skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most interesting thing to me about that graph is that the percentage GDP of China coming from manufacturing decreased in the 2000s.

(If I'm getting the colors right. Having so many similar colors in one graph certainly reduces its usefulness.)
In the HTML version the 2 is superscripted and links to a footnote. Must've been converted to pdf incorrectly.
It's true, but I'm willing to have my files uniquely tagged. I bought them to listen to, not to share. If someone gets my laptop, they'll have all that info anyway.
In a perfect world wikileaks would be wholly unnecessary.
Could you elaborate on this or point me to a site that explains the security risks?

For my product, I have a web app that does 100% of the rendering in Javascript so I use html() a lot. I adhere by the rule that I don't trust anything that comes from the client so I'm curious to learn what the security problem may be.

Thanks.
as a person who deals with tens of thousands of machines/network devices, i disagree that it's a bikeshed. yes you have to refer to a database for specific information. but it can be a huge time saver if the information that is most generally needed is just there, not needing to be looked up.

for us, we basically have 4 types of information in a fqdn: datacenter, lan, type of host (web server, database, filer, router, switch, etc) and an additional datacenter identifier. after the root domain comes the datacenter, and if there's an additional subdomain that's the lan. after that is the host name which is a number prefixed by the host type. the number is a randomly-selected number within a certain range. the range indicates what datacenter it's in, so 4000-5999 are in one place and 6000-7999 are in another place (incase whatever you're looking at did not include the subdomains). now we can refer to 'ws1234' and know what it is and where it is. it still has much more specific information, but that can be looked up as necessary. since it's less random it's also easier to read hostnames to people and grep through logs.

after having worked with much more confusing naming conventions, i like this simple straightforward method because it's easy to read, talk about, and gives the basic information i need before i look up the specifics in the inventory db. can you do without it? of course. but does that make my job easier or harder?
It'd be a last resort. Porn is supposedly innovative but its more like "Ferengi" innovation. A bunch of other people's technology duct-taped together quick-and-ugly with pure profit in mind. I don't think it would be very fulfilling.
Ah, I didn't know this! I guess the files aren't technically looked down, but that's technically DRM.

I don't have a problem with it, but I wish they let users know the first time they download something off of iTunes or something.

You think the record companies would want iTunes users to know that their name is tied to their music as a scare tactic or something.
I was waiting for this day to come. I personally am against lawsuits and such, since they usually are only good for the lawyers. However, the idea of network lock-in is too restrictive. I think the platform lock-in is user's choice though - they knew that when they bought an iphone. I guess you could argue the same for the network.
The federal government was funded by the states under the Articles of Confederation. The states didn't give enough money to fund the government, so they got rid of it and created a federal government that could collect its own taxes.

Federalism works when when the governmental bodies involved function within the boundaries of the rules that have been set out for them via, for instance, a constitution. This rarely happens. It's still better than the alternatives.
There is no such thing as a lack of bias.
Hi - It's Jen from SitePoint, here.
Glad to hear you guys are enjoying the free copy of jQuery:Novice to Ninja!

As for marketing emails, we always include an "unsubscribe" link. SitePoint will never sell your email address or your information.

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Many browsers have two text input boxes.

In more than a few places, a Google search string (or the browser's search input box) is the already the preferred contact path; not the URL.

What might replace URL-based navigation more widely, I don't know. We went from ARPA not all that long ago to the Big Seven to however many dozens of TLDs we have now. We'll certainly find out, as the URLs are increasingly hideous, and we're just a few years into this current naming structure.

There are certainly potential business opportunities here, too. Approaches to better solve a distributed planetary-scale address book than "just" based on a domain name, and better than a brute-force search engine.
Self-defense is cheap. Iraqis and Afghans seem to find a way to do a pretty impressive job without throwing buckets of money at the problem. (There's probably some significant outside funding in each case, but still.)
I just installed the extension out of curiosity. Someone should write a greasmonkey script that does something similar.
It's statistically unlikely .5 * .5 * .5 ... but it's not magical.

To answer your question, it depends on how many guesses he makes.

I'm more curious about how the food was placed in the containers. Was it more visible in one container? Does Paul have a preference with regards to left or right.
Glad to hear you feel this way. Spam is not good. Thanks! Jen (sitepoint.com)
http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/ideographic_myth.html

Have you heard about the ideographic myth?
I've subscribed to their forums with an email that I link to them, so I know for a fact that they spam. They also write articles that are really paid for ads, so the shady meter for sitepoint.com is over toward the orange side of the scale... but, you know... you gotta make money I guess.
> No one was paid more than about USD25k/month

I'm assuming that should be per year?
Wikileaks don't need to generate publicity for stuff they leak. If it benefits left-wing talking points HuffPo will sensationalize it; if it benefits right-wing talking points Drudge will. There's no shortage of hype and sensationalization--Wikileaks don't need to generate it themselves unless they want to self-aggrandize.
You're welcome! Jen (sitepoint.com)
For the same reason they bought Ars Technica. It was an Internet play to say "look we're still relevant." Except, they used the wealth they accumulated in their print empire to try to prove relevance in the online age. Truth be told, they didn't choose badly with Ars Technica and Reddit. Those calls are far better than Murdoch's Myspace play. But c'mon, they haven't done anything with Ars Technica or Reddit because the print guys don't understand the Internet and never will. They need to be doing the exact inverse of what they're doing. They tried to bring Reddit to Wired. Instead, they should have been asking how to bring GQ, Wired, et al to Reddit and Ars Technica.
If you're hearing news that seems unbiased to you, what you are hearing is news that conforms to your bias.
random journalist or insider: "hi, geek squad? can you set up some encryption software that allows me to perform covert communication across the internet? i don't know, freenet or freenode or firefox or something. what? no no, i'm definitely doing nothing suspicious. don't tell anyone, ok?"
Not being a native speaker I sometimes feel silly using it, but there's also the feeling of "thank god I didn't have to type that"
Unless if you have to go back and keep on fixing it again and again and again and again... until one day, the cost of fixing (please also include the cost of re-testing) can't be justified any longer.

Anyhow, that's why software should be developed in modules/components.
BBC, Al Jazeera English, and the Financial Times.

In my opinion, those are the three most journalistic institutions remaining - they report the facts as cleanly as humanly possible.
I've seen this question pop up online a lot, and a common answer from Americans seems to be "BBC News." Brits, however, tend to detect a liberal bias in the BBC's output though it pales in comparison to any found in the US media. The BBC News team recently reported that the site will be unveiling an all new design and workflow in the next couple of weeks, including a US focused version maintained by a separate editorial team in Washington DC.

In my experience, though, it's best to use a large but manageable number of sources and interpret them with intelligence and wisdom to get a feel for what the reality is.
While not a calendar app, I used the "one text field only" methodology on Weekis - http://weekis.com which is a simple week planning tool.
NPR is pretty left leaning. I certainly wouldn't call them unbiased.

As for where to go I agree with the other comments. There is no unbiased news. I say check both. Add Fox News to your NPR habit and you should be fine.
When I woke up this morning (Aus) my first action was to google for World Cup 2010. Seeing the Netherlands:0, Spain:1 was certainly news. I'm not seeing any bias though..

There is such a thing as "just the facts".
Wont it have issues with concurrency, Since you have multiple dwarves constantly updating the list, you must ensure that only one dwarf is updating the list at a time.
Otherwise there can be errors if two dwarfs try to add rooms at a same time!
We've solved it by having the actual hostname be the mac address from the machines first NIC preceded by a 2 character code for what type of machine it is (DT for desktop, VM for virtual etc) and then allowing for the assignment of an "administrative" name that goes in the internal DNS and is shown in green on the command line when logged in.

This lets the suits pick goofy names for their boxes based on whatever they've seen on tv recently and allows us to automatically generate unique hostnames based on physical properties of the actual machines.

The sweet lack of multiple "Gimli's" and "Gandalf's" on my network warms my geek heart.
I like that you call a mini startup. Works pretty good, but the layout is kind of all over the place
(Dragon has an app but you can’t integrate that into an application)

I don't think this capability of android is recognized for the amount of power it provides both the developer and the user. It's often said that things like the dialer or contact list can be changed out if the user doesn't like the default one, but that level of integration isn't just at the app level, it's at all the system services. If Android didn't provide voice recognition out of the box, it would be entirely possible to replace or augment the default input method with one as a third-party app install. There's nothing special about this from a user standpoint. This is actually quite common on android, the most frequent example being replacement ringtone apps (which is odd because it's not that hard to use any random file as a ringtone as it is (make a directory named notifications on the sdcard and put the files in there, they show up in the sound selection dialog), they are mostly just better interfaces, although there are a few that have serious value adds, like recording a new ringtone live and editing it). I found a keyboard app called "Better Keyboard" that I consider to be truly better than the default keyboard functionality provided.
Doh! Thanks, fixed :)
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If their slogan "What you need, When you need it" seems familiar to anybody, it's because is lifted straight from domain-parking pages.
It may indeed look exactly like a memcached server, but that's not enough. A client that speaks the memcache protocol assuming that it's talking to a cache can make assumptions and cut corners which a client talking to a persistent store ought not, and users and implementors of clients that speak the protocol need to be aware of these issues.
PBS Frontline is amazing. Very in depth, very informative. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
I have huge difficulties with the voice recognition; it really doesn't handle anything other than an american accent particularly well (I'm Australian).
I was being facetious, but I didn't realize that everyone that cashed out also moved on. Makes more sense now.
parse out the facts like everyone says. if you already know bias exists, then you don't have too much to worry about. seeing bias shouldn't be a worry for some people, especially HN users. Here we always read and analyze everything carefully before making a decision about how to take it.

Treat all news sources the same way, it shouldn't be too bad.
Well I thought hacker news was one place I could visit without World cup spoilers. How wrong I was. Well that's ruined my morning.
I don't think the lawsuit will succeed. Apple was not a monopoly. People had the option to choose both the service provider and the handset.
I did 2 internships at Sony in Japan... work relationships were professional (not personal), and the managers were very polite to the subordinates. Looking at this chart, I realize now how atypical this is for Japanese companies!
Sure, the classification of Social Security is arguable. That's why I listed the things that almost everyone would agree are 'welfare' -- approaching 18% of the 2009 federal budget -- before going into things that many would not consider 'welfare', or would only consider partially 'welfare' (like Social Security and Medicare).

FYI, food assistance alone is over 1% of recent federal budgets. Food assistance is definitely welfare spending, right?

Digging up the actual paper [1] for the study didn't give me any more confidence it showed much of anything other than the researchers' biases. They don't list the exact questions they asked in their telephone quiz of about 300 people, but if they were worded anything like the headings of their graphs -- "Percent Budget that Goes to Welfare", "Respondent's Factual Estimate" -- then all the responses they categorized as wrong were closer to the actual value than their preferred "1%" answer. And, phone surveys are known to be incredibly sensitive to tiny changes in wording and presentation ordering. You could easily nudge people to be more right, or more wrong -- depending on your desired result.

They do quote the question they asked a smaller different group of 64 students: "From zero to 100 percent, what percent of the national budget do you think is spent on welfare?" Defending on your preferred definition, I think a reasonable person could correctly answer anything from as low as 8% to as high as 60%. But the researchers then told the subjects the true number was 1% to see what effect that had on the students' policy preferences. To me, that's just like a dishonest 'push poll'.

And then they wonder why people resist changing their beliefs when presented with new 'facts' like the wrong 1% number! People have been battered by researchers twisting numbers in the service of agendas for so long, sticking to prior ideas is an adaptive defense.

[1] http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:F94ibz5_FKsJ:w...
JODConverter is definitely a reasonable solution for most applications. You can also write a Python script that leverages OpenOffice's Python UNO API to do the same thing - a basic script that turns Office files into PDF's is only ~20 lines of Python.

For really serious applications, though, you will eventually run in the limits of OpenOffice's support for MS Office formats. If you are very picky (or have a very picky client) about the quality fo the conversions, you'll end up having to use Microsoft Office to do the conversions. This is a lot less pleasant to set up, so I wouldn't do it unless you have to.
Locked in a house with an infinite variety of books, many kids would gravitate to the pulp fiction, learning nothing. If you're stipulating that they're left only with educational or good books, then that's the result of at least some form of parental selection or guidance. Or it's the result of them already being curious to learn and gravitating towards the "good" books, just as some kids will use the internet for Wikipedia and others for flash games.
Short answer: I don't. Never mind the insanely conservative bias to every major media outlet in the US, I don't really trust news that claims to be unbiased. I prefer it if instead you get reporters and editors being honest about their biases. The whole idea of an unbiased news media being the ideal kind of news has caused a lot of problems, as can be seen from the firing of Weigel: http://crooksandliars.com/ian-welsh/court-eunuch-standard-bl.... We need to get past the idea of an unbiased news and move on to having an honest news corps.
it comes in pdf/kindle/[nook] formats. very very nice. thank you. Now who won? and what?

just kidding. I've very happy Spain won.
Haha, now come on, surely* NPR wouldn't be equal to Fox News' level of bias and sensationalism... how about NPR + HuffPost?

...okay, yeah, I don't get why NPR is in there, either.

* As surely as a non-American who just samples a lot of American media could say, at least.

[edited: I guess that came out wrong... not intended to slag off NPR. Or are people just sensitive about HuffPo?]
I fail to see how adding a channel which makes a business out of blatantly lying about whatever issue they touch makes anyone fine. The case of Fox News is part of why I said we need to move beyond the whole "unbiased" versus "biased" debate to get to the real problem of downright fraudulent coverage.
That's because the media doesn't do a good job of informing people about what state and local politicians actually do. Luckily, there's a way to fix that. At the Texas Tribune, we're aiming to solve that problem, and there are similar California-based organizations.

http://californiawatch.org/

http://www.baycitizen.org/
Am I the only one that finds the Android UI (esp with HTC Sense) way better looking than the iPhone UI?

I think this is beautiful:
http://www.androidspin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/modaco...

The iPhone UI looks dated to me.
Did you not read the Wikipedia article you linked to? It seems to answer your questions.
the porn industry is basically an "industry" built upon a deadly sin that has a very powerful innate emotional grasp on some (maybe most) people. Any company you build upon that taps into some impulsive emotion is going to be pretty cool, but in this case, society just makes it seem like the dirt of technology companies.

If you really understand porn, and you're not the kind of person to take on everything associated with it, go for it. But I think the question and suggestion is rather: "would you start a company based on an impulsive emotion, even if it's something society has branded as a sin?"

I can see betting, smoking, drugs, that kind of thing all falling into the same category.

If you're able to find something that hasn't been struck down as horrible, then go for it.
You do not have to manually forward any ports. Your quote from the Apple KB is taken out of context. Specifically, that article addresses networks with robust firewalls that support policies where automatic port configuration isn't allowed. In these cases, the firewall administrator would have to explicitly allow FaceTime... but this doesn't apply your your average retail purchase router.

FaceTime uses uPnP, which is supported on just about any router you'd buy for under $200 at your local retailer. If you're able to play XBox or PS3 online, your iPhone should connect a FaceTime call without trouble.
Certainly doesn't help to pick two right-leaning sources, anyway. I've never gotten where this whole idea that NPR is a liberal outlet comes from.
Technically, I think Firefox is the rewrite of the rewrite.
I don't get it. How is this any more convenient than a wire transfer or PayPal, just because it involves your cell phone?
Both the plane and its contents experience the same acceleration due to gravity. Unless the plane is accelerating, the occupants will experience weightlessness (e.g. vomit comet). Of course the plane is accelerating - in straight and level flight this acceleration counteracts the acceleration due to gravity. This acceleration (lift) is provided by the wings, which don't move, so it is always in the same direction (in the plane's frame of reference).

So if you kept flying upside down the tea would eventually fall, right?

No. Eventually the plane would hit the ground, since it is not only falling but also generating "lift" in a downwards direction.
All you need: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS
You know how you think you're 90% done with a project, and there's a ton of little details, so that in reality, you're actually a long way out? That's where Cassandra is at.
I really enjoy the Christian Science Monitor. Despite its name, it seems to be relatively unbiased. I also like its approach to news- They tend to work on a local level, but cover broad issues from a different perspective than you'd typically find from the AP or Reuters.
I tend to go with NPR and The Economist. Both are biased, but their biases are relatively mild and out in the open (and, more-or-less in opposition to each other).
Given the current job market in many areas, it's getting hard to blame people for taking jobs producing porn, much less distributing it. I think a lot of friends/family would buy that as an immediate justification.

Further, porn companies tend to be on the bleeding edge in terms of tech innovation, so it's very possible whatever tech they're creating sees mass-market use in a few years, and then you're like the only guy who has years of experience in it. And that assumes you don't get a nice slice of the pie from the original company.
I don't know under what standards you can ever consider Fox News to be "news". They go beyong having a difference of opinion into outright lying and misstating facts. Taking into consideration the opinions of liars is now way to clear your own biases.
I know. I was being deliberately obtuse. Imperial China had what you were talking about and it was institutionalized corruption.
Static bits of the Android UI do like pretty nice. The article hits on an extremely good point that I haven't heard enough (but strongly feel myself):

Android's UI is just nowhere near as smooth as the iPhone's. "Clunky" is the exact right word. Scrolling on the iPhone is perfect - you can tell Jobs obsessed over making it zero-lag, perfectly smooth. That makes the whole UI -feel- better. And for a lot of users - me included - that's a big deal.

Everytime I pick up an Android phone to play with it - hoping they've fixed this - my immediate impression is "wow...this doesn't scroll as well, doesn't move as smoothly, and feels like an ancient UI." It is - quite literally - like Windows XP vs. Mac OSX.

I think if they figure out a way to NAIL the UI in Android, that will close the gap significantly....
As someone who's worked in the porn industry, I disagree with the comment that it's a "collection of other people's technology duct taped together."

There was huge amounts of API work, design, scaling, distributed encoding and rendering farms, and a host of technology advances that we made to keep our sites functional. None of this was other people's tech.

Think about all of the people who work in the gambling industry. It's quite similar.
Looking at this chart, I realize now how atypical this is for Japanese companies!

It is atypical for a certain segment of Japanese companies. Its a big country, with all kinds of folks in it, much like America. I get worried when folks assume that the stereotypical salaryman life is universal in Japan -- compare it to Japanese people assuming that all American companies are like Google. (Incidentally, I have met people with that misconception.)

Anecdotally, my previous employers were solidly within the ambit of a corporation on the top left of that chart, and managers were instructed to (and to my experience generally did) address employees "consistent with professional etiquette and the traditional expectations of polite society."
When we rounded up a few small business people, the things they pointed out that they liked best about Android and iPhone were even more basic than Chad Fowler's report

http://www.ringio.com/2010/06/29/iphone-vs-android-getting-o...