skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the letter interesting as it contrasts so much with our Tech industry: mature vs. unproven, simple vs. complicated, sound past vs. promising future. It looks like the complete opposite of VC-influenced business.

Even so, I believe there are takeaways. If we're building startups which have yet to prove themselves, it's still good to have a long term view. I'm reminded of Jack Ma's vision to build a company that lasts 99 years. Ma and Buffet's risks are—I believe—not pure chance but well calculated. Something I'm trying to improve personally but have a ways to go…
Great magazine, it’s a pity this is the first time I hear about it! Could you share a bit what type of customers did you gather? What did they like the most about HackerMonthly? Would have this worked online-only or was the print version part of the great value of this magazine?
Yup. You can still subscribe now and get all the previous issues for free.
wait till you hear about preppers
Have you tried typed Clojure [1]? It seems promising for bringing in types.

[1]: https://github.com/clojure/core.typed/
For Zend Developers: Awesome T-shirts for Zend Framework
Looks just like the old Mac before they got colour.
I think this is outdated and frankly quite sexist.
This is an MVP of a tool I want to build for people considering self-employment.

Are there other monthly expenses or financial data it should be capturing? (I didn't want to break down the expenses too much further as it would make the form overwhelming).

How would you make the experience better?

(I've ended up locking the sheet to prevent people from breaking it... ideally of course you would be able to start tinkering straight away... maybe there's a script I could use to reset the spreadsheet every hour?)

Thanks :)
I personally would not feel comfortable in such an environment. It feels hostile and incredibly authoritive. Personally I prefer to work with projects that have a more cooperative management style.
Wait, haven't we all agreed that everybody above 50 are useless dinosaurs that cannot keep up with the time?
To be fair, when we talk about this concept at work, we use the phrase "No UI", not "No interface". Maybe it should actually be "No GUI".
Alcohol is a common solvent used to create varnish, so it's not that surprising.
The forms 𝜙 and 𝜑 of "lowercase phi" to have different codepoints makes perfect sense to me. That doesn’t mean that upper-case variants of these can’t share a codepoint. As presented elsewhere in this thread, "X.toUpper().toLower()" doesn’t have to be "X". The same holds for "B → b" and "B → β" depending on the context. It’s just that the savings from such a unification would be far smaller due to the smaller sizes of the relevant alphabets.
Metallica, Death magnetic was famously poorly mastered on CD. [1]

So much so that people ended up downloading the rip from the Guitar Hero version as it was far better.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Magnetic#Criticism_regard...
Thanks. Certainly more than I expected. And I definitely wouldn't expect people to subscribe to a service that's shutting down soon. (also didn't expect this to get on front page)
Visual Studio + Resharper for the win.
Come on, they didn't need the explorer program to tell them battery life was too short. Even tests in the lab ought to show that.
Show HN: DoDo – Command Line Task Management for Developers
It's certainly iPriced, too.

$19.95 for 8oz (240ml) and a cloth...
The 1-3 point IQ advantage is widely and consistently reported in the literature, and it's probably right as far as it goes. However, studies that additionally adjust for socioenvironmental factors (mothers who breastfeed are more likely to read to kids, have larger vocabularies, etc), show results around 1 IQ point: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1633786.

The "mothers should have the option" bit in the article was really off-putting. As if taking the option away was even on the table! It bears keeping in mind that the vast majority of the current adult generation was formula-fed. In 1971, only 25% of kids were breastfed in the hospital, and only 8% were still breastfeeding at 3 months.

As a metacomment, recommendations having to do with parenting are myopic. They lack any semblance of cost-benefit analysis, and the attitudes in the medical community about how women should mother date back to a time when womens' opportunity costs for labor-intensive parenting choices were nothing.

Also often ignored is how these choices affect fathers. Breastfeeding removes the father's ability to independently take care of an infant. Because feeding is a bonding experience, this creates a dynamic where the child looks at the mother as the last line in being comforted. This is a choice couples can make, but it is one that involves trade offs, which the medical community ignores. It would be one thing if they just left it to patients, neutrally presenting the data and letting parents evaluate the trade-offs. But they tend to hide the data and aggressively push their interpretation of the proper trade-offs.
Understanding Babbage's notation, a software implementation, 3D printed parts
Sorry to hear this Lim, i liked the concept (advertised with you in the past :)
Best of luck with your new ventures.
Financial security is obviously important, and I might be in a minority here, but I'd like to think that financial strength isn't a good basis for choosing a partner. Depends what you want out of a relationship I guess.
I'm not sure there's a specific reason. 5 years is a long time (for internet years). I guess I just wanted to shut it down before it wither and die. I also wanted to explore other options (e.g work on new, different things).
Use of Dummy Text on US Government Websites
You've never been poor, have you? I have. I'm not, now, because of skills that I was lucky to have cultivated prior, but when you're about to end up homeless because of <insert any dozen emergencies here that can wipe out your savings instantly>, getting free food doesn't really cover it.
> buying something useless and expensive is a very strong signal

Of stupidity. Or not caring about the efforts of the person who earned that money.

Most of us are way above the peacocks, intellectually.
Thank you for taking the time to comment about your work.

I came to comment on the headline, basically to say that "Breastfeeding 'linked to higher IQ'" sounds awfully backwards -- surely this isn't really a result "in favour of" breastfeeding, but rather pretty damning evidence against formulas/substitutes ?

I like your formulation much better:

> children who were not breastfed have an IQ impairment
great point on parental income. Or anybody's income for that matter. It's a sensitive topic. Some will ask for things like cash holdings / equivalent, which is probably even more of a third rail.
Fortunately they had a section "what puts you off applying to us" where I voiced the absurdity of those questions.
I tend to agree. I've had great fun banging out programs in Clojure, but the lack of types makes coming back to fix bugs or extend the program quite unpleasant.

I'm doing a lot more Scala these days, which feels a lot easier to work with in the long run.
There are several other typos which, whilst trivial, are quite jarring:

http://fasterstat.com/Product
produsing -> producing
poverfull -> powerful

http://fasterstat.com/
anoher -> another

There is also inconsistent use of 'Addin' and 'Add-In'.
That's quite funny. I read the headline and thought "OMG, nobody at HN needs to hear that message, comeon!"
Awesome for colorblind people! Looking forward to using this.
I find it laughable that they discuss the design or function of anything, whilst having the heaviest, slowest, most tracking laden shitheap of a site.

It does not even scroll smoothly on any version of Android - an unbelievable acheivement.
The most prominent, composing a new email. The floating window appears out of bounds and it's impossible to click any buttons on the lower bar, including the send button.

What I do is tabbing all the way down so the floating window reorganizes allowing me to send the email.
This is lovely. I've hand-coded solutions before to show two variables by region simultaneously (e.g. voting patterns by socio-economic levels:http://imgur.com/ww1WV66). Colour and texture are nicely independent for showing this stuff.
I hear a lot less of it, not only on HN but on general newspapers and sources that are not focused on tech. Does that make the point more valid to you?
Blipfoto goes into liquidation
I've been wanting to buy a Kinesis for about 2 years now (can't find it in my country, expensive to buy and ship from overseas, among other things putting me off). I'm a heavy typist, mostly prose. Would you mind telling me your experience with it? How long have you had it, pros/cons, etc?
We defend that behaviour because this debate keeps happening and people keep blowing his (few) outbursts way out of proportion.

I don't think it's the best way to manage anything, but I also don't think these outbursts are a big deal.
Facebook is looking to become a one-stop-shop for Ads
Great project, just needed such a texture for an app.
Thanks!
Free house cleaning in exchange for being an in-home product tester might be an interesting proposition. Reduced price for accepting rather than using free samples has a fairly obvious base case under models of economic rationality.
The leds might look the same, have same markings and be sold with same data points, but they most certainly are not :) Cheap Chinese flashlight LEDs use throwaway wafer offcuts encapsulated by fly by night operations/off the clock in real factories or rebranded third parties (fakes). Its the same deal as cheap SD cards using third grade defective NAND Flash with controllers taking care to bypass bad regions.

They are good enough, but not nearly as good as the first grade stuff sold at a premium.
Ever wanted to see your MRR in Bitcoin?
How to Unlock Samsung Galaxy Xcover 3 Using Unlock Codes
John Gustafson Explains Energy Efficient Unum Computing
Not impossible, but in my experience it takes disproportionately more work than if you have a decent type-system to help you out.

In a dynamically typed system, every expression and line of code is a liability, and requires a large weight of tests to have any confidence that it might work.
Term newbies in R was what the poster before stated.

Personally I would NOT want to have anyone use R with a spreadsheet program.

1) I want manipulated data that is clear to replicate

2) I want my output to be plots and reports not another spreadsheet
You never saw that matryoshka doll book?

http://www.amazon.com/System-International-Computer-Science-...

It was somewhat outdated by late 80's but it was still "the book" for newcomers to Unix environments.

Next, look up what AWK stands for...
Anecdotally speaking, I have had 2 out of body experiences which were extremely vivid. Think about if your consciousness could be ejected outside and above your body somehow and you were looking down at your physical self.
One experience was while awake meditating and the other was while sleeping. No drugs involved etc.

While these were not technically NDE's, it definitely opened up for me the possibility that an NDE is potentially possible and that more research should go into this.
I'm not so sure about the pricey impression. I bought the Metro 500 USB one yeard ago for 65 USD on Amazon. It has 6 light modes that get you covered may it be during the day, night, heavy rain or snow.

The Metro 500 comes with an easy to remove clip that allows you to keep the mount on the bike while you get your light safe. Handy, but can break in cold weather due to plastic resistance.

500 lumen is quite enough for my needs.
I couldn't agree more. It might sound idealistic but I couldn't imagine being happy in a relationship where we don't agree on core principles (such as a stance on buying expensive diamonds).
"Breastfeeding removes the father's ability to independently take care of an infant."

This whole mammal thing is seriously backwards then. We should have evolved from snakes (whose offspring takes care of itself completely independently which supposedly is an excellent kind of dynamic.)
If they can offer several different tiers of video quality, they could do the same with the audio. Imagine a set of options that not only offers audio versions optimized for great headphones or optimized for phone speakers in a public space, but educates the (interested) user about the difference!
I don't understand why people would want to do mathematics in imperative languages.

(Yes, I understand imperative languages are faster, but why not just keep the imperative parts for the "inner loops", nicely isolated, and a functional core for everything else?)
I don't know about Fenix lights, but my experience with Cygolite has been excellent so far. I even broke the support on my bike and they sent a replacement free of charge.
Doesn't that apply toTwitter as well? If the child is under 13 Twitter can't store their tweets?
They differ in spelling and pronunciation.

ES.next and Harmony and ES6 are all old names for what is currently supposed to be referred to as ES2015

It's all a big mess
The money is gone right from the start. Even if your spouse is with you till you die.
I don't have any concerns with Google, but Apple's "No browsers allowed except for new UIs tacked on the iOS WebKit framework" is not my favorite thing ever.

Firefox on Android is pretty great.
A quantitative look into the tools growth teams use
China Reveals Its Cyberwar Secrets
So you want to learn to program?
Master the Currency of Time
The NSA Is Going to Love These USB-C Charging Cables
The loudness war isn't dead until people stop brick-walling their mixes at the mastering stage.

You can adjust playback volume between tracks all you want, but if they all have like 6dB of dynamic range, they're going to sound like garbage.

You're not really eliminating the loudness wars unless you find a way to Command-Z all of that ridiculous limiting (or convince people not to do it in the first place).
I might have thinking more about startup names and software names in the first instance, where words like 'zen' and 'origami' do seem trendy.
I couldn't agree more with Aaron on that.

A lot of people have started turning a blind eye to the TV, but very often they replace it with constant news coverage online. So they really have made no significant change in their lives. They're still spoonfed with something that has never had any impact on them, and most likely never will.

Anything with a significant impact, and unfortunately many things without it, are relayed through friends, family and co-workers.

If the bomb drops or christ returns then we have a warning system setup all over Sweden that wakes anyone up.

I can only imagine bad things from watching the news. I can't prove anything but it can't be good to constantly be told about negative things happening halfway across the world.
They are making the free upgrade from Windows 7 and up globally, but this article seems to imply they are going to make an exception for China and make the upgrade free for all Windows users.
Big media player hiring to build its own tech startup
I think you are discounting the "helped people" part. Your boss says what he says because he sees little value in your efforts. You answering questions on stackoverflow does not affect him. But it does affect the people you've have helped.

>And it probably has some economic value too, doesn't it?

Yes it does. It has economic value for the person whose job you probably saved. It has economic value for the person whom you probably helped get a job by explaining a difficult concept. There is economic value for the person whom you helped in shipping a feature for their customers. Your boss does not see from this prospective but the people you've helped do.

>That says I'm worth something, doesn't it?

Absolutely. I remember reading a quote, I think it was from Lewis Carroll. One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

> $3 would buy me a cup of coffee

With diminishing returns. An answer on stackoverflow is more valuable than a cup of cofee simply because it provides far more value to far more people for a much longer time.
You want value for money?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OLOQERE
Interestingly, that quote is from almost 17 years ago and they don't quite seem to have figured out how to "collect" yet.
The problem is that the husband in your example might have liked to donate to charity anyway. It would have to be something the husband doesn't give a shit about or even actively dislikes spending money on.

Also it's harder to show off reliably.

The ring is in many ways pretty good: It's always on your body, in direct view of your peers and it had absolutely no utility to the buyer except as a gift for the receiver.
I would rather take out a few thousand dollars in cash and burn it in front of her than spend them on a diamond. That also has the added benefit of reducing inflation.
+1000 Last night I got three hours of sleep, in one hour increments. Five month old has a cold and a head full of snot, would not sleep. My wife and I do night on, night off so one of gets some sleep every other night. I'm sitting at my desk wondering how I'm going to get my head into the code today. Three to four hours a night was common for the first 3-4 months.

About breast feeding, my wife produced plenty of milk, only the anatomy of her breasts keeps the baby from latching on. So she pumps and we bottle feed. She really wanted to breast feed this one, but it just didn't work out.
Ginsu knives, Matsui (UK) those were the ones I came up with.
SeaLion – Linux server monitoring tool gets a major revamp
i only did one essay module in my entire time at lse (psychology lol) and i hated having to learn all the references haha so no advice. how are you finding lse? it's funny how the most social place on campus is the library lol

what brings u to hn? u a programmer?
Happened a long time ago. Probably already some ancient despot came up with the idea of a healthy diet of breast milk for adults.

I've mixed feelings about this (Young mothers make money by selling their breast milk to bodybuilders on Craigslist)

http://www.theprovince.com/Young+mothers+make+money+selling+...

Or this (edit: on wet-nursing children), from 2006:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1535897/The-last-t...

(edit: on wet-nursing adults), from 2013:

http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/04/chinas-rich-developing-taste-f...
Breastfeeding has not always been the norm. At least in the US in the 70s doctors' advice was strongly against breastfeeding and encouraged switching to formula as soon as possible.
Non-American here. Perhaps I'm being overly cynical, but why is a private company even been allowed to test kids? They have totally perverse incentives to make tests more frequent and difficult, so they can sell more training materials for the same.

Also, stuff like this (http://www.state.nj.us/governor/news/news/552012/approved/20...) seems to give Pearson the ability to arm-twist states into using their standardized tests ("otherwise we'll move somewhere else").
> It's like watching a series on TV and then getting blasted with EXTREMELY LOUD COMMERCIAL BREAKS (and they do that shit on purpose too).

Call me cynical, but I immediately thought that formed part of YouTube's motivation for this.
I don't view it that way. If anything, finally some of Facebook's money is going towards an end I like. Remember that he is not working on Facebook, they just gave his company lots of cash and get to say they own it.
What's Coming in v0.4.0 of the PencilBlue Node.js CMS
Loving the retro look. But I'm not sure if patterns are as good as colors in communicating data. As soon as the data has even an ordinal scale, gradients or hues should work better.
Unfortunately, the R language isn't fast, especially not the imperative features (loops). A language like Julia is a better bet in that respect.

The drawcard of R is the breadth of specialised statistical packages. (Often with inner loops written in C for performance.)
Reminds me of this hack using the x-forwarded-for header:

http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2012/11/anatomy-of-attack-how-i-ha...

(Anatomy of an Attack: How I Hacked StackOverflow)

and this:

http://xkcd.com/327/

(Exploits of a Mom)

Never trust the client....
https://github.com/0nn0/terminal-mac-cheatsheet/wiki/Termina...
"Inventing Ajax" does not excuse the behavior though. Plus, I'm sure someone else would have come up with a similar idea not long after.
Yeah, you could add 'nil' easily.

inc and dec I assume mean increment or decrement (I have no experience with CL) - racket/base includes (add1 .) and (sub1 .) for the same effect. If they didn't exist they would be trivial to add I think - if this isn't what inc and dec mean then I apologise.

In Scheme/Racket truth and falsity is really simple - #f is false and everything else is truthy. There's also already a null value for the empty list (which is 'true'). I don't know if nil would be useful.
Financial issues ruin marriages, moreso even than infidelity. "Richer or poorer" is the bit of the vow that might seem easy when you're young, in love and likely to get richer, but if a financial crisis destroys your social circle, uproots your children and severly challenges your lifestyle then it becomes very hard to overlook.
Show HN: Crayfish, an open source, shareware newsreader
So down vote when someone says. I am not a fan of Excel? I can list several.

1) Excel your end result can not be replicated

2) Excel use in most shops use macros extensively and it is easy to not have your Excel environment available

3) The graphing capabilities of Excel is the reason why people still use pie charts

4) When doing analysis you want everything scripted? Excel as part of the tool chain is not something scriptable.

5) People usually have bad workflows with Excel and it takes learning R or Padas or Matlab or another statistics language to leave their current mindset

6) I can't think of one added benefit for having Excel as part of a good practice workflow unless you are mandated to produce some Excel spreadsheets which R can also do without touching Excel

I could keep going on....
Exactly, and he takes time to consider your replies and reply himself. No hard feeeling, no shitty internet trolling, just peacefull argument. Refreshing !
http://zerohedge.com

A news website that covers important issues rather than petty crimes.
Windows 10 will be a free upgrade even for non-genuine users
Local Services Aggregation Startups in India
The 11 Biggest Emerging Technology Blunders
Anecdotal data point; I've always used Windex exclusively on my systems (13" rMBP included) and have yet to have an issue.
Hmm. I think this article doesn't distinguish between news and bad news. Frankly, anyone reading this must be interested in news, it's in the title of the website. Why else be here?

This site isn't perfect, but it's useful to know what's happening in the tech world. Knowing about the world's current events is similar. We shouldn't dwell on negative events, but they happen and they happen to real people. Just because they don't happen to us doesn't mean it's not affecting us in a broader human perspective. We are all in it together.
Five of the Most Bizarre Houses Around the World
For now you are a bit wrong about Apple's not willingness to cover some hardware issues.

2011 MBPs were plagued by burning video cards, and only few weeks ago they accepted that it was an issue. Now if you have 2011 MBP, Apple will change your motherboard or repay your expenses on repairing your laptop (though, I do not know exactly how you must prove it).

In support.apple.com this issue is 12k posts long, and was ignored for 3-4 years.

Hope it will not repeat with rMBPs as I am owner of one and like to keep screen clean (cleaning by the recommendations of Apple).