skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been taking a break from most of my general open source work. I do a little bit here and there, but not as much as I used to.
LOL sexism

Has it not occurred to you that no straight male who can get a date is ever going to use this? It's virtually guaranteed to annoy a gentleman's lady friend and ruin breakfast. The only market for this is adolescent boys. Maybe you could get it featured in something like Maxim magazine, but otherwise your audience is limited.

Ironically, there's probably a larger market for this sort of thing among women who would enjoy a suave male voice with an interesting accent.
For small mobile device, maybe. However, this project is for laptops, and laptops don't charge themselves over USB, nor will they any time soon.
Yes, sorry, I got it backwards. Thank you.
This is a great example of misaligned expectations. She seems to think that developers are just as passionate about her startup idea as she is, be they aren't, even though they might say it. For these developers is just another job. By simply paying people and giving then a "task" to perform you don't create an intrinsic involvement. This is why you need a technical co-founder.

By the way, the "posse.com" that's up there now is already a pivot from the original idea which was something with bands and music etc, can't remember.
I'm really interested in this phenomenon. Can anyone recommend/does anyone know of other articles, essays, or books on the subject?
I agree with your ideas in spirit but the implementation would be complicated. Could you think about how to distill this down to the simplest, least invasive thing we could possibly try first?

(Better to continue this conversation at hn@ycombinator.com.)
I didn't think about trying this. With your example, the results appear to be all from the same web page, but that is an illusion, it's just the search engine returning first the results for which the letter case matches. On the third page of results, the URLs are back to be a bit less related. I am wondering if a specific id refers to a portion of someone's browsing history.
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My working theory: Safari Mobile bypass. Google's way of getting around Apple's anti-tracking/anti-3rd party cookies in iOS.

Edit: Nevermind. Looks like an Adsense thing.
My ability to play Starcraft well may have peaked at 24, but the leaps and bounds in my intelligence/acuity/personal development began at 24.

Edit: above comment based on OP's original headline
Suicide rates are about 17.7 per 100,000 for men and 4.5 per 100,000 for women, and 11.3 overall. There are about 535,000 male physicians in the U.S., and 234,000 female physicians, and 66,000 of unreported gender. So the expected number of suicides would be 113 rather than 300.
The OED has a draft entry (2002) for "in the zone" that says its origins are chiefly US sport. Its earliest citation is a 1976 San Francisco Chronicle article about tennis:

Tennis players speak reverently of the mystical atmospheric condition known as ‘The Zone’ Passing shots chip away at the lines, first serves pop in and mistakes simply don't materialize.

The next citation is from 1990, and refers to the more general creative sense.

Performers, surgeons, or creative artists..find that most important parts of their lives occur when they are ‘in the zone’.

Source is the New Age Journal. Notice how it is no longer capitalised.
Certainly HIPAA is far more trouble, and every example I can think of, of regulation being passed in haste in response to witch hunt, has been awful. I'm thinking of stuff like Sarbanes-Oxley or Dodd-Frank. Neither of these did much in terms of their stated goals, but they have created a bunch of problems as unintended consequences.
You can't pretend like zero-confirmation transactions have never been useful. They have been used in practice for small amounts, many times, with no issues, and this system obviously changes things.
You'll find this is happening in many industries. Despite that it lowers productivity and increases costs.

The problem is that management is filled with perverse incentives. It looks good on the books to have fewer employees - until you realize you have highly trained specialists spending hours per week working on paperwork or rushing their actual job and increasing long-term costs.
These URL's have apparently existed for over a year [1]. The author of that SO question says the links are external to his site.

If you're reading this and you have access to web traffic logs from a fairly popular website, see if anyone is visiting your URL's with this query parameter, then post the referring URL here.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14696073/visitor-using-ur...
I refuse to accept that playing Startcraft is comprehensive measure of my brain's performance.
And/or they're pushed to do so.
Squarespace raises $40M, which is as much as it plans to spend on ads this year
Not to sound pedantic, but three times a day is not realtime. In the United Kingdom at least, transferring money from one bank account to another at the same bank is instant (pretty much sub-second) transaction and from one bank account to another at a different bank is generally processed within fifteen minutes, nearly all UK banks support Faster Payments[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service
I am hardware engineer in this industry. And I know Haskell and made my site with Haskell language. But I do not understand why Haskell is used to hardware design.

Designing hardware is much more important than describing hardware logic itself. IMO, VISIO and Excel are the tools to design hardware logic not Verilog nor like this CLaSH.

But, If this kind of HDL can be used along with Verilog, it might be helpful to build verification IPs.
Stripe is trialling faster transfer schedules for US-based users, meaning you'll get your money in two business days instead of waiting one week.

If you'd like to be part of the beta, you can visit https://manage.stripe.com/faster-us-transfers and if you're US-based, you'll automatically be registered to participate in the beta. We're incrementally adding users to the beta, so we'll let you know as soon as you've been added.

(I work at Stripe.)
It depends heavily on the individual person. People who have a negative unconscious self-image respond more strongly to shame, insult, and embarrassment, because it confirms their self-image and resonates with how they see the world. Every time something negative happens, it confirms their worldview and pushes them further into cynicism.

People who have a positive self-image respond more strongly to victory, pride, and altruism, because it resonates with how they see the world. If someone tries to shame or insult them, they remove themselves from that person's presence, or shrug off the insult by recognizing that other person as trying to discharge his own emotional hurt on other people.

The interesting thing is that both worldviews are self-reinforcing. The latter kind of people typically refuse to work with the first, because why would you put yourself in a position where you're listening to someone who only understands shame, insult, and embarrassment? As a result, positive people tend to work only with other positive people, and negative people tend to work with only other negative people (this usually manifests itself as scheming and backbiting, as few folks have the courage and social-ineptness to be negative to one's face). Their worlds and experiences become congruent with their worldviews, which just confirms the worldviews in the first place. That's why psychologists often say that negative fears often cause themselves to come true: they make you act in a way that pushes away positive experiences and attunes you to negative ones.

It is possible to shift between worldviews, but this is often psychologically traumatic for the person involved and involves some sense of crisis. Going from negative to positive, the catalyst is often psychotherapy, a strong mentor, or having a core value (like a child's well-being) threatened. Going from positive to negative, the catalyst is often economic, being trapped with a bad boss or in a bad relationship because you lack the means to leave. Teachers and parents are taught to focus on positive emotions because they effectively are the ones to start the cycle off, and children are trapped in their care. It's not really that children innately respond better to one or another, it's that the way you treat them primes them for what sort of reinforcement they will accept later on in life, and so if you want children who naturally respond to and offer positive reinforcement, you should model that early on.
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Huh.

Right when wisdom and perspective start emerging...
That number is already shown on W-2s and copied to the tax return. I guess it's easier to not care about the number than it would be to not care about a check.

One thing that would happen is that a lot more people would come up short at tax time.
Squirrel is also high up on that list.
Not sure how PayPal could be faster - money is transferred instantly to my bank account after receiving it through PayPal. Is that a UK only thing?
Csíkszentmihályi termed the concept "flow" because in his interviews in the mid 1970s lots of people used water metaphors, of being borne along by a current, to describe their experience of the state.
Of course, as they are few and far between, it's pretty hard to find them.

Correct. I realize that I'm painting with a broad brush. There are good MBAs out there (I know some).

The problem is that quality business people are so incredibly rare in tech that you see a "49er" dynamic (4s thinking they're 9s, because of the disparity). Talent should trade at a premium to connections in any forward-thinking society, but unfortunately we live with the reverse of that.
Indeed. Imagine what a competent attacker could do with access to the firmware developer or distribution environment. http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1
I like you. Isn't suicide also extremely rare among adults with more than a bachelor's?
The core objection here seems to be that a dozen people have foolishly volunteered (or been manipulated) into a long series of death marches. It's painful to see so many young people exploited so severely. After enough years, it could lead to burnout, or perhaps, a life and death situation. Is there anything that fills you with rage?
In California, married couples pay no capital gains on the first $500,000.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/avoid-capital-gains-t...

And the transfer tax doesn't hold a candle to the lost property tax revenues on, say, 30 years of ownership.
In general, anything to the south/east of 280 is not a very desireable place to live. Less safe, farther from things, less nice houses etc. That's generalizing of course, but its much more of a lower- and working-class area, and not where young tech people typically want to be living.
My Acer netbook comes with a lightweight but still bulky-as-fxxk charger...
Tom Hawkins is probably around here somewhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(programming_language)
Yes. In Poland it takes 3-4 days for the funds to actually arrive in my bank account when sent from paypal.
The women's version of this app exists already.
...and the last time I checked, Tokyo real estate is amongst the most expensive in the world. Which was my point.
Performance in terms of raw speed, maybe, but my cognitive abilities as they are today really only started when I was in my mid-to-late 20's. Speed is no substitute for skill and perspective, which I have learned the hard way many times.

Plus, countless other studies have shown that our "soft skills" (crystallized intelligence) like communication, general knowledge, vocabulary, leadership, inter-personal relations, etc. improve BEGINNING at age 25 and continues growing well into our 60's. I have found this particular intelligence to be of far more value in business than the "speed" of my youth ever was.
I don't have a citation handy, but it's my understanding that doctors attempt suicide at a rate less than the general population but when they do make a suicide attempt they are more likely to succeed.
Whatever kickstarter was meant to be it is clearly being used for nothing more than preorders far in advance and you don't even have a guarantee you will ever get the product you preorder. In exchange for that risk and tieing up your money for such a long time before the product is available you possibly get a product that might not otherwise exist. The truth is you don't really know if it wouldn't have existed without kickstarter or not.
Yes. Professional headline writers regularly exaggerate these things. It's a subgenre of linkbait.

The HN guidelines call for changing a title when it's misleading or linkbait. I rewrote this one accordingly. Suggestions for further improvement are welcome.

User comments that suggest more accurate, less baity titles are often helpful in cases like this. We're working on a bit of software to make it easier for people to suggest title (and url) changes. It should be ready soon and we'll do a Tell HN post about it.
It's weird; I grew up in a San Jose suburb and never once heard of San Francisco referred to as "the city" or "The City". I heard "Frisco", of all things, and "SF", but never "the city".

I have no idea what changed.
Google glass doesn't look like a risky bet.It seems pretty safe to start with the workplace market and go from there.

If a consumer market appears due to all the people playing with glass, google would have decisive advantages: the best "workplace" appstore(and the best device for dual use), a lot of development invested in the product, large developer community , brand and volume.

And if a consumer market won't appear, the workplace businesses seems pretty big.
You're correct -- Stripe self-imposed the seven-day delay early in its development.

While we may have chosen the seven-day delay, there are still a number of real challenges in moving to a faster transfer schedule. For example, we need to make sure funds are received from our banking partners in time to transfer them to our users.

(I work at Stripe)
Ssh has set back the computing landscape 20 years. Why oh why the tty?

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ssh
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How about not requiring personal data when it's necessary anyway, and removing it as soon as it isn't necessary anymore? If I buy a LaCie drive in a brick-and-mortar store and I pay with cash, there is exactly none of my personal data there to be stolen. I don't see why this shouldn't apply to my online purchases. In fact, I'm quite annoyed that it doesn't apply at all.
If by volatile you mean "don't use volatile for this" and "use std::atomic", then I agree completely!
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I am applying for funding to develop a more comprehensive educational application. Hopefully the success of the game will give my application some extra clout.
Or at least they're seeking to avoid having to have execution traders on staff who can manage their order flow.
From the limited amount of VHDL I did in my Digital Design class at my university, I found hardware description similar to functional programming. State is expensive to represent in hardware (you need latches, flip-flops, etc), and so VHDL's concept of signals is similar to constants, and components map well to pure functions. With an intelligent enough compiler, I think this is totally feasible.

From a more short-term practical standpoint, no, I don't expect anyone to use this. Hardware engineers are incredibly stubborn when it comes to software. Their work typically involves large time investments with lots of costs and risks. For better or worse, they typically don't ever want to add more risk by using an "untrusted" tool, creating a chicken-and-egg problem.

In the second paragraph, the author admits that there's not yet a good way to represent a recursive algorithm in his language. I think this is more of a proof-of-concept that could eventually become useful.
It's a recording of his session. You can speed it up the using the controls on the left to see stuff happen faster.
Good idea. Checked the logs on a high traffic website. And indeed, there are GET requests with the _sm_byp parameter. No referrers. But the user agent is "Mediapartners-Google". Also the IP is from Google. So either a bot from google added the parameter on its own, or it found it in the wild.
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The biggest problem is just the AMA. They limit the number of doctors in America, so there are just too few. This drives up the salaries for the few doctors who live the tell the tale (but certainly don't want to go into primary care, when other more lucrative jobs are on offer), and drives up the hours for everyone.

Making it easier to become a doctor would improve things immediately (especially given the recent research that makes it clear that nurse practitioners do just fine).
>Q: How likely is it to undo my transaction
A: The likelihood is approximately the same as the percentage of mines using bitundo. Right now, this is pretty low.

If I understand correctly, the time left doesn't really matter. It should be totally dependent on their share of hashing. If undoing requires them to pick the winning nonce, it should be much like a lottery (your chance at any given time depends more on your share of purchased tickets more than anything else).

And if that's the case, this seems like a pretty pointless service. Until they get a large share, it won't work the vast majority of the time. And even when they do get a large share, undoing still won't work most times.
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This article is "OK". I wish it was ordered differently. My complaint is it spends wayyy too much time on heuristics (2nd page) before it discusses the implementation (3rd page). I think it's important to get an overall idea of what the algorithm is before you focus on the minute details of a part of it. Plus, when it discusses the implementation, it doesn't spend enough time explaining it.

I found this video more helpful initially: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTx6HQ9Veas
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I used the right word for her attitude. There are probably 10 usages of "bitch" and some are gendered and legitimately offense, while others are not. (I've called men "bitch" before.) This use of the word "bitch" means "mean-tempered person with unearned wealth or social standing". It's not gendered. You could use it on an ill-tempered male trustafarian and it would work.
For those of you with institutional access: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v508/n7495/full/nature1...
Friendly warning, the article quotes Malcolm Gladwell uncritically.
Ask HN: Would my idea be worth developing?
For the longest time I have been wanting to develop an idea of mine which basically consists in a system that works as a "message broker" or "message proxy" that would take a message from a source and redistribute it to any number of other messagig systems (SMS, twitter, etc.) The main implementation that I had in mind was to distribute offers, discounts and publicity to subscribers in any way they chose.

The issue is that I have no idea if this has been done before or if there is a similar system out there, I also don't know if this would be profitable and in case of developing it what would be the best technology to use, I'm thinking of using either Ruby or Python or even node.js as I want it to have a RESTful API for easy integration with other systems.

What do you guys think?
I was all set to argue, but apparently the Internet's grammar nazis agree with you:

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/17423-Rule-for-cap...

Geographic regions should be capitalized when they refer unambiguously to only one place. A capitalized "the City" implies that "the City" only refers to San Francisco, which is pretty pompous to many other people around the Globe.

If this were a Bay Area-only forum, however, it would be justified, as "the City" is pretty unambiguously SF within the Bay Area.
Any time I come across that makes me respect CMU more, I'm uncomfortably reminded of their continued association with the SEI and CMMI. Yes it came out of CMU, yes it's a cash cow, yes things like healthcare.gov show how CMMI compliance are crucial to creating quality software. Okay yeah the last thing not so much.

Seriously, it's marketing snake oil and its creating wasteful barriers to entry for companies thinking of creating innovative user-friendly government software. And it can't die fast enough. I know its probably not high on this dean's priority list, but if I were a CMU student I'd be embarrassed that my university was associated a pseudo-serious institution that makes claims vastly exceeding what the scientific method can conclude given the data they present. The gap between their projected air of authority and their obliviousness to the limits of their methodology should make any engineer-oriented person uneasy. Yes there are probably some smart people in the SEI with interesting war stories and such but the whole certification thing has got to go.

Most of you in start-ups probably never heard of CMMI. This is generally a good thing.
There's no evidence that the profession causes doctors to commit suicide. It's not a stretch to hypothesize that people accepted to medical schools are self selecting for perfectionism and bipolar disorders.
From the press release:

"Prostitution wasn't really at the top of our minds when we passed the 2010 law helping NYC enforce against illegal short-term rentals, but in hindsight it seems kind of obvious."

You have to admit, I think the enterprising minds here at HN also failed to foresee this.
I bit the bullet, and wrote a bit of extra javascript to restart the game server-side.

By the by, if you like what I've done, I will soon be available to freelance. A few other projects of mine are here:

http://www.stefanom.org/devel/
Thanks for the really great advice. I'm interested in the unequal equity. We have a 60-40 split which seemed fair as I'd worked full time on the company and raised a significant Kickstarter funding before my co-founder committed 100%. Could you comment more on issues you see this brings down the line and how this plays out? Also, does this conflict a little with your next point about clear leadership?
Also relevant: I wrote "Why you should become a nurse or physicians assistant instead of a doctor: the underrated perils of medical school" (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/why-you-should-beco...) based on watching the experience of my fiancée and her friends and peers.

EDIT: In the essay I describe why it can become so hard to leave medicine after one has invested more than a year or two in med school because of student loans; that may help explain the suicide issue: people who feel trapped may in turn feel like death is the only way out.

A surprisingly large number of doctors hit residency and realize they don't want to become doctors. In most professions that's not a tremendous problem, but in medicine the only way to pay back $100 – $250K in graduate student loans is by becoming a doctor.