skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Delusion is an ugly ugly thing. The thoughts are not: 'Im going to be a fraudster', it's more like 'If I don't do this, I'll never be a tenured professor.' Also, from what little I know, China has a huge sense of 'saving face.' These services allow one to save face, if only in the short term. Also, if everyone looses face, it is an easier blow to take, as you are absolved from fault due to social pressure. If you call the emperor out on having no clothes, you make a fool of everyone, not just the leaders. That is very dangerous in a society that high prizes honor and face, as you are calling everyone out on it. It's not likely to make friends.
You're right... But at least it's a shallow copy.
I am aware, and I instantly got the desire to tell them about it. However I couldn't figure out how, so I just left a comment here. I know I likely won't invent a new product, but people need an incentive to submit their ideas, and one of those incentives could be "being told about your idea already existing, and here's how you can make use of it".
Scientific reasons- Why drinking coffee before exercise is great IDEA
Although the challenge will be to actually get the spoon inside his mouth... Now I feel bad about both of us :(
The input factors are slippery because many of them are not easily quantifiable. Quantifiable factors include past financial performance of films employing particular actors, directors, and other creative personnel; ratios of marketing to production budget, run-time, correlation of scene length distribution with power-law spectra, and various others.

Story factors are almost impossible to quantify reliably. There are some popular story schema like the Hero's Journey, and some pacing guides, like Black Snyder's 'Beat Sheets' that look at the structure of many successful movies to make guesses about the optimum time for story structure - eg if it's an action movie you need a fight scene by minute 15, or the Villain has to be appear within a certain time frame and get x minutes of solo screen time - but those tools are fashion-driven and if anything they contribute to the cookie-cutter approach. Whenever someone produces a better-than-average guide to what makes popular movies tick, it is quickly imitated as widely as possible.

I've written several screenplays and dislike templates, but I don't know in detail what people want to see. When I write or am working on film production I just have to keep playing the story like a movie in my head and and attempt to gauge whether it's sufficiently involving and consistent over time. The bigger the budget, the more conservative production decisions are likely to be, since executives and biased in favor of repeatability.
If you think that this is the bulk of AST's legacy, or that real microkernels aren't in general use, you really should get out and learn a bit more about computer science.
Could you recommend other cheaper options which you have tried?
Spoiler below!

The relationship between radius and circumference is linear (C = 2pi * r). When the circumference is increased by 1, the radius increases by 1/2pi. Therefore, the gap has the same size.

Let g be the gap. Then

C + 1 = 2pi * (r + g)
2pi * r + 1 = 2pi * (r + g)
r + 1 / 2pi = r + g
1 / 2pi = g
That's pretty insightful. What I hear you saying, and I agree with what I hear, is that some look at alone time as a means of accomplishing a goal (freedom, et. al.) rather than pursing the solitary activity. Contrast that with myself (and I gather you as well) where I pursue a solitary activity for the sake of the activity, and the solitude is a side effect.

When I'm riding a motorcycle to a far away destination or running a trail on some mountain, I'm doing it to ride a motorcycle or to go for a run. I don't mind being alone, most likely even enjoy it, but that's not what I'm out there for. The exception could be sitting on a meditation cushion, but to me aloneness (EDIT: in the case of meditation) is more of a requirement than a goal.

With all that said, I do have a teensy nit to pick with the title: alone != lonely. Sometimes the two intersect, but not as a rule.
No, those are the four hard things.
or on OSX:

for i in {1..12}; do wget `printf "http://pcgbook.com/wp-content/uploads/chapter%02d.pdf" $i`; done
"/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py" -o ProceduralContentGenerationInGames.pdf chapter*.pdf
The only less productive HN thread someone could Ask: for is "Emacs or vi?".
Sadly, in the US it's common to sue everybody who has some relationship to a case. The idea is that somebody must have deep pockets, and will either settle or you might get lucky to have the court declare the liability "joint and several," i.e., the full responsibility of all of the people getting sued (see, for instance, http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/05/the-state-of-t... ).
Definitely not cheaper than no house payment. In NV for example there are thousands of homedebtors who haven't made a payment since 2008. They're effectively protected by state law until 2017.
Lest we forget that all humans are created equal: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/

Also, for the back and forth links on Ioannidis's 2005 paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._A._Ioannidis#Research_...
Show HN: Emoji Input Chrome Extension (now 31k+ users)
E-Ink now works on cloth, t-shirts soon to be downloadable
It's here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008025

I don't pay close attention to the way HN does these things, but I recall that NSA was one of the terms that the HN moderators chose to penalize. Or they could have manually penalized it as well.

HN is a sandbox that YC created for folks to play in. Their sandbox, their rules. I'm not criticizing you for complaining about the Intercept article being buried on the fourth page or whatnot (I would have more liberal rules if it were my sandbox), but merely saying it's probably not that productive to complain about theirs.
At what level would you test an interviewee with this kind of question: Python guru, Python expert, Python ninja, Python rockstar, or merely "is familiar with Python"? Your example is a very common gotcha that has been covered ad nauseam, but IMO it's still the kind of bug that would be caught immediately in code review and is very easily fixed.
Great resource. Free. What can I say more.

I think one of issue of SysAdmin is that when you read a tutorial and type the command the result, the output is just different and you have no way to validate that the method/command/param is right.

Now with the video, all are there. I know it worked for s.o. If if isn't on my machine, it's my own problem.

I think you should contact http://serversforhackers.com/ to get some advertisement for increasing traffic. It has no way this kind of resource get into the dust.

Hope many people upvote to let this great resource spread out itself.
The cost of win (desktop) licenses is virtually zero, and office subscriptions are also dirt cheap. That's not where you save money. It's a few dollars per month. You can motivate that cost even for someone who uses office apps casually once a week.
That's good, but I think the user needs a way to confirm that the pop-in is actually served by paypal, and that that is where their credentials will go. As it is now, what will stop me from faking one of these forms, making it look totally legit, but instead sending the logins to my own server?
I recall Higgs saying that, by today standards, he would have been fired from his post.
This is what happens when you put googly eyes on inanimate objects
Also immediately flagged and buried. This is fucking bullshit.
Isn't the VTOL version basically a different plane with major differences under the skin? I'm not sure how it directly affected the designs of the non VTOL versions of the airplane...
What's even more amusing about that remark is that - as of MINIX3, at least - MINIX has in fact adopted the NetBSD userland.
Breath of fresh air in music
Split without argument is equivalent to:

>>> filter(None, " quick hack for split".split(" "))
['quick', 'hack', 'for', 'split']
The way I understand the claim, Tor announced "you can do things secretly using our service" and Pinkmeth wanted to secretly do something illegal. The argument is, apparently, that qualifies as a "meeting of the minds." I don't think it will fly, but it's an interesting claim.
It isn't just the rules. I think the post is greyed out because a number of members seem to have flagged it, for no specified reason as far as I can tell. If you look at the post about their Reddit AMA it's the same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8009696
We released 9th Dawn on Google Play in November of 2012. It originally cost $1.99. There are no ads or IAPs. The first few months it was making between $3-4k a month. Over time, that has dropped to a rather stable ~$1.5k a month. In early 2013, we released a free expansion, made the game available on iOS, and raised the price to $2.99, giving us a sizeable bump in sales (we made around $11k that month from the spike). Now across all stores, we have a relatively stable $1.5k-2k a month. We are planning on releasing the remake of the game across all platforms and on Steam here in a couple months, so we'll see where it goes from there. It didn't cost very much to develop, so as a side project that we never expected would generate more than a few hundred sales, we were quite pleased.
"Would consider returning to school after the program is not exactly same as "plan on returning to school". Why not write honest headlines?
Yes they are. Cookies are subject to the same origin policy. The Referer header is not.
Why are some languages adopted and others aren’t?
Company with zero revenue and one employee currently worth 3.8B
XCode 6 beta 3 problems with constaints
Unmonday Model 4.3 [video]
UHD is unrelated to DPI right?
Not untrue, but it's important to note that in many cases 'workplace friend' is basically 'someone they made me sit near that I feel share some interests'. Not exactly someone you'd invite to your birthday party.
I suppose I'm rather out of touch with the not-cs hourly wages in the US. According to:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/04/26/is-journal...

Journalists earn (for ~2000 hours/year) between 15 and 28 (without a graduate degree), while lower level CS started at around 25/hour. So I was clearly wrong, but it would also appear journalism isn't especially low paying either?

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/202644/gov-stat...

Seem to mostly agree.
My mom was kind of a health nut when we were a kid, she was getting organic food way before it was in vogue to do so, and I remember when she got us Cinnamon capsules to take in the morning with our other vitamins. I always thought it was silly to take a caplet full of cinammon, but I guess maybe there was something to it
It shows up if you are on a Google Apps account.
I don't know about the pictures but they could have legally slept with each other in Austria. I have never heard of sexting cases here unless the pictures were made available to a wider public.
We're about a month away from releasing really inexpesnive iBeacons w/ sensors, ARM, etc. -- sub $10.

You can program them to do additional processing if you want. What's your email address? Would love to have you as part of our beta.
His Computer Network book is one of the few that I never sold back to the bookstore. Mine is less than 6 feet from me right now, should I need to consult it.
I don't think articles with "NSA" in them should be penalized just because... a lot of this still is very relevant, affects a large number of the HN users, is newsworthy, etc. Granted, there is a lot of "NSA" stuff floating around... but that doesn't mean it should be suppressed... no?
WTF is this comment? Chastising someone for satire? Get a grip.
Its truly to best international option out there. And a lot of people only trust paypal.
Hopefully this means I won't have to pay £1.61 in bank transfer fees every month.
Please point me to a place where I can understand how to do Objective C in a "not hard to learn" sort of way.

There is way too much going on in XCode that a web developer wouldn't get or understand without having broad strokes glossing over the Interface, file structure, or behaviors included therein.
Perhaps this is a good reason to make referers subject to the same origin policy?
What is Cuil Theory?
"All you need to do is make the expected value of an attack against the system worth less than just doing some actual research."

you'll always have some people willing to take a gamble on the risk to get the reward, especially if it's a low % chance that they get any penalty at all. on top of the conscientious choice, humans are bad at estimating low-likelihood risks.
Ridiculous Google Interview Questions
Apple's Secret War Against Samsung is Working
I feel the best way to fix this situation is to apply some pressure on said ACA; report his conduct to the state bar.

http://www.vsb.org/site/regulation/inquiry
One of the oddworld devs, Charles Bloom, is a guru of compression and has a really fascinating blog you should follow: http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com
I would disagree with the phrase "effectively random" because its too general. Chaotic attractors survive the presence of noise and Chaotic systems look nothing like random data when viewed in a certain way.

Another way of looking at real systems, is that the system is deterministic and the errors are random.
You sort of proved his point. Your preference for working alone is because you avoid being in a team.
100% agree. Google has way too much power over the Internet and web already. Just try blocking google.com in your hosts file and see how far you get online.
I agree. Blindly suppressing any post somewhat regarding the "NSA" is not good.
Seconded..
Therefore, the addition of "... and we can still steal what you negotiate"
In the aerospace industry there is something called "Simplified Technical English"[1]. Maybe something like that already exists for your domain as well?

From the linked Wikipedia article:

The approved words can only be used according to their specified meaning. For
example, the word "close" can only be used in one of two meanings:

- To move together, or to move to a position that stops or prevents materials
from going in or out
- To operate a circuit breaker to make an electrical circuit

The verb can express close a door or close a circuit, but cannot be used in
other senses (for example to close the meeting or to close a business).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
WikiLeaks... never forget
I fully expect they should own microwaves, refrigerators, tvs... just not cars prefaced with "luxury". Even middle class people have no business owning such things. Even the lowest of the low end Mercedes is 30k. That's way too much to pay for a car unless you're independently wealthy. I don't care how many commercials someone's watched that tell them otherwise.
Way Out West Hack 2014
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The problem can be rephrased to avoid the ambiguity. Something like "A hole is bored through a sphere such that the void in the remaining material has the shape of a cylinder 6 inches tall".

I guess the overall idea is anyway to reveal the elegant mathematical result. Wikipedia does a good job of talking clearly about it:

In geometry, the volume of a band of specified height around a sphere—the part that remains after a hole in the shape of a circular cylinder is drilled through the sphere—does not depend on the sphere's radius.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napkin_ring_problem
For some reason, Google wants me to be logged in to visit that blog - I think I've visited before without logging in...
Hey guys, I run a nonprofit that helps kids in Africa receive an education, so I launched a campaign to raise some money online yesterday. If any of you guys would be willing to show your parents the link if they're interested in donating, that would be extremely helpful.
It is tax deductible if you're wondering!
These kids are extremely intelligent, but due to financial circumstances outside of their power, they struggle immensely with school fees. If we can ensure these kids receive a proper education, they will contribute positively to their countries, Nigeria and Tanzania, and the world in the future.

Even if you don't want to donate, sharing the link with some friends would be helpful as well.

Thanks!
Samarth
M+ M are the monospaced fonts
Ask HN: What's the best book for learning PHP and MySQL
As you point out though, it depends on where the function is coming from:

$ python -mtimeit -s'nums=range(10)' '[str(i) for i in nums]'
100000 loops, best of 3: 2.57 usec per loop

$ python -mtimeit -s'nums=range(10)' 'map(str, nums)'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.88 usec per loop

$ python -mtimeit -s'nums=range(10)' 'import math' '[math.sqrt(i) for i in nums]'
100000 loops, best of 3: 3.25 usec per loop

$ python -mtimeit -s'nums=range(10)' 'import math' 'map(math.sqrt, nums)'
100000 loops, best of 3: 2.55 usec per loop
In my state the only qualifications are that you paid the insurance for the last x months, and didn't quit or get fired for good reason.
And which PHP framework should I learn?
Russia test launches first new space rocket since Soviet era
I'm going to go ahead and assume that most developers don't have access to the millions of dollars in market research, analytics, focus groups, design theory, etc. etc. etc. that Google and Apple do.

Why would we abandon an aesthetic (that as of the L preview) that is two of the best and cleanest looking interfaces on the planet?
A good team is better than being alone. A bad team... well, I'll take alone any day over that.
I really appreciate Niko's efforts into blogging about this sort of thing. It's really neat to watch Rust evolve in a fairly public manner. I'm not sure if there is any other language where these sorts of relatively early design decisions have been played out publicly before.

I also found this article really interesting: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/05/13/focu....
Thanks so much for discussing with us. We’d love to engage with you directly and get you a quote for larger 1,000 and up beacon quantities. I’m available at steve at estimote dot com. Estimote has been 100% focused on making the initial experience with developers easy and fast. As such we’re selling the hardware as a kit for $99. But we don’t charge that much for bulk beacon orders. The challenge with deploying 1,000 beacons is not the beacon cost as you point out – it’s in security, extensibility and all the elements of RAS that a networking protocol carries with it. In fact all of those are smaller parts of your overall cost, which is to build a mobile app and experience. We understand that. These deployments are much more similar to enterprise Wi-Fi in that regard – access points are a small percentage of the deployment of Wi-Fi. In fact, even one site deployment of beacons which needs to be switched out (say due to failure) would cost more than the beacons themselves. Which is why saving a few thousand dollars on beacons makes no sense. Trust me we’re tripling down on 100% fully integrated hw / sw in order to create the tools and end to end experience that developers need to be successful.
Mathematica 10 Released
It would be nice if we could store SSL certificates on DNS records, like how email signing (domankeys/DKIM) works.

Looks like there's already some effort for this: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4398
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672239
Something terrible could be happening in Parliament on Monday
Knowing how to apply statistics is a good way to determine answers to questions. And knowing answers to questions isn't a skill used only by developers; it's a skill useful for every profession.

"Data science" is more-or-less a buzzword that sounds cool.
Funny how Braintree had to build that for PayPal :)
I empathize with your compassion but I've downvoted you because the existence of worse problems shouldn't preclude all other discussion.
HOPE FOR HIP HOP WOW SHES GOT BARS and BRAINS
there is also http://adexchanger.com/
Looking at the Wiki page, the Sun Blade 100 dates from 2000 to 2006, PCs from that era were reasonably powerful by most modern standards, just lacked 1) a lot of cores, 2) shitloads of memory. For most uses, they are still great for daily tasks, and at a university, he probably had access to some remote supercomputer if he really needed it :P

My ageist perspective here is that what you're describing takes a bit of work and most "older" profs can't be arsed to do that work, so the simplest explanation is that he just still runs an old computer :)
Mathematica 10 released
Me too. perhaps they didn't prepare for the traffic spurt from HN?
If any of the detractors here have better ideas about how to allow companies to work together to avoid falling victim to state-sponsored cyberattacks, I'm sure suggestions would be valuable, even if not sent to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Just think of it as helping the private sector avoid falling victim to attacks from the NSA, if it helps, since if they can stop the NSA then they should also be able to stop things like the Aurora attack launched against Google.
Which introductory tutorials have you read?
The page loads fast but the images are crawling, they really need to get these things on to a CDN or scale them down to the size they are displayed at (the file size of one of these things that I checked is 2 megabytes, and the server is transferring at 50KB/s or less)
I'm an infosec guy, and I think sometimes we can make things so difficult for attackers that it becomes too difficult for our sysadmins to do their jobs. Using obscure, pseudorandom server names is a good example of this. If I get an alert that says, "uxeprdweb05 is down", I know to immediately check the Mason, OH, production hypervisor cluster/web server rack. If the alert says, "I-2A51DDBCE621 is down", I have to look up that host in my CMDB before starting any troubleshooting. Sure, "uxeprdweb05" leaks information to attackers, but it's nothing they couldn't find out with a port scan. In the meantime, I and my colleagues don't have to go through a lot of unnecessary indirection to do our jobs.

As to the security benefits of configuration management tools, again, speaking as an infosec guy, I love them. I can push a locked-down, default-deny base config out to all of the computers under my care, and I don't have to worry about making a mistake or missing a step or forgetting to document something. I can work with the devops team to set up automated functional and security testing using a continuous integration tool, so that config changes (including security updates!) get vetted automatically in a development or test environment before being pushed to production. I can put the whole config under revision control, so if there is a service or security incident due to a config change, we can figure out how our development and testing processes failed us - and how we can improve them.

And finally, speaking as a ardent FreeBSD user, I wholly agree that Ubuntu is utter rubbish.

;)
Everybody, listen to this person!
The confusion is that people assume the expression is evaluated every time the method is called.

Because that's how it works in a lot of other languages, such as Ruby and Javascript.
In the "expanded" set, there are technically three hard things - you forgot dealing with February 29th.
Naive comment: Indian food is loaded with cinnamon. Especially sweets. So why is India host to second largest population of Parkinsons afflicted[1]? Or maybe people are not served cinnamon rich food as they grow older because they are also rich in fat and sugar? I guess orthogonal studies like these don't have much value. There are obviously several other factors at work here.

1. http://www.epda.eu.com/en/parkinsons/life-with-parkinsons/pa...

Edit: Explicit naivety
Edit 2: Hold on. Just glossed over the fact that we also have the second largest population on earth. In that case, there might be a correlation after all.