skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IT majors have looked beyond US to de-risk their portfolio. IIRC, Infosys' dependence on US market is < 50% of their revenue. They are expanding aggressively in Europe etc.,
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I'm not sure that 5000 number is so deliberately chosen. Take the Tweet from Mark Zuckerberg in March 2009: "I find it funny that it's on Digg that I'm here. I'm looking forward to when people can have unlimited connections on Facebook soon!" - http://twitter.com/#!/finkd/status/1297171671. Then again, it's not happened yet, so maybe they changed their mind :)
The burden of responsibility is on the person claiming that it is responsible for death. LSD, the substance, has not killed anyone. Someone is welcome to disprove this.
I never seen a family destroyed by tobacco, but I've seen families destroyed by cocaine. I don't understand how someone could put those two together.
In a booming economy, anyone with or without authority will look like a genius. I question whether we have seen effective choices made in the national interest or whether we are merely seeing extrinsic economic conditions too powerful for criminal mismanagement to squander... for the moment.
Anyone know what model of iPhone this affects? My iPhone 3GS went off at the correct time this morning.

I use a radio alarm as well in anycase.
If I ever encounter a backscatter device, I'll ask for the frisk. Hey, I'm not the one who's gotta grope some stranger's junk.
That would result in a relatively small panel of generalists and censor specialists who might otherwise make the occasional invaluable contributions.
This is the result of counting a bunch of votes, not a persons opinion, and as such I imagine it has more to do with overall popularity than anything more objective. See the results as number of content users each program has and it makes far more sense.
You could give yc startups a discount.
While the cases you cite are probably different, not all countries require people to actually attend a University where they get their Doctorate. E.g. here in Germany, you are required to write a Doctor's thesis (that needs to be accepted by a Professor) and pass an oral exam, but there are usually no required courses.

I think historically it was not uncommon for people to just submit a thesis, but nowadays nearly everyone getting a PhD will do so while being at the University and in close collaboration with his Doctoral advisor.
If you mute your mac sound before reboot, there isn't any startup sound. So this is quite easy to do actually.
OTOH you have to keep in mind these movements are organized by a few people, and not the entire society suddenly rising against the evils of passive smoking.
Doesn't seem like necessarily the best qualification to me. Mathematicians do (1) teaching, and (2) mathematical research. Neither of those two is remotely like taking a timed test. Of course, in this particular case it’s not clear that the candidate has demonstrated he can do competent mathematical work. I can’t imagine the prof. would be going to the mat here if the student couldn’t handle stressful exams but was otherwise a brilliant mathematician.
Wow, if this is not propaganda...

One party rule is a joke. 50 years ago China was a backwater and it wasn't until the 80s when they experimented with capitalism that they even got to this point. 50 years ago the big government plan was planting enough rice to feed everyone. So how much of that 10, 20, 50 year plan was put into effect?

Anyway I wouldn't consider any Chinatown a positive. Except in a few countries (Singapore) Indians don't have an Indian Town because it isn't necessary. Chinatowns exist because of a failure for chinese immigrants to integrate. So they turn to an insular community that can provide resources that they are reluctant to ask of their native neighbors.

In every Chinatown I have been to it is always, always the rich chinese exploiting the ignorant immigrants. This will be the diner that pays staff less than minimum wage, landlords subdividing apartments, and others extracting a royalty for getting you a job. And lets not get started on how local gangs have infused themselves into Chinatown.
You make it sound like there's a choice between whether the country should be run by "ignorant peasants" or "smart people looking after everyone's interests".

Maybe it's not in the best interests of the country to have 700 million peasants? Most Western countries have about 2% of population employed in agriculture. Can China continue to keep its agricultural population politically stuck in the early 20th century?
By that logic, I can quote you thousands of people who die or "blow their kidneys" thinking they are drinking ethanol (vodka), but instead get methanol, ethylene glycol, or similar poisonous additives in their conterfeit alcohol.

(That's exactly the same problem actually - buying black-market alcohol. Which is still pretty big in Russia and neighbouring countries.)
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The majority of ugly people aren't conscious about it, which makes things difficult for a site like this to succeed.
It's my slip. I'm truly sorry about that.

When I was using the comment I never thought the authors (graciously) gave me the permission while the issues were still free for digital download.

I will personally contact the comment authors that appeared in the paid issues (#4 - #6) who given me the permission the their comments in the free issues (#1 - #4) to see how we could resolve this.
These kind of annoying disputes are a result of people basing their professional reputation on a degree, instead of basing it on projects.
Don't be so eager to give up on working with "smart" people - it sure beats alternative!
We did (and we are doing it now).
keyboard already puts control in its proper place and puts esc where ~ normally is, which is close enough that you don't really need to remap it

Unicomp makes a Model M that does this as well, very worthwhile if you are a vim or Emacs user: http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/linux101.html
Could one not say the same for any government? Especially the USA?

Wars and huge government squandering TRILLIONS of the hard working American people's tax dollars. It is a shame isn't it? America was doing so well...
known get sluggish to the point where it becomes a huge problem for them... Some also develop mental illnesses.

Citations, please.

A phrase to remember when citing anecdotes about mentally ill people taking Drug X is self-medication. This is a technical term in counseling psychology; it refers to a very common phenomenon where a person who is suffering a mental health issue -- which can be anything from a mild acute depression to full-blown schizophrenia -- figures out, by trial and error, that taking a certain drug seems to alleviate their symptoms, or make those symptoms more tolerable. This often causes the patient to end up with two health problems, which can be difficult to sort out from each other and which generally must be treated together.

So even if you uncover evidence that mental illness and taking drugs are correlated, you can't simply assume that the drugs cause the mental illness. It could just as easily be the other way around.
Fair point, the people I am referencing blatantly purchased their PhD without ever sitting a single exam or writing a single paper.
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For a company that survives on consumer confidence I find it incredible that Apple have not released a revision of iOS with an update to solve this issue.

This is how good brands start to erode - if you cant have confidence in a conceivably simple feature of the product then its only one step away from not having any confidence in the product at all.
The problem only occurs if you have a repeating alarm that doesn't repeat every day. If it's non-repeating, or repeats every day, things work fine. For the record, my iPhone 3GS on iOS4.1 exhibited the behaviour this morning (hey, who cares, it's a public holiday in France... of course, it'll still cause problems tomorrow morning)
It seems there's more to it than just the exam thing.

In August 2010 (according to the timeline on the left of the article), one of the student's undergrad courses was upgraded to a PhD level course.

Suspension of the prof for violating student's privacy by complaining about the case.

Keep in mind this is the same University of Manitoba that will turn over your personal information to bill collectors should you not pay a parking ticket.

(UofM Computer Engineering 1998)
I don't know... how often will one be taking exams as an official PhD holder? Exams are sometimes better at measuring how one takes exams than what one knows.

Take job interviews for example. I hold a CS degree from a major university and my business is a website that so far gets 500,000 pageviews a month and is profitable. It was coded and designed by me from scratch; its server is administered and monitored by me; its community and customer support is managed by me. Given these accomplishments I would say I have a reasonable grasp of the art of web programming. But put me in a job interview situation where an interviewer asks me to write an implementation of something basic like a linked list and I'll probably manage to screw it up somehow. Then when I get sent home and I sit down in front of my monitor, I'll have it done in 5 minutes. Does my being unable to cope with programming interview situations make me a bad programmer? Does being unable to cope with a math exam make one a bad math researcher?

Edit: though on the whole I do agree that degrees nowadays are being handed out like candy and far to often to people completely undeserving of them.
Might be naive but... is this going to be your main computer?
>I know this because there was a guy in my math course 5 years ago who could TeX notes substantially faster than I could write them with a pen

I knew a guy who could juggle 7 balls in cascade.
Yeah... my impression is that there are plenty of ethnic Chinese abroad in small businesses and the professions. I’m not convinced that you have to have lots of people in your ethnic group becoming C-level executives before your diaspora is considered “functional”.
Undoubtedly the astrological sign of the wood is also a factor in how the wood has responded to its life experiences, but that is all irrelevant for making a ladder as long as the wood's moisture content has stabilized suitably for its target environment.
If you just want to read the articles online, if you go to the magazine homepage the table of contents has clickable links:

http://hackermonthly.com/
This really isn't an issue for anyone who has used any sort of sensible definition of "friend" when making and accepting requests. If you go with "anyone who asks" as your definition then you really shouldn't be surprised at a lack of intimacy.

Feels like a case of "people misuse software, blame software".
I think if you look a little you'll find that plenty of families have been 'destroyed' by the effects of tobacco.
I've worked at two places that did this.

One place was run with an iron fist by the meanest physicist on the planet, a guy who eats nails for breakfast and always asks the toughest question at the seminar. His attitude was "delete 'em all and let got sort 'em out"

The other place was my own personal network of websites, where I was trying to keep spam-harvesting robots from getting my email address. I had a process that had several steps to protect the page that had my address on it, one of which was a 'tripwire' which would instantly block any stupid robot that followed one of the hidden link.

I can say that I've gone for years without getting any email complains about difficulties reading my email address ;-)
I completely agree with Dave.
Especially on his points about how many friends people have.
I really dont want to share everything with everyone.
I want a feeling of community not a feeling of exploitation.
Its been driving me nuts that every page I visit has a facebook "like" or comment option. This is why I have been supporting Diaspora, I want to jump ship, but there is nothing viable to jump to, yet.
As a total beginner willing to learn, it helped me grab a few keywords and libraries names to get started.

What would you recommend for complete beginners willing to learn ? My first focus is on trying to extract meaningful data from scraped html, if that matters.
I'm more of a Ruby guy but it really feels to me lately that Python programmers have a much broader range of jobs to choose from. The Ruby web ecosystem seems healthier to me but just about everybody seems to equate Ruby with Rails. You can certainly do webdev in Python but also so much more.
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I don't understand why people don't have multiple facebook accounts reflecting different levels of privacy. I facebook-suicided because I didn't want to mix my personal and professional lives, and when I contemplate going back to it (mainly for professional reasons) I always have a two-account system in mind. Obviously, I don't use facebook much, so I might be missing something, though.
I got a kick out of this passage:

> Everybody in Silicon Valley seems to be talking about Charlie, the gourmet cook at Google who used to work for Jerry Garcia.

In 2000, Spolsky still felt the need to make the word "Google" a hyperlink to the (then-nascent) search company's website.
I actually take issue with this line. Unless given evidence to the contrary, don't you have to expect being average at any particular thing?

Of course I'm nitpicking though. His point is that you shouldn't aspire to averageness, and overall it's a great speech.
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The reason for Facebook's popularity is its simpleness. Now that it is popular, it can experiment with additional features such as groups and more intimate group settings. Orkut, on the other hand attempted to do it the other way around. I am not sure how does it work now, but 2-3 years back, when one adds a friend, he is expected to rate the closeness in a scale of 1-5. This was to improve friend of friend suggestions as well as who is allowed to see what. The problem with this approach was that it was confusing for the users. This might be a stumbling block for new applications that try to foster a private group structure. But I do agree with Dave that there is a need for such applications.
At least in the Netherlands, in my social circle, anti-smoking laws are very welcome. Like any issue, it's championed by a few people; and yes, there are people who oppose it. But as far as I can see, there's quite a bit of acceptance, both by non-smokers and smokers.
The effects of LSD, the substance, certainly have.

The substance itself does not cause an "overdose" and the same is true of cannabis (at least for any ingestible amount), but it would be disingenuous to claim they have not caused deaths.
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"Members of the group, joined by two other experts, scored each drug for harms including mental and physical damage, addiction, crime and costs to the economy and communities."

In my opinion with this dataset you can only have conclusions about the experts opinion/experiences.

If you're measuring harm to the communities, shouldn't you be taking polls at the communities?
Previous discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1851158
Disability issues aside, why does the professor have standing to sue in this issue?
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Ask NH: how hot code swapping is done?
i want to know(or u can direct me to some awesome resources) how hot code swapping is done? i know erlang, pike,smalltalk have this feature but how they are really done in theory the mechanism behind it it not in brief, i want to know.. it will be really great if you people can direct me to some resource page/books/papers on it.
thank you
I tried it on Firefox with Adblock enabled, here's what I saw:

"Your web browser is not fully supported by gmbh news. Ensure that javascript and cookies are enabled. Also a list of supported browser:
* google chrome
* safari
* all webkit browsers
Or try the web version mcsquare."

On IE 7 I got a Javascript error: "getAttribute is null or not an object"

function a() {
var g = document.getElementsByTagName("ul");
for (var f = 0; f < g.length; f++) {
var h = g[f];
if (h.getAttribute("class").search(/(autolist)/) === -1) {
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Thanks. I've also created a HN thread for the latest issue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1856111
No, the burden of responsibility is on people not to say stuff that's trivially disproven with a simple Google search. Though I'm guessing most HN commenters already know the story of Frank Olsen without even having to do one.
I /think/ the argument for legalisation lowering heroin use is that if it were legal, certain unscrupulous people would not be pushing it on fragile members of society, and getting them hooked for financial gain.

Replace "heroin" with "cigarettes" and you have a one-sentence description of tobacco companies. Legalizing it won't get rid of pushing, so long as pushing is financially beneficial for the pusher.
I don't agree with HK and strongly disagree with Taiwan. If you erroneously include HK and Taiwan executives as "Chinese middle class", the tiny population of these regions still represent a tiny percentage of the area.

Will there be a larget Indian or Chinese middle class? I agree with the post that India will have a rising middle class of hundreds of millions before China. China's top down politics results in hoarding and exporting cash for wealthy families. Successful Indians seem to have a stronger reinvest in technology mindset.
I thought a glass of red wine a day was recommended by doctors and this advice was widely followed by the middle class?
I'm very impressed by the design and layout. Great work, guys!
$120/yr for recycled content from HN/other sites seems very pricey...do you think you are really creating more value than the Wall Street Journal that costs $119/yr?
Brother of the COO of the NY Stock Exchange calls the president “dude” on TV.
Or is it that majority of the people are so conscious about the way they look that they are more comfortable labeling themselves 'ugly' than let somebody else do it!
Huh? Isn't an advanced degree, in this case, just a set of projects? And isn't the professor in question complaining that some of the projects (i.e., the exam and one of the courses) were not completed?
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Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get in on this. I signed up for an AWS account right after micro instances launched. Yet, when I looked at them I realized they weren't as cheap as I initially thought (I had assumed the reserved instance fee covered you as your entire cost for the whole year). I didn't ever use it, but doing so made me ineligible for this. Emailed amazon twice. Very strict on brand new accounts only.
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If he didn't have standing prior to the disciplinary action, he certainly has it now. If it becomes an issue, all the lawyers have to do is play connect-the-dots through a tort tangentially related to academic freedom. (Note: not a lawyer, not a Canadian, not a Canadian lawyer.)
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I think the problem is that the committee said no to the Phd but someone unilaterally overturn the decision. I think his problem is with the university and not with the student(students cant give themselves PhD).
No, I did it too. But I'm a nerd who has a love-hate relationship with FB. Most of my friends just gave me a "why would you do that?" look when I told them.
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From a reputable, accredited university?

I think that's the slippery slope that the Prof in question is worried about. Right now, a PhD from the University of Manitoba should hold more value than a purchased one from a diploma mill. If enough of the requirements are waived, this may no longer be the case.
Could we have more detail? Perhaps the name of the University, or at least the country in which it happened?
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I'm pretty sure that data is about ten years old, but otherwise it's correct. Overall drug use kills about 1 in 3 Americans.
I came here to post this and found a new possible source for the "jumping off the bridge" meme.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/10/24/b...

Long story short, a student took LSD on a class trip, which involved a visit to the Capilano Suspension Bridge. The student didn't jump off the bridge, but climbed a railing on an observation deck and fell.
I guess that explains Apple's app store policy.
According to the article, he's a member of the Graduate Studies Committee, and he claims that the Dean doesn't have the authority to over-ride their decision.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xLsRI7-hBs
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Which open source tool is best for building a biometric app?
If you program, please try SnipMate.vim.
There are plenty more very helpful plugins, but this one is great and is programmable.
And don't forget pathogen.vim.
Yankring, command-T or fuzzyfinder, surround, repeat, align, ack and fugitive are others i recommend.
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I just noticed that I can't downvote any more. I've been able to downvote ever since I hit 200+ karma points, so am slightly confused why I can't downvote when I am at 400+.

I also noticed that the interface also recently started showing my avg next to my karma. Have there been recent changes to HN that I've missed? A massive influx of new users leading to the downvoting threshhold being inflated? Something else?

Whilst I don't care about karma levels, I believe downvoting has been a necessary tool to maintaining the quality of the HN community. Any insights would be very helpful. Thanks!
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We couldn't charge any lower than that. If you do the math, we actually don't make any money from the print subscription plan.
That's right. It is the sum of our life, or possibly only a few moments, that the world may remember.

We may be known for a program we wrote, or how we treated our friends, or the three movies we acted in superbly. But the thoughts and daily gestures we make are largely unremembered.

I think this might help make the case that we need to live for today.
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I don't think that is a valid comparison, doesn't take into account scale where the marginal cost is very small.
It's not uncommon to see $20+ niche magazines in comparison to something like wired which is far cheaper but arguably is creating the same value.
I'm not sure it's so deliberate either - but I think that's what their strategy should be, at least.

By the way, the number 5,000 is a great number: it doesn't really matter what the number is, as long as there is a ceiling, it's pretty clear that you're not supposed to add anyone and everyone. On the other hand, 5,000 is large enough that most users won't realistically hit it.
What did you want him to do, retain it? We don't want any memory leaks...