skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true. I'm pretty sure it would be topped by the nations of:
1) People that eat rice, 2) Those living below 1000ft altitude, and 3) People whose favorite color is either red or blue.

Oh, wait, those are all random collections of people that have nothing to do with "nations". My bad.

Also, it claims Facebook in 3rd at 500 million, US in 4th at 310 million; so it would have jumped into 3rd quite a while ago, making the country comparison even less relevent as a news claim. Is it really that hard just to say that Facebook now has 500 million users and leave it at that without making up a silly headline and graphic?
Your only valid point is that the replacement organisms might be more dangerous to humans. I find your callousness toward human suffering repulsive. If I could press a button that would instantly wipe out any and all animal species which cause human suffering without any negative consequences, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
By your own logic you are a liar. Fortunately most dictionaries disagree with you.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lie
http://definr.com/lying

To safely call a statement a lie according to all definitions it must be false, but more importantly it must be said knowing that is false (having an intent to deceive).
One of the largest fascist nations too? It is a corporation and a dictatorship of sorts isn't it?
Why should recruiters be better than anyone else at hiring? It should be common knowledge by now that there is no way to differentiate great programmers from flakes other than hiring them. Even then, a great programmer in one environment may become a helpless flake in another. It's a _relation_, not an attribute.
Sort of like Quince(http://quince.infragistics.com/) for the web. Nice.
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I hear this enough to wonder if it's a myth. Mac OS is built on Unix, so how does the total Unix+Linux+Mac market share look? Probably big enough to justify attacking. I suspect but can't prove that Unix is inherently more secure than Windows (or more easily secured).

I've actually had a Mac compromised before after being lazy about the password setup. I suspect it difficult for the botnets to get traction, but they're certainly trying.
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I understand your jest, but it got me thinking...

I think I finally connect with reason why some people here defend the community so fiercely; It is so that time spent on HN is spent learning something useful. I have probably wasted lots of time here, yes, but I have also learned so darn much!

I just need to leave a few hours of the day open to actually implement what I've learned... which I do, thankfully.

If you stop finding HN useful, or you start coming here just to burn time or be entertained or to avoid work, and you really don't put any of the things you learn here to use... then, yes, its probably time to say byebye.
I do preface things I'm unsure of as you suggest, but sometimes I'm wrong about things I am sure of. I'm trying to figure out whether this is a problem with my definition of "sure of", whether I just need to do more research and get more experience on topics in general before talking about them, or whether there's some indication I may not know what I'm talking about that I just haven't found yet.

I'm asking in the hopes that other people have solved this problem for themselves, and could say how.
How long until they start issuing passports?
Computer security : A swarm of many stripes
Normally 100% at 8:30am, then 40% by 11pm.
Bingo, "Ramen Profitable" it is.

At any given time there tends to be one problem that's the most urgent for a startup. This is what you think about as you fall asleep at night and when you take a shower in the morning. And when you start raising money, that becomes the problem you think about. You only take one shower in the morning, and if you're thinking about investors during it, then you're not thinking about the product.
They need some copyeditors. "Start wining now!"
If Apple can design, build, debug, manufacturer, and market a tablet 2 years faster than any of their competitors, how is that NOT a credit to them?
The comments on that post are quite useful. Some useful points:

a) lots of factories were idle in 2008 but ramped up in 2009 because of other countries' stimulus allowed them to purchase Singapore's exports.

b) looking at one year's results is silly

c) Singapore has a very fluid labor force, including commuters from Malaysia that contribute to GDP but don't drag down per capita numbers, and foreign workers are removed from the country within 2 weeks of losing a job

d) many people echo what ugh said here, that the two countries are so different that comparison is meaningless.
Selling NZ1.us, a 3 letter domain Name.
> I don't think the median HN reader needs further encouragement to write well.

perhaps, for now. but if PG's concerns are valid, then it may be the case that this will change. alternatively, consider it a functional way to reinforce the culture.
Singularity talk is reminiscent of the early AI work, everyone thought they were on the verge of creating human level AI. Yeah, that didn't happen(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter). How's this any different? What makes you so confident it will suddenly happen now? That we have more data, that we are mucking around with our brains more?

I'm with qwzybug, I echo his sentiment.
Sounds like fun :) I really like the idea of having the it communicate
with the BOTS via a REST API. Presumably people would all run them on
their own servers and submit a URL of their bot's interface to the
tournament site.

It would have to be turn based otherwise latency would make it very
unfair. Which of course would mean that efficiency wouldn't be part of
it much (there would have to be a timeout of course, but you still
wouldn't usually be able to get an advantage by optimising your code
to run really fast).

Having them run on other machines would also mean that collusion and
such between bots would be a possibility if you had games with more
than two players. I think you'd just have to accept and embrace it.

I'm up for getting involved if you want to make this. Email is in my profile.
What about current location and interests settings? It doesn't strike me as to bad being sent deals on things you want combined with location.
the naturalistic fallacy is getting out of hand. I think it's entirely obvious how much the blind idiot god of evolution sucks. or did you want to give up your eyeglasses and allergy medication?
Look at Therac-25, the Ariane 5, and the Mars Surveyor! Therefore we should stop all programming!

Argument-by-disaster is a terrible argument, there is not a single human endeavor that has not led to disaster at some point. It proves too much.

Reflexively decrying all environmental modification is at best a cognitive shortcut which should be discarded when it doesn't apply, at worst institutionalized stupidity-by-choice. Dismissing some crank on the Internet who offhandedly mumbles something about eliminating mosquitoes with "what could go wrong?" is appropriate. Dismissing a serious article that seriously asks the question and considers the consequences is a disservice to everyone involved in the article.

You're getting upvoted because you are giving people a chance to mentally feel good about their environmental bona fides because they upvoted you, not because you're making an even remotely valuable argument or contribution.
No, I wasn't even on HN then. Turns out it was a Paul Graham article after all: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1536852
> I believe Job says (amongst other things), "Life isn't fair. Good things happen to the bad guys. Bad things happen to the good guys. Accept that in the knowledge that God will make it right in the end."

Sister Anna: Do you ever see the Hand of God in what you do?

Creasy: No, not for a long time.

Sister Anna: The Bible says, "Do not be over come with evil, but overcome...?

Creasy: But overcome evil with good."

Creasy: [in spanish] That's Romans Chapter 12 Verse 21.

Creasy: I am the sheep that got lost, Madre.

-- Man on Fire (2004) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328107/
Good point. I didn't write that well. What I meant to get at is if HP or Microsoft (or one of the many others) would just get something (anything) out that could web surf and play movies they would have a shot in the market. Instead they switched OS mid-stream, cancelled most known prototypes and bet on flash.
Tangential: The power grid is not that stagnant anymore. A bunch of upgrading is in the planning/early deployment phases right now, including:

* PMUs
* Dynamic, consumer-level, load response
* Superconducting transmission lines
* Distributed generation resources on distribution grids
* large scale wind farms
much more
thats already happening, more or less. except the culture here is to flag things out of line, and they usually get dealt with. if they're not out of line, then why would it matter?
an economically literate political elite that runs things instead of signaling that it is running things while frantically rent seeking (that's you democracy).
4. Get better at generalising knowledge and reasoning to new areas.

When you get it wrong, look at why. Were you missing a crucial fact? Then how could you have found that fact out, and other facts like it. Is your reasoning faulty? Get better at reasoning. Did you make an unfounded assumption? Check your assumptions better. Did you ignore something without good reason? Don't. Is their something special about working in this field? Learn that stuff. Are you expected to have background knowledge? Grab some of that.

... I guess that's really a solution to 1 though.
Only if the TOS isn't unethical, immoral or lying.
I'm not claiming that all data should be immutable, or even that all data in Scala should be immutable; just that when you are using immutable data, the compiler should help you do that.
By making it easier to convince yourself to work out regularly.
The operating system has turned out to be so irrelevant for a pad. I love my iPad, but all I want from it is to surf and play movies. The shoe-horned iPhone os is crap (not as appropriate as it is on the phone and certainly not the full OSX experience).
ignoring long term trends is how we get into these messes to begin with.
Yes, the exact same thing happened to me.
Seems to be a bit of nasty Javascript on this page attempting to redirect. Avast stopped it on my end(XP user).
My experience has been similar.
If you're a work-to-live type, they will get you better perks than you can, hands down, every time.

The "Why" is simple as well: they have far more data than you on what that company is paying for a given skill set, what the position is worth and (most importantly) what the projects you'll be working on are worth to the company.
I use the advice of PG (which he observed from RTM) http://paulgraham.com/heroes.html

Don't say anything unless you're fairly sure of it. If you're not omniscient, you just don't end up saying much.

... the trick is to pay careful attention to how you qualify what you say.

Start qualifying everything. Eventually you will stop commenting on subjects you don't know about when your qualification becomes: "well, I don't really know anything about this, but..."

The other aspect of this is to dig deeper into subjects. People think they know something about a topic because they read a couple of blog posts. Dig deeper- look at primary sources. Look at citations. If there aren't citations the statement is suspect, and you will qualify the knowledge as suspect when it comes into your brain, increasing your chances of qualifying when it comes out of your mouth.
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Purchase decisions go beyond recommendations

Before deciding to buy recommended products or services, the majority (81%) of Americans will go online to verify recommendations, specifically through researching product/service information (61%), reading user reviews (55%) or searching ratings websites (43%), according to a new report by marketing firm Cone.
I am no fan of mosquitoes personally, but pollination is the key thing. Esp. now with the shortage of bees. There may not seem like a direct link to humans.

Without mosquitoes, thousands of plant species would lose a group of pollinators. Adults depend on nectar for energy (only females of some species need a meal of blood to get the proteins necessary to lay eggs). Yet McAllister says that their pollination isn't crucial for crops on which humans depend.

But mess with one part of the ecosystem and risks that it will affect things globally go way up. I'm surprised Nature isn't more circumspect about this..
Love the design of both Freckle and Charde.sk. Thanks for the help. As a young and first time entrepreneur, I like to think I know the answers, but most of the time it is not the case. Finding out what is needed from a strategic standpoint is something that I have found others are willing to share, especially bootstrapped, product based startups. I will definitely be checking out your blog at unicornfree.com! My name is Matt :)
I'm fairly sure most people kick around ideas like this at some point or another. It would definitely be cool to give a try.

It does have the problem of playability. How do you keep someone's interest beyond a week or two of this?

My thoughts on the subject have lead to something like this:

Create a fairly persistent world. This means that any action a player can make will be permanent in the game. It can be something fairly simple, a grid based game, maybe some resource management. I like the idea of a turn based strategy game, with ~30s per turn.

Create a point system. How points are won doesn't really matter, but make it something interesting. Point reset every week. When they reset, the person with the highest amount of points gets to make a new "rule". This could be anything from a new ability for a unit to a change in the way the physics work. It (obviously) has to be tested and verified, but would be deployed relatively quickly. This process iterates for as long as desired.

Obviously a number of iterations will cause problems of complexity eventually. My thoughts on the matter have led me to a rather specific idea for a game of this type, which I think would be incredibly enjoyable to play.

If you're interested, send me an email. I'd be happy to send you a more complete description of my idea, and if you still like it I'd be up for trying to implement it. That is true for anyone, not just the OP.
Two words: population control.

There are too many of us now for them to keep up though.
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I feel like I differentiated between making stuff up, being unsure and simply being wrong. The 'lying' is mostly an attribution to making things up or asserting assumptions as fact which I still would consider deceitful.

edit: I may not have differentiated that as well as I had thought in my original post. In another comment on this comment level, I tried to differentiate between the various types of "being wrong" and/or their causes.
At first I was thinking that youtube's recent sub title mod must of been a bit of a hit to their idea, but then I saw the functionality of quoting and sharing hyper linked quotes.

That's quite a cool feature and could be handy for stopping 'mis quoting' / 'quoting out of context' being used in many media's.
Please give some feedback on my brother's startup
My brother has just created a startup website.

http://www.collabrr.com/

The idea is that it is a site to collaborate ideas, and share content. It is kind of like a aggregate site where you can comment on topics in real time.

Please give any feedback or ideas that you have about it.

edit: "Scarface" is the actual creator. I am helping him with improvements and feedback right now.

on the signup page, an email is not required, that is just if you forget your password
Not to mention that the whole "gov 2.0" movement is at best a 0.1 level update. It adds new functionality, but doesn't break backwards compatibility with previous versions.
I was redirected to http://tinyurl.com/preview.php?num=2fzqmwf

Yes, I was redirected to a tinyurl. I have previews on.
Just you wait for the release of SpeakerText 2.0!
I have a fair idea of two buildings(is it the one with African Gold? And if so, do you know Spoof?) they might be in(otherwise it's the one beside the Guardi station). I did live in Clontarf...most of my life until a little over a year ago when I emigrated, because... we'll no work and my wife wanted to come home.
pete warden tried that and got sued by facebook. they have since changed their robots.txt to forbid public crawling of their site although they still want the google juice so they make exceptions for major search engines.
That would only make sense if the use of twitter was pretty equal across all age groups. Given that most retires are probably not using Twitter it is unlikely that the amount of retirees in Florida has an impact on the visualization.
The animal species that causes the most human suffering is... humans.

(Or were you being facetious? Especially since you shifted the argument from insects to animals.)
There's no need to argue against strawmen. No one is saying this is a good thing. Anti-fanboyism (especially the unprovoked kind like this) is even more annoying than fanboyism.
Agreed, but the main point still stands: there can definitely be factors outside of our knowledge and control which we will simply not be aware of until it is too late. The old "life would be so much easier without this little nature's imperfection" attitude has brought some unintended and tragic consequences more than once.
I shudder at the thought of a nation made up of Facebook users. It would be like a nation of People subscribers, except they'd also play inane grinding games...
I didn't mean to suggest that he is a compulsive liar or is a bad person, but I think it's deceitful to pass assumptions off as facts. I don't know whether he is specifically referring to making things up (which I see as deceitful and thus lying), asserting assumptions as truth (which I see is a gray light), or simply being wrong. Being wrong is one thing. If I tell you 2+2=5 and you tell someone else thinking that it's a fact, then you aren't acting intentionally in your deceit. If you just start making assumptions on your own and assert them as truth, I feel like that takes a certain amount of effort in a dishonest direction.
"create something with more than 200 lines in Haskell" (which is hard because Haskell is so dense). ;-)

You might succeed by translating USSM http://www.loup-vaillant.fr/projects/ussm The system is written in about 300 lines of Ocaml, and should be easy to translate. Plus, you can rewrite it piece by piece, and still have a system that works.
He seems to go to great lengths to emphasize the visual clutter in the declaration, but then mentions nothing of the casts that are no longer needed as a result. Anecdotes != proof I know, but I can say that I have caught several typecast mismatches in code I've converted from pre-generic times to using generics.

But all that is not what the article is about, really. Say what you will about Java, whether or not it's dead or dying, etc. but I dare say that generics in and of themselves aren't causing the Java ecosystem any substantial damage.
Sounds like you have a tough, double-ended sale. People will not use your app until there are some offers in their area and businesses will not make offers until...why would a business make an offer to people who are already IN their store?

I think you could try this out with FourSquare's API. Monitor the number of people checked in at a venue and if it crosses your threshold add a tip to your venue with the offer. Bonus offer for people who friend the venue's bot.
Could someone please explain to me how this has got 6 upvotes (as of 16:35Z) ?? It just appears to be content-free blog spam.

Color me confused ...
If you were misinformed or were just simply plain wrong (aka you thought you knew something as solid fact) then... you were wrong. Life goes on. I mean, if this is happening a lot, you properly need to question the threshold at which you consider yourself having "known" something, or you need to read more closely, but being wrong isn't the end of the world.
Incubation is described in the psychology literature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation_(psychology)
You're absolutely right about modules. I didn't mention them because I tend to think of the module system as being independent from the type system, but they're actually closely related.
Can anyone explain or provide a reference for the problems with D 2.0?
The idea is solid and although I'm not completely sold yet, it's definitely worth more exploring. But my question is, why is this article written by an intern?>?!?!?!?
I feel like I'm repeating myself in my replies and I do apologize, but I feel that there is a distinction between outright making something up, asserting assumptions as false and being wrong. I think that if you preface something with "I think...", you're disclosing the fact that you are unsure or are making an assumption and that that falls outside the realm of this discussion, generally.
Based on most of her writing, you couldn't be criticized for thinking she was a paid Microsoft evangelist. Outside of Paul Thurrott, she's probably the best candidate for a Microsoft-oriented equivalent of John Gruber.
Insects are animals.
It's a play on "web 2.0", moving from cathedrals and walled gardens to a fully visible system where anyone can get information about any part. I'm sure they've done lots of things poorly and the specifications meetings have been hell but I don't see how anyone can oppose the general idea/direction.
I am confused as well.
It's a follow up to an earlier post that was fairly popular on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1530914
Or it helps me justify not working out because everyone else got fat too.
We've considered both of those issues.

People will not use your app until there are some offers in their area and businesses will not make offers until.

We're working on building a userbase before launch in numerous ways. Traditional press, word of mouth, some other things. As for businesses making offers, we have a strong sales team with existing relationships with our target businesses.

why would a business make an offer to people who are already IN their store?

We are not targeting people who are already in the bar/restaurant. The idea is to drive people there who wouldn't go otherwise. We will check you in using foursquare api if you have a foursquare account, but you must check in with us/be registered with us. If you're say a foursquare user at the bar who checked in and happened to be there, no dice for you...because as you said, why would a business give an offer to people already there.
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Changes happen and is why I was employed. But this is mitigated by the fact that most big banks probably have miles of red tape just to deploy a fix for a typo and the smaller banks used off the shelf products that were rarely upgraded and when they were we identified these products and could group banks together that used similar software and so the gathering of data was essentially the same.

edit: we also built and deployed to production every night, so we had no problem keeping up. Sometimes we'd even deploy midday if we felt like a fix needed to go out immediately.
I'm having this exact same problem with a colleague at the moment and my root cause analysis is that he's not making the right judgement about the knowledge level of the other conversation participants.

I would suggest trying to a) listen and b) gauge the level of experience of the other guys in the conversation. If they have 'doing' knowledge that automatically trumps your 'I read on the internet' knowledge so, yknow, silence is golden - everyone has access to google...