skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's becoming more common as far as I can tell - I also left academia (mathematics) since academia is less about the work you do now. My brother stuck it out and finished his PhD in chemistry, but he too bolted from academia since he hated it as well (and that is with the fortune of having a high reputation thesis advisor, but who milked him for as many papers as he could before my brother threatened to just up and leave) - he's now a senior engineer at Samsung.

The academic landscape is just poor these days - it is a pretty brutal world to operate in.
So, Lisp machines get a mention, but Lisp itself does not.

Who writes these things?
Germany Will Ban Tech Companies That Play Ball With NSA
Markets with a small number of large players tend to converge in terms of pricing and strategy, so we may end up with a cozy oligopoly rather than any serious competition.
Are you one of those critical mass riders who shuts down Campus Martius for a few hours a month?

'Cause if you guys could stop and let traffic through on our way home from work, that'd be really helpful. You could pass out pamphlets and get more riders that way.
The hurt was imposed by the law.

Utilizing the law to its letter and to impose the fundamental flaw in it is simply making that hurt visible.
Nasty Gal's Sophia Amoruso: 'Shoplifting saved my life'
I've told lots of people their startup ideas sucks. For a time, lots of people asked me for my opinions and advice on their startup ideas, from a context of "I want to raise seed funding, how do I do it".

Here's a few phrases that let people know their startup idea sucks without being judgey on them:

- How did you validate that there was a market for this?
- How many businesses have committed to pay for this?
- This sounds like a 2-sided marketplace, how are you going to solve the chicken-and-egg problem?
- Sounds cool, but consumer is really hard. Are you sure you wouldn't prefer to build a nice B2B startup instead?

The last one is interesting. Lots of people have ideas that are "like facebook but different". Many companies like that have succeeded (instragram, whatsapp, twitter, secret). But those companies are very very hard to build, and thousands of startups like that fail. So its not so much that their idea sucks - as it might be really cool - just more that they might prefer to build a different startup in a different space, especially if its their first startup. Nothing says early validation like 50 people who give you their credit cards - not easy in B2C.
For example: #12 The PC (1973), this is Butler Lampson's work on Alto while at PARC. MIT (the university) had nothing to do with it. Also, #17 TCP/IP (1977), Bob Kahn was at MIT for 2 years or so a decade before working on TCP/IP.

Including such things takes away attention from "pure" MIT inventions e.g., RSA (all of that work was done by Ron Rivest while at MIT).
Are there ISP's streaming ESPN3 without a cable subscription containing ESPN? My local options both require you to subscribe to a TV package.
I think you mean Michael Lewis.

As for the price of oil and GDP cycles. I am not sure I understand your point. Can you please elaborate?

First world economies are more based around services than industrial production at this point, so while oil is still a hugely important commodity, there have clearly been structural changes in what comprises world GDP.
My understanding (and I'm a DDG user) is that DDG largely utilizes other services, and to a large extent Bing, for its search results.

But their own moral authority and index reach are limited.

That said, I still encourage using DDG on both privacy and increasing search engine competition grounds.
Depends on how you quantify "cost." For a lot of people aesthetics and livable appeal factor into that.
Using ruby to learn JavaScript
Both of these are questions of judgement and rational thinking. Should one take career advice from a bigot? I leave it up to you.
Someone interested in a serious, rather than derisive, attempt at selecting good curves with cofactor 1 may want to look at the recent paper by Bos, Costello, Longa and Naehrig[0].

[0]: http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/130
And a bad move for the users.
New Windows updates can be modified to patch Windows XP successfully
That's a fair point, and we edited the title accordingly.
Twitch talks are at an early stage, and a deal isn't imminent
Now you're talking about a malicious attack. If that's what it takes for this to be a real issue then I don't think many people need to be too concerned.
Many times you ask for blunt feedback, you rarely get it from friends. Its like they are loathe to hurt your feelings.

Not sure if its same for all startups or the ones which may not be exactly dumb.
Here's a web app that will "gameboyify" a photo

http://www.tabletop-pixel.com/retroizer/
not particularly, actually when ever I hear the word Israel, i automatically think of the Gaza Strip, and the dynamic of the people there, but we almost in the same boat there.
I think this is not a smallish point. It implies that Twitch will be under YouTube, and not kept independent in parallel to YouTube inside Google. That says something about the plans for integration.
Mmmmh, that's a cool scheme, but how does that buy you more than using cos(1) as they did with BADA55-VPR-224?

The point I believe is that you still need to retry until you find a "safe curve" and they found the BADA55-VPR-224 A tweaking that.

Or am I missing something that made it easier?
Grunt workflow for building Bootstrap Themes
The LSST is an incredible project. I toured their lab at Brookhaven and one of the lead scientists offhand commented "Yeah, the only problem so far is we're going to have to make something flatter than anyone has ever really made something flat" (referring to the CCD array).
40th Anniversary of the Rubik's Cube
Poll: Which news sources do you frequent
Most of these will probably only apply to US
Al Jazeera
BuzzFeed
Business Insider
Christian Broadcasting Network
Local broadcast television
Local newspapers
MSNBC
Newsweek
Other (specify in comments)
Politico
The Associated Press
The Blaze
The Daily Show (or similar)
The Huffington Post
The Los Angeles Times
The San Francisco Chronicle
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Times
USA Today
Yahoo! News
Not only that, but there appear to be potential buffer overflows which involve the data pulled from the wiki page[1]. I'm not sure why asprintf wasn't used here (and in other places). The partial re-implementation of libc[2, 3] is also somewhat frightening. As are potential unchecked integer overflows when calculating a size to pass to malloc[4].

C is hard.

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[1] https://github.com/clibs/clib/blob/master/src/clib-install.c...

[2] https://github.com/clibs/clib/blob/master/deps/fs/fs.c

[3] https://github.com/clibs/clib/blob/master/deps/str-copy/str-...

[4] https://github.com/clibs/clib/blob/master/deps/http-get/http...
Why is this worth $1bil?
I am not sure what you're talking about.

What is the level of 70 for USD?

Also, through what mechanism do you think rate will rise (real or nominal)? It'll have to be with a nudge from the FOMC which implements the monetary policy by buying/selling treasuries from/to the banks. As rates rise, some of those reserves banks have now will get absorbed by the FOMC. Additionally, just because banks have money to lend doesn't mean they're going to throw caution and credit concerns to the wind and start lending again.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
In many/most shells (bash) it inserts the last word of the last line at the position of the cursor. It's very handy when you want to do two or more things to the same file because you don't have to retype the name, just hit alt-..
Me too. And not entering anything gives normal arrow up, so there's no loss.

BTW: ^r is a little more powerful: it is /string/ while this one is /^string/

BTW ^r annoyance: you can't type and then hit ^r. You have to hit ^r first. Seems easy to fix...

BTW tip: if you like readline features, consider rlwrap: it wraps its argument (which is your command) in readline. e.g. rlwrap python. Especially nice to wrap your own interactive cmdline tool.
Anecdotes are just fine on Hacker News. They belong in conversation. People communicate in stories.

Citing studies is fine too, but not required. This is a forum, not a journal.
In some languages, like Scala, you can use structural type annotations to handle this situation.
The problem is that pretty much the entire standard library isn't thread safe. It would take some serious work to get OCaml ready, unless you stick to message passing between distinct processes.
Woah thank you. Did you make this? My only problem is that when I check off a task the loading icon stays up forever.
>but we cannot cling to the strict definitions of these papers

This seems like an incredibly strange sentiment I cannot grasp what you mean. In another field it seems like you would be trying to say "we cannot cling to the strict definitions of gravity." At the end of the day proofs are proofs.
ABC is ambiguous. Do you mean American Broadcasting Corporation (United States) or Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Australia)? My "other" vote is for Google News. I also get a lot of news links from my 700 Facebook friends all over the world.
That email is perfectly legitimate. I can see why now someone doesn't want their website linked from a shady website, that maybe at some point wasn't as shady. To say Google is "breaking"the Internet is easy to proclaim maybe only if to get enough attention on HN. He's using the same exact tactic as the one he is accusing Google of using, namely FUD. How is removing links and placing nofollow attr on links breaking the Internet exactly? If anything this will make the Internet more relevant. The opposite doesn't even make sense from the point of view of Google. They're making money by showing you the most relevant search results so if the Internet is broken and less relevant no one will be using their search anymore and they'll lose too.
Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin [pdf]
All: When you see a comment that is truly bad for HN, you can flag it by clicking "link" to go to the item page and then "flag" at the top. We monitor those flags and take action based on them.
Given what you have said, where should a US-based person put their savings in order to (1) keep up with inflation, and (2) make a reasonable return (somewhere in the 6-10% range)?
> instragram, whatsapp, twitter, secret But those companies are very very hard to build,

I thought part of what made those companies interesting was how easy they were to build. I'm not saying their success was easy but they weren't hard to create were they?

Twitter was created in 3 months. Instagram was created by 2 people. Not sure about Whatsapp or Secret but neither seem much harder. Of course scaling might have been a ton of work but that came after success.
Part of the problem is that Murkans are inherently fearful/distrustful of science and scientists, so it's hard to get any respect -- and the attendant pay raises -- unless you work in defense or "national security". The situation is different in Europe or Asia, though, so if you do want to become a scientist, you'd have a much better time of it outside the USA.
What field are you working in? I am a prospective physics graduate student, and I want to do physics research as a career. However, I am uninterested in going into academia after attaining my PhD, and I am also financially independent due to inheritance.
The answer to how the original person makes this leap is found in the "white flight" debate of the 1960s to 1980s. It's a point of reference that a lot of people on HN don't have (I do not, in any way, want to sound like I'm being demeaning or patronizing; it is an item for discussion, nothing more, and certainly not as an insult).

Having experienced it, and coming from a family that did, basically, just that, the "f-ck you I've got mine" is what drove a lot of that behavior. It could be more accurately expressed as "f-ck you guys, I'm out of here because I have the social, financial, and legal methods to do so," since a lot of the "good" neighborhoods had redlining practices that predated the mass exodus and, even though they became illegal, were still quietly, subtly enforced by real estate agents, mortgage brokers, and nearby property owners. A major symbol of white flight is the rise of the gated community. They gave a way to erect a literal barricade against the undesirables, regardless of skin color but always against "shady" characters.

The last problem is that white flight, and subsequent "I have money"-flight (again, regardless of skin color), essentially drained the urban cities like Detroit, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and Chicago. Some of these are bouncing back--like Dallas--and some not so much. Areas we think of as "Chicago" are, in fact, separate legal municipalities propped up by the massive influx of wealth. The people who lived there commuted into the urban cores, generally on highways paid for on the backs of the people left in the urban areas, to jobs that contribute little to the city where they are located, and then fled back to their quiet suburb where they could enjoy "having theirs."

Is there anything, individually, wrong with what they did? Absolutely not. Those who "fled" took the opportunities available to do them and did so out of an interest of self-worth. The whole point behind flinging "f-ck you, I got mine" as a derogatory remark is that it is half taking out frustrations on a societal dysfunction, half human nature.
The link disappears if you're zoomed in too closely.
Ask HN: Too depressed to continue working. How do I get out?
Almost two months ago my father suddenly died. It ripped me apart. I didn’t make it in time to see him off and the guilt stays with me to this day. Suffice to say, I’m not over it in any capacity. I cry often and my grief has made way to depression. I decided I can’t do this job anymore so I gave my notice of resignation. My employers were sympathetic but reminded me they had a business to run and normally, one must stay on for a month after giving notice. They asked me to stay on for six weeks. Since I spent what little money I had on travel and funeral expenses, I figured six weeks worth of pay would be extremely useful.

I’m on my first of six weeks and I honestly don’t know how I can stay on here. I’m the only developer and I handle support as well as maintenance. I can’t find the energy to care about my work. I also can’t program worth a damn. I’m making silly mistakes and then putting out my own fires in this crazy loop of anxiety and stress.

I’ve been looking for other work, small website development jobs or helpdesk support, something that I can handle while I continue to grieve. The prospects aren’t good for a recent graduate and immigrant in New Zealand but I’ve got 3 months to try before I have to leave. But until then, how do I even continue at this job? If I could do six weeks, I wouldn’t even be considering quitting. I thought I could handle it before but the depression is only getting worse.

What are my options? Screw up and deliberately get fired?
Interesting that this is coming up again. I'd written an essay on the fundamental pattern behind what is at play here, it was well received on HN at the time:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/28r/is_google_paperclipping_the_web_...
This. I agree that there is an element of subjectivity to it (Is Cambridge better than Oxford?), but I think it is simply impossible to successfully defend the claim that (as an example) The University of Phoenix has made more contributions to computer science than, say, Berkeley.

One way — not the only way, but a reasonable way — to measure it is by the # of Turing Award laureates[0]. Cal Poly isn't even on the list. (Neither is it on the list of Nobel Prize winners, for what it's worth).
Same here.

As a user of Twitch, I do not want this to happen. As a person with common sense, if I had an acquisition offer for $1 billion on the table, I'd sell out so freaking fast.
The language color forth does this.
Playable Rubik's cube on Google doodle
Python has the abc module, but it would be a bit wordier than "arg=list". Maybe if the builtins were treated as the corresponding abcs.
How does one pressurize the cabin in a serious vacuum tube?
How long will it take and will there be special requirements to adjust pressures for travelers in such devices?

Is this not essentially equivalent to going for a ride in the space station for us out of shape schlubs?
Facebook Just Added A Button That Lets You Ask Your Friends If They're Single
A bit late to the party. The issue has already been discussed on HN, and the Swiss ended up rejecting the bill anyway: http://www.thelocal.ch/20140518/swiss-vote-on-worlds-highest...
In chicago we get plenty of veg even in the middle of winter (granted it's through use of greenhouses, hoop houses, etc.). Beyond that you can essentially grow a good amount of stuff until the ground freezes (unless you use some of the newer ground insulation methods) especially tubers, etc.
The 20-30 group that is familiar and accustomed to streaming services, or even the basic Netflix delivery service (circa 1997) is not even remotely similar to the generation of kids born in the 70s. And the same goes with the 70s to the 50s. Who still has landlines? Those over the age of 45. (OLD graph but good info; http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/07/74/73/2084546/7/628x471.jpg) They've spent most of their lives with land line phones being the most common means of long distance communication. It was considered essential. Cable is not considered essential to this up and coming generation (millenials) even more so than it was considered not essential to my generation.

Why are you assuming that you need to be 40 and a homeowner to be able to afford $35/mo cable? I'm 29 and have never once in my life paid for cable. I'm an engineer and own. I use Plex with Rokus and Chromecast. Prior to these devices I used Netflix mostly, they started streaming in 2007 but from 1997 to 2007 they still had a fairly decent delivery service.
People don't seem to be reading the actual story posted so let me TLDR it:
Barry Ritholtz has been around and has seen a cycle or two. The economic drivers change but fear and greed still drives the 'melt-ups' and 'melt-downs'. Analyze the market (and what the proper valuation is) in the context of where the economy is now and where it's coming from. Don't dogmatically avoid tech stocks because their valuation multiples are higher than you've been targeting for the last 30 years. Don't buy things just because everyone else is doing it and is making quick paper profits from it.

The old saying of "Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered." is relevant.
Having interacted with them many times, I'd like to add that these folks are some serious soil hackers. Klaas and Mary-Howell Martens are first-rate farmers and their grains are truly exceptional. Friendly, knowledgeable, and sharing. Exciting to see them featured on NYT through HN!
I'm reasonably sure Google is familiar with pagination and filtering, seeing as that's pretty much the entire thing their own website does.

I don't see how the same product under a variety of URLs, one for each category it's in, is at all useful to me as a human. It actually rather annoys me when the same page has a whole bunch of URLs: I can't tell which is the "real" one, my address bar frecency gets messed up, visited links don't work correctly, etc.
apart from the more objective criteria, it's simply a very pleasant language to use. i usually evaluate new application programming languages by what they offer me that ocaml does not.
Some of the subdomain URLs it creates are pretty hilarious. I got https://massive-boys.usefinch.com/
CppCMS, C++ Web Framework
I've actually been exploring nix myself recently. It has some interesting features. I'm finding it quite nice to maintain some C-based packages across both Linux and Mac OS X (where it is somewhat of a competitor to Homebrew).

I've been trying to get it to manage some Ruby applications, complete with gems, private github gems, etc. This has been difficult, in part because some areas of nix are a bit rough, and in part because Rubygems has incomplete dependency information (i.e. there's no standard way to know that, say typhoeus gem depends on C library libcurl, and I'm still unclear on how/if dynamic loading can be made to load the nix packaged libcurl).

Something like nix is what I had in mind with my original question. I'd like to see new languages at least design their custom package managers with these more generic systems in mind. Rubygems has some quirks, and Bundler just includes everything and the kitchen sink (sourcing gems from local files, github, various other features) that complicate matters.

Nix is good for keeping things more or less isolated and tracking complete dependencies, though an alternate way to accomplish similar is something like Docker and then just scripting all the native package managers...
http://i.imgur.com/0IAaSYp.png
Funnily, I remember talking a tech who worked on scaling at Twitch last year, just after the change to the new system. His biggest gripe was with how Twitch struggled with peering agreements, as European ISP's refused the terms Twitch required to get decent performance, so users suffered. Reminds me of the Netflix-Comcast debacle.
Our bodies have what the engineer in me might call a "control system" for blood sugar. When you're talking about control systems in engineering you look at the step response and that's what tells you everything you need to know. You have a "plant" which is the thing you're controlling and you have the "control system" which is the thing that provides negative feedback and thus controls the "plant".

If the control system responds faster than the plant you've got a decent shot at keeping things under control and your system is said to be critically damped or overdamped. Both of these are pretty acceptable solutions for process control. If your system doesn't respond fast enough, it's said to be underdamped and shit is real bad. We're talking the kind of runaway shit that you see in the Tacoma Narrows bridge video. Here's a nice picture of various control systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Second_order_transfer_func...

Our bodies have a control system for hunger, I'm sure of that. But we don't get to choose how fast that control system reacts; that's fixed. For a lot of foods, our control system responds faster than our blood sugar and things are fine. But some foods can cause our blood sugar to go up faster than we can store it or otherwise react to it. Then eventually enough insulin gets dumped into the blood stream that blood sugar starts to crash. So then you get really hungry and start eating again. The more you eat large amounts of easily digestible sugars, the further you go from the critical damping of (zeta = 1) to horrifically underdamped (zeta = 0).

I wonder when the engineers and the scientists are going to get together and hammer this stuff out formally.
I don't know what this means to my startup Shou.TV
Since this is unconfirmed, we added a question mark to the title.
Consider this - does any individual esports team make anywhere near what Lebron James, individually makes, including his salary and all his various sponsorships?

Its easy to sit in your SV bubble and claim such a thing but live sports is huge. ESPN alone is considered to be the most expensive sports channel [1]. Lets be real, how many American children are aiming to be the next Lebron James vs Fatil1ty (how many young people know who Fat1lity is?)

Esports might be more interesting for you and your friends, but lets make sure that we aren't projecting our preferences on 300 million Americans.

[1]http://www.npr.org/2013/08/07/209820647/the-history-and-futu...
Maybe you should collapse these admittedly identical items into variations of the same product, which will reduce the useless duplicated clutter I'd experience when searching your catalogue.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=always+hungry#!/story/forever/0/al...