skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a nerdy thing to chime in, but: that doesn't establish a causal relationship. Attractive people might simply have more self confidence, which leads to more money and success with the opposite sex.

I know I've seen an interesting study that shows that at least part of the height income gap disappears if you account for teenage height. I.e. a man who was 5'4" as a teen and 5'10" as an adult is more similar in income to someone who was 5'4" all their life than someone who was 5'10" all their life. That's hard to explain in a model where beauty at the present moment is a larger determinant of income.
Oak Island
"You look ridiculous in that outfit"
http://amasci.com/we-nerds.html It does indeed get better. From the 90s, so the picture of who and what was on the internet has changed a lot since then, but still a good read.
Would be pretty useless if the phone has a case.
> And on Hacker News, we try to critique the ideas themselves rather than the people behind them.

What can I say, character assassination is one of my favorite hobbies.
Time Zones Considered Harmful
Nothing was different. The "Giant of Castelnau", even if he/she was actually as tall as the discoverer conjectured, wasn't wildly outwith the recorded range of human height - Robert Wadlow was 8'11" (2.72m) when he died, and was only 22. It's completely plausible to me that someone afflicted by the same disorder as Wadlow could've reached 3.5m just by being lucky enough to live longer, and it's also completely plausible to me that it could've happened more than once in the vast, vast swathe of human history about which we know next to nothing.

Scant evidence that a human was once very large certainly isn't evidence that "humans were bigger", and that in turn wouldn't be much evidence that a difference in the environment was causing it.
If we're pulling out quotes discussing this essay, then I'll take a swing at the statement near the very end.

"If life seems awful to kids, it's neither because hormones are turning you all into monsters (as your parents believe), nor because life actually is awful (as you believe)."

"If life was half as good as we are led to believe, newborn babies would be laughing when they enter this world." --no idea who said this

I confess. I am a cynic to the bone.
It's the end of jobs. But what are we going to do?
Do you know of a convenient table showing the numbers you use to get those profit figures? I'm mostly interested in a clear understanding of what you are saying, and it is easy to end up talking about different things when discussing corporate earnings.

The profit margin for Verizon today is less than 12%:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=VZ+Key+Statistics
But everyone has to write reports.
The USF isn't a subsidy to the industry. Its funded by a tax on the industry. It just shifts money from one kind of customer to another.
> underpants gnome supported

What does this mean?
If I could go back and give my thirteen year old self some advice, the main thing I'd tell him would be to stick his head up and look around. I didn't really grasp it at the time, but the whole world we lived in was as fake as a Twinkie. Not just school, but the entire town.

I think there's some effort now being put into trying to reach kids who are trapped and miserable in the school hierarchy, and letting them know that this little world is not the real world. This, in essence, is what the It Gets Better Project is aiming for, and I think it's the gist of a lot of anti-bullying efforts. I think there's only so much you can do to stop bullies themselves -- their behavior seems largely sociopathic. But maybe you can stop other kids from being complicit, including the ones who are targets of bullying. If the victim understands that the bully is only king of an anthill, that robs them of some of their power.
Not necessarily. At least in Gnome-terminal, Ctrl-Alt-(mouse drag) is a block select that works just fine for copy-paste out of a vertical split.

Or do the rotation thing. Or do the copy-mode thing. More than one way to skin this cat; just depends on which workflow you wish to adopt.
Or end up being your managers.

Actually had this point made to me by some frat boy who wanted to basically hire me to do his part of a graduation project (we were both CE majors, you had to come up with something patentable to graduate, basically).

The rest of the story sounds unrealistic, so I won't relate it here lest I be modded down.
Extensive discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7733658
as others have mentioned it's not a new idea. i think the reason you don't see it in Apple products at least is because it is a step backwards in terms of metaphor. the iPhone's core metaphor is direct manipulation. this requires that your brain visually connects the motion of your finger with the objects on screen. if you manipulated things via the back touchpad, this illusion would be broken and it would feel more like interfacing with a traditional computer and less like direct manipulation.
Most smartphones are much more restricted than personal computers are.
I don't know much about it, but I would think that event based mpm would be the fastest.
The word he means to use is "me". He says "nerd" in its place in the article. He's writing about why he wasn't popular in school.
Blogspam: It's almost adirect copy of http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/science-jupiters-great-red... with a new paragraph at the top and some rewriting in the bottom.

The original article is "cited" at the bottom as

> Source: http://goo.gl/tm1Jyy.

without even a link, the adress is only text. :(
I just have a Notes directory in my home folder. I'll have a java.txt file, a linux.txt file, a css.txt file, etc. Then I just do a grep for what I'm looking for. I've wasted too many hours trying various categorization schemes, never being happy with any of them. Now I just grep all the files and don't worry about it. If I grep for "ssh", I might get results in my linux.txt file and my ssh.txt file. No big deal, I just grep all the files, and let go of the harsh stress of trying to categorize everything absolutely correctly.
I'd see this with more value as a post-commit git hook. After a certain amount of time (or date specified) it would warn you that TODOs are about to expire, and either remove them or update the date. That way it can be project-wide and doesn't require execution.
This is a podcast supplement to a New Yorker article [1] that is behind a paywall. There's also an earlier post [2] on the subject.

1. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/19/140519fa_fact_...

2. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/02/new-s...
Mozilla relents, will implement DRM
Reminds me of the ending of Antitrust (2001 movie), though they broadcasted the full source code in video:

* Video snip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtZEstimrfA (3:16)

* IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/ (6.1 stars)

* the triva section mentions Miguel de Icaza (creator of GNOME, Mono) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/trivia and one can see various real source code and Linux desktop and command line in the movie
So in other words, for this to work, you need to be able to contact and successfully convince any particular artist, anywhere in the world, to sign up for your service, after someone makes a donation? Or will you only allow donations to artists who have already signed on?

If it's the latter, your claim of being able to tip "any artist in the world" seems a bit disingenuous. If it's the former, do you just pocket the donations if the artist refuses to sign up?
CSS Realistic Text
We don’t pretend that it’s winter everywhere at the same time, do we? We don’t use season-zones — we just deal with the fact that the weather is different in different places, and we can certainly deal with the fact that the sun rises at different times in different places.

The flaw in the argument here is that we do actually have "season zones". We don't call it winter everywhere at the same time in spite of the obvious weather differences, we call it winter when it's winter out, much like we call it noon when it's (more or less) noon out.
Of course. But it would be even worse if they had the patents and weren't at each other's throats.
I had to turn off touch to click on my MacBook Air because I often brush the pad with the heel of my hand while typing, causing the OS to refocus on wherever the cursor happened to be.
Sony has already released a gaming console with this feature, the PS Vita. http://www.modojo.com/features/playstation_vitas_rear_touch_...
Farrah Fawcett hair and scraped knees
Planets form all the time in all parts of the galaxy. Supernovae happen all over the place, with enough frequency that there are constantly new stars born with new planetary systems.
That was not before, that was now. Those human bones are 10,000 years old while the dinosaur bones are 100 million years old.
Google I/O 2014 Event Schedule Released • vlogg.com
It's irritating. Latin America is also entirely western.
I'm guessing this means apps from companies without any business model at all that are propped up entirely by VCs.
Awesome resource and great lessons. I just went through a lot of them, but I have to say the quality of the new CodeSchool course is amazing (and a lot more comprehensive than this one).
As I said elsewhere in the thread, I believe that Nuke is a more than capable After Effects replacement - although it's a LOT more expensive.

I wouldn't agree with Premiere being particularly well matched by anything else - what are you thinking of?
In the long run it does [1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection
I went through these yesterday, they are some the best tutorials out there right now for Angular IMO, I recommend anyone wanting to learn Angular to check them out.
Thank you! I didn't know thus expression before. (I can always learn a lot from HN.) Upvote for the Wikipedia link.
For #3, I strongly recommend Leil Lowndes's How to Talk to Anyone. It directly addresses those ways to make people comfortable that are typically not plainly laid out. Everything is in easy to digest chunks, the book can be read nonlinearly, and it's held up over time.

A few years ago I cracked it open again after having it read it very carefully many years before that. I was shocked how many techniques I had internalized to the point that I thought they were my own ideas, but paging through the book reminded me how much I learned. Thanks Leil!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/007141858X?pc_redir=1400207054...
Make sure that you have the skills to pull such a thing off.

Web development is really friendly to the idea of remote work, but you have to be very good at what you do (otherwise most companies will hire someone of equal or higher skill, for a similar price, who will be willing to work on-site).

I'm not trying to stereotype you, but the majority of people that I talk to (and my own experience echoes this) have not typically seen the kind of output from recent college grads that would justify a company supporting the lifestyle you're envisioning. You should be really comfortable working on the web, and able implement fairly advanced techniques on your own, before you start backpacking around the country as a lone-gun coder. Know what part of the stack you're best at, and be really freaking good at it; then you can demand what you're asking from would-be employers.
Hang on. The first step of this exploit is that "The attacker logs into the victims account on a 2FA enabled web application". How does the attacker do this if the account has 2FA enabled in the first place? And if the attacker can already log into the victim's site, why are the other steps even necessary?
> " I've learned to be sensitive to narratives that don't have a lot to do with reality, and frequently "culture" and "values" are used to try to suggest a narrative to employees that also has very little to do with reality."

This is the crux of the problem and the reason it's difficult to talk about organisational culture (and how to foster a healthy one). I suspect many people's first experience of it is the jarring disconnect between purported company 'values' and the actual behaviour that gets rewarded within an organisation (whether that be high-school or the workplace).
I was, and am a nerd.

You keep using that word...I do not think it means what you think it means.
If that works as advertised, there should be plenty of other areas to clear afterwards. Hell, my brother-in-law spent two years in Kosovo (as a UN peacekeeper) a few years back. He said that even then there were large areas of land that were still off-limits to people because of uncleared mines.

Despite the danger, and the warning signs, some locals are desperate enough to seek arable land where ever they can. One can only imagine what happens when they hit a 10-year old mine.

I was told it's not pretty.
While I know plenty of people like those you've mentioned, I still think the further into the future we go the more high speed internet becomes a life necessity.

How much longer will we all have physical offices to work in as opposed to a virtual reality space that emulates the same thing? How many businesses like my own that don't actually have a physical address are there going to be? At what point do business completely stop accepting physical forms of payment? "Cutting the cord" completely is likely to get much more difficult in the future.
I found two relevant pictures:
http://ww2.sinaimg.cn/bmiddle/50ccfb23jw1egexhbj4ymj20xc18g1...
http://ww4.sinaimg.cn/bmiddle/50ccfb23jw1egexhf9xe0j20xc18g4...
Does this custome has any culture-specific connotation? As a Chinese student I don't quite understand why RMS's dressing like this.

Below is my comment on this news:

Two years ago, when I left China for US college, I feel most people around me don't care about FOSS, or respect originality & copyright.
- They use cracked software. You can buy a disk that installs cracked Windows for less than 1 dollar. Cracked Photoshop & MS Office & whatever licensed software are all over the internet.
- They download music & movie for free.
- China's internet is full of copycats because the original websites aren't available due to censorship. (Like FB & Twitter). One of the largest IT Company, Tencent, is full of copied products.

But now I feel China is making some progress. Like:
- Online streaming companies are paying for copyrighted material, and you can't easily download movie/anime for free as you do in the past.
- As Apple becomes more popular, many people start paying for music in iTunes. To my delight, websites like http://mou.li/ even let people buy Sublime Text & Alfred & 1Password easily in China. I really can't believe people would pay over $50 for a text editor two years ago, but now some of them do.
- A recent example. A very large company in China named Guokr launched a website: http://www.15yan.com/ . It's a blatant copy of medium. And in their about page, they are literally saying something like "Our product is currently a copycat of Medium, and we'll adpat it to Chinese market to make it better".
Shortly after the website went public, someone asked a question in a Chinese Q&A website: "Can we tolerate such blatant plagiarism?"
Take a look at it: http://www.zhihu.com/question/23400374 . I know you can't read Chinese but take a look at the pictures in the highest upvoted(2130)[1] and third highest(756)[2] answers. Two Chinese Web-Devs compared the CSS and HTML of these two sites, expressed their anger, and described the copycat as "humiliating" and "disgusting". Nearly all the answerers requested this copycat going down immediately and said they'd never use it.

I'm really happy China is really making some progress on this matter.

[1]: http://p3.zhimg.com/69/e3/69e3f847236c2257d925ff11cbb14cc4_m...
[2]: http://p3.zhimg.com/2f/6b/2f6b6e698413e0db745efdcb8be73867_m...
>It's completely plausible to me that someone afflicted by the same disorder as Wadlow could've reached 3.5m just by being lucky enough to live longer,

That's not plausible at all. Robert Wadlow as at the very limits of human height. He already numerous medical problems caused by his height and needed leg braces just to walk.

There is no way a bronze age man with access to bronze age medical care was able to live long enough to grow nearly 3 feet taller than Wadlow.

Since weight doesn't scale linearly with height, a 12' tall man would be enormous. Robert wadlow weighed nearly 500 pounds. A 12' tall man would weigh much much more than that.

I think there are only 2 real possibilities to explain the giant. Either he wasn't really as tall as the discoverer thought, or something was different to allow him to get that tall.
This is the sort of content I intend to find on Hacker News. This is why I am here.
There was something like this at the CES (consumer electronics show). They had it with an iPad. Not sure if this is the most practical idea.
Depends on what you need to do. Apache has it all:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mpm.html

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html
Can You Tell When Google Glass is Recording You?
> Forking a new process to handle a request incurs overhead.

Apache does not fork a new process to handle a request. Not even in prefork mode.
That sounds like the reason Apple refused to use a hardware button to trigger the camera shutter, but thankfully they caved on that one and I can take a photo without having to guess where I'm tapping the screen.

I'd rather see companies trying out ideas that might work instead of just sticking to their metaphorical guns.
Yeah, what coincidence. I was just watching one of the Coursera ML videos on Linear Algebra less than 15 minutes ago. He's such a good teacher, he makes ML look so approachable.
what about everyone who has a custom case of some sort on their phone? pretty much negates that...
What country in western Europe ? Never heard about anyone talking about a dual-sim telephones in France. But there is not much point of having two subscription to two companies that prices are aligned.
I'm not sure if attiny+ftdi really makes sense anymore these days. Checking digikey for prices (single units), that attiny84 costs $1.7 and the ftdi chip is $2, combined $3.7. Meanwhile you can get USB equipped PICs for $1.5 and ARM chips from Freescale and NXP starting from $3.

Of course there is the complexity argument that goes both ways; with attiny+ftdi you need to fiddle with soft-uart and need to design with two chips (with supporting circuitry) instead of one. With ARM you are dealing with more complex MCU and USB is not abstracted away in some blackbox ftdi chip.
What scripts? The topic at hand is usage of custom fonts. Should we use images instead to please you?
A corporation's culture isn't defined by its bosses. They attempt to, and have the most power to shape it. But culture is also, "My job sucks, the managers are deluded fucks, and they're fairly successful at hiring obedient-yet-arrogant weasels." It's not defined by the propaganda, though propaganda is part of it.
The best image ever of an exoplanet is now 36 pixels :)

I wonder if we can apply Moore's law to this? Every 1.5 year the number of pixels doubles. So in 10 years it will be 3600 pixels, an in 20 years 360k. Another 10 and the resolution needs to be so high that you'd have to fly to it to take the picture :)
The death of the homepage
>> Nearly 20 million of the new IIS sites in the US are hosted by a single company, Nobis Technology Group, which was also responsible for much of Microsoft's growth in February.

Many of the spammer/hacker CIDR's I block from my server are owned by Nobis. I thought that's interesting to compare.
Hah!

AdWords customers like me (spending at some point several 100.000 Euro/year) are eternally grateful that they actually bothered to implement an appeal form after many years. We got locked out for more than a year with no way to contact anyone responsible (in good tradition of other Google services I presume) and thus no way to appeal, once the form got added, we got the lock removed within days ... What are you Android developers complaining about! </cynical>
Ingenious Invention: Solar Powered Roads
Pain we forgot
Nice post. Would love to more about your application of Akka Cluster -- it's far and away the most interesting part of Akka to me, and something we have plans to build some very interesting systems on top of.
But dinosaurs share a common ancester with humans. And we taste like pork, not chicken.
Then don't put a cover on your phone? What a strange criticism: "If I make this thing not work it won't work".
Maybe you could use erasure coding instead of replication so that dedupe isn't possible. There's still a Sybil attack where multiple blocks end up getting deleted by the same peer.
I haven't tried it, but http://www.forbes.com/sites/micahsolomon/2013/11/02/quick-tr... seems plausible.

You can also shape culture using rules. For example, at Google SRE, there was a rule that after any outage a post-mortem was to be written. It described why the problem happened, why that happened, etc. and how to prevent each level from re-occurring. Things like "it was person X's fault" or "we will be more careful" were forbidden. Fault and fixes had to be in technology or procedure, not people. It helped shape a culture of coming forward with problems and of looking for solutions. It didn't work perfectly, but it helped.
Apache Phoenix – an SQL driver for HBase
There was a printers close to where I'm typing this that would only accept Quark Xpress files for production.

That was fine for years. Now it is a car park.
Exactly that. You cannot invent (patent) something that has already been invented. Now you could go ahead and invent (patent) something that builds on his ideas, as long as those ideas are a novel addition (not an obvious next step).
$100,000 bounty for software platform that can replace the Bitcoin Foundation
Not so uncommon although this one has the ultimate goal of "detonating" land mines rather than simply detecting them: "...offered the U.S. forces a large number of monkeys, some from Morocco's Atlas Mountains and others imported, to use them for detonating land mines planted by the Iraqis."

Source: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2003/03/2...
Non-Linux FOSS: Git Yer Tortoise On
Go has a omnipresent compiler not just in the Playground:

http://play.golang.org/

But also in their tutorials:

http://tour.golang.org/#1
FAA to streamline drone permit process
Oh, you're right. My bad.
I much prefer the vintage sound of raw source code.
They had some test code to do other languages when I talked to them. Thai in particular is something I'd really like.
Funny thing about the UART not being able to do manchester coding— since he's defining the protocol, it totally could! He'd just have to define each data byte as two wire bytes, and then translate on each end.

On the whole though, it seems weird to eschew software USB but then go ahead with software serial. I would definitely have just done this as FTDI -> SPI. Or thrown away the AVR, and gone with a some dirty-cheap 32-bit ARM chip that has the needed peripherals built right in. Maybe an STM32F04, which is $3.64 at quantity 1:

http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/STM32F042K6T6/497-14...

That's a 32-pin LQFP package, which is straightforward to hand-solder for an intermediate.
Using Social Media to More Effectively Communicate Reform Efforts
I'd argue that a business exists within many cultures. I agree with your second assertion. Within those two there is a clue why "business culture" is a baseless idea.
This idea seems to be taking a long time to be put into use. I read about it in 2004 - here's an interview talking about rats, dogs, and bees http://www.irinnews.org/indepthmain.aspx?InDepthId=19&Report...

Here's a page with a bit more information about rat demining including some video http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00028535.html
So Yubikey would work. It identifies itself as a Keyboard to the OS.
I have one question, how does this syntax (the dollar symbol) work?

$perspective:1200px;

Is it like "define" ?