skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we actually more narcissistic or does it just seem that way since we tend to be more open with our thoughts and feelings and because were able to share that with a much wider audience?
That's pretty amazing. I'm guessing DNA compactness is a survival advantage for viruses, and that's how this emerged? Is gene overlap common in other species?
This is just silly. (and i don't mean that in a mean way...). Most people instances of perceived meanness are really just acting on a set of interests that don't align with your own. There's no malevolence involved, yet the perception is the actor is mean. Im quite sure Paul has in the past acted in a way that was perceived as mean by a non-aligned party, as have we all. Acting out of pure malevolence/meanness is different than that. That type of action is hopefully so rare that it is a terrible proxy for success/ failure.
Nicotine and alcohol are two quite unpleasant drugs: addictive, rather poisonous (alcohol) or customarily consumed in an especially harmful way (smoking tobacco).

Compared to these, LSD is much safer. Doses are ridiculously low (most poisons don't work in doses of 100µg), huge overdoses are not immediately dangerous, and an addiction does not form.

One can invent many reasons to ban LSD, but preserving public health can't be sensibly among them.
When you consider the safeness of a drug, do you also take into account the environment where the drug is taken?

I had a friend die while on LSD when I was a kid. He didn't die because of the drug, but as a hallucinogen, it is suspected he got himself into a situation where he followed his fancy unaware of the danger of the environment he had entered.

Of course, you could say 'but people trip and hit their head and die all the time when they are drunk too', but the difference is, people hit their head and die when are not drunk in equal measures.

As a self-declared LSD user, do you consider things other than the long-term chemical effects of the drug? If so, what are those things?

If it sounds like I'm picking a fight or trolling, that is not the intention, I am genuinely curious.
In "Pi", the math is from the Dover book by Jahnke and Emde and the formula for the ratio of the sides of the rectangle is wrong.
Here you go: http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55
The dictionary defines "mean" as "Selfish in a petty way. Cruel, spiteful, or malicious."

If you take the definition of mean to be "selfish or spiteful in a petty way", then yeah, most successful people are not mean. However, the operative word is petty. Most successful people avoid petty disputes. If this was the definition that PG was using, the essay would not have been worth writing. The explanation would be one sentence - successful people are not spiteful over petty things because it is not productive or efficient to wrapped up in petty things.

So when I wrote my comment, I inferred from the rest of the essay that PG was using a broader definition, that defined "mean" as being "selfish or spiteful, about big or little things."
> We moved to Reykjavík before I had overstayed for too long

What was the immigration situation like for ever going the other way? Less painful than the US process I'm assuming?
It might just be fear of upsetting the balance that home life provides even if you tend to gravitate towards the organized chaos to which you've become accustomed.
Sbt-dependency-graph for Easier Dependency Management in Sbt
OK. I think where I'm going is that for anyone who doesn't use emacs org-mode, ASCII tables are a major PITA to edit. I didn't know if emacs used a different underlying syntax (that markdown could borrow), but it doesn't.
Of course I haven't only used unices, how is that even possible in this world.
You probably shouldn't have told your company about this product. You came up with the idea, and implemented it, yes but in the company's eyes, you did it under their watch, time, and salary (even if it's partially true). Basically, they're going to keep all the profits if this succeeds, and you're just going to be in the same position, as lead dev supporting it. Good to put in a resume, but not potentially life changing.
Perhaps you're too young, but you don't seem to understand what MS did.

They drove the competitor (Netscape) out of business by giving away their browser. There's no way for the market to correct for that or "a feasible competitor to emerge".

It amazes me that someone who's only 5 years younger than me and even has a CS degree is so completely out of touch with recent computer history. I understand why, everything changes so fast, but you cannot understand what MS did if you weren't there. Their callous destruction of Netscape stopped an era of rapid innovation in internet technologies, HTML & js simply stagnated for almost 6-7 years afterwards, before it had been iterating rapidly.

It is now back to iterating like it did, these last 2-3 years and the WHATWG, it really feels like things are back on track again, though some really, really important things are still taking a while (like observables, which are super important for GUI driven apps).
Well as long as they promise.
You Can Negotiate Anything, by Herb Cohen

Riches Among the Ruins, by Robert P. Smith

High Stakes, No Prisoners, by Charles H. Ferguson

Power Schmoozing, by Terri Mandell

The Best Seller, by Forbes D. Ley

If you're selling to restaurants, read books or attend trade shows aimed at restaurant owners and managers.
Saying "IE sucks" in no way explains "the billions of damage he caused humanity" or "held the internet back for 6 or 7 years".
I'm a software developer, that is to say a technical person, but I don't really know HTML (well, other than a few basic tags) because, like most developers in the world, I don't do web development, and what I do know of HTML, I don't particularly like, certainly not for writing.

On the other hand, I find Markdown (or ReST) easy to learn, to write and to read.

As to being a niche, there are probably around 20M software developers in the world (probably only 10-20% of them doing web), and several times over of other kinds of technical people. So even a markup language that only targets technical people who are not web developers would be addressing a few tens of millions of people. A niche for sure, but far from a small niche. These markup formats certainly cater to many more people than, say, Ruby or Python.
Did their naive decompression make the genome longer? If so, it probably didn't fit in the capsid. In our version, we had to provide one of the genes (gene F) in a plasmid in the host cell, in order to reduce the length of the decompressed genome to fit inside the capsid. See this section of our paper:

[The naive] decompression added 909 nucleotides to the wild-type genome. We next addressed practical constraints arising from the length of DNA that can be physically packaged within a øX174 capsid without impacts to reproductive fitness. Previous work has shown that the length of a øX174 genome, when packaged in vitro, must be kept within a few percent of the 5386 nucleotide wild-type length in order to avoid any significant fitness decrease ( Aoyama and Hayashi, 1985). Similar results were shown in vivo ( Russell and Muller, 1984). To reduce the decompressed genome length we removed the first 916 nucleotides of gene F, encoding the coat protein ( Air et al., 1978). We chose gene F because a plasmid containing a restriction fragment encoding wild-type gene F was able to complement two conditional gene F mutations ( Avoort et al., 1983). Additionally, the gene F coding sequence is greater than the total of the combined increases needed to implement the øX174.1 genome design. The truncated gene F version of the decompressed genome was named øX174.1f. To complement øX174.1f when transformed into host cells we designed a medium copy vector expressing gene F under control of a rhamnose-inducible promoter ( Fig. S1).
Most teachers are employed by municipalities, which are subdivisions of the state which can go bankrupt.
AFAICT Markdown codified a lot of best practices from ASCII emails and forums of years past (e.g. 20th century's). What looks like careful design may be as well a result of a long evolution.
No, Netscape was a total POS. The definition of bloated buggy software. A huge number of features that web developers take for granted originated in IE.
Gene overlap is extremely rare actually! When phiX174 was first discovered, some researchers wondered if such a complexly intertwined system could even have evolved naturally, or if it might suggest that the virus was hand-engineered: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979Icar...38..148Y
That comic does not suggest that it wasn't a bad thing. Just because worse things happen does not make less bad things into good things.
It's been a while since I've seen anything on HN about the Ebola outbreak.. so here's the current news if anyone's interested:

Number of Ebola infections in west Africa passes 16,000
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/29/ebola-infection...

CDC chart:
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/cumu...
That makes sense. Much of my anxiety is just remnants of some real bad shit I went through four years ago. Part of my reluctance towards getting close to people is a fear that I'll fall into the same situation I was in back then.
Check out trending stories with timeline
That would be a solution. But political pressure is high, that the system stays as it is. And they that want it that it stays are the biggest players on place, since they think they can win most of this ridiculous system.

It is like dinosaurs, which make a law, that children must come from an egg....
The rate of tripping when drunk is much, much higher. I've tripped many more times while drunk than sober (not counting childhood), and I'm drunk fairly rarely. A friend of mine broke his teeth falling down stairs face first while drunk, someone in my school died from falling off a fence while drunk. I've never heard of comparable sober incidents sober outside of high speed sports.
Well why are we not starting to mass produce it then? Yeah yeah normally we would wait years and do a lot of tests but people are dying _now_ and we have already given experimental medication, so that ethical level has been crushed.
> microsoft began creating plugins for utilities that did not follow web standards such as activex that would integrate the browser with the operating system.

It should be noted that the technology behind ActiveX actually started as a Netscape plugin developed by a 3rd party. I remember trying it out way before ActiveX became a thing in IE. It was a crazy idea but back then everything was a crazy idea. There were hundreds of different plugins for all the browsers. Nobody knew what was going to stick. ActiveX stuck because it was Microsoft and because COM was a well established technology.
Nate, we don't really have a convention or guideline for this situation.
The guidelines only tell us to add [pdf], [video], and similar to the
title if it's a link to a media file. Though it's not exactly stated, it
means a direct link to the media file itself, rather than a link to the
page where the media files can be downloaded. For example, we (almost?)
never see "[video]" tags in the titles of stories linking to youtube or
vimeo.

On previous USENIX submissions I've put some variation of
"[pdf/slides/video]" in the title to indicate multiple things are
available, but this just created unnecessary work for poor `dang` who
had to edit the title to remove it. I really do try to avoid causing
work for the moderators, so this time, I did not put the extra info in
the title. I was proud of myself for learning from my mistake... until I
saw `dang` adding a comment with a direct link to the paper pdf. (sigh,
I'll probably never learn ;)

If there is a "right" answer, then I still haven't figured it out yet.

As for my access pattern, I actually found the USENIX page from another
site listing various papers, so that's what I was looking for when I
loaded the page. I made sure the USENIX actually did provide a download
link to the full paper PDF (sometimes they don't/can't), and then
started downloading the video with wget in the background while I read
the paper... I still haven't watched the video yet, but I will.
Google specifically recommended using robots.txt in Copiepresse v. Google. I haven't noticed them disobeying robots.txt on my own sites.
Apologies for the low-content post, but it's funny yet sad how Larry Ellison needs no explanation.
Hi Chris, since I hear so many good things about evil-mode and Emacs on HN lately I would like try it myself. Do you have your emacs configs posted online somewhere? It would be of great help to me as a starting point since the main things I would like to try out are evil and alchemist :).
Wow, that's a good idea.

I should scan my resume for the most impressive "ex-*" keywords and use it as a marketing and negotiation tool!
>people hit their head and die when are not drunk in equal measures.

[Citation Needed]

I read stories about college kids falling, drowning, crashing their cars, and almost always it's because they were heading home totally smashed from a party. I would say, from my impressions, that the proportion of people hitting their head (or falling into a lake and drowning, or what have you) is far lower for sober people than it is for people intoxicated by alcohol.
Ah, apologies, point taken. Note that most of that style of templating language include markdown filters as well - so you drop :markdown in, then just write a block of text, works really well.
Whose lives did Gates destroy? Yes, Microsoft was engaged in very anti-competitive business practices, but being beaten in the market is not equivalent to having your life ruined. Also, not that this excuses any actions, but "it's not personal, it's just business" plays a factor here as well.
It doesn't matter what Gates is like now. What matters, for this debate, is whether he was mean when he became successful. And from everything I know about the guy and his rise, if he can't be construed as "mean" at that time then this debate is mostly pointless.
I recommend this talk by Zed Shaw. I consider it a classic and worth the time to watch:

http://vimeo.com/2723800
http://regexcrossword.com/challenges/intermediate/puzzles/5

Anyone understand what (.)*DO\1 should match?

edit: Okay, I was writting 0 instead of O that's why it wasn't working.
So professional self promotion is acceptable but social self promotion is not ? I don't know but his article feels like a weird rant. I don't know how to describe it but its like he is saying.."Don't drink wine if you don't understand its taste , texture, history etc". Don't tell people how to travel its just wrong.
Personally, that strikes me as completely orthogonal to being nice or mean. Your statement makes as much sense as saying that Uber has created jobs so they must be purple.
Breath test to detect pot is being developed at WSU
Artificial intelligence: how clever do we want our machines to be?
Isn't the rather big flexibility of R to not eagerly evaluate, or to rewrite function arguments entirely (and apparently scope manipulation, that's a new one for me) one of the major points of critic? It always seemed to me that having "proper" macros is a selling point rather than only an approximation/emulation.
But there's no reason to combine the two. There are two separate statements: 1) gnaritas punches cbr in the face 2) gnaritas saves X from drowning. Unless you have a really weird mutation, you can do one without doing the other. If you happen to do both, that means you're a lifesaving asshole, not that you're a good person when you add it up.
As this is the number 1 story on HN now: can someone explain what kind of improvements we will see in day to day use from this?
I, for one, am happy not having to pay for my web browser.
Here is a more general list of gcc 5 changes https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html

EDIT was looking at this for __builtin_mul_overflow which apparently are in clang already, for testing overflow of arbitrary types.
I will check back to see. Is not squatting bad? As in chairs are a technological de-evolution?

I used to get scolded for slouching, but bullies slouch. They seek the endorphins of slouching. I sort of slouch like a plank, or maybe it is lazy & even more inert than regular sitters. I'm not sure.
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I found some development discussion about the changes to missing values here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8423

I've yet to try out Julia, but seeing productive and intelligent discussion like this followed quickly by execution certainly inspires confidence that it's a language with considerable promise.
Interoperating Between Objective-C and Rust
No-one acts like they do in YT comments in real life, who would write that essay?

And as I've said in my edit, why does he use "good" and "benevolent" as antonyms instead of "polite" or "diplomatic"? Why "x-ray vision for character"? "they're usually trying to improve the world"? "you win not by fighting to get control of a scarce resource, but by having new ideas and building new things"? "People need to feel that what they create can't be stolen."?

pg was clearly not talking about name throwing or spite. He's talking about moral character. He is repeatedly making positive judgements about how great these founders are. Not how they don't belittle other people for kicks.
Off topic, but god I just wish Facebook would disappear. It's ironic that such a popular company with such a huge valuation would produce an immediate and significant benefit to me if it just disappeared overnight.
As Marc Andreesen told Charlie Rose on his PBS show last year, the code he wrote that was used in IE was "horrible" and they re-wrote everything for Netscape.
Why not create one but never post onto it? That's what I did. I don't see any detrimental effects if I create an account but never use it to its full capabilities.
Anything 0 or more times backreferenced onto the end of the string "DO", is my guess. So, for example:

DO
DONUT
DOG
I fully share that viewpoint, but there are many R users who believe that R's idiosyncratic evaluation rules are essential to writing "readable" code.
From the story....

1. Image conversion (RGB structure to some other)

2. N-dimentional coordinates. (Normalize array of XYZ points)

3. Multiplication of vectors by constant matrix
How electric superchargers went from fantasy to feasibility
According to my AP World textbook, at least, classical refers to a lot of geographically diverse civilizations, from the Byzantines to the Song Chinese to the Aztecs
What do you want? What are your end goals? It's hard to answer this without knowing that.

For example, if you want to work for a SV startup, I'd move out there asap, as the skills they want are decaying right now.

Or, if you wanted to teach CS, or even IT, at the college level, you should take classes and get a MS or PhD in CS.

Or, if you want to do webdev and support for local companies and ColdFusion interests you, you could learn the ins and outs of ColdFusion, learn project management and estimation, and set up some of the basics of the Joel Test ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html ) for your current job, and learn a ton.
I've seen several blog posts on exceptional cases before, but the only case I've personally witnessed is how the crawl-delay directive is ignored. Granted you can set it if you're a webmaster tools user, but even then the setting disables itself after a few months.
Faster multi dimensional loops.
Quicker raw image compression.

That are few things that came across my mind.
. -> any character

(.) -> any character, grouped to reference it, since it's the first group it's referenced as \1

(.)* -> that, 0 or more times

(.)* DO -> any character 0 or more times, followed by DO

(.)* DO\1 -> any character 0 or more times, followed by DO, and the same character as in the beginning
New OEM Linshof will launch 'clean Android' phones and tablets in 2015
It struck me recently how few of the most successful people I know are mean. There are exceptions, but remarkably few.

I imagine damn few people, especially in the tech startup world, are mean to pg or in front of him. He is too influential and his dislike of "assholes" is well known.

So I imagine there is a certain amount of bias in his opinion here: Successful people aren't mean to him or in ways he would personally disapprove of. Of course, currying favor with him is one the things that helps lead to success in the tech startup world, so that bias no doubt runs both ways.

As someone who is a demographic outlier on most fronts for hn, I have certainly had people here be mean to me, some of them quite successful, some of them quite popular here. I don't talk much about it in part because that's probably a good way to shoot myself in the foot. Attacking people here isn't going to make me more well-liked, popular or connected. Some of them did horribly cruel things in a way that made sure they had plausible deniability and I was the one who ended up looking bad. I mention that not to badmouth anyone, but as testimony that I have reason to believe, based on firsthand experience, that pg has a blind spot here.
Competition (with clang) is good.
Super efficient perovskites are dazzling solar cell researchers
My view of Steve Jobs being mean comes from Walter Isaacson's biography. What would change my mind is if the witnesses mentioned in the biography came out claiming that the stories were fabricated. But if the stories are true, then he was a nasty person. That he may have been nice to some people does negate the nastiness to other people.

My view of Zuckerberg being mean comes from personal experience. Zuck was not that mean, nothing like Walter Isaacson's description of Jobs. But at the time (years ago), he was probably 90th percentile in terms of meanness of the people I have known. He could sneak in barbs and be quite disdainful to people who he viewed as less than him (in one case shouting a person down and calling them stupid).

In a previous comment, you wrote that "but it's a mistake to believe you know someone based on a collection of sensationalized stories." This is correct. But is there any evidence that the stories about Jobs or Bill Gates were sensationalized? "Sensationalized" is the operative word. If the stories are true, then the person is in fact mean, and it is a mistake to view them as not mean, simply because they are always nice around you.
The article mentions two: unpacking 24 bit values and matrix multiplication, both might be something you'd find in a software video (de)compressor or a computer game
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If you know the character length of the text and it isn't too hard. Take the 26 characters + 6 punctuations and try every possible combination. Hamlet has 31842 words, the average word is 5+1 characters, which gives 191052 characters.

32^191052 == 10^(10^5.458731365078367)

Compared to their result

10^(10^5.198179689961317)
Mine too. Although when you've got [0-3] and [^2O13] in the other, it's not too difficult to figure out that contradiction fairly quickly.
That isn't how the Kleene star works.

A* is "the set of all strings over the alphabet {A}, including the empty string ε."

"QQQQ" is not a string over the alphabet {A} because it contains the symbol 'Q', which is not in {A}.
I noticed those release names, too! Made my day.
I appreciate the insight. I wasn't trying to criticize your choice of link, just wondering if others shared my personal reaction. Similar to linking to the abstract page for arXiv papers, I think you chose the "right" option.

I think the FAQ is out of date with regard to adding an explicit [PDF], as the system now adds this automatically for links where the type is apparent. But I'm always impressed at how efficient the new 'dang' API is for adding publication dates to submitted papers!
I'm so glad to see auto-vectorization happening more and more often. However, I wonder whether a language that had built-in support for primitive floating-point vector types (e.g., GLSL's vec3, vec4, mat3, mat4) could help the compiler with performing these sorts of optimizations.