skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"His paper "A Note on Restaurant Pricing and Other Examples of Social Influence on Price" seeks to explain why popular restaurants with long waiting times for tables don't simply raise prices until the market clears. These kind of applications of economic research methods to the dilemmas of everyday life have become increasingly popular over the years in both academic work and popular journalism, and the spirit of such inquiries all goes back to Becker."

That first phrase intrigued me, and I scanned the PDF linked ( http://www.unc.edu/~fbaum/teaching/PLSC541_Fall06/Becker%20J...). Possibly the key is this:

"Formally, I propose that the demand for a good by a person depends positively on the aggregate quantity demanded of the good."

(The figure that goes with this, on page 4, for the resulting price/demand curve, is worth a look.)
The US never leave, they leave a puppet leader and ensure the new regime that is set in that country will always obey the "US standards of quality".
http://www.mymundus.com

I am the cofounder of MyMundus, so my opinion is quite biased. We started MyMundus because conventional note taking apps such as bookmark services did not suffice, especially when you forgot to create a bookmark.
Transfused Blood Rejuvenates Old Mice
Did you try (redhat's)-libvirt? I used that for a project. It can use lxc, but also qemu and kvm. All with a generic interface (which actually is not so generic). It was quite nice to work with.

I guess my project wasn't suited for docker. All i needed was an image to run a process in a custom environment. I didn't need the Dockerfile and versioning stuff. Which, in my opinion, is the reason to use docker.

So instead of saying "Docker, no thanks", you probably did not find a suitable project. Which is good! I see a lot of people using docker, just because it's awesome and everybody on HN is talking about it.
Well what else should they do? Not eat?
Yip, I tried out vimwiki a while back and have stuck with it. Pretty simple to setup and yes, a git commit generates the html files and rsync's them up to the internet. Pretty bombproof.
Touch can work with the right setup. Know a guy who sells bathroom mirror and splash back setups, along with custom android & Apple interface.. Works pretty well, looks amazing.
“Pavlovian password management” aims to change sloppy habits
Background info on the story
http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/may/01/denm...
Zoho Mail - http://www.zoho.com/mail/

There is a free signup with option for 1 custom domain.

I use it, works great.
I hope people do understand that this is short term solution only. Replacing your all food indefinitely with this is most certainly going to damage you in a ways you can't know or imagine. Just by looking at the content I can see that the mix is seriously lacking essential fats, is using very low doses of some vitamins, particularly C and probably contains substitutes to others like retinol (beta carotene).

The idea is great in specific context. People have been living on single food item in multiple occasions so far. CBB to find references for all now, its easy if you need them but there are known cases of

1. Potato only for 6 months (http://goo.gl/XqxMx)

2. Bananas only for months (i.e. extreme '30 bananas a day' diet)

3. Meat only for a year (Vilhjalmur Stefansson)

4. Water only for > year (in extreme obese case).

5. Protein powder only (i.e. Last chance diet, case to the point of what could get wrong. )

6. Synthetics only (I am sure Kurzweill probably experimented with this with his 200++ pills per day).

7. MC Donalds for a month

... and so on

Its important to note that inventors are young people. Young people are very resilient - they also have full reserves of stem cells that are used to repair damage. Soylent might speed up this process because it certainly doesn't contain 'everything body needs' (because we don't know this at the current technological level) in which case one theory is that body will use its triage system (Ames) to redirect resources to the systems that are most important and shut down or reduce output in less important systems for immediate survival (such as reproduction). More appropriate would be to say 'everything body tolerates for a period'. Its certainly far better move then eating only pasta or rice for entire day.

One may hope that whatever is the eventual damage that could be done to you by use of this food surrogate is going to be fixed by the future medicinal, yet to be discovered, techniques.
I've been trying to take note in plain text. One issue that I have is math note, I ended up having to use markdown + pseudo latex for the note + math symbol, and output to HTML. I'm definitely not happy with the current setup. Is there any good solution for math symbols in general?
The oRouter Is a Tor-Powered Linux Box That Secures Your Internet Connection
You could also hook up a leap motion to get really simple gesture controls without smudging up the mirror.
Tasty Wheat.
Author here, I developed it in Chrome and had not checked in Firefox before I saw your comment -- I will try to debug later tonight what is going on with Firefox, but I haven't used any special API apart from d3 so I'm not sure why it does not display the content intended
That's great. However, I don't see an end to capture all the ambiguity of language and especially misspellings... can this be contained in a reasonably fast running script?

~/tmp betty my ip
Betty: Sorry, I don't understand.
~/tmp betty my ip adress
Betty: Sorry, I don't understand.
~/tmp betty whats my ip address
Betty: Running curl ifconfig.me
Ever thought about monetizing it by selling prints/mugs/shirts etc? (or let the creators sell them and take a cut)
But if he works at Microsoft, then the VCs won't be able to extract value from him and make their money (especially painful when they lose a 20 something willing to work 90 hours weeks). Sure he might be happier, but think about the VCs! This is why it was a terrible decision.
Google tasks + dokuwiki
If you read the article, you'll find out that that is precisely what differentiates Soylent from all the many other Liquid Meal replacements. The entire dream of soylent is to free people from recreational food as a requirement.
After years of writing everything in casebound A4 notebooks, I am currently experimenting with B5 size (in between A4 and A5). It's a bonny little size, still plenty of space on the page and fits on shelves better.
Reminds the days of FrontPage and how I got started. I guess it's good for beginners. But I don't see a reason to replace my good old fashion editor vim.
What are your thoughts on Alex Payne's Letter to a Young Programmer?

Personally, I found it overly pessimistic, and my instinct is to be skeptical of such things - but I'm not knowledgable enough to actually pick apart his arguments.

https://al3x.net/2013/05/23/letter-to-a-young-programmer.htm...
The World's Smallest Comic – fake or not?
Even then - Airbnb is a souped up Craigslist that is breaking laws everywhere and Pinterest is yet another photo sharing board. They just happen to be very successful at the moment. Is that work really more interesting and engaging than creating operating systems, compilers, or working with the biggest of big data?
Visual programming on the Gnome desktop
Notational Velocity, Dropbox, and Workflowy

There's a lot of synergy between the three.
This YouTuber "married" Evie and Cleverbot in under 24 hours.
definitely a robot pick up artist.watch both videos... i also think hes pretty funny so i subscribed...
Is cash still used frequently in Denmark or has this national credit card pretty much taken over? Is cash use discouraged?
GCHQ Used Fake LinkedIn Pages to Target Engineers
or fix the clock skew ?
https://mail.yandex.ru - Putin`s guarded mail!
How to Integrate postgreSQL Database to XAMPP in Windows
Investors don’t want to meet you.  They wanted to be introduced to you.
Hi Patrick - I just found a good source of statistics on this point here:
http://topincomes.g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/#Database:

Figures for the top 1% income share including capital gains:

Japan 1995: 8.67%

Japan 2010: 10.44%

United States 1995: 15.23%

United States 2010: 19.86%

And for the top 0.01% income share including capital gains:

Japan 1995: 0.82%

Japan 2010: 1.03%

United States: 1995 2.46%

United States: 2010 4.78%

So at the extreme end of the scale, income inequality is not just greater in the US but growing at a faster rate.
Because it was launched by a bloke replacing all his food with it, and with a bunch of people saying they wanted to replace all their food with it.
My view is more that most people have a distaste for learning, education and autodidacticism because they grow up steeped in a culture that discourages these things, while simultaneously rewarding the opposite sorts of behaviors.

Caplan has a counterargument to this - twin studies and various observational studies that attempt to do similar things. He goes into detail occasionally on his blog, and also in his book:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465028616/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...

(The focus of the book is not on education, but on how variation in parenting strategy does not affect adult outcomes. )

Also, your view is not incompatible with Caplan's "elitist, Ayn Rand-ian worldview". Caplan merely asserts that at the time of entering college, it's pointless for most people. The specific reason at which it became pointless for them is irrelevant - "socioeconomic factors", genetics or whatever, it's still a waste of money.
Not necessarily. Google pushes that option because it's easier to set up but you can send from Gmail through your registrar's or whoever's SMTP server. Your Gmail account acts like an e-mail client in that scenario.
There's also the other kind of luck that you're not really in control of. You can attempt to position yourself for the best possible outcome, but even the ability to do that may be determined by original surroundings.

https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/87/54K53/ind...
But, in that case, couldn't the increased price serve as social signaling? Why is a line out the door a better signal than a "Surge pricing: 2x" sign in the same door?
Ask HN: How do you sell unmarketable products?
90% of my knowledge is in a bunch of text files handled by nvalt [1], a fork from notational velocity [2]

It is so convenient and quick to make notes and hyperlink notes between them and do full text search.

[1] http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
[2] http://notational.net/
One start-up I use to be at used Zimbra, http://www.zimbra.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFfCgIJpSf4 --- Worked good, moved fast, nice UI.
Most domain and cheap hosting providers give you a free SMTP server for domains.

Use this in conjunction with a normal Gmail account. Incoming mail is sent to your Gmail via a simple redirect.

For seamless outgoing mail, configure Gmail to send via the SMTP server for your domain.

For bonus points run http://gmvault.org/ somewhere to keep a perfectly restorable copy of your Gmail in case of disaster (this can be restored correctly with all labels intact unlike many simple IMAP or mbox backup solutions)
Plain text files in a synced directory (I use sparkleshare, but any dropbox-like system will do the trick).

I tried many, cloud apps, desktop apps, wikis. But in the end, I was never comfortable with putting all my thoughts in documents in a weird format (at best) or in the cloud (at worst). And most apps didn't offer any huge advantage to compensate for that.

I have backups of my notes folder. I can grep through it when I'm looking for something. I can edit it from any computer. And I know it will still be readable in 10 years.
Could anyone offer insight as to why internet in this day and age is not regulated like electricity or other utilities?

This was the obvious solution after the telecom act of '96. Many experts in the field said so much at the time. But the telecoms dug their heels, broke the law by locking out people from the DSLAMS, and used disinformation and lobbying to get the FCC to say it was O.K. to have a telecom-cable duopoly. This was also around the time that telecoms did everything they could, at the state level, to prevent cities from offering free city-wide internet [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_broadband#Controversy
To be fair. I've just rechecked and you are right. I have the same behavior in Germany. Maybe someone is listening!

Ads though. Still in German. Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing. I'm even more blind to them in the wrong language. I guess that is a good thing!
Ask HN: do i need a trial version? (If yes – how to implement?)
I am author of a key-value database library (http://hamsterdb.com) which is released under the Apache license (open source, free to use for commercial applications etc). And I just finished working on my commercial add-on product, the "pro" version which is closed source and for paying customers. hamsterdb's design is similar to a column-store, and the pro version has additional features like compression, SIMD, encryption (there will be more in the future).

Now I wonder if I need to offer a trial version for evaluation purposes for the pro version, and if yes - how? hamsterdb is a C/C++ library with many dependencies to libc and other system libraries. Publishing pre-built libraries will work on Windows and maybe MacOS, but other systems like linuxes and embedded platforms will be extremely difficult.

My first idea is to release the 30day evaluation version in source, but heavily obfuscate the sources. However, after a few days of trying to get everything running, I had to realize that the obfuscation tools are either very immature, no longer maintained or way too expensive.

So maybe I should not release an evaluation license at all, but simply allow buyers to get a refund after 30 days? In that case I am not able to protect my IP, and people can continue using the pro version after the refund. Also, refunding means that there will be additional transaction costs for international money transfers, which can be quite costly. But I have zero development/maintenance effort, which would be very nice and lets me focus on the core features.

Now i'm kind of lost and not sure which way to go. Any advice is appreciated!
Trello - simple but powerful. Almost any use case I can think of can be organized in terms of cards.
Many people say that college/university is not worth it but I disagree.

If the one you are attending makes you think it's not worth it, just get to a better one.

I think university is a safe default choice. Yes, you will be learning things that you might never need. On the other hand, you will learn things you wouldn't have learned otherwise and they will open up your eyes. Also, you get to be surround with smart people (given you are at a good uni). And attending university doesn't mean you can't work on something on the side, and drop uni if things go well.

Of course, there are cases when starting/continue working on your business is much better. But I believe those are exceptions, and if that's the case for you, you won't need anyone to tell you that. It will be obvious that you should do that.
Fun and useful tutorial, great work, Kjetil!
> - git has an 'email' centric workflow

Which is surprising, given how rough all the email-involving commands of git are. Badly documented (git-send-email man page doesn't even come close to documenting all options properly), awful error reporting and a badly explained (although, in itself, quite sane) workflow when sending the patches.

When setting up my email setup, I consulted the underlying Perl script more than the docs :(.
How Docker Fits Into The Current DevOps Landscape
DataTau
the "64er" magazine (from Germany) even had checksum programs when typing in programs by hand (one for Basic code and one for machine language).

So you could be pretty sure that your programs worked afterwards.

Nothing beat the feeling to type a program and then finding out that the game sucked.

But in one of the magazines there was a drum computer for the C64, which was pretty cool (forgot its name).
Custom GitHub Contributions Graph
I live in Austin.

I have Grande and AT&T fiber to my house.
I have service from Grande.
AT&T won't sell me their 300Mbps service.

When Google comes, Grande is dropped like a hot rock.
I live in Germany and I can't move to the valley easily (will investigate on "work visa" and I will take part in the green card lottery over the next couple of years :)

But even if I make it to SV, nothing ever relieves you from thinking really hard constantly (and informing yourself). There are so many influencing factors and the article is great, but I can also see that people tend to overestimate themselves (including me). Thought exchange is key and you'll find people you can do that with, e.g. in College.

Ryan Dahl did node in Germany and he was exchanging thoughts with someone who was just (only) listening and giving him (sanity) feedback. So though exchange may or is also very valuable (from someone) when you have a genius idea.

College or university can also be an accelerator and maybe you'd consider joining to actually have a lot of spare time to do the next Facebook by exploiting it's context (e.g. people). And think of the big ones: They dropped out of college (when they were successful)!

We are always having (very) limited knowledge and there usually is (always) a high risk. If Google or Apple just decides to do cars this may wipe out all car manufactures in the rest of the world, since for some reason they seem to be just able to do so.
Logo sketch for Hacker News
I used to use KeyNote also but I didn't really care for the underlying RTF storage format especially when it came to images... and the program had some other limitations.

http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
I recently started learning python and of course got to your site. Wanted to say thanks for putting it up. I didn't actually end up using it much so far.. my impression was that there are still kinks and usability issues, but definitely lots (!) of potential. You should be proud.
The Speculum of the Other Brogrammer
No.

The world food programme already have a wide range of supplements that are produced in developing nations and are much cheaper than Soylent.

Note that Soylent requires clean water to mix, and a large proportion of the world don't have clean water.
The difference between this being that normally you're only linking specific libraries that you need, instead of an entire runtime and standard library. There's a lot of potential energy hiding in each of these packages.
Agreed, I've spent 10 years in university and I couldn't be happier with my choices. I feel I've really got a deep appreciation for my craft and my own abilities and I've always been able to work on my side projects at the same time. So I'd say going to university is rarely ever a bad choice. Also, there will be plenty of time later to work, why not have some fun first and make a huge peer group of interesting intelligent people who have similar hobbies and interests to you.
Cash use is about on par with most other countries. Credit cards & mobile solutions are slowly rising, but cash is still widely spread and necessary in some cases (like paying for public transport in certain cities, etc.).
There's been talk of shops actually abolishing the use of cash. So far without success, but most transactions still happen through a nationalised credit card system.
"Something is rotten in the State of Denmark" would have been a catchier title!
Ask HN: I need help. I'm struggling. Advice welcome.
Too long to post here:
http://pastebin.com/wHQDqKSG
How to Raise Money in 9 Easy Steps: The VC Game
Little Things to Consider on You Next Healthcare Biotech Hack: 
If you're entering the space and you'd rather not invest and waste your time too much, here's a 100,000 ft view I thought to share with you. And, by no means complete.
I would say completely the opposite. :) Spend this time upskilling and doing interesting things. As a 19 year old you are not earning any real money, your 30 year old self will be earning a multiple of it (probably 3-4) and the cost of living doesn't increase at the same pace (until you get kids :) ) don't waste your time saving a couple of dollars now, just spend it and wait until you are earning enough money to save.
Which means that you have to learn "what to alias". It is still a huge problem for beginners.
- Most services are IO bound, not CPU bound, so pegging the CPU to max might prove a non-trivial task.

- Well designed services don't overload until they're maxing out on either CPU or any other resources, they just serve up to some capacity (say 80%) and then start flat out refusing request with response semantics like "come back later".

- Timestamp sources are typically not from clocks originating inside the CPU.
I'm not a fan of explicitly listing cipher names: when new ciphers are added you have to revise your list again, etc.

I very much prefer the simplistic approach taken by OpenSMTPD:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/smtpd/ssl...

#define SSL_CIPHERS	"HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5"
I use the same approach and for the same reasons. Though, now I've started to experiment with markdown.
Don't enable the MEDIUM ciphers, don't use RC4.
RudeVC: Asking one VC for a referral to another
Don't. Preserve your dignity and integrity as a creator by either improving your product such that it has some qualities making it marketable, or by scrapping it altogether.

Maybe my personal stance on this is somewhat extreme, but I think that selling products that are essentially garbage is simple exploitation, ethically reprehensible and adding marginally to the set of problems afflicting our species. Focus on making the world a better place.
Just to give a second opinion... I do not like working with Gerrit (I work with Android, for a HW vendor). In particular, reviewing one patch at a time becomes painful very quickly. Especially for complex features that end up having many changesets, because it's difficult to review what was changed in the newest changeset.

I would prefer having a branch to review rather than a single patch. When there are fixes, add a new commit to the branch and squash/rebase before merging to master. This way it would be easier to see what is happening during the development of a more complex feature with many rounds of review and fixing.

(note: we might not be using the latest version of Gerrit and our version control practices could be better)
I don't know if I agree that Evernote is overrated, but I personally don't like them for what they did to one of my favorite apps, penultimate (iOS notebook app). I specifically bought that app so I could have my notes always with me. Then Evernote buys the company and makes it so I can only access my notebooks if I am online, or if I pay for a pro version. So I buy something for a specific feature, and they take it away but offer to sell the feature back to me.

Shame, as I really liked penultimate.
I'd like to be perfectly clear on this: you believe that there's nothing objectively wrong with racism, it's just unpopular right now?
Infusions of young blood may reverse effects of ageing, studies suggest
"No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people. “Stuff” can be a lot of different things—open source projects outside of class, a startup, a new sales process at a company you work at—but, obviously, sitting around talking with your friends about how you guys really should build a website together does not count."

Building stuff is true for to all age groups including VC's