skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your well-thought out advice. I'll put your points into action along with the other stuff I've received here. Concerning matchist, I'm out of luck as they only cater to developers in the US, and I'm in Canada (Victoria, BC).
It says on the site that they're using Ruby and Rails on the about page.
Most people turn off JS because of security, because loading a web page should not always lead to code (besides rendering) being run on your machine.
"I think social sciences when done correctly do produce good thinking"

But the fact you have to include that caveat is itself evidence that it generally isn't.

We have to get over this blind devotion to the idea that college is so awesome that even questioning its value is heresy, and take a hard look at the facts. Yes, frankly, the value generated by the humanities right now by our colleges is not commensurate to the money we are pouring into it, nor the debt slavery we're imposing on people for it. That doesn't mean it's worthless, but the solution isn't letting the humanities continue to rot while they hide behind our blind obeisance to "education is of infinite value so we need not consider the costs! Ever! Don't even ask or you're no better than a knuckle-dragging hillbilly!"

Beyond a sober reconsideration of exactly what sort of benefits we are getting are better benefits than what we are now. But first, we have to ask the questions.
What games are you looking at and what, exactly, do you mean by "ugly"?
Brandvine?
As your total income rises, your effective tax rate converges to the headline marginal rate.

(Granted this is a mathematical problem for millionaires, but still...)
Really? Do you do anything relating to security?
After an absurd amount of google`ing (given how much PR crap there was on the subject), I finnally found her project summary [1].

From what I understand of her description, she is not making a graphene supercapacitor. Based on her description, her device significantly outperforms other supercapacitors, and has comparable energy densities to classichal batteries. Given that this summary is what she actually submitted to the science fair, I doubt she would have won if it did not actually have merit to it.

<rant>

Googling "Eesha Khare" took me to a bunch of crap articles saying only that she won the Intel Science fair and would revolutionize batteries. Intel's winner's page provided no additionaly details, and no link to her actual work. Eventually, I was able to find my way to the list of winners, which was nice enough to mention the title of her project. Googling the title finally got me to the document listed.

Even using the title in Google, while it did bring up articles that were nice enough to mention the name of her project, still did not bring up a single article that bothered to even link to her work.

</rant>

[1]http://www.usc.edu/CSSF//History/2013/Projects/S0912.pdf
I feel like I was given the impression that they wanted to get smart match "right" and not abandon it. I guess my use of smart match was a mistake. =(
Maybe this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3723943 , but I'm still unclear if OP invention or break-through is for the same technology.
From my point of view the guy does a good job of showing the three cases.

Would you have a specific suggestion to improve his presentation?
Ask HN: Did a search bar just appear?
I'm sorry if this is a really stupid question, but is that search bar at the bottom of the page new? I've never seen it before.
I have a close friend who's an intentional Buddhist. Based on my values and habits, he refers to me as a Buddhist; though this isn't something I choose for myself, I have a hard time disagreeing with him. So understand that my evaluation here is based on a limited understanding and not that of someone who follows this philosophy.

Based on my understanding, this is crap.

First off: Buddhists aren't trying to perfect themselves. They seek stillness and reflection, and harmony. Perfection isn't part of that lifestyle because it's not even a concept they believe in.

Second: Essential? Essential IS sleeping and eating. What about programming or resolving any of the impermanent problems of the human race is any more important, in a necessary sense, than the very vital acts that result in one's continued existence?

Life is short, and if we want to develop our inner qualities it's never too soon to start getting down to it.

This post, in its entirely a quote (or pair of quotes, I can't quite tell), succeeds only in telling us that the things we think we ought to do don't matter at all and we should instead concentrate on... something, and that something isn't even hinted at, let alone defined in a meaningful way.
They find you.
I agree, and I also often find that the attached discussion that follows almost always takes up about half the page.

Usually directly skipping half the page takes you to the actual discussion. I think it could be interesting to add a pivot that moves that comment and it's discussion to the bottom (but probably above downvoted comments) when it reaches a certain length. It could still keep it's votes and so on.
The problem is that the social contract is a lie. Fed policy of inflation is a kind of deliberate taxation. Social Security is a bankrupt fraud. We borrow a trillion dollars a year, a debt that will burden today's children who have no say in the matter. The complex tax code is a giant con game where insiders and the wealthy shift the burden to the middle class. And you're not free to leave the US if you are wealthy, there is a substantial financial penalty (confiscation).

It isn't all or nothing, we can have low, honest taxes and a decent society with a more vibrant private sphere.
>I hate to turn this into finance 101, but there seems to be some confusion here.

There does indeed seem to be some confusion. The problem is you're the one who is confused.

>Owner a has 50 shares. Owner B has 50 shares. Total is 100 shares. They decide they want to give Jim Bob some shares for his birthday. They issue 50 more shares to do so. Owners A and B have been diluted and the value of their shares has decreased. That is dilution.

The part where they issued new shares is dilution. But the part where they give them away, guaranteeing a drop in the price of the stock, is not.

In the real world corporations don't give stock away. They will sell those 50 shares on the open market and use the money to, say, buy capital equipment. In most cases the price of the shares will remain unchanged, because the value of the company's assets have increased by a corresponding amount. The price is absolutely not guaranteed to go down.

Issuing new shares has no more effect on the share price than raising capital through other means like borrowing from the bank or issuing bonds.
Didn't he just say that?
`I think there are ways houses can be built that help prevent bugs from getting in. I know there is a device that can go around pipes before being cemented in a foundation which prevents bugs from getting into houses that way. Perhaps prevention is the new way to stop bugs?`
Ah - yeah, that's right - sorry about that. Might want to sign up for a mailing list anyway - you never know when they might expand.
No. I don't personally know anybody who turns off javascript, and through the internet I only know of technical people (as in, the kinds of people who understand how browsers and the internet work) who disable it.
There are drugs for some of those things...

1) Barbiturates induce a hypnotic state that has widely been reported to improve subjects ability to recall details. Published work on human subjects more or less dried up in the early 70s for ethical grounds (cf. http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/exhumed.htm "There is, unfortunately, a virtual lack of controlled clinical studies on the accuracy of hypnotically refreshed memories."), but I bet the military have classified knowledge. Also, there's been quite a bit of published work on recall under barbiturates in dogs and rats.

2) So, you wake up with a hangover, a blackout, some bruises, and an attractive stranger in your bed. What do you assume?

3) There are drugs to suppress memories. Barbiturates, again, make it hard to recall details of the trance. Also, see http://mbldownloads.com/0205CNS_Pitman.pdf

4) Barbiturates, yet again, are well-documented to improve compliance, though at the expense of an apparent willingness to cause you to believe what you think will please the interrogator rather than what you would normally believe to be true.
You asked for a single example, not the most recent one.
Yes, but the Github repo seems to return 404 :

https://github.com/jacksonGariety/The-List
I think you're missing the point of the article.

Firstly, everyone understands the difference between healthy sleeping/eating versus sloth and gluttony. Everything in moderation right?

Secondly, you confuse ego with self-importance. A poor ego doubts itself and may never attempt a daunting task because of the belief one is not 'good enough' to complete it. This becomes a convienient excuse to avoid doing difficult (but worthwhile) tasks. A healthy ego will undertake challenging tasks, because failure (in the traditional sense) is ok - failure will not define you as a person. The success comes from learning along the way.

Thirdly, we all have to do trivial things. This is a fact of life. However, how many times have you focussed on non-essential details in a project to avoid the meat of the thing? Its a common form of procrastination I catch myself doing. You also see it in overstuffed corporate environments - the term 'busy work' comes to mind.
Codeschool has made crappy decisions in the past. I paid for a course and shortly after they made it free (but the free version had ads). They also discontinued said course so I can't even watch it anymore. Yeah ... they lost me as a customer.
That is perhaps the "correct" answer, though not particularly satisfying or convincing to those of use who have lost faith and confidence in the system.
But... HN has those...
Wow, all this time I've been on HN, I have never, ever noticed those numbers. I must be blind or something.
It totally depends on who you're serving and what their needs are, and what you want to do and how you market yourself. I've had $2k projects and I've had 6 figure projects. For better or worse, I still do not focus my image enough in one area, and I get a wide variety of things crossing my plate, and have a wide variety of project sizes/scopes. The $2k ones are not as common these days, but even when they were, they tended to be smaller projects, not huge projects that I was underbidding.
Oh, I see. I'm in Canada so the market here is different, I'm assuming you're based in the U.S.?

In my experience and research, there are Python (Django) and Ruby (mostly Rails) jobs out there. The corporate world tends to favor PHP, .NET, and Java. While startups and freelance gigs will either let you choose the tech, or specify one of the popular scripting languages.

In the PHP ecosystem, there are Model View Controller (MVC) frameworks such as Laravel that have features that are on par with Rails and Django. Content management systems such as Drupal, Wordpress, and Joomla are also very popular. Generally, not many developers are still writing code in plain old PHP, they are using frameworks and CMS's to buld their solutions. So I'd advise you to look into one of those if PHP is what you want.
To add to this, most tax relies on a nexus between the country and the legal personality being taxed.

Taxes of profits are particularly weak when a company operates in multiple countries.

So instead you pick taxes which can't easily be avoided. The classics are property taxes, sales taxes, payroll taxes, tariffs (ugh) -- anything where there is an unavoidable, physically local transaction.
Clearly, I meant "in recent memory, preferably on Hacker News", not "was the inventor of the wheel younger than twenty?".
Wouldn't you say that that 'something' is an entirely personal choice?
Yep, there's a new GitHub repo. Let me pull it up for you. https://github.com/Little-Big-Co/The-List
I'll setup a pull request to change the URL.
The third kind of laziness is a contagious type of procrastination that eats away at you slowly from the inside. You won't know what happened until one day you realize that you're hollow.

I realized exactly that a few years ago (when I got into a car accident) but I didn't relate it to laziness. It's so important to have the courage to stop beating around the bush, especially when it comes to getting what you want out of life.

Great post! Now I'm intrigued by buddhism.
If it's popular, even having 2 years of basic experience will be enough to keep you busy. PHP is the poster child for this - it's popular, and people with even small experience with it can earn a living. I really would caution against trying to be a freelancer who also is an expert-level guru in one tech.
Been there since early June 2011.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110606191817/http://news.ycombi...
But big brother makes $40k - $50k off of those prisoners anyway and puts it towards building weapons for our "war."

All good, right?
A reason this disparity sprigs to mind has to do with age. I'm reminded that the translation of sophomore from the Greek is "wise fool": it's possible high school students at the ages of 15-18 are more willing to plow ahead with ideas that others think through and then dismiss.
Of course, there are famous contrarian ideas that flourished and have changed the world, and most of us know that execution of an idea, along with pivoting, is a road to success. But I would never form nor invest in a company that hands out umbrellas when it rains for the same reason I don't sell Gatorade at little league baseball games: limited, fixed market, no barrier of entry, etc.
Isn't it more likely an MBA considers ideas akin to this, thinks through the angles, and then discards them many times over, such that it appears to the outside observer they are timorous?
I'm 6'2", have a few friends who are short, in the 5'5"-5'8" range, and have talked about this with pretty much all the women I'm friends with. Yes, this is true, you're right. It is almost certain to be a genetic thing. Everybody here saying they know some short guy who gets lots of girls or is a short guy and is happily married, well, this is not actually what the parent is saying. He's just saying there's a huge disavantage in being short. He's right. Try this mental test the next time you see a very short, slim, but quite good looking guy. Now imagine him in a 6'3" build. It to men who do this mentally, it drastically changes the appeal this guy has. This was told to me by a woman friend, and it happens everytime I think about it. Also, the Tom Cruise example is a bad one. Women see him in movies, where you can't tell their height.
If you're successful, smart, a good person (or much more important: not a jerk), you can find a good person and have a relationship, a meaningful, lasting one, with her. But if you base your romantic success in how easily you get dates/get laid compared to taller guys, then you'll probably end up frustrated.
If anyone wants an invite, I'd be happy to give one out if you actually deserve it. You can submit an application on the page, but if you want to send details I'm at ian{dot}carroll{at}snapstudiodesign{dot}com
Remember back in the early days they wanted all agnostic tags and no specific rendering or design stuff. You can request it be bold, or a heading, but I would decide how a heading or bold looked... that quickly gave way to the more prescriptive (designed) web, with the site controlling how a h1 looks ... which then gave way to the application web, where web sites use scripts and act as small applications.

Disabling JavaScript at this point is like disabling CSS IMHO.
My IP has been banned on occasion because I tend to read HN by opening a bunch of tabs. When my browser inevitably becomes unresponsive and has to be restarted, that rush of a couple of dozen new requests as the tabs all come back online triggers the ban. Makes me think twice when presented with Chrome's "restore the pages you had open" button.

It's funny how the stability of modern computers and operating systems has allowed my reading and research habits to evolve toward the representation of state in the form of open browser windows and the groupings of tabs therein.
Have we got a new _why?
I would make the list numbers more subtle (gray), or would remove them altogether.

Currently, the two numbers so close together (same size/font) look weird:

http://i.imgur.com/nvr6cCC.png
Fast Java code that is smartly written is really fast. There are lots of real world Java apps out there that you might not realize are Java --- I've read somewhere that Google Adwords is in Java, for instance.

The problem is, there are lots and lots (and lots) of bad Java developers out there --- it's the "safest language" there is (to learn if you want to make a buck or to hire devs if you want to play it safe as a manager at BigCorp), so you often see badly done outsourced work written in Java. Also, lots of Java code out there lives in non-Agile environments (so it runs on very outdated stacks.)

That being said, if you used a purely modern Java stack (probably some Guice, Wicket, Resin, JDK 7, etc) with super smart people you will be highly performant.

(Note: I haven't done pure real Java dev since the Struts days and Java 1.5, so the tech stack above is just me guessing at what the latest/greatest is.)
Show HN: Set of mobile apps written in PHP/Javascript for Job Searches
You certainly could. But if that were their intention, it'd kind of defeat the purpose of suggesting that some things didn't qualify as "something."
Reminds me of this for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783114

I'd like the problems be fixed if possible.
we call this paralysis by analysis
A good trick to searching when you're bombarded with articles regurgitating the same information is to use the date tool. By asking Google to limit the search date to before the regurgitation of articles started, you're more likely to find quality sources for your search.
Once you throw out usability and common sense, you might as well just tell them to turn off the computer: 100% secure.
For me laziness is usually driven by some or another fear.
New Challenges for Old Office Users
You may want to reconsider the "top 15" thing, and even the pages of content thing, if you're trying to fill the longform niche. I don't know what direction you'd necessarily want to go in, but I do know that the form factor you're using right now is the same one that gave rise to the problem you're trying to solve.
Sounds like your glass is half empty; try inverting your view
Nice, though I seem to have a font-rendering issue on the site, as they appear rather aliased: http://i.imgur.com/173YQ1Z.png (Windows 7, Chrome 27)
I'm getting weird font rendering on this site:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1325900/Capture1.PNG

Windows 8 x64, Chrome 26.0.1410.64 m.
"Most people" don't turn it off, those who do are sophisticated users and can easily download and use NoScript (and probably already do), which is a far smarter solution allowing for you to use the modern web on sites you trust.
SynBio programming
Write a book?
I like the karma-tax on posting. Does it also apply to comments?
There are diamonds in your own backyard. Dig 'em up.
I'm looking to pay someone for some work in JS and RoR, messaging me is probably a good place to start...
You'll grow out of it. It's really easy to grow out of $2k (slightly less) for tires. My advice is to stay clear of this sort of thing because you may fall in love.
Are there any actual hellbanning tragedies on HN?
If so, let's hope it's more content and less drama... and please, let's concentrate on the content and not some odd analogy that will only take away from said content.
I've been an Ubuntu user since Breezy but currently trying out Mint. Considered using Fuduntu, since we mostly use RHEL for work, but since the project will end soon, will wait for what will "replace" it
I always add:

CheckSpelling off

To my dev (but not production) server so that I catch things like that. This won't help with a case insensitive web server though.
> If the force is external and doesn't apply pressure then you have to drop an object.

What kind of force is external and doesn't apply pressure, and also doesn't affect the dropped object? There is no such force, and therefor no such test.
This is sort of silly - they're trading the new shares for lots of money, which now belongs to everyone who owns the shares. So they own a smaller share of the total company, but that company now includes itself plus $500M in new money that wasn't there before. If the company is properly priced at the moment, it's a net neutral transaction. If it's overpriced, it's great for the current shareholders.
I'm co-creator of the site. What form factor would you recommend?
Social Security taxes are only on the poor and middle class. If you make more than $113,700/year you're only out the $14,098.80

Source: http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10003.pdf
I personally liked the Leaf over the Tesla because of the price tag and availability. The dealer has tons of Leafs. The Tesla has a waiting list. In 2 years, I'll turn my Leaf in for a newer model that hopefully has more range and charges more quickly. I don't even want to think about the resell value of the 2013 EV in 2015 IF the range doubles and charging times get cut in half.
We're not slaves because we choose the level to tax ourselves at and presumably we're free to leave whenever we want. Its more like a condo complex with a ridiculously high HOA fee. You gotta pay it if you live in the building, but nothing is stopping you from getting on the owners board and voting yourself a lower fee, or moving to a different building.
A lot of people are hellbanned. The algo seems to take into account the lifespan of the account, and most such banned people have only existed a few weeks.
Thanks!

I like this approach to karma as well, but I wish the number were hidden altogether and instead had an "excellent", "good", "neutral" or "bad" model for community standing. This can prevent heard mentality for up/down voting.
Would you be able to shoot me an email, Dustin? My email is in my profile. I didn't see your email on your profile :)
Good point. I myself think that maximizing the time you get to spend in bed is a perfectly worthy objective for life. :)
No, not by default. You can modify your FB settings to do either
fvwm uses a virtual desktop. "The screen is a viewport onto a desktop which may be larger than the screen." You can move the screen around over this virtual desktop. Moving down has the same effect as moving all the windows one screen height up. If a window is larger than the screen, you can easily pan around to see other parts of it. This is very handy when your screen height is 600 pixels and $ENTERPRISE_APP draws dialog boxes 1200 pixels tall. It also means I can lay out windows with a total area several times the screen area without having any overlapping.

I wish someone would make a compositing window manager based on a big virtual desktop instead of on shrinking all the windows to illegibility and making me pick one to obscure all the others.
"It's almost like some switch gets flipped at some point in college that causes many students to stop seeing opportunities to be entrepreneurial, and become afraid to try jumping into the ones they do see."

Yes, that would be the "I'm not living at home with Mom and Dad anymore and I'm going to have to buy my own food and shelter from here on out, so I had better find a reliable source of income" switch.

EDIT: This wasn't meant to be negative towards entrepreneurial high schoolers, MBAs or biz school students; I just think it's strange that the author ignores the differences in real risk being taken on by the two groups.
I'm actually puzzled by the discussions in this thread. Just use lftp, and the editor of your choice to edit the files?

EDIT: gnosis mentioned why https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5730714 . i've only come across those cases a handful of times though