skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am indeed thinking of the British Isles (glad you spotted that: I suspected I needed to qualify that claim somehow). I'm convinced that Americans spell their own language better than the British (or the French), who can misspell any handmade sign however simple. I probably don't have enough anecdotal evidence to make the counting claim compelling, but I've never managed to confuse an American cashier by overpaying in some complicated way in order to get fewer coins in change.
That was before companies became vehicles for multiplying money ;)
"philosophy" is the halting condition
the press release (read: blog post) was nauseating in its saccharine bullshit, but hners aren't the target audience... it was written for the legions of ak fans who know ak but not airbnb.
Is this why people call "Java is too verbose"?
This shows a that the program linked is broken. The steps taken, are:

1. Animal House
2. ....

Going to the actual Kevin Bacon Wikipedia page, Animal House is clearly italic. The First non-italic, top-level (wrt parens) is Golden Globe
Usability testing with children: lessons from great grandpa Piaget (1896-1980)
if this is the extent of the problem, i dare say India and China are more corrupt
I love the name. Makes me feel happy.
Six Reasons To Rethink Your Online Dating Site
Italy was never a Soviet country....?
From student to start-up
Congrats to Eddy and Daschin! Happy to see these guys crushing it with an old fashioned money making business. Novel idea, right?? ;)
Then please let me into the beta! Haha, no problemo though, I always dream about booting up my server and hosting for a limited time, but it's always such a pain in the butt to manage it all.

If you can do it at a reasonable rate, would be a very happy customer!
Re 3D: The only reason we pay the extra money for 3D is that the 2D is not available at the time we want. I think 3D is a clear example of technology for its own sake (ooh! cool!), but which doesn't actually help the story be experienced (your involvement with the characters is not enhanced at all, etc).
I totally agree. In fact, I am working toward a private beta release of lesson planning software which actually helps teachers build quality lessons.
That's not a dock, that's a taskbar.
Just to be clear, the article is written by someone associated with Sophos, a commercial anti-malware firm. ClamXav for Mac OS X is free, the engine is open source, it has regular malware definition updates, and monitors any directory or directories the user specifies. Well written, powerful, open source, free software. www.clamxav.com
You mean like Jazelle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle that hardly anyone used?
I have a problem with the situation with the TSA as well, but it deeply bothers me when people so easily fall back on such hyperbolic rhetoric. It poisons discourse and prevents rational discussion by flattening subtleties.
This statement shows a gross misunderstanding of the rules.

Meme is quite far down the page. It is well after many links that are neither italicized nor inside parens. The statement whose veracity is being checked says First link (plus some other parameters).
In honor of Spirit, the positive XKCD comic (author unknown)
مباراة الاسماعيلى واتحاد الشرطة بث مباشر
مباراة الاسماعيلى واتحاد الشرطة بث مباشر
you can't really compare corruption, can you?
Request HN: A request to all Freelancers
Hey everyone, esp. all the freelancers on HN

I started Grep42 (http://www.grep42.com) 8 months ago with the vision of making a freelancer's life easy. I was a freelancer and I realized that we guys spend a lot of time looking for work on different platforms - which could be saved if a technology could bring those jobs to us instead of us going out looking for them. That's how Grep42 was born. I built the product and shared it with you and received a lot of suggestions and support for which I'm very thankful.

However, I've now run into a thought-block. The analytics haven't improved and I get a lot of 1 time visits.
I've added most of the stuff you guys requested but somehow you're still not finding it very usable - and I'm dumbfounded. A request to all freelancers here, please try it out and tell me what can I do to help you. If you feel this is useless garbage, I'll throw it away. If you feel you would be willing to bet your dollar on this, I would appreciate that with the same amount of grace. So help me, help you. Your 2 cents are appreciated.

Some questions you could ask yourself:

- As a freelancer, what are the 5 most nagging problems? (technical or non-technical, more personal the better. "no fixed hours" qualifies as a valid problem)

- What are your favorite sites that you use to search for projects?

- Do you get direct referrals? Is there something I can do to make that better?

I look forward to your answers, thanks!

Jagtesh

jagtesh A.T gmail D.O.T com
As I learned it [many years ago, in the blitz to learn java for AP CS AB], people use the App suffix to denote classes that had a main function (and could be used as an applet or application).
It was a short article, why do you even bother with the summary?
I'm not actually sure if the idea of templates alone is that much of a departure, I could see something template like working in Cappuccino (a more human readable version of a XIB perhaps), but relying on HTML and CSS is something I'm obviously not crazy about.
Chief Justice John Marshall expressed it eloquently back in 1819 in his opinion of Mcculloch v. Maryland:
That where this repugnancy exists, that authority which is supreme must control, not yield to that over which it is supreme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCulloch_v._Maryland
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US...
Please spend 38.9 seconds trying to understand the very very very simple algorithm that says: Follow the first link that... It doesn't say there are alternate choices. If you went with a different link than the first, it would no longer be the first.
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Oh yes you can!

There are a few criteria:

1) Is the corruption social or economic in nature? ie in India, many years ago, it was impossible for someone from lower castes to become priests. An economic corruption at least has a remote chance of being breached by anyone

2) Is the corruption racial or religious or gender-based? I guess this is better termed "discrimination"

3) Is there a way to join the corrupted? ie if the police force and military are corrupt, is there a way to join them?

There are versions of corruption for which most people are physically unable to rise, and versions of corruption for which a clever few are able to swim with the sharks
Makes sense for mathematics to be a loop since it's a self contained system.
Apple's Tim Cook visits Samsung to discuss OLED screens for 'iPad 3'
Private security firms at airports operate under the TSA's direction.
Super Mario data-stealer hits the Chrome web store
Oh really? How would you do it?
The "Quantity" article did not contain the link to Property_(philosophy) before and it was added purely for the sake of this game. See the talk page for more details.

Personally, I think its sad that people are editing wikipedia purely for the sake of making games work out.
Do your job, land in jail and pay $1.5 million?
The Startup Spouse
There once was a bot which caught the reposts and commented on them.

But it was so offensive to have the reposts mentioned that the author shut it down, and perhaps even left HN. I haven't seen him around for a long time.
One Possible Elaboration, Part I:
(without claims for the absolute truth attached to it)

The biggest nightmare in the minds of the ruling class in the anlgo-saxon world (chief US and UK political and business powers) is that Russia might create an Eurasian political and economic union with Germany and France (and EU generally), with high mutual economic, political, military and cultural benefits.

That would mean huge loss of markets, power and influence for Washington and London. There are such tendencies, no matter how improbable in the short-term they look to the casual political observer who doesn't follow closely what's really going on.

So in a certain way the Cold War is needed (if not required) to continue, even after pretending it is something of the past.

One PR-related nasty form of this war - only bad news or no news allowed from Russia in the mainstream western media. The less people think Russia, Russian, (or even just Russians) are notions you could attach nice, friendly, good-minded connotations, the better!

The president Putin really pissed-off the western state and big-business powers that in a period of rising petrol/gas prices in 2000s they couldn't extract the tens of billions $ they used to do easily in the 90s - back then with the help of the local oligarchs enriched overnight by criminally grabbing ownership of state economic base and infrastructure they themselves had not built in the preceding decades.

Putin even had the temerity to use the extra-profits for increasing the country's living standard and modernizing the armed forces - one of the 3 to 5 really formidable military organizations in the world.

And he started doing the really unthinkable - gently probing EU, Asian and African (think Libya) countries for this disgusting idea of selling energy resources for currencies other than the $. (And this in times of this self-inflicted financial crisis.)

On the [re]New[ed] Cold War - just a few points of thought or questions for someone to ponder over, if really interested:

How come NATO still exists when its mirror-antagonist military organization of the former socialist EE-countries from the soviet block has gone to history, dissolved peacefully and voluntarily?

Why are there still US military bases (old and new) across the EU-countries today since Gorbachev retreated back the Russian/Soviet armed forces from East Germany and Eastern Europe?

Why was the Gorbachev's 80-year jubilee held in London? If he was uniformly acknowledged as such a good doer to humanity and democracy why wasn't that an event held in his home country and among his own people proud of him?

What does the average ordinary Russian think of Gorbachev? Actually who was robbed and who profited from the neo-liberal economic policies he had been instrumental to be installed in Russia?

(continues...)
Gosling came to my school and did a demo of an RV using something like that -- i wish i remembered the chip name

"hardly anyone used" <-- this is why assembly still survives. I still use a fair bit of it for commands that glibc doesnt wrap (i.e. RDTSC)
i like imagemagick, gimp, et al for 99% of my needs, but having ableton-like anything would be great, although the state of multimedia timing and the myriad combinations of audio subsystems, i hope someone can persevere.
http://ryanelmquist.com/cgi-bin/xkcdwiki?title=xkcd
Enforcement has been delayed by a year. See, e.g., http://media.cbronline.com/news/ico-tins-cookie-law-till-nex...

Previously on HN:

1. Stupid EU cookie law will hand the advantage to the US - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2304341
2. Europe's war on cookies http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2535837

The discussions here on HN were more useful, I think, that the linked stories.
Thanks for clarifying!

You make a good argument that Ebert's argument isn't sufficiently scientific. Ebert also doesn't provide any data for his hypothesis that the degraded qualities of movies is going to effect box office returns.

However, I think these are the wrong criteria for judging the article. I don't think Ebert's it's meant to be scientfic, nor is his article primarily about economics. I saw it as more of a love letter, which is very personal, very subjective. His last paragraph:

"I despair. This is a case of Hollywood selling its birthright for a message of pottage. If as much attention were paid to exhibition as to marketing, that would be an investment in the future. People would fall back in love with the movies. Short-sighted, technically illiterate penny-pinchers are wounding a great art form."

The primary purpose of the article isn't to explain the potential economic impact of the degradation in projection quality, or to provide scientific proof that the majority of people are affected. It's to say that movies look shittier, and to explain why - and to express how sad it makes him that movies are looking so shitty. I saw the remark about how people would be less likely to return to theaters as more of an expression of his unhappiness than as the central point of his article.

Personally, I found the article very helpful. I saw Thor opening weekend, and I was confused about why it looked so dim. It was disappointing to me to view something so graphically rich in a way that made it look it was 50 years old and faded. I didn't know what was wrong, but now I do, and now I know how I can attempt to see movies in a way that I'll like more.
No need!

https://github.com/giu/hacker-news-threadify
Either the Constitution gets enforced or not. If the Constitution is to be enforced then the Supremacy Clause AND the 4th amendment need to adhered to. That means warrants for all searches.
I buy your argument, but only for for Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia (of which I was skeptical while writing my first post) Let's add Goergia there also; cause I am not really sure about there either. But now, you still have 11 out of 15 Post Soviet states where the kind of attitude from government as it's described in the article widely prevails.
Unfortunately their imperfections outweigh their perfections a hundred to one. On balance it's not worth doing business with them.
Given the traffic snarls and developing infrastructure, I would love to know how many months or years it ll take them to get this done. My other concern is whether they ll be able to cope up with India's changing infrastructure. New bridges, buildings, housing complexes come up every year, traffic patterns change to accomodate the same and most big cities have a metro under construction. Changing maps is one thing, but re-mapping street view is quite another.
Interesting, one wonders if there will be some de-duplication in the far future. There is a lot of overlap with TR1, for instance Qt's smart pointer and container classes.

On the other hand, I guess many Qt users will treat Qt as the C++ standard library ;).
That's part of the overall license you sign/agree to when you pay for the licenses or download it from their site.
This sounds very similar to federal drug laws and now the new healthcare mandate. States are growing tired of being told what to do, especially when a majority of their populace disagrees with specific law. Not long ago many states passed amendments re-asserting their rights as states.

I think this would have been a great time for a large influential state to take a stand, but instead they backed down. I can still hope that CA will step up and do more than passively ignoring federal drug laws, and instead make drugs legal and throw out the DEA.
Interesting that the author of the fake in-browser Finder apparently uses Dropbox.
So are 1 in 3 prisoners corrupt businessmen who have been jailed for their 'corruptness'.

Or are 1 in 3 prisoners businessmen unjustly jailed due to corrupt officials?
I'm just now starting to dip my toes into the field so any advice like this is helpful.

Thanks!
People need to free up hard disk space these days?
Exactly - 6 million Twitter followers and nearly 10 million Facebook fans make for a powerful strategic investor. In a crowded market flush with capital this kind of exposure is far more valuable than another funding round from a highly technical VC.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1698332
Sounds like a good plan for cargo-cult web design.
A good book on UX (which stands for the same User Experience, btw) will teach you why you admire particular web sites.
I hope UK websites don't start working like this: http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/eu-cookies-directive-interactiv... (Don't click the checkbox, read the texts and keep clicking OK)
One Possible Elaboration, Part II (and final):
(without claims for the absolute truth attached to it)

(... continuation from above or below in this thread ...)

Why is Gorbachev today so rudely harsh towards modern China - the possible future N:1 economy in the world - when expressing his opinion about this country?

What's the purpose of NATO today - fighting terrorism? Who trained and armed the dead-officially-now Bin Laden in the first place in the 80s, and against whom?

How come Turkey is considered a country worthy of pondering about if and when to invite for EU-membership, while the same idea and attitude towards Russia - historically a truly European country with undeniable historic and cultural influence on Europe and the world - countless world-renown writers, poets, composers, scientists... you name it... plus a huge territorial span till the Pacific with all the resources, people, and real economic potential - is something highly exotic? (And this put in best possible terms.)

P.S.

I do not deny that Russia has a corruption problem and also, in the years ahead, huge-impact policy decisions and measures are needed in the economic sphere.

But this is something skillfully used in the practice of the western variety of propaganda called PR, the part of it that serves governmental strategy goals of US and UK. (BTW, A pair of most powerful countries in a "special relationship" as Her Majesty the Queen so rightly stated during the recent Obama's visit in the Buckingham Palace, London).

P.P.S.

" - But isn't the media really free and independent in the western world? How come ever such a FUD possible - serving international state policy strategic goals and forming popular western mass perceptions? "

" - Well, this is really a Hacker-News after all... I have a suggestion for you - you do your own homework research on the topic and report back if you're really intrigued. For starters - check topdocumentaryfilms.com."
I'd be very much surprised if there were any significant workloads that would work faster on this thing than on a decently set up Linux or BSD install on the same hardware.

It's not my impression that modern OSs has a habit of getting in the way of pure computation - and when the computation is done, I'd much prefer a solid filesystem/network stack to get the results out of the door.

But as an academic/tinkering/hacking project, it's awesome. If assembly was in my backlog of stuff I want to learn/play with, this would be an obvious thing to get started on.
I'm not arguing with any of your points. I'm simply saying that the difference between 'sign up now' and 'contact us now' is huge for most developers. I don't want to discuss clauses and get approval, I want to type in my credit card and go.
Can't there be a mix? Maybe each is 1 in 6?
Linux Mint 11 released
E2 was wonderful for links teleporting you off into completely unrelated and equally fascinating subjects - I lost many an evening in that manner :)
Unfortunately many cinemas here in the Netherlands are either 2D or 3D. If they have the 3D version of the movie, they show just that. And of course you pay extra for the 3D movie (the glasses). It might also however be due to the fact that you can also often choose between the original version (with subtitles) or a dubbed version, meaning there would be 4 choices/editions, which is a bit much.
Any code is not automatically covered by copyright. Copyrighted work needs to pass the threshold of originality, and an Hello World probably won't.
I got lost for a while because I thought something really new was being done... I guess I thought everyone knew that you could draw to a canvas, even if it wasn't displayed.
This reminds me of a random shower thought I had - we are living in an age of modern alchemy.
As someone who finds just as much interest in sound quality as the lyrics, as critical of the picture as the storyline, I whole-heartedly agree. Most movie theaters are simply horrible. The sound is atrocious (overly loud and muddy is the most common problem) and the pictures have become dimmer and dimmer. Having to travel further to find a good screen just makes movie theaters that much worse. Give me a Blu-ray and my home setup for quality over most movie theaters.

I used to get most movies off of Netflix and then see action movies in the theaters. I thought that I was better off seeing the spectacle on a large screen. But the technical inferiority of the typical movie theater has led me to flip my viewing habits. Now I really only see comedies in the theaters and watch everything else at home.

You still can't replicate a crowded movie theater at a comedy, it makes it far funnier to laugh with other people.
New 3D map shows the universe in greatest detail yet
The History of Advertising on Twitter
The Recruitment Threesome: Employer, Candidate and Recruiter
I do a lot of C++ Qt programming and I often have a hard time deciding if I should use. The most common is should I use QString for in my code easy interaction with Qt, or std::string for easy interaction with other, non-Qt, libraries that I use?

I also sometimes wonder what I should use when I do multithreaded stuff (which I often do, because I like multicore stuff) - for example, if I want heavy-weight threads (as opposed to tasks, which I always use Intel Threading Building Blocks for), do I use C++0x? Do I use QThread? Do I use the TBB threads wrapper?

If I am not using third party libraries, I do prefer to use Qt over the standard library, simply because it keeps everything consistent (less conversion between std::x and Qx)
Ever notice how a lot of start-up websites look pretty similar? Lots of the same typefaces, same visual approach, same graphic techniques and colors--you see Helvetica/Arial, the same set of textures, quasi-3D effects, and so on. The cumulative effect is generic. It says, "we're roughly imitating what everyone else is doing because everyone else is doing it." Bad message. Good design won't compensate for flawed business models, but it will maximize the potential of a strong one.

Independent thought and ingenuity trumps everything on this list, I'm afraid. The stuff there is price of admission; you're not even a designer without it in your toolbox.
I actually don't understand this. Those are all features — good features — but that doesn't mean it has a good user experience. Android, when I use it, has lots of completely strange and unintuitive choices: a third of the OS in green/black, another third in orange/gray, and the last third in black/orange is the most obvious, but there are others: an unlock mechanism that acts before you lift your finger (unlike the rest of the OS); scrollbars in most apps that seem to "inchworm" along; over-used and confusingly-placed drop shadows in the Gmail app; gray, thin titlebars and thick "action bars" in other places; orange glows around the icons in the launcher but an orange, square backdrop in the home screen; unintuitive "glow" effect at the end of lists (after modeling physical motion for the list above, abruptly stopping is disconcerting: it feels like the list has not reached it's natural end, but smashed into something).

There's more, but while Android does have a lot of really awesome features, the interface and UX don't appear like anyone bothered to even try and design them.
NASA to Launch New Science Mission to Asteroid in 2016
Why are there more comments than code in the source? Is this usual to Scala?
Maybe I'm just too much a cynic, but any time I see a state trying to buck a federal law, I picture a special interest who thought their money would go further purchasing favor with legislative officials at the state level rather than the federal.

Not that I disagree with you too much about this particular battle... Just that cynicism shining through my attempt to quelch it.
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