skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same general complaints could be made by the middle class as a whole. I lost interest in this article when he started talking about being in medical school running up crazy student loan debt AND having TWO kids.
Not sure if you're trolling, but luatex.org explains it right in the first paragraph:

LuaTeX is an extended version of pdfTeX using Lua as an embedded scripting language. The LuaTeX projects main objective is to provide an open and configurable variant of TeX while at the same time offering downward compatibility.
I never understood this kind of field work when officers propose using prostitution/drugs/you-name-it services. It looks like a crime promotion: person might hesitate and never do a bad thing in years or they might do, but officers do help in it.

It's almost like a prison for thoughtcrime. How do you know the crime would happen if the person weren't helped(sic!)
See my links here. Hours worked per capita have not increased significantly (data moves around a lot, no real trend).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6667824
> Am I missing other major downsides to taking a more proactive approach to managing my own health? Are there other things I should consider looking at to get a complete picture of my health?

A potential downside is the tendency is to shift from being proactive about your health to diagnosing (or worse -- treating) yourself based on independent research. I get that it's tempting to fire up google scholar, pubmed, uptodate etc to get a better understanding of what's going on -- just don't go the next step and start diagnosing and treating yourself.

See a specialist. See a domain specialist if you can. Get another opinion. Ask questions and air your concerns. If your doctor doesn't adequately answer your questions and concerns, see another doctor. Your greatest asset -- and the one you should be focused on-- is the ability to get multiple opinions from people who have trained for decades on a topic.

It seems like you need to see a new doctor -- not order your own tests.
e.g. comparing to Facebook there are very few accidental sign ups for Facebook.
Microsoft Word (alas) or one of its generally even worse competitors. For business documents that need sharing with other people who have to use Microsoft Word so they can share them with other people who, etc.

TeXmacs, a more-or-less-WYSIWYG document editor with approximately TeX-compatible formulae and suchlike. I actually use this much more often than TeX or LaTeX.

Plain text :-).

HTML (either edited by hand -- horrible but in some contexts less horrible than (La)TeX -- or using a WYSIWYGish tool like BlueGriffon).

Someone mentioned Markdown. I've somehow managed to avoid ever using Markdown (not counting things like Stack Overflow and occasional blog comments) but it certainly belongs in the list.
Where can I get the tool he showed? Did he publish it?
"Count your blessings, not your troubles." -Dale Carnegie.
Amnesty International on USA and Snowden
When graph theory becomes useful for front-end development
what did it mean 'fake'? Weren't all 8 fully working versions of the website?
Ask HN: What music do you listen to when hacking?
Tabletop is a great JS library for dealing with this:

https://github.com/jsoma/tabletop
I don't see any information on that page.
A lot of the stuff here (especially the circuit simulator) were discussed in Inventing on Principle.
Ah, a full analysis that spells out the meaning of the assumptions behind the paper: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7953/selfish-mining-a-25-attack-a...
Digital disruption from delivery drones
I 'm not convinced. Such a "media" for thinking the unthinkable already exists. It's called "written language" plus maybe a drawing here or there. Has been used for millennia and once internalized by a mind willing to spend the effort to parse it has never failed to convey the unthinkable, the sublime or the transcendent.
Since when did the topic devolve into whether particular SWAT raids are appropriate? I'm not going to argue against that because I largely agree with you. You can put the pitchfork down now.
I'm betting on Orkut.
We use Hackpad as our wiki at SendHub and it's awesome. Great job guys and congrats on the well deserved coverage.
I have a question about the terminal state. In your blog post it is phrased as a takeover which is inherent in the proof-of-work protocol in the currency.

It seems to me, though, that as soon as a cabal of defectors successfully captures the mining process, a next generation of defecting cabals would immediately form, using the advance information from the previous winning group, and the process would simply repeat in waves.

That is, what we currently have is a group of miners who all share their information with each other as soon as they find it. That's exactly what a sub-group exploiting the instability you identified would look like once it won.
As a 22 year old, I'd happily give $1000 to go to a YC dinner.
Never experienced VIM crash of any kind on Mac OS X, Linux or Windows. And I have been using it since Amiga days.

On the other hand I don't use very many plugins, esp. not plugins that have native extensions.
no, you can just mail them.
We've been using Google Spreadsheets as part of our "CMS" in our latest website redesign.

We're relying on schema.org normalization: no more item.gsx$stuff everywhere + switching or mixing data providers is effortless.

http://joshfire-tech.tumblr.com/post/65032069418/using-third...
Those are the same partners, what are you saying?
How does this come to the main page of hacker news? 16+ points for a dinner auction does not sound believable. Whats the secret?
A friend of mine asked him this after we saw it in his "Inventing on Principle Talk". Here is his response:

> Thanks! The tools I showed were just prototypes that I made for the talk. I don't have plans to make them into products myself. (But someone else might!)
Hydrogen damages metal structures.
My name is Julia and I'm Hackpad's Community and User Research Manager. Hackpad uses your Google contacts in one way only: to expedite the process of inviting collaborators to a Pad. As soon as you begin typing your contact's name, we suggest their email address. We take user privacy very seriously.
We still have the NSA.
They ignore everything.
Would it really be? I guess it depends on the teen.
Code will disappear just as quickly as legalese disappeared after we were able to write clear and concise agreements in common, natural language.
Haven't watched the whole thing, but scrolling down and reading his closing makes me not want to watch it. He complicates the simple procedure "Completing the Square" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Completing_the_square). Take half of the b coefficient, square it, and add it to both sides gives x^2 + 10x + 25 = 64 or the completed square (x+5)^2 = 64 or x+5 = 8 or x=3.
> Helgrind: False errors resulting from the use of statically initialised mutexes and condition variables have been removed. False errors resulting from the use of pthread_cond_waits that timeout, have been removed.

Awesome. There was no good way to write suppressions for those. I'm glad this got done.
I thought I was taking crazy pills when Zynga got valued more than Electronic Arts. Yeah, a company with games that practically aren't even games which makes money via spammy offers, is worth more than a multi-decade-old company with a gigantic catalog of games, which people actually pay cash for, spread out over every continent and every console, handheld, and PC. When I saw that story, I was like "do any of the journalists on the story actually stop and think for a second?"
I think it is unlikely that there will be another Facebook. Will there be a big social media website if Facebook dies? Probably yes, and in the near future it will likely be Google+.

So if there was no Facebook would another Facebook clone take it's place? Intuitive answer is yes, until you start thinking. How did Facebook got so big? It was best product on the market. So now Facebook is dead, what happened to Facebook? Is there a reason it died, if Facebook could not survive, how will it clones will not only survive, but thrive?

So here I would like to make a small prediction. The only way there will be another Facebook, if someone would make something better. Something which will either do things that Facebook does better - and hence kill it off, or something that will open entire new market.

TL:DR If you want to get big you can't be another Facebook: you either must be different or better.
I'm tempted to bid on this for myself
Oh, cool, you found a way to stack the startup game towards the wealthy.
it's pg who posted it...
It Doesn't Matter if iWork is Inferior to MS Office: iWork Still Wins
How could a discussion about the causalities inflicted during no-knock swat raids possibly exclude the fact that so many of these raids are completely unjustified? That's like trying to discuss drunk driving without talking about alcoholism. Drunk driving is a manifestation of one of the many ways alcoholism hurts others.

In this case, the cops are drunk on power,immunity, and fantasies of paramilitarism, not cheap boxed wine.
Is the source for this available somewhere?
Same here! His thinking had a huge impact on my thinking.
Who is John Chen, the man named to rescue BlackBerry?
Michael Flarup Interview (or, how to be an incredible app designer)
Tim Ferris has an excellent write up on 4 hour body. Part of it is to do extensive bloodwork & other tests that go far beyond what most doctors do - with them you can get a clearer picture. Talking to doctor with those in hand might give a clearer picture to you and your doctor.

Not sure if those are available in India, but my cousin did follow through those tests(in estonia) and has lost 50lbs - now healthier than ever. Has something to do with kinds of blood indicated what kind of diet you suppose to be on, vegeterian, paleo or whatever.
my 2c.
Sorry, does it matter for anyone not trying to keep some kind of score based on companies' self-reported numbers?

Who really cares if someone using Hangouts to do a show on youtube realizes that they're using what Google defines as a Google+ feature? Nag screens are annoying; this falls on the bottom of my list of things to care about.
Neat, but they really need to repeat what's said in the video in the text. Currently it's not amenable to obtaining a quick understanding.
Is Yelp honestly with TWO BILLION? What about Uber?
Under the Las Vegas Code of Ordinances (assuming the condo is in the city), the issue is going to be whether the guy is considered an "operator" of "an establishment that rents or holds out for rent guestrooms on a daily or less-than-weekly basis." In that case, he needs a license and needs to pay taxes. See: http://library.municode.com/HTML/14787/level2/TIT6BUTALIRE_C...

Beyond that, all that really matters is the "Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions" (CCRs) document that is recorded in the land records when the condo was created and any other local and state regs governing renting of rooms.

The Rules and Regulations statement about short term leases is easily overcome. Just create an operating company that you lease the condo to under a long-term lease - run all the money through the operating company, pay the rent to the owner, and distribute net income. The only "lease" will be the long-term lease to the operating company. Again, there may be local regs about this (or the state's Landlord-Tenant statute: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-118A.html#NRS118ASec180), but the "prohibition" under the Rules and Regs is easy to deal with. Again, what matters are the CCRs that are recorded in the land records. If they allow it, my bet would be that this guy's scheme is fine.

Plus, I'd also bet that he talked with an attorney about this. If he didn't, he's a damned fool.
>I think there is literally 0 chance for another Facebook. Google tried with Google+ - billions of dollars, millions of man hours by brilliant engineers, crazy bundling strategies by Google. Is Google+ another Facebook yet? Nope, not yet, maybe not ever.

all this still doesn't make it "cool" with 1B of teenagers (don't know what does - if i knew i would probably not be wasting time here :), and 1B a new Facebook would make.
Very nice and cool.

Just one thing, I like to open links in a new background tab, so I just CTRL + click or just middle click with the mouse, the first option is not working the last one is fine.
The issue is that doctors give you muddled advice too. I had my blood test done last year and I was told that I should cut down on eating any meat and switch to a plant based diet. He also vaguely told me to do more exercise. Yet, I eat incredibly lean food, albeit high protein mainly because I weight lift. I also run 4.5 miles every other day. He couldn't go into more detail apart from this general warning. I could switch to a more plant, low fat diet. However, would that mean that I would be overall healthy considering that any resistance training would essentially be diminished because I am not getting enough protein in my diet? Should I run more than 15 miles a week and potentially screw my knees. He wasn't sure.
Thanks, I can not wait for it. Anybody take this job?
I think you should consider adding it to the auction page. It would probably make it clearer and help raise bids.
Thank you for posting the correct answer.
This idea that parents can buy YC connections for their kids is the final nail in the coffin of the idea of Silicon Valley meritocracy.
without the wealthy, what is left of the startup game? who would pg fleece with recipe websites then?
Using third-party providers as CMS
> Generic advice to eat well and exercise is not as effective as having a specific number you're trying to improve on e.g. lowering your ApoB count.

What. No. If you need to work on a number, why don't you try improving the number of minutes you spend doing cardiovascular exercise per week?
Clever hack, for prototypes.
I had an elevated Lp(a) level and was able to reduce it dramatically by taking niacin, under the supervision of my cardiologist. YMMV?
Red Bull RB9
Even though this is for charity I feel the same way. :/
Not to the text zoom level.
Another alternative is the Miso Project
http://misoproject.com/dataset/tutorials/googlespreadsheets
When Vim is inactive, I can attach a function in a CursorHold autocmd event which would consists of loop that reads from the resource object and sleeps for a small interval after that. As the external program/socket connection is running in separate process, reading from it is not resource sensitive so it should not block Vim entirely.

BTW there is a plugin called CoVim https://github.com/FredKSchott/CoVim that implements pair-programming feature using default built-in Python binding.
Using Texts to make Pandoc painless
Here's page with my bookmarklet saved by itself :) http://web.archive.org/web/20131104224622/http://www.compone...
and with it any sense of unbiased journalism from this site.

YNepotator
> If you install AOSP on your phone (assuming you can and manage to go through the hurdles) you end up with a phone which is completely different from stock Android

It honestly sounds like you have never installed AOSP yourself. I do it all the time and quite often use the device for a bit without any "Google". The experience of running barebones AOSP is way, way closer to stock Android than anything you will buy from an OEM. I even sometimes do it and forget to install the Google apps because it is so similar you cannot actually tell the difference until you try to use something like Gmail or Google Now. The idea that consumers buying branded phones are somehow being deceived because they think they are getting stock Android but Google has somehow slipped proprietary code in is laughable when you look at what the OEMs do in comparison.

I would challenge you to get hold of a Nexus and flash plain vanilla stock Android (to make things easy, use CM 10.2 and don't put Gapps on there). These are built from source directly derived from the AOSP, by people who are NOT members of the OHA and have no special relationships with Google, manufacturers or anyone else. You will find you can set up your email, calendar, pretty much everything you need, with the exception of Maps is available. It may make you feel better about things.

In my view, what is happening lately is that Google is drawing a sharper boundary around what is open source Android and what are proprietary Google services. The OS is remaining open source, as a hard condition. Things that belong in the OS are staying there and staying open source. But the layers above that - things that are rightly and properly user space apps - are only delivered as part of the OS as a convenience. Making better versions of those - possibly better versions than can ever be made open source, either because they depend on proprietary / live Google services (eg: maps) or because they use licensed or patent encumbered code - is fair game.
I love silence.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=music+hacking&...
I think its important to point out that tech blogs always want a breathlessly huge top line number, and that investors play along (The same thing seems to happen with sports contracts). But the details are often vastly more complex and full of earnouts, triggers, board seats, etc, etc. And according to the allthingsd article linked to, the deal hasn't been closed yet:

"Sources said the round being raised — up to $200 million — will come in part from China’s Internet giant Tencent and value the self-destructing mobile messaging startup from $3.6 billion to $4 billion."
The standard one in System.Random uses Donald E. Knuth's subtractive random number generator algorithm according to the documentation. Which shouldn't be too hard to find an anlysis on.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.random(v=vs.1...

Then there is the Cryptographically secure one over in System.Security.Cryptography.RandomNumberGenerator I believe it uses CryptGenRandom under the hood, so I believe it has been analysed.
Net neutrality as it's discussed now focuses on the wrong thing. We need neutral last mile with the ISP of our choice. There are no issues with lack of competition if you are inside major meet me rooms. The only reason att,verizon,etc can have this stranglehold is their government granted monopoly over the last mile.
Trust matters.
Bret Victor also has many other amazing and thought provoking talks:

Inventing on Principle: http://vimeo.com/36579366

Stop Drawing Dead Fish: http://vimeo.com/64895205

Drawing Dynamic Visualizations: http://vimeo.com/66085662

The Future of Programming: http://vimeo.com/71278954
People with money have an advantage over people without money. News at 11.
I wonder how hard it really is? Lockheed X-7A3, a ramjet demonstrator flew at mach 4.5 in the fifties already, and ASALM flew at mach 5.5 around 1980 before cancellation in favor of subsonic cruise missiles.

http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-60.html
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/asalm.html
You should do a TOMS model for this - as in, one person pays for the meal and chance to meet/greet with founders, developers, and SV leaders (unfortunately biased towards wealthier people). Then, you give away a "meal" to a person who applies with an essay or something and who's parents can't pick up the check on this opportunity.
I did the same in php and posted about it here, it's the poor man's DB http://sastrestuff.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/poor-mans-sql/
Who Has 1 Billion Users And Is About To Overtake Facebook?
The claim that you can't get sufficient protein for pretty much any level of exercise from a plant-based diet is utterly specious. For example, quinoa is 14% complete protein, and chia is almost 17% — also complete protein — with an Ω3-to-Ω6 ratio of around 3:1, almost exactly the inverse of beef.

Source: I'm a vegetarian, and I pay scrupulous attention to this stuff.
I found rsnapshot to be far superior.
That's a quote from al-Khwārizmī[1], the medieval Persian mathematician whose name the word "algorithm" comes from.

Victor didn't complicate the process. He used that quote to illustrate his claim that it's precisely because of innovations in symbolic representation (i.e., representing the equation as x^2 + 10x + 39) that you are able to think of the process as simple.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%E1%B8%A5ammad_ibn_M%C5%ABs%C...
"Numbers are constantly fluctuating, monitor them too frequently and you'll get stressed. This is actually a direct quote from my doctor. In my opinion it's still not a reason to ignore the numbers."

I'm firmly on the camp that one should measure more - not less - if numbers are fluctuating to reduce worry and stress. Frequent samples, but examining weekly/monthly aggregate trends is the way to go. We just need great tools for visualization.
Brings us back again to: "Were we foolish for expecting any privacy at all online?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668273
Every small, well-funded tech company ever has claimed that they weren't interested in acquisition. I certainly don't think that will keep the M&A folks at the big tech companies from chatting up Snapchat's investors.

For the second part, Google makes billions figuring out how to get ads in front of its users. I'm sure they'd be able to do something for Snapchat.
"and it's hard to see the insurance companies being willing to foot the bill for tests that aren't deemed necessary"

This statement. In a country with a national health care(like mine) this does not happen. If the doctor thinks you need a test, it gets done.
Human bodies are really complicated. Doctors can always be better informed, but in the end they're still playing the statistics game, and we have pretty poor statistics on this stuff (especially with diet, which is almost always self-reported in any large study). For most people, beyond smoking, weight management, and maybe exercise and sleep, we've found basically nothing that will move your risk factors more than a handful of percentage points in either direction. You can easily negate those benefits by having a stressful few months in your job or in your marriage, and meanwhile you very well might die of cancer in the few years you bought yourself.

We're not going to "solve" the problem until we have a ton more data (maybe sensors in everyone along with the understanding of the markers to look for) so we can fit you to an optimal path based on a lot of observed variables. But even then we're just going to be playing percentages off each other, and contrary to the life-extender crowd out there, it may turn out that there is no 110-year optimal path for most of us, at least until we start reengineering the body at a more fundamental level.
Since there will no doubt be a lot of the predictable complaint that this gives an advantage to the kids of people rich enough to buy it, I want to make it clear that this auction is to fund scholarships to the Bing nursery school. Since going to Bing helps kids a lot more than going to a YC dinner would, it's a net win for parents with less money.

We knew when we decided to offer this item for auction that people would give us grief about it. But we're happy to take the heat to give more kids the opportunity to attend Bing.
Autechre is hacker music.
Nice one! I started coding one after writing the above comment.

I have a question regarding your implementation: why do you use `goto`s rather than `elseif` to compile `(cond)` blocks? For nested blocks?
Similar to authoritarian conservative political groups using names like "Freedom" and "Liberty"?

They can sugar-coat it however they want but I'm ok with "dark". That is the fact of life in a surveillance-state. In such an environment, one who wishes to communicate in private must do it in the dark.