Even in 1930 it was already too late for a new system to gain a foothold."

The text "recent research" points to the Reason article that very few people seem to realise is written by free market fundamentalist economists and not ergonomic historians. These economists believe that there is no such thing as lock-in. According to their theories the market always chooses the best tech. Which means any tech not chosen by the market must be worse than whatever wins.

Yet he contradicts their dogma in the very next sentence after citing them, with the common sense view that entrenched tech can be worse than the alternatives if it gets there first.
I'm sorry, I must be blind. Could you please cut & paste a passage from the link you provided that support the claim that: "wage slavery lead to Marxist revolutions"

What I'm interested in is:
1. Name of the revolutions.
2. Their place.
3. Their date.
4. Professional historian who claims that the "wage slavery" lead to the events in points 1-3. (not a communist with an agenda)

I assure you that the Marxist (or rather Bolshevik) revolution in Russia in 1917 wasn't caused by "wage slavery". As any other communist revolution too.

Probably you watch too much KGB-TV... sorry RussiaToday.
We tried this just yesterday at a couple Starbucks locations in Toronto for our new lines of 3D printed jewelry (http://www.hotpopfactory.com/). It was great, because we could hone in on specific demographics that interested us based on the location and time of day.

For the most part we found people weren't actually interested in taking any money for coffee (we didn't go the gift card route, we just approached people in line directly). When we offered to pay some people actually found it a bit off-putting. That said though, when you approach people candidly looking for feedback on a project you're personally invested in, people seemed pretty generous with their time.

We ended up getting great feedback on everything from the usability of our website, to the desirability of our product and pricing. We even ended up finding a couple new customers along the way. I'd highly recommend this experiment for any consumer facing product, it can be a bit daunting at first, but when used strategically it can be far more productive then having your head down coding in isolation all day.
We used to use a different method of piping standard dog machine fog through ice to make the same effect. Slightly messy but probably without the danger of suffocating people.
Why is it so expensive? It's not using top of the line
processing, according to leaked specs. It's about as
powerful as the original Kindle, which cost $159 right
now. Is miniaturization and a metal headband a $1,341
cost?

What? It sits on your head, so it has to be small and light. It uses a new kind of display. It's made in low volumes. I suspect the hardware costs are actually more than $1500.