skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is certainly true that productively developing a valuable skill set will set you apart from the vast majority. With a few helpful insights, the right attitude, and an ability to quickly overcome obstacles, you will be an exceptional person, without a doubt. If you assign credit for success to a person's attitude and perseverance, then certainly "luck" had little to do with it.

Where things get dicey is when you ask the next set of "whys". I.e., "why does this person have such a helpful attitude? why do they have such perseverance?". To what do we attribute these qualities? If it's genes, then it's luck (you can't take credit for your genes). If it's parenting, then it's luck (you can't take credit for your parenting).

Perhaps it's neither genes, nor parenting, but instead "spirit" or "will". So, whence these qualities? The person's "soul"? Something immaterial? Anyone who provides these kinds of answers is necessarily endorsing brain-mind dualism, which (near as anyone can tell) is almost surely false.

Does this mean that everyone can disclaim personal responsibility for their actions? Surely not. Choosing to believe in one's own agency in turn empowers one's own agency. But everyone's believing in a fiction, no matter how necessary or adaptive this fiction happens to be, doesn't render it true.
Certainly illegal. Marital status is a protected class in the United States.
Not my theme, just one I use and really like.
$1.8b bail?
Indian government gonna make a lot of money..
Can you write your thoughts more directly? I don't understand what you're trying to say.

White male privilege is different from the disadvantages low-income people face. There are 50 daily effects of white privilege in McIntosh's original essay, most of which are about how if one is not white then their motivations and successes may often be seen through a lens of their race.

The idea that a white male from a rural, low-income community has the same advantage as a white male from a middle or upper class urban area is weird to me. This is about socioeconomic status, not race. Your Onion quote fails to differentiate, but... it's The Onion, isn't it.

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack: http://amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_status
Raise the minimum wage to increase inflation.. Stupid
"Marital status" is unrelated to "household size".
In Canada we have a "disadvantaged group" rule, which basically says that discrimination is fine as long as you're discriminating in the right direction. I wasn't sure if the US had anything similar.
Is there anything stopping researchers from opening labs on Indian reservations?

There might be some technical requirements (like Native Americans have to be the owners) and it might be expensive, but I'm sure someone in the Native American community sees the extreme importance of this research.
Bjango says[1] they've made iStat Menus 5 compatible with dark mode, I'd be shocked if that wasn't automatic. And a project[2] on github has some discussion about solutions to make it automatic, looks simpler than I first assumed.

[1]http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

[2]https://github.com/pilotmoon/Scroll-Reverser/pull/11
>Or you say, "rising health care costs are a huge problem, and the bulk of costs are in the elderly. Therefore, we want to find ways to reduce age-associated morbidity and thereby lower costs."

I honestly hadn't thought that this isn't a genuine good argument in favor of anti-aging research.
Mechanical Engineer here: 50k for injection molding complete setup is _very_ reasonable. Dies alone can cost 50k.
Another big problem that makes it hard to raise this kind of money is that none of these FDM printers have anything that differentiates them from every other printer. There are only a handful of different gcode interpreter/motor driver boards. Almost all of those boards use the same Marlin firmware. They all use Repetier Host has the PC software. They all have roughly the same printing resolution. They all use the same hotends. They all require too much tinkering, maintenance, and learning curve to ever be a mass market product. On top of that, ask any hobbyist who owns one how often they use it after the initial wow factor wears off. Most people run out of stuff to print pretty quickly.

Besides Makerbot, who has the advantages of 5 years of experience and VC money, none of the low end FDM printers have any sort of moat to make new customers want their printer over the newest kickstarter project. And Makerbot isn't even competing on price anymore.

Without some major innovation in ease of use, print resolution, print time, print material, or reliability, I don't see how a startup FDM printer can raise the kind of money outlined in the article.
Ask HN: What is your sleep schedule?
How much do you sleep? When do you sleep? Are you napping during the day? Have you tried "hacking" your sleep (e.g. polyphasic, biphasic)?

I'm currently doing a standard 8 hour per night, but I'm considering trying out 6 hours and a 20 minute nap during the day. I played around with polyphasic sleep before but always failed in adopting such a schedule.
a kid like Zuckerberg (with a dentist father and psychiatrist mother) is going to get get the message "hard work is rewarded" reinforced

I trust that Zuckerberg, a member of a prominent family in White Plains and a Harvard alum, knows full well that he owes his success to family and university networks. Hard work is for the peones.

Also: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/11/x/28169...
I'm personally fond of filling an error buffer, but a bit more explicitly than just an int.

typedef struct APIError {
int code;
char *description;
};

/**
* Returns NULL and fills the error parameter if creation was unsuccessful.
*/
Something APICreateSomething(bool param1, int param2, APIError *error);

So common execution would be:

APIError error;
Something something = APICreateSomething(true, 3, &error);

if (error) {
// handle error...
}

And if the user passed in NULL for the error parameter, then that's their problem, and they won't get error information.
> In the US the people didn't want to convert to metric

Manufacturers aren't all people. Overall acceptance of the change by the public wasn't the main driver in stopping this effort. Corporate lobbying was however, as usual.

In UK since they trade with the rest of Europe, lobbyists were not so eager to sabotage it. In US they are more isolated so they were more negative.
In general, macs have great linux hardware support. Also, they have an unrivaled track pad. Seriously, I will keep buying macbooks until I find another multi-touch track pad that is better. Btw, does anybody know of one? To tzury's point, the "homebrew" package manager basically makes it so a mac can act as a decent dev machine. Virtualbox will help fill in those gaps. FWIW, check out the Dell XPS 13 developer edition: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx. It comes from the factory with Ubuntu loaded and supposedly good developer friendly features
Why on earth would you automatically assume violation of the law when the OP never even hinted at that. Seriously... enough with the witch hunt. You have no more valid reasons to be upset -- we have discussed and debunked them all.
Conway's Proof Of The Free Will Theorem
Not people. Lobbying groups. I wouldn't equate the two. Don't tell me in UK people suddenly spoke the opposite. No, most were not comfortable with the change either, but it was a necessary change. The difference is that in UK unions and lobbying groups were less inclined to fight it, because they are more involved in global European market which uses the metric system. It wasn't about people, it was about politicians losing or not losing lobbying support.
That bail amount is insane. It would make sense if someone told me that it was a ploy to set a world record. It is a world record.

I am curious to know what parameters the court considered to set bail at this high an amount.
I use proto.io and really like it. It's got the templates you're looking for, but can also do some pretty advanced (for a prototyping tool) animations and UI logic using variables.
Yes, but with the same syntax you could have written '\x -> b x', changing that assumption entirely.
It's not just convenient and pleasant: just like everyone, those who are successful recognize the impact of their own decisions and behavior on a moment to moment basis. They succeed when they try hard, forego immediate pleasure for delayed gratification, and in a disciplined way execute on a particular plan.

When the wealthy and successful criticize others for not behaving similarly, they are externalizing their own personal internal heuristic/narrative that they use to compel themselves to take responsibility for the way they spend their time.

In other words, it's not just convenient to take responsibility for one's own success: it's extremely helpful to one's own psychology to do so.
How does this compare to WhisperSystem's Flock? https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Flock
I'm not sure if most of the commentators here are joking or just being too subtly sarcastic, but truly the best predictor of a person's success is the success of his parents during his formative years. It's not a hard-coded rule, but it's statistics: if, given two persons of equal age, gender and health, you would have to bet how they turn out, your best bet would be to look at their parents and assume the same will happen to them, and not to give them an IQ test and draw a conclusion from there (on average, everyone has an average IQ).

So, yes, while there are always exceptions, poor families will mostly yield people who will not move away from poverty.

It is as unreasonable to say to those people "move out and get a better job" as to say to a clinically depressed person "oh cheer up, it's all in your head": no, such problems are actually not the problems of attitude and positive thinking, but have external causes and factors (i.e. external to the mind).

One example of such a factor could be poor work habits learned from their parents - but still it's a trait derived from those particular parents. Unless the person sees or learns about "better" work habits somehow, he will in all probability not conclude that is one of his problems all by himself.
A book cover is probably the most important piece of marketing for a book if the author doesn't have name recognition. Well-conceived book covers are a signal of value. The revised cover is better than the original...but not by much. There's a reason professionals get paid to do this work.
Usually 10 hours a night. It's super annoyingly long, but that's exactly how long I seem to need. It builds up some sort of reserve of energy so I can do all nighters when necessary, but if I go too long without 10 hours I will become super unproductive. Naps help mitigate the effects of less sleep, but definitely don't help all the way.

I'd be interested to know why I have to have so much sleep - anyone else need 10+ hours? My hunch is that I sort of operate at full-tilt pace and am very active, and all that means my day's exhausting and sleep becomes very important.
I think something that he has missed is the design of passing functions as params for success and failures.
Of course these are generally used when there are external API calls which are async, but nowadays those kind of API calls are quite common.

void createSomething(bool param1,int param2, Something something, success: function (something) {}, error: function (error){});

Of course this would be in those languages that support passing of functions as params.
Not sure how the doomsday works, but there's a quick way to calculate the day of week just memorizing single digit codes for months. Might be easier to grok from a small script. This is for current century (2000s) in coffeescript:

calculateDay = (year,month,day) ->

y = (year-2000)%28
m = [6,2,2,5,0,3,5,1,4,6,2,4][month]
if month < 2 and y%4==0
m-= 1
y += y/4|0
days = ['Sun','Mon','Tue','Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat']
return days[(y+m+day)%7]

---
For years 1600s through current century here's a jsfiddle with a slightly longer method with verification: http://jsfiddle.net/9zp0zkxz/

Edit: no idea how to work spacing on comments here
This has nothing to do with hacker news. A corrupt businessman was unfortunate to be on the receiving end and landed in jail for billions he probably owes to millions of old gullible investors who lost their retirement income to his Ponzi scheme. His arrest has little to do with justice, probably more of political vendetta. How media salivates over such news & glorifies a thug :(
Music for Productivity
Nope—https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8160327
Show HN: Simple Mandelbrot renderer in Haskell
Interesting; how does "disadvantaged group" status get determined? Is there a list; or would it be left to a judge's discretion?

EDIT: Is this the law in question?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_equity_(Canada)
I did this a long time ago in Lua thinking it would be really cool to approximate pi. But it never converged to the correct value. No matter how many times I ran it or for how long. I think it was 3.15 or something like that, I don't remember. My best guess it was due to floating point rounding, or because the random function was imperfect.
Sorry to flog a job opening so shamelessly, but I'm a research scientist at Vanderbilt University working on the evolution of human pregnancy with an emphasis on identifying the causes of preterm birth. We are building a database to integrate a large number of experiments with various evolutionary analyses (with a dollop of machine learning on top), which will soon be available online at genestation.org.

We're looking to hire a full-time database admin/developer who finds biology interesting, but there is no need for formal training in biology.
Well, it's both. The smart part is working out where to apply one's limited capacity for work hard. Zuck could have followed in the footsteps of many college students (including many rich ones who don't need the money) and learnt work ethic by working hard at Mcdonalds during his time at Harvard.

Zuck figured out that working for free building a way for Harvad men to hobnob with each other was a better use of his time and resources.
I came across gopacket which came from inside Google. It's pretty nice and I also wonder what else is lurking out there.

http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/gopacket
With this project I try to show some of Haskell's features in a short program with a wonderfully complex output (a rendering of the Mandelbrot set). I hope it may prove more suitable for introducing Haskell to newcomers then the fibonacci sequence and the quicksort algorithm.
Good work. My only objection is the endorsement of the Geek Feminism Wiki, which is an unreliable source.
Also see NYU's Interactive Telecommunication Programs course, NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression):

http://itp.nyu.edu/nime/
Kind of depressing that the largest charity in the world pays just enough to live.

http://www.economist.com/node/6919139
The overwhelming feeling I always had with the social media it's really weird.
And it ignores earlier, similar instruments like Futureman's "drumtar", a keytar with the guts ripped out and replaced with MIDI keys (usually configured with drum samples). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Man
The live event has wrapped up, though the 1hr37min archive remains viewable.
I made Flux, it's an animation transition designer for iOS, you can get a free trial from www.nthstate.com/Flux
Do you mind going into a bit more depth here? The GFW was pretty useful re: the references it pointed us too. What makes it unreliable?

(genuinely curious, clearly still learning here)
I agree with your general premise, and I still think it's great to have so many different designs and manufacturers. Like you said, reliability and ease of use are big problems, and it think continuous tweaking is necessary, even if most designs are more or less the same. Given time, it will become clear that certain designs are strictly better than other.

There is also some genuine innovation happening, even if it is only on the very edges of the space. Things like auto bed leveling, dual extruders, different print bed materials and features, etc.

> On top of that, ask any hobbyist who owns one how often they use it after the initial wow factor wears off. Most people run out of stuff to print pretty quickly.

I definitely agree with this, but I'm not convinced it's that big of a problem. I bought a Printrbot Simple already assembled, used it fairly constantly for a couple of weeks, then my usage definitely tapered off. But I'm not too upset about that. Whenever I want to print something, or a friend wants to be introduced to 3D printing, I have one readily available.
I agree. Macbook is the best option in my opinion. It also enables you to enjoy from all worlds - Mac OS, Linux and Windows...
What? A charity's purpose is to help those most in need. Every dollar a charity gives to someone beyond what they need is a dollar they can't give to someone whose needs still aren't met.
You can use a small real-time operating system, like FreeRTOS [0] even [1] for the small MCUs like STM32F103 (which is ARM Cortex-M3).

[0] - http://www.freertos.org

[1] - http://www.it.uu.se/edu/course/homepage/pins/vt12/assignment...
I've been happy with the offerings from System76. Haven't done a tremendously rigorous comparison.
These guys will have mohawks, crazy clothes, piercings, tattoos, and be showing off amazing objects they designed themselves, often to solve actual real life problems.

I don't agree. A small number of the items are useful, most often replacement parts for things that would either require replacement with much larger parts (custom patches for damaged plastic shell) or which are difficult to replace (item no longer manufactured or firm no longer in business or part so obscure as to hinder repair). I've also seen some novel items that are good prototypes for industrial production.

However, the majority of stuff I see at the 'freak' tables is junk, and samey junk at that. Expansible plastic jewelry, dodecahedral plastic hats (admittedly intended to draw attention to the large print area, but couldn't you find something more interesting?), and a lot of kitchenware, which strikes me as a particularly poor sector; ABS filament is non-toxic but I wouldn't use it where it's likely to encounter heat or alcohol, as would many examples on this page: http://www.pinterest.com/mekitso/3d-printed-kitchen/ Toys are a more obvious application, but most kids are not so into a monochromatic toy, and cheaper printers don't have the resolution to make good multi-part toys. An awful lot of printer offerings I see appear to be motivated by an 'if you build it they will come' approach, but are being offered for sale more on novelty than utility.

The problem is that suits and soccer moms don't want 3D printers.

Suits love 3d printers for industrial design/prototyping, architectural models, anything related to physical products where you might want to go into volume production later. And I do think there's a market for soccer moms: the most commercially interesting offerings I've seen at the lower end of the market in the last year or two is chocolate printing. It turns out that sugar works well enough for extrusion, low resolution is not that big of a deal when you're going to be eating it, and quite a lot of people are into doing really elaborate things with food. OK, such people tend to be artistically inclined too, but since everyone eats that translates into a huge number of people. Martha Stewart is already there: http://www.marthastewart.com/1065207/3d-printing-101 ...although note the bias towards services like Shapeways that can do one-offs in high quality materials, vs home printers. But I bet you'll see a Martha Stewart-branded 3d printer within a few years that's optimized for confectionary use.

Now I'm not into baking or sweets, but I'm willing to bet that confectionery printers become by far the most widespread, while most people will go to a local print shop for quality 3d fabrication, whether that's sintered metal, multicolor paper, or very high resolution multifeed plastic. Makerbot-type printers have about as much future as dot matrix paper printers.

The boring presenters at Maker Faires tend to be offering actual utility, if you can get past the eye candy. If you doubt this, go to a large hardware store; they have quantitites of boring-looking things with very high utility.
I thought we did that every weekend.
The US manufacturing base is surprisingly strong
The article says that improving material standards hasn't improved problems with drugs/jobs/jail/family. And then immediately suggests improvements to material standards as a remedy.
A Critique on Airbnb's Mobile UX
Not just in Sweden, it's a global phenomena, some call it Designer Sex. In many cases there are predators involved who seduce the children, predators who have developed some very sharp sensors to detect the child who will consent because it's not always just about the money. What do you consider the appropriate age of consent to this kind of proposition? 17? 16? 14? why not 10?

One of the major obstacles to leaving prostitution, and not just for kids, is the addiction to money. However, it is not an easy money and it does not bear good memories and in many cases people in prostitution would get rid of it very quickly and spend it on stuff they don't need.
Having the right connections helps as well. No matter what your skill set is, if you know people who know people through your school, social group, church etc. it makes opportunities easier to come by.

In addition, if you look, think and talk like the people who can help you get ahead you are more likely to be given the opportunity. On the other hand, if you look, think and talk like people disliked by those who can help you get ahead... well, you have your work cut out for you.

Sure, in a perfect world it is all about hard work and skills. And certainly some find ways around the system or beat the odds. But for the most part, I don't think it is disputable that a hard life is largely heritable. What can/should we do to change this? I don't know that we can and maybe we should but I'm not sure about that. Sometimes there are cultural reasons those who are ahead are ahead. We certainly don't want to lower everything to the lowest common denominator (see the public school system for an example of how not to do things.....).
sorry for late replies guys, we got low karma and can't reply as often/fast as we'd like. We got some countermeasures planned to avoid inflating user numbers. Kind of been feed to us by interested startups :)
There is no need to argue about the issue of legalizing prostitution since it has been tested and failed to produce better conditions for the people in prostitution. Just look for reports on the results of legalization in Germany for example, where the legalization increased demand, expanded the "market," and increased human trafficking.

Regarding your conviction that it "keeps a natural lid on male aggression and violence." I would argue that it is completely false and degrade men, but if you insist I would urge you to volunteer to the joy division and keep the lid on male aggression and violence yourself before volunteering other people to do the nasty job.
There are some forms of sugar-daddying which are not so different than prostitution. However, women who marry or date wealthy and elderly men do not necessarily commit themselves to prostitution. You are right to argue that there is a spectrum. I do not see how it negates a moral statement against punters.

You are also right to argue that I'm on one side of the extreme, it is radical to call for the abolition of prostitution. I do not consider it as a pejorative description. I would just like to remind you that the faction in the antebellum Republican Party who called for the abolition of slavery was called the radical wing, and was considered extremist by Lincoln himself as well as many other northerners who could not imagine the emancipation of the slaves.