skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insert a few chunks of quiet time in your workday. Mission accomplished.
There was a time in the 80s when you could pick up a TB-303 or a TR-808/909 for $20 -- nobody wanted them! The 303 didn't sound like a bassline. The 808 certainly didn't sound like actual drums. And the people buying them weren't classically trained musicians: they were dudes who liked the music and wanted to try it themselves.

There's a documentary I really like on the history of House music called "Pump Up The Volume," and it can actually be found entirely on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1HpY65cXDA -- it covers what some of the early genre originators were doing and feeling at the time. Generally they were just experimenting, as well as doing the "track -> venue/club -> evaluate" feedback loop so common in the origin of genres. However, I still think it's cool to hear them discuss their unique contributions to a style that would eventually grow far larger than they ever expected.

There are also some good books on the history of electronic music I can recommend, the best one being "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" http://www.amazon.com/Last-Night-DJ-Saved-Life/dp/0802146104...
A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe
With Seattle as the new capital (being roughly midway between Portland and Vancouver). A man can dream.
Perhaps we need a user script that places the N latest /new submissions at the top of the main news page?
I like and appreciate the fact that the Spotify people used the one guy's findings to improve security (for everything that uses Twisted!) rather than just throwing the legal system at him.
How to make $800/mo from three lines of code
Didn't know I had broken Boeing's patents several times now.

But that was on Kerbal Space Program, and it is called the "mun". Not sure if Boeing has grounds to sue in this case.
Curiously, the example photos don't demonstrate the obvious values of 4, 128, or 132. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(gesture)
That guy did another nice tutorial on a simple evolutionary algorithm and how to implement it to solve the travelling salesman problem. His explanations are useful for beginners like me.
Uphound: Monitoring Uptime. Communicating Downtime
The scripting language is the reason I'm betting on bitcoin in the long run. The scripting language lets you do so many interesting things with it (escrow, wills, and surely lots of things I can't envision).

Check out this video about bitcoin contracts which talks about the scripting language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mD4L...

Unfortunately, if I understand correctly, non-standard transactions are not accepted by most miners currently, which means the interesting things in the previously linked contracts video wouldn't work. This should improve over time as new transactions are proposed and added to the list of standard transactions. The bitcointalk forums, while having a lot of noise, also has interesting discussions about new transaction types.

Bitcoin combined with its scripting language is just too good of an idea to go away, and I think we'll start to see more interesting transactions within a couple years.

edit: Forgot to mention that everyone who is manic about bitcoin never even mentions the good ideas in the actual protocol, they only focus on the crazy price swings. Learning about the backing technology is the best way to feel confident about bitcoin's future.
Monitoring realtime web traffic
Okay, good for you, but both you and the GP are trying to force a false dichotomy.

I am saying that a legitimate work environment where everything is relatively sane and people are respectful can still be tremendously distracting when you need heads down time.
It's funny how 'older' articles submitted to HN get a second (third?) wind. Why? Why? Why? Is this a slow day?
Ask HN: RSS backend with  30 days retention?
After Google Reader went away I switched to Feedly, but they only keep 30 days of items (as did Google).

Does anyone know of an RSS backend that keeps more? Preferably 90+? And ideally with search functionality.
How do I filter posts about filtering posts?
"Normal" counting is unary (base 1, amount of fingers shown = number represented). Decimal would mean 10 states for each finger.
I agree with Yegge on this: I think the true strength and weakness of Clojure is its FP safety, which is probably great for many specific applications but comes across to me as needlessly ceremonious and conservative for typical applications.

I personally prefer something multi-paradigm like CL where I can happily use, for example, variable assignment (setf) and write "liberal" code.
Cool, here is another one I wrote few years back - http://www.amazedsaint.com/2008/01/neural-networks-part-i-si...
I've been meaning to make a habit of counting this way, but it's quite rare that I count using my fingers at all.
Well yeah, 3 lines of front end CSS. But there's a bit more back end logic that goes into it. But I do like the concept of relatively small yet profitable changes.
Actual paper is pretty interesting: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/hci/pubs/pdfs/FoodMood.pdf
If they're not voting, then they don't really care much about what stories they see.

It's not like creating an account is a laborious process on this site.
Cute:

It is possible to use anatomical digits to represent numerical digits[...]

Also, 8 and 23 are really difficult for me (and the left hand equivalents).
Those people probably had health insurance and did not pay out of pocket, their insurance footed the bill. I know someone who paid out of pocket for a delivery and I think they said it was around $12K.
Why doesn't HN have a layout for mobile browsers?
That's pretty cool! I'm not seeing any mention of Lode Runner on the main site or the original game page, though... it's a pretty obvious clone (that's not a complaint or jab, and it looks like you've made some cool additions), so it seems like a tip of the hat would be in order. Perhaps I missed it?
Your own immune system kills the common cold. That's the point :)
For many this is not an option: in crowded offices with no access control this is the exact problem.

I guess working extremely early and/or late is what some people fall back to after trying every other trick in the book (headset, ask people to stop interrupting when headset on, ask for a quiet ropm etc etc)
I think your definition of "creativity" is quite different to mine. I'd argue that the most creative musical process occurred long before any public performance, and that the creative part of acting occurs during the rehearsals while you flesh out the character and try varying how things are expressed. Obviously it's an overlapping area - there's plenty of improvised music which is created at the point of performance and lots of dramatic improvisation happening - however to consider just the moment of performance to be the "creative" part misses the bulk of the process.

It's also important not to forget that creativity isn't in any way limited to the arts. The Cleese talk resonated strongly with my experiences in both engineering design and theatre. The size of the windows for creativity and closed-mind work vary, but the underlying concept is the same.
My buddy just made this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unworthy/eboeobmfo... to do the same for Upworthy and Facebok.

It's reifying my desire to finish a Chrome extension I made a while ago that will blog any post on any "social" websites (HN would be one) that have certain keywords for certain periods of time.

That way, you could block live trends like "The Bachelor" you don't care about, or permanently block mentions of things you never want to see, or just temporarily "unfollow" someone.

I built the blocking but not the timing.

ANYWAY ENOUGH ABOUT ME this is cool. I like Bitcoin, will not use, but I'm 100% on board.
Oh, someone already addressed this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6863804 ;)
You mean like this?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/6/5184168/fda-approves-new-1...
Google docs can convert it.
I love to teach finger binary to kids but they always start giggling when I hit 4 and they never really ignore it :(
It can be whatever you want it. 10 states for two hands. Or take 8 fingers and you get a byte.
Yes, it's not only 3 lines, you need the code that adds the class to the elements

But it's an interesting analysis of value through the chain.

Whoever payed for the highlight, funnily enough is going to end up spending more since it's going to hire earlier than the others (in principle, on average)

But they expect the $50 to pay for itself on the longer term
Not professionally, but I owned one for about a year in the mid 1990's. It was sold simply because it didn't fit into the workflow easily. No MIDI, refused to sync to anything properly, weighs a flipton, the step keys were iffy and the worst bit is that the analogue side was crap i.e. it used to drift terribly after it got warm. Programming was pretty good though so i'll give it that.

Access Virus is a rip off. I had a KC and it was no better than a Novation KS6 at a fraction of the cost. Fortunately the scene I was in grew out of the Virus eventually. Not sure about a monotron - horrible sounding feepers. Seem to be trendy but not particularly musical.

I very much doubt many Stradivarius' are actually played. They are like art. The value is subjective. Personally I hate the whining things and would rather use them to smoke some cheese with (this is sarcasm) :)

For me, it's a matter of pragmatism. My Triton sounds pretty good (not too digital) and saves lugging a crap ton of kit around. If it doesn't do something, I'll sample something that does do it and I'm sorted.

NB I was a session keyboardist in the goth/industrial scene for a number of years (also known as unemployed student) so I have some professional experience.
Why?

The whole nature of this site is about stretching things beyond their limits.
Think about the absurdity of being sued for patent infringement if you were a pizza shop and your oven allegedly infringed on a troll patent. You didn't manufacturer the oven, why are you being sued?

The vendor's reputation is irreparably damaged by patent trolls who prey on customers due to the patent's apparent weakness. Sometimes corporations need justice too.
Drum pads. MIDI in. Interface sorted.

We're not in the 80's now and even in the late 80's a workstation was practical (think Korg M1). I mean Oldfield did pretty well with them and an ST.
How do stimulants relate to rising early? If anything, they might relate to needing less sleep, but that still only means you get up early if you go to sleep early.
The article author makes an important point. The value of your product or service to a customer often has little if anything to do with the prices and investments you made to create it.
Bashism
Bash has many features and for me has been useful to know because it's almost everywhere, but it was never designed to be what it has become. I'm working on escaping it forever with gherkin, a Lisp I wrote in Bash 4.

gherkin is still in its early days, but if you're interested in such a thing see https://github.com/alandipert/gherkin or join us in #gherkin on freenode.
Gold Plating Workflow - Gold Plating Asia
Here is an interesting book arguing for total abolition:

Against Intellectual Monopoly, Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, Professors of Economics, UCLA and Washington University, 2010, http://www.micheleboldrin.com/research/aim/anew.all.pdf
You can also half-bend fingers and use base 3, getting up to 59048, even though some numbers are somewhat complex to "form"
Mobile Hacker? Come work with the team that's reinventing farming
FarmLogs is on a mission to invent the future of farming, and we are looking for someone to join us in building our mobile apps. Agriculture employs over 36% of the global workforce and we want you to help build the app that will revolutionize it.

The average farm has vast amounts of underutilized data because they don't have the software tools to help them analyze it. We help farmers unify their data, and then extract meaning from it. We are giving farmers the technology they deserve.

If you want to work on real solving real problems for the industry that feeds the world and want to get in early at a YCombinator and VC backed startup, then this job is for you. Transforming the way farming works isn't going to be easy, but we think you will love the challenge. You will be joining our team of 8 located primarily in Ann Arbor, MI, and as an early employee, you will be rewarded with equity on top of salary. If you aren't already in Ann Arbor, we are willing to cover relocation costs or consider remote work for the right person.

Requirements:

-An in-depth knowledge of iOS and/or Android development

-Personal or professional work published in the app/play store

-A strong desire to constantly challenge yourself and learn

-Demonstrated ability to create clean, and, testable code.

-The experience to know when to throw that out the window and just hack ;)

Bonuses:

-Experience with offline caching and synchronization

-Familiar with basic AI and CV techniques

-Grew up on or have a connection to the farm

-Significant contributions to open source projects

-Proficiency with using git in a team environment

Email Jobs@FarmLogs.com to get the conversation started.
I use Fever[1] which is self hosted and lets you keep items up to 10 weeks.

[1]: http://feedafever.com/
Based upon the excellent comments to this, I made some usability enhancements --

-a tip telling you to select a gender

-the year will automatically start in a "play" mode (autoprogressing), starting at the first year with non-0 data. This should help those cases where people pull up results and think it is malfunctioning or otherwise not working because of a clear map.

-The autoprogress is clearly indicated by the color of the associated button.

Thank you all.
Clickbait on Hacker News: "How to make $800/mo from three lines of code"
Hacker News is the only upvote/downvote news aggregator I follow. I find that the Reddits, Buzzfeeds, and Mashables the world focus too much on getting clicks and shares. It creates a focus on something other than getting the truth out, negating the benefits that crowdsourcing news selection brings.

Could we all make a conscious effort to not upvote titles like the one that made the top of the page today?

Edit: typo
Is that headline generator from last week on the loose again?
On the other hand, I feel like I instinctively ignore blocks with a different coloured background because they appear as being ads, so it may actually produce the desired effect (by reducing the number of applicants).
do you mean quicksort?
That's a very programmer way of looking at it. People don't pay for highlighting, they are paying for more traffic from an ad. Ultimately, they are paying for all the other stuff on the website that gets people to show up, view ads and click on them. I guess the point is revenue != labor, but you should mention why this is possible in this case.
I use fish instead of bash, it is pretty awesome.
Two years of geek book reviews
An end of year book review post that got out of control. A list of decent book recommendations. Maybe you'll find something to pick up over holiday travel.
Ask HN: Help with survey about programmer job switches ($5 to charity for each)
I am doing some research about why programmers switch jobs.<p>I would appreciate the HN community's thoughts in this survey. I will donate $5 for each one to your choice of (Girls who Code, Watsi, Kiva or Heifer). I will post results somewhere and optionally email you if you want.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VGgNA7lUKZl3Anl0AVqfMzG8R7nKSOos9DnWlSB0Dqw/viewform
Clickable: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VGgNA7lUKZl3Anl0AVqfMzG8R7n...
This is how I taught my daughter binary when she was 6 years old. It stuck with her and is the one thing I taught her that I can point to as giving her confidence in math. When I was satisfied with her retainment, I bought her one of those, "There are 10 kind of people..." shirts. She still wears it.

She has yet to figure out why my wife and I laugh when she gets to 4.
Have you looked at the Dartmouth Atlas? They've been mapping healthcare costs for the last decade. Might have some good data and inspiration for you.
I am actually not a fan of academia.edu, they seem like the scribd/slideshare of academic research. They are another paywall speedbump in the free exchange if ideas. Whenever I hit their page I immediately look for another source.

If they had been more like stackoverflow and less like experts exchange ... but they are not.
SolarCity, Using Tesla Batteries, Aims to Bring Solar Power to the Masses
Wow, someone down voted me and took away that 1 karma I had, just because I agreed with this topic.
Not a bad idea in the geekier circles, but the idea of installing something that supports userscripts and then installing userscripts isn't an obvious step for many users, whereas Google pushes Chrome apps and extensions quite heavily as an easy thing to play with.
Ridiculous.

The heart of your complaint is that you don't agree what people are upvoting is 'good and great content' - either from not registering to vote, or by voting for things you don't like.

That is completely subjective and does not mean the 'system is broken'.
Clearly, this is something that people pay money for, and that counts for something. I never would, though. It looks like a losing game to me. Surely there are more interesting, compelling, inspiring ways to reach out to people?
There are probably a few profound lesson for aspiring entrepreneurs and developers somewhere in this find, beyond it's profitability.
It's pretty straightforward to work out what YC has that VCs need, and how little VCs have that YC needs.
Once again, we're having this pointless conversation because you argued upthread that Paul Graham is so terrified of venture capitalists that he represses you on Hacker News to appease them, so angry are they at your mean comments about them.

If Y Combinator can't place, it stops being the destination incubator with its pick of emerging startups. It loses the top talent and the brand. Yes, VCs would rather get along with Paul Graham than not, but the real power is with the VCs. If they stop funding YC startups and YC can't place, then it becomes just another crappy incubator.

Paul Graham needs the VCs a lot more than they need him. YC's only advantage is that it seems to get a disproportionate share of highly talented founders. However, VCs don't need more talent-- there's an ocean of untapped talent out there-- but everyone in VC-istan needs funding to play. Money is the scarce resource, not talent.

I respect what Paul Graham has achieved, or at least that he has achieved it. I prefer revolution over incremental improvement, but PG has succeeded on his own terms. However, don't kid yourself. If the VCs stop placing YC startups, he and Y Combinator are nothing in the Valley. If the leading VCs tell him to put the kibosh on inconvenient truths, he has no other choice.
Kies tussen deze verschillende soorten centrale verwarming
Cool, I was looking for a system to implement Ender's Game's 5-fingers keyboard. ASCII to hex to binary to finger binary!
And if everyone starts paying to highlight their ads, then those that don't pay will stand out.
Most of the code on the Lisp machine was compiled. An interpreter, which would evaluate source code was rarely used.
Coolest dad ever!
"Most of this overburdening is by choice because we all need to be productive, otherwise we will not feel like we are changing the world. Founders are reporting being depressed and having anxiety issues."

Grumpy gramps here.

Would like to point out that back in the day this was known as "keeping up with the Jones".

And had nothing to do with changing the world.

Just keeping up with the Joneses.

The big difference is way back you weren't really aware of the things that other people were doing other than your neighbors, some relatives, or people who hit it big enough to make it into the press. When I was growing up you heard about 1 billionaire, Howard Hughes. That was pretty much it. [1] Every now and then the local big city paper would run a story on a businessman that had done particular well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses

[1] Forgetting inflation and magic numbers ("1 billion") the press really didn't report on business people. And corporate execs made way less than they do today (even accounting for inflation).
I attended grad school at one of the most prestigious institutions that exists. After I finished my PhD, I mentioned to somebody I had attended there and it had taught me to do science well.

THe person I was speaking to looked at me funny and said, "Oh no. You went there to learn how to write grants that get funded, so that you can manage a lab that carries out the next set of experiments, so you can write grants that get funded.". They were right: the value of my training program was in how to get funded, so I could do research.

Some of us saw the writing on the wall (grant funding for biomedical sciences doubled in a short period of time in the early to mid 90s, which greatly increased the rate of minted PhDs, which dramatically increased competition for slowly growing faculty positions).

I looked around, evaluated my options, and left for industry. I never regretted it. i still collaborate with academia, and write papers and do research, but my compensation structure and the options I have vastly outweigh those has I stayed in academia and become a soft-funded researcher.

Ultimately if your goal is to do blue-sky theoretical research you're going to have to work very hard to succeed. Maybe it's possible to do good theory and also be good at grantsmanship. I honestly don't know. But I decided not to play that game: there are LOTS of options out there.

Don't be stubborn and insist on your blue-sky theory job. Instead, be realistic and figure out what you want to do, and how to obtain the time to do it.
No it's totally different, try actually playing the game.
Actually, without significant traffic volume which means customers willing to pay for highlighted listing the three lines of code would not by themselves produce $800/month in value. This is like saying that a movie theater can make $1,000 more in 2 seconds by changing the popcorn price. It's all about having a large audience first, then small changes can have a significant impact.
..and pricepain.com
Well, thank god you are back. No really, it was getting dull without the level of insightful and civilised commentary that you so clearly provide. Please tell us more about your Views. I mean, you must be an absolute genius of our time, otherwise there wouldn't so many folk who think that you have gone completely and utterly batshit, right? I'm sure that is how it works.
Well there is. Your immune system kills it. Thats what they are referring to here.
Even for OSX its kinda iffy as statements go. I think (been a while now) tcsh was the default for < 10.3, 10.3 was zsh and maybe 10.4, then it moved to /bin/bash as default shell.
I don't understand why it is currently #1 on HN. In newspapers it surely doesn't cost them much more to put your ad in bold. Probably less than a cent. But hell yeah they will charge in the thousands if the newspaper happens to be WSJ weekend edition real estate section.

Obviously, you pay for the amount of eye-balls seeing that ad. Changing the color may result in thousands of people more seeing the ad. The cost is in the know-how to get these thousands of eye-balls to see your content. Not for the color.

Without a platform as hugely popular as 37-signals the programmer could change colors all day long on his 'localhost:3000' and that wouldn't be worth $800. That would be worth $0.0.

The premise of the article is completely false.
It's a lot more than the 3 lines of code suggested. It's still very very small, only a few hours work, but it's not a 3 minute, 3 line change.

And in reality, that $50/month price may rise in order to keep the number of highlighted lines infrequent enough to still stand out.