skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody interested by this, I strongly recommend reading Bronson's "NutureShock," the book on which this article draws.

The book is not a polemic about race. Rather, it examines a lot of interesting research regarding how children learn. Other chapters cover how to use praise effectively, the uses and abuses of intelligence tests, and how kids learn to lie.

By the way, here's Bronson's own synopsis of this work:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/214989/output/print
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See, it wasn't just Arabic flash cards. It was Arabic flash cards plus a passport with recent stamps from Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan. It's unfortunate, but a young, single male, travelling alone, with recent visits to those countries (Sudan in particular) is exactly the profile of recent terrorists.

He had a story and it checked out, so he should have been released sooner, but I don't think it was ridiculous of them to give him additional attention.

It's also notable that he is an obviously white-looking guy. If he had been a brown-ish person of some kind who fitted the above description, would there be all this outrage?
I don't understand why a new customer gets a discount, but a loyal tmobile customer gets to pay a $100 fee for that loyalty.
he may have subscribed using google reader, which has an independent cache of the items in a feed.
The 99 Cent App Is Dead
The App Store is a big place, sure … but maybe it’s getting just a little too big. Maybe developers are losing sight of making sure they charge what their work is actually worth, rather than basing the factor of price solely on “I wonder how quickly we can get into the iTunes Top 10?".
Polls and bar graphs are part of the current curriculum standards for first grade mathematics, so I don't actually find that suspicious. I do suspect that letter had an adult proofreader / editor, though.
Possibly related:

> Homer's Uncle Ulysses and Aunt Agnes have a very up and coming lunch room over in Centerburg, just across from the court house on the town square. Uncle Ulysses is a man with advanced ideas and a weakness for labor saving devices. He equipped the lunch room with automatic toasters, automatic coffee maker,' automatic dish washer, and an automatic doughnut maker. All just the latest thing in labor saving devices. Aunt Agnes would throw up her hands and sigh every time Uncle Ulysses bought a new labor saving device. Sometimes she became unkindly disposed toward him for days and days. She was of the opinion that Uncle Ulysses just frittered away his spare time over at the barber shop with the sheriff and thee boys, so, what was the good of a labor saving device that gave you more time to fritter?

Robert McClosky, The Donuts of Homer Price
Thankfully no death threats, that would have been really disturbing.
GPU Map Reduce
A recall an indecent a few years ago (sorry no link) where several engineers were detained in an airport for discussing a 'Bill of Materials', usually referred to as a BOM a homophone of bomb. Knowing where to draw the line can be difficult.
The main reason I hate this question when I'm away from work and work related contexts is that my company is all I talk about and think about for 99% of my time. And sometimes its really nice to have a small break from it. Also I know that once I start enthusing about it peoples eyes will be glazing over.

I certainly hate the idea of "normals" too - and I can easily explain what we do and am more than happy to if you are really interested. Just be sure you are because you might get quite a detailed and passionate answer.
Content-free "blog" entry about an original:

http://ceae.colorado.edu/mc-edc/pdf/Milksop_Nation_Jack_Gord...

From the guildines:

> Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports
> on something they found on another site, submit the latter.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you have the copyright, it would be illegal for them to distribute the image or text without your permission.
I submitted a Ask HN post about our service (Personal Trending Topics) and didn't get a response - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1118331

I posted it at a time when there was a lot of other stuff getting posted so it got buried really quickly. And now I feel discouraged to post it again...
I rarely upvote articles, even if they're generally interesting to me (front page or /newest). Because upvoting also functions as a saving mechanism on your userpage, I only upvote things I want to save (mostly on a certain topic). If there were some distinction between upvoting and saving, I might be more liberal in upvoting interesting stories.
making Google work for them and get them where they're trying to go, instead of trying to retrain them to adapt to Google.

In other words, make products for the way people actually do things. Apple often gets this right. When they don't, it's often because they are there too early. (The iPad may be another Edsel.)
Your citation does not say this anywhere. I thought it was 24 hours (but maybe that depends on the state).

Either way, the TSA does not (or should not) have the authority to detain you in handcuffs. They are not a police agency, they are mall cops that check to make sure you don't bring lotion on a plane.
we need 200.
Ask HN: Please review my start-up - planergize.com
I'll believe it when I see it (that said, I really hope to see it).
Google Goggles Getting OCR Translations
Only semantically misleading. We've come to expect that if we get a subdomain on a service like tumblr, it becomes ours...if not legally, at least by norm.
That's also not the original post. It's a post that's been reblogged a bunch of times. I think this might be the original post:

http://tumbledore.tumblr.com/post/393030100/tumblr-stole-my-...
I got the impression that voice prices are dropping (now everybody has unlimited voice and text messaging for $70).
Affordable data packages can't be purchased without voice packages, so very few (if any) consumers will save money trying to use Skype instead of using their voice plans. Consequently, not many people will use Skype over 3G anyway. It's not worth risking the government mandating stronger net neutrality guarantees that would force them to allow Skype over 3G and worse. In particular, the government could "go overboard" and make such legislation require data plans to be de-bundled from voice plans and/or ban "triple play" bundles.
haha. i took "justification" to mean inability to accept things outside their control and wanting keep the science books right and not take away a "being"'s favorite planet, home or friend.
This reminds me of the time I was flying back from a conference where I had forgotten the I had a sample of a soda drink called "Bomba" in my carry on. To make matters worse, the drink was in a bottle shaped like a grenade. Though I could tell that the security guard didn't actually think I had a real bomb, he still would not let me through security with it. Matter of principle I guess.
> The one that says not to write back in cursive because she can't read cursive yet is cute.

That's the best one. Some pretty deep stuff: "Do poeple (sic) live on Pluto? If there are poeple (sic) who live there they won't exist". Bet they didn't think of that :)
I'm as white as they come, and my bag gets emptied and searched every time I fly. I also get "randomly" inspected by US customs on a fairly regular basis.

To be fair, the employees who do the searching are actually fairly efficient, and usually pleasant. But it is still annoying.
Neither, I just take lumps and work out of them. There's no real trend.
Ask HN: Has your work ever been plagiarized?
I recently had an experience where one of my web projects was copied - not an exact copy but clearly "inspired" by me. My initial reaction was to find some way to call the developer out and/or send an angry email, but in the end I've decided to ignore it and carry on. Wondering if anyone here had similar experiences and how they dealt with them. Keep in mind this isn't a huge project, but I've put enough time into it that being ripped-off is painful. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
No, that the story didn't get any votes just made it a good opportunity to test a long-standing pet hypothesis of mine.
Beautiful story-- I love Einstein. This reminds me of this awesome book:http://bit.ly/cprbVP
Android phones will pass the iPhone within 24 months in monthly sales. Android is simply creating a bigger market by being free and multi-vendor.
Meet Computer Engineer Barbie (but is she *really* representative?)
"Mencius is going to kick your autistic ass. Be prepared to be embarrassed, Hanson."

- http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/meh-transhumanism.html...
Could you put the code for Hacker News up on Github, so we could all help towards a better code base?
dontevenreply is hilarious, but I don't think that HN is the place to post it :(
The plan viewer was a little flaky for me as I scrolled along the timeline. All the bouncing around seemed to detract a little bit (at least for me), but than that's just a first impression, I might get used to it if I used to service a lot.
Link bait. Plenty of apps are still $0.99. One studio increases their price a little and they're declaring a huge change. There's no information when they made this change, I figure it must be recent.

Hardly a trend.
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The Goggles team gets to work on the coolest projects, being able to even roughly translate signs and menus in a completely foreign language just seems like the future to me.
This happens on Shopify all the time now. Since we moved our servers to the United States we are being hit with DMCA related infringements almost weekly.

If we get normal trademark disputes they are usually easy to deal with: we simply put the two parties into direct contact and they can figure it out. However, if the requester uses the DMCA method everything changes: We get an ultimatum from our hosting company (Rackspace) to resolve the conflict within 7 days or they will unplug our servers, which would disconnect many thousands of e-commerce stores and millions of sales. Obviously we cannot allow this to happen. Rackspace does this because they need to stay a "safe harbor" under the DMCA and this is how they pass the buck to us.

Luckily there have been precedents where false DMCA claims have lead to hundreds of thousands of dollar in damages to the plaintiffs. Our only recurse is to point this out to the originator of the claim before forwarding it to the affected store. In most cases this leads to them dropping the complaint and/or pursuing the (correct) copyright/trademark avenue instead.
There's not much to go on in this post. Has he even asked Tumblr for an explanation? Perhaps someone from Pitchfork Media asked for the password, claiming they had lost the original email account, hoping that the domain was abandoned? That would still call for an apology, but isn't half as bad as what it's made out to be.

Also, claiming that your subdomain was renamed and claiming that your original posts are still on the unrenamed domain is inconsistent at best.
China steams ahead with world's fastest train
She might be getting 'frisked' often because she's beautiful. Don't always assume racism when good ol' horniness (sp?) can explain it.
"Luck favours the prepared." Edna Mode - The Incredibles - 2004
Thanks - didn't notice that it wasn't the original - it came through my rss feed / post of aggregate links.
No, it's the guy who is introducing the debate who is buffering.
One of my favorite examples here is that a good portion of African-descended people have a resistance to malaria, which is certainly relevant to ones life in tropical climes. And on the other hand, those same people are susceptible to sickle-cell anemia.

The ability to digest lactose comes from a genetic mutation that's been traced down to northern Europe; most other people don't handle dairy well (sorry, don't have a handy reference). This may not be a big deal, except to the person having diarrhea because his friend assumed that everyone's digestion works the same.

Differing climate and lifestyles has led to physical characteristics differing in lung capacity, amount and distribution of musculature, etc.

[Edit: my characterization below of Chomsky's position is backwards, he opposed this idea]

Noam Chomsky posited that, much like computer languages, the language that a person speaks influences the way he thinks, and more recent research tends to support this. As a result, some people are better equipped mentally for different tasks. For example, there's a group in New Zealand that has no "relative direction" words like "left" and "right"; instead, all of their directional communications are in absolutes ("North", "West", etc.). Somehow they are far better than others at maintaining a sense of direction, so for any task that requires such a sense, these may be the best candidates.

It's probably not mere chance nor prejudice that some groups are better or worse represented in professional sports. For whatever reason, there's a preponderance of Africans and paucity of Asians in American football. I find it hard to believe that football coaches are being racist when there are such huge amounts of money on the line.

People really aren't all the same. We have differences, and in many cases those differences are shared within demographic groups. Why do we want to pretend that this isn't true, rather than reveling in special opportunities that it affords all of us?

Addendum: I realized that I partly answered based on culture (language) rather than race, as you asked. This points to a bigger question: what is race? Are the peoples of southern Europe separate from the northeners? Archaologists generally believe that American Indians are descended from Asians crossing the Bering Straits; should we view these as the same race, or separate? I'm not trying to be provocative, I really don't know how to define this.
Thanks a lot for your comment!
We will improve it. I just thought it would be nice to have something moving on the screen :-)
I'm curious if a lot of other users do the same. I rarely (if ever) look at my saved list and probably therefore end up upvoting a lot more than you (or others) do.
They TSA did not follow protocol.
Wow, totally read the title as GNU Map Reduce. This is an Nvidia CUDA implementation of Map Reduce, hence the GPU, not a project by the FSF for GNU or anything.
I follow (and am followed) by several HN'ers and I've noticed that sometimes they will tweat a title and link to something they've posted (or found interesting), and I usually click through and (if I find it interested) upvote it. Use your network, and don't be discouraged, I'll vote for your stuff :)
Karma is probably a good metric. Getting to, say, 50 is pretty easy if you make a few good contributions to discussions over a few weeks (or a couple of really popular ones over a couple of days), and yet that's still much more effort than a spammer is likely to expend.
That may be a foreign film, but the most-hyped tv shows these days are all the same.... Jack Bauer and 24, anyone?
It's not just a database - it's also usable out of the box as a fast, language-independent tuple space. Its atomic lists and sets can be used like Erlang mailboxes, and the different components of your system don't need to be in the same language or on the same machine.

Another thing I like about Redis is that its features make it very complementary to RDBMSs, rather than a competitor in the same niche.
Jokes With Realistic Endings
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/1999/10/13jokeland.html
That's a really great idea. We need more embedding of languages other than C.

And I say that as a huge fan of C. I'm even still using it for non-work projects :-)
Interesting idea.

I think the copy on your landing page needs some work. In particular, the intro paragraph ("Planergize is an online service that ..") seems a bit muddled. I wasn't sure at first whether your site was about plans, or about wedding planning (given the badge in the top left). I think you should easily be able to summarize what your service does without getting into the details of how you construct plans.

Good luck with the site!
I thought the name was a take-off on "plagiarize". I was expecting it to be a system where you enter a student's homework and it would do a search and tell you if it was plagiarized. Sorry, I didn't actually try the service, but I just thought I'd share my confusion with the name.
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Thanks for your comment - we are working on some nice graphics explaining what we do at the moment. And I agree - it is boring and doesn't work well...
I don't understand the title. There isn't a hate mail to be found. Some of the justifications are better than those of your average crackpot: at least most of these kids realize they want Pluto to be a planet, instead of arguing that it is a planet by some non-existing absolute standard.
Right now, upvoting conflates at least three (relatively) distinct intents:

- "save for later"

- "looks interesting"

- "did read; was interesting; would recommend"

It's the same w/ many other services, e.g. Twitter's stars. It would be rather interesting to see whether a service offering finer-grained options would add much in terms of actual usefulness.
No, Tumblr did not "steal" anything from you, kid. You used a service of theirs (for free) and they decided to discontinue that.

Morale of the story: don't feel entitled to or become dependant on free services.
2 is a step in the right direction though.. when the last plant built, in the 70s?
Well, I'm guessing you put some work into getting things to bounce around like that, so don't take anything out just on account of me :-) My own work is noticeably lacking in flare, but I certainly have an appreciation for the work you've put into this.
Ruby reflection
enable "showdead" in your profile
There might be no single word for what you do, so you have to explain, which might sound like you're explaining yourself (and trying to convince others, that you are successful).

I think there _is_ a valid argument in this post.
"Divide et impera" applied at the project level
I always read /newest first. I figure there's a pretty good incentive.

Early votes have the greatest impact. So at the cost of a little bit more time spent foraging, you can promote more stuff you're interested so it will get talked about by lots of smart people. I think I get a better collection of saved links too, but that's subjective.
When most sites get something 99.99% right that's doing really good. Even your hosting company won't assure you 100% uptime. And how often has Twitter been down? Or how many times has Facebook turned on a feature that everyone hated? Remember Beacon? It's easy to call foul on Google's mistake (and it clearly was a mistake), but it's easy to forget that we rely on Google's super-stable infrastructure and that infrastructure has fewer bugs and higher uptime than almost any other service. Picking out the Facebook login bug is funny, sure -- Google-bombing is always kind of funny. But saying that you know better than hundreds of the world's best engineers who've studied these problems for many years... well, that feels like hubris.
If it's a reasonably well defined project that I feel comfortable scoping, I'll typically charge 1/2 to 1/3 of the total project cost up front (before any work has begun) depending on the total project size. The second 1/2 or 2/3 is usually then contingent on me completing the work to the satisfaction of the client. I've found that this provides good incentives for both me and the client to both participate fully, do a great job and hopefully get paid promptly at the end.

When I'm working on an ongoing project where the requirements are evolving, I simply track hours and usually bill twice a month. Using Freshbooks it's easy to do this and keep track of everything and get the invoices sent in a professional manner. I create an invoice, and date it for either the 15th or 30th and then just add to it until that date, then send it.

I've found that most clients do prefer detailed records of what it is that they're paying for, so over time I've just made it my habit to record this carefully for them.

I would also stay away from stock options unless you LOVE and BELIEVE in the company and their leadership. Keep in mind, you cannot pay your rent or buy food with stock options, so that is a very speculative way to accept compensation.
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:-) Thanks for that!
I think it depends on details not provided in the linked account.

Did he have just 2 cards, with the words 'bomb' and 'terrorism', held where security and other passengers couldn't help but see them? (That is, was he trying to provoke a reaction, a sort of performance-art-in-the-security-line?)

Or, did he have a deck of dozens, packed away out of sight?

The threshold where I'll excuse security for giving him extra scrutiny -- possibly even temporary detention -- is somewhere between those two possibilities.
It's took me over 30 seconds to figure out what the site does and I'm still not 100 percent. If I were a normal user, I would have bounced by now.

Improve the landing page? Pictures and some points on what it does could be helpful.

Good luck!
An important jump in general happiness in my life occurred when I stopped worrying about efficiency when standing in line in the supermarket, when stuck in the slow lane or when doing some maintenance around the house.
"On an issue which affects our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, we cannot continue to be mired in the same old debates between left and right, between environmentalists and entrepreneurs," said President Obama.

Well, that's a little insulting :)
I don't see why this would be the case with tumblr...I mean it's a blog, not a communication tool.

Why couldn't the company just get pitchforkblog.tumblr.com and then just forward the A record for blog.site.com to it?
It makes sense to me. I went to both a high school and a college where there were sizable minority groups.

To be clear, I ended up making friends with a diverse group. But I would often get strange looks for not sitting with other members of my own race (asian) in my classes.

What I noticed was that, if the minority populations are large enough, there is no incentive to really inner mingle among races.

At my college, you would see fraternities where there were clear race lines, so there would be a white fraternity, an asian fraternity, hispanic, etc.

Conversely, there is a university in a nearby city where the minority groups are much smaller so minorities don't have the luxury of clustering together into separate groups. So I saw more people with more cross-race relationships.
Similar numbers for a recent post on my blog as well (that was pretty much only HN users). About 38% on Chrome, 2.6% on IE.
If you want to help children the best place to start is with your own(or your sisters, etc).

Also, in this context "helping" does not involving buying them anything.
> The 7xx family had its shortcomings, namely lack of SMP support and SIMD capabilities and a relatively weak FPU.

G3->G4 is apples to oranges. Video can run much better on SIMD.

A feature of parallels:

>Windows Aero is now available by default for machines with Intel GMAX 3100 and GMA 950 graphic adapters

You have no idea what you are talking about.