skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you take just about any other industrialized city, you’ll find that the majority of people have moved there to settle down, build a life, invest in their future; and as a result of that they work hard, they blend in to the fabric of the multi-cultural society, they build strong personal relationships, they develop a sense of belonging, they care about the city, and the country, and they contribute to its growth and its cultural richness; because it is home to them, and their lives and those of their children are closely tied to it.

Dubai, on the other hand, is just considered a station by the majority of people living in it; they go there and they’ve already decided that it’s going to be only for a few years, and then they’ll be moving on to somewhere else, or back to their home countries. That means that they’re not as involved, they don’t develop a strong sense of belonging, they don’t really invest much into personal relationships, they never really care enough.

And that makes a world of difference, and everyone visiting Dubai feels it. Not everyone knows how to put it in words, but some of the things I’ve heard most are that it feels ‘fake’, that it’s too materialistic, that it lacks identity …etc
Why don't you learn how to use it? Ctrl+Z to enable pass-through mode.
After looking at the earthquake details in Japan, I noticed this: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?edis=VI-201103...

I was not expecting a 'vehicle accident' in New York City to show up on this list. But, apparently there were 13 deaths and 19 injuries. Any info on this?
ah, found it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/business/13hire.html?_r=1&...
It is wrong because it is a violation of the agreement the borrower and lender both signed.

A mortgage is a promissory note, it conveys obligations on the borrower and the lender. There are penalties for violation, but that doesn't mean the borrower has the right to violate the contract. That just means they have the ability to do so.

(Also in many states, they do not even have the ability to. The lender can sue them for the difference between the foreclosure sale price and the remaining mortgage obligations.)

On the flip side, suppose house prices went up. Suppose also the bank could foreclose on the home, even if the borrower was fully paid up, perhaps paying a $10000 fine for wrongful foreclosure. Would there be something wrong with this?
No, I'm saying that although it is unhealthy the parent poster (knowingly?) is asking them to make it even less healthy.

picks monocle out of glass of sherry and puts it back in its place
Cut them some slack, print publishing is going through a bigger crisis of its own.
It may seem so obvious that more data is better for social welfare, and in 95% of cases it probably is better.

But parties incur costs when processing more data. For e.g., Dodd-Frank mandates that issuers of ABS securities issue loan by loan data that the credit ratings agencies used to crunch. Private parties will now become their own ratings agencies. More disclosure is probably still good on the whole, I'm just pointing out there are costs too.
Really? I still get plenty of junk mail trying to get me to pay me other debt with them, interest free for 6 months.
I imagine just about everyone who might see that retweet has already heard of Bing, so at worst they are just marketing their own generocity, and that may actually provoke more generocity from their competitors.
So iOS apps are native. What about webapps? Is that the next shoe to drop? A secure zone in Chrome or Safari, where you have to host your app in their cloud, for security, and they get 30% of price plus hosting fees? Seriously, how will these "infrastructure" builders deal with web apps?
I think ASP was first to implement this.
I think the idea is that the $1 donation is used as an incentive for people to retweet, which will draw more attention to the Microsoft Disaster Resources.

Besides, is your argument that corporations should never publicly disclose charitable donations? If so, it's a pretty bold claim, and the vast majority of corporations are guilty.
i can't fathom how you interpreted the basic statistics presented in the article. do you think the enslaved migrant workers are a representative sample of people from india? do you think only 2 people from india can read??
There is no "Kill switch" in Android

That's the terminology used in TFA, so the meaning is clear from context. Get over yourself.
Bus crash in the Bronx, I think. I saw something about on msnbc while watching earthquake coverage.
You can randomly talk to a Briton in exactly one situation - at the pub. The rules are different there, and the booze helps too.
I think reaction to food can vary greatly from individual to individual, so maybe a broad generalization doesn't make sense. Or rather it makes sense to determine individual problems, rather than broad common problems.

Supposedly they could have created a similar study by just testing a single problematic food item (I don't know, wheat or whatever), and they should also have found an effect - only smaller.

It does not seem to outlandish that different things can trigger allergies, yet all allergic reactions are somewhat similar.
If only the French would respect this. I don't want to go around kissing every acquantance I make. Seems like a guaranteed way to spread germs. Yet when you go to France you're almost forced to do this - last time I was there I really did want to say 'don't touch me, I'm British.' Except I would need to say it in every separate encounter. Only solution would be to stay there long enough to cultivate an effective 'miss me with that shit' demeanor/manner.
What you are missing is that everyone else thinks their idea is the greatest idea, too. You could tell me your idea, and I'd probably laugh at you.

I believe you're making some assumptions that simply aren't true. Screaming your ideas from the hilltops is actually a good idea. People will approach you who can help, people will offer advice and suggestions, etc.

No one is going to steal your idea, and most people honestly won't care. Just as plants can't grow in a closet, ideas can't grow unless they the see the light of scrutiny of people smarter than you.
How Jack Dorsey created Twitter and what he's looking ahead to with Square
Are you talking about the linked article, or HN in general? ;)
But if your mortgage contract says that you're free of any further legal obligation if you return the property (whether because you actually wrote that into the contract, or because your jurisdiction adds such terms to all contracts), then exiting the contract in that manner is just exercising the termination clause. You are of course correct that if there aren't any such terms, then you can't exit in that manner.

If mortgages included a clause (either negotiated or because state law required it on all mortgages) saying that the lender may foreclose after paying $100k and giving notice, then sure, the lender would be within their rights to exercise that option as well.

I suppose you can argue for a category of "contractual obligations" separate from legally enforceable obligations, but that doesn't make much sense to me. I take a fairly instrumental view of contracts that they're definitionally equivalent to "legally enforceable agreement".
It's unfortunate, but not surprising that the headline is 'meltdown a
possibility,' ignoring things like:

> "What we have seen is only the slight indication from a monitoring post of
> cesium and iodine," he said.

> "We have some confidence, to some extent, to make the situation to be
> stable status," he said. "We actually have very good confidence that we
> will resolve this."
Do you really think the people offended by this tweet would have been less offended if Bing had originally tweeted that the donation was already made? I doubt it, especially considering that their follow-up tweet which did just that has only further offended those who have chosen to be offended.

I think the idea was for the $1 donation to be an incentive for people to retweet, which would spread the link to the Microsoft Disaster Response page.
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Men and women in Western cultures routinely[0] shake hands to introduce themselves. That defiantly counts as touching. Somehow the author managed to forget this.

[0] Mike Arrington being an exception. http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/09/hand-shaking-is-so-medieval...
The Year of the Startup Default
This may be a gross understatement but this is going to end very badly and probably have negative repercussions long term for nuclear energy in this country.
This is a horrible idea generally. It's a really bad idea to outsource your core competency. If your company builds software, you shouldn't outsource software development.

Startups and ideas need time to change or pivot. If you're outsourcing, you're basically saying build this big blue box, and tomorrow (or 3 months later) you'll need to build a small red turtle and be stuck with code you can't use, maintain, or change without paying someone else.
I just want to find an answer to my question, I don't care so much where. There are far, far worse places where answers pop up. Like what are these weird mailing list to web converters, where you can not even see the conversation thread properly. Or all those private simple machine forums about the weirdest topics.

I remember when Yahoo! Answers came out it was actually pretty cool. I participated for a while and had fun. Has it deteriorated so much since? And why should other answer services fare better?

Btw, there are a lot of really low quality answers on Stack Overflow, too.
http://wikitravel.org/ does a reasonable job of this. Obviously it's difficult explaining the culture of a nation in a few dozen paragraphs, and doubly so on a wiki.

For example (http://wikitravel.org/en/Britain#Respect):

Allow some personal space between you and others in queues and elsewhere.
You will usually find this in such places as cinemas. Generally, unless
people know each other, you will find they will usually choose to fill up
every row of seating and keep as much distance of possible until there is
a requirement to sit directly next to each other. Exceptions are in very
crowded situations where this is impossible, like on the Tube.
Note: if you have flashblock enabled, it won't run; you have to enable flash for this site first.

I realized why it was probably breaking after seeing comments here about the music.
I propose: that by law every one in a thousand cigarettes sold should have something that tastes and smells really spit-and-gag foul (but isn't poisonous) inserted at a random point (not just at the tip, or the end, but unpredictably). Light, mild, silver, one brand or another - there is no difference. You have a chance of running into the disincentive whichever you choose.
I wonder what is the reasoning behind disabling the faster JS engine for full screen apps and uiwebview?
If you'll permit my analogy, a handshake is to a signature on a form, what a hug is to a personal note. Completely different.
But failed hubris is in their usual scope.
We have a sales/marketing guy that does this. It's clearly a learned/trained pattern of behaviour (maybe you can hide it better!). Nobody ever mentions it, and acts in a friendly manner. However, when he's not there pretty much everyone comments on how creepy it is and how patronised they feel.

Just something to consider - not saying that's the case with you, but this is a classic area where immediate or obvious reactions are often very different from inward feeling.
Ha ha ha... isn't this the guy that deleted his AngelList account? Maybe the reason he's getting swamped with pre-revenue startups is because he's locked himself off from funding ones with actual revenues. You know... by people who think their high-growth businesses should be valued at more than 10x revenues.

What Bryce doesn't seem to understand is that viable businesses no longer need his money. He wants entrepreneurs to carry all the risk of getting profitable and THEN value their businesses cheaply while offering him over 100% return-on-investment per year. Uhh... no? And he should really quit blogging since there's probably no more surefire way to drive away good pitches than broadcast this sort of hostility to entrepreneurs.
An omission would be the Chinese -- I think we are one the most repressed. Close friends never hug and conversations are always awkward in first encounters. Love is often expressed in terms of gifts and 'formal' attempts at the opposite sex, boys often chasing girls; formal in the sense that flirting doesn't happen often, instead, you 'be nice' to the girl...
The first step on securing an Ubuntu server is switching to Debian (this sounds a bit trollish but oh well)
>the US military has flown coolant to the site, but the coolant they use is regular water; I can’t imagine why the US would need to fly in coolant.

The US did not fly any coolant to Japan.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/11/japan-quake-nuclea... "US did not deliver coolant to Japan nuclear reactor"

"Ultimately, however, Japan did not need assistance from the United States but Clinton did not appear to have been updated before she made her public remarks."
What’s the best SXSW app? So far, for me, it’s LocalMind
As an American I dont think a handshake = touching. A handshake is such a common ritual that I barely notice it. If someone touches me on the elbow or wrist, I am instantly aware.
Ask HN: What seems longer... "One Month" or "30 days"?
One/A Month

or

30 days?

Or rather which one do you feel you get more value out of?
Does anybody have insights into general performance implications of using UIWebViews vs Mobile Safari?
The various Stack Exchanges?
Ugh, this is why print media and its web-based spin-offs are dying. What stilted, conceited rubbish.
I suspect the reason is due to security concerns about running JIT executable code in 3rd-party apps. I have a harder time understanding full-screen web apps, however. Those should be running within some kind of full-screen Mobile Safari mode.
Only because he couldn't touch you while saying it.
I'd just like to point out that the phrase "skinny dipping" originated in America. We also shake hands with strangers. So, at the least, the getting naked and touching claims are questionable.
Senate turf war brewing over online privacy
There are several, but in particular, JavaScript seems to run 2X slower in UIWebViews vs Safari. on iOS 4.3
That whole close friends hugging thing among Americans must be regional. In Indiana, I think we've only started doing it lately because other people seem to do it. Or something. It's always embarrassing.

Among men, anyway. Women have different rules.
US did not deliver coolant to Japan nuclear reactor
Another rather lazy article, playing on boring stereotypes, pedestrian anecdotes and uninteresting conclusions. We're all aware of national stereotypes, and we're used to seeing lame stand up comics riff on them, however it's unusual to see the FT stoop so low.

If Simon Kuper (a Brit, though one with a sheltered upbringing it seems) thinks Brits are reserved and prudish, I suggest he visits Glasgow, Newcastle or indeed any city on a Friday or Saturday night. I dare say he might witness similar revelations if he were to explore other cultures further, rather than drawing on boring clichés.
In New York City, though, talking on the street is far easier than in the Midwest.
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If you are a hacker and have one or more website put up the donation code on your websites, that will help a lot.
The people there are great in helping each other but they need outside support that will cost a lot of money, so for you the best way to help them is by donation and helping to rise donations, I suppose.
Thanks
I was pretty much taught to never touch anyone in middle school. I attended a private school that assessed 15 “demerits” for Personal Contact Infractions. Really put a kibosh on my teenage and college years romantically and I am still paying the price to this day.
Does apple actively want native apps to out perform html5? Of course, but enough that would hinder the natural install points, seems a little crazy even for apple...... is this the same on the iPad and iPhone/iPod?
Very Contradictory of itself.
Title is very attention-seeking.
True dat about German nudity. I lived in Germany a few years and sang in a few choirs (one very good way to learn good pronunciation, actually) - after one concert, everybody backstage changed clothing. Together. I was about 19 at the time, and I'm from Indiana - it nearly killed me.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, priceless smile
The cynics view would be because as the web app approach becomes less distinguishable from native apps speed, those web applications end up running as well on equivalent speed hardware such as Android and other platforms as they would on iOS, ceding some of iOS advantage in the richness and diversity of its applications.

However it should be noted most of the popular applications in the iOS app store are in fact games

The real reason is likely to be more to do with security around the js runtime, especially when UIWebView is placed in "wrapped" applications
This surprises me. When I was in China 10 years ago, I certainly noticed (as a Brit) how normal it was to see people walking down the street hand in hand. It didn't seem to matter if they were two guys, girls or, err, any other combination.

I wonder if things have changed or if it was a regional difference. I was in Shenyang at the time.
Oops. That's called confirmation bias.

Not to say that you've simply 'confirmed' your suspicion of confirmation bias, but it could just be sloppy reporting.
The yahoo answers that come up in search results may not be as good as those on stackexchange, but they're generally pretty good if they've ranked high enough on a google search.

For non-tech questions, I encounter many of the other mee-too q&a sites, and they usually yield someone (probably scraped from other sites) asking the question, with no answer. This has been happening with alarming frequency which to me, puts the ball in google's court.

Fixya.com, for example came up as unanswered questions in enough car/DIY searches for me recently that as soon as I saw the google blacklist feature I added them from memory.
I always found it strange to shake a woman's hand when meeting. In Brazil they kiss on two cheeks, which seems more natural to me. Guys always shake hands.

If she's a gf/wife/friend of a friend, I'm not about to enter into a business negotiation with this woman, so why shake hands.
that scripting language is Perl or PHP?
Some numbers for folks to examine based on 3x test of each state:

Non-fullscreen: 4094.5ms (test average)
Fullscreen: 10528.2ms (test average)
Because I will always elect to treat people as individuals.
Ask HN: Would you attend a Hacker News Conference?
Here at SXSW, and I had the pleasure to attend the "Life After YC" session with Brian Chesky (Airbnb), Dane Hurtubise (JobSpice), Drew Houston (Dropbox), and Jessica Mah (inDinero). It was fantastic. More than any other session, I felt like I was among peers. I got thinking, screw SXSW, we need a HN Conference. Or at least a HN track at SXSW.

Make it hacker-oriented, with technical and startup topics, invite the YC partners, maybe current and former batch founders to speak, maybe some angels, maybe help for people interested in applying, maybe a hack day? Who'd be interested?
That's my point - mortgages don't include a clause allowing the buyer to exit the contract.

A call option has specific language in the contract: "Option holder has the right (but not the obligation) to purchase $SECURITY at $STRIKE_PRICE on or before $DATE. To exercise this option, holder must..."

A mortgage has very different language: "Borrower is obligated to make payments of at least $XXX on or before the 1'st day of each month..."

If you want to take your instrumental view of contracts, then there is similarly nothing wrong with anything you can legally get away with. It's basically a "might makes right" viewpoint. So if "nothing wrong with X" means "you can get away with X", you are correct.

I mistakenly interpreted the phrase "nothing wrong with" as having moral content.
I actually think the explosion of software engineering salaries (led by VC-funded SF startups) is responsible for this work attitude, not just glamorization of startup life.

Larger companies (and even smaller companies that aren't ultra-rapid-growth) have to pay much more to compete on salary, and as a result, they now have to get much more productivity out of each employee than before. Hence, more accountability, more ridiculous schedules.
...or the Japanese sourced the coolant themselves (which appears to be the case) and the article is correct.
IPad 2 specs blow away competition
Faking it is making it, most of the time it seems.
Are you from the UK?

If not, are you from the US?

Do you have a particular accent?
I'm from Britain, live in the US with my American wife, and find it hard to recognise these behaviours in anyone I've met who is younger than middle aged.
I picked up a French accent in about 6 months during which I lived in Brazil and met a ton of French people. I also watched a couple of French flicks.

So it's never too late.
As a student interested in entrepreneurship, I get this feeling all the time. Teachers and profs will tell you if you have a good idea to pitch it at the University's Big Ideas/PowerPitch/NextBigThing program and see if you can get the approval of a board of investors mixed with business professors. Not a single teacher has ever straight up told me to go and start a business directly.

I think something you will see in a few years is kids coming out of college prepped for giving great pitches but having no idea what to actually do with the money. Entrepreneurship got lumped in with the business school at my college. All the student entrepreneurs do is learn about how to attract investors and give good pitches about untested ideas. The gist of entrepreneurship is projected as just presentation without any mention of creation.
I think Hanlon's razor applies here. A lot of people will be slating Apple for sabotaging non-native apps, but it's really just a bug.
I can see you have never done any Cobol programming. Add x to y giving z. Or somesuch.

C is quite verbose, because you have to write your interfaces as .h files. The library support is rather thin, so you have to keep reimplementing common functions over and over.

Java has another kind of verbosity
Hashmap<String, String> s = new Hashmap<String, String>();
The compiler ought to be able to figure this stuff out by itself. (I know. Some relief is on the way.) Java pays the bills, but I would rather Python.

At the other end of the scale is APL where you can model the universe in one line of code.
Thanks. That sounds like a good idea. I could probably allow either unverified nick or verified google id, and render the names slightly differently in the chat log.
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Yes. Or at least be specific so people can tell whether you are providing commentary or reporting on concrete facts.

Even subjective commentary needs to provide context, if it's meant to be useful.

Take the case with Joel (or at least the headline): Joel is saying, basically, "Yahoo Answers suck". It misses context: why does it suck? Does it always suck? Apparently it doesn't always, given that most upvoted comment here is PG giving a reasonable counter-example.

The thing is, objective statements are boring and don't make the headlines. If Joel went to an interview only to say "Gee-whiz, actually SO is doing well because we managed to provide a decent alternative to EE, but for non-programming topics people are still being served by more established players like Yahoo Answers.", there would be no headline for Techcrunch, and we wouldn't be wasting our time discussing about this.
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