skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Alas", said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into."

"You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

-- Franz Kafka, A Little Fable

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Fable)
While you guys are here, can you recommend a good intro book for statistics?
Especially if the freemium startup becomes an acquihire.
You're absolutely right about weight. One of the big concerns of an industrial food system is shipping. The other big concern is shelf life.

Neither of these are nearly as big of a concern if you get your food from a local farmer. The health of the consumer is not much of a concern, except in terms of marketing.

Right now, it is more expensive to buy local food from a farmers market than it is to buy industrial produced shipped from thousands of miles away. This should change, and it should change by shifting subsidies away from large industrial farms to small local farms.
Latest Dart VM Beats JVM in DeltaBlue Benchmark (May 11th)
There are some parents who will not say "no", and there are some children who will holler until they get their way. The advertisers know this, and will take advantage of it. Different families deal with demand and desire for products differently.
Firstly, read the robots.txt page (https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt), it states a crawl-delay of 30 seconds so don't crawl faster than that. Secondly, obey the robots.txt page. Don't crawl pages listed in their Disallow rules.
I have heard and read similar analysis. I reckon the Government could force the mega-banks and pension funds to just take the pain and keep hoarding JGBs. Not having to deal with external yield hungry investors has it's advantages.

I can imagine the government making an appeal to patriotism, which may be more successful in Japan than in other places.
Just to follow up on your other comment:

> When the need arise, they will look into what monad is.

I couldn't have said it any better. This is the exact scenario that this post is aimed at.
Does "first-class" mean it has to be the only one that gets all features and imply all other editors are second-class?
"If inflation happens...": that's a huge caveat you've got buried there.

Let me guess: You think I should buy either gold or bitcoins, right?
So essentially he is saying, "do not worry, this is not a problem for you."

Just for fun decided to look into inbound links in webmaster tools for my site. Out of 3.3k links almost 3k links with all kind of non-relevant keywords from obviously spammy sites. Not sure why it is done, probably something about google's bot to see legitimate links next to spammed ones..

It is nice they have this new tool to devow links, but it is not linked anywhere from webmaster tools and you can find it only after you watched this youtube post (thank you BTW, just sent request to devow all these spammy links)
Uninterrupted time is definitely a factor.

The other factor is when you are supporting a deployed application, you will receive bug reports that require "urgent" attention so end up working late to identify it and either resolve it or detail a workaround until a permanent solution can be found.

Also there is an expectation that IT people will keep up with advances in technology, so many of us spend time at night researching and testing stuff out to keep abreast.
No, because it would still have a different owner, same as forks do.
Oh, that's a very good point. I assume Heroku allows you to set environment variables? I've never really used it before, so I didn't even think of that possibility.
That's a bit surprising. I'd be interested to read the reasoning behind this design decision as most frameworks I have used store session data in a database rather than directly in the cookie. Well I guess there is a pretty damn good reason given Rails' reputation.
I am a new to css / html. Can you explain to me why it is painful to deviate from their styles?
I...hope not? The point is that a sudden influx of new workers can drive down the average salary, even if the salary distribution isn't changing. By "salary distribution" I mean the curve of salary vs experience/skill level.
Again, if you tell me where you're stumbling, I can fix it. I see your complaints all over this post and you haven't responded to me once.
Personally I find the worst part of CAH is having to explain to that one innocent member of the group what the card that was just played means.
Bass' thesis is basically sound. Japan is well beyond the tipping point and as he notes, JGB yields will eventually become untenable for the government. Unlike the European nations facing similar issues though, Japan prints it's own currency. As such, it will never default. Given a choice between default and monetization, monetization is always the lesser evil.

So the central bank ends up just buying all the debt that can't be sold at sustainable yields. Net result is extremely high inflation and massive Yen devaluation (i.e. >200).

Impact on the population:
- poor stay poor
- rich stay rich as their wealth is in real assets
- middle-class get wiped out.

This is the end game and is likely a few years away yet, but there seems little chance of any other outcome.
Yes, Heroku does, with 'heroku config'.
The most dramatic example I know of someone who is older and also not a well known who found a major result is Kurt Heegner. He was a 59 year old private tutor and radio engineer with no previous published results when he proved the Class Number 1 problem. His proof was initially rejected by the mathematical establishment and he died before learning that the proof was a major advance and essentially correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark%E2%80%93Heegner_theorem

This story and Heegner's are particularly interesting because over the years some prominent mathematicians have stated that they believe mathematical creative declines rapidly with age.
/r/haskell has already discussed this point: http://redd.it/1co0s5
Even better, michaelochurch has talked about open allocation before.
The common refrains seem to be 1) easy tests 2) seems nice in class and 3) is mean one in one.

I wonder if 2 & 3 have anything to do with his shyness (as mentioned in the article) and his lack thereof when he gets to talking about math? Maybe he gets on a roll as far as math goes, but one-on-one interactions are more difficult?

Or maybe he was busy coming up with this bad-ass paper and didn't want to extend his office hours?

Either/or.
Whoops! I'll get this fixed shortly.

> the last conjures memories of PHP

As a non-PHP programmer I'm not sure what you mean.
My personal expirence matches: "Why Programmers Work at Night [1]".

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/why-programmers-work-at-night...
I don't know if your problem is with the content or the tone. If it's the content, they've pretty much just restated "BY-NC-SA". If it's the tone... these are the people who made Cards Against Humanity. Honestly, what did you expect?

PS: If anyone offered to help me "build my brand" on a CC project, I'd tell them to sod off too. No offense.
Building Firefox OS apps using ClojureScript
There's also HackerspaceSG that we could use as a space if we needed =)
"there seems little chance of any other outcome"

Except for Japan's economy to grow faster than its debt burden, causing its debt ratio to decrease. There's a denominator in that ratio, don't forget.
> If you're in a shared environment

The common wisdom seems to be that you can forget about security in a shared environment regardless. The "secret key in environment variable" technique is mostly useful at protecting against malicious employees since it's easy to limit access to the production server but not so easy to limit access to configuration files which are in a Git repository.
This is allowed because it does no real harm to the ruling party. Remember even though many western country visitors can enter HK without any visa [1], interestingly the Chinese people need a special pass to visit HK [2]. I won't be surprised that the 0.2% of the population that visit HK are mostly elites who have little interest in changing the system that favors their interest.

[1] http://www.immd.gov.hk/en/services/hk-visas/visit-transit/vi...
[2] http://www.immd.gov.hk/en/services/hk-visas/overseas-chinese...
Very intro (like, Stats 101 intro): Purves, Pisani, and Freedman's is the best book I've seen. I'd combine that with something like Tufte's or Wainer's statistical graphics books to try to get some sophistication (for lack of a better word).
If you start working at 8am, your whole day is going to be interrupted with impromptu meetings and emails. If you start at 6am, you only get 2-3 hours uninterrupted. If you've been writing software for a while you learn that the interruptions are intentional and are about control. When people see a software engineer working without their help, it is troubling for them. It means the problem can be solved without them, hence interruptions. Most non-developers actually have family lives and start getting calls from their spouses about 4:30PM. By five they're gone and work can proceed.
Yankoff, you might want to be more specific. Intro statistics in general, or for computer scientists, or scientists, or looking to learn R at the same time? I liked Freedman, Pisani, and Purves [1], and have TA'ed using McClave, Sincich, and Mendenhall [2]. You may want something a little more advanced than these, but they are pretty good for intro level.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Statistics-4th-David-Freedman/dp/03939...
[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Statistics-11th-Edition-Book-CD/dp/013...
[3]: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/421/what-book-would...
I shouldn't even say if because it's happening now. The yen's fallen more than 20% in the past 6 months. Their government is printing 7 TRILLION yen every month for two years to force inflation. That's almost as much as the Fed is doing in an economy that's a third our size. I'd put my money in US stocks. I tend to think Buffet's right about gold being a lousy investment and really don't have any idea how bitcoins will do.
I'm not new to CSS and also wonder why it was hard for you. I've found it very easy to mix Bootstrap with my own CSS.
How an open information sharing standard for syndication will be replaced by a superfluous social media sharing site. How about plus creates real RSS links to public plusers so I can follow them using an a RSS reader? Can monetize that, so it will never happen
I didn't know lockfile was part of OS X, thanks.

The atomicity hack of mkdir is beautiful though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4694308

pg says that http://hnsearch.com is the place to get data.
> The idea that a poorly designed product can't truly be said to look good seems subjective. Could you elaborate?

It would help if you had read the book, it's the kind of thing that "snaps", but I'll try to condense it:

Think about forms as physical manifestations of the underlying forces acting on it. A good example I once heard is thinking about a water drop: if you take a picture of one, you can explain why it has the shape it has because that's the result of all the laws of physics acting on it at that moment. And because of that, it really couldn't have a different form than it has, unless you bend the laws of nature. It's the purest form possible.

Analogously, a human-designed artifact is a physical (or otherwise) manifestation of the underlying forces acting on it (which would be the requisites). In a concrete example, if you were designing a kettle, that would be all the things you need to optimize for: it should be placed atop a oven; it should have such and such size to fit in a cabinet; it should allow water to heat; it should allow someone to grab it without burning their hands; and so on.

As you can imagine, it is really hard to enumerate all the required (and often conflicting) requisites. For instance, if I were designing an artifact for heating water without stating that it should be placed atop a oven, I could arrive at a completely different form (e.g.: faucet heater). The obvious takeaway is that design, as a creative discipline, is only as good as the number of requisites a designer manages to contemplate and successfully meet (let's call it the "fitness function").

Therefore, for all collection of requisites (underlying forces), a perfect artifact with 100% fitness should exist (purest form). If that's true, then good design can be judged objectively by its "fitness function", quantifying how well it meets the proposed criteria, or how far it steers away from the "purest form". Better yet, if we devise an ideal design process, these optimal forms themselves could emerge from the requisites (that is Christopher Alexander's research, and from there it gets heavily philosophical).

To wrap it up, when you say an UI "looks good" at first glance, you are mainly judging the artistic prowess on it (which is subjective). The real judgment of the design though is in how well it meets the requisites (fitness, or how far away it steers from an ideal UI). So when you use said UI, you are judging the design when you quantify: how intelligible it is, how well it allows you to do what you need to do, and so on (since those are the raisons d'etre of UIs). And yes, eye candy can very well be one of these criteria. In fact, that's the criteria most products are optimized for, subconsciously, mainly because it's the easiest to quantify (designer shows the design to client, gauges emotional response, iterate). Hence why our confusion between design and eye candy.
Your post said, "draft," so I think you're covered for that sort of error. :)
Children and stress
Stress is a function of the needs placed on us and our capability to play them. These demands usually appear from exterior sources, like the family, jobs, buddies, or school. But it can also come from internal, often linked to whatever we imagine we needs to be accomplishing as opposed to what we're in fact capable to accomplish.

Then stress may have an impression on any one who senses overwhelmed— also children. In preschool time in the childhood, separation from mothers and fathers can lead to stress. While children get older, educational and social challenges (particularly from trying to match in) produce stress.
I like the idea — I'll be interested to see if you get any takers.
Determine handedness of a pinch gesture
Have you considered generating a key at first startup and storing it in a database? Or would that introduce too much unnecessary overhead while introducing an attack vector through the database?
What about underground colonies, deep within the crust?
Oh no!

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 Phusion_Passenger/3.0.15 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_wsgi/3.3 Python/2.5 Server at www.kwartzlab.ca Port 80
Am a SEO guy here- been doing this thing since 2-3 years ago. To myself from what can be seen from the post itself it appears that the SEO company that the OP's been using is actually doing a pretty good job- Drop on 80% of traffic with anchor texts that don't vary that much. What the SEO company have probably done is probably to just go ahead and blast links directly at the site with automated tools[SeNuke and the likes] It could have been easily averted had there been layering and tier-ing of links done and varying anchor texts and keyword variations. Your aim of getting links that also drive traffic is actually a very good idea, since it'd definitely boost the credibility of the site itself.

However I see people on here clobbering the idea of having link farms. Of course nowadays Google have been on a roll de-indexing major link networks (ALN, BMR and the likes). Public link networks can be used, but they cannot be seen as a long-term solution. A more sustainable option would be to build your own blog farms and link those to your main sites as funnel. Those could also serve as a very good platform of tier 1 links to do automated blasting to.

Just sharing my link strategy. And OP good job at doing a relaunch. Did you manage to use the Disavow link to take away the similar links with similar link anchors?

Nice to see a SEO article around here from time to time.
Exactly. That is actually a bigger problem to solve, IMO, so suggesting that it's mostly a VM alternative is doing it a disservice.
> or are self-centered in their thinking (we are so awesome to work with, salary shouldn't matter!),

I think there was definitely this element here. The feeling I get was that they expected candidates to jump at the chance to break into the industry. This is probably true. They were able to recruit people from top tier schools and I later heard they were famous even amongst funds. Yet, I don't think they distinguished that the career path is quite different as a programmer vs. a trader. As a programmer in a finance firm, my fear is that I'd be viewed as a cost center, a 2nd class citizen. Also it's a bit specialized and legacy tech work, like doing COBOL at a bank. Thus, I'd like to be paid up front and not in promises.
Fact is, SEO is a changing game. It's part of the package to change with the times. You change or you perish.
That wouldn't work. First, it will only grab at only one whitespace character at the beginning and at the end. Second, if there was whitespace at the beginning or the end but not both, it won't match at all. "^\s* (.* ?)\s* $/$1/g" would work.
I know, but every assumption that allows one to make the above statements is actually unproven.
- constant scarcity in historical environment
- inheritable biological "instinct" for eating a certain way
- rate of evolution of that instinct
- actual abundance in our current environment
Honestly I think if you're paying for SEO you deserve whatever bad things come to you.
As will I, although I'm guessing I might get some fake ones. Like "Hey, I'm building a citrus forum called LemonParty..."
The yen falling in value is a good thing. The targeted inflation rate is 2%, not exactly Weimar Germany.

I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree.
This is by far the best argument, but how is the performance of asm.js under browsers other than firefox?
These markets are already intensely and exhaustively managed.

I'm not disagreeing with you; what annoys me is that the people who suddenly claim to support business independence from heavy government regulation remain silent until some new law is proposed.

If there is a problem with banning businesses from advertising from children, then there is a problem with the FTC today, not tomorrow, because they already heavily regulate advertising, including what you can show to children. In the US government agencies have vast reaching legal authority to create and enforce their own rules. When there is a scandal they answer to elected representatives, but otherwise? Not so much.
Pollan's work has been questioned:

http://saywhatmichaelpollan.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/in-defe...

> Pollan’s central thesis is that introducing science into our food system has done more harm than good and that the best thing for all of us would be to go back to eating a more traditional diet. It’s fair to point out that nutritional science has led to some mistakes (such as recommendations to replace saturated fats with hydrogenated oils), but Pollan devotes too much of his effort to dismantling his own shallow caricature of science.

It is, in short, the Naturalistic Fallacy run wild, which is quite common when the topic of nutrition comes up. In short: Something being 'natural' is orthogonal to it being 'good' or even 'good to eat'.

http://courses.csusm.edu/fallacies/naturalistic.htm

> Roughly 75% of the world has some degree of lactose intolerance

Which means nothing to the people who don't have it, whose ancestors evolved to retain lactose tolerance into adulthood for the simple reason that milk is good food, full of proteins, fats, sugars, and vitamins that are just as important to an adult as a child. Just because the default First World diet induces a calorie surplus at this point instead of a calorie deficit does not negate any of milk's benefits.

> nutrition is more than calorie counting -- it is about getting nutrients in the diet

Everyone knows this. That doesn't mean most First World people need supplements, because they don't.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/supplements/NU00198

> If you're generally healthy and eat a wide variety of foods, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, low-fat dairy products, lean meats and fish, you likely don't need supplements.
Thanks for an idea. We will gather more requests and could have a pivot down the road.

Our current version do not assume automatic tracking. The idea is about manual input or using timers on web interface. There are many cool features to simplify that process and make you love it :)

There is no any direct relation to Evernote. We just want to be an Evernote in time tracking software world. We want to build a great tool that will be used at work and in daily life. Very flexible and usable.

More details coming soon with Alpha
What you describe sounds a lot like Stross's Accelerando with the development of ai melded with fabrication as a method of creating a sustainable environment for later space travel.

A good idea but a very long term one in a world very focused on the short term. The initial cost stops anyone but supreme businesses or massive government alliances but would grant them utter supremacy with the eventual influx of resources it would cause. Need to transport goods? Just fling them at Earth and enough of them should hit to recoup your costs within a year of the first shipment. Need to establish a colony where you can do whatever you want? Congrats on your brand new kingdom. If you want to do anything you essentially can with what is basically a new civilization.

We also have not created sentient lobsters... someone needs to get on that. We need those to man the factories...
Yeah, I meant something for computer scientists. I'm going over coursera ML course currently and wanted to learn at least basics of statistics in parallel.

Thanks, I'll check out your links.

Btw, what do you think of OpenIntro statistics?http://www.openintro.org/stat/down/OpenIntroStatSecond.pdf
While I generally agree, there's a lot of shared environment out there that people seem to think is secure. I also would posit that its probably easier to get the calling environment through some flaw in bad programming vs getting a file off the filesystem. I would also posit that not having strong controls on your source tree is probably not a good thing as well...
Things which are polar opposites are actually identical, in this case 0% ego and 100% ego, because 0% ego is all about how spiritually pure you are, a.k.a. 100% ego. I'm sure you've met some of the seemingly enlightened meditators I'm talking about. Buddhism teaches you to deal with this paradox or duality and others like it by seeking the middle road. Some ego is good, not too much, not too little. That's all I was reacting to, I probably could've been nicer about it.
This could be very powerful if it gets:

Clustering & distributed indexing/searching

sphinx performance per node is amazing but it lacks clustering and if that comes along it will put serious pressure on ElasticSearch.
Do you have a specific example where "stop being such a crybaby" is a good thing to say?
More is not better