skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone explain what this means to people outside of the UK? I don't mean this in a condescending way.. I just really feel ignorant. I'm not sure what an MP is, and I'm not sure what role this whole thing plays in the lives of the English.
It's "celebrity" gossip fodder at best.
* (5mins/attendance * 6 classes * 10 mins bathroom break form filling/a day * 2000 students * 34 weeks/year / 60mins/hour = 340K)

Mistakes:
Actual school days in 34 weeks = 5 * 34 days
5min / day * 10 minutes bathroom break = 50minutes
Bathroom break form does not take 10 munutes per class.

More reasonable calculation 6 class * (( 5 min / day * 34weeks * 5days / week) + 3 * 10 min) * 2000 students / (60 min / hour) = 176K hours.

PS: Checking attendance takes less than 5 minutes, but adding in the time it takes them to fill out a form and I am willing to say 5 minutes lost to that type of activity.
Belgium.
Give up on Rand, she is a philistine. Try David Gauthier (amazon link: http://tinyurl.com/moralsbyagreement ) if you want a serious theory that might speak to you, if she does. Plenty of game theory to amuse, on your way to serious reflection!

I wonder about the plan of 'basing morality on reality'. In a way it can't be rejected of course, but it is a formula that is very easy to misread. There was a traditional distinction between 'practical' and 'theoretical' philosophy -- the origin of the familiar opposition practice/theory, but quite different. The associated epistemologies are very different.

Consider, to take a trivial illustration that doesn't reach so high as the ethical: my (practical) knowledge the I am typing something to Hacker News, and your (theoretical) knowledge of the same thing, if you are watching.
Is my knowledge an effect of the 'reality' that I am typing something to Hacker News. Is it so to speak 'reality based', as yours certainly is?

Plenty of knowledge of reality, e.g. the layout of the keyboard, what has actually appeared on screen, etc. comes in, of course. But I am making this 'reality', I am making the thing that is cold external reality for you.
The assymetry between your knowledge and mine in this case has parallels at the higher levels. Maybe Randism is true of Martians, for example. But even so that wouldn't be how the Martians know it. They wouldn't have 'reality based' knowledge of it. We would, if we could come to this knowledge by studying them.

Similarly, justice and mutual recognition belong to human life but we don't know this the way Martians would. There needn't be anything mystical in this.
This will be great once they add SMS as a transport (listed under upcoming features).
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Have been using for 1.5 years and never thought about it as some future technology…
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Well, obviously (hopefully) I was being a bit facetious. They are qualified to object to Mandy's licence to print legislation. But surely the Great Firewall of Britain and whathaveyou should be stood up to at all levels, you don't need to be a "nerd, fanatic or zealot" to see that (thanks Austin Mitchell for alientating me in one sentence - and you're trying to appeal to me!).

"join the Pirate Party "

> The right to share files provided no money changes hands.

Great, thanks for destroying my livelihood. Where's the funding for the British Film Industry supposed to come from then?
Kenya.
I'd love to know if Bozo got a personal visit from Steve.
Ah, those happen too, though not as much at the type of interdisciplinary conferences where you'd also have a lot of humanities people--- seems to be mainly a thing for people who need equations in their presentation, esp. in cs-theory. I sort of prefer latex presentations myself, but just because I like editing source-code-like stuff rather than editing a presentation in a GUI tool.
India and Indians have a long tradition of mathematics and science. Mathematicians like Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) have iconic status.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_mathematicians
My wife and kids all have Dropbox accounts. I spent a little time training them to save everything important to "My Dropbox" instead. Works great for smaller stuff.

Maybe Dropbox needs a family plan?
I second (or third) the recommendations of seeing a psychologist and upping your level of physical activity. Try to find a psychologist who isn't a pill-pusher. I also recommend the books "Feeling Good" by David Burns and "The Highly Sensitive Person" by Elaine Aron.
One thing that helps me figure out if I'm ok with where I am and what I have is imagining that I'll lose it tomorrow (not in a bad way). If I'm tired of where I live, I imagine I'm moving tomorrow, if I'm unsure about my job, I imagine it's my last day here. It helps me appreciate the good things about my situation. However, I'm definitely one of those people who doesn't appreciate what they have until it's gone.
Most stovetops I've seen in apartments here in NYC are gas, with the occasional electric heating element.

Most down in North Carolina are all-electric - or were, when I lived down there several years ago.

Between induction stovetops and insanely wide bandwidth pipes there in Scandinavia, it pretty much is the future compared to much of the US :)
Engineers get a much higher paying job. Computer engineers (both hardware and software) get paid 10-20 times as much as other professions. MBAs get more. Note that even students who do Mechanical & Civil engineering try to get software jobs. That's where institutes like Aptech and NIIT come in (they're now global franchises, but they started as tiny training institutes in an Indian city). I once met an auto-rickshaw driver who had a Bachelor's degree in science. He started driving the rickshaw because 2 years after graduating he couldn't get a job. If he'd done engineering, his college (or training institute) would have placed him somewhere.

When I graduated high school, and was in line to submit my college application, I heard a bunch of people mention that they'd applied for engineering and medicine and would take whatever they got.

Another reason, specific to guys is that it increases their chances of getting a bride from a "good" family, and also the potential dowry he could get. Software jobs tend to take you abroad more often than other jobs, and, believe it or not, there are some communities in India that will raise dowry prices based on the number of US immigration stamps you have on your passport. Yeah, officially dowry doesn't exist.

Lastly, some people study engineering simply because they're really good at it. I've encountered hundreds of people who really had the aptitude to be engineers.

Disclaimer: I'm Indian but I studied Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. No one would give me a job after I graduated even when I cleared all interviews and written tests.
I think this technique is very effective at getting the "Hacker News" types to experiment with their service. I know I wouldn't have played with App Engine if Google didn't have a free offering at the low volume end.
I really hope that not just Wallpaper designers will learn how to deal with and respect the iPad’s orientation agnosticism. Popular Mechanics’ app does quite well in that respect, they layout the whole thing with the 768x768 pixel safe zone in the middle in mind. Crazy mode changes (like in the Times app) are just jarring if you want a smooth reading experience.

It’s not even something that would be a strange concept for good old print dudes: they call it bleed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_(printing)). Sure, it’s not the same on the iPad, sometimes it is a good idea to fit in extra stuff with split views – but as far as I can tell there are no crazy mode changes (ála Coverflow on the iPhone) when the orientation changes in any of the native apps. And that’s a good thing.
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"That just begs another why. Any ideas?"

Money. Respect in society.
this is interesting, but I wasn't happy with SQS so i'd be wary before we started using something like this over a custom notification system on top of RabbitMQ.

we used SQS for a while but kept having problems with polling - deleted messages would reappear with alarming regularity (which to be fair is documented by Amazon as a design tradeoff due to the distributed nature of the queue) - but it really caused a hassle to build a system that could handle these duplicate messages, especially when there was a lot of work to be done per message.
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The email notification part is what I find to be very interesting. I haven't looked at how in-depth you can configure things with deliverability / message customization, but I'd have to believe it's very robust. If it can do what I think it does, did it just make SendGrid dead in the water?

ie- 2 dollars per 100k messages via Amazon vs. 80 per month for 50k messages on sendgrid.
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Hmmm, I think FB apps are a hard added value sell with the current placement of apps on the FB website, perhaps an option to simply post from the your cherry app (i.e. a FB button) to showcase your productivity - when you want.

My sense is auto posting through an FB app, might be counter productive - of course it is easier, but doesn't a post demand that you were somehow productive? And how do you keep the frequency up, in order for FB to show that you are "a productive person" - to far between posts, and you are automatically not productive - or are you?.

If you work on the badges concept, that might be a better approach to FB app, simply having the badges post vs. a index number or other "simple" indicators.

Hmmm, will hum a bit over this...
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> Here's a "pickup method" that'll have even MORE success than the awesome mystery method :

> 1) Join a gym. Workout a lot until you have big muscles. This won't take you more than half a year.

> 2) During that half a year, take up meditation and contemplate your past relationships, your parents, your childhood. Write about it in a journal and become at peace with who you are. Think about what you want.

> 3) During that time too, concentrate on your career. Get it all laid out in front of you.

That's a subset of most PUA techniques (except contemplating your childhood - contemplating past relationships and attempts at them is definitely in).

If you add removing the approach fear, and developing your sense of humor and ability to come up with interesting conversations, congratulations, you're now an unethical PUA and will get angry people writing blog posts about you.
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The text breakdown doesn't show some of the numbers that are in the map. However, they are in the source. Here they are.

United States 54.3%
India 8.2%
United Kingdom 4.5%
Canada 3.6%
Germany 3.2%
China 2.4%
Australia 2.3%
Italy 2.0%
Pakistan 1.9%
South Africa 1.6%
China 2.4%
Australia 2.3%
Italy 2.0%
Pakistan 1.9%
South Africa 1.6%
Netherlands 1.4%
Kyrgyzstan 1.0%
Belgium 0.7%
Mexico 0.7%
Cameroon 0.7%
Ireland 0.6%
Japan 0.5%
Other 10.4%
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Upvoted for Canada.
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At which point would a woman optimising herself for interactions with men become unethical? (answer: never).

Presenting yourself as the best you can be to those you are attracted to is one of the most basic purposes we have on this world.
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So what actually happened with the Digital Economy Bill? Did it pass? What are the implications?
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Considering the entire culture revolves around sleeping with women in a more or less disposable fashion, probably the day after you realize it works.
I am REALLY suspicious of statistics like that. Are we including people too young to drink (21 in the US) who will be on much lower pay anyway? Let's see it as "people in industry X in city Y age Z" and I bet it's not so much.
That's very simplified. It doesn't look like wiki in my mind at all, though it shares some concepts of wiki, like collaborative editing. The major difference here would be that in wiki anyone could edit and commit, while in this project the author of the plan first reviews the changes made and then accepts them. Alternatively you can clone the whole document and build your own based on it.
Could someone point me at a clear explanation of the difference between a micro-kernel and an hypervisor?

Maybe I need to see something like the Xen presentation at Fosdem again.

Edit: http://www.ok-labs.com/blog/entry/microkernels-vs-hypervisor... is quite ok.
To run with your dog kicking example - that may be true of some cultures, does it hold equally in all? (an honest question that I do not have an answer to) are there other examples we can conjure that seem obvious but are culturally dependent? or, are there innate morals in the same sense that there are innate linguistic structures?
Most of the pickup stuff is really nothing more than presenting yourself in an optimized light.

Everyone has an elevator pitch for their business, very few people have an elevator pitch for themselves. Where are you from? What do you do? What's your story? Everyone has a routine for explaining their business, but in a bar or club very few people can get across why they're a cool person. That's because it's a skill that takes practice. Not thinking and meditating and writing, but rather going out, talking to strangers, and improving social skills one conversation at a time.
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Great job! I really love this idea of social investments.
1 word. money.

On a more serious note - opening of the IITs allowed mathematically gifted students to become sought-after engineers who emigrated to the US and made loads of money (atleast for the people back home).

Thus it's all relative, engineering as career option bloomed because of IITs were set up. Other disciplines haven't had the same 'luck'.
Cloud is a pretty broad term. I divide it up into two categories: hardware/infrastructure type stuff ie- amazon web services, rackspace, etc. and then the software side (SaaS)- salesforce, google apps, basecamp, wufoo,etc. I don't think the public markets would be the best bet or even a good bet at all to place a sole bet on the cloud computing market. Most of the innovation in the space will come from small startups that will one day be big. Most of the big companies doing it now that you can invest in a) have it as a very small part of their business and/or b) just say they do "cloud computing" by playing buzzword bingo. If I personally had a ton of money, i would be angel investing in as many great SaaS/business web app companies as possible.
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Thanks everyone for the replies. I had no chance of replying right away, because I couldn't login to HN (LiveJournal's openid was down).
The only downside I see on the email part is that it required an opt-in from the subscriber side. I understand why it's there, but it could be confusing and limiting for people who want to use this as part of their SaaS app. You would have to select to be notified in the app and then also confirm it through email.
Well there you go. Make it easy for them though - just a tick-box in settings to block email. And another tick-box to block all network activity (so no web browsing).

I think something like that would be very cool both for individuals and for businesses. It's quite like http://macfreedom.com/ which is very handy.

I also think you'll find it easier to sell a productivity enhancement to businesses than a procrastination-stopper to individuals.
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Interesting. I wonder what they are going to use this money for? It doesn't seem like the website itself should be that big of a drain on their initial $500K fund.

New feature coming?
I had the same problems with SQS and ended up using RabbitMQ and haven't had any problems. The main issue I saw with SQS was a couple seconds on unavailability every couple of days, enough that I had to start writing lots of client code to deal with it. RabbitMQ is rock solid.
I've been using Backblaze. Love it. It's the perfect "I don't have to think about it" backup system. Cheap. Off-site. No worrying about usage limits. Automatic.
It seems like this applies to people who want to ascend to upper-management in large companies, where drinking the right drinks and playing the right sports matters.

On the other hand, I know a lot of small businesses that have been hit very badly by a partner or early employee with drinking, gambling, or other character issues. They tend to be much less into the alcoholism. Social drinking's one thing, but the "3-martini lunch" is ridiculous. Software isn't like Mad Men.
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So there is nothing wrong with cheating/lying as long as your goal is to have "interactions" with a partner?
hopefully, they'll greatly reduce the amount paid to people based on their final year's salary.

what a scam that is. Work extra hard that year and then for that extra work for every year of your life after that? wtf! what sap would agree to pay that?
My simple thought: The men who read "The Game" and the women who read "The Rules" deserve each other. How come they don't end up with each other? Because each is looking for people to con, not for partners.

I like to think of Lions and Antelopes. Lions eat Antelopes, but they mate with Lions. A book telling you how to find and eat prey does not help you find and mate with another Lion. In fact, its methods steer you away from other Lions.

So, at some point you have to decide whether you want to stop fooling around cutting the weak out of the herd and start looking for a true mate.

I don't believe for a moment you're going to do that with a seduction system.
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Kyrgyzystan seems to be too high on the list. Any guesses?
"Becoming a PUA" is definitely a bit of a warped aim, but I have personally benefited from reading those books. For example, the "3-second rule" to remove approach anxiety does not turn you into an oversexed asshole, but it does greatly increase the chances you'll actually chat to girls. Hell, I even use that "technique" when networking. Approach, smile, say something (anything) within 3 second of spotting the next "target". Works great.

I'd argue that although the programmes themselves are destructive, the books published on the topic are useful when read by smart people who realise there's more to life than sex and can "switch" into a more mature mode of behaviour once they find a suitable potential mate. I guess, like all good tools, what it does depends on who uses it. Assholes become bigger assholes. Good guys become more successful good guys. Sounds like a good starting point to me.
Texas.

Ok, not really a country, but it feels like it sometimes.
There are two houses of Parliament in the UK - the Lords and the Commons. Only the Commons is made up of our elected representatives. The country is broken down into 646 constituencies and each elects their own member of parliament (MP).

The Digital Economy Bill has a decent write up on wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Bill

The highlights seem to be:
- a three strikes then you're off the internet punishment against piracy which seems to assume guilt until proven innocent.
- a real danger than small businesses will find it substantially more difficult to provide wifi for customers.

Beyond the Bill itself there is also a lot of anger over Lord Mandelson who is pushing this Bill. Mandelson is the Business Secretary despite having been forced to resign twice for seriously suspect conduct. There are some questions as to whether he was unduly influenced by the "old media" lobby before the Bill
This looks like a huge clone of http://hook.io/. Granted, Amazon's service appears to be much farther along, and is likely going to support higher loads, but the concepts are the same.
The engineer/doctor story is more of a middle class phenomenon in India. If you look at rich and/or elite families, business or finance dominate their choice of profession. The poor sadly, have no access to even basic education.

Education is/was the ticket for middle class families out of their "predicament". To them, (arguably so) few disciplines require an intellectual rigor as much as Engineering or Medicine do. It is like a badge of honor for them. Being a Historian might be regarded interesting out here in the US - over in India, it would be regarded more as "...ah poor thing, he didn't amount to much". The arranged marriage system driven by tradition and on-paper worthiness more than anything added to this - an engineer or a doctor's value shot up instantly in the market (but I hear things are a changing)

Eventually, I think it is market-driven. Lack of opportunities elsewhere force the rest to take up professions that serve more as an insurance policy than a passion. It is changing though.
How dare you misrepresent me. Where did I say cheating or lying. The parent was discussing your presentation.
i read that, but my guess is this: the "opt-in" part is taken care of when you do a normal confirm this registration email. if this is a huge issue for devs, Amazon will just deal with it.
What format are they using for the HTTP push notifications? It says in the FAQ that "Subscribers specify a URL as part of the subscription registration; notifications will be delivered through an HTTP POST to the specified URL."

Is this PubSubHubBub?
You can see the Quality Score in 2 places. Go into a campaign's keyword list. In the status column, if you hover over the thought bubble icon a window pops up with info on the quality score. You can also add it as a column. Click the "columns" button above the graph and add it.

Quality Score is a measure of the relevance of the landing page to the keyword. Google wants everything to be relevant for the end user, so they penalize you with higher CPC if your page is not relevant. You can help your Quality Score by making your page match your ad copy and keywords. For example, if I sell nutritional supplements and have a page about nutritional supplements, I would get slapped with a low QS if my ad copy and keywords were about protein powder, even though they are really relevant. Instead, you should make a landing page for protein powder (use this in the title, H1, H2, etc, and in the body), use the same keywords in the ad copy (title, body, e.g. "Buy Protein Powder - Mega Whey Protein Powder - Build Muscle Fast", and in the display URL, e.g. www.supplements.com/Protein-Powder), and target variations of this keyword in your ad group (e.g. buy protein powder, best protein powder, cheap protein powder, etc).

That way someone looking for "buy protein powder" sees your ad, with "protein powder" repeated 3-4 times, clicks, and gets to a page titled "protein powder", sees sections titled "learn about protein powder", etc., and finally sees a call to action button "buy protein powder". They are more likely to convert. You also have to experiment with exact and phrase match (I never use broad match) and negative keywords as well. I guarantee you will see 7-10 QS right away, and CPC of £0.15 or less for position 4-10, and conversion rates of 5% to start, and many more impressions.
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