skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be easier calling your local schools and asking if they're getting any new textbooks, and whether you can have the old ones.
A friend of mine did his duty service at an old radar site. When they were bored they'd send a pulse through antenna and the birds sitting on it would flip dead.

Granted the energies involved are not comparable, but a router is active much of the time. Also remember you deal with inverse square law here, the effect likely fades out quickly with distance.
Python has its own wiki about them for one (first Google hit):

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWarts

Here is one of the first Google hits for Ruby:

http://jgaskins.org/blog/2012/05/16/ruby-warts/

Every languages has warts. Lots of them.
Oh is that why my Coursera videos suddenly won't buffer for more than a few seconds? I figured it was an optimization, like with YouTube, so they don't waste bandwidth loading videos for people who have the tabs open but won't watch them.

Do you know of any workarounds client-side?
You might like a programming language I make, "NCD". See: https://code.google.com/p/badvpn/wiki/NCD

It follows a similar philosophy to Nix but for runtime management of processes and events in general. It's really functional though. But it is a bit declarative, with the implicit backtracking, the unique feature of NCD.
"...starting to settle in."

The generation ahead of me believed exactly this, that college education was for the "elite." The generation behind me challenged this perception and went to college. It was a boon for the oldest of that generation. Then the world became saturated with college grads expecting top-notch salaries and benefits; when it was obvious that not everyone with a degree would receive The Best Salary Ever, the younger of the same generation began to question the need for post-secondary education.

I think we're just coming back to previous perceptions. I think with this ebb-and-flow of Things That Will Always Be is just happening faster than ever because of increased awareness (faster communication, broader audiences) brought about by technology; specifically the internet.

As for needing a "college level education," why would everyone require this? Are we all, the entire population, headed toward a society where every job is performed by a machine, leaving us to advance our existence through focused philosophy? This, I feel, is the utopian world of The Academics. Anything short of that simply requires access to the knowledge that allows one to function in the world and perform their chosen profession.
The Wii's 'remote' was deliberately designed to make the console more accessible. Non-gamers were still confused by games controllers, but the Wii's controller looked a bit like a TV remote - something everyone could understand.

If you extend the thinking to the WiiU then you see that because more people are familiar with tablets and touch screens these days, and in fact a huge number of gamers are now on tablet devices. Adding a tablet controller would surely make the WiiU more accessible to non-gamers. You can kind of see some sort of logic there, though it doesn't seem at all inspired or with any foresight.

Remember too that both Sony and Microsoft are pushing their own second screen technologies very hard this generation.
For those interested, I already started the challenges :)
I'd take Kotikoff's research with a grain of salt. His analysis was done during the midst of the housing boom, which latest from the late 90s through the late 00's, where new homes and new condos, and gut-rehabs demanded A LOT of plumbing.

Our housing starts are less crazy today. I imagine lower demand goes hand-in-hand with lower wages.

This is just conjecture on my part though. I'd be happy to be wrong.
If someone believes a foreign government poses a real danger to the future welfare of his wife and kids, then his love for them becomes a motivator, not something to dissuade him.
Have you played on one? Everybody I know that's actually used one likes it a lot, and it allows gameplay possibilities that have never really been possible before. (That said, it badly needs more games.)
I wonder what kind of grades the mayor got in college?
Then the universe is jealous.
As the sysadmin to a company that does use both S3 and Cloudfront, I'm a little shocked anyone would think to use S3 for distribution. A little testing will reveal just how slow S3 can be.
I've read that the rollers will eventually wear, but that Fujitsu sells replacement roller kits that, while not inexpensive, thoroughly refurbish and solve this problem.

Any experience with this and/or observations on durability?
Maybe a de-amalgamation is in order. I'm thinking a sort of inner ring system, where higher karma users contribute but lower karma have read-only. I'm sure this has big issues, just throwing it out there
That quote is referencing Bloomberg's earlier quote “You don’t spend ... four years spending $40,000, $50,000 in tuition without earning income.” So it's pretty clear here's talking about per-year tuition.
I would point out these are rather subjective measurements. In that a person is physically looking though a microscope and making a judgement call. Worse, sperm are highly impacted by temperature and negative studies get little attention and often don't get published.

Why such attention? Well in most cases the radiation needs to go through your freaking leg which if your cells are absorbing this em radiation should act as significant shielding for some vary weak radiation.

Compare this to this plant experiment which is blatantly obvious.

PS: And just for fun, compare with the unharmed levitating frogs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1vyB-O5i6E
Would if I could but it's not like there are agencies that you can easily find via your favorite search engine.
This isn't an analysis of Git vs. Mercurial, this is an analysis of Git's documentation vs Mercurial's documentation. Disappointing.
Eeee gads, RTFA

They were canned (after discussions with Gabe Newell), since Valve strongly wanted to go on the Virtual Reality direction, not Augmented Reality, and the team wanted to be free to work on their AR solution.
Great tutorial. I see that you've mentioned "non intuitive". We'd love to hear how that can be remedied.
Partially OT: For people using Canon compact cameras together with the CHDK firmware in DIY imagers/scanners, which models are preferred these days? My A640 was stolen and I've been wondering what to replace it with.
Pikareader : new RSS feed reader
Interesting. Any chance you'd be willing to chat a bit about your personal/anecdotal experience with the 10% fill rate? If so, my email is in my profile (didn't see one in yours or on your blog, sorry).
Why a leaf rather than a Tesla model S, which seems more Jaguar- equivalent?
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Why should we have increased college attendance as a goal? It started as a finishing school for the elite, and then mid-century briefly became a marker of a certain level of education.

We give it prestige because of it's history as a marker of success. But wow that more people have degrees, it has little value as a marker.

In the case of social sciences and humanities, college produces very little societal value.

So if a kid doesn't like school, and would enjoy being a plumber, why shouldn't he take a path that leaves him with less debt and more money?

We disparage it now because it's not prestigious, and this has harmful consequences for those who would enjoy the trades. They face an undeserved stigma for pursuing a career they would find satisfying.
Unity user here, but considering changing to KDE soon.
Can you share a screenshot?
We have put hard work in this new project to replace Google Reader as a daily useful tool. Feel free to comment and suggest features or ideas !
What incentive is there for new users to stick around if they can't contribute to threads though? How do they reach the karma threshold where they can participate? You can't necessarily correlate age and karma with quality.

that said I did once have a fiendish (and probably terrible) idea for a similar system where you could only post if you had a certain amount of karma, but also, where you could buy karma points outright.
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Doesn't he have to reset the whole thing every week though? How long would it last if he didn't?
Not really. The methods detailed in that slide deck are hardly difficult to implement. Most consist of common sense.
Given how little attention Paul Graham seems to give to HN's tech, I very much doubt there is anything sophisticated there. Apparently HN is a single-threaded Arc process with in-memory state [1] and flat files, running on a single server.

It's so low-tech that HN runs a log tailer that bans your IP if it sees a "suspicious" number of requests, the threshold being something like 4-5 reqs within 1-2 seconds. Personally I don't do anything weird (I just browse in Chrome on my Mac and on my iPad), but still I manage to get my IP banned frequently. Instead of fixing the algorithm, Graham added a way to unban your IP [2].

A hypothesis was put forward recently that Graham has intentionally designed HN to be technologically backward to attract serious hackers and repel everyone else. In that light, everything -- the "unknown or expired URL" errors, the impossible-to-hit-without-zooming-on-a-mobile-device up/down arrows, the IP banning, the awful UI, etc. -- makes perfect sense. I am not convinced that it's all intentional, though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3623268

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761102
Thanks, I haven't had much luck with that here in NYC but maybe I've been talking to the wrong people. Also I would guess that people on HN might have titles a little closer to what I'm looking for.
Well the 3DS seems to have picked up steam (fueled by 3DS LL?) but I can't see Wii U being much of a success.

Obviously any talk of Nintendo being 'dead walking' is nonsense, if their hardware business would turn really sour they could do extremely well by just making games for other companies hardware given that it's their games that is selling their own 'often not particularly stellar compared to the competition' -hardware.

Things like them demanding to get all ad revenue of videos of Nintendo games on Youtube makes me shake my head though, hardly the signal you want to send to fans.
This contest has became a joke. Loreen who didn't just win last year. But got the highest amount of points possible and also the only one ever to get it. She had to cancel her conserts because nobody wanted to go to them. That about summarize the total of all crap in that contest.

The #1 ever, cant even host a consert.
For a personal perspective on this, which I found horrifying and compelling in equal measure try the book "My Lobotomy"

http://www.amazon.com/My-Lobotomy-Howard-Dully/dp/0307381277
I just use Unity on my computers, but I tried out Pantheon today (in elementary OS) and it's seriously cool. The window management is fairly similar to Unity but more streamlined, and the workspaces are vastly superior. The panel and dock are like what Gnome 3 should have been.
This will be an interesting poll. I'm curious to know which distros the Hacker News Linux community use.
Google insider exposes ‘immoral’ tax scam
> resemble too much negative political campaigns

Seriously, outside of politics they are the most negative ads I've ever seen. Even rival dishsoap or gym ads never get that extreme; nothing else compares. Did they actually hire a political advertising team or something?
Some fans tend to be noisy ;)

Most new fans use brushless DC motors which have much less EM noise than most older brushed ones (also tend to be quieter). If the motor of the fan is brushed that would explain another source of EM interference.
I'm a big fan of GNOME 3 too, and it can be a highly productive environment. I've tried KDE, Xfce, i3, Awesome and Xmonad; I give each a proper go, getting over the initial learning curves and adjustment periods, but in the end, I find myself back with GNOME Shell and I'm quite happy with it. I don't mean to demean those projects; I think they're all wonderful and I'm happy to see them a part of the Linux ecosystem.

At the end of the day, however, the differences between desktop environments are largely a personal preference, and I'm quite happy using GNOME Shell. There's going to be people that don't like it, and that's fine. We can all co-exist.
I cannot recommend the book mentioned in this post enough for anyone interested in the intersection between science/spirituality.

I found it challenged many assumptions held by my younger self who was a self-admitted atheist and believed in the ability of Science (in my limited understanding thereof) to explain everything.

I'm not saying that all the arguments presented therein are correct, but I found them quite suitable to rock my world-view.

Then again, "when the student is ready, the Guru will present himself" (a quote from my master).
Scaling is surely about handling demand, which HN seems to do a decent enough job of.
While I agree with part of your comment, it sparks of victimisation rather than anything.

In today's multi-platform market, shoehorning a game into a system that's weaker than existing consoles is going to be painful. The fact that Nintendo's market particularly exists just for first-party games doesn't motivate 3rd party devs either.

If one were to develop a modern console game with proper online functionality (multiplayer, leaderboards, dlcs, etc), doing so on Nintendo hardware would require extra efforts. It isn't as easy as getting it done on PSN or XBL. Nintendo's online system needs a much needed overhaul.
Disclosure: I dropped out of college just before my senior year in order to accept a position in my chosen field.

I don't think that college is unnecessary. In fact, I'd say that as more and more people go to college, it becomes more necessary to hold a degree in order to compete--even at entry-level positions. I have friends that are getting beaten out for restaurant work because they don't have a degree (really).

This, to me, is where the problem lies. We are simultaneously overvaluing (for basic, entry-level work) and undervaluing (for higher-level jobs) college degrees.

There is no doubt that to get, say, an entry-level engineering job in today's market, you need a degree (and from what I've seen, preferably a Master's). But if you have your bachelors and are still struggling to get work that traditionally doesn't require one (administrative assistants, call center employees, service industry staff, etc. come to mind), is it worth spending $40-$200k on a degree?

Furthermore, skilled trades in the United States are plummeting. Mike Rowe addressed this very well in his TED talk[1]: electricians, plumbers and mechanics are getting more and more rare (and are still highly in demand) because of the stigma of not attending college.

I believe that in the next several years, as unemployment for college graduates becomes more visible, that skilled trades will once again become respectable, admired careers. It's crazy to me that people like Master Electricians ever became stigmatized at all--we are in serious need of their services, and it requires immense skill and intelligence to perform their jobs.

1: http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.htm...
I can't tell if you're comment is meant to be sarcastic ('10 minutes is not long enough to review') or not but i'm going to go with not:

I've been lurking on HN for a few months, have recently come back to it after a month hiatus and wanted to comment on something so signed up this morning :)

I love this site, I'm usually a redditor but I find that there is much more interesting and gripping content here whereas reddit is more of a quick laugh. I do find that I can easily waste an hour on the front page here but I just learn so much in that hour! I'm sure that I'll stick around and find out lots of new stuff.
Ubuntu and Crunchbang
It seems like tinkercad.com is dead, I am wrong?
I try to move on to Emacs as my full time editor/IDE, but so far I failed, and I've been trying for several weeks now. The problem is that I put years of tinkering into my VIM to make it almost exactly as I need it. This means that I won't switch until Emacs has at least very similar number of customizations, macros, plugins, etc. And making this from scratch takes time. The only positive in this is that I already know what I want, so hopefully it'll take shorter than for the first time :)
Is AutoCAD going to offer a way to print to TinkerCAD?
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Right now, www.deaftv.com use Wowza Streaming Server and Amazon S3 and use custom made video player from Flowplayer. And, we combined our videos with embeddable videos. I gave you the url to see our video player, instead of searching for it.
I admit it doesn't work well. The loading time takes longer to start the video. We do have issue to be able to stream all browsers and certain video files, and we need to improve the ability of uploading the video to our database servers. Also, we are seeking a way to incorporate pre-, mid-, and post-roll video ads that use geo-targeting service. How can we improve this service? Do you have recommendations of certain services? Better video player? We are open to anything. We want to be just almost fast as YouTube/Vimeo. We would like to use video ads during the film. Your advice will be greatly appreciated.
The top python link, which should direct to http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ instead directs to http://www.crummy.com/software/beautifulsoup/ --which causes crummy.com to throw a 404 error at you.
Is anyone's choice of distro influenced by the type of servers they find themselves working on?

For example, I find myself doing alot of work on REHL systems in the cloud, and thusly run Fedora (so I don't have to figure out where config files, etc. are kept in other distros).
xubuntu 12.04
His solution was to put flamewars further down the comment list, but if almost all of the comments get flagged as flame war, then it's free to flourish.

Maybe what HN needs, could be some way of giving people who want the heated discussion, a way to express these seperate from rest. Maybe a tab that shows controversial comments, so you can switch between the "calm" and the "heated" discussions.
No, sorry, you must've misread me. The article painted laziness in a negative light, but in my experience listening to it mostly yields positive results. If I find myself getting bored and lazy while coding, that to me is intolerable, and I'll do whatever to make it more interesting. To me laziness breeds creativity. I've never experienced the dynamics in the article.
Larry Ellison To Grads: Diplomas Are For Losers (2000)
Ask HN: JS library for highlighting web app features
I think there was a link to one a while ago, possibly around March or February, but I can't seem to find it. Does anyone know of a JS library that allows you to highlight features of a web app before users start using it? Thanks.
Really? Much anticipated titles such as Rayman (a previous exclusive) were just pushed to Q4 2013 for launch parity with other consoles.

Wii U sales aren't great, they're decent but not great. Almost every console manufacturer makes money through software sales, but when there isn't much successful third party software sales, the investment required to develop for the WiiU can't really justify the pithy returns.
Nintendo is running right behind Sega and should turn itself around as soon as possible.
Teen's invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds
I use a combination of Arch on my main PC, and a combination of ChromeOS/Ubuntu-through-crouton on my Chromebook (it's the Samsung 5 550, not the Pixel, sadly)
I use Asturix 4 in production environments and ElementaryOS for basic desktop use
I am brand new to HN (and reddit (I'm a noob)). I am a hacker though, I think, and love reading the articles that I would have no other way to read. I am trying to be a more involved member to the hacker/developer community. I think that more people is a good thing overall, it brings more view points and opinion to the site. I do see the downsides to the growth too, though I think that the good far outweighs the bad. I ma not a new member that is a troll or a bad commenter and I think most new users to HN are the same way. Just my $0.02.
~10% complete and already looking for payment seems a little preemptive to me, guess you can always refund. Other than that the overview of content looks very relevant, will be interested to see the finished product.
Are you talking about exporting model data or doing 3D printing from within AutoCAD?
Hi! You want to look at the Canon PowerShot A810.

That is what we currently ship our kits with at http://diybookscanner.eu .
Enough alcohol will leave me unable to recall several of my longer passwords. I find it hard to believe that they have a drug that will 1) not trigger that, 2) not leave a hangover of any sorts, 3) render me entirely unable to remember the incident, 4) make me inclined to tell them the password.

That would basically be a wonder drug, the ultimate truth serum.
Bayesian text classification?
I don't know about Cloudfront vs Rackspace+Akamai, however, based on some quick tests I did a year ago, I seem to recall that Rackspace+Akamai didn't deliver the same performance as professional Akamai services. In my experiments, Rackspace+Akamai used different servers, often located farther away, than big Akamai sites. (If anybody has background information about this, I would be very interested to hear.)
We did a quick deploy to fix one account class that hadn't been moved to the new free plan. The site is back up again.

Edit: The site was down for 3 min and 32 s.
Do VMs count? My desktop is running Ubuntu natively, but I do a lot of my development on RHEL5 and RHEL6 VMs.
It's interesting to hear that all moderation is done by just a few people. It's easy to knock mods, but I think the moderation is pretty good here.

I like the choice that people make here. People decide to be constructive and useful. It'd be interesting to see how that can be replicated in other places. Reddit has some good subs. Ask science and ask history are great. They have big moderation teams who frequently delete comments. (That's a good thing!). SE is good for their very narrow tasks - they really need to open an ad-supported open discussion version of the sites. At the moment there is a site, its meta site, and its chat site. Having a noodling discussion site would allow people to have that interesting chat stuff.

It's interesting that wikipedia, while being brilliant, is also really toxic and unpleasant for some people.
The so called hackers have to be dissuaded about sharing personal details in the chatrooms? This document looks like the proof that these groups are made of regular kids more than security experts in my opinion.
The concern is more that they are even able to.
Not really. I'm running Ubuntu on my server, but vastly prefer Arch.