skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If shown in percentage...
Sure, but still, if you want to, you can check the security settings for an app in Android. They are not that cryptic ("network access", "send SMS", "make phone calls"). If a chess app wants to make phone calls, even an idiot should get suspicious.

If you install a hacked OS, you don't have that security anymore. Unless you can trust the provider of the OS.
Probably the most obvious is that men are less touchy-feely. I find that in female-majority environments, there is much more lie-to-your-face while stabbing you in the back type behavior. I'm a real blunt individual, which often goes over poorly with women (my dad and ex-husband are both career military and my mom is foreign -- so, to be fair, lots of Americans find me hard to take/hard to really understand, not just women). The flip side of that is that people here seem to make less effort to understand my admittedly "alien" perspective. It feels to me more like it is on me to work at communicating effectively. I'm okay with that because I find that pat-you-on-the-head and be nice to you stuff often doesn't really result in better communication. Like a pain killer, it often just masks the fact there is a big problem. Men seem to be better about bluntly letting you know it's an issue -- which can be very uncomfortable to face but, in the long run, is usually more productive.

Of course, since I am female, I find that when I do the exact same thing a man would do, it is often interpreted by other people as "overly aggressive". So time will tell if I will be able to take the lessons learned here and put them to constructive use in my life.
Create Illustrator-ready infographic elements, e.g. shapes sized according to percentages, or provide "more-like-this" infographics. This is as an alternative to powerpoint slides. I noticed my kids enjoy the "Pick-me-up" book, which is a book of infographic pages. I thought grown ups might just like it too.
I'm sorry -- if you'd like to use the compiler directly, here's an example:

fs: require 'fs'

fs.readFile source, (err, code) ->
try
js: CoffeeScript.compile(code.toString(), {source})
fs.writeFile 'out.js', js
catch err
console.log err

Here's the source of the "CoffeeScript.compile" method:

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/documentation/docs...
Great.

I'm pretty much an omnivore when it comes to music... I'll listen to anything I like; there's hip-hop, movie/game scores, pop, rock, etc. in my playlists.
Put China on the map ;)
Technically however they have ALL the power.
On balance then, what would you suggest is better, an absolute monarchy, a representative democracy, or perhaps a mixture of the two?
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=584557

While a few of the details have shifted over time, it's still a good overview, IMHO.

The Richard Stevens books (_Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment_, 2nd ed. ('APUE'), _Unix Network Programming_ vols. 1 & 2) get much deeper into the details, when you need them, but Beej's guides will definitely give you a running start.
The president of Nigeria already has 126k fans on facebook http://www.facebook.com/jonathangoodluck and 1700 comments for each of his daily posts.

That's impressive considering that his account is just a couple of months old.
I use http://playlistnow.fm (if you ask for an invite you should receive it pretty quickly)

The site suggest you playlist depending what you are doing !
It's interesting to see that 1.5 Billion of people have access to the internet today.
The first thing I thought when reading the title ("Graphs don't lie :) ) was:

"There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damn lies and statistics." Presumably, graphs fall under "statistics".
This is just so painfully slow. I watched for about 45 seconds, then skipped to the 2 minute mark, then to the 5 minute mark where "Dr McNinja" is introduced, then skipped forward and found him talking about how there are so many things people want to do and they all take time.

He's right. There are lots of things I want to do, and they all take time. I particular, I don't have time to watch this. Produce a transcript and I might be interested, perhaps I might then even watch the video, but based on the two minutes I've spent trying to evaluate it, it's not worth my time.

A general lesson to learn: You may have interesting things to say, but unless you say them well, people won't listen.

Learn the art of presentation.
Glad you mentioned that point. The distinction between '=' and '==' in most programming languages is a personal pet peeve of mine. I think that it confuses two separate issues: labeling a value with a name, and testing the equality of values. Terrifically confusing stuff if you're coming from algebra.

So, although '=' is available to make transitioning from other languages smoother, idiomatic CoffeeScript would use ':' for assignment, both within and outside of object literals, and would use 'is' for equality. Harder to make a bug out of:

if x is y
Based on that graph's numbers (dated 2008) combined with each country's 2009 population census (a percentile or two off, I know...):

Nigeria: 15%
United Kingdom: 75%
Egypt: 17%
South Africa: 8%
Sweden: 85%
If you exclude well-functioning monarchies from the comparison, there are, obviously, no well-functioning monarchies.

But 20th century England and Sweden are in fact monarchies. They have just evolved to give the people a very big voice in the day-to-day business of the country. Being a monarchy does not mean that you'll have a monarch who'll dabble in every little political debate-du-jour. Roe vs. Wade has very little significance to the long term (100 years) well-being of the US - yet every president since the ruling has had to manoeuvre in that space. A monarch isn't as exposed to (on the grand scale) short term political controversies, and can focus on the long term instead.

A popular monarch is a defender of the very long term stability of the country, a bulwark against revolutions. Not a perfect one, by no means, but not completely useless, either.
Put North Korea on the map!
Is it really fair to say that people in China have access to the Internet? Maybe it's better to say that they have access to some AOL-ized version of the Internet, not the actual Internet itself. The difference between an open Internet and a closed one is not just a small difference of degree; they are entirely different things.
But look at the rate of growth...
There are about 20 or 30 websites blocked in china. Not that many.
Well, he can only give his opinions, based hopefully on his experience. The best way to find out is perhaps to build your own experience, do your own trial and errors and see what works for you. Then maybe you are in a position to judge as to whether it is merely feel good talk or it actually has substance to it.
I am building a tool like this. It's a Photoshop-like design tool that generates a complete PHP application. That's (HTML+CSS+PHP+JS+MySQL). Follow @zopte and I will let you in as soon as its ready.
They're not chief executives, not nominally, not actually. They're chairman of the board. The only power they have is firing the executives and approving the next one.
I have thought about trying to re-write it. I obviously do not know much about programming anymore, but this would be a very Windows specific application-- it needs to track files and execute when they are accessed. I'm not sure if that is an option in Java or Python. I've got quite a long time to go before I am up to speed with where I was 9 years ago.

I have pondered writing a blog about it all-- my return to programming, some life hacking stuff and an online comic idea I'd like to launch soon-- but I have always assumed that as a relative nobody, I'd be wasting my time since it would be unlikely that anyone would read it. Maybe I'm being too realist, maybe I just need to do it and fight for subscribers. Maybe I'm just being lazy or afraid of disappointment.
Sarcasm doesn't work that well over the internet. Especially not in short bursts like tike that.
Yes it's impressive, if time stood still and politics never changed, but that's not how the world works :) Everyone knows from the lesson of "retrospectivity" that growth can be just a temporary rise, or just the spike before a decline etc.

If we look at the UK's numbers in that same graph, after having travelled back to 2002 in our time machine, we could also say "but look at the rate of growth the past 4 years!", but looking back at the graph today, with "8 years later" of extra data...

My underlying point was that no mistake in graphs and statistics is as common as the repeated mistake of us trying to predict the future from contemporary numbers, and always ending up being wrong a few years later down the road. Statistics need lots of time to mature and settle.
Probably the most obvious is that men are less touchy-feely.

Yes, I can believe that as being true. This may have little correlation, but I distinctly remember a trip to a completely female run dental office. This was for oral surgery, and I had every confidence in the doctor, but there were times during the procedure (as my gums were being cut open) when I noticed her being, how can I say, respectful or dainty, with my mouth, and I was thinking to myself just get in there and do what you have to do! I'm pretty numb here! lol (the work was top notch) but I guess it did make the overall experience a bit nicer. :)

I find that in female-majority environments, there is much more lie-to-your-face while stabbing you in the back type behavior.

Wow.

The flip side of that is that people here seem to make less effort to understand my admittedly "alien" perspective.

Sadly, I think Americans can be guilty of this in general, often times, including myself.

Thanks for sharing. :)
Perhaps even more relative: internet penetration of the 16 largest countries by population:

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=it_net_us...
The first thing that came to mind when I saw the graph was, "Geez, there's a quite a rise in scammers in Nigeria."
For sure; but it's not exactly a new drug, and the probability that a long-term problem exists decreases over the lifetime of the drug's active use.

But this still doesn't point to a moral problem; it is a lack of information, or conversely, an element of risk. Can the risk be quantified, compared, and put in perspective with the other risks we take in our daily lives?
websites aren't all equal. The top 20-30 websites in the world account for something like 90% of total internet usage.
25 million pretty normal people would not find your statement very nice. The U.S sends a lot of Viagra spam - but that does not mean that all the internet users are sending viagra spam.

Spam reaches a lot of people, because that's its intent. Extrapolating from spam is silly.
The purpose of monarchy is to rise above democracy, to ensure stability of the country in a time when the political system might not be stable. It's the realisation that democracy isn't perfect.

Consider the election of the new German president, Christian Wulff: It was deeply entrenched in the isolated, day-to-day petty politics and personal rivalry of the government. He probably owes favours left and right. Will he be able to rise above all that if, in the four to ten year he's likely to hold the office, Germany might need the special discretionary powers that the president holds in case of instability? On the other hand, Queen Beatrix has been the heir to the throne since before PM Balkenende was born, and Queen since he was probably still in University, which is for 22 year by the time he assumed office.

Which one of President Wulff and Queen Beatrix is more likely to say no and fire the head of government if Chancellor Merkel, respectively PM Balkenende, decides to take dictatorial powers for her or him self? Or less dramatically, more likely to ensure a peaceful transition if Germany or the Netherlands decides to fall apart, like Belgium seems to be?

And I said "more likely", not "sure to". No nation is failsafe, not a monarchy, not a democracy.
Oh, I thought they fell under "damn lies". My bad.
Yeah but what about the long term side effects of "lack of attention, anxiety and other issues", which aren't just possible, but probable!
The Golden Shield project employs thousands of people. They do a lot more blocking than "20 or 30 websites".
I can recommend you the book
Introduction to Evolutionary Computing by Eiben and Smith

Although it covers more than just genetic algorithms.
really? only 20 or 30?

Hmm, I think there are more than 20 or 30 western newspapers and they probably are if not blocked then heavily censored.
It would probably be 0, or 1. Apparently in Cambodia it is only 70,000 or so, the lowest I found from quickly looking at "bad" countries.

Iran has millions! Even Cuba has plenty.

Must be sad to live in North Korea.
Try some post-rock:

- Tortoise

- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

- Thee Silver Mt. Zion

- This Will Destroy You

- Do Make Say Think

- Explosions in the Sky

.. To name a few

Very melodic, quiet, soothing, but also explosive at times.
ok, let's take Denmark as an example. They are ranked as number 32 in net exports of crude oil, so it's a much smaller part of the GDP.

GDP: $56,115 (better)
GNI: 24.7 (much better)
HDI: 0.955 (the same)
Unemployment: 6.3% (better)

If we are talking about advantages, let's not forget that there are 310 million citizens (56 times more than Denmark) who all share the same continent, language, currency and government. The home market is huge, which certainly gives companies a significant advantage compared to other countries. This is something that can be seen when companies starts competing internationally. Even a medium sized US company (relative to the home market) has a lot of muscle compared to the average Danish company.

My point is that we can't state that the US political system is superior by design. We have to consider other factors such as the large home market and the political influence that comes with a larger economy and military.
If you look into what some of the biggest projects are using you can get an idea about what is popular. It would be nice to have a 'required by' section on the hackage page similar to the citations section on citeseer.
This depends on the approach you take.

People don't generally like it when somebody tries to teach them something if they haven't asked for it.

I've noticed that if you word your thoughts and statements more like a question, you'll get more positive feedback.

This is something I've always had a problem with and I'm just beginning to work on and improve and I'm in my late 20s.
Same here (sometimes). Or even some mixed genre bands. You know Apocalyptica? There are also some similar bands (don't remember names right now, check out via Lastfm or so).
It wouldn't be up to Wulff or Beatrix to do something about that, but up to the judicial arm. Beatrix technically has a lot of power but in practice if a prime minister were to ignore her it would most likely fall to the judicial arm to remove such a person from power in a more permanent fashion.

That said, Balkenende is about as weak a person as I can see to make such a power play and I doubt he'd get very far with his supporters doing this. Wilders however...
I currently live in China and the firewall isn't as bad as it looks. I used to believe it was meant to censor information but I increasingly believe that it is meant to encourage the digital economy in China. The Chinese alternatives (Baidu, TaoBao, RenRen, etc.) would probably have a much harder time without the firewall. That being said, as a free market enthusiast, I disagree with this kind of politics.
It's a great resource and was also the place I started learning network programming. Of course Stevens writings are a must too but beej's guide is an enthusiastic, practical and fun to read primer into the topic. I loved it - credit where credit's due!

Edit: the credit remark is not connected with any comments here - it's a general statement from somebody who enjoyed learning from that resource - essentially wanting to say - thank you beej!
School only kills creativity if you let it. Unfortunately, in general, to really succeed at school (and I say 'at school' to mean school as a system), you cannot take risks. It's a simple transaction: You give us your time (and that is really what you are giving up) and we give you a good grade. Points off for deviating from or questioning the standard model.

I just graduated high school. My English teacher, who's class I found interesting most of the time, said for a final grade: memorize 25 lines of Shakespeare and recite for an A.

Fuck that, I'll go learn C or something. (To his credit, he didn't count the grade when I flat out refused to do the assignment)

School, for the most part, is about memorizing and convincing teachers to give you a good grade. That's all it is. It's a game where the goal is to get the highest GPA regardless of what it's supposed to represent. Every one once in a while, I would get a teacher who understood that the purpose of school is education, that students are there to learn. Definitely those were my favorite classes.

And while we're talking about schools I'd like to rant about AP Computer Science:
I find it offensive that they actually have the balls to call it 'Computer Science'. I took the AP test, got a 5. It should be called "Can You Recall Some Peculiarities of Java Off Hand?". Thousands of kids have taken this class, they've memorized a few facts about Java, and now they think that's what Computer Science is all about.
HN's Karma score has partially helped me better understand myself in the social context. With time I've learned to realize which types of responses/opinions people generally prefer and how to word the same sentence so that it relates to people up to a point.

I'm the nerdy type, with some social mis-alignments and I don't often realize how I represent my opinions and it's hard to look at yourself from a 3rd perspective.

So Karma has actually helped me understand my place better. I'm not a Karma whore by any means but I really like paying attention to which responses work well and I even try to apply the same approach in every day life.

Another thing that has also helped me: Twitter. I actually believe I write better since I started using Twitter because I'm more used to cramming more information to a smaller amount of words.

At least, that's how I see it.
Classic WTF: Prisoner of Process (originally 2007)
/dvl ;)
+1 for Zoe Keating. I first heard of her about 4 years ago, when she opened for California Guitar Trio in a tiny litttle church in San Diego. One of the best performances I've heard. If you get the chance to see her live, absolutely don't pass it up.
But many languages do that.

See Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl or Haskell.
Absolutely, Collected is a great collection of their best work, and Mezzanine is great as well.

Surprisingly, another piece of music that's great to listen to is the soundtrack from the movie Mr. Brooks with Kevin Costner. It's great for coding.

This guy did the soundtrack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramin_Djawadi
Try some Boards of Canada
Maybe I have been spoiled by always working at places that did real work; has anyone here seen shops that emphasized The Book over actual results the way this article does?
Classics: Beethoven, Mozart

Ambient and slow electronics but transparent ones which don't seem too psychedelic or w/ hard feelings, as they easy distract and 'sell' you their emotional setting when you really need to focus instead. So I'd exclude things like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, while including artists like Biosphere, Carbon Life Forms, early Orb.

If you're into harder tones I really appreciate stuff like ACDC and Iron Maiden while working - they're quite energetic but not overwhelming like harder metal.

Silence is also very good, esp. if you can hear sound of the trees, waves or whatever nature is outside.
Mogwai, Boards of Canada, Autechre, etc.
A more meaningful graph will be one that shows the % of population with internet access
China freaks me out.
Mistakes might be great for learning, but that does not mean that they should be praised, or that there should not be disincentives for making mistakes.

Mistakes have consequences, great mistakes have great consequences. I do not therefore think that great people make great mistakes. Otherwise, we probably would not know of their existence.
I like streaming; set it and forget it.

http://trancearoundtheworld.com

http://mugasha.com

http://pandora.com

http://grooveshark.com

sorry thesixtyone... we used to spend a lot of time together, till the UI change ... =(
Is he extrapolating, or just making a statement? Some languages do take this into account, others don't. It's a very sensible thing to look after the... "ecosystem" as it were.
I wouldn't consider Pendulum as trance, though.
They started as Drum and Bass, but seem to have gone a bit further away from the genre, into something more mainstream (which has worked out very well for them, their newest album is indeed amazing).

As for trance, I'd recommend listening to something from a few years ago.
A friend of mine (registered here actually), advised me to listen to Tiesto's In Concert 2003.
On his words, it's one of those sets that once you start listening, you just can't stop.

PS: Also, Tiesto's In Search Of Sunrise 6 has a beginning that I just love: the sound of sea slowly transitioning to trance.
You can listen to it on youtube, on a video with the first two tracks from ISOS6.
I've got a life-hack product that I designed about 15 years ago and I have always been convinced it would sell if someone could mass produce it and produce an infomercial for it. You see, it is a very simple and cheap product that plays to american laziness while also fixing a problem millions of people have:

Automatic Toilet Handle Jiggler

There is a total of 1 prototype in existence in my parents basement. I installed it when I was ~14. It consists of a flat piece of spring steel about 5 inches long with a weight at the end and a clamp for attaching to the handle of the toilet. No more leaking toilet. No more getting back up to go jiggle the handle again. No need to spend the 15 minutes and $20 to actually fix the leaky toilet-- you know, because that's "hard." Slip on a springy weight and disaster averted!
pg's modus operandi seems to be almost exactly opposite to the prevalent style in academia.

I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked
problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d)
deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a
very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
The key word in his sentence was "possible." The reason for that is the efficiency and creativity of a single person versus a complex process-driven organization. Monarchy, in the long term, is far more volatile than a republic.
A very extreme underestimation.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Peop...

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_websites_blocke...

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_censored_by_searc...
This looks a lot like http://hnhackers.com - I think having more than one of these might make both less useful.
I like that: "they tell my brain it's coding time." It's more important to me I think to have the same music than specific music.

I use ephiphany radio (http://www.epiphanyradio.org/) and Joey Fehrenbach radio on Pandora. They are what tells my brain it's coding time.
Generally, I'll pick an artist and listen to their entire discography. The main perks of this are that you don't have to fuss with it once you find what you're in the mood for, you'll generally get at least a good 2 hours of play out of it, and you'll usually avoid musical whiplash, if the album is put together well.

According to last.fm (username is the same as here, for those who want to befriend me), my big artists these days are: The Decemberists, Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Rufus Wainwright, Machinae Supremacy, and Andrew Bird.

I also strongly recommend the 80-minute Demovibes mixes, if you dig demotunes: http://www.demovibes.org/dv_info.htm
And this is why the state of California is on the verge of bankruptcy.