skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bottles pretty much never make it from our recycling bin to the truck. Every single morning there's people scavenging all the bins in the neighborhood in a systematic way. I don't mind, really, since it all ends up in the same place anyway.
When I said “food production is not enough to eliminate starvation” I did not mean “we don’t produce enough food to eliminate starvation”, I meant “producing more food is not enough to eliminate starvation”. So yes, I agree and already stated that the problems are economic.

Suppose this principle did not hold. Then how would the human population of Earth continue to grow? In other words, what would all the new people be made of?
You're inverted. Little boy is the gun bomb.

Another interesting anecdote is that Little Boy's design was a fall back. The "Thin Man" was plutonium based and discovered to be unlikely to yield an efficient explosion, so they changed to Uranium and made the gun bigger.
And now maybe you understand why "flexible cross-platform frameworks" are not automatically a WTF ;)
Total outsider and I felt very uncomfortable how the dirty laundry was being aired publicly. I don't get this new model of business in the Bay area. One person posts stuff online. Then someone posts something online as a rebuttal. Don't these people realize stuff online stays with you forever and has consequences? Heck .. I change accounts every little while on HN (losing all my precious karma) to make sure I don't mess up in some way.
Anita Sarkeesian and video game misogyny
I'd love a feature like this that I could use with pypy. I don't need 100ms billing resolution, but 1s or 1m would be nice.
> Ellen Pao will be stepping up to be interim CEO

> Alexis Ohanian, who cofounded reddit nine and a half years ago, is returning as full-time executive chairman (he will transition to a part-time partner role at Y Combinator)

> There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things.

I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about Ellen Pao leading reddit in the long term.

Also from today's reddit blog post[0] by Alexis

> Instead, I joined the board and have done everything I can to not be a helicopter parent, but rather support reddit and all the amazing people who make it work as best I can. But reddit is and will always be my baby
She worked there as an intern. She had not applied for a job. He told her he'd make sure she'd GET an offer if she slept with him, not that she would have to do so to get a job.

You're splitting hairs. From the point of view of the law, it was a quid-pro-quo specifying preferential consideration in matters of employment (or promotion) in exchange for sex. That's what matters.

She then did so, and hid it from her (ex partner).

Completely irrelevant to the sexual harassment issue.

She also agreed that "nothing improper" happened (which is problematic for numerous reasons, and not without the threat of authority).

She signed a statement, under duress (and implicit threat of termination) about the subjective import of what happened. Which in no way changes or diminishes the physical reality of actually did happen. Which for Amazon, appears to be quite damning on its own merits. Quite damning, indeed.
I actually think they're almost intentionally a touch deceptive. "Private" is a really loaded term to use there.
All correct, and last but not least: You know for sure it can be done. That alone is a huge motivator.
Ripped off for a couple percent of their yearly ad budget?
The top talent you describe is highly unlikely to take what is almost certainly an inferior compensation package at Reddit as compared with places their talents will be better recognized (financially), if compensation sufficient to rent in S.F. is a concern for them.
The link passes through a google redirect.

edit: oh, nvm. this link gets around the paywall. the direct wsj blocks the content.
Quick note on comparison with node-webkit / atom-shell:

node-webkit and atom-shell embeds NodeJS along the chromium content module forcing its user to use not only NodeJS but a particular build of it.

On the contrary, Thrust embeds the Chromium content module and exposes an API on the standard IO, which makes it bindable in any language and works perfectly well as a dependency with vanilla nodeJS / Go / Python

Makes the distribution of cross-platform GUI apps through the pip/npm possible.
>Space flight is hard.

this is why lessons of previous attempts in the industry should be rolled into the next ones. Pressure suits on launch is standard long established practice in space flight industry since the dawn of times, and so far there is no evidence that it should be changed.
Linux Application Firewall
From the data leaked it sounds like HN is exporting a lot more than it should.
It does -- there are products for enterprises, hardware, Google Play ecosystem, Internet access (fiber, loon), operating systems, investments into health research and robotics, self-driving cars, house energy and safety products (Nest). Not enough?
Your misunderstanding highlights why we need to demolish the term "Intellectual Property".

Patents and Copyright stifle innovation and should be reformed or abolished. Trademark is essential consumer protection against fraud and manipulation and is extremely important to keep, although it needs to be fixed not to require prohibitive costs to defend one's trademark.
Approaching the question from an analytical perspective, there's a very concrete, market-economic based reason for putting the brakes on such development:

1) The information asymmetry between the public and drug developers is absolutely astronomical. This undermines any free-market attempt to keep bad drugs out of the market. Moreover, nobody with the resources to prove drugs ineffective has the incentive to do so.

2) The predicative power of the science is pitiful. 90% of drugs that make it to Phase I trials do not make it through Phase III.[1] In other words, companies have no idea whether drugs will work until they actually test them on people. Indeed, there is a decent amount of evidence showing that many drugs that pass Phase III trials don't work.

The cost of proving efficacy through human trials is unavoidable. The question isn't whether or not to conduct trials, the question is whether you do those trials as part of the approval process, or by selling drugs that don't work to the public at large. The inherent information asymmetry involved makes the latter a less than compelling proposition.

[1] http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/01/10/a_new_look_a...
Last place I worked, we moved just a few blocks away, from a really, really awful crappy warehouse in Sunnyvale to a pretty spiffy new facility also in Sunnyvale. I don't think we lost anyone due to that move. So, lesson is to make sure your new office is awesome and not that geographically far from your old one?
That book is nearly 40 years old and predates withdrawal of DES and subsequent decades of litigation (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethylstilbestrol). Surely there must be some more contemporary analysis. I've herad essentially the same arguments in person from Richard Epstein and found it strange that he pitches this argument without addressing this extremely well-known counterexample.

Furthermore, if the 1962 requirements are so onerous why have not European and Asian drug manufacturers been able to capitalize on this American regulatory shortcoming? Europe has no shortage of pharmaceutical expertise and is a larger consumer market than the US, so if the theory about the FDA being at fault were sound then other markets should be awash in life-saving medications and correspondingly improved mortality outcomes directly attributable to the wider choice of pharmaceuticals after 50 years of regulatory imbalance.

edit: Also, what stops drug manufacturers doing what makers of vitamins and dietry supplements do, ie saying 'may have beneficial effect XYZ - this statement has not been evaluated by the FDA.' True, that might weaken firms' brands since consumers seem to value the FDA's approval, but if there were a bunch of demonstrably efficacious non-approved drugs then presumably consumers would discount the FDA's approval in proportion.
Have you guys ever heard of knives?
Thanks for your rant.

I am hopeful for Reddit's future because of its community.

I've been using Reddit for over 8 years, through many transitions, and I still go to it everyday to read and interact with many friends I've met there.

I believe that everyone currently working on Reddit knows why it's great, and is interested in making it even better.

I believe in Reddit's team, and I believe in Reddit.
Don't Quit Your Business Too Soon
Some of the best papers about his life and his work:

From the notices of the AMS:
http://www.ams.org/notices/200409/fea-grothendieck-part1.pdf
http://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothendieck-part2.pdf

By Pierre Cartier:
http://xahlee.info/math/i/Alexander_Grothendieck_cartier.pdf

By Pierre Deligne (in French):
http://www.emis.de/journals/SC/1998/3/pdf/smf_sem-cong_3_11-...
Anyone who's put liquid nitrogen in their mouth (and if you haven't, you've missed out) knows the feeling.
Well, yes. That was the bug that was fixed.
Actually, passive investors should slightly underperform active investors, before fees. The passive investor will have to buy at slightly above market cost, and sell slightly below market cost to avoid tracking error.

This cost is probably dwarfed by the fees of active investing though.
J-Mood Jazz
Fair enough, thanks for answers.
> for example all the video content on youtube

Well not all video content as Youtube allows for private (and unlisted) videos.
Man buys 99 iPhones to propose to girlfriend, she says no
Lecture 16 – How to Run a User Interview
How to Start a Startup: Lecture 16 – How to Run a User Interview
""" Friedman, laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, said: "You want more insider trading, not less. You want to give the people most likely to have knowledge about deficiencies of the company an incentive to make the public aware of that." Friedman did not believe that the trader should be required to make his trade known to the public, because the buying or selling pressure itself is information for the market.
Man, the whole thing reeks!

The big guys invest in Reddit -> weeks later a wedge issue is found, CEO is isolated and out -> blog post to convince the masses that this is still the good old Reddit: 'Look! Ohanian is coming back!'.

The way this announcement desperately tries to water down the significance of the event, speaks chapters, IMO.
Very easy to publish an event stream from your code, and to pipe those wherever :) http://docs.spark.io/firmware/#spark-publish
You're right. I fixed it. Thanks!
San Francisco attracts startups and talent because it's a cool, fun, sexy place to live. Bright young talent demands those sorts of conditions.

Daly City is a suburban hellhole. If “cities” like Daly were desirable places to live, Provo, Utah and Tacoma, WA would be IT meccas.

The traffic in that region guarantees an ungodly commute by car for anyone who wanted to stay in SF and drive to Daly for work (1 hour commute = $40k in pay worth in happiness http://www.npr.org/2011/10/19/141514467/small-changes-can-he...). The public transportation is… lacking.

I can’t speak for Yishan’s motivations, but if I were on the board, I would push for his replacement simply due to the talent attrition that would inevitably occur if he got his way.
That's the point.

The rules don't explicitly say that columns need to be unique (only rows).

Within the stated rules there are (as best I can see) 2 valid solutions to that puzzle. It is the introduction of the unstated unique column rule that resolves it.
Props to Google for stepping up where Intel left off.

Sounds like a good way for Google to find some big-name (post-award), PR-worthy, highly-qualified new employees.
Ah I see. Ouch. Well, I'm sure you'll be a lot more careful in the future ;) Thanks for the transparency, it's much appreciated (and in general short supply elsewhere).
That lapse rate is only valid in the troposphere, afaik.
Yes, SF is crazy expensive and it makes effective compensation smaller. Still knowing that, companies choose to locate here, companies send buses here to help hire San Franciscans, and Reddit's board feared that an HQ move to a neighboring city would lose employees. Those are all strong indicators that desired talent likes to be in SF.
Infinite Scroll: No end in sight
I have around 3000 photos on my phone, and it was in a mass. By first opening the app and following their flow, I’m surprisingly to found my text photos. Most of them are my working notes!

The app seems intelligent, and is useful for me.
Really? I always find the garbage bags you buy use much less plastic than the thick carry grocery store ones.
are you thinking if we can potentially deflect comets?
There is a Jay-Z joke to be made somewhere in there.
Exactly this. I get all the benefits of a DVCS, pushing and pulling from my private fork, distributing development between my home and office machines, never losing changes; and then when I'm ready to publish, I can go back and rationalize my commits (many of which are "git commit -am 'oh sbt'" sorts of things) into a useful history and issue a PR for the rest of the team to code review.

It's taken me a while to come around, but you'd have to pry rebase out of my cold dead hands now.
Silicon Valley fund hacks US visa regime
the joke is why you're still depending on some manager's opinion, bringing it to his office (for what? for demo? for approval?) when you have invented time machine.
Base Emoji – Output a buffer in emojis
How would you handle somebody who, after being let go, would use a public forum to besmirch the previous employer? E.g., here he calls the company management "two-faced" https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2iea97/i_am_a_former_r...

Companies have to act and usually act quickly, handling a public issue privately, no matter how successfully, would leave a lingering impression of "Yahoo hires just about anyone with a fake diploma" or "Uber drivers beat up passengers with hammers as often as they please".
EDU ADRIAN ROMUL ESCROC
I think it's important to project yourself as 'something specific'. What I mean by that is if you attempt to broaden your search and throw everything onto your resume then it will not come across as a focused application. You will get passed over in favour if specialists on most occasions.

By all means have several versions of your resume - perhaps one that brings out your iOS experience that you use for iOS jobs. Another for a different specific focused tech stack or area.

Happy to help you revise your versions if you want to send an e-mail across.
There are also IMSI Catchers intercepting GSM all over the USA, for example this twitter feed reported one at SFO airport recently:

https://twitter.com/cellhacking/status/524562944928264192

And all over Washington DC:

https://twitter.com/esdamerica/status/512293117052334080
All my friends in the photos automatically organized!!!!!
That some people use email addresses that are personally identifiable in the non-visible portion of their profile but have an otherwise anonymous profile whose comments they do not wish to be traced back to the maker. For instance an Apple employee that speaks about Apple internals anonymously might get sacked if they were exposed.
Revealed: FBI attempted to drive MLK to suicide
Also, Blaze [1], although I recall a bit of consternation on the Eigen mailing list due to some bogus benchmarks the Blaze folks were reporting (intentionally selecting poor options for Eigen in their comparisons) [2].

(edited to link to Eigen discussion -- Blaze was reporting MKL's performance as their own, despite Eigen supporting the same option to fall through to MKL)

[1] https://code.google.com/p/blaze-lib/
[2] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.eigen/3423
Here are some excerpts from the WSJ paywalled article:

Cellphones are programmed to connect automatically to the strongest cell tower signal. The device being used by the U.S. Marshals Service identifies itself as having the closest, strongest signal, even though it doesn’t, and forces all the phones that can detect its signal to send in their unique registration information. Even having encryption on one’s phone, such as Apple Co. ’s iPhone 6 now includes, doesn’t prevent this process...

The program cuts out phone companies as an intermediary in searching for suspects. Rather than asking a company for cell-tower information to help locate a suspect, which law enforcement has criticized as slow and inaccurate, the government can now get that information itself. People familiar with the program say they do get court orders to search for phones, but it isn’t clear if those orders describe the methods used because the orders are sealed.

Also unknown are the steps taken to ensure data collected on innocent people isn’t kept for future examination by investigators. A federal appeals court ruled earlier this year that over-collection of data by investigators, and stockpiling of such data, was a violation of the Constitution.

This isn't exactly new. Harris' Stingray price list has AIRBRN-KIT-CONUS for sale for $9,000, dating back to 2008:
https://info.publicintelligence.net/Harris-SurveillancePrice...

Here's a 2013 post on the so-called DRTBOX:
http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2013/11/drtbox-and-drt-sur...

And another blog post from 2013 saying "Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) purchased $3 million worth of Stingrays over several years, and are purchasing airborne mounting kits for both drones and manned aircraft":
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2013/03/bypassing-tele...

An earlier FOIA response from 2012:
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/479397/stingrayfoia.tx...
"The training will cover all of Harris Stringray ll operations from an airborne platform.-Specifically, four students are to attend this special training on three different software packages GSM, and CDM mobile handsets) for the Program... The schedule is more unpredictable due to a large portion of the training taking place in an aircraft."

To summarize: if you live in the U.S.[1], your cell phone info (IMSI etc.) has been slurped up by flying FedGov "dirtboxes" without your knowledge, stored in perpetuity, without any law passed by Congress explicitly authorizing this, in violation of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, and at best authorized by a secret court order from a secret court. Sigh.

[1] I presume most of the HN US readers live in or near metro areas, and the WSJ article says the program covers "most of the U.S. population." Obviously if you're in Idaho or Alaska, you're less likely to be caught in this particular data vacuum cleaner.
SF cool, fun, sexy? Have you ever been there? I found it dirty, scary, and smelly.
Ah OK, I guess my direct experience with larger spaces comes from the south bay, but all the same, this explains why my current office keeps moving! So this still highlights what is probably a benefit of places outside of the city :)
another complexity is that the plutonium core is not just any weapon-grade plutonium: it has to be casted in unstable delta phase (which has unusually low density; the implosion's task is to switch it into alpha-phase which is much dense: this process makes core critical and explosion happens). Not to mention toxicity of the material itself.
Lecture 16: How to Run a User Interview
The German government is pressuring Neocities to remove their censorship list
Correct, there have also been other similar implementations along the same vain, but they all attempt to inject one technology into another. Thrust takes a different approach, it is itself the chromium content library, with some added libraries, and an rpc interface. This allows it to be used without forcing another library implementor to `inject` their code into it.
The US Marshals are not the only federal law enforcement agency doing something like this. According to documents I obtained through a FOIA in 2012, ICE has purchased an airbourne mounting kit and paid for airbourne training for their Stingray II cell phone tracking gear.
See: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/479397-#document/p44

Anyone interested in learning more about IMSI catchers and their use by US law enforcement agencies might be interested in this law review article I wrote.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2437678
Can you give me an example of a command where this wouldn't work? You can still do command substitution with `$`, as seen below:

$(echo pwd) | $ xargs echo
Lecture 15: Ben Horowitz start up management
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100 most recent votes

This has me curious. Why 100? Why not 0 or all? 100 seems to indicate you're aggregating the 100 most recent votes for some specific purpose, and that the feature unintentionally leaked the data.

I wonder if mods have the ability to go to a page, type in a username, and see the 100 most recent things they've upvoted/downvoted? I guess as a way of looking for voting rings?

I often upvote comments I feel are unfairly downvoted, definitely not because I agree with the comment. Hopefully vote history isn't being used as a metric of character. Then again, maybe it's a useful filter. I've often wished Reddit would drag down comments from people who upvote angry bully-type comments from other people, so there might be all kinds of interesting ways "100 most recent votes" could be used.
And yet plenty of "bright young talent" seems to do just fine in the rest of SV. "Demands" is overstating it a bit.
Main thing that stops any country is availability of refined fission material. First you need to have access to Uranium mines which US and Russia pretty much has covered all over the world. Second, you need to dig tons of ore and go through very tedious and complicated refinement process that is very expensive and requires very large scale operation. To avoid these, countries like Iran would just use the material generated from reactor fuel that can be obtained more easily.
$0.17, $0.25 or $0.50 depending on can/bottle size. If prizes were much higher I think people would get into fights over empty cans in parks and at festivals. After all it's basically "collect three empty beers, get one for free".
Yeah, in the universe. More ambitious even than Glorblax, creator of the monoliths.

Why does anyone ever continue reading an article after a headline like that? Nothing can follow except a thoughtless a puff piece.
The challenge is that what we think of as high quality content is not what Reddit Inc. has seen leading the growth. Images and fluffy content are easier to consume, and therefore more profitable for the site.
Reddit CEO Resigns Because of a Disagreement About a New Office
Anyone who has ever eaten home made bread, the kind my grandmother used to make, would agree with the bread elitist!
Them too, but heroku runs on aws and basically provides this, too, but instead of free, it's very very expensive
How do you make an account through Tor without being insta-banned?
eurpoeans colonizing america is almost mythical in western-history.
Conveniently enough, there's a long section of the developer docs that covers exactly that topic: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/devel/wr...
It's not the same thing, really. Freshly baked bread is awesome. Eating freshly baked bread without slicing it = priceless.