skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notch Buys Most Expensive House in Beverly Hills
Did you read the whole thing?

It's an account of the author who writes honestly about his thought process, and in the end finds out that his prejudice was wrong on one count, and may have been wrong in others.

The whole article in entirety is more helpful than anything I've read about this kind of condition. I'm not sure, and I think the author isn't sure, whether it should be called a mental illness at all. I think that was the point of the article.

So in cases like this, isn't it good to write plainly of one's past prejudices?
I'm cheating here a bit as well, since I work on the Zapier team, but some of my favorite use cases are ways my wife uses Zapier for her small business. Whenever an Ebay or Etsy sale comes in via PayPal, Zapier records the sale, along with fees and shipping price, in a Google Docs spreadsheet, and then copies the shipping address to a plain text document in Dropbox to easily print out address labels. It's a tiny thing that saves a ton of time.

Then, I've got Twilio integrations with Zapier that let me get Twilio SMS messages on my phone, and more, which I wrote about here: https://zapier.com/blog/how-to-twilio-international-phone-nu...
I find it really weird that on HN, which in general I find to be a pro-capitalist, let-the-market-sort-it-out kind of place, so many commenters seem irked at businesses 'being cheap' by offloading waitstaff salaries onto tips. I'm just a simple country hyperchicken, but isn't this that 'maximizing shareholder value' stuff I've been hearing so much about?
Unless they did a study with various presentations and found this version resulted in higher numbers, I doubt they have any clue how much it 'helped', or if it helped at all short of just being _something_ to toss up with their revenue/business numbers.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8730800
Wait until everyone believe that it's a bubble.

Then wait until everyone got disappointed that bubble is no bursting.

Then wait until everyone affirms that the bubble will never burst and it's the "new economy" now.

Then buy ITM OEX PUT's with 1 yr ahead expiration date.
Yeah and that most of the commenters here have missed that point completely. It's an eerie feeling. Or maybe people just don't read articles in their entirety.
The technology to do these things is open source and available here:

http://osmocom.org/
Discussion on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8767449
Self is also an interesting language in the Smalltalk tradition. I did a short screencast of the GUI here http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2014/12/17/changing-attributes-in-s...

There are others in the 'self' tag of the blog. A modern look at this type of environment, which Slate seems to be progress towards, would be interesting.
Ohai. I'm one of the authors. Thanks for noticing this, but we did wind down the project several years ago after failing to bootstrap it into what we wanted it to be.

Main regrets:
- Starting with multiple delegation from Self; we migrated to Traits a la Squeak and Perl6 but it was pretty late in the project.
- Hewing too closely to Smalltalk syntax, instead of ditching the lexical awkwardness for keyword syntax and more conventional but unambiguous lexical patterns.
- Image-based bootstrapping was useful, but too monolithic. I wanted to make it have a symbolic graph linker to stitch together images from modules. That would have kept the project flexible enough to keep going.

As it is, I'm disillusioned with the open source and software research fields, and working on startups to accumulate my own funds to run a project like this without being subject to the rhetorical whims of a diseased culture. Hah!

You may as well AMA.
I tend to wish this were true, because it would be better for the world even if neutral-to-negative for me. In truth, though: pedigree shouldn't matter, but it does.

Among the top 100 offerings or so, the differences in quality of education are very small. The differences in quality of students are pretty small. But connections matter, and even if Harvard student's aren't all shockingly brilliant, the dumb ones are connected.

If you go the #147 private college and pay $50k per year, you'd be better served by a state school. If you're talking about Harvard, though... no, it's not a waste of money.

Perhaps surprisingly, the influence of pedigree increases later in one's career. These numbers are estimates, but an MIT CS grad might make $100k out of college while the state-school grad makes $85k-- not a huge difference. Ten years out, those numbers look more like $250k and $150k. Why? Connections tend to get stronger with time, even when not formally kept up. So much of the business world is run by nostalgia. That's why prep school connections are more powerful than college, and college connections are more powerful than grad-school connections... even though the elite high schools are less selective and meritocratic. Old connections suggest predestination ("born to lead") and, because of that, have a cachet that new connections (though carrying more signal) don't. The future may be (and most hope it will be) rich and abundant but the past is a scarce and eternally limited commodity; there will never be more pedigree.

Where you went to school matters not at all, ten years out, if you're in the top or bottom 10%, relative to where you might be expected to go with your training, career-wise. If you do really well, no one cares where you went to school. Or if you make terrible choices and fail catastrophically, the Harvard degree just makes it more pathetic. For that middle 80%, those connections made early on are going to start throwing "Get Out Of Jail Free" cards and that's a major asset if you want to break the ceiling and become a player.

I'd say that it generally works like this. From 22-25, pedigree matters a lot in an evaluative sense. (Make that 22-29 if you get a PhD.) From 25-30, it doesn't matter all that much because people have more recent data, when it comes to evaluation. From 30-40, it starts to matter again, not because people judge you based on it-- your record speaks for itself-- but because you're vying for leadership or coveted creative/architectural roles and that means politics, and you need "Get Out Of Jail Free" cards (which come from having connections) for when your risks blow up. After 40, it seems to stop mattering because that's an age at which you shouldn't need "Get Out Of Jail Free" cards at all.
I tried this today mixed with some other comments. Here are my results and where I currently stand. Any feedback would be great.

Me:
Sends preliminary project proposal based off of vague details to my referral.

Referral:
Sends me NDA and introduces me to the potential client.

Me:
"The 5 year NDA length is longer than I will agree to. Is there a reason for the excessive length? I will agree to a 1 year term." After doing this I did more research on what to do.

Potential Client:
Nice to meet you. The NDA of 5 years is very standard stuff. All of our partners do sign this agreement. Hope you can too. Thanks. I would like to discuss the estimate so that I do understand all. Thanks again. I would look forward to working with you.

Me:
"Why do you specifically need the NDA? I'm worried that it's written broadly and will restrict my creativity.

I'm going to have my lawyer take a look at it and get back to you in the next few weeks."

Me:
Sent another message after thinking a little more.
"I want my lawyer to make modifications based on the specific needs. I may require additional compensation to sign, especially a 5 year contract.

Please let me know your additional questions for the proposal. We can setup a time to talk tomorrow afternoon or I could answer the questions in more detail over email."

Potential Client:
Thanks for your feedback. We are in very preliminary stages on this. I wouldn't go any further until we have had more internal meetings and have a chance to to provide more specifics. Thanks for your time.
Ironically, one of the hurdles that women have to face is that 'default' language is male. If you feel so ostracised that the term 'other women' is all that is necessary to completely turn you off going to a conference, imagine what it must be like for women surrounded by a swamp of male pronouns and references in this sector.
1) Siri has a male voice available as a configuration option.

2) There have been frequent studies which show that there is a natural (i.e. not cultural) bias towards finding female voices more pleasant, and such preferences begin in the womb[1]. CNN[2] has a story which provides a good overview of this topic, and I am sure you could find other information about if you feel so inclined.

Basically, I do not think the decision to make Siri female was based upon simple prejudice. There are good, scientific reasons for doing so.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/208/4448/1174.short

[2] http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/21/tech/innovation/female-compute...
I actually had a big vision to merge Morphic into the CLIM/DUIM tradition from Lisp and Dylan. I was very inspired by Lisp Machines, and still own one to run an emulation for for demonstrations.

Morphic alone was not good enough to build the future out of. First-class information objects called presentations from the CLIM history would have complemented it nicely.
I'd advise against meditating shortly after having a meal, as it is harder to focus. Apart from that, pick a time that'll most likely work for you every day. Otherwise it's hard to build a habit.

I started out doing it between "coming home from work" and "having dinner", but that didn't really work out. Some days, I came really late and my GF was already waiting with dinner ready, other days I would go to meetup, hang out with friends etc.

I'm now doing Yoga and Meditation every morning after waking up, and there's just much less that can get in the way.

My GF and me are right now building an iOS app for forming a daily habit of Meditation and/or Yoga, based on our own experience and reading the book "Hooked: How to build habit-forming products". If you (or anyone else!) would like to beta-test, shoot me a mail at chris [at] screenscott.com :-)
> Unicode characters that are visually identical

This was actually a further bug, reported as part of the same CVE - you could also overwrite .git/config by adding any of a number of zero-width Unicode characters that many filesystems ignore when checking for filename equality (but string comparison doesn't, of course).
Had no idea this project was still active. Used to have some correspondence with an author (Lee Salzman) of the prototype oo multiple dispatch paper many years ago (over 10 now I guess), and had written my own implementation of it for a toy language of my own.

Good to see this still ticking. Though these days I'm more interested in static typed languages, this is still very cool.
They've done this with tons of patients. Not one reproducible case exists.
Historical Asset Class Returns [pdf]
So, there's something about that that is true, but we weren't aiming for this per se.

We wanted to make the idea of a programming world as an OS manifest, so Slate images and object networks are like a file system image. The most straightforward way for us to get into that was dynamic with optional typing.

The idea at some point was to have staged meta-programming (like we did to build the VM out of Slate) that was typed, so that the static existed within the dynamic but in a more obvious way than "sure, my Haskell universe exists on a nasty filesystem".

We tried.
So 11% of people who attended public universities are "thriving", and 4% of people who attended private universities are thriving. That means somewhere between 89 and 96 percent of people who attended university are not thriving. This paints a pretty dismal picture of the utility of a university degree for those who want to thrive, white middle class kids or otherwise.
Video: Linus Torvalds Guided Tour of His Home Office
I wish Lee were still around. I miss working with him and appreciate him putting up with me.
I think the point is, and one that I would agree with, is that the label "crazy" is of no possible benefit. It dismisses and demonizes.
I'm moving my entire UI design process to Sketch
Strangely a comment by the filmographer indicates that not only is she not being forced to marry someone but in fact the father has decided that the best thing for the Hotel is to appoint his daughter as a successor.
The examples you cite are highly selective elite universities where all the students are cream of the crop.

That's not what the article is about. It's about state schools versus private schools with presumably comparable admission rates and SAT scores. That's the choice 90% of students at state schools are making.

Some state schools, like UCB compete with elite private universities. If you want to make a comparison with MIT, you might want to ask if UCB grads make any less.
When I toured the Belfast cruiser in London, what stuck out to me (the engineer nerd) was the machine shop. Crammed in a tiny space was a marvelously complete shop, where there wasn't much a skilled machinist couldn't make on the spot. This, of course, is critical for a warship out at sea that would need to make repairs or improvise right now.

In a spacecraft, this is obviously even more critical that one be able to make repair parts on the spot. The Apollo 13 crew was pretty lucky they were able to make makeshift repairs to keep going without much of anything to work with. One shouldn't rely on being so lucky again.

The Challenger disaster (discussed recently on HN) comes to mind. If the crew knew about the damaged wing, and had some ability to make new parts on board, they might have been able to rig a repair good enough to get them home.
Ask HN: How do you keep your stable GitHub repo active?
Perceived Problem: People glance at a repo and see that it hasn't been updated in several months. They decide it is not actively maintained and either find a similar project that has been updated recently, or use the one they found with the worry the maintainer might not ever get back to them if they find a bug or submit a PR.

Example: I maintain a small repo which doesn't require many updates since the API is small and stable. The last update was 5 months ago. I am happy to see the random person star the project, but I don't want future people to skip over it because it has no update activity.

What does everyone do to show project activity? Artificially update the README?

I really want a "check in" button I can display in the project README which basically says "yup, the maintainer has actively been here!", assuring me that a seemingly unmaintained project is in a stable state and being watched over.
Since we're discussing semantics here, "deep thought" is not something I'd think as mindfulness meditation either: you're not supposed to be chasing your thought while meditating. You should just be observing them as they come ("the intentional, accepting and non-judgmental focus of one's attention on the emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment." as you said), and then let it pass by, which is pretty much actually the opposite of deep thought.
The more elite the school, the more elite the ppl you meet. The financial outcomes can be easily explained solely on the networking effects of meeting ppl from more powerful sectors of society. No one sends their kids to an Ivy league school to get "Super smart", its to hang around the "right group" for later influence and networking with the "right people".
> Some people like that, but for lots of people it's hard. Personally, as an introvert, I'd hate to have everyone in the room looking at me the second I enter the room, all the time.

If in 2014 you are still feeling different for a __color__, I think the problem is more on you than others.

I'm not saying that racism or things like that don't exist. That is another thing.

I'm saying that really I'm pretty annoyed when I read these things. So what I'm Italian and I'm always the only Italian in the room, and so what?

Also, we want the same sex thing? What if we do Only Man Conferences? ? How much bad press will that get?

We want to be all equal? So what if a site of the weight of oKcupid will be like okWhiteCupid as this: www.blackpeoplemeet.com

Would be fun to read on hacker news: "Ok Cupid" now becomes only for whites. But if we want to be really equal no one should be upset right?

--

Long thing...

I'm sayin' that while I'm for the parity of things and equality in general I just see most of them just taking advantage of being a minority to complain when things gets wrong.

As far I can tell you, mostly in my day to day life I don't see this white male dominance. I never judged someone just from the color or for being a girl, gay or whatever could be.

I'm pretty sure that is the same for most of us.

I'm not saying that there aren't problems about that.

TL;DR; humans seems to like to create problems (on both sides).

NOTE: I know is not really female only

NOTE 2: After the down-vote please explain.
I don't feel motivated to work on it (this particular artifact) any more. I want to make something relevant to and appreciated by an audience, and programmer culture seems to be unwilling to do that in a deep way.

If I continue, it will be with a specific story in mind about who it's for and what message to convey. I have been attending The Strange Loop for a few years now and growing some ideas to write about.

It's worth noting that Slate was one major project in a long stream of development I started privately in the early 1990's and then brainstormed with some nerds on at the TUNES project until I made Slate its own thing (a kind of stepping stone towards the TUNES goals).
In addition to favoring the fashion of charismatic naming and artwork for exploits, I am utterly delighted by the notion of "misfortune cookies".

Imagine:

"You have good reason for self-doubt."
"Avoid heavy machinery today."
"You will be eaten by pumas."
"Learn from your mistakes; wear a condom."
Can you say a bit more about your home network? Just curious, since a simple openWRT doesn't leave much to be desired for my use cases :)
First, "maximising shareholder value" is essentially a government regulation which many would argue is not "capitalistic" in the classic sense.

Second, one can both support capitalism as a system and dislike some business practices.

Third, there is no guarantee that offloading salaries onto tips will result in maximising shareholder value since it could result in less customers using the service.
To me the performance of XMonad detracts from the trope that Haskell isn't performant (which I've been hearing/seeing lately).
Singapore govt's Uber rival slammed as 'stunningly pointless'
I have been interested in this subject for years.

The strategies I actually can get to work yield maybe 10% per year with 5% variance. Allowing me to take out around 5% per year.

For it to pay as a fulltime job and cover office expenses I would have to take out 150.000 euro per year; meaning I would have to have a working capital of 3 mio. euro.

So for me this cannot be anything other than a hobby project.
This reminds me quite strongly of the odd skin conditions people who are addicted to stimulants (crack cocaine, meth) or needle drugs (heroin et al) can get. Those are apparently mostly considered to be DOP as well—dopamine spikes cause compulsive foraging; dopamine withdrawals cause itching.

But, having met my fair share of homeless addicts, some of them will indeed have these very odd tiny, hard pustules on their skin, and claim there's something sharp and grating within it which needs to be removed.

My naive hypothesis for this has always had to do with getting something like kidney stones or gout—real little pointy crystals—due to deposits of these foreign chemicals in the excretory system, which it can't manage to actually excrete. If they were organic, this would result in a zit—but if they're weird things like cutting agents, they might result in something much more painful.

My naive hypothesis here, then, is similar: these people have non-ejectable foreign matter building up within their pores (either sweat out, or drifted in), together with some biological process (maybe a fungus, maybe one of their own proteins) that's sticking that foreign matter together into polymer chains. There's no "bug" living in there; instead, the fibre itself is the problem, and the irritation from it is what causes both the itching and the initial skin sore.
Using sun.misc.Unsafe for dynamic software updating in Java
I was lucky enough to get a guided tour of HMS Belfast from one of her old officers a few years ago. I think that shop could make just about anything, but there were a couple of things which if broken would have crippled the ship. Some piece of steering gear was the main one, IIRC. Just too big to fabricate on board, and not really replaceable without a drydock.

A minor correction: I think you meant Columbia. Challenger was destroyed by a leaking seal in the solid rocket booster while still in the launch phase. Not something fixable while in flight.
Looks good. Bepasty looks similar also, however not sure if it supports fully public url's.
Tangent generator
I guess I should say that we built a type system in Slate using objects and multimethods; it was used for metaprogramming and self-hosting.

Obviously not ideal, but we leaned in the direction we hoped others would see. I don't think enough people saw what we were doing beyond the front page news blurbs. Slate has a lot of good code in it.
excessive sweating isn't an issue at all. The fabrics used throughout the cyclewear industry have undergone significant developments as recently as 5 years ago.

The main principle is "moisture wicking" , where sweat is pulled away from the skin towards the outer layer of the fabrics where they evaporate, keeping you dry.

Our main fabric supplier, MITI, has been in this game since the early 20th century and they are always at the forefront of fabric technology. We are currently enjoying the advantage of "trickle down tech" where fabric technology that was currently only available on the really expensive BibShorts are now available at a lower cost - largely due to economies of scale and process efficiency.
That sure looks like the house in the movie Mulholland Drive, where the douchebag director lived.
Sockpuppets and vote-rigging are not ok on Hacker News.
Please don't tarnish good work by doing this.
Really cool! What about Google Tasks integration?
See also Atomo: http://vito.github.io/atomo/

And Atomy: http://vito.github.io/atomy/

Both of these, I feel, are interesting small offshoots that explore more in a pattern-matching metaprogrammable grammar direction, although they never became large visions or systems.
While it may not be covered under FDIC, Federal Regulation E might come into play here, according to this research paper:

Is Everything We Know About Password-Stealing Wrong?
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/161829/EverythingWeKnow.p...

"Federal Reserve Regulation E guarantees that US consumers are made whole when their bank passwords are stolen. The implications lead us to several interesting conclusions. First, emptying accounts is extremely hard: transferring money in a way that is irreversible can generally only be done in a way that cannot later be repudiated. Since password-enabled transfers can always be repudiated this explains the importance of mules, who accept bad transfers and initiate good ones. This suggests that it is the mule accounts rather than those of victims that are pillaged. We argue that passwords are not the bottle-neck, and are but one, and by no means the most important, ingredient in the cybercrime value chain. We show that, in spite of appearances, password-stealing is a bad business proposition."
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