skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universal income is a fantastic idea. Imagine being able to work on your own coding project for 2 years with a guarantee of basic ramen and safe shelter.
I don't think it'd work well in Western society yet. It would be feasible in, say, a dense and autocratic city-state like Singapore.
IMHO it will come. As a world, we are starting to automate and displace work faster than our brains can learn new skills en masse. IE one person can create a skill and codify it (years), faster than 300K people can go to training and expand the industry organically (lifetime). This applies to both manufacturing and service jobs.

Structural lifetime unemployment is going to be the cause of future civil instability, and governments will use UI as a way to calm and control social order.
Why does people's ignorance in Physics bother you?

Specialization allows people to stay ignorant about many things.
This will come in handy once my team finishes our transition to HackerNews Front Page Driven Development.
Pretty sure it was Antigrav by Nicholas Fisk. It was a cool story - if you were a kid. I never did find any red pebbles though.
These ones got me some odd looks from my coworkers (couldn't hold in the laughs):

The Node Beginner Book, a guide to Objective C

What Happens to the HN Crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes

The polynomial algorithm for a Cool Billion Dollars

My husband is a new IDE for poets

Classic.
Most of the phones that have been "bricked" by the CyanogenMod installer aren't actually permanently bricked, they're just not fixable by anyone who'd actually need the CyanogenMod installer to help them install it.
The Lewis lab's main contribution here is the scale and precision of 3D printing. These batteries are not immediately useful (although there are sensors and other electronics that are an order of magnitude smaller than the batteries that power them, and in the future micro-scale batteries could overall reduce the size of these electronics). They are not powerful or robust, but they are precisely assembled. This type of 3D printing will enable future miniaturization of electronics and be especially useful at the interface of electronics and biology. For instance, current 3D printers have resolution several orders of magnitude above the scale of features in tissues. Increasing the resolution of 3D printing enables tissue engineering at a scale similar to actual biological features. Batteries are just a flashy and potentially useful application of this fundamental printing technology.
Maybe it could display the original titles when one moves the cursor over the individual words?
The first one I saw was

> The WorldWideWeb application is now larger than LinkedIn

I had to follow the link to the code to convince myself it really was random and not satire.
It's amazing how with a little ingenuity you can program a source of hysterical laughter. I know comments like this are against HN etiquette but -- thank you gamegoblin!
Endlessly entertaining: "ACLU launches phone app to help you avoid hills in SF"
"4chan founder: Mark Zuckerberg is annoying the bankers"
Warp9 - Yet Another JS FRP library (without common pitfalls this time)
This is by far my favorite. Inspecting the archive, it is a combination of

History made in India: Govt agrees to anti-corruption bill

And one of the various javascript posts.
I highly recommend Markus Hutter's book: "Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based On Algorithmic Probability" (http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Artificial-Intelligence-Algo... )

Beware, you need some serious maths and a board to follow him. In the end the book is quite rewarding.

Now to AIXI: I don't belive that having a formula solves AI problem. Yes you can model it, but in real environment, I believe there are simpler models to try first. Remember: nature like simpliness first, complex when needed.
From my experience, we get looked after well as consumers in Aus, and the US doesn't have near the protection we enjoy. Not sure if that's the case here, but I know it's true on the whole.
A Thanksgiving Request from Priceonomics
* Car manufacturers: "hey saying your car is no longer supported and locking out 3rd party batteries is a great way to drive new sales."

* All car manufacturers decide to do so

* Consumer: I would like to buy a non-DRM'ed car!

* Manufacturer: If you don't like DRM cars, don't buy one with DRM! BTW, they all have DRM!

* Consumer: :(
Wow! Really nice!
"White House: What's Blocking Innovation in America? My Answer: IP Laws"
> My Neighbor, Steve Jobs dissed me in a "map" interface

Damn Steve Jobs.
If the class names remain semantic, I don't think there is much harm using classes. The class names in the examples accurate describe the elements inner content.

Querying by class over data attributes is also usually faster.
Wow! Top5 has "bitcoin","income","bitcoins", and "bank".

Is HN all about the money?

EDIT: also, very neat work! However, you should consider excluding "]" and "[" from the list.
There are certainly degrees of risk. Like buying something from craigslist for cash is riskier than buying the same thing from a retailer.
The fuzzy search is broken. "ck" doesn't match "LeChuck", and "mal" matches "Herman Toothrot".
Regarding 4:

A disciple of another sect once came to Drescher as he was eating his morning meal.

“I would like to give you this personality test”, said the outsider, “because I want you to be happy.”

Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into the toaster, saying: “I wish the toaster to be happy, too.”

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141308
I am honestly laughing to the point of tears.

- I quit my job to personally email the first open source project

- The 19-year-old jailed for the HN interface

- Google to Sell your Company

- Einstein's list of front end development resources

- 4chan founder: Mark Zuckerberg married

- Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How You Fix It

- ORM is an idiot" (Update 3)
You would only say that if you were born in the US. Your definition of "generous" is pretty laughable in most other developed countries.
I'm not sure escrow services exist (yet). I don't know how exchanges work, having only bought on bitbargain, and never sold.
Got that to!

MPAA Publicly Threatens to Stop Writing REST API Clients
Show HN: my useless weekend project, QR-codes for everybody
Mozilla’s Rejection of NativeClient Hurts the Open Web, GNU/Linux in Danger
Very clever story telling using HTML and CSS editor
The Unintended Effects of Reading
Full Text RSS Feed: Get the whole feed and nothing but the FBI
How to Quit Your Job, Move to Paradise, and Get So Much Radiation?
Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs invests in Duck Duck Go
I feel I am depressed and I Bought Lunch in Manhattan with Bitcoins
Google's dropping H.264 in Chrome - SSL exploit coming?
The Art of writing unmaintainable code.
IE11 to support wiretapping
"Show HN: I really need your money"
Couple of suggestions:

Exclude commonly trending words such as Google. It isn't trending if it's already huge.

I've got '[' and ']' for the last week, exclude these too.

EDIT: As a matter of fact something seems to be wrong if Google is classified as trending. There haven't been a big surge in posts about Google in the recent past. Either something is wrong, I am wrong or the algorithm is still training (e.g.: learning what is the normal rate of appearance of certain words)
This is disgusting. He treats the small guy (his employees screwed over) like an annoying bug.

Perhaps he even gave the OK for the screwing over part.
"Facebook is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years"
Serious question: What's to prevent me, as a US citizen, to buy bitcoins on Coinbase, then setup an online store where I sell bitcoins at a 10-20% markup, payable by credit card?

1. I realize I'd be taking a risk with chargbacks. Any way to minimize this? Perhaps hold onto the bitcoin for a period of time?

Seems like the demand from ordinary people is so high, they wouldn't mind paying $100 - $200 per bitcoin if they can pay with a credit card.
I lived in SF for four years and I loved it, but the one thing that always bothered me was the smug sense by some people of how great they are compared to the rest of the world just because they happen to live there.
I think the costs of administration would exceed the payments. We're fine with bureaucratic jobs now because we need employment numbers, but those jobs aren't producing anything real. Look at the VA, it employs half as many people as the Army, just to manage benefits. What your proposing would, like the VA, require filings, delays, rejections, appeals and a whole lot of heartache. Simplifying things is the key selling point. You reduce pointless jobs that produce nothing and get rid of red tape in the process.

I just don't think adding bureaucracy is the solution. If I want someone to go to school I don't manage it on the individual, you'll spend half your money on administration. I spend it by subsidizing tuition.

Some people will drink themselves to death, but they already do that in our current system. How does that matter? The only difference I see is they'll have a lot more free time. Maybe they'll waste it, maybe they'll improve themselves.
Most high-level languages have the drawback that they usually cannot inter-operate with anything else, or if they can, it gets very ugly. This begins with C++ being impossible to consume from anything else than C++ and certainly doesn't stop with Java or similar languages. For a portable, low-level library that aims to exist nearly everywhere I doubt there is anything better than C.

And you'd need tests either way. With certain high-level languages you could reduce the need for valgrind and signed integer overflow tests perhaps, but nearly all other test (and thus error) classes remain. You will want to be safe from regressions, you will want to make sure that you can recover gracefully upon process termination, OOM or power failures. You also want to make sure that your SELECT doesn't yield different result sets than other database engines for the same data set.

All those cases are not going away, just because you use a different language. And proving things correct necessitates that your formal model accurately describes what you want to create. Bugs in said model will still be bugs in the application, even if you proved that the application conforms exactly (which still isn't easy).
As far as I can tell, these issues aren't novel. They seem like the sort of the thing that might arise in any property dispute case.
The Loma Prieta was not "the big one."

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/seismologists-say-bay...
Show HN: my Gf's first iPad app (last 5 months) for travel enthusiasts
Also a live Hangout via Youtube right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q03I1B_yrPg&feature=youtu.be
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/199o54/watch_zu...

The first one is verbaitm.
Cool hack to take a photo of Neil Armstrong
Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Problems
Ask HN: How did you earn from your browser
Experiments Show Gravity Is Not for Everybody
Ask HN: How to seem good at math
IBM develops 'instantaneous' memory, 100x faster than a Cup of Coffee
That's quite fun!
Amazon announces 30% discount on every book
The Hacker News is Waiting for Godot.
Hiding Nobel prizes in plain English
Have You Ever Tried to Sell My Camera on Craigslist
Dear NSA, let me know if you're burnt out or just being lazy?
Nexus 7, Made for Google Search History Before New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
AngularJS Tutorial: Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes, fits in your browser into future
How to Make Money -- Without Mining Asteroids
Google paid AdBlock Plus to get $12 billion of gold to Venezuela
Java Virtual Machine in pure CSS
After NSA's XKeyscore, Wikipedia Switches to HTTPS Now, For Free
US claims all .com and .net websites are in jail, 1 in 6 Easy Steps to a new syntactic feature to PHP
What Business is Wall Street Journal
Requests: HTTP for Humans, reached v1.0
Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a straight-up Ponzi scheme
Show HN: Pick a number from 1 to 10
Tom Anderson: Google+ makes Google a better, more integrated set of small, responsive CSS modules
Behind the scenes of the opportunists and their hackathons
Apple not providing LGPL webkit source code released (Apple II assembly)
Google open sources resilience engineering library
Raspberry Pi now with Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for prime-time Jeopardy
So you think you will hurt your fingers on your resume
Callbacks are the doctor on the iPad - They Undesigned it
4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google founders may mine asteroids
Dijkstra: “You will be built again"
- Power surges in Britain caused by millions of people on Mars

- How to hack the immigration system with a floating incubator

- Lavabit's founder: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Know about jQuery

- Google Unveils The iPhone 5S
The problems with electric cars have always been the same: volumetric power density, battery longevity, battery cost, charge time.

Today most of these issues are largely resolved and close to being non-issues. The next generation battery technology is likely to place electric storage ahead of gasoline in terms of power per unit volume.

The next challenge to electric vehicles is safety. Before electrics can reach penetrations in the range of millions of units in major markets they'll have to prove they are safe in such concentrations.
Nice work. Before clicking, I knew bitcoin would hold the top spot. Kind of hope this craze dies down a bit so more non-bitcoin stories can appear.
It's funny how quickly that simple "Pen on the Moon" question can be turned from novice level into physics expert level.

"Please select all possible conditions under which pen on the Moon would not fall on the ground".
> Returning 0 is technically doing something.

Yeah, but try telling your boss that :)
HN should put a few of these headlines onto the frontpage on april fools day...
Startup Design Framework Video Preview
... and this is why, selfishly, I would like to see the system implemented somewhere, albeit not necessarily where I live. People keep throwing peremptory statements here and there (on both sides of the argument), even though we really have no way to know what's going to happen. So let the Swiss implement it, and let the whole world see how it's gonna play out. If it works (which I sincerely hope, from the bottom of my heart), then that can give ideas to the rest of us. If it fails, we can draw the adequate conclusions too.
San Francisco has nearly 40 restaurants per 10,000 households, which is 40 percent more than the second highest city.

Is this the right way to determine the variety of restaurant options available to a city resident? I think maybe a better metric might be restaurants per square mile? As somebody who has lived in both SF and NYC, I'm a bit confused by a result that says that SF has more restaurant options than NYC. Just a thought.
Wow, they used a BFL Jalapeno as their example miner: http://www.bitcoins.com/assets/img/illustrations/digitally_c...

Interesting choice...
Cigarettes could get plain packaging by 2015 after government U-turn
I was to buy my first bitcoin. Then the bank tell me is absolute forbidden to make bank transfer to any thing that look alike a forex stuff. Or get money for them. Criminal, you are...

Here, in Colombia, all banks do the same.
Thanks. Haha, it seems so, at least this week.

I just added [ and ] to the filter list.
Even if you weren't bankrupted by chargebacks, which you definitely would be, the credit card companies would shut down your account. They don't want people buying bitcoins; it's a threat to them.
240 year old programmable automaton writing machine
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2013 Proceedings
I posted this on Twitter this morning, but watch http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin#q=bitcoin&cmp... and the chart in this post carefully if you bought Bitcoin speculatively (ie, not because you actually care about Bitcoin or want to be long on it). When the Google chart drops and this goes off the top 5 on HN but the price hasn't plummeted, you're at a mid-term peak and you should sell.

The price of Bitcoin is being driven by media and hype right now - deserved or undeserved, in the near term there WILL be a dip in that and the price will drop for no "good" reason. Keep an eye on that if you're looking for a peak at which to sell, or (maybe more importantly) a bottom at which to buy.
yep, and it should be required reading for anyone that hasn't seen it yet.
Yes I have. Nonetheless, given the number of people who subscribe to creationism and yet do not hold any religious views (vanishingly small in my sampling, but I haven't conducted a large-scale international review), whilst they do not have to follow, they do seem to follow in the vast majority of cases.
Tell HN: My Startup Failed. Fuck.
This is a little something I did for fun. The trending hash tags on twitter are an interesting metric for what people are talking about, so I thought it would be cool to make something like that for Hacker News. But we don't have hash tags, so the app just uses words.

Note that you can click on a word to get some of the posts it's mentioned in.

Edit: Also, a heads up -- it's running on a Heroku free dyno, and it's already feeling a little slow.
Stay? When was HN ever fast? It's a tech demo for a language that's been more-or-less abandoned, that accidentally grew into a popular website.
Currently it just sits on top of Sqlite. I wanted to keep with the whole 'lightweight' concept. Also, all of the apps I have made have used very basic schemas and using CoreData was a bit more overhead than I needed. I wanted to make a library that was easy to setup and use. Making it easy to transition to core data isn't a bad idea though.
What exactly is it that makes people who have never done functional programming think javascript offers "top-notch" functional programming?

They've heard that JavaScript has first-class functions, which they've heard of. They've also heard that JavaScript is like Scheme, which they've also heard of.
I lived in SF for four years and I loved it, but the one thing that always bothered me was the smug sense by some people of how great they are compared to the rest of the world just because they live in San Francisco.
This mention of "gravity boots" blew my mind! You're right, for someone regularly exposed to American TV, this phrase will sound very familiar [1]. I am seriously wondering if that could have measurable impact.

Also, your way of learning Spanish is impressive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_boots
About countably infinite state space: with about 10^56 states, Pacman still remains a very challenging domain ! Just to put things into perspective, my colleague recently ran some experiment where he would exhaust 8Gb of RAM, but could reduce this number down to 4Gb using random projections for dimensionality reduction.

http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jpineau/files/whamilton-icml13.pdf

http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~whamil3/files/cpsr-talk.pdf

Also, don't forget that this is a partially observable domain (with only local sensory information) with no apriori knowledge of the overall goal to achieve. It learns completely from scratch ! If we find this task easy as human beings, it's because we have a lot of prior knowledge that we can transfer into this task
Ask HN: What strategies can you recommend to advertise our iPad app (indie)?
Our app is an iPad only app for travel enthusiasts and visualizes more than 25k webcams all over the world. From the Antarctica to North Pole all parts of the world are captured.<p>Our questions is: How can we as indie developers market our app? Of course do we have a limited budget, but can we do to push it bit more?<p>Here is the link to the app to get an impression:
http://visualino.com/<p>Thanks
Nelson
1. An unofficial alternative to Node.js

2. Ask HN: Best books you read daily?

3. EU Commissioner Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By EU Parliament supports the new Junk Food

4. Why you shouldn't start a startup on Haskell [video]

5. Stallman: Facebook is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages

6. Nexus: The best programmers are not paid in proportion to their help text

7. "They're Made out of Facbook is not a war zone

8. Behind the scenes of the opportunists and their hackathons

9. Antibiotic resistance: The last time I saw Steve Jobs

10. The UK Court Sanctions Apple, Hopes "Lack of Integrity" Is Not Free
How I got blacklisted by Uber
Their drives were better than Crucial. I had a Crucial SSD that due to a firmware bug became unusably slow (far slower than a mechanical drive) after a couple of months. They released a firmware update that supposedly fixed it (which also required tweaking BIOS settings and booting in to a weird minimal version of Windows 95 - in 2013...), but it only made it slightly better, still a totally useless drive. I'd take an OCZ drive any day - been using one in my main dev desktop for a while now and it's kept up just fine.

Surprised it's not Crucial going under after that experience.
Maybe, those that skim the article, but definitely not trolling. I just don't get excitement/anger around ECat.

NDA however explains why there is no test.
As far as I can tell, it's not possible for someone to down-vote a response to a comment they've made -- certainly I'm not able to.
Spy app lets you track movements, listen in on calls and even lock their phone
I've added [ and ] to the filter list, though I'll have to remove some stuff from the db to get rid of the past results.

When I was developing it I saw Google trending all the time. I think Google just comes up in conversation on HN very frequently.

I suppose I could remove Google it if it doesn't have meaning. But maybe it does. This is interesting: if Google stops trending, perhaps that's a canary signal that it's not relevant anymore.
Medical Engineering
For college in particular, where it is quite specifically the fact that you are (better skilled and/or better connected and/or more able to pay) than everyone else that commands a premium this is very much the case - we can't just build more prestigious schools.

For housing, for most people, the bulk of what makes a neighborhood desirable is location relative to their work and social group and activities, cleanliness, and safety. Prestige is less of a component outside the very high end, where we don't care to subsidize anyway. The market (and the rest of society) can absolutely provide more "desirable neighborhoods" for the desires of the people who will be turning a net positive from BI.
Wow. I'm really impressed with that. I'm looking at >1hr on a mid-2012 Macbook Pro Retina for Chromium.
Rolls-Royce Builds a Salmon Tanker
China's rumor crackdown has 'cleaned' Internet, official says
This is the sort of self-righteous, living-in-a-bubble article you could only count on San Francisco to churn out.
Perhaps an oversimplification, but what would be the ramifications if patent law was altered to cover the inventor (or inventing body) _only_. "Prior art" becomes unpatentable, and the only legal argument occurs when there is a dispute about shared IP.

Would this effectively eliminate patents-as-a-business model, and still protect inventors who create _new_ ides, be they physical or digital?
They would get it wrong, though. Even the physics 101 students probably wouldn't draw the gravity of the sun, the gravity of the earth and the Milky Way.

If we're discussing reasoning from first principles, is it really so intuitive to disregard the gravity of the Earth in this experiment? Why can you disregard it and still get the correct result?
Absolutely, I should have said 'build' rather than 'compile'. It's both compilation and linking.
Here's one I found that was quite amusing: "Aisle50 (YC S11) streamlines the search for aliens"
Vose's Alias Algorithm for simulating a loaded die