skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. My alcohol use has been becoming less and less as I get older. I love a nice wine or good beer, but my nights of going out partying are way behind me.
Haha, that is amazing! Nice work!
If we did that, wouldn't people just run more Enron-type scams?

Fraudsters and con men have been engaged in a Red Queen's race against investor intelligence and government regulation since there has been economies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_Hypothesis

These regulations might be messy but they contain valuable information that has been learned from this arms race. They're patches to try to prevent the same thing from happening again. It's much like computer security, where OSes and network protocols are constantly patched or re-engineered to be resistant to newer attacks. "Attacks only get better."

It may however be possible to improve Sarbox by reducing its complexity, thereby reducing the complexity tax that harms smaller companies and discourages growth IPOs.
It might seem that way, but that's not true. There's a genuine timer. If you click on the `link' view, you probably just took long enough to run out the timer.
I like how it says "tonight" but there is no day either on the post or on the thread. Looks like people are posting more than 24hrs ago though, which makes me think the day has already past...
IIRC, someone else with more expertise may show up, but the studies showing that drinking is helpful for heart disease say that this is about drinking one. Not "way too much" - mortality increases dramatically if you drink way too much, over what it would be if you didn't drink at all. The advantage of drinking is completely erased by drinking too much.

The message isn't as mixed as you think.
They Came. They Sawed (2004)
The irony of a hacker magazine relying on print distribution. Wouldn't a 1337 4axx0r figure out something with mobile apps, websites, ads, etc?
downlaod -> http://9ol.es/BOOTSTRA.386/assets/bootstrap.zip -> 404
Mobile - Using PGP on a mobile device can be risky, as it requires storing the private key on devices that are likely to have known security issues. Many people recommend against it, as it puts the private key at too much risk.

ARGH. The whole point of PGP keyrings --- the costliest part of the PGP UX --- is that you don't have to have a single key. If you're terrified of exposing your secret key on your mobile device (which is frankly the most secure device you own), just cut a new key for it.

Any time someone suggests a new application for PGP, people come out of the woodwork saying things like "what, you want me to put my PGP key in my browser?" No. We want you to put --> a <-- PGP key there.
I kinda like this "scorched earth" policy: If public airwaves paradoxically cannot be used by the public because of performance/copyright laws, why not just scrap it?

I had a curious thought this morning, probably echoing some of the sentiments I've read here (and elsewhere). We're overlooking the precipice of a sort of "regulation paralysis" that's threatening the tech industry in the US. If we continue down this path, in 20 years, we're going to be substantially behind other nations. And to what end? To protect incumbent companies that have deep pockets for lobbying efforts in their financial favor?

Where was that study that suggested reading news leads to depression? I should stop while I'm ahead.
www.sleepmarrykill.com

I wanted to take node/redis for a spin and this was one of the more simple web apps I could think of. There isn't any data in the system right now so don't take the percentages too seriously.

I might add the ability for users to upload images so people could up make funny trios and share them, but since this was more of a learning experience I doubt I'll get that far before something else takes my interest.
These cause can be prevented technically, but not socially. It is possible, though, in different social conditions, like these of a high-security prison, monastery, or a Mars-bound spaceship with a carefully chosen crew. There the levels of suicide, homicide, alcoholism can be either negligible or strictly zero.

The catch is that these conditions assume severe limitations of personal liberties, voluntary or imposed by force. Obviously this is not a realistic model of a society I (and probably you) would like to live all my life.
Maybe someone who's read piketty book can explain something to me ?
From what i've read, It claims that wealth growth is superior to economic growth, in the long term. But how can this be possible, since wealth growth is a part of economic growth ?

I mean, if a big family own a lot of real estates, and that real estate gains value, then doesn't this increase of value also makes the general economy grow as well ?

It can't be as trivial, so there's probably something i'm missing in the definitions. Anyone ?
We should get in touch, I've started translating Mycin into CoffeeScript, with the hopes of creating a crowdsourced medical expert system within the summer.
I'm working on a platform that allows everyone create HTML5 and mobile games directly in the browser without any programming knowledge. Still in a very early stage. First MVP will come in a month.

screenshot: http://goo.gl/rLVcM6
some devlog videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/symplatonix
Automotive accidents are high in part due to alcohol though.
The problem is that coursera classes thin out dramatically as you reach the graduate (or even middle/upper undergraduate) level of whatever topic silo you are interested in. CS might be an exception, but the offerings in large swaths of chemistry and physics are extremely meager and I imagine that's the case in, say, biology, the humanities, etc.

Universities have precisely the opposite problem: professors love to teach high-level classes in their fields of interest but they don't particularly care for the intro-level classes.
I'm working on simplifying Erlang's syntax [1] (its a grammar and examples).

I have this Uni project that I was allowed to do in Erlang [2] (300LOC, readable, distributed text mining).

I'm also maintaining a somewhat famous unofficial doc of Erlang [3].

[1] https://github.com/fenollp/kju

[2] https://bitbucket.org/fenollp/tmln-google

[3] http://erldocs.com/
SoundCloud Command-Line Client
Not predictable or well-specified in comparison to what? Buffer overflows are not caused by the language. They are a well-known risk of developing in native code. Well-known risks are not surprises.

Part of being unsurprising is being one of the oldest and most popular programming languages. There's no excuse for being surprised by what's well known.
Here's an interesting presentation with some statistics: http://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/acsec/acsec-090712-ritter-s.... Here's the associated paper: http://fisher.osu.edu/supplements/10/12092/Where%20Have_Apri....

Section 6-7 of the paper are most relevant. Section 6 analyzes the question of whether SOX is causing a decrease in IPO's using estimations of SOX compliance costs. It concludes that: "[w]e find the effect of paying the compliance cost on the profitability for small firms to be limited." They also look at whether SOX compliance is driving U.S. companies to other countries that don't have such a regulatory regime: "[i]f SOX is an important reason for why companies, especially small companies, are not listing in the U.S., we might observe many U.S. companies going public abroad." They do not find that effect to exist.

They present the alternative hypothesis: that there is an increasing benefit to being part of a large firm (being acquired via M&A) than there is to being a small, independent public firm (doing an IPO). They analyze this hypothesis in section 7, by looking at the post-IPO behavior of companies. They hypothesize that if the burden of regulation is the driving force, we might see many companies go private after IPO-ing. Alternative, if it's the increased advantages of scale, we will see companies be acquired post-IPO. They find evidence of an increasing number of companies being acquired within three years of an IPO.

They conclude: "We posit that there has been a fundamental change in many sectors of the economy whereby the importance of bringing products to market quickly has increased. This hypothesized change has resulted in lower profits for independent small companies relative to the potential profits generated as part of a larger organization that can realize economies of scope and rapidly expand production. If this explanation is correct, fewer firms are going public and staying independent because value is being created in a sale to a strategic buyer in the same or related industry."
I was a super heavy drinker until 363 days ago. From about 24 until 31 my drinking increased from something I did to alleviate my social anxiety and have the typical 1st world fun to something I did in and of itself. Drinking was no longer a means to an end to meet people and have fun, it was the fun itself.

At that point you're trading drinking for all sorts of other things you could be doing on the weekend. It's a "hobby" and a lifestyle and comes with sacrifices.

Having a problem is a continuum and not black and white. I held a job and did progressively better for myself even in spite of drinking, however, I'd be lying if I said it didn't effect me at all. Only you can decide if the risk is worth the reward.
they switched to long range IR cameras to provide a contrast for better viewing
Facebook altered 689,000 users' News Feeds for a psychology experiment
The problem with nordic countries is they may be "exceptions that prove the rule". You have to consider:

1. Natural resources

2. Massive advantage after WW2 (low damage, all other factories in Europe were destroyed)

3. Cultural context

In the end of 1940s GDP/person in Sweden was 2x comparing to Germany. Now they are closing the gap, Sweden got relatively high unemployment and the government is cutting the taxes to stimulate the growth.
+1 Exactly what was required. It's hard to find opinionated guides on the web for this sort of thing and can be sometimes overwhelming for someone just starting out. Great project!

Is there a way I can subscribe for updates via email? Thanks a ton!
Yeah, I have mixed feelings about that one; I almost didn't include it, but it's an argument that I hear often enough that I thought it was worth pointing out.

Personally, I have my key on my phone, and I'm fairly comfortable with it - though there are certainly some that aren't.
Even the Editor of Facebook's Mood Study Thought It Was Creepy
I'm building a robot to drag around a ribbon toy for my cats. It supports either autonomous motion or receiving commands from a PC via a wireless link.
I have no idea why HN doesn't have collapsible comments like reddit. There's literally no downside and extremely easy to implement, it would solve the same problem this is trying to solve.
But, wouldn't that mean that if you share the same email account on your Desktop and Phone, that using a different key on your phone would mean you could not decrypt emails intended for your Desktop?

My understanding was that you can associate a key with your email address, does this just mean you would have two keys associated, one for "me@me.com Desktop" and one for "me@me.com Phone"?
It looks like they just cloned the bootstrap website and changed the theme. They probably don't include bootstrap.zip because this is just a demo, and they wouldn't have the bandwidth to distribute all of bootstrap as a zip file.
Android crypto key theft vulnerability affects 86% of devices
StoreDot charges your mobile phone in 30 seconds
Yes sir, that's about the size of it.
I'm the same -- at the ripe age of 28, I had two nice beers with dinner the other night and woke up with a headache.

I can barely handle it anymore; which is arguably a good thing. I still enjoy a good beer, but other than that, have basically lost the taste for all other alcohol.
Using Math to Automate Recipes
2600 has been in print for almost 30 years, longer than probably most HN readers have been alive I would wager. You can get it on Kindle these days too, IIRC it's only a buck a month (but still published quarterly).
So, try to regulate drinking until automatic cars save us?
Are you going to be adding more genres yourself? Or are you waiting for more people to submit songs?

I think it would be cool to have a search by band member so you could see what other bands someone has played in.

I do have to say, it looks pretty cool, but with a bit more features it could be a kick-ass site.
Marvelous Mechanical Motions
>and if we accept as a given that attempting to tax away the resulting fruits of that productivity is on the whole economically injurious to an economy

I wouldn't accept that.

Obviously 100% confiscatory tax rates would remove personal motivation. But there is a great deal of room below 100%, that would both allow for redistribution of wealth and for plentiful motivation for the overachievers.

Consider a scheme where typical capitalist is 100 richer than typical worker - still plenty of room for motivation, don't you think?

Besides that, inheritance tax does a lot to redistribute wealth, without necessarily destroying the motivation.

Another thing I can imagine is that wealthy individual will have to spend the money he made, or have it taxed heavily. All the lavish consumption is still a good motivator for working hard and getting rich, but without as much long term inequality.

Bottom line is that motivating best performers is not necessarily incompatible with redistribution.
There's a big problem generalizing from Enron. Enron was more complex than that.

There were two basic defects with Enron:

1) The energy traders were rogue by virtue of poor governance. The problem was baked into the compensation scheme there and could not be undone.

2) Skilling was rogue, but his sort of SPE manipulation was actually quite common.

The rest of the company is believed to have been fundamentally sound.

Enron was the big hero until they basically put CALPERS at risk. Then the story changed. I watched as the California energy deregulation unfolded. It was apparent that it would fail exactly as it did.

There's a larger background of boom-bust globally but especially concentrated in the US for ( I think ) path-dependent reasons. See "Nation of Deadbeats" for a semi-historical treatise on the subject. This goes back to John Law and the Mississippi Bubble - but each is different.

I don't get the feeling the whole subject is clearly understood. The dominant "left-right" beliefs are not helpful. The left believes regulation can fix it; the right thinks ... something else will ( usually a bland nod towards competition).

Thinking about stability is quite new. It's not clear we know what we're doing.
Change has to start somewhere. Starting with a draft and getting feedback from the community before pushing it ahead for more formal standardization seems like the right place to me.

As I said in the article, my goal is to get people talking about potential solutions. I have little hope that the solution I propose will be accepted and used as is - but if it gets more people talking, and discussions going about something that will work, then it was worth the effort.
I think the point of Quora was just to get engagement up with whatever it took to keep people posting and upvoting. It was addicting, but forget getting answers to questions unless you were one of the sites better known users. Quora is the Zynga of the Q&A format, and created about as much value.
Why were they compiling without the optimizer (-Oo) in the first place?
Ah, that would be a very different list. Still, it's an inadequate device to craft assumptions about the wealth of wealthy people. If someone falls off the hot list, are we to assume that they suffered an MC Hammer style bankruptcy, or did they just retain a static amount of wealth, and get edged out by ever-more fabulously wealthy upstarts?
"It suggests you're going to have a gigantic productivity boom. Isn't that the world we want to live in?"

Depends. If the future is like the last 30 years, we'll see another "productivity boom" but zero rise in real wages.
I'm working on a new python based system, consists of Flask and many helpful extension built-in by default.

it will be an easy starter template for any kind of project, and it will have a css on the front (Bootstrap or Purecss), User management (Registeration/Authentication),Asset management, Admin panel, caching, Redis, Task Queue, and two database stores (SQL and no-SQL), and a websocket push functionality.

I call it, the framework for the next decade :)
don't forget to post on the mailing list when you publish it
You can encrypt messages to more than one key. You have to be pretty fussy to begin with to even have this concern.
Sure will, I'm planning to be in EuroPython soon in Berlin, but planning to put an initial version before that on Github.
Have you ever watched George Carlin's bit on why education is so bad in the US?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMqJvhmD5Yg

Of course Carlin is a comedian and there is no evidence (that I am aware of) of a conspiracy to dumb down education. I think it's probably more of a case of a noxious wilting blight disease called bureaucracy. Education certainly isn't the only institution stunted and crippled by this infection either.

The bottom line is... if you want a good rounded education, you are going to have to do it yourself. An institution might help with this but isn't going to be the whole answer...and, they are becoming less helpful it seems. Although there are no doubt some corners of the academic world that have so far proved resistant to bureaucratic blight... these are becoming less and less frequent.
I've been working on a web based JSON generator called ObjGen that lets users model and generate JSON data interactively using an easy to use shorthand syntax. I wanted to write a tool for quick modeling and prototyping of API values for other projects that I work on. Since putting it online, I've gotten some good user feedback and have heard that it's been helpful for students just learning about JSON and data structures. Check it out here http://www.objgen.com/json?demo=true

I have a couple of other live generators online there too for creating html fragments and java classes, but haven't really updated them in a while. The html generator is Bootstrap aware, but only supports Bootstrap 2 css. The html generator was good for pair mockup sessions, but haven't used it much lately because my other projects are all Bootstrap 3 now.
The Hacker News Enhancement Suite[0] has the ability to collapse comments, along with highlighting new posts in a thread, cleaning up the interface colors a bit, and noting other users whom you've upvoted in the past.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
Nicely done. This made me nostalgic.
the compiler will rely on undefined behaviour all the time for any given set of optimisations, a lot of them are harmless. the compiler can't know if a use of undefined behaviour is intentional and safe, or unintentional and dangerous.

you could then argue that there are some cases in which undefined behaviour is obviously a mistake. and this is what the static code analysis in clang does. it's just not on by default.
There's not really a STDIN or STDOUT.

The vision is a souped-up 64-bit modern C64.

Linux wants to be a mainframe.
Not currently. I've setup a twitter account where I'll post updates https://twitter.com/how_i_start and you'll see updates here https://github.com/howistart/howistart before they go live.

Depending on how much this picks up I may expand to having an update subscription list.

Python and Elixir are next up. Those will hopefully be out by the second week of July.
I do this with node and python projects. I develop using nix on a Mac, then deploy to NixOS servers.

One thing I've found handy is to create a .profile file in the root of my project directory with additional shell customization for that project (eg. bash functions for running my tests).

Then I have a function in my login profile that invokes nix shell (essentially) like this:

nix-shell --command "source .profile; return" default.nix

That makes it really easy to drop into a customized development environment, with all my dependencies taken care of, and which exactly corresponds to the environment that will be present at deployment time.

It's fantastic.
But browserify does concatenate everything.
In "Fragile By Design", Charles Calomiris and S.H. Haber basically compare/contrast Canada and the US and it seems that in Canada, "social spending" is an explicit government function where in the U.S., it's swept under the rug using finance to try to preserve certain myths.

It's probably not the whole story, but it's compelling.
It looks pretty cool but I think it would be nice if you could put the instructions somewhere more visible. Maybe I'm just retarded but I couldn't figure it out until I noticed the little question mark. Maybe somewhere on the side rather than below.
Embedded programming is nothing like programming as people on HN know it. The dev who writes a native-code Markdown gem for Rails is going to be surprised at how different the experience of writing a SPI bus driver is.

So I don't find your argument very compelling. You have to do better than to point at how different an experience it is to code in an environment without object cloning and threats. That argument is almost tautological! You have to show how Javacard Java is fundamentally dissimilar as a language to Java. But almost the entire list of language features you cited here are absent because they don't make sense in the Javacard programming environment, not because they've been replaced with some other alien language concept.

At any rate: you were wrong to begin with when you scoffed at the idea of Java being used for remote controls, given that small consumer electronics were the original problem domain for the language that became Java, and you're wrong today, given that there are relatively popular and very successful small-form-factor embedded environments based on Java.
While what you say is very true, I do think the churn on the Forbes list is actually due to the fortune of companies. Most people on the Forbes list are not diversified. If the company the person founded plummets, so does their wealth.

I happened to attend high school with the children of Dennis Bakke, who graced the Forbes list for 3 straight years. Shares in AES, the company he started, peaked at ~$68/share in the Fall of 2000. By July of 2002, AES was at $3/share. He hasn't been on the list since the plummet.

That story is fairly common among the lower ranks of the Forbes list.
Does anyone else find it strange that the definitions of binge and heavy drinking vary so much between the men and women groups? I would think that only body weight would be the heavy influence on this.

Is USA Today just being sexist?
Ask HN: Introducing my Wife to Programming for Data Analysis
TLDR; Person with MSSQL query background is new to programming wants to learn. Should she learn R or Python and where is a good place for her to start?

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My wife is an economist for the state of Minnesota. She and her department deal with data on economic growth and unemployment statistics. The mostly rely on SQL to parse their data.

She is in the position to introduce a new way of handling statistical computing and took my advice and bought an R book. The book makes too many assumptions about her background, so it's not very helpful. When we began discussing this, I started to think that Python may be more helpful and more generalized for their needs.

Where would be a good place for her to start? Is R or Python the "correct" way to introduce her to this world of ours and which should she consider if she eventually wants to become the evangelist in her department to get others to adopt it?