skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does our language shape the way we think? (2009)
>>>I once heard it cruelly expressed as "If you look like food, you're going to get eaten."

I've never heard that before. That's an eye opener. Now I must think about how not to look like "food."
Crowd funding and the Quantified Self: A match made in heaven?
An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists [2001]
> Random slur.

He didn't make any claims about Google at all other than implying they might be recipients of requests, so how in the world was that a slur against Google?
Surely someone out there has pinterested this along with that old relational-databases-as-Venn-diagrams post into a giant textbook of accessible computer science.

(This is a serious request.)
Unique Language Games for Polyglots (Written in Java)
Focus on :focus, never again forget to apply :focus styles (with less).
Many of us do dislike that Apple lock their hardware down. So I vote with my wallet and buy less locked down devices. The concern is that it will become increasingly difficult to find a computer that does not include this behaviour.
It is a very good plugin. Moresmau and other contributors deserve a statue.

It even has support for uuagc (dsl for attribute grammars)!
Cure for distracted mind: Stare at a painting for three hours
Ask HN: where to learn ruby? 
Any great tutorials on web building app on RoR?
New federal government employees also have to serve a 1-year "probation" where they can be let go for pretty much no reason. I've seen agencies exercise that right rarely, but it does happen.
When you say programming has to be taught, do you include being self taught?
Different strokes, I personally get pretty bored by watching people enter code and manipulate their windows, I read a lot faster than that and don't get distracted by all the non-code parts. Never mind different setups. I also much rather read a blog article than watch a long-winded podcast.

As Sartre said, Hell is watching other people use a computer.
It's basically random, depending on where you live. (Another thing that hasn't changed since Paul Graham was in high school.[0]) I think that the shitty things you see on places like HN are on an upward trend, but it's always been kind of bad. If you want to get an education into how long this sort of thing has been going on, try one of the reddit threads that pops up every so often with a title like "Did you ever get expelled? What for?"

http://www.reddit.com/r/ProtectAndServe/comments/1dksjq/16_y...

I especially like the anecdote about the guys school experience "77 years ago".

http://www.reddit.com/r/ProtectAndServe/comments/1dksjq/16_y...
Welcome to Hacker News. I'm serious, this is pretty common.
Additionally, in between the Dutch and German hacker camps, meaning every 2 years, there is EMF (Electro Magnetic Field) in the UK.
railscasts.com
"Can I buy a budget ticket?
The budget ticket is an experiment, calling on common-sense of all potential attendees. The goal is a more fair distribution of discounted tickets, instead of the arbitrary distribution based on the moment a ticket is sold. There are no income-checks, instead the experiment relies on the fairness of the individual. Those considering the budget option should really consider carefully: "Can I really not afford the normal ticket, or am I taking the chance for some of my fellow hackers for attending by just being cheap?". A tough call, but do remember: there is only a set percentage and each budget ticket sold means there is one less in the overall pool."

Seriously considering going (with a normal ticket :)).
Why Y Combinator is the hottest startup school in Silicon Valley
It seems after the initial collective euphoria the good karma is subsiding and people are are actually experiencing how the new Flickr page takes a month to load or so.
Time for back-end privacy
I live in a country without this bizzar multi-level law system (and don't even know how it works). Switch to a simplier system.
Only in the sixth circuit (Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee).
I've been using ramnode for a while and feel pretty confident in recommending them.
I gotta say, this looks like it was copied from tutsplus. But hey, if it helps people, who cares. I don't.
So Ruby & RoR are two different beasts. If you come from hey-I-already-know-a-web-MVC background, you might skip learning Ruby & directly jump to learning RoR .

If you go RoR way - Michael Hartl's tutorial - http://railstutorial.org/ is probably the best place to start (I did that when I was starting with RoR). Codelearn - www.codelearn.org should be the next best.

Disclaimer: I am the founder of Codelearn
Feature Request: Make HN login page have a proper html title.
I can find few sites on Internet not having proper a title. I think this is major accessibility problem. Also it is a problem for users like me, who use password management programs (like KeePassX) which depend on the title of the page for auto entering password.
>Good designers are often perfectionists.

Symmetry is not perfection. Plenty of unbeatable designs and works of art are non symmetric.

And the poster of TFA is not a "good designer" IIRC, merely some annoyed blogger. I was talking about HIS annoyance with an assymetry (that might very well be intended) and not about some designer sweating the small details.

>Calling them "compuslives" is dismissive, and is also insulting to people who actually suffer from OCD.

It might be dismissive, but it's also quite accurate. Could even be medically accurate for a lot of them.

(Seems you cannot say anything in this day and age without "insulting" someone. So be it. I have mild OCD too, and I could not care less about someone calling me "compulsive").
A Day In The Life Of A Trader
Wow, I remembered including this in the 4th issue of Hacker Monthly[1] 3 years ago(!).

1. Hacker Monthly #4 (I just made it free), if you like to read this in PDF/MOBI/EPUB format along with few others timeless HN articles: http://hackermonthly.com/issue-4.html
Sanitarium. Tax evaders or charitable organisation?
There have not only been discussions of this before, some previous HN contributions have provided significant criticism and enhancements. If you value the advice and expertise of the HN community at all, you should consider reading some of these earlier comments:

Here are some of the previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=695988 (4 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520552 (24 comments, 1000 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2344181

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3807175

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3846993

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5164236

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5636683

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5778469 (submitted just yesterday)

Here's a pretty tight, explicit search for the same item:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%2...

Additionally, you might be interested in reading these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4655061 : Big-O Misconceptions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770232 : What does O(log n) mean, exactly?
>>>On average, chances are pretty low that a particular individual will ever solve a big problem, so stop worrying about it!

Oh that Jonas Salk. He was just a big waste of time. /sarcasm
There goes my productivity for the next 3 days.
And they also run Hollywood. Which is why movies have become expensive amusement rides and hardly anything else.
Because some idiot may get the formulae wrong? I don't think there was an actual Excel bug recently, just PEBKAC errors.
It's because of cultural influences such as Hollywood.
I agree with “build that will benefit you” benefits communicated in the right way to your users, will get them to spread your venture on their own free will. Learn, apply and track what you applied - repeat the cycle until benefits are clear to everyone.

Applying what you learnt is far more important than just learning. That’s why if it were up to me, I would change the long-standing slogan for Nike from “Just Do It” to “Just Did It”.
Oh, I think I saw a different irony to you -- I saw the comment as an act of verbal aggression towards the author of the article on the grounds that the author was being too academic.

The author of an article about geeks being bullied, not because they were too academic, but because they were seen as being of a different class.

I prefer your interpretation to be honest, but clearly there is enough irony for everyone.
The thing about this story that strikes me is that it's impossible to know if this rejection was because of any objective quality that would have prevented you from being a good Facebook employee, or whether it was just politics. Even for the players themselves I don't think anyone can say for sure.

Even though Facebook has a reputation for a strong, engineer-driven culture, the fact is that at a certain size the politics are complicated. It's not a question of whether you have to play politics or not, but rather what do the politics look like? This is why I like working for startups, there just isn't any room for politics, and you can sink or swim based on highly visible contributions. Even though Facebook makes the claim that as an engineer you are responsible for the experiences of X million users, in practice that's not how it works.

Good luck in your new job.
I thought this was about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(email_client) after all these years, what a dissapointment! :-)
Personally, I think class, gender and race are ultimately major factors; there's huge amounts of literature on their effects on society. But it's probably easier to look directly at schools and families; these are the most concrete relevant institutions.

Schools generally aren't enlightened places. Many of them, especially for the poor, are particularly clear about their prison-like nature: need for written permission to move ("hall pass"), threat of prison, etc. So you get some prison-like dynamics. But even many above-average ones impose hierarchy, rating individuals and setting them against each another using competition (competition is a well-known way to atomize and control people), obedience to authority figures no matter how ridiculous, etc. In any case, these places generally provide virtually nothing in the way of conflict resolution, like particularly nasty governments.

And most families aren't utopian institutions either. Parents often act like owners of their children, and take out their frustrations and psychological problems on them. Child abuse (even for conservative notions of "abuse") is rampant. Even when parents aren't overtly abusive, they may simply not be particularly competent at the skill of nurturing children's minds and bodies.
I disabled my Facebook account over a month ago. It was tough to do at first, but as time went by I felt much happier about being disconnected. I've enjoyed having less distractions and false reassurances. I no longer need to keep up with everyday posts from people I don't know that well or rarely see. In this time away from the site I've realized that real friends will still be your friends even if you don't have a Facebook account.

Facebook will be surpassed by another site sooner or later. Just like how Friendster, MySpace, and others were. It is just a matter of time.
Cool! Doing this from scratch is great for learning.

I wrote the same article and demo a month ago, albiet a more comprehensive and complete approach using Mezzanine (a Django based CMS). The article focuses on how most of the features needed for something like this come out of the box with Mezzanine:

http://blog.jupo.org/2013/04/30/building-social-apps-with-me...
Have you seen the link at the bottom of the page labelled "Feature Requests"?

Feature Requests : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
Building an engineering internship program
Ask HN: Suggest code commenting guidelines?
If you google for code comment guidelines, you find a lot of rules about indentation and such, but much less information about the actual content of the comments.

Of course, comments like this are silly:

# adds increment to height
height += inc

But I think we can do better than just not being silly.

Do you use, or have you seen, a good guideline or set of rules for how to write good comments?
Simple Java Calendar Video Tutorial
Learn how to create a simple java event calendar by following this two-part video tutorial.
That was epic.

And this is the heart of everything:

>>>It’s not rocket science: people build what they know. Cosmopolitan, well-educated young men and women in America’s big cities are rushing into startups and building for other cosmopolitan well-educated young men and women in big cities.

Until you've become part of the exotic underclass -- or an over-50 perma-unemployable (tick tick tick) -- you won't see these problems, won't be affected by them, and won't use your skills to solve them.

In ten, twenty, thirty years, shit will start to get done. Too late for many, but better late than never.
See: Lenovo K800, Lava XOLO X900, or any of the new-ish X86 phones (Atom SoCs) with locked bootloaders that will only boot the pre-installed Android, or whatever originally came with the phone. You may revise and say "Sure, but I meant on the desktop..." but if current trends continue, tablets and phones will continue to supplant if not replace desktops/laptops for most users. Unless consumers put on the breaks and steer strongly towards open hardware, we're looking at a future with a lot of single-purpose/corporate-owned appliances IMHO. As usual, money talks, so: buy freedom.
Yeah, I'd take any of the comments on this post, save a few, over his thesis. It just doesn't work for many situations.
Well, I think the cost / value ratio for that design is very good. Right now I'm trying to finish the app, use this design (which I think definitely above average for Android), and then polish the design or perhaps completely redesign it.
"Responsive": the latest meaningless buzzword that people regurgitate to show that they're "cutting-edge."

Responsive TO WHAT? User interaction? Underlying data changes? Humidity?

LAME.
Ideally, IMHO, copyright would be non-transferable.
I don't get why Apple and Twitter don't support TOTP. It makes their 2FA useless for lots of people.
Perhaps Mister Bridges can take this one :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=16K6m3Ua2nw‎
The Guardian.
OHM2013 - a 5 day hacker/maker camp in The Netherlands (ohm2013.org)
Liberty Reserve Founder Indicted on $6 Billion Money-Laundering Charges
Improve your social skills. Improve your awareness of your own behaviour and other people's reactions. All skills can be trained, you just have to give yourself achievable challenges.
I agree. It's like an old story will pop up and those that are new to the community will jump all over it, thinking its words from God or something.

Used to be you would post something that already was posted, the first comment would call you out for it, and then it would naturally disappear. Now we are learning Big 0 every other day.
Musk says in 3-4 years: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/tesla-repays-u-s-early-musk-w...
How to create and drop databases dynamically from Java/JSP code
I think this sits in a unique place, as earlier alluded to, similar to Skeleton.

Bootstrap is a large framework for application development, but perhaps you want to hand-roll most of the visual components. Bootstrap isn't very well suited to this, as it is so extensive that building from the ground up (instead of "extending") is a bit difficult to do. Sure, you can modify some of its parts and pieces fairly easily using the variables, etc, but in general, Bootstrap is Bootstrap. Pure, as it mentions on the page, builds on Normalize and gives you some much more basic pieces to work with. I would imagine this would be used by a lot of people who are doing less "app"-like experiences, and are instead leaning more towards layout-driven, brand-heavy "website"-like experiences.
Similar stories:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5781384 (chrome.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5781404 (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5782988 (thenextweb.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5783142 (chrome.com)
33 Brand New Open Source WordPress Themes for 2013
Maybe HN should introduce "it was here" button, for people with enough carma.
Did not know that Facebook have support for two-factor authentication.

Appreciate that EFF is putting effort into awareness on this issue.
If the bread is made off site and all they do is sell the bread, can you still call it a bakery?
>>>The largest circulated newspapers in the world are Japanese, the largest English is The Times of India, and the largest US are the WSJ and USA Today.

Influence > popularity.
Some ability to merge discussions has previously been discussed, but lots of people on HN think it's not a problem.

Here are a few times it's been mentioned:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122751

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2766949

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2826798

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3018533

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3657234

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5382906

Here's a poll asking what people think:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822041

Here's a submission from me asking for exactly this feature, with it's associated discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3349371

Here's a counter viewpoint from someone I generally respect, but who disagrees strongly with me on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3357125
Same here, Mou is great!
I see what you did there.

(Shibboleth is one of my favorite pieces of esoteric vocabulary, but it's at least $10.)
I think it's amazing, given the feds' apparent belief that the system was used to transmit illegal money only, they shut it down instead of just working with the owners to record all the transactions. Seems to me, this would have delivered some pretty easy law enforcement home runs for (almost) free.
Hard to know what to make of this. The author's argument seems to be that he wants to use c#, but also wants a greater diversity of libraries/tools in the .net ecosystem so that he can get a job using those rather than Microsoft's libraries. In other words, he wants it to have more OSS/Linux/Apple cool while also remaining attractive to the more "conservative" organisations that are big users of .net. I'm not sure this could work both ways.

I'd say that the incentives for this just aren't there. Most .net developers (like me) appear to be happy with the Microsoft tooling and not having to constantly learn this weeks fashionable framework. Even while many of us recognise that a lot of amazing innovation is going on in the OSS space. Our employers seem to be happy with the well-integrated nature of the platform and the stability that comes with somewhat less choice.

.net is fairly independent. The specs are public, and there are a few OSS implementations. You can run it on a Mac or Linux box, or even Pis and microcontrollers. Companies like Xamarin are building apparently successful businesses on top of .net. If you want to use indie libraries and frameworks then, on the whole, there are out there. And Microsoft doesn't show any signs of wanting to sue anyone for any of this.
Rep. Michele Bachmann not seeking re-election (in her own words)
Trailer for School's Out -- Documentary on a Forest Kindergarten
I live in Italy and never saw any form of official document in ODF. In fact, most of them come in doc/docx where they could just as well used PDFs.
Steps To Take If Apple Rejects Your App
Looks fine on default ICS browser, which version are you on?
> Employers literally ignored their resumes and would never get back to them. I was shocked because I would talk to some of these students and thought they were talented, ambitious, hard-working, etc. The thing that makes me passionate about HireArt is trying to overcome the obsession with credentials

Your team is impressive, lots of credentials - even the hire via HireArt went to an Ivy League school. Have you thought about hiring any UoP students that impressed you?
>>>What it's saying is that they're unfortunately the best proxy historically available

And yet most of the global industries of today were formed by people with little or no formal education (Carnegie and steel, for one). And then ruined by those who have had it.
Looking forward to the camp.
Well, in a great part of the world, "liberal" is still associated with classical/neo liberalism.

Some US right-wing libertarians will tell you that the word was co-opted by left statists and that it doesn't fit them, since they're not for freedom, as the word implies (their argument, not mine).

See http://www.libertarianism.org/blog/liberal-is-not-dirty-word
Something happened in the past 10-20 years where teachers became the scape goats of the failing American education system.

The reason for this is simple deduction. If you believe teacher quality is the primary drivers of educational outcomes and outcomes are not as you desire, it must be caused by low teacher quality.

(Personally I don't accept the premise that teacher quality affects educational outcomes much, but my views are way outside the mainstream...)
Don't be fooled, instagram didn't change shit
All shared packages come with unlimited POP3/IMAP mailboxes. You will have an SMTP server too. SSH is available but requires identification faxing/emailing over to us so we can activate.

We've been here for 9 years already, so hopefully we should be around for at least another 9! ;)
Can I also suggest OpenGTA:

http://ogta.fifengine.de/
Big O is rate-of-convergence, except converging on infinity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_convergence
"When you have a diverse group, you have the strong beating up the weak and the smart verbally humiliating the dumb."

Anecdotal evidence, which I have not been able to disprove so far, is its more like in a diverse group, people who don't follow the "greek golden mean" tend to get pounded down for not being diverse. Lets rephrase the original article as "kid who hyperfocuses on art gets pounded by kids who do some sport, some TV, some movies, some socializing, etc". For another anecdote no surprise I did a heck of a lot of computer "stuff", but also did weightlifting and long distance bicycling and also hung out with the kids who joined the .mil (at least back then, we all hung out together in later high school years), I also hung out with the geeks and the heavy metal kids (who were actually pretty cool), no problemo with bullying for me... I'd see kids who did nothing but ace math all day have a rough time of it. Or kids who did nothing but pick their nose all day have a rough time. The correlation seems to be if only one word description fits, gonna have a rough time.
Europe is actually a little harder than you might think. The days when a cup of coffee would buy you a seat in any Paris cafe for the entire day are long gone. You'll have to do some looking to find a place with good wifi and low enough traffic to tolerate you working there.

Hostels are not a good workspace for the reasons stated here already: They often close the common spaces during the day, and when they're open they're crowded with outgoing people having a good time, who are expecting everybody around them to also be on the same energy level and willingness to meet new people. You'll need to work on your Scowl-Of-Concentration if you want to fend off new friends.

Libraries are hit and miss. Most European ones have some crazy scheme in place to lock down internet access to just a few wired terminals. Oslo was the only one I found with simple free wifi and a comfortable place to work from.

Frankly, I'd skip Europe altogether in favor of Southeast Asia. Your money will go a lot farther there, and there's no shortage of paradise beach with cheap accommodation and wifi. When I need a good year off, my one-way ticket is usually to Bangkok.

Good luck!
Ask HN: What are the best Landing pages out there?
I am working on a small page for fun and I am putting on a list of the best landing pages out there. I would need your help to suggest me some of the best in your opinion. Thank you very much!