skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...That means about 8,000 RSS blog readers and 10,000+ twitter followers that knew about my book while I was writing it..."

I always find these articles interesting. Usually the real story is more like "I know how to market stuff and made a lot of money" but the article titles are something along the lines of "How I made 40K by picking my nose online in one weekend!"

So the reader gets this great story of some guy picking his nose. All kinds of details about how he did it, why he did it, what tools he used, what kind of nose he has, and so on. All kinds of little details here and there to get lost in. Maybe some graphs of his nose, or a bunch of charts showing traffic to his site hour by hour and a discussion of how using a bold font increased conversion by .2%. In short, nerd candy.

Once again, the important story here is marketing, in-depth interaction with a target audience, but this is always downplayed or ignored by the author, a specialist in getting your attention and engaging you. LeanPub is not the story, although it has a role. E-books are not the story, although they also have a role. Having a huge blogging audience and Twitter following, and leading them into a meaningful conversation about value? That's the story.

"...I do very little marketing, and it is mostly on my blog and twitter, in the form of sidebar links from my various websites..."

Right now somewhere around 100K HN readers are reading this story, thinking about team leadership, making money online, agile, and so forth. Some significant percentage are going to sign up for the RSS feed, perhaps buy the book. They are going to begin a process of discussion around what's important to them and what they're willing to pay for.

Dude. If that isn't marketing, I don't know what is. Great job.

(ADD: This looks like a great book, btw. I don't mean to impugn the author or make it out like he's purposely trying to trick anybody. HN is traditionally a startup forum. Just trying to take a fresh look at material like this from the viewpoint of somebody who might want to do it themselves one day. What I learned from this piece is that my current Agile Team Tune-Up email list of around 200 (http://bit.ly/15sz0Pl) needs to expand by about 40-fold before it would be worthwhile to start a conversation about books. Perhaps more than that depending on my engagement skills. This is really good stuff to know.)
> so the money supply hasn't increased.

The money supply has indeed increased: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2/

Perhaps you are thinking about monetary velocity, which is decreasing: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2V
Mike Pall has noted design decisions of Python which make it much harder to optimize than Lua in the past: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2004-11/msg00083.html
You can get a VPN service that has international routes and subscribe to international versions of services like NBA League Pass and NFL Game Pass. The major sports leagues negotiate deals with U.S. TV providers that prevent the leagues from streaming directly to customers without a cable/satellite subscription, but they are able to sell streaming subscriptions to international customers.

I may or may not do this with the NBA and it works well enough. For the NFL, I'm generally happy with the games that I can pick up with my HD antenna on my TV, so I haven't tried their service.

You have to pay a few bucks a month for the VPN, but I like having a VPN service available anyway, so it's not a big concern for me and you're still saving substantial money over cable.
Sam (the guy who implemented docker support in Nova) is now adding docker support to Heat, the Openstack alternative to Cloudformation. It looks really awesome :) http://www.mail-archive.com/openstack-dev@lists.openstack.or...
What's the appeal of Aereo? It only has a handful of channels.
But it's wrong. It's a good description of a how a Ponzi scheme works, but in a Ponzi scheme that's all that happens - there's no actual economic activity taking place. The US, by contrast, has a very large and productive economy.

Also, bear in mind that the treasury borrows at a fixed interest rate. When you hear of rates going up, that's the rate that will have to be paid on future bond issues. With inflation as low as it is right now, it makes good sense to borrow. In fact, we should be borrowing more, probably much more, and investing it in major infrastructure upgrades that would yield higher economic gains over the lifetime of the bond than the puny rates of interest we pay on current borrowings.
La zona non del tutto "franca"
One thing that kills me is how terrible DDG is at parsing an address. If the street is misspelled at all you get nothing but real estate listings but if it's correct it shows a ghetto gif map from MapQuest :(
> The CDS workstation uses common USB interfaces for its peripheral devices (such as trackballs and specialized button panels)

This could open up some interesting potential vulnerabilities, but I'm assuming/hoping that they've thought of that.
> the behavior of adults in the workforce

Not the same as "the men in the workforce", agreed?
There were reports about failing toshiba ssds in macbook airs before. My SSD too died. Got it replaced in 1 day (EU 2 year warranty) by an apple reseller
You do need millions of dollars. Building a Game today is not what it was when Wolf 3d was made. The number of textures the depth of the story, the voice acting, the quality of physics that players expect to day is very different.

You can't write a Portal, or a Half Life, or a Quake, or a Halo, in you spare time between classes at school, or even by yourself living in your mom's basement over a year. The speed at which game tech advances is such that a one to 5 man shop can't create a game worth million in the time it takes to be obsolete.

Yes, there will be exceptions like Angry Birds. But most people aren't going to be that company that just nails game play at the right time. And most those won't be as much developers as designers.
there is no guarentee that whatever replacement level work any paticular driver will do will be better than their current situation

so how are they better off?
Not sure I understanding the 'hacking a system' answer..

> When I started in Newark, I didn’t have a computer or an email, and City Hall didn’t have wireless. So I tracked down one of the wireless networks I could find - owned by a bails bondsman close to the court, and negotiated with them for their wireless password.

Why did you need the wireless password if you didn't have a computer or email? Needed wifi for mobile device or something?
A lot of entertainment for a lot of people ISN'T fungible.

The reason being social. If I wait a year or two for a show to appear on Netflix, my friends aren't talking about it, people aren't speculating about it... the buzz is gone. It's falling out of the zeitgeist.

It's true that if my only goal is to sit in front of a screen and amuse myself for a couple hours, it's very fungible. A $8/month netflix account + a $50/mo (or less) internet connection lets me do that.

But I want to be in tune with the culture. I want to be able to talk to my friends/family about that crazy play in the game on Sunday. I want to be able to read all the [spoiler alert] postings when they are current. I want to be able to play whatever game online with my friends while they are still interested in it.
If "feminism" is really about equality then why on earth is it named after one sex? This seems a little odd to me.

Why not merely name it "humanism" and call it a day?
So we've hit a wall in trying to understand how dark energy works or how its parameters arise. But I don't think it's logical or helpful to conclude that an anthropic explanation is the only option we have left. Maybe we just haven't yet figured out the right questions to ask, that might open up a new field of investigation that could lead to new physics that provides a mechanism for how it works.

For example, we also still don't understand the nature of dark matter. Even more fundamentally, we still don't have a solid understanding of time, and why there is an apparent flow of time in one direction from the past to the future, or whether spacetime curvature induces quantum state collapse, or how the universe began with such low initial entropy.

Maybe discovering a deeper understanding of the foundations of the physics we're already familiar with will open a way forward with understanding how dark energy works.
The OP might mean it in a more general sense in that we all have our biases, men and women included. It's just that men's biases might be more problematic in this case, since they're the majority in this field so any common bias they may have gets compounded.
Android users trying to access iMessage get a nasty surprise
Postgresql 9.4 will likely extend hstore to store things other than strings.

http://obartunov.livejournal.com/172503.html
Getting it set up in the first place [0] keeps the selection of customers significantly smaller than those that are better off just buying a Time Capsule, or even sticking a USB drive onto an Airport Extreme (which I recall seemed to work fine). And Apple did say it's not supported. I wish they'd just fix it. IIRC, it worked reliably pre-Lion. EDIT: or for that matter, why not just bundle up the page I referenced into a nice app bundle with a pretty icon?

A more significant problem is that Synology (which is what I use) is out there saying, "Time Machine: works great with a Synology NAS!". And it does work great...until it doesn't, and last I checked Synology has no docs on how to fix it.

As for Mavericks, I'm pretty sure I've seen the problem on the one machine I have running the dev preview. Or maybe not, maybe it was before I put Mavericks on (I realize that's not terribly helpful information). The problem with saying whether it's better or not is that on my machines it may be a month or more before it rears its head. So it would take me six months or so before I could personally say that it's better for me.

[0] http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2007102817364274...
Sure. But gold, and diamonds and other pretty shiney things only have as much value as we place on them, the same as paper money.

@21echoes covers everything else I wold add on this.

The US currency used to be backed by gold up until 1934 [1], as did several other countries[2]. But as times have moved on, there are several other minerals which have become more important, I think it would become too difficult to rely on just a single precious metal these days.

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12770.htm
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
When I view HM news page my screen is 90% empty space. Why not add an option to display both original title and author title? This way everyone could set their preference (Original only/Custom only/Both - with additional option of which one to display first).

When a person pastes URL into box, how hard can it be to follow that URL and parse original title? This way people won't even have to input more fields.
Here's a really bad, but feasible idea: create a git repo with a folder for each category, and make each starred repo a submodule under a given folder.
Would you say the same if the article turned out to act as a spur for each of the two parties concerned to respond to its claims: if they do, and they do so candidly, you might find that at least some of the speculation that I made was correct.
Yeah, that metal based economy worked out so well for 16th century Spain.
You're forgetting the long tail.

How much will each episode earn over its lifetime?
Nice, presumably you take the x86 emulator from yesterday, and boot it with a copy of the TurboPascal disk?

Took me a good 30 minutes to remember how to write hello world in PASCAL :-) And I admit I forgot about the period on the End statement.
Elon Musk to make James Bond submarine car a reality
Isn't Glassdoor data purely self-reported? Is there any central or peer review process on the data?

How could a reputable newspaper like the Post do a article on the basis of that alone?
I would be paying $50/month to just back up my photo & video collection at that rate unfortunately.
They would have to pay me more to work there too.
As a correction to my sibling comment, orange _is_ counted as a color in English. The most widely-cited list of colors in English, as seen on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_...
for example is that English has eleven basic colors: white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray. That page also provides criteria for being considered a basic color term.
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You can't have all the shades. Surely there's a few you don't mind the internet killing?
Are you considering offering paid plans by any chance? We'd be interested in using a service like this, but it would need to have a much lower interval to meet our needs.
>>What assumption does atheism make? None.

>Atheism makes the assumption there is no God (read creator).

>Creationism makes the assumption there is a creator.

No. You are using the word "assumption" incorrectly.

In the scientific sense, I am using both the hypothesis that the creator exists and that the hypothesis creator does not exist to interpret the data of the world, comparing the results, and choosing the one as being more logical and likely. I assume nothing, though, being an inherently imperfect being, I recognize I must make some educated guesses to interpret the data before me -- but that is necessary for employing either hypothesis in the real world.

In a subtle sense, one could say that any hypothesis is a "working assumption" or a "tentative assumption". But, no, it is not the same as a just plain "assumption" as found in any dictionary.

It may be true that some people cut this short this process by making assumptions from the get go. But that is not intrinsic to atheism. Arguably, it is not even intrinsic to theism.
Mouse Hover to select windows In Windows 7,8
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There is a difference, but there is also a relationship.

Consider a world (and ignore, for the moment, whether it corresponds to reality) where professional technical environments just genuinely are really awful to female employees. In that case, the teachers and parents are probably doing what's best for the individual girls (though potentially with some long-term tragedy of the commons). Would you condemn, there, the honesty of the well-intentioned messengers?

We should also consider an alternative fictional world, where women never have any issues in technical fields, and the cultural myth has arisen by whatever historical accident. In that case, I agree that it's quite legitimate to lay much of the blame at the feet of those perpetuating the incorrect myth.

Reality, of course, looks absolutely nothing like either hypothetical.

FWIW, my wife says she was turned off of technical studies after getting to Berkeley (having enjoyed physics in high school) by her impressions of the technical students on arrival.
Show HN: Simple Hacker News Client for Emacs
I wrote this small client to read hackernews from my favorite editor. It's currently using an external HTTP API [0] but I'm working on my own proxy [1].

I'd love to actually scrape and cache all the info I need using lisp. However, my time constraints are keeping me away of that goal. I could definitely use some help here! :)

I'm also planning to add support for comments and posting new things. Any feedback is highly appreciated! Thank you!

[0] http://api.ihackernews.com/
[1] https://github.com/clarete/rhn
Consider the alternative -- every bond issue would require congressional approval.

Congress isn't going to cede it's power to control spending -- the debt ceiling is a hack that gives the President the autonomy to operate while continuing to give Congress the power of the purse.
No, Google is merely squeezing organic results off their SERPs and replacing them with ads. That's not helping consumers as they prefer organic results. They have to continuously stuff more ads into the model to keep the growth machine running, making tweaks here and there. Google is probably only a few years away from adding "paid inclusion" into the results like Yahoo used to have, where you could literally pay to have your result listed at the top of the page where it wouldn't look like an advertisement.

"Google said that paid-for clicks increased by a quarter during the July-to-September period, from a year earlier, the highest rate of growth in the past year."

How Google is Killing Organic Search

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5971560

Forrester: Consumers Prefer Organic Search, Not Search Ads, For Discovery

http://searchengineland.com/forrester-consumers-prefer-organ...
Another option involving scraping, but allowing some human intervention, would be to have a default title - and have a new, and optional "edit the title" page for submitters.

This would hopefully decrease the number of edited titles as they would be more effort to enter - and would let the mods revert them with the click of a button as they could compare titles without reading articles.
Still enough material that nobody smart enough to be involved with HN/YC would want the task of reading the articles just to verify whether the altered title is suitable (remember, the task is to verify the alteration is fair & accurate, not whether you like or agree with it). Would you want that job?
MV=PQ

Where, M=money supply
V=times money changes hands in one-year
P=price level
Q=GDP

The assumptions for this model are often missed, and include:

1.No excess reserves
2.No international leakages, ie.,no carry trade.

These two assumptions are unlikely to be true in these times.

Current excess reserves are nearly $1.9 Trillion

Excess Reserves Source (FRED): http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EXCRESNS
As a founder in tech field, I use a few steps to detect feminism,

1. If they have equal opportunities/equipments?

2. If the statements are bias based on other people instead of looking problem within themselves first.

3. Do they have the right/enough knowledge in the field.

In my experiences, Number 3 is very important. I never meet anyone with enough practice & knowledge about programming complains about gender problem. Stories I read is about people cannot write a single line of code but wants to be the executive/Project Manger.
I think the biggest problem in reverting to original titles is that oftentimes, the original title is not bad, but it only makes sense in the context of the original blog in which it appears. In a social aggregator, it suddenly doesn't make sense anymore.

Consider this title:

A New Beginning

In the context of the PHP blog, it might indicate a change of direction of the project, a change of leadership, etc. It's a decently sensible title. On a social aggregator like HN, it is much less useful, even if printed next to a small (php.net).

We'd be better off if we let the submitted change it to:

PHP project changes direction, elects new leader
That's not exactly what's going on in this thought experiment. If a crime is committed without mens rea, then it's still something bad that happened, like if a person kills another person but it was due to negligence rather than out of malice (and thus might not be murder legally). We don't think of that idea as "thoughtcrime," because the act itself (homicide) is fairly universally recognized as a crime (and a "bad thing") regardless of the thoughts behind it. But with intellectual property, that isn't the case. Most people would not consider publishing the nth prime to be a crime or a bad thing, but the law will treat it as a crime if the publisher happens to know that the nth prime is useful for breaking encryption (even if it's just to decrypt media you have bought legally). That's why, at least to me, negligent homicide doesn't feel like thoughtcrime, but intellectual property violation does.
CrashPlan's java based software just basically died on me after a while, so I switched to backblaze, which had much better performance. But people are now talking about bad experiences when they actually try to restore from backblaze. You can't win with these things it seems.

Currently I do Laptop + Time Machine HDD at work & a backup file server at home which syncs with my laptop with bittorrent sync and the file server is backed up by backblaze.
Base salary isn't everything.
Maybe its me getting older but the hassle just became not worth it. Finding sites that would be good for a couple of weeks then fall off in quality later on down the line was the norm. And my favorite, watching a big Boxing or UFC event with a clear stream until the main event comes on and everyone else decides to jump on and kill the server.

I did it for five years and now that I have cable again I don't think I'm going back.
Just as an example, they have made recent changes Maps that I, presumably somebody in that untargeted 1% demographic can't figure out. I'm not saying I don't like it, I'm saying I can't figure out how to use it. Maybe my inability to make heads of tails out of how to use the new Maps is a product of my technical inclination, maybe they have created something that I am too clever to use, but I don't find that very plausible.

(specific examples: I can no longer find permalinks (let alone goo[dot]gl shortened permalinks... why was that not the default with old Maps?) and I can no longer figure out how to trigger streetview for any random location (I have only figured out that you can get to it if you click on a business first)).
What the Web Can Be
I found more details here, including a link to the source code:

http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/projects/turbo_pascal_compil...

Well done!
Why is there a length limit?
Derp. I figured someone else would beat me to it. Press or click. It goes through 3 contrasting pairs (based on the wikipedia article):

http://jere.in/opponentprocess.html
But that's greatly influenced by titles; a classic chicken & egg problem.

scenario 1: content w/editorialized [sensational] title -> front page -> title correction -> content on front page still

scenario 2: content w/author's [uninformative] title -> never reaches front page -> never gets reviewed
Very cool. I think actually that will be more useful than just having a docker implementation for Nova as Heat will allow it to be more like a PaaS.
AKA how to ensure the hivemind remains strong
I completely agree. This resume is a great way to filter out companies looking for front end drones to sit in a cube and work in a bureaucracy.

He's identifying himself as fitting into a certain culture of organization. Some of the comments here are a perfect example! Anyone that criticizes this as "inefficient" or that it's "making getting the details difficult" is missing the point. He doesn't want a soul-dead HR minion to find his details.
I know the tone was sarcastic to make a point but that is how the article came off. Especially the paragraph talking about the NFL concussions.
Why It's Impossible to Just Eat Less
I would hazard to guess that is related to two factors: women are the largest group that are underrepresented; and it is harder to explain women's underrepresentation as a result of socio-economic factors.

No matter where you live, you can expect women to represent ~50% of the population. That makes it very easy to notice if there is a discrepancy, even if you work in a tiny office. To tell whether an ethnic/age group is, you first need to know the prevalence, then you need to have enough people that a discrepency is noticeable.

With a number of groups you can explain why a group is underrepresented by looking at socio-economic factors like their average income, access to technology, access to schooling, etc. For any socio-economic group, there should be (roughly) the same number of men and women in that group, so it can't be used as an explanation of the under-representation of women.

EDIT: I didn't notice that jailbot had already said what I said, but in a less wordy fashion.