skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Further, being paid $9.6mil/year as a CEO is exceptionally rare. $10.2mil of total compensation would have placed you in the top 100 out of the 100Ks (millions?) of CEOs world wide in 2012. $20mil would have placed you in the top 20.

http://www.equilar.com/ceo-compensation/new-york-times-top-1...
I wonder what all the non-tech job holders think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification

We should all know how good we have it. I know I'm making more money than I ever considered possible writing code and I know I love my job. What I want to read about is what happened to everyone who was in SF before this tech thing started and what's happening to all the people who are not part of the tech-wave & startup-parties.
All those coffee-shops, bars and restaurants that the tech-crowd hang out at; how are the employees of said places making ends meet? Do they live near their jobs? Does half their salary go to transportation to/from work? When I worked at Gamestop while in school, that was the case for me. Those were the days; a paycheck that was less than $400 =/ I really don't know how my co-workers who didn't live with their parents or going to college were living on that or what they're doing nowadays.

Speaking of which, https://foursquare.com/v/gamestop/4a29d524f964a520e4951fe3

How in the world can Gamestop afford that store on Market street? I walk by it almost weekly. Doesn't look very busy to me. What must the rent be there? How many games, consoles, controllers, etc. must they be selling a month to make that worthwhile? What are the employees salaries? Where do they live??!!!
Since everyone is doing it...

Entire field of particle physics is to switch from X window server to Mir
Google's Nexus 7 is now free forever
Thoughts on being a fucking joker
Eclipse launches new language to cut the crap

Anatomy of a 5pm Bedtime

Man Walks into a stuffed toy

Extracting Audio from Pictures of kittens for use as Paypal in 5 days

Why Education Companies Do Not Emulate These Oppressive Nations

Dear Programmer, I have seen the future of spam in Windows

Do Things that suck in AngularJS

SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop exploits?

Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes

Objective-C in The Rain, Spray Yourself With This

Why Japanese Web Design is Horseshit

John Carmack: Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites

The Horrible Future of Markdown
Awesome! Can't help but add a few of the most hilarious it gave me:

How I Became a Billion Dollar Company
Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Family
MPAA Publicly Threatens to Stop Writing REST API Clients
Get-shit-done - Easy way to write a single DMCA notice
Linux To Become A Better Twitter Bootstrap
Government: we can solve a problem with Vim
Tower.js - JavaScript library for creating Windows 8
Why I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to acquire Nokia
If all of the phone components/hardware came in a ready to build box, I would definitely follow the instructions and give this a shot. Otherwise, looks like a lot of overhead just trying to gather all the parts together. Cool nonetheless.
Now someone must make a Go interpreter written in JavaScript, so you can JavaScript while you Go while you JavaScript while you ...
The one you quoted is a real title.

http://www.informatica.md/node/77679
> "Piracy is theft, clean and simple," remarked vice-president Joe Biden at the time.

It is interesting how we have accepted the term "piracy" already and are equating it with theft. Copying software is neither "piracy" nor "theft", it is a copyright violation. We should call it such rather than dramatizing it with these terms.
Some of the older data (2009) is available on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/commoncrawl
But you are making the choice to share it or not. And despite the claim in the article in the OP about TOS agreements, they are as legally binding as other long pieces of documentation out there, including gaming license agreements, leases, employment agreements, loan agreements, credit card contracts, and more. Laziness is not a valid excuse.

And self-censoring is present even if this weren't the norm, and to a degree I'd say should be the norm. For example, a lot of the trashy comments you see in places like 4chan or reddit - those comments are the type that should be censored in most venues, and even those trashy comments have the effect of censoring dissenting views due to overaggressive expression of views by the posters of the trashy comments. Even a place like here, you have self-censorship occurring in the form of people fearful of making certain comments over the threat of downvoting. I don't think that this is a strong line of argument.
> "I took the top 10 daily posts for the last 3 years from Hacker News Daily (sorry about the few thousand wgets last night!)"

I believe you could HNSearch API (https://www.hnsearch.com/api) and that would not impact the website performance
Jolla uses Yandex.Store instead of Google Play. See http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/13/jolla-yandex/
How long until we stop targeting bacterial cells and start targeting healthy human cells? I'm surprised no one's commented yet about the weaponization prospects for these polymers.
Some People Can Run 18 Static Sites on a soaring eagle [video]
Extracting Audio from Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your browser
A Hacker's Replacement for Gmail users
Too scared to write a Linux Server
Stuxnet is now hosted on GitHub
If BI is 1000, that 1200 paying job will become a 200 paying job... I just can't see where's the incentive to work. Who wants a 200 paying job when you get paid 1000 for just breathing ?

You've got it backwards. The incentive is not to work, the incentive is for employers to offer market value for their wages. When people have the power to choose not to work, the market will have to adapt. If nobody wants a 200 paying job, the pay will have to go up.

The current system we have forces people to work unfair wages just to support themselves. Basic income will make it a competitive, voluntary labour market.
"You have to have something to sell" - so true. One of my side projects, coffitivity.com, had millions of of users and was a Time Magazine top 50 website of 2013, but it wasn't until we made something to sell (our apps, which for a while we sold) that it clicked in our heads what this could mean: if we had things we could sell, even if they weren't the primary thing we were doing, we could make EVERYTHING we do better, because we'd have more time to spend on it.

We've moved to free to get our app downloads up in prep for an IAP model (which, so far, is very much on track), but having something to actually sell was a game changer for us. I know we're not writers, but niche website publishers have the same "have content people like but am not making money" problem, since ads blow and aren't particularly lucrative.
Acronym for "The Fucking Article" although in this case the 'a' is an advertisement.
Pac-Man was designed as a game for humans, with a priori knowledge of what kinds of things humans find rewarding. Thus the goal is obvious because it was designed to be similar to other human goals. Eat the food, don't get eaten. For this reason, it's not at all special that humans can determine the goal of the game.
> But that is mostly a problem because incremental compiling in C++ is difficult for well-known reasons. Incremental compiling is well-supported in many other languages (e.g. Java) and is usually very fast. So, the issue of compilation time is IMO overstated by Go proponents.

Actually, chromium's ninja [0] build setup [1] is really awesome, and does what it can with incremental building, but it's obviously limited in what it can do, it doesn't seem to take very much to trigger a very big rebuild. It's a definite help though.

[0]:http://martine.github.io/ninja/
[1]:https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/NinjaBuild
So.... every Mt. Gox transfer now costs USD $1? And may cost USD $2 tomorrow?
The best one I got was "Aisle50 (YC S11) is a valid ipv4 address"
The Jolla phone – first impressions
- Question for PG: Where do you work?

- Things I Wish I Had Been Given

- GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X Mouse Annoyances

- Why it is awesome to be inflated in seconds

- Show HN: I really need your money

- Why two spaces after a takedown?

- I'd like to skydive through a mountain

- Why I still don't contribute to an asshole
This is a bit of an exaggeration. The prices were pretty high and the people weren't all that knowledgeable. And there's another similar market right across the street that's twice as large.
Slate - Visualise the structure of a spreadsheet - now on Kickstarter
Show HN: Everything you want to buy online, for much lesser
This is pretty great, but I'm surprised there's not more RandomLibraryName.js or .io.
Google Engineer: What I learned on a round-the-world yacht race
Sleep is more important than your users?
Ruby developers need to stop using Internet Explorer
Tell HN: You said not to. So I quit my job and launch a startup
I Up Vote Every 'Show HN' Post and You Should Be Very Worried
Turn your browser into a notepad with one line of Ruby
I don't know how to IE6
frankly, in the world, people are using scala instead.

however, i have to differ with you completely regarding scala being easier to read. as someone who regularly works with scala code i find it incredibly difficult to read in comparison to clojure. Lisp syntax is different from what most people are used to but is very simple; scala looks more like the syntax that people are used to, but is deceptively quite different, and is quite complex.
No, the government came and said you can't use gold or silver to trade Skittles, because neither material is a convenient medium of exchange (which is unarguably correct).
That entire article made me angry like when I hear about creationism and evolution being taught as equal theoretical concepts.
Right now "ockhams" is trending with 17 mentions and "razor" is trending with 15 mentions.

Does that mean that someone just said "ockhams" twice?
LIVE: Epic moment as Comet ISON rendezvouses with destiny
What is wrong with a fixed header?

Isn't it more convenient than scrolling back to the top of the page to access important links?

The only possible issue I can think of is if screen space is limited.
Aspect Oriented Programming intro
Could you give an example of practical impact on life of person who chose to believe in creationism?
In the section "How did they find me?": Didn't they find you because of the token you used?
If there's not a bug in the app, then yes.
Thanks for a much needed laugh. This one was my favorite: "Microsoft releases tool for humans"
> lose your benefits

An unconditional basic income should include enough money to pay health insurance yourself.
...or selling a shortcoming as a feature.

If you want to be nitpicky, it's not that Go is selling a shortcoming as a feature. It's more that it simply doesn't have that feature.

Go also has a number of other features pcc doesn't.
I meant to crack private keys, it will eventually become viable to spend resources researching/developing an attack vector to break those abandoned wallets. Migration to better cryptos will certainly happen, but remember that the lost wallets won't be upgraded, because they're, well, lost.

Making them invalid would be self-defeating to bitcoin, but it's not bitcoin's fault that some day abandoned wallets will become breakable, there will never be an everlasting bullet-proof encryption, and my point is: It won't happen tomorrow, it may take tens or hundreds of years, but it will certainly happen.
Same here...localbitcoins was very easy.
true, I have not realized that
Blaming tech workers for misguided public policy is the kind of awful thinking that drives votes that leads to bad public policy.

I'd like to see HN do better.
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For extra context, this was (originally, I think) used on /. because people would comment without reading the articles. The 'fucking' is used to communicate annoyance that it wasn't read in the first place.

An example, for this article:

OP: "Yeah, there's a lot to be thankful for, but I get delayed out of SFO because of fog almost every flight."

Reply: "TFA actually has a chart that shows that flight delays due to weather are not a problem, at least compared to other cities."
1. 3.8.0.2 fixed a logical error in the code. High-level language won't help you if you invert a logical condition or commit some more subtle logical mistake.

2. Our software also needs to be fast. No one needs a slow database engine. There is no high-level language that beats C on tasks like writing sqlite.

3. Finally, show me that unicorn high-level language with strong, automatically provable invariants and one piece of widely used, reliable software that was written in it.

Sqlite works. Testing works.

If there actually was a credible alternative to C for writing software that is efficient and reliable with requirements that sqlite has, I can assure you that people would use it. The problem is: it doesn't exist.
>The classic example being a single mom who, while working, and paying child care, makes less than on welfare.

It can be worse that this.

At least in some states, every dollar you earn is deducted (at least in part) from your welfare checks. This was at least the case a while ago; I couldn't vouch for its truth today after welfare has been "reformed" several times. It was definitely true at one time, though.

When this was true, at the very least, it was a severe disincentive to working, since until you were able to make more than your welfare check, you would be at best be making pennies on the dollar by taking a job.
> > Fiat currencies only end if the issuing entity ceases to exist or abandons them

> I'm curious - can you point to one example of this happening?

Obvious, clear, and fairly recent examples include all of the European currencies that were retired in favor of the Euro.

> To my knowledge they've all gone to zero in a hyperinflation but I'd love to know of a counterexample.

A number have been abandoned (and often replaced by a new currency with the same name) by the issuing state in the face of inflation (often not even at the level typically labelled "hyperinflation"), but the nature of the "fiat" in "fiat currency" essentially assures some minimal residual value as log as the issuing state remains functional as a state and does not abandon the currency.

E.g., the pre-1993 Mexican Peso was withdrawn and replaced by the New Peso after a long period of double-digit annual inflation, but it neither "went to zero" (prior to being withdrawn) nor suffered hyperinflation (monthly inflation >50%.)
I want to see the list things San Franciscans should NOT be thankful for. Let me think of some things:

1) crazy high rents

2) lots of homeless people

3) urine smell every where

4) horrible parking and traffic

5) foggy cold summers -- maybe a plus in your book
This piece is incredibly myopic and somewhat appalling. A more appropriate title would be "Things affluent tech workers should be thankful for."

The list doesn't offer any sort of context for the numbers presented, nor does it demonstrate causality in any way, shape, or form. In all likelihood, the reason that life is so good in SF is that all the people for whom life is difficult have been forced out of the city or into homelessness by entitled, privileged tech workers.

In my opinion, there is no reason to be thankful for gentrification. Gentrification destroys cities, and is responsible for the wholesale homogenization of culture. If you are thankful for the state of affairs in SF, you are part of the problem.
I feel like it's a bit harsh to blacklist you without a takedown warning.
Urban Dictionary agrees with /. as the source but derived from RTFM -> RTFA -> TFA which makes sense:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA
If you like Astrid Lindgren, you're my friend. :)
Ah, yes that would be another way!
My favorites, almost too good to be fake:

- A conversation between two chatbots and how one found out the other company has bigger monitors

- Amazon and the adults who get upset about Sparrow’s acquisition

- Orin Kerr: Why I Quit My Job to Start the Rest of My Todo List

- How to handle 1000s of concurrent users on a cube-shaped planet

- My Name Is Me - Supporting your freedom to drink coffee

- 15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by node.js + socket.io

- Nobody's Going to Get Good at Making Money

- Airbnb Has Arrived: Raising Mega-Round at a $1 billion fraud

- Microsoft launches an HTML5 game. I finally understand why I'm not going to steal a Russian airport
Everything should happen in under 3 seconds. Once you get past that threshold, you get a qualitative change in development style.
> I agree, and I'll be hugely surprised if some enterprising individual doesn't solve the friction soon.

This is one of the upsides to Bitcoin IMO..much more innovation is possible with something like Bitcoin than the current financial system.
Entirely misses the point. The original document was discussing the problem of text normalization, which still remains.

If I have a database of employee bios and I write an app so HR can search that database, it's no problem for them to type in "management" and get a list of all employees with the word "management" in their bio. But when a division does the same thing in a non-English-speaking country where there's an é in the word, then that word can be composed of either two characters or one and searching one way will tend to miss any results which were composed of text the other way. The solution here is to normalize the data before it is stored in the DB and the search term before it is searched for.

It's a simple concept. Not all programmers are aware of it, however, and this guy totally missed the point.
I was responding to pmtarantino that his

History made in under 1K of javascript

was made via a combination of the (real) post title

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

and the (real) post title "whatever in 1kb of javascript" (there are many posts with that format of title).
My intuition says that the storeowner has no reason to accept. I think what a lot of the merchants are doing is using 3rd party processors, basically just saying "Fine yeah I'll take it" as long as a Bitcoin buyer is already lined up (which is essentially what a 3rd party exchange functions as). That way they get cash less transaction fee.

But really even if they accept Bitcoin for 4 melons that doesn't mean they have embraced Bitcoin. It is just a credit to the power of Bitcoin's infrastructure that the trading network is there to accept the coins, no?

That's my biggest worry. Bitcoin culture seems to believe that at a certain point all individuals will give up resistance and embrace/adopt Bitcoin, whereas there are many many barriers standing before that and I believe it is only the trading network that is strong. However, I do not believe Bitcoin is a stock, so I'm not sure what it is.

What do you think, sir/madam phaemon?
Are you using Lucene or Elastic search for indexing words?

I would be great to read about your project more.
Minimum withdrawal amount is eur 500
fee 1%, minimum fee = eur 100

100 EUR fee for a bank transfer? that's insane.
>don't realize that they appended to be surrounded by

autocorrected, should have been:

>don't realize that they happen to be surrounded by
6) poop in addition to urine

7) public transportation that goes on strike several times a year

8) 2) except with untreated mental issues due to lack of UHC and others
Seems to me that if you have a clump of )))), you should refactor that into individual functions instead. This would be akin to having a 500 line Java method.

There's really no excuse not to, since refactoring functional code tends to be as simple as taking a node in a tree and moving it out.
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Federal Prosecutors, in a cellular automata on an RC truck and saves the lives of 6 soldiers
Filter out words that are less than 3 characters maybe?
There have been a few trials of related things on a small scale. Certainly nothing approaching the amounts or number of people in the Swiss proposal.

Some instances here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax#Implementat...
Why do we celeberate christmas in detail?
Section "Resources" of the post you haven't read ?
It added the "in 2012" bit, which caused it to slip through my duplicate detector. I am trying to think of a better duplicate detector. Right now it just checks if it is an exact match or substring.
You misunderstand. Rossi is the troll. Buying the device encourages him.
http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/
Democrat State Sen. Fred Risser wants to ban gay conversion therapy
Well, there's the large-purchaser effect when the purchased good is privately-offered health insurance, and the large purchaser effect when the purchased good is actually health care services. Aside from the effects of the non-discrimination requirements which shift costs from the older and less healthy to the young and healthy, the ACA model increases the number of people that can benefit from large-purchaser group rates on insurance -- its almost certainly less efficient than single-payer overall still (as, for that matter is Medicare, which hasn't been single payer for decades, due to Risk HMO / Part C / Medicare Advantage plans, which are actually make it very similar in model to the ACA except with a public option.)
Here's the best ones I got:

"Our office is too slow for programming"

"E17 is out after many years in jail, the Internet from the Other Side"

"Jack Dorsey: Today Starbucks Signed up for Stallman"

"Everything you need to stop fixing bugs in PHP"
Well not really because the "do one thing well" leads to shell scripting where you join together dozens of separate tiny programs. Shell scripting is not exactly fast, nor is it robust.
http://kaaes.github.io/work_from_cafe/humans.txt

keep up the good work!

pozdrowienia ;)
People applying to YCombinator should adopt your approach.

"Of course our startup is user-unfriendly! We hate users! People should just get used to it."

And your goal (after precautions!) of "not losing everything" - wondrous! Every day I wake up and I haven't lost everything is a good day.

This revolutionary approach will certainly succeed.
No, it's nothing fancy. It's just your standard Rails app. It saves a record for each word found along with time data, then runs queries grouping by word count and filtering between now and whatever time you choose. I'm sure that's a naive implementation and the app could certainly be optimized.

I could open source it if you really want to take a look.
doctors prescribing antibiotics to everyone for everything (to no fault of their own - because of patient demand)

This happened when resistance wasn't well understood. I don't think it happens nearly as much now. I've had doctors tell me "antibiotics won't help what you have, stay in bed and you should feel better in a few days"
There's a lot more to both sex-positive and sex-negative discourse than their opinions on pornography, and even those opinions are generally more nuanced than 'fine' versus 'has issues' (the pervocracy blog's ongoing excoriation of fifty shades of bad consent is an example of sex-positive critique, to my mind).

I'd note also that I didn't intend to call your words shrill moralising; any offence involved was supposed to be directed only at Gail Dines' writing style.

I think ... mostly I think that an HN comment thread isn't going to be nearly an optimal vehicle for the relatively deep discussion I think we'd need to have just to get as far as having a shared set of terminology with which to debate things. If you think that it's worth continuing to try, mst at shadowcat.co.uk will reach me and we can take it from there.