skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really shitty statistic and bad journalism.

> It asked graduates how they were doing across five different metrics, including financially, physically and socially. Eleven percent of graduates of public universities and private universities said they were "thriving" across all five. Twelve percent of graduates of U.S. News & World Report's top 100 schools were thriving, essentially the same as the rest.

It seems designed specifically to say negative things about the college experience. The article mentions three of five categories (does two extra words in a list really require that much more effort?). Relying on self-reporting of ambiguous self-determined "thriving" and making the strong implication that you have to think you're doing so across the board is just foolish.
Is your marketing communication targeted right?
Pretty cool. Columnarization is used in other contexts like high performance computing, or Entity Component System in gaming. It's data centric and very cache friendly.
I interpreted it as rat mites being more of a catalyst for the condition, rather than them being the full explanation for the condition.
Meanwhile, this would have been a great way to share commit hooks.
Usually when you're new and don't already know the dress code, you show up 1 step above what you guess would be acceptable. Typically it's better to be over-dressed for a day or two rather than be under-dressed (fear or looking unprofessional/not serious).
I ended up using 25 gigs to install Puppy Linux.
479-287-2866 / 4792872866 Reverse Phone Lookup
Yeah. NTFS is case preserving, not case sensitive.
The problem with using exclusion in order to solve social problems is that sooner or later the group need to start hating others in order to validate a continuation of the exclusion.

A extremely related issue is indeed how African Americans are treated in American. The Black Panther Party was a reaction to racism in the police (In 1966, only 16 of Oakland's 661 police officers were African American) in the same way that women exclusive events are a reaction to sexism and gender ratio in IT.

I understand that using exclusion is a simple method in order create a environment where a minority groups feel more included. It also source for hate, tribe mentality and radicalization. When people like me criticize such methods, it simply because the benefits do not seem to validate the high cost.
For fun, I want to build a language. After see you can do a lisp very easy, I stop and wonder for what my "new" language can be useful. This make me think in how do a REPL, a debugger, what kind of task this must solve naturally, etc, and for which kind of users!

However, pull of a successfully language is very hard. That depress me.

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See more at

https://www.reddit.com/r/coding/comments/2ocw2r/how_to_creat...
Steve Hsu: http://infoproc.blogspot.com
Example post title: "Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening using next generation sequencing"

Razib Khan: http://www.unz.com/gnxp/
Example post title: "Most Horse Lineages Are in Heaven"

Gregory Cochran: http://westhunt.wordpress.com/
Example post:

"It is easier to develop a phobia about snakes than electricity or carbon monoxide, probably because we have built in neurological mechanism that confer that propensity.

Likely most animals have a similar propensity to develop a fear of fire: or it might come automatically. If there was such a fear-of-fire mechanism, we have lost it: and dogs have as well. If this is correct, one could learn about this hypothetical mechanism by comparing dogs and wolves."

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These are heavily biased towards population genetics and quantitative genetics. Would appreciate suggestions for blogs of smart people writing about molecular biology.
I tried booting from a live cdr but it loaded into a command line. Is there a way to get this with a GUI installer? I'm new to Linux and don't know the command line.
I keep a list in a text file, often kept open in vim. I don't know that this improves the workflow of that, though it might provide some organizational benefits for a large list, maybe?

That said, it's always nice to see new simple command line utilities, and it's amusing to see that now ideas are moving from the web to the command line, instead of the reverse (kinda; but it seems like todo list apps are a thing that became hugely popular with web frameworks; org-mode has existed for a long time, and I remember a clever awk-based note taking app a few years ago, that I never ended up making use of because it was something new to learn, but there have been like a million todo list apps on the web). For years, there was a truism that the secret to success on the web was to pick some popular UNIX service and make a web version of it.

If it were somehow integrated with bash completion, instead of using IDs, I might think more seriously about it. i.e.:

memo -d "Fix log<tab>"

Which completes to the memo named "Fix log file rotation problem on srv1", for example. Having to list the items, find the ID of the one I want (I currently have about 60 items in my notes file, and while regex search makes it easier, it's still a multi-step process that's slower and more tedious than /Fix log<enter>dd in vim. Tab completion would make it one step in memo.
Let's kill off #ZombieSOPA
I assume you agree with the prior analysis of the Falun Gong?

If by 'activists' you meant a group of lawyers willing to represent civil rights causes, I suppose you've never heard of the Weiquan?
Anyone knows what happens if an NTFS partition has both fiLe and file, when used in windows?
I agree, and can imagine. There is little irony in this, as I am a member of a community (Asian males) that is usually marginalized and heavily ridiculed in mainstream American culture. I have frequently been the oddball in a room who feels out of place and has a funny accent that people laugh at. Not every male who hangs out here is necessarily rich, successful, and white as you seem to imagine.

Anyway, none of this changes the fact that I wouldn't feel particularly comfortable going to said conference, and I imagine neither would most men. If this effect is intended, it's perfectly fine by me (as I have made clear in my comment, and have even laid out a viable alternative).
He hasn't scratched his arms until they developed sores in several years, so cured enough to function I suppose. He's still damaged mentally, but it's taken a different form.
> This is a really shitty statistic and bad journalism.

I think part of the explanation can be found at the end:

Max Ehrenfreund is a blogger
on the Financial desk

I'm not really sure what standards the Washington Post applies to "bloggers" as opposed to their more mainstream news articles. But IMO at some other sites (Forbes comes to mind) bloggers aren't held to very high standards at all.
If your README states the software is complete, stable, and has all
required features implemented, no one should expect updates. Vanity
metrics, like artificial activity, would do more harm than good. One of
the problems with "social coding" environments like github is people
tend to be influenced by the wrong things, like vanity metrics, rather
than the right things, like useful code. The only way to win that game
is to refuse to play.
Great recommendation. It's an older edition of a print book (still in print for decades) that's online for free with permission. It's well done, clear, and has very little woo in it.
Ahah, that's quite true

But I was more thinking about corporate computer systems where such an exploit should only last one session (except for privilege escalation, as OP mentioned).
The local stores I visit are almost never mom & pop shops anyways, but huge franchises like Home Depot, Walgreens, Safeway, or Target. So the feel good factor is non-existent.
> Because it's so, so easy to get trapped in a cycle of endless below-livable jobs just to support yourself.

That's an appeal to emotions and has nothing to do with the argument.

> My personal belief, and I'm more than willing to pay more for goods and services to support it, and I live in a country where we have a liveable minimal wage, is that every job if worked 40 hours should be enough for a very modest, but not totally hopeless life. You also then have time off to use to improve yourself via school or some other way.

You are more than willing to pay more, but the very people you talk about who need cheap goods and services to stretch a budget don't have that extra money. The forcing of every job to be "living wages" removes a part of the labor force that is willing and able (due to parents or other income) to provide services for less money. Removing part-time, dependent labor from the the market increases the costs of goods and services for everyone and screws poor people. You might feel better, but it has a detrimental effect.

> If you're working back-to-back jobs 80 hours a week that pay nothing you have zero time for yourself, zero time for good planning and zero time to attend any kind of classes.

This is a different issue. This is the disappearance of full-time, low skill jobs. There are many factors including changing laws that have impacted this area. Our current bad economy and companies preparing for changes in health care laws are two. Worsening the situation by raising the minimum wage is only going to get more people fired / hours reduced or speed automation (McDonald's self ordering machines).

Doing something to help people get an education or training is one thing, eliminating a whole class of workers that make goods and services cheaper is a problem.

I remember the paper, and remember a negative reaction, but do not have time to read and find my sources on it again.
Ask HN: How to bookmark/save a story?
The authors recommend prescribing a benign anti-parasitic ointment to build trust, then topping it up with an anti-psychotic.

This could be read more charitably, but this sure sounds like deceiving the patient. Is that what they mean?
IANAL, but here's my interpretation. There are two concerns here:

(1) The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated

and (2) no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

(1) being the protection, and (2) mentioning the loophole of warrants and protections on that as well. Searching digital information without a warrant violates (1). The legal way to do it is via warrants, and limitations on warrants are prescribed in (2).
Homebrew (http://brew.sh) is pretty darned solid.
Walmart hardly counts as a "local" store. (For that matter, they also sell online.) And between Walmart and Amazon, I'd much rather do business with Amazon.

Actual "local" stores seem highly unlikely to win on price.

I suspect that Amazon and others will solve the "showroom" problem in the not too distant future, for the handful of products where that actually matters.

Other than brand loyalty, I don't see any obvious niche that a local store could do better.
Twilight Zone from 1986: The Misfortune Cookie, starring Elliot Gould

http://youtu.be/7FlyNU9FpK0
Pretty cool. Is the choice of country weighted by population? (i.e. you are more likely to be born in China vs Greenland)
edit: for lesser known, I would say:
- Whitney Johnson's blog on disrupting yourself: http://whitneyjohnson.com
- Occam's Razor on data driven marketing: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/
- Copyblogger (probably in the well known bucket but still really good): http://www.copyblogger.com/blog/
As someone who's relatively new to tiling window managers (I've used manual ones like Divvy and Moom quite a bit though): is this approach only really effective with large monitors?

I've given Amethyst and other WMs a shot in the past and been instantly annoyed when they automatically tucked away windows into unusably small configurations. Is this part of the learning curve and addressed by proper configuration, or should be avoiding this for use on small screens? e.g. a MB Air 13"
If you are going to send your kid to one of those, be sure to clearly explain to them that is the point, lest they fall into the trap of studying and getting good grades at the expense of networking.

(I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide which parts of that are sarcastic, and how much. Frankly I'm not sure myself.)
Point - simple Chrome extension that makes clipping and sharing stories quick and seamless: http://www.getpoint.co

Evernote - tried and true, particularly great for tagging and saving: www.evernote.com
Praise is a built-in alias for SVN, not so for git unfortunately.
Animagraffs – Animated Infographics by Jacob O'Neal
M.Zikiz: des sonneries mobiles à télécharger regroupant diverses musiques
The second Google result for "Laboratory for Physical Sciences" for me is an NSA article stating that it's an NSA facility - it's hardly a secret.
That's true, but this hack is a (clever) way to shortcut doing user commands (if you have access to the USB port and the logged user's unlocked screen, then it is conceivable that you should be able to do such a thing without such a tool).

The exploits that could lead to privilege escalation are a different matter (imo they should be fixed).

This hack is very relevent for personal computers, where the user account (in windows i.e.) is an admin and plugging in a USB device does not seem as dangerous as you demonstrated it is.
Watch a man control two robotic prosthetic arms with his mind
If you mean on HN, saved stories = up voted stories.
How long have you been playing with developing languages? How much do you think syntax matters? Will a homoiconic language ever capture the mainstream?

Actually, what hope is there in capturing the imagination of the mainstream? Seems like they're so used to having languages forced down their throat by corporate entities that our brightest hope lies in children.
TorrentLocker ransomware infects over 9,000 PCs in Australia
>The author is delusional: thousands of people show physical evidence of something, and the author denies it.

No, they have not. Plenty of labs are willing and HAVE tested the fibers. None are of "foreign material."
> The problem is that some of the investors care more about becoming celebrities and "virality" than the laborious process of building real technology companies and getting rich slowly.

Investors care about making a return on their investment, plain and simple, so they invest in companies that resemble other successful companies. Silicon Valley investors saw the success of Facebook and Twitter and they want to replicate that success.

Not only that, but social network companies look like good investments because they're relatively inexpensive to build, and signs of their eventual success or failure show up at an extremely early stage.

The problem isn't that VCs are evil or stupid or fame-hungry or conspiratorial. The "problem" is that social media companies still look like good investments. You could accuse VCs of being uninspired and unoriginal, trying to repeat their last big success over and over, but that's how it works. And as long as college kids are building the social media apps that get initial traction with other college kids, they're going to get funded.

Complaining won't do anything. As long as social media looks like a good investment (i.e., until it deflates or until something better comes along), VCs will continue to milk it. Once it becomes a bad investment, they'll all go chasing the ball to wherever its headed next.

I agree, it's unfortunate that the money isn't being funneled into something more innovative or meaningful. Rap music annotations and disappearing photos and a website that helps you rent out your spare bedroom are being heralded as some of our greatest tech success stories. Frankly, that's pathetic.
Agree that it should be weighted by current country birth rate so that you're disproportionately likely to be born in Niger or Mali vs. Singapore or Monaco. But really cool concept.
It can be done in a way that preserves privacy:
Package manager regularly asks for compromise information. When programs run, they ask package manager if they are compromised.
> To be clear, I'm not sales-phobic or anti-design, I just don't think that security vulnerabilities need to be marketed.

I understand this worry, but I don't think executives will ever see sites like this... except when engineers say HOLY HANNAH WE NEED HOURS TO FIX THIS RIGHT NOW, and the executive says "I have a fixed budget, and this doesn't make me money."

Then this site is brought up. And the world is better.
Perhaps we should petition to have the disease renamed "Morgellon's Basilisk".
AFAIK Dropbox is an untrusted computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleeza_Rice#Role_in_author...
No PoC? This is a marketing brochure.
Quite the contrary, the level of service can vary wildly in nationalized health care, where the state runs the hospitals. There are pluses and minuses -- you can get much better health care at a much cheaper price to the tax payer, but with all the problems you see in any government bureaucracy.

Nationalized insurance on the other hand is pretty much the system any American would be used to, except the government pays and you have long queues.
> Will a homoiconic language ever capture the mainstream?

Not the author (obviously) but I think it already has -- Clojure has gone mainstream.
This is a really cool website, I love the concept and think this can go a long way. I think the website will need some tweaks and the experience can be more intuitive. Unfortunately Im not a developer but I'd love to give you my input on how to make the website flow smoothly.
My experience was mixed - I liked that I could control bids and if I didn't like any of the designs that were returned to me in the initial round, it was risk-free because I could get my money back.

The challenge I had was if you need or expect a logo or design that is more than the basics, it can be difficult to communicate the specifics to get those higher quality results.

But in the end, you get what you pay for, and for a more reasonable price point, you're able to get decent, basic design work.

I found better success looking at portfolios on Behance and reaching out to designers whose portfolios I liked. Likely more pricey, but again, all depends on what you're looking for and if it's integral to your product.
Service in Korea is also quite good despite a no tipping culture.
Show HN: Vertical Farm Energy Calculator
Conference call architect
Michael W Lucas presentation on sudo based on book Sudo Mastery [video]
What could go wrong running on a treadmill?
I don’t think you fully understood what 0942v8653 said; why would you write malware to perform the default behaviour (the LED turning on when the camera is on)?
You don't have to ask developers to install Bower and Grunt to start your app
Because if there is a place where women are worse off then you can't complain here...
Healthy coral reefs produce clouds and precipitation (2005)
> Image-based bootstrapping was useful, but too monolithic.

I feel that. I have no problem with images in theory, but history has made me flinch at them.

> As it is, I'm disillusioned with the open source and software research fields

That's a shame. Open source is very diverse... I hope you have better experiences in the future.

> You may as well AMA.

Awesome. What do you think of Io? — http://iolanguage.org/

I'm asking because I rarely ever hear PL people talk about Io.

I'm also curious, was there a coherent design goal or philosophy behind Slate? Alan Kay is very clear about his values, I have a handle on what Io is about, and so on. All I'm getting from Slate is "better than Smalltalk" but is there something more specific to it?
On Liberty of Knowledge:
"[...] gave us the following statement which is food for thought, discussion, and much more."

Statement starts in the middle of the article.
http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-fenopy-shuts-quietly-141218/

It is missing Aaron. What do you guys think?
Thanks! I agree, I meant to include that it is in beta and I wouldn't mind a full redesign. I don't consider myself very skilled with design and would love to hear any input you may have.
Ask HN: News sites suck, is there a site where people write long articles
Like a Twitter for news but longer
I shouldn't have read that... lol.
Ignorant comment, not in the least because 70% of STEM students in Iran are women.[0] Have you seriously never met any women from Iran in this industry?

[0] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7115/full/444022a...
Ironically, the hangar at Patuxent River NAS that was built to house the A-12 test fleet is currently used to house F-35 test aircraft.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll pass it along to our membership director.
Sometimes I'd like to rebel a bit and dress in a suit to a tech meet up where everyone else is in T-shirts and shorts. :)
>> So what I'm Italian and I'm always the only Italian in the room, and so what?

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

The thing is.. you're right that it's fucking ridiculous that people are so judgmental and mean for a __color__, and that __they__ have a problem. But the fact that matters is that when you're the one being judged and mistreated every day, it doesn't really matter if they're right or not, it hurts and it's frustrating.

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

That's a whole different subject. The point is, why would you do a man-only conference? Is it because you really care about having only men in there? Or because that's a way to (passive-aggressively) express your opinion against how stupid you think feminism is?

>> I just see most of them just taking advantage of being a minority to complain when things gets wrong.

I see what you mean, and maybe it's true in rare occasions. But more often than not, for someone to publicly talk about an issue, it's something important to them. Maybe not to you, but to them.

As a stupid example, it really pisses me off when people are disturbing me when I try to hack. I lose all my productivity and I feel like I wasted my day. But for them, they don't care.. they don't understand, they're just chatting about the weather or whatever. Unless I take the time to explain to them why it bothers me, they won't get it.

So, maybe when you see the other gender complaining you think they're annoying, or find excuses, or are abusing their minority. But in practice, I'd recommend paying close attention to what they say because it's not about what you think, it's about how you (or someone else) just hurt them without even knowing it.

>> I never judged someone just from the color or for being a girl, gay or whatever could be.

What if I told you that your post is extremely cruel for someone struggling with racial or gender harassment?

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

I wish.
And by "one of the few" you mean "one of the many". Heart rate monitoring is not terribly difficult or magical.
What? You are rambling past the facts. This very PHYSICAL manifestation of fibers and mites and other things they claim have ZERO - and I repeat for effect, ZERO - scientific evidence backing it. Not any. Not even a little bit. Just anecdotal stories from people who want a solution.

Are these people sick? Absolutely. But the diagnosis is close to delusional parasitosis, whether or not they want to believe it. And there are ways to mitigate the symptoms. It's just that most Morgellon's sufferers don't want to believe it - which, might I remind you, is not uncommon with mental illness patients.