skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost everyone here into electronics (or able to use internet) can read English.Can't give exact figures but its one of the most widely used languages here.
This ad really strikes me as a stretch. I'm all for people trying to organize data protection laws, but I'm also OK with Google trading free services in the present for information they hope will be valuable in the future.

But I'm frequently surprised by the diversity of opinion on this site. Are there people here who feel the ad speaks to them? Who are moved to act from having watched it? What do you like about it? I'd love to hear the other side on this.
Sure, there are dodgy brothels

There are "dodgy" brothels like the American South had "dodgy" cotton plantations in the 19th century.

the normal ones are mostly college girls who are earning a bunch of extra cash

This is a myth which society uses to let it sleep at night about them. (The same myth is widely held about strippers in the United States, and is equally false there.) Prostitution, nice clean business, step up into a middle class existence. Social science research on the demographics of prostitutes, in Australia and elsewhere, is legion. Only about a quarter of brother prostitutes either have a degree or are enrolled in college. (see: "Sex work and sex workers in Australia")

You can find more numbers at your leisure. A good source of pointers is Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Australia

Among many other depressing statistics:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/queensland-sex-in...

After 10 years of legal brothels in Queensland, 90 per cent of prostitution here remains either unregulated or illegal, University of Queensland research shows.
The only problem with globalization is the lack of truly free trade. If countries didn't have to subsidize nonproductive sectors of the economy then the costs of living would equalize much quicker - see farm subsidies, tariffs, and the ban on imports of certain goods.
Please, again forgive my utter ignorance, do go on.
If you buy any new ARM related boards I might buy a few from time to time. E.g. beagleboard and accessories, gumstix, toradex and accessories.
The audience for tis website would be more comfortable in English than in Hindi. All the major publications in India are in English. English is more popular in some Indian states than even Hindi.

English in some ways brings Indians together more than Hindi. :-)
I thought that part of the video was bullshit. I thought the same when Atwood wrote his "Groundhog Day" piece, which the video seems to accept at face value.

A/B testing lets you test two competing hypotheses. It does not in any way require that the two hypotheses be very similar to each other. You can test radically different designs against each other just as easily as you can test minor differences.

So, the real question you are asking is: how do you generate new hypotheses? And the answer is: the same way as always. You can see what other are doing. You can think "out of the box." You can use your best judgment, and whatever creativity you have access to.
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It means that people will fight it kicking and screaming, trying to get politicians to enforce their short sidedness. Eventually they will lose out, perhaps making a fortune in the short run. They will be basically robbing those who have no choice but to purchase their goods due to various lawyerly machinations.
aw yeah!

I supposed I may need to refresh to get the new app.js? (I still have the same game going).

Also, what about blanks not registering double/triple word scores?
Indonesia is also very corrupt (111th out of 180 in Transparency International's index, and I have encountered the police corruption there first-hand). I wonder whether the corruption might be so bad that people wouldn't report murder to the police, and so the official statistic might be lower than it should be?

The former anti-corruption chief of Indonesia was jailed earlier this year for conspiracy to murder. I could imagine that if he's not the only government official organizing murders, then that might not reliably be reported to the police.

(This is poorly-informed speculation and I wouldn't be surprised if some knowledgeable person writes a scathing correction. Better information would be appreciated.)
> 2. We do setup online account for services

I think this is a step too far - only I should be in charge of doing this

> 3. There are status indicators

I've just noticed a failure status indicator (for Bord Gais incidentally - the login details are actually ok). However, previously there were 2 billers which succeeded in their autologin (this is in the 'My Billers' section), but neither of them had a positive indication that they had succeeded. Because one of them had not imported any bills yet, I assumed it hadn't succeeded in the autologin.
I was hoping to see something come from Flixa. Keep up the good work.
does anyone know of a secure, non-free alternative to gmail , where one wouldn't have (as much) to worry about having your privacy violated?
I only read the first third of this - but did anyone else find it wandering without clear points or thought process? It was fairly confusing, not because of the content, but how it was written. Was surprised to see this come from Peter Thiel, but I haven't read much of his stuff so who knows.
Frankly, it's hard to know for sure. But it seems unlikely it was exclusively, or even primarily, for the reasons officially stated. See, for example

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War#Oil_...

"In April 2001, President George W. Bush's Cabinet agreed to use military intervention in Iraq because it was considered a destabilizing influence to the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East."
> Countries that have prohibitions on firearms have fewer firearms. It's a huge difference in the numbers and that's an example of prohibition working.

Who cares? You're working from a premise that having fewer firearms is a good thing. I'm not going to say I disagree, but I'm not sure I agree either.

The real metric is whether or not firearm-related crimes are significantly reduced in countries where there are prohibitions on firearms.

There's also the question of whether firearm use matters in some crimes. Take these two scenarios:

1. Burglar commits armed (firearms) robbery of a house. Owners of the house are suitably frightened but give in to the burglars. Stuff is stolen but no one gets hurt.

2. Burglar commits armed (knives) robbery of a house. Owners of the house are suitably frightened but give in to the burglars. Stuff is stolen but no one gets hurt.

They are essentially the same crime, but now #2 is not lumped in with the "firarms-related crime" group.

And let's try keeping #1 as it is, but now #2 is this:

2'. Burglar commits armed (knives) robbery of a house. Owners of the house think a knife isn't too scary and fight back. One owner gets stabbed and dies.

I don't know about the frequency of stuff like this, but it's certainly not a quick "look at the numbers" thing to decide which is better.
Elizabeth Gilbert: Some Thoughts on Writing
Thank you, I'm going to plagiarize that ;->
Haha thanks! And I just found out Like.fm's been featured on CNET. And here I was begging bloggers to write about Like.fm... http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-20015614-27.html

So yea don't hesitate to contact me. Join in on something big!
> It's unpractical - this is the worst. I can't imagine sitting in my living room watching the stupid TV with stupid 3D glasses.

I believe that the argument for "radio > tv" sounded very similar. People said that it would require doing stupid things like sitting and concentrating on what's on the screen, instead of "just listening".
Also, todays Japan and Germany are a far cry from 1930s Japan and Germany because the loss of the war changed both substantially.
Picked up some moves for my next flame.
The question is, 'Will this name still make sense in ten years when it is released?'

Joking! Don't flame. All hail Wheezy!
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I think the right thing to do is recognize the extremely high cost of communication and collaboration and weigh that against the benefit.

Almost every manager I've known assumes that the cost of communication or collaboration is near zero while the cost of development is extremely high. Often, the cost of duplication development effort is lower than the cost of adding another communication and collaboration channel.
A repost here but an important one:

> Back around the age of 19, I had started sending my short stories out for publication. My goal was to publish something (anything, anywhere) before I died. I collected only massive piles of rejection notes for years. I cannot explain exactly why I had the confidence to be sending off my short stories at the age of 19 to, say, The New Yorker, or why it did not destroy me when I was inevitably rejected. I sort of figured I’d be rejected. But I also thought: “Hey – somebody has to write all those stories: why not me?” I didn’t love being rejected, but my expectations were low and my patience was high. (Again – the goal was to get published before death. And I was young and healthy.) It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism. Wasn’t that the point of the creation – to communicate something to the world? So PUT IT OUT THERE. Send your work off to editors and agents as much as possible, show it to your neighbors, plaster it on the walls of the bus stops – just don’t sit on your work and suffocate it. At least try. And when the powers-that-be send you back your manuscript (and they will), take a deep breath and try again. I often hear people say, “I’m not good enough yet to be published.” That’s quite possible. Probable, even. All I’m saying is: Let someone else decide that. Magazines, editors, agents – they all employ young people making $22,000 a year whose job it is to read through piles of manuscripts and send you back letters telling you that you aren’t good enough yet: LET THEM DO IT. Don’t pre-reject yourself. That’s their job, not yours. Your job is only to write your heart out, and let destiny take care of the rest.

Elizabeth Gilbert, NY Times Best Selling author of "Eat, Pray, Love"

http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/writing.htm
That one quote was in reference to the patriot act and it was taken out context too many times it's ridiculous, the more recent WSJ quotes were about Schmidt playing the Scifi author, it's no excuse to depict him as a child molester and certainly no reason to agree with an anstroturfer anti-Google organization masquerading as a consumer advocacy group.
Excerpt (and there is not much more to it, really):

What's more, experts don't believe the study is representative of all households, because people who are more interested and conscientious about food safety are more likely to take the quiz.

"You'll miss a big population who don't have home computers or just really don't care" about the cleanliness of their kitchens, said Martin Bucknavage, a food safety specialist with Penn State University's Department of Food Science.

A more comprehensive look would probably find that an even smaller percentage of home kitchens would do well in a restaurant inspection, he suggested.
You know, it's not that I have friends who make a lot more money than I do, it's the fact that I have friends with significantly different spending habits.

We can both afford a nice restaurant out with our girlfriends, however, to me it's ridiculous to pay a 150% markup on a bottle of wine, meanwhile, my friend has ordered
the hundred dollar appetizer and the bottle of Opus One.
Of course when the bill comes, "It's simpler to just split it even..."

sigh

He makes more money than I do, but carries a lot more credit card debt than I do too. I'm sure if we hung out more, I'd be in debt too...
thanks. I am relatively new, and did a reading on the grids only yesterday. I am going to arrange the entire thing into a 960 grid system. But, I think I could be forgiven, given aa month of experience into html and jquery.
http://www.hushmail.com/ perhaps?

although sadly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail#Controversy
At the first line perhaps. Seriously, it's not that hard. You can also look at the source of methods at http://api.rubyonrails.com
Yeah, good point. That invalidates the second half of my argument.

I wonder though about the interview segment with the law enforcement guy. Wouldn't they prefer CL just post everything and not vet the posts for possible illegal activities? I mean, think about it: it's a public forum where people are willing to outright advertise the illegal activities they're willing to provide. It sounds like a law-enforcement wet dream.
There really doesn't seem to be any code re-use. Even MrDoob agrees: http://twitter.com/mrdoob/status/20933173931 :)

In particular, the brushes behave differently. Note how in Harmony the currently-drawn line interacts with old lines, whereas in dA's one it only interacts with its own current segment.
If you need real-time web/network/mobile work done, I have a ton of experience and love doing it. (SF/Bay area, telecommute okay)

- I wrote Orbited (www.orbited.org)
- Designed WebSocket handshake (officially recognized by w3c/html5)
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I've worked on pretty much every type of related app you can imagine (games, stock tickers, chat, collaboration)

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Sweet irony that the best place to share this was...YouTube.
It doesn't matter. Like I said above in my edit: Caesar's wife must be above reproach. He doesn't get to say weird things that are taken out of context. He needs either better handlers or to step back and let someone more relatable be the person who represents the company to outsiders.
thanks, I knew about hushmail, but their usability and search function are not up to par. It's funny - I'd gladly pay for a technogically sophisticated alternative to gmail, just not to have all email data with google.
Rackspace has a solid email hosting for businesses.

Part of their sales-pitch is "Ad-free and Privacy Guaranteed," but eventually it always comes down to a question of trust.
write in cursive.
"Universal healthcare" != "government-run healthcare". Under the US plan for universal healthcare, the government does not take over the healthcare providers. Rather, it is more tightly regulating insurance companies and businesses to increase the number of citizens with health insurance; and it is increasing the size of its own insurance plans to fill the gap for those who are still uninsured.

The healthcare continues to be provided by current providers.
Most interestingly, that is the heart of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis posited in linguistics.

The "strong" intrepretation was proven false by the fact that American Indians had no name for ships that sail the high seas. Yet, they still described them best in their own language. There are weaker ways to apply the theorem, but most efforts have went to Chomsky's universal grammar.
Ask HN: Canadian looking for advice on working for a US startup without a degree
Hi HN,

I'm a Canadian software developer without any sort of degree. I have been programming since I was 8 and never attended a university, instead choosing to start my career right out of high school. I freelanced for two years before joining a Canadian startup where I worked for an additional 2.5 years.

I have been fairly successful up to this point, with a few widely used open source libraries and am being actively recruited by a number Canadian companies.

Ideally I'd like to join an early stage startup in one of the US hubs. I don't seem to qualify for either TN status or an H1-b visa because I lack the degree.

I'd really appreciate any advice you may have. Thanks!
Haml/Sass is the best thing that happened to my view layer (next to wonderful Ruby blocks, iterators and chaining)
Or Italic, which I believe is even faster than cursive.
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Ask HN:I'm about(few days) to launch,any designer interested in helping?
The startup consists of an innovative kind of behavioral ad network based on Amazon Associates Products links. it will work in a similar adsense fashion. The inventory problem is solved already by the huge amazon products choice. The code is ready and have been tested throughly, i am refining the last details. If any designer/graphic is interested in making a decent logo ( i am a coder ) and a simple but nice graphic layout for the website frontend only ( very simple ) please let me know by leaving your email here in the comments.
The backend is ready and does not need redesign.<p>Thanks so much for any feedback
Reading a social network analysis textbook, one is struck that all the examples involve rigorous data collection by social scientists with clipboards. Hundreds and thousands of hours of work for a small graph. Modern social networks have given us an abundance of data against which to leverage a backlog of techniques that were previously constrained by manual data collection.

Phone companies use this stuff in ways that may be unethical, but it can just as easily be used in ways to empower you to leverage your own network. There are exciting potentials we are just beginning to see.
Looks like your right, i cant find many similarities in the code. I had heard from a very good source that it was directly based on Harmony, perhaps only in concept it seems!
Thanks for pointing this out. Currently eating my own hat.
You could probably start with a plugin that uses the tweetmeme API - http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/07/api-documentation/ - it'd give you url count, comment count and date created.

-- the other direction you could go in, is start tracking everything a person shares, bookmarks and likes on all their social networks, and aggregate that into a person's public profile. (unfortunately friendfeed doesn't give such info on a url like tweetmeme) From there, use that information for the plugin above, when assessing a url.
Hey Adrian. Been a while.

Yea Flixa was why I took hiatus from school. But the filmmaker I was working with wasn't too enthusiastic. I started Like.fm as a side project so I can revisit songs I hear from iTunes radio and noticed after the first day I put it up (the version that allowed signups) many eons ago, people were spontaneously signing up. And this was back when it looked ugly(ier) and even less functional. So I took the path of least resistance.
rackspace cloud is $10/mo for the smallest vps. I've loved it over the last year.
Here's a handy flowchart of @font-face scenarios:
http://typophile.com/node/70216
He's no more creepy than Google the company, and they are no more creepy than present day technology in general.

I don't find anything Schmidt has said to be particularly incorrect. If you have something you want to keep secret, you indeed should not be doing it, because privacy is dead and there is nothing Google can do to change that reality. In fact, Google is doing a relatively good job of easing us all into a world without privacy. Be glad it's not Microsoft doing it, or just about anybody else.

Changing your name when you become an adult is an excellent idea (but I thought of it first http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10020477071 ).

And the serendipity thing is right on. Google is already great at giving people what they want but not so great at giving them things they don't know they want, in contrast to Facebook, Twitter, and Apple.

Schmidt seems like a straight talker to me. At worst, he's a bit ambiguous.
I suppose from a purely PR angle you have a point.
I once watched an interview with Steve Ballmer sitting next to him was a MSFT PR/Lawyer guy, his job was basically to hit Ballmer with a stick if he felt something stupid was about to be said, I suppose that approach could be adopted by Google, or better yet Google needs to get their women to do the interviews, as women perceived as more aware and sensitive to the privacy issue and it wouldn't hurt Google's image to show off their lady Googlers.
Personally, I think the offline play feature makes it worth it. None of the other on-demand services seem to charge any less for mobile either, which makes me think that the labels have put a price floor on mobile access.
Just an FYI to justify my East Asian Studies degree: the Emperor as God-on-Earth Shintoism is largely a creation of the Japanese government and elites, extending from the late Meiji era (i.e. a couple hundred years after genociding the Christians) into the military junta that was ended by WWII. Shinto previously existed in Japan as a set of diverse minor traditions and local legends, and would have been mostly unrecognizable as a religion prior to it being used as a founding myth to justify the new regime.

Looking at the reading list for the course I learned that in (almost a decade ago now), I think the source is probably W. Scott Morton, "Japan Its History and Culture", but don't quote me on that.

Fun historical trivia note: the Japanese constitution forbids government support of religious schools. The reason for this is late 19th-century American anti-Catholicism. How the heck did that happen? Well, Protestant nativists afraid that Irish & etc Catholics were going to breed quickly and overwhelm "real" Americans passed a series of so-called Blaine Amendments in American states (failing at the national level), which forbid giving money to sectarian schools with the express purpose of forbidding Catholics to fund their schools with tax dollars. Some genius in MacArthur's constitutional drafting committee copy/pasted one of them into the Japanese Constitution.

For additional potent irony, I'd lay even money on the Blaine Amendments being declared unconstitutional (in the US, obviously) within the next few years. They will then survive only in 21st century Japan, protecting it from 19th century Irish immigrants.
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