skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Name is Khan: released in China
Thanks for the advice. The website is an advertising network that helps website owners sell directly to advertisers. I guess i should have had a relationship with the bloggers before now. I will have to rely on press release.
I completely acknowledge the importance of policy, hence the mention of the Netherlands progressiveness in the area. Explain how you measure the social impact of a drug without also measuring the social impact of the policy around the drug (or how the study in question did it), and you've answered my question.
An online dating site for ugly people - welcome to reality
What is a functional disporia?

From what my Chinese relatives say, most Chinese businesses are family businesses. Fukuyama's Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity confirms this, and says that it naturally imposes a size limit. So that may explain the underrepresentation in public corporations.
Should kdelibs Be Merged with Qt?
faraday pants!
Meetup.com in New York City. No remote.

We're looking for an API engineer, a Senior Sys Admin, a QA person and product people on both the frontend and backend. http://www.meetup.com/jobs

We just celebrated another profitable quarter, had an awesome halloween costume party and have lots of perks that make working at Meetup incredible! Have a look at "Working at Meetup vs. Working at Google" for a more humorous look: https://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg2z5whw_41cb322p
I was asked some time ago for my permission to include comments that I made, and I gave that permission freely. At the time, though, Hacker Monthly was free, as I recall, and I'm now wondering about re-thinking that stance.

If my comments are used, how would I know? Should I now? Should I care?

Perhaps those whose comments are used should be offered a free copy, even if only of the pages containing their words.

I'm not sure.

What do you think?
Against what, exactly, does this protect? And why?

"Bad bots" are the least of my worries, and if I were to protect against anything, I'd protect agains excessive requests per second.
I'm trying it but I don't find the way to enter insert mode... :i, doesn't work, am I missing something?
I would love to know how they determined that "49,400 deaths per year from secondhand smoke exposure." This diagnosis does not appear on a single death certificate...anywhere.

It's somewhat scary when you government peddles outright falsehoods like this....
I solve this by setting the TIMER to 8 hours as I go to bed. Then it doesn't matter what time the device "thinks" it is. As a bonus, I'm more likely to believe the value the next day.

I do this because so many of my devices auto-update, fail to audo-update or just don't update at all I don't trust them any more :P
Hmm, I guessed(evidently wrongly) that the alarms were working by "if set to every monday, when alarm is called, increment the time till next alarm by a week".

Good job that article pointed out that deleting and readding the alarm didn't fix anything.
I hate advertisements just as much as the next person [1], but; with those prices you should seriously get more ads.

[1] I have no complaints about interesting, relevant ads that don't get in the way.
We are giving away free digital copy (plus 1 year digital subscription) to the comment contributors starting from this issue.

Also, the article contributors gets a print copy plus 1 year digital subscription.
How does it deal with multiple people having the same name? I could see John Smith getting either very excited, or very annoyed. Do you have a strategy for that?
5,000 is still a very large number of real life friends. It would be interesting if they limited it to a small number, maybe 20, forcing you to choose your closest.
IxEdit - a free JQuery interaction editor
Also, if those drugs were legalized, their use might go up, thereby multiplying their negative impact on society.

It's possible that the number of people trying a drug might go up, but there are a number of desirable benefits to drugs being legal:

- the quality is controlled, so you know you're not snorting bleach. This reduces user harm immensely right off the bat.

- the cost of the drug can be taxed, which would give the government money to invest in treatment programs for problem users. Even if you're generally anti-taxation it's difficult to argue that the profits of the drug trade are better off with the people who currently receive them, who are generally some of the more unpleasant people on the planet.

- societies are free to treat problematic drug use as a public health issue rather than a criminal one. US jails have an extremely high number of inmates who are there for relatively minor drug infractions due to e.g. three-strike policies. This is expensive for the state and they probably come out more likely to commit serious crime than when they went in. There's a lot of evidence (apart from just plain common sense) that being able to treat drug abuse with theraputic techniques is much more effective than punishment (see Portugal, for example).
There are some unusual results here and it is because the results are swayed by topics and technologies that LinuxJournal cover, especially what they cover favorably.

ie. The results inevidably reflect the editorial opinion of LinuxJournal, since most of those who answer the survey are likely to source their information from the magazine.

As an example, take revision-control. The winner was git, but unusually CVS and subversion finished above bazaar and mercurial (and other more modern systems).

Google results:

CVS or subversion, number of articles in LJ, the past 12 months:

http://www.google.com/search?q=cvs+OR+subversion+site:linuxj...

9 results

Mercurial or Bazaar:

http://www.google.com/search?q=bazaar+OR+mercurial+site:linu...

0 results

Git had 18 articles.

Same with Python (143 results) and Ruby (32 results). Further the coverage of Python is extremely positive, with a number of feature articles - while for Ruby (no rating at all) there are no featured articles.

The results of this survey shouldn't be seen as a study of the best, or even the most popular technologies - since for all the categories that I checked, the results and order of results matched the number of times that product or technology had been covered in LinuxJournal.
TH4 Systems, Munich, Germany (remote work is unfortunately not possible)

We develop tank farm management software and more.

We are looking for a versatile individual with a strong Java background. If you have any background in automation that would be a big plus.

You can drop me a line at juergen dot rose at th4-systems dot com
JQuery's pretty easy to pick up, but this looks like a useful way to either:

* Learn JQuery

* Discover and quickly preview what you actually want your callbacks to be.

This was posted a year ago, but has come a long way since then.
The European equivalent would be Atoma: http://www.atoma.be/en/

They're good and I love them. While the rings sometimes get in the way of my hand when writing, it's still the best notebook for my uses.
Ars Technica Plugs PhoneGap, CoffeeScript, & MongoDB
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Just a copy and paste of a comment I wrote on his blog....

---start comment---
This is funny, I just wrote about the Chinese middle class a couple of days ago:
http://www.pakg1.net/2010/10/changing-chinese-mindset-toward...

I think your points were correct maybe 3 years ago. I don't think they are now. China still has a lot of issues that could cause it to stumble, but I don't think a lack of a middle class is one of them.

As well, I cannot think of more Indian executives than I can Chinese executives. In fact, I think Chinese executives by far have the lead, simply because HK and Taiwan are more westernized and advanced than maybe even India. The simple fact is that HK and Taiwan play nicer with China than a lot of people know, simply because the economics make it worthwhile. There may be a lot of political strife in the news, but there's a lot of money flowing behind the scenes.

Finally, as an expat who's living in China right now, I can honestly say that not only does this middle class exist, their English is pretty darn good. And I'm finding that increasingly often, they have a 3rd language (in my case, I'm running into a ton of Japanese speakers).

So in all, I think this view is a tad outdated. India probably has a bright future, but as anyone who attended the APCAC 2010 conference this year can attest (and even Indian panel speakers there attested to this), India is way behind in a number of areas, especially the infrastructure necessary to really rev its economy up. That investment is only now just starting due to the fact that their democratic government apparently has its first real majority government ever.

And you may wish to fix this apparent contradiction when comparing the middle classes of the two countries....

"China has the population, the will, the educational system, the foreign currency reserves — everything to make it the next global superpower except two things: 1) an emerging middle class generation comparable to our Baby Boomers"

"What I find interesting is that most people just take it as bible truth that China will be the next superpower because it is so number-oriented (huge infrastructure dollars, huge manufacturing dollars, higher per capital wealth than India, bigger middle class, etc…)."
---end comment---
This argument drives me crazy. You think the drug pushers are gonna say "ah shucks. no more profit in drugs. guess I better go to college and get a real job."

Trust me, they will find something else to exploit. Kidnapping in Bogota comes to mind. Crime won't go down.
I'm a BSD kind of guy, so if I was asked, I would still give it freely, anyway. I'd rather help someone out, and I'm already giving what I say away freely right here. It seems kind of silly to me that someone could read what I say freely here, but I'd expect payment elsewhere.

Then again, that's just me. Some people want to get paid for everything. Tomorrow, I'm guest lecturing an English class at a university, for example. I've found two reactions to this, when I've told people: One group says "Oh, how exciting!" and the other says "Are you getting paid?" Here's a follow up I got to my answer, yesterday: "Too many people from your generation have too clever of an answer for that question."

Both are valid reactions. I just happen to think that the first fits me and my goals better.
He does have a point about the population aging, but that is by about 2050 if I remember. They have time to turn it around and make laws to pro-create more (they are already loosening the 1 child laws in some places as tests)

Other than that, I think he is wrong. India may produce many managers of companies but it does not matter. The chinese will just buy the companies of the world and keep existing managers on staff as employees. The chinese don't really need to show their faces, they just hold the money, the shares and set the rules. (the golden rule. those who hold the gold, makes the rules)

Next, China has a leg up for infrastructure, it is pretty awesome how fast they are building airports, road networks, train systems, power grids, water processing, energy creation, real estate and entire cities. India can't even clean the garbage from their streets let alone agree on major infrastructure investments. New infrastructure spurs and even creates whole new local domestic economies on many levels.

One party rule. Basically, the party can plan the next 5 years, next 50 years and 100 years and execute in amazing detail. They can and do get their best party minds together and plan what is good for the people and actually do it. Can many other countries do the same? Can you see India planning for the next 2 years, let alone 50 years?

English language. They start very young to learn English now in school, it is mandatory. There are 6 million university graduates per year. In 5-10 years, there will be 6-10 million english speaking graduates coming from China - PER YEAR.

Energy. Both china and india are net importers of energy. China is making deals to get Energy (ie. oil) everywhere and anywhere they can. Nigeria, Yemen, Saudi, Iran, Iraq, Caribbean, Canada and every place on the planet they can get it from. Everywhere the 'West' thinks it is not moral, the Chinese are there building infrastructure, making deals and securing energy for their people. Smart. What is India doing to secure their future energy needs?

Middle class. Have you been there to see the 300+ million people that are now buying apartments, cars, make up, creams, designer clothes et al.? Yup, more people than all of the USA is their newly created middle class. Beijing alone is putting 1000 new cars on the road EVERY SINGLE DAY. There are hundreds more cities with more than 1-2 million people.

Functional diaspora. This argument is pretty moot or even leans towards the Chinese I think. So what you have Indian individuals "integrating in companies". They are individuals, and it means they can produce workers that integrate in other societies, as individuals. The Chinese also have diaspora. It is called China Town. In almost every city in the world has one. They are organized, band together, get real estate in close proximity, create small businesses and make their way and excel in almost every foreign country in the world. Do you see any "Indian Town's" in any city in the world?

My money is on China for sure.
clarion calls seem to be big this weekend, jon stewart was on it too in his "moment of sincerity" http://bit.ly/axQDnW.
What is the difference with kickstarter.com? It seems like someone read about the 15% fee the get for every started project and though he could do better.
Heh... that has been said many times in history.

You can't whatevernize China. China is just waking up from a 100 or so years of slumber (or catharsis) into its rightful place in the world.
You need a big stick for your devs. They aren't doing any any favors by programming crappy.
Wouldn't using a hidden link also subject you to a possible penalty from Google and other search engines?
Really? I mean, I guess I've never purchased a Hacker Monthly, either, but $10 seems pretty standard for a magazine. Then again, I'm going by the cover price of something like a video game magazine, the only ones I've ever really bought. I don't think it's too exorbitant.
Precisely why I'll not debate this any further :)
I'm pretty sure that, at some point, somebody used either and proceeded to drive into a tree (or another car) while under the influence. Circumstantial evidence exists, e.g. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_does_LSD_effect_your_driving or http://www.google.nl/search?q=pot+driving+site%3Areddit.com.

That said, the chemicals themselves are unlikely to cause death. This, obviously, is not the same as "will definitely not have any unpleasant consequence".
The Cult of Universality in Statistical Learning Theory
It was quite funny to hear people's alarm clocks going off randomly this morning on the London Underground.
ibVPN is as good as vyprvpn but is cheaper and has more servers http://www.ibvpn.com/ + it provides free accounts weekly
I was wondering the same thing. I also gave my permission, but have no idea if it was exercised. We shouldn't have to wonder.

All comments should be free to all, on the website, retroactively to the first issue. This was implied when permission was solicited.
I think technocracy is really overrated: take a look at Mexico or Japan. (And believe me, when Japan was doing great MITI looked like crazy geniuses busy beating the pants off those Westerners and their chaotic, disorganized, inefficient market economy, and there were many people that said the US would either have to make a MITI or get bought lock stock and barrel. Have you heard anyone argue that recently?)
Shopping with environmentally friendly bags
Shrooms and LSD are safer then steroids and tobacco? Who knew?
Using the quotes 'worse for extroverts' doesn't seem justified as it's not a quote of anyone. Does being a single quote permit its use as such?

http://ninemsn.com.au use quoting like this so often in many of their headlines because their research has shown the quotes in headlines generate more clicks. They could easily be omitted, but the headlines would appear more casual.
People said the same thing about myspace a few years back. It was king of the social internets. Clearly, it wasn't quite as big as Facebook, but it's all a question of giving users what they want. If someone can identify the discontents and innovate on them faster than Facebook can, then we'll see a new, legitimate, challenger.

Of course, in order to do that, you have to think that FB won't innovate quickly enough to sit on whoever tries. It's the classic startup v. big company challenge.
Unfortunately this happens more often than the public are aware of. I'm familiar with a handful of PhD holders who didn't even attend the University that granted it. It's a shame that these qualifications can be purchased as it completely obliterates the integrity of the title.
Baking soda is an amazingly effective anti-odorant - I think it works by creating a pH that discourages bacterial growth. Seriously.
>Missing is his hatred of adverbs

I'd say that's implied in #4.
Windows Azure vs Amazon EC2 vs Google App Engine
only reason I would never try heroin now, is I've seen what it can do to people, from movies mostly

Are you seen you have seen that? From what I read, part of the reason heroin addicts look the way they do is that they do not buy enough food because they use all their money on heroin; they use all their money on heroin because it is so expensive, and it is so expensive because it is illegal.

Another reason is loss of appetite due to heroin addiction, but that certainly is not the only reason, and looking at programs where the government provides heroin to selected addicts, it does not appear to be the most important one.
As a computational linguist, I could not really extract any useful information. Sure, it lists the availability of NLP libraries for some languages, something a cursory Google search would turn up.

What I would be interested in:

- How mature are the libraries?

- Are the libraries general enough? Often, a particular component is developed with one task in mind, and requires a lot of hoop jumping to use for other tasks (e.g. in classification).

- How does performance compare for actual tasks? Python may be a slow language, but selective use of C or Fortran (e.g. NumPy) make it fast enough for most work.
This seems fundamentally flawed: where do you draw the line between a psychological condition and personal ineptitude?

"Exam anxiety" sounds a lot like "cannot focus in situations where results are expected". I would have thought that that's actually a reasonable requirement for a PhD.
The Global Earthquake Model foundation (GEM) is hiring a senior dev to head the ongoing development of the OpenGEM global earthquake model framework and help save lives. You'll need proven team-lead experience/skills, geo/gis and scientific experience would be a huge plus. It's onsite in Pavia, Italy.

http://globalquakemodel.org/node/76
Is it really? China has done pretty well with it over the last 25 years or so and it is possible that they are on the right track and can continue to improve the lives of their 1.3 billion nationals for the long term.

What would be the other options? A democracy where 700 million peasants are voting as a majority to elect a party that gives the best health care and farm subsidies? (instead of the best interests of the country)
Good point. Nobody ever considers the supply-side part of the equation except for drug-related crime.
When you have a plank, post or beam that has stood in place in an unheated barn for 400 years, it has been subject to the vagaries and every permutation of hot & cold, damp & dry.

These cycles bring out the best and worst of the wood. Obviously you are recovering old wood in a barn for other reasons as well, but in the ladder scenario, they want top notch wood that will last. Since SFFD has ladders that have been in active service since 1919, they obviously have that down.
It's pretty much language/libraries. You can (and later, when you start writing sufficiently advanced projects w/ 'real-time' needs) write code on the low-level io. This isn't really supported or well documented and kind of defeats the purpose of being "portable."

The thing is that the language/libraries are a very stripped sub-set of C++ and their IDE does a lot of parsing/mangling to turn "sketches" into C++ programs. It can mangle perfectly legal C++ code.

The arduino APIs like digitalWrite do table-lookups to match the pin, port, and bit. Pretty inefficient and slow.

It's still a great little system though. People have come up with alternative implementations that (for example) implement the SBI/CBI instructions as constants you can use when calling the Arduino APIs to make things much faster. And it's not like you'll care about "lock in" unless you start building large projects and get tired of the Arduino way of doing things and want to move to an alternate board. Arduino makes a nice cheap kit and starter package for people who want to get their feet wet in embedded systems.
Reposted from Programming SubReddit by user PanosJee:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dzegn/windows_a...
(I'll delete mine repost if he posts)
Your statement is misleading. The article does indeed describe that playback issue, but then goes on to describe a number of other issues reported by users that go a bit beyond a 'video playback issue'.

So yes, probably not as big a deal as the headline makes it out, but also not just one bug already addressed.
Am I the only one who was just inspired to reduce his 'friends list' from 145 to 38?
It's also important to point out that successful writing entails writing. As Paul Graham has argued [1]:

People who fail to write novels don't do it by sitting in front of a blank page for days without writing anything. They do it by feeding the cat, going out to buy something they need for their apartment, meeting a friend for coffee, checking email. "I don't have time to work," they say. And they don't; they've made sure of that.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
Looking for an angel
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Probably many would find something else, and that's a problem - but surely it can't be used as justification for not changing the policies.
Legalization should happen gradually and with some kind of amnesty outreach program. But even if not: Crime like robbery would likely spike, but unless gangs quickly find a replacement product that's in similarly high demand (if there was one, wouldn't they already be serving it?) I imagine cutting off their easiest source of income would fairly quickly reduce their power to attract new members, purchase weapons, etc.
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It's important to note that this scale took into account number of active users. In other words, ranking weight and popularity of use are correlated.

Prof Nutt told the BBC: "Overall, alcohol is the most harmful drug because it's so widely used.

I have no idea what this means when using the chart to back up statements about the relative harm of legalization of various substances. I'm personally still a fan of it purely through considering the volume of crime and harm sustained by the black markets. I just want to caution conclusions being drawn without analysis of the methods that produced the table.

Given the amount of misinformation that exists about drugs, the chart is probably totally justified. To make claims on it without understanding the methods is to add even more misinformation, though.

(Disclaimer, I haven't read his papers either yet)