skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how this affects the writing of songs.

“It’s not enough to have one hook anymore,” Jay Brown, the president of Roc Nation, and Dean’s manager, told me recently. “You’ve got to have a hook in the intro, a hook in the pre-chorus, a hook in the chorus, and a hook in the bridge.” The reason, he explained, is that “people on average give a song seven seconds on the radio before they change the channel, and you got to hook them.”

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/26/120326fa_fact_...
The guy was in New Orleans for jazz fest. One of the biggest parties there other than mardi gras. My first assumption is that he was totally drunk and can't handle his liquor well. Then I think, perhaps he was on something crazier, like bath salts. If either were the case, and you want to keep your job, take a page out of the celebrity playbook, blame the substance, go to rehab. Don't make statements trying to praise some colleagues and not others you insulted. Moronic to say the least. Unless it is some strange plan to draw attention to your next business. "Hi, I am a highly unstable individual with a possible substance abuse problem. Want to join my team and/or fund me?"
Zotero is awesome thanks, I might convert :)
Can Internet security ever work? (2011)
Hater of large-fixed-headers here! Another worse example is Gmail.
While I like the idea of arabic lisp (BTW it shouldn't be hard to make "arabic Clojure") simply because it looks so much better than english, I disagree with your reasoning in general. My primary language is russian and I'm absolutely sure we should defragment the world. And I'm completely fine with using english as the only language for computing-related stuff. No, we haven't "defragmented enough already". Not even close.

You may not know that, but there already exist programming languages "in russian". One is called 1С[1] and although probably unknown outside of russia, it's very much used for bookkeeping apps (because of being part of quite useful proprietary app, not because it's good). It's basically VB with "если" instead of "if". It proved to be totally useless and horrible. And there're more examples like that.

Translating docs and such to other languages is always good, but not crucial. The reason is: you need to know english anyway, because there is and always will be useful stuff written in english, so people who are crying over absence of russian docs instead of learning english (unfortunately there are plenty of them) aren't really worth paying attention, because they aren't really in trouble, they are just lazy.

One more example of fragmentation on language basis might be Ruby community. Even now there're two "main" mailing lists, one is japanese-only. Now it's not really a problem, because all important stuff is doubled in english, but a while ago it was not so easy for people that don't know japanese.

Why english and not chinese? Because english is fairly simple. Simple compared to russian, simple compared to chinese and japanese, simple compared to finnish. (Seriously, the only problem with it is the "correct" spelling is sometimes very far from how the word is pronounced). It might be not as expressive sometimes, but that's a matter to reflect about for language-lovers, not a real problem.

Hieroglyphic writing systems are complicated. I don't know chinese, but I do know japanese for some extent and the funny thing is even many native speakers cannot write properly in japanese… well, I know, many native english speakers cannot write properly as well, but for japanese it's even worse, seriously. And to be fair: I absolutely love japanese typography. Phone entries and posters look so much better in japanese than in latin/cyrillics. But it is complicated.

Why not spanish? I don't know. It would be fine to use spanish as "the" language, I guess. It just happened so the main language for computing is english. Let it be english. Fine.

[1] - http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%... (sorry, russian only)
The drives are expensive still, largely because the consumer level products no longer exist. Unfortunately a USB hard disk is the closest thing to backup that most consumers will touch. and for these that are serious other technologies tend to take the place.
They need some fine print since this is incredibly misleading. Don't want to do that to your first customers.
I think they did something good with the way (it seems) they standardized typing math equations. When you're searching some complicated integral with fractions and polynomials, you can pretty much put the spaces somewhere different every time in Google and get a different result. When I started typing an equation on DuckDuckGo I noticed that it automatically suggests a search with the spaces taken out of it.

Also, I searched "Juicy J Acapellas" and was impressed because I found some sites that I enjoyed that I hadn't ever found before.
Symfony can be overwhelming for a newbie, but that's because web development is becoming a bigger field every day. There is so much to learn, and Symfony will teach you all kinds of best practices and other things that are not framework-specific at all. To learn Symfony is to learn web development done right.

Laravel is basically a wrapper around Symfony, to make it simpler and easier. A newbie might prefer to use that, but at some point after feeling comfortable with the basics like MVC, ORM, etc. you will definitely want to move to the more professional Symfony.
> In wish EFF would be more impartial in its language and let then facts speak for themselves.

The EFF is not a news agency. They're an advocacy group. They don't need to be impartial when it comes to civil rights and freedom just as the NRA doesn't need to be impartial when it comes to firearms.
Movie soundtracks. Right now it's mostly the Daft Punk Tron soundtracks (original and remix), but also the Lord of the Rings.
Glad that you brought up the fixed header thing. It totally messes up the page down/page up thing.
Mexicans do not expect their government to use this kind of authority to actually pursue and stop violent criminals. The level of cynicism and suspicion toward government is astonishing to me, even as an American. IT makes me a little proud.

But the Mexican government usually seems somewhat more responsive to public opinion on internet, security, and privacy policy issues than the US government is. So there's some chance these provisions will be changed if enough people care.
CI is a badly designed and outdated framework. For real speed you should use something more professional like Symfony2.
Out of curiosity, how's your friend doing now?
Paperfold: A Foldable Smartphone Which Can Be Converted Into Laptop and Tablet
The name is mania. It's associated with manic-depressive disorder.
I had no idea spotify made this kind of data available. Has anyone seen anyone else analyzing it?
That probably has something to do with how hopped to the gills many are on uppers in order to grind through constant productivity. Your standard 9-5 grunt probably doesn't have a crippling coke habit trying to work 18 hour days 7 days a week.
Yeah I wish most announcements from big companies were this frank and to the point. Sad that there have to be these crazy circumstances to bring this about.
I may have missed this in the article, but is this dataset publicly available? I would love to have access if it is.
You seem to completely miss the new features.

On the search page, click the hamburger icon on the top right.

There you can adjust the fonts (to some extent), colors, the position of the header (make it scrolling again), and many more things. All of this is impossible with old DDG, or Google, or Bing, or Yandex, etc.

I wish people that have time to write 3 long paragraphs of complaints actually have tried what they are complaining about. Or, if they have, made it clear that they complain about the defaults.
After Years, Michigan’s Attempts To Build A Startup Ecosystem Bear Fruit
There are many good PHP web frameworks out there today, yes. These don't somehow erase PHP's core flaws as a language though.

You can make a new project in Symfony or Laravel, sure, but you'll get that same niceness plus way more goodies if you use a popular Python or Ruby framework.
I hate to burst your bubble or anything, but dwolla.com does this pretty well and cheaply. How will you differentiate?

I don't quite follow the "no NSFs and funds are guaranteed" - are you implying that if the transaction is authorized there will never be a chargeback (or equivalent)? I need more info - I can't think of any way you could handle it sustainably.
Delusion of grandeur

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandiose_delusions

Grandiose delusions (GD) or delusions of grandeur is principally a subtype of delusional disorder that occurs in patients suffering from a wide range of mental illnesses, including two-thirds of patients in manic state of bipolar disorder, half of those with schizophrenia and a substantial portion of those with substance abuse disorders.
It's a shame that this had to go the way it did. If you read Rakesh's Twitter recently, it's pretty clear that something has gone dramatically and completely wrong -- and that is something that David alludes to in his blog post.

Obviously there can be no real clinical diagnosis of anything at all from a tweet stream, but what he's been posting really does scream "psychotic break" or "manic episode"; when people say things in those kinds of states, they might not be grounded on any real beliefs of theirs at all.

In an ideal world, it would be nice if the next thing that happened to him was for him to be placed on medical leave, surrounded by a community that supports his recovery; upon his return, a statement like "I'd lost my mind briefly, and obviously didn't mean anything that I said" could patch things up. This might not be that world today: as a society, we're remarkably bad at recognizing mental illness when it comes along, and we're not so good at dealing with it even when we figure it out.

So, PayPal did what it had to. A public firing is never a pretty thing, and maybe that was a little excessive, but I can certainly see where it comes from. Either way, I hope that this guy gets the help he needs -- and preferably sooner, rather than later.
Oh man this is so much fun. I know nothing about music but I had a blast making a couple of terrible things.

https://soundcloud.com/egypturnash/burning-bright

https://soundcloud.com/egypturnash/ants
1 and 2 are fine points, point 3 to me is what I was getting at, just with a more portable system rather than something cloud-provider specific

Containers are exciting precisely because they don't care about how good or crappy your language interpreter or app server happens to be, whether you run your own data center or use a cloud, etc.
...And the button there is. Did you find it?
https://next.duckduckgo.com/settings
Ask HN: I don't have CS and feel flustered
I'm 27 and I have been programming a long while but am missing CS, it's hurting on the job front and confidence front. It would be a lot easier to have cool demos on git if I had some kind of CS related "solution" there to show. I'm becoming flustered of only being able to do CRUD solutions etc. I want to be working with people of higher calibre and I feel I cannot gain that entry (eg. Google as the prime example) without CS or some kind of micro-focus of CS. I'm afraid of tackling some topic (eg. linear algebra) then being shut down because there are 100 other topics, or that half of linear doesn't do me any good anyway, or I should be working on a meteor.js demo for practicality. Part of the frustration is that I don't work around CS people and so I'm stagnating in an area I feel is important to me. I first got my job (co-op and stayed on) and worked under a great engineer and had a great time but he left about 8 months after-ward and ever since then it hasn't been the same. I struggled since HS without a calculus/vectors course (and without foresight taht it would limit my entry into programs). I've since done some calculus but do not have credit. Should I just do it online, get the HS credit, and apply for CS at a uni? I think I will be taking too much of a step backward but I don't see how else I can shake this limitation.
I told my wife's uncle about the biometric EarPods. He happens to be one of the most renown ear specialist in the world.

His response: it actually makes sense, it's 20 year old technology.

Apparently, you can measure things like oxygen from your ears. Quite possibly other stuff as well.

I personally think it's be a great to see something like this exist one day.
That's interesting; I would think causality would go the other way. Many people end up self-managing their mood via drugs / alcohol (including depressants) even if they don't have jobs that require heightened energy. I would think that self-medication is a better explanation for why so many, eg, politicians have drinking problems, than that the booze is necessary for them to be able to politick for 18 hours a day.
Usually prog rock/metal. Dream Theater works well.
Big data revisited
Invest in the Fork-Seekers
Saving this URL:

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ru13-deraadt/mgp00004.html

for the next time someone asks me what a buffer overflow is.

I feel like this is a better explanation than any other I've seen.
Apple vs. Samsung: Jury foreman says verdict not meant to send big message
Canv.as AWS account hacked
Canvasaurs,

We were recently made aware of a security breach that affected all of our servers hosted with Amazon, which includes the ones that previously hosted Canvas. The person(s) used our account to order hundreds of expensive servers, likely to mine Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. When we detected this activity, we immediately locked down the account.

Unfortunately we have no way of knowing what, if any, information was accessed by the attacker(s). It's possible they only used our account to order servers, however it's also possible they accessed our database, and thus user e-mail addresses, encrypted passwords, and other information.

We'd suggest you consider changing your e-mail account password, and the passwords of any services you connected with Canvas. Although Canvas account passwords were encrypted in our database using a modern, secure method called bcrypt, it's better to be safe than sorry. To reiterate, we found no evidence of an attack targeting Canvas or its users directly, but since we're unable to conduct a thorough investigation, we can't know for sure what was accessed.

We're extremely sorry this happened, and will do our best to ensure no further breaches occur.

- Team Canvas
I don't know, Automattic seems much more obscure than a lot of the companies we usually talk about.
How about the gross over-valuation of startup companies? $15 billion for an instant messaging application? $2 billion for a research company without a product? Both companies should have sold for, maybe a few hundred million, at most.

This is unsustainable in and of itself (and possibly irresponsible). Not to mention awful for the startup market (causing a startup valuation bubble).

Facebook obviously has to make money back from these purchases. Both purchases are technology companies, and therefore Facebook is likely in it short-term, meaning they hope to make their money back in < 5 years.

How will they do it? Well, by doing what Facebook does best, selling your privacy.
In that case, why would you care for a gallery of notebooks?

I love iPython notebook, any data scientist, CS teacher or python developer should learn how to use them.
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Is that photo legit? Izitru offers an answer
Super common in the 1st century, since it's a form of Joshua. Not that it would have any bearing on this document, with its vastly later date.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
Johnny Castaway was amazing. Very fond memories.
Our plans for computational math
No, they've opted for a different modern world. The insistence on latinate scripts and learning english echo strongly colonialist rhetoric from past eras.
Everyone has issues. That sounds trite, but I mean it in a caring way. Him and you and me, we all have problems. Most of us, they don't manifest in such a way.

Sometimes the problems manifest in private ways that a company and its workers can absorb. Sometimes they manifest in public ways, or ways that emotionally or physically assault your clients or employees. It can really be total luck which circumstance happens when the problem manifests, but there are other people in the company who also need respect and to be cared for. Like I said at the start, those other employees have issues, too.

I feel bad for the guy who had the psychotic break and has to be let go. I do. But other people also need help before you needlessly put them into stressful conditions; maybe that would be the last straw for their own psychotic break.

(I am not a psychologist or psychiatrist.)
Fundamentalist Islam is not compatible with modern civilized society.
Wow. Nervous breakdown, live on Twitter.
You can have Experiments running on client side (JS) without redirect to different versions of the page, but setup process is... strange to say the least - https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/experiment...

Still, after setting it up it worked just fine for us.
i agree on contrast
other than that i like it better than the old design
And nice music. Don't forget the music.
Never underestimate one powerful and common optimization: buying new hardware.
It's a Britishism that's a more polite way of saying that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tired_and_emotional

FWIW it seems unlikely that this type of behavior would be brought about by drinking alone, especially once the media took notice. I known people who have made idiotic career-limiting moves while drunk (like brazenly hitting on the boss' daughter at a party) and they usually get deer-in-headlights embarrassed once someone wiser advises them to knock it off. Maybe drugs, stress, or some type of medical condition?

In any case whether caused by substance abuse or some other problem, it seems irresponsible to comment on publicly like this. It doesn't even have to be caused by mental illness in a traditional sense. There have been cases of people with brain tumors acting out in wacky ways. It's not really fair to disparage someone who's acting unusually and may not even be aware or in control of their behavior.

Or maybe it's just some bizarre attempt at "going viral", who knows these days?
I don't disagree, but my lab is full of st00pid cheap 8-core 8250 and 8350 chips running VMWare. I paid a fraction of what other folks paid for 4 core i7, and for my use case, I get lots more out of it. YMMV.
Latin has 26 lowercase AND 26 uppercase letters!
Yeah, those are better prices than I'd expect to see in the US (only experience: San Francisco comcast, or T-mobile for cell data). Broadband and cell data will substitute perfectly for "voice service"... what gives?
Programming with Managed Time [pdf]
The Most Important Characteristic of Successful Founders
WalmartLabs Buys Adtech Startup Adchemy, Its Biggest Talent Deal Yet
Random number generators
This post mostly makes sense but ughh. theoretically. for instance, /dev/random is almost useless because it blocks frequently. kind of moot.
I like how PayPal manager, manager of a company that blocks funds of thousands legitimate businesses for no apparent reason for months just to earn some money thanks to interest rates on those funds speaks about what's fair and what's unethical - shame on you.
Get your stuff together before pointing fingers.
Another thread with comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7691472
Does PayPal really do that nowadays?
I've been using this method to gain Twitter followers for as long as I can remember. The goal used to be to get retweeted, but as the article mentions, having one of your Tweets marked as a favorite can be just as effective as it shows up in the activity tab on Twitter.

My approach is a combination of flattery and also a dash of comedy/trolling. Sometimes I'll say something outlandishly stupid like: "I still remember that time @sometwitteruser chased that goat and tripped on a log" I made that up, but sometimes that's all you need to get a retweet which in turn gets you followers.
3D Lightning Reconstruction (2013)
Rust isn't in the bibliography. Coming from an academic perspective, that makes sense since nothing has been published on Rust yet. Consider this language to be more academic and less practical, but that means it will have (or at least should have) more novel features. I'm not well versed in permission-based and linear type-based systems, but it looks interesting.
FlipKart launches same day delivery in India
Journalist Graham Phillips: Price on my head now set at $10,000
Varnish fixes everything.

Drupal's big two issues are bootstrapping drupal, because all those module hooks stack up quick, and the sometimes large amount of queries run to generate a page. Drupal 8 has gotten better about not loading half of the world when a blog post is loaded, but 7 is just a wall of functions.
> your returns are your record of investing skill

You may think it sounds obvious, but that assertion is hugely controversial within the finance / economics fields. The big argument on the other side is that basically no one shows "serially correlated" returns (in other words, people who do well one year tend to not do well the following year, when if success indicated skill you'd expect them to do well year after year).
quote from the author, "rancid is named rancid because it stinks." it covers 80% of what you want it to do, but is indispensable because it is so lightweight and functional.

more developed tools exist but networks are not interested (by in large) in integrating/developing new ones because they fool themselves into thinking these are good enough.