skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It sounds like your beef is with the KMT, not the Japanese

The Japanese were the ones who empowered the KMT, and they were the ones who took away the crops. They were so empowered by the Japanese, it took several decades before political opposition could be built against them.

> Then what did it need? Imaginary capital investments in our many fine local delicacies?

It didn't need sweatshops. Taiwan would have recovered by itself with the millions in US aid. Taiwan already had a deluge of capital that was being concentrated and wasted by the Japanese entrenched upper-class.

Sweatshop work was the short term solution for a long term problem. Like I mentioned before, sweatshops quickly disappeared to China as early as the 1960's. How many man-years do you think were wasted in low value trinkets instead of going straight through education and more lucrative industries?

> I'm not sure what I've said that insinuates this.

Most of what you said insinuates this. You claim that sweatshops were necessary to bootstrap Taiwan out of abject agrarian poverty and that all people who were farmers were better off as sweatshop workers.
what does elance have that you want that craigslist doesn't? This is relevant to my interests, as I'm kinda sortof toying with the idea of setting up a job board myself.
The stories that we launched with are of the more 'evergreen' variety, because we asked journalists to have a number of stories ready for launch. Since we didn't know what time we would be launching at, and we didn't even know the date for sure until a few days ago, it was hard for them to guarantee that they would have stories ready to go.

From now on, stories are much more likely to be up to the minute news. For example, check out [idavar's story on HayStack](http://www.newstilt.com/idavar/news/iranian-techies-eager-to...).

However, I do believe that readers want more opinion, not less of it. I am encouraging journalists to let their own voices be heard in the stories they write, where traditionally they would have held back on that. Its important for them to have a brand, and that their community likes them and identifies with them. Opinion helps here.
What happens if the 2GB storage on Ubuntu One are used up?
Surely that's only because the bundled blackberry browser is so doggedly useless, rather than opera mini excelling by itself?
I'm no lawyer (especially of international law!), but as far as I know that does not extend to non-American publishers... As a Canadian, what right do they have to archive my tweets?
The post's comments describe a row of useful explanations for these facts apart from sexual focus.
First of all, this news article has no facts but full of crap opinions. It is very romantic to have the freedom to say what is right and what is wrong, except you don't personally "live" in the situation and it is not your right to decide what is right for others.

<<<no matter what the situation is in the society; it is never right to do to one's workers what this article is describing, not even if there's a lot of competition for their jobs.>>>

Are you saying people are better off being hungry than working hard for food?
It's very likely that most people using twitter have no idea what the LoC is.
Turns out a lot of Tehran-based Twitters are really from elsewhere, such as the U.S. (remember that?).
Agreed. Got spam from the same site today.
On a GPRS connection with a smaller screen with no multitouch the "terribly awkward" user interface is intuitive and makes a lot of sense. That's not what the iphone is though.
> Why do we have to jump right to a presumption of negative sexual bias?

Track record.
Anything to support your argument?
Technically inaccurate, if you were to start today. Only the last 3,200 tweets of a particular user are discoverable without special access. And that assumes you have a list of all the users.
> 1) It is a smaller country.

So if you carved up China into smaller countries, that might help?
Until you want to do something that "Just Can't Be Done", which is where the strengths of having a general-purpose computer that acts like a general-purpose computer come into play.
Yeah, and then Apple would be surprised by the huge US demand, no ?

Of course anybody wanting the iPad already did something similar but it's a drag and non-US developers/companies shouldn't "smuggle" iPads out of the country but buy them in their respective countries.
Not to be overly cynical, but I suspect that someone from Apple PR is actually writing these emails. I can't imagine Steve himself is actually going through all customer email.
My first interpretation of this data is that professors are trying to encourage young women to get interested in their field, and therefore subconsciously giving them more resources, but that is probably because there are so few women in the fields I study. It would be nice to know what areas of research contained the studied professors, but I don't want to read all those comments.

Also, a sample size of several dozen? That doesn't sound like a lot to me.
Not good. Why guess on Google but not Amazon? The ordering also doesn't make much sense. I'm at a loss as to what exactly this does WELL.
I've been reading this blog (really, letting it pile up in google reader) for some time now, and though I can't point you to a specific post, I'm pretty sure I remember the author being a he.
Honest question: Can you view flash content in Opera Mini ?
Ask HN: Is HN Ignoring The Long Tail?
The front page is mostly made up of stories with a lot of votes. Stories with fewer votes bubble up briefly and then sink down again. Could HN be missing out on interesting stories that are not interesting to everybody? Is there a way to see stories that do respectably well -- say get > 10 points -- even if they don't reach 194?
This is some good shit. I find that the best way to figure out what your ugh fields are is to watch for when you reward yourself out of nowhere.

I address this in my blog post on emotional intelligence, here - http://www.zacharyburt.com/2010/04/understanding-human-behav...

For example, as humans, we're really not as hungry or thirsty as we "think" we are. In fact, hunger impulses are often the result of conditioning, what we do when we feel some kind of emotional deficit. Take note of the surrounding circumstances behind the trigger and you can begin to trace out your blind spots.
They are only low-class minions who should be lucky their carcasses aren't rotting in the hot sun from starvation.

There will be countless others to fill the positions of the broken, lazy, despondent, and worthless who've tottered on to other production facilities.

Since when has this level of human deserved even a cursory notice, much less an in-depth ethical analysis of how they labor?
How much of this is toolbar spam?
So you paid the US sales tax and the UK VAT ?

It seems the Bundlebox guys didn't think this through -- they should perhaps relocate in a state without sales tax ? You are basically paying VAT twice.
As a business hacker, this reminds me that when your costs are cheap enough, a free version that your customers can use properly is the best possible advertising. Like the shareware version of Doom.

As a code hacker, I've just setup a git repository with them. They have superb help - cut-and-paste to set up your ssh key, start a git repository and push it to them. Great for learning git.
Nope is too hard?
go thank them where they can see it at least
Every CRM system I have ever seen has a "nickname" field, going all the way back to ACT! for DOS.
So I've TA'ed for a little while now and I think the answer isn't anything fundamental how women are regarded or how man are being biased against.

Men rarely, if ever, act as grateful as women when you help them. There's a long list of potential reasons for this, but I've found it nearly universally to be the case.

Even though it's not politically correct, you're more likely to help the person who will thank you sincerely for the help as opposed to the guy who feels like you owe it to him (also often the case).
Mercantilism was popular as a normative system. But that doesn't make it a good description.
I just signed up to try it. Comprehensive but simple UI. EXCEPT, in free mode it LITERS the interface trying to get you to upgrade. I don't use much of the social features of github for private projects so it still might work and I'll just never log into the website... really annoying ads though.
IANAL, but I don't think your citizenship is an issue. What matters is where a work is published, and in Twitter's case that would appear to be the United States.
I watch /newest sometimes. But yeah, a way for the user to choose other ways to choose stories would also be pretty cool. say /getarticles?ratingbetterthan=10&afterdate=20100101 or something?
i didn't do my taxes yet. I also loathe my alarm clock and an unable to get up on the first buzz.
When they quit they are fined 15 days wages. Because they rarely leave the compound they don't have the chance to foster opportunities outside the factory.
Is Twitter a non-American publisher?
This sounds like the old "walking uphill bothways" tripe to me:

My father/mother/uncle lost a limb/eyeball/lung and were happy about it too, so they shouldn't even complain.

Sweatshop trinkets are not a requirement for industrialization or lucrative economies.
Isn't expecting that females to be more likely to listen than males a negative sexual bias?
This article made me think of video games and how a few of them have made really innovative uses of space (no, really!).

One of my all-time favorite is a game called X-Com from 1993 (called UFO: Enemy Unknown in the UK). It's basically a turn-based tactical strategy game. Perhaps its most defining feature is almost completely-destructible terrain. The gameplay ends up being very similar to the Israeli invasion described in the article: using the doorway is almost always the wrong choice. The computer will have the door covered. If you knock through/down the right wall, they have to spend the rest of the turn with their guns pointed the wrong direction (the game has overwatch) and their backs exposed. The most powerful weapon in the game does just enough damage to knock a man-sized hole in the side of a UFO; the qualitative change in gameplay is significant. Those corridors are twisty and treacherous, but entering from the middle instead of the start turns the advantage around.

The other game I thought of is the Splinter Cell series. Pandora Tomorrow, the second game, gave the series a very asymmetric multiplayer style of spies vs mercenaries. In addition to wildly varying, and anti-complementary, abilities, the two sides were practically playing on different maps. The spies could fit in air ducts climb over fences. The mercenaries could only navigate around in the "normal" space of rooms and doors, but effectively owned the places where they could walk, on account of automatic weapons. The result was effectively two maps, one wrapped around and between the other. Even before I was exposed to the idea of scripted spaces, the idea was mind-bending to me. After reading the article, it's even more impressive: one side in the asymetric conflict has an architectural advantage, balancing against its comaprative weakness in more traditional areas. I was never any good at the multiplayer, but it was still fascinating.

Chaos Theory, the third game in the Splinter Cell series, also had some impressive work in the single player. It's the first game I've played where using a non-traditional route like a duct or a drophole actually felt like I was hacking the level rather than following the route that was laid out for me. Games have been using air ducts since Half-Life, but whenever they're available it feels like you're supposed to use them, often because you have no other choice. I feel like I'm finding the way to advance the level. It's difficult to describe, but the holes in the environment felt more natural, like I was following real-world logic rather than game-logic.

I haven't played Mirror's Edge for myself, I would be interested to hear people's perspective on how original that game's use of space is.
Yes proprietary formats encourage lock-in too and open standard doc formats are better. But the 'export' that you mention requires a document open (or 'import') on the other end.

I mostly agree with you on the rest.
And we don't even have a minimum wage in Germany. (I don't know why Americans are so fond of it.)
From what we know of Jobs's personality, I sincerely doubt he'd allow anyone to write in his name. E-mails coming from Executive Relations would almost certainly be marked as coming from Executive Relations.

He responds to very few e-mails sent to sjobs@apple, we just see almost all of the responses (it's highly probable that messages sent to him are pruned before he sees them). Plus, the responses almost always have iPhone as the X-Mailer, something that would be highly unlikely were they being written by some low-level PR employee sitting at a desk.
Amsterdam Clojure meeting #4: Dojo style
How does that follow? Or do you intend to say that the observed effect is just a facet of a more general effect?
I propose a hard limit of 168 hours of work per week.
88% of firms? Hardly:

Specifically, "domains individually representing 88 percent of the Fortune 500 were shown to have been accessed to some extent by computers infected by the Zeus Trojan," the study said.
Or something more nuanced.
Thanks, I didn't know about that work-around. Indeed, there was no reply link on that comment; I assumed, like every other comment system, there was a limit to nested levels.
And this is a surprise to anyone?
I think the ordering was so that they could make the size of the rectangles proportional to the number of servers and not have gaps. And they put Google last so that people didn't have to scroll and scroll and scroll for the rest.
It's is definitely not a zero-sum game. I can demonstrate this by destroying some value, if you'd like. (Demonstrating that the the sum can go up is a bit more difficult, since you need to actually do something worthwhile.)
It probably would, decentralizing control and allowing competitive economic regimes to emerge, rather than the counterproductive nepotism rampant there now.
While they may well have a way for you to submit archives, I think the greater question to ask is "why?"

URL shorteners are bad enough on their own, but arguably a necessary evil -- encouraging everyone to set up their own is in no way a good thing.

I can't think of a worse service for an average user (or anyone without a datacenter, or better yet multiple datacenters) to run. By all means run your own email server -- if it craps out, at least you'll just lose your email. But if you run a URL shortening service and send out or post a lot of URLs using it, and then you go bankrupt, die, or just get bored and decide to stop running it ... now everyone who happens to have one of the links is S.O.L.

It strikes me as the kind of service that's relatively easy to run, but unless someone is prepared to run it forever, they probably shouldn't.
Sure; click on the More link at the bottom of the page.
In Germany you used to start your apprenticeship at age 14.
Strongly Encouraging XCode Lets Apple Switch Architectures
Does Wikipedia really store every single revision of every single file? As in, not deltas? Why is it done that way?
Apple’s New Developer Agreement Unlevels the iAd Playing Field
WikiCFP : Call For Papers of Conferences , Workshops and Jounals
Fascinating. I never thought of Die Hard like that, but he's right. The hero doesn't just improvise ingeniously - a standard hero trope - but specifically in terms of architecture. He isn't given clever gadgets like James Bond, but conjures them from the mundane. It's definitely hacking.

An architecture is a theory of space; he has other theories.
The funny thing is, at my day job, I bet they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting this stuff with software, personel and maintenance contracts. We still get at least one infection a year that shuts us down for a day or even two. It's very sad corporate environments can't stop this kind of stuff.
Yeah, I agree, it's just about as easy to compute Lisp arithmetic as infix arithmetic.

The problem, for me, is that it's not as easy to understand, read, or write. By this, I mean that most of the time that I'm reading an arithmetical expression, I don't really care what it means. I am only reading it because it's easier to just read it than to look for where it ends and continue. It's fluff. Not being as comfortable with prefix, and probably never being as comfortable with infix, it's not as friendly to the eyes.

When I need to understand it, I'm basically converting to infix-- I think in infix, not prefix. The parentheses in the infix expression are mental and implicit, and I think my mental notation is more than adequate. Prefix form gets in the way here.

And obviously, it's more of a pain to write fully parenthesized arithmetic than not.
They're not just a computer and software maker -- they're a TV station.
It's live now.
God it seems like all we do is debate analogies on HN, but hey I'll bite!

Actually, his comment is more analogous to "people get killed in war all the time, what's the big deal."
Beautiful iPad code editor concept
you could also subscribe to the RSS feed.
I would like the option to auto hide stories that I have clicked on after maybe 5 minutes, and to auto promote the "next" story to my front page.

Pros: More content on front page.

Cons: Slightly inconsistent content on front page between users, would need to be able to easily toggle between modes, incase you wanted to show a friend something.

What are your thoughts?
1) If the farmers were so happy and not starving, why did they CHOOSE to work in the factories?

2) As a nation, actually, I think the argument that everyone must go through those conditions is quite right. Children worked in sweatshops in downtown Manhattan < 100 years ago (actually still do if you look hard enough). I don't think he's justifying the conditions, I think he's simply saying "the trend is up not down," and that's really important.
I like the book Producing Open Source Software: http://producingoss.com/
No, but AFAIK tweets are owned by whoever writes them, not Twitter. You only give Twitter the right to store them, republish them, and so on.
Or give them some money.
Scads: Scale-independent storage for social computing applications
By the guys who came up with RISC and RAID at Berkeley.
To Improve Fitness, Try Sleep
Well they should be aware that professors make up almost 99% of all rapists.
Cheap headset + broken cellphone = "SkypeCell"
Google will make Goggles a platform
I'm sick of seeing the right-wing's tired old, sacred myth that "American's pay less taxes." It's total BS. While this isn't targeted directly at the poster, since you seem pretty open to figuring out the truth, but the hint of this myth is there.

Why is it that everyone who trots out this myth feels like they can ignore the "non-tax" taxes of FICA(social security & medicare)?

If you add in what you pay to FICA(social security & medicaid), and also add in the out of pocket expenses you bear for your own health care, now the average American's
tax burden is not only almost identical to most of Europe, but is probably a tiny bit higher. Around ~50% or so.

The US federal gov't sure as hell benefits by having half the voting population(Republicans) believe this myth. It's just deceptive accounting semantics—make everyone pay something, but don't call it a "tax", voila, now you can claim to have far lower taxes than any other G8 nations!
But it's a lie.

I think most Americans are plain fools when it comes to taxes. No wonder the gov't is able to spend $0.53 of every tax dollar on war and killing poor, non-white human beings, and NOT have riots in the streets, or their greatest existential fear: a mass scale tax "protest" movement. And don't even get me started on how stupid everyone is for the annual tax season "refund" rigmarole. What kind of idiots(other than our insolvent banks) give the Federal gov't an interest free micro-loan over a year?
Just out of interest, what are the relative proportions of pageviews on the HN front page vs the first "More" page?
Can you change your database paradigm? ¬_¬ A document-oriented database like CouchDB would "just work" in the most common database schema changes. Or perhaps you could throw upgrade-friendly data in a KV store encoded with Google Protocol Buffers.
He gives a very good bit of advice that is applicable in other contexts as well: consciously attack your problems when you're "in a motivationally 'high' state." You practice new behaviors in the "high" state and gradually push them down to lower states through practice until they're dependable reflexes. This is the only way I've ever changed a bad habit, so if you're failing with cold turkey, give this a try.
Yes, devinj, that's it exactly. Lisp notation does win in the cases where you want to sum (or multiply) a bunch of numbers in a single shot, as in (+ 42 53 12 999); but otherwise, the requirement of full bracketing, and the removal of operands from their operators, and the need to COUNT parentheses to see what goes with what, make the notation clumsy. Sorry, Lispers, it's true.

(+ (* (- (/ 45 99) (* (+ 1 4) 3)) (* 4 (- 5 3))))

Which operator operates on the result of the 4*(5-3) sub-expression? You have to stop and THINK about that -- you can't just SEE the answer.
My experience is not in line with yours. In my experience, answering calls and support questions, I've gotten plenty of guys who are grateful for the help. They might not gush about it, but they almost universally offer thanks for any help I give, it's just more in the guy-like "Thanks a lot, dude, I really appreciate it."

On the flip-side, in my experience (I run a MMO guild hosting site, so this is a demographic that's rife with drama), the women I've talked with have a much stronger tendency to get WAY vindictive. I find harshly written emails (on that rare occasion) tend to come from women moreso than men. The men I've helped, when sending an email concerning something like billing or whatnot, tend to be more chill about things "Hey, I noticed X and it doesn't seem to be in line with what I was expecting. What's up?", vs the emails I've gotten from women for similar issues that go something like "What the hell? I don't know what you guys are doing, but if this issue isn't resolved immediately, I'm going to dispute the charge" (mind you, that might be an initial correspondence).

None of this is universal, but those are some of the tendencies I've experienced.
Dashboard for Monitoring Performance vs Analytic Application
I wish people used tables to display tabular data.
I don't know. The server doesn't keep track, and the url is the same for all closure-generated pages, so you couldn't determine that from logs.
This is fantastic! A great resource for everyone, no matter how long you've been reading hn. I've been here for years and just read a whole bunch of stuff I had never noticed before. Definitely bookmarked. Perhaps pg could link to this from "Lists". Thank you, Gabriel.

I clicked on about 25 links and noticed that all of them were more than 600 days old. I wonder why. Something about how they were mined? Selection bias?. Or maybe we've already said all the important stuff and hn is devolving into fluff (perish the thought).
I think the point GP was trying to make is that this isn't necessarily a case of male professors being nice to women just because they are attracted to them (or assume that they might be attractive) and that there is a possibility of sex. (or something to that effect)

It's still 'sexism' if a professor responds better to female students than male students because he perceives female students as being more receptive and grateful for the help. But not necessarily in a negative "I'm hoping to get laid" sort of way.