skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could try telling people who are already listening to you, like us here, where your website is.
When did 400K or even "well north of 150K" become "unlimited money"? Unless you're Craig Venter (who isn't an 'academic') or some other incredible outlier there is nothing like Rockstar/Jayz wealth out there. You have to sell/patent a highly sought after product/process to get anywhere near that level.

Edit: If you're measuring or living off of a salary in general, without vast outside income from investments or the like, you arn't even close to "unlimited money".
> Drug lord was chosen so they could plaster Breaking Bad pictures and get links

Where do you see a Breaking Bad picture on this page? The comparison they make to drug gangs is fair and the gangs themselves are _not_ the root of the article. It's an article with statistics and cited sources, it seems reasonable for them to make an interesting introduction.
try krita, mypaint, darktable,rawtherapee.
He's not necessarily malicious, but read enough of his posts and you will see what I mean. He has actually examined the idea that he has sociopathic tendencies in a few of his blog posts if I recall correctly.

A word of warning about his blog though, it is incredibly easy to get sucked into it and end up spending an entire day reading his posts.
The True Story of History's Only Known Meteorite Victim
What does this Chrome notification thing look like? I've used Chrome for years and I'm currently on Chrome 33 and I've never seen this thing.
Certainly won't happen anytime soon.
English is certainly the lingua-franca of the modern world and will probably stay that way for a while. While mastering English is hard, you can get quite far with a modicum of English.

Latin is an extremely important language and we should keep teaching it as a large portion of the grammar and vocabulary of Europe's languages derives from it, but it's fraught with complexities that make it really hard to master unless you really want to spend the time and energy to specialise in it; certainly a worthy goal in itself, but not what most people would aspire to.
Cute but doesn't work with all icons.
Because it is extremely distracting and I actually couldn't read the article because of it.
Thinking about this a bit more, if it ever becomes reasonable to co-operatively crack a key, it could only be a good thing for bitcoin economy.

1. If the owner of the wallet still has access to it, they can easily transfer the amount to smaller wallets, and reduce their risk.

2. If the owner has lost access, it is good for the community to recover the lost coins.
Not sure why it's in the followletter iframe.

Here's the original techcrunch link - http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/29/how-to-sell-your-business-a...
You may be interested in this then. http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~%20adamodar/New_Home_Page/invfab... It's a fascinating read and may relate to why people are willing to invest in seemly irrelevant markets.
One of the biggest requirements iOS was designed around was "don't trust lazy or shitty devs" and people still freak out about the huge amount of restrictions placed on apps. I'm not sure there is any winning.
It's not really obligatory, and it would be nice if you guys just stopped posting that, especially on science articles since asking questions is what science does.
Sorry to do this, but it has to be done. Mistrust != distrust.

Distrust is when you don't trust someone. Mistrust is when you trust someone you should not.

For a more serious note, I've noticed this trend as well. One of the reasons I expect Silicon Valley's decline into irrelevance to be even faster than it looks is that it really was the pay-it-forward culture that made something of the place. That's what built it, in the 1970s. Now that it has been replaced by Sean Parker and Snapchat and "fuck you, I've got mine", it has no locational advantage other than history.
Thanks, in four paragraphs you gave me a whole new perspective on Hockney's book on this.
A look at what lies ahead for Final Fantasy
This is why the ADA recommends brushing your teeth only twice a day, rather than after every meal.
Note that: "This website has absolutely no affiliation nor endorsement with Y Combinator."
I would suggest not using a toothbrush on your tongue, those are designed for teeth. Get a dedicated tongue cleaner. You'll be glad you did; everyone should clean their tongue.
If I recall correctly, some motherboards feature a removable TPM module that uses a standard 2x10 0.1" header. Perhaps some sort of custom ATMega or FPGA based open source crypto module could be hand-built that conforms to this interface?

Picture of what I am talking about: http://i.imgur.com/83ekRBz.jpg
Collaboration not Derision in the Node Community
the interesting bit about academia, though, is that the "wealth" you accumulate at the top isn't money; it's prestige. To the best of my knowledge, if you are president of a good uni, you are looking at like half a mil a year. Undoubtedly good money, but hardly "rockstar level"

In fact, I'd argue that business management is closer to a "tournament-like profession" - guys on the bottom of the management scale make nothing compared to even a mediocre Engineer, and get no respect. Folks a the top of that scale laugh at your puny half a million a year.

(Note, I wouldn't call business management a tournament-like profession... just that the difference between the bottom and the top is larger, I think, than it is in academia.)

The other problem here is that okay, you get your PhD in hope of getting a teaching gig. sure, okay, let's accept that. If you join a gang as a foot-solder, you do it to get to the top. Let's accept that, too, for this discussion.

The problem is that if you are a failed gangster, your /best case/ is to end up nearly unemployable and living with your mom.

If you are a "failed" PhD? which is to say, you get your PhD and you fail to get a teaching gig? There are all sorts of other jobs who would love to have you. Yeah, you might not get paid all that much more than others who stopped with a bachelor degree, but more than half the time, that's more money (even if it's not more stability) than a professor can expect to make.

Really, I think teaching higher education is a 'prestige job' more than a 'tournament job'
I saw one in the form of a wiki awhile back. schemers cookbook maybe. The venerable (lambda-the-ultimate) and readscheme still excellent. We can always use more lisp and scheme oriented sites.
I think it's mostly because old games written in ASM, while newer ones in C/C++.
IBM’s Zero Instruction Set Computer [2000]
The Elements of Style has been systematically debunked a number of times. White & Strunk frequently stated some crazy hard-and-fast rule and then broke it in their own usage of English in the next chapter.

When you don't know the gender of the subject, don't use a gender-specific pronoun. Done.

Now, should we refactor a code base to achieve this, that's a whole other kettle of fish. I'd say, why not. It's not like sed is a difficult tool to use. But to each their own on that one.
For people who are interested in Pokemon hack, checkout http://www.pokecommunity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=156
Oh, I dunno, maybe by promising to vaporize it with multiple thermonuclear warheads? I mean, I did contrast the idea with an a attack involving a hypothetical Dyson sphere...
Fair enough. However, it's hoped that this might encourage less linkbait-y titles, especially for overviews of new science research. A headline like "Biofilm-inhibiting bacteria may provide an alternative to brushing your teeth" conveys much more information about the content (and doesn't break that "law", either).
I think it was pretty classy of Ben not to comment on some of the hateful comments in the commit that, instead of adding to discussion or trying to prevent future error, simply were personal attacks at him.
This is not true. There are mechanisms for cross-chain trade, and with a few small changes theres quite a bit more that you can do. See the smart contracts page of the wiki, and the freimarkets whitepaper for example.
Evernote is my annoyance. When I quit the app, I don't expect a menu bar to suddenly appear.
Not a fan of deodorants but, biologically, they may not be completely useless:

1. Being able to afford a deodorant indicates wealth, and thus better chances of survival of the offspring.

2. Using a deodorant might also indicate an awareness of personal hygiene in the individual (atleast purportedly). This might again increase the survival chances of the offspring.
That's so awesome! They need a better web designer for their site though. That brown background is just horrible.
I investigated and those comments were autokilled. There are handful of phrases that cause comments containing them to be autokilled, and one is "circlejerk." I doubt we have lost any insightful contributions to HN by it.
The EU is not going to add Latin as an official language, and it has nothing to do with financial difficulties; every official language of the EU has that status because it is the national language of a member state. In general, the Union is a (con)federation of national states, and adding Latin as a Union-wide language wouldn't really be compatible with that.
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The Facebook Song 
Taking the humorous approach to my severe reprimand by Facebook, I am now turning to you to allow me to continue to use it as a SOCIAL NETWORK! With just over 300 friends, I sent out a few requests to friends I knew and some friends of my friends in the music industry. Facebook's (over) reaction was to ban me for 30 DAYS from requesting any friends, with the threat of shutting my page down for life! So with a little humor on this ironic situation, after watching this video, please assist me in upholding "facebook law" and friend me. And I PROMISE I will ACCEPT you as my friend. As now we now each other, though the video.
I made the original HN headline generator this is based on. It wasn't inspired by "what would I say." I do machine learning research, and I saw an HN comment that said something like "this is the most HN title I have ever read." And I though "hmmm I could use Markov chains to generate fake HN titles..." So I did.

Right now my current HN-based machine learning project is to try to predict if a post will succeed or not, given its title, who posted it, when, etc.
And just how do "the rest of us" know if we have a weakened immune system?

If the objective is to do good and save lives, why not give everybody the same "safer" flu shot as given to pregnant women?

Why not eliminate the risk that a few people wander into Walgreens, not knowing they have a weakened immune system, and then get seriously ill or worse, drop dead?
the "wealth" you accumulate at the top isn't money; it's prestige

Exactly. The culture is 'presitige maximization', and it's ruthlessly pursued. TLDR: Man is a political animal
Before someone makes the inevitable "Why are they spending money on this instead of fixing poverty?" argument:

The whole Mars mission costs about as much as making four Bollywood movies.

http://www.firstpost.com/india/ten-price-tags-to-put-isro-ma...
yeah, let's not think about _why_ 1% of open source devs are women. this is one of those ubiquitous cases in tech where "honesty" actually means "misogyny."
Very much so. 'Prestige job' pretty much sums it up. Only a fool gets a PhD so they can 'make the big bucks'. If they were into it just for the money they'd go into finance rather than fiddling around with teaching or research.
Retraction Of Infamous GMO Cancer Rat Study
I have an antique camera lucida, and it is startlingly effective.
In contemporary Western society, misogyny is considered abnormal.

But like I said, I'd require a more thorough definition of what the OP considers "misogyny". Because for some people I've noticed that all minor annoyances and socially awkward situations are misogynistic and sexist.
It's not a bad idea. In fact, I found a how-to video.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0058150/
Semper ubi sub ubi.
Paul Walker, age 40 passes away in car crash.
Have you been able to find the Thomas et al paper that supports this claim? I have been unable to find it, and others seem to have this problem as well:

http://www.gdb.me/computing/citations-greg-wilson-cusec.html
Ah, thank you for sharing that. It was a coincidence then. I guess I just assumed that the seeming recent influx of Markov-chain based humorous one-line generators were all connected, but I suppose the WWIS one was a separate occurrence.

Unless of course you consider chaos theory... ;)
We are using HAProxy and I can highly recommend it.
Languages are living things. They morph and change, evolve and grow, and die. Latin lives on in English, French, Italian, Spanish and other languages. So in a sense it is not dead. Reading Beowulf (Old English) would not be much less intelligible to a modern audience than reading the Aeneid in Latin. Time changes all languages... and fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore.

Edit: that is, "meanwhile it flees: time flees irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail."
Zipkin Distributed Tracing Using Clojure
Something like Core War, but with more RPG (or possibly MOBA) elements?
Genetic programming Connect 4
I love this post. I work with engineers on a daily basis and the one thing I find so foreign is an unhealthy attachment to perfection, as if such a thing existed. The easy thing to do is deride someone. The hard thing is to reach out. Nice article written in support of a hard working guy. Upvote.
A few corrections:

- Yes, airplanes need more room for takeoff, but you don't need a dedicated airfield. Most streets would do fine, provided you don't have to scale nearby structures, such as tall buildings in NYC.

- You can fly airplanes autonomously too. In fact, because airplanes can coast without expending energy, they can fly much higher than multicopters which need constant power output to remain aloft.

- Tighter control of multicopters means they are easily maneuvered, but you can also take high-resolution images with airplanes.

- US regulations would restrict what a pilot can do in the US; regardless of where the craft was designed or manufactured.

- DJI appears to be based in China, but Parrot SA (AR Drone) is French and 3D Robotics (the company behind the open-source ArduCopter) is based in San Diego. So it's wrong to say the tech originates mostly from China.
I can't say I'm surprised though. bnoordhuis lacks tact; poke other people enough and eventually you'll get an angry mob. The parent article talks about learning, but glosses over that bnoordhuis' behaviour that set this all off isn't unusual for him. Learning? No. Class? No.

That said, this is a tempest in a teacup. bnoordhuis upsets someone again, news at 11.
you always have the option to not install those apps...
US film actor Paul Walker killed in car crash in California
Improving your fixed-width website with one line of CSS
I use pretty much the same setup:

http://screencast.com/t/qlSsmaUCp

I have controlplane set DNS to dnscrypt-proxy after any captive portal nonsense. (Opendns UI is slow and broken.)
While reading this I realized most of the times when I've been complimented for my smell, I was far from being perfumed – getting home after a busy day, arriving somewhere after having to run to catch a bus, things like that.
There was an article on BusinessWeek a while ago (I think it was posted here, not sure though) that discussed Upworthy's techniques and methodology: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-01/upworthy-goe...

'Manipulative slime' is pretty spot-on. Upworthy tries to change political viewpoints but it doesn't do it in most cases by presenting facts, by challenging assumptions, or by trying to elevate the level of discourse. Instead, it's all low-quality viral content, reshares, and stuff explicitly intended to induce warm fuzzies within its viewers first and foremost. From the linked article:

"One Upworthy post carried the headline “Watch A Preacher Attack Gay Marriage And Totally Change His Mind On The Spot” without mentioning that the entire speech was a hoax by the pro-gay rights preacher, who was making fun of the other viewpoint."
Japan Plans to Supply World's Energy via Solar Power Plant on Moon
POSH Donkey Kong Projector Wedding Cake
If you haven't read the reddit thread from within the last year then it certainly has a great amount of new information. In fact, I thought the reddit theory was a more compelling story than this article
Brace yourselves, the Fast and Furious puns are coming.
The cost inflicted by oil is measured in centuries. A year or two saved may not make a difference in terms of total lives lost:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/1...

Moving oil through the pipeline is bad, but it is less bad than moving by rail in light of the probabilities of human loss (though the spillage is likely to be bigger when there is an accident). At least there is an potential up of rail being freed up to move something else safer - like people.
Firms race to transmit Wall Street data at nearly light speed
Most of the new guidelines[1] are technical, but the one relevant the events of the last day or two is on line 78:

+* When documenting APIs and/or source code, don't make assumptions or make
+ implications about race, gender, religion, political orientation or anything
+ else that isn't relevant to the project.

[1]: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/39db22594df13e8423af3...
Ask HN: How do you get over "Writer's Block"
You have a weekend or two and no plans, how do you decided what to learn/do/create/etc?
It's either that or sharks with frickin' "LASER" beams attached to their heads...
Paul Walker (of Fast and Furious) is Dead
It's a little grey bell with an ugly and nonstandard menu attached to it. It showed up the other day on my machine and I had exactly the same rage reaction as the OP.

I ended up learning that you can go to chrome://flags and disable it—but not before Google had bitten another chunk out of my formerly positive feelings towards them.
Silk Road successor Sheep Marketplace users scammed of $40m+ in bitcoin
You're confusing the issue by taking it too personally. Use they because otherwise you are being sexist: no. Use they because it it is easy, will make some people feel more included, and otherwise has no significant effect: yes.

As to who is sexist and not, you can hardly determine from this issue alone. But were true motivations open for my examination, I'd want to look closely at that of folks who fight vociferously against the use of genderless pronouns. That doesn't mean they're sexist, but the lack of other reasons changes my estimate of that hypothesis.
Both Bollywood and Mangalyan are a distraction from the core issues, poverty being one of them. Why do people react to criticism that is inevitable for such a mission?

In my opinion, space probe to Mars is a good idea for space engineers and for the idea of adventure, it should be nurtured. But the moment the Indian Government a$$holes (who have eaten up more than 10000X that amount which a Mangalyan costs) and their media toots start projecting this achievement of engineers as their own "moment of glory" and a proof towards India becoming a global superpower, everything falls flat on the face.

There should be no doubt that poverty IS the biggest challenge for us (I am an Indian) to work on, and there are people with achievements in rural tech to help people over with just that. No space wizardry, just basic engineering. Heroism, inspiration and aspiration should be centred and drawn around those people too, India needs it more.
It would be neater if it piled up.
I think the URL was changed, it used to be this one if I remember correctly: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/inside_higher_ed/2013/11/...
I saw this post on the /newest page earlier today.
> And just how do "the rest of us" know if we have a weakened immune system?

You generally know if you're undergoing chemo, have AIDS, are pregnant, are over 50, etc. The provider administering will jog your memory, too.

> If the objective is to do good and save lives, why not give everybody the same "safer" flu shot as given to pregnant women?

According to Wikipedia, there's evidence it's more effective in young children. As with most medical treatments, there are risks and benefits that must be considered. The fact that it doesn't require a needle also has significant benefits, as fear of needles can be a barrier to vaccination.

By all means, continue the argument from ignorance and personal incredulity, though.
A Methodology for Studying DMT-Induced Alternate Reality
I did not get my PhD to get a teaching gig and I'm exactly where I want to be: a foot soldier in an industrial research lab (just please don't call Ballmer a druglord).

Who the heck wants to be a University President? I'm frankly surprised John Hennessy finds being Stanford president an interesting use of his time, but maybe I'm just naive.
I predict this could be more popular than Node.JS

Already has a good install base. Hardware is proprietary, but it is cheap. There are emulators/VMs to run on more commodity hardware. The demographic is young so it will have time to mature before enterprise adoption. It will be awesome.
I'm incredibly sad about his unexpected passing. One minute he's driving to a charity event his organisation set up and the next he is gone.

RIP O'Connor - you will live forever through your movies in the hearts and minds of fans worldwide.
My preferred solution is to give both the developer AND the user enough rope to hang both themselves and each other. IOW, give the developer lots of options, but give the user just as many options to override the choices of the developer. But then again, I use Linux and Android, so I just might be biased.
Why Vagrant?
At least it's configurable. You can disable it.
I think the article is missing a lot of context. What was the offending issue?
For those that don't know: a Bayesian optimization approach based on Gaussian processes has been implemented in Python by the author of that paper [0].

Here's a nice blog post with some information on some problems it can run into in practice [1].

[0]: https://github.com/JasperSnoek/spearmint
[1]: http://fastml.com/tuning-hyperparams-automatically-with-spea...
I have to disagree with your characterization of people in suburbs. The only anecdote of trusting behavior given in the article was of a rural farmer in an isolated area - and it was given in contrast to people from urban New York or New Jersey coming up and being amazed about it.

Here's another hypothesis - tribal or rural cultures will be more trusting by nature. Human beings are naturally paranoid but NOT of each other. If you are competing with other species and the environment for survival, it doesn't make sense to view your own species as a threat. Indeed, it benefits your family or tribe if you all cooperate. However, in densely populated urban environments, your competition is all human beings. If you are metaphorically eaten or taken advantage of, it will be by another human. It's much less likely in a city that you will die because of exposure, or weather or a wild animal. Thus, because the threat is from people, you must be more wary of people.

I'm not super confident about this of course - it's probably both simplistic and wrong on a few levels, but I think whatever the answer is, it's not just that urban people are trusting and rural people are paranoid.
Americans really have a bad sense of numbers. The ideal chart is basically impossible. How could the top 20% only own three times of wealth of the bottom 20%?
Except for the fact that there's no mass exodus to OS X. Market-share values have remained mostly stable for the past couple of years. This is more attributable to the amount of apps developed for the Mac as more developers switch to it instead of Windows machines.
Golang ORMs