skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[dead], but worth seeing:

andrewheins 7 hours ago | link [dead]

Hmm... Good idea. I might work on that.
Is it really true that its not obvious to Americans? I think anyone even slightly tuned in to whats going on realizes that a lot of the problems now are based on a lack of proper information.
There are Science Cafes all over the world that have scientists give talks to laypersons: sciencecafes.org

Nerd Nite does the same thing, but with beer: nerdnite.com

Be a guest speaker at high schools in your area. Mike Merzenich graciously came to speak to my Neuroscience students, and they found it informative and inspiring.

Vi Hart does some really really neat math videos: http://vihart.com/

Above all, practice talking math to non-mathies. Use lots and lots of analogies, and don't forget to tap into the enthusiasm that brought you to the field in the first place.
It's nice that Go offers some improvements over C, but is it enough?

Porting a program written in one of the "lowest level" languages still in use today to one of the newest "modern" languages which claims high level features and having only 20% code size reduction doesn't seem like a big win to me, especially if all the saving attribute to only one feature (better arrays).

Maybe it is just because it was port, and not a reimplementation in idiomatic Go style.

I would certainly like to see other solutions to the same problem written in idiomatic Go, Clojure, Haskell, C++ and Scala, just for the comparison.
Are you more happy that you have learned a lot or that people are using it?
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What it does even mean, to be sustainable planet?

How about just keeping the wild polar bears alive?
I remember Shaquille O'Neal sending @replies on Twitter, thinking it was private when he started out.
I said, 'I cant be cool,' but it came out 'I cant b cool'. Extremely close in my opinion, and Prince would be proud. For more generic words the results came out perfect: 'wired', 'baseball', 'hacker news', and 'Philadelphia Phillies'.
I think Fairfax as a whole is fairly lax when it comes to comment moderation.

As much as I despise The Herald Sun and News Ltd., they do the whole online community thing better and the site is better for it.
Just a thought. maybe this is an indication that Chrome is reaching out to more mainstream crowd (Read - non geeks non techies). An average user just wants to google search, check emails, facebook, read stuffs on internet and do shopping.
Recently had my first trip to the US. Used lots of public transport in SF and Sacramento. It was really easy and efficient (with the exception of a aggressive and dodgy Sacramento taxi experience). We were impressed. Trains, taxi, ferry, tram, bus. Planes though... Wow we're not all crimals or terrorists.
This page http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/46716/what-sh... suggests that both bcrypt and scrypt can be used (4th bullet under 'Security'). Disclosure: I added the scrypt part alongwith the references which the mods haven't deleted yet (so I am guessing it is ok).

I just went with bcrypt in my project for now because postgresql has it as a built-in function. I couldn't find for scrypt that was readily usable.

Here is a good argument on why scrypt is better: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1987632&cid=35149... (the second ref link for bcrypt on the above stackexchange page)
I really wouldn't recommend The Australian. This is a newspaper who have stated in editorial that it is their goal to "destroy" the Australian Greens party. Agenda runs thick in their editorial decisions.
This technology has been around a few years. If I'm not mistakken, wasn't voice search originally implemented on the Google iPhone application? Now with the proliferation of microphones on computers, it makes sense for Google to implement this feature on the Google webpage.
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My aggregator/filter for Australian news stories is http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/

Beware the comments threads though, there be dragons, and rather cynical people.
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This is my setup exactly. Chrome is like the sports car, fast as, very zippy, but isn't all that comfortable.

Firefox is the big, chew-a-lot-of-petrol car with the cruise control, A/C and big comfortable seats. Takes a long time to get up to speed, but it's good for the long drives.
Dave, I had seen the Stackoverflow post before so I was surprised when I clicked the link here and got there, because your title misrepresents the question.

I thank you for posting it here because it has indeed led to interesting discussion. But please consider not editorializing titles in a way that can lead to flame wars.
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This sounds very exciting. To play the devil's advocate however, on most of the example photos on Lytro's site, you really only need two points of focus - roughly near and far. Clicking on those two shows you everything there is to see in a picture.

If someone comes up with software to allow refocusing on two distance points with existing photos, they could eat Lytro's lunch. Can Picasa do something like this?
Increasing App sales with Analytics: Free apps versus trials
EXACTLY my setup. Just compare how much more powerful "iMacros for Firefox" is compared to "iMacros for Chrome" (web browser macro recorder). Same for Firebug. The chrome API has still too many restrictions to make truly useful "system level" addons.
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Problems I see that Google Ventures faces if they truly want to disrupt Venture Capital:

They've _got to stop asking founders to opt out of an NDA before founders get buzzed in to Google Venture's office. Otherwise, they are going to have a hard time gaining an entrepreneur's trust. I'm sure it's a "It's not that big of a deal" issue from Google's perspective, because everybody has to opt in/out of an NDA on Google's campus, and it's the Google "normal". But, founders pitching dozens of VC's are going to notice the dramatic difference in signing in to a Google Ventures meeting and stopping by any of the hundreds of VC offices on Sand Hill Road.

Google really needs to relax their "All your IP are belong to us" policy for their engineers, if they are truly going to promote startup culture and have founders want to pitch Google Ventures first when it comes to funding their ideas. There is precious little boot strapping while working at Google. The engineers that I know at Google that are boot strapping pretty much have to be in stealth mode otherwise they run the risk of tripping over Google's IP issues. If they are working on a startup while working at Google, they are _very, __very quiet about it.

That creates a deafening silence silence within 5 miles around Google campus when it comes to Googler startups. Hackers & Founders has been meeting 3 miles away from the Googleplex for years, and I can count on one hand the number of Googlers that show up. How many Googler's hang out at the Hacker Dojo? How many ex-Googler companies are at 500 Startups accelerator, which is a couple of miles away from campus? I hear SunFire is full of them. But, you don't see those people hanging out at 106 miles too much.

Unless they work at Google, hackers in the Valley are getting creeped out by how pervasive Google is, and how much data Google has on them. That very much works against Google Ventures when it comes to founder mind share.

I'm sure to startups based in other parts of the country, Google is quite sexy, and having access to advice from engineers who've worked at Google is quite exciting.

As a VC in the Valley, you want to have a good enough reputation, network and deal flow that you employ people to screen meetings and pitches away to maximize a partner's time. If any other VC in the Valley started offering me $10k per referral that I made to them, I'd run away screaming.
Difficult. Basically Firefox XUL allows extensions to do everything that is not forbidden, while the Chrome allows only things that have an explicit API function for it.
People told me the exact same thing when I moved from Montreal to Tokyo. I am glad I didn't listen to them. (Yes, even post-earthquake)

You don't understand his specific rationale or the social strata that he may be involved. Furthermore, how do rankings by old conservative institutions reflect on the preferred life balance of a hacker?
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What they actually said was:

"Greens leader Bob Brown has accused The Australian of trying to wreck the alliance between the Greens and Labor. We wear Senator Brown's criticism with pride. We believe he and his Green colleagues are hypocrites; that they are bad for the nation; and that they should be destroyed at the ballot box."

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Stop posting any doxing. Thanks.
tl;dr:

Going to the Chrome like fast development cycles resulted in getting cupcakes instead of cakes.
85% Of Firefox Users Install Add-ons; Avg. User Installs 5 Add-ons
I'd like to put in a word for CL-PPCRE, the Common Lisp regex library. It does the same except using the CL optimizing compiler, so also achieves amazing speed.

Libraries don't appear in the Comp.Lang.Benchmark Shootout, so CL doesn't do so well.
If you're doing dev work or just want to stay updated with the latest Google experience you should go with the Nexus S. Otherwise it will just depend on your carrier, off the top of my head I would say the best U.S. phones right now are ATT the Atrix, Verizon Incredible 2, Tmo LG G2x, Sprint still the Evo.

Personally I'm waiting for the Galaxy SII next month.
The state of university didactics
Universities are the place where two main processes take place:
1) students reach the highest grades of education
2) cutting-edge research

Most of the people working inside universities work both as teachers and researchers, but they perform the two tasks in very different ways.

Modern research activities take often (almost always?) advantage of international teams of people, peer review and in some ways go beyond the single university.

Didactics, on the other hand, is far back behind as far as I can see (in Italy, at least): every teacher seems to be reinventing the wheel in every single course of every single faculty in every single university, even if most subjects are widely overlapped.

I think this is a big disadvantage for both teachers and students: for the formers it means more work; for the latters it mean a more partial vision of the subject and more error prone didactic contents. If I were a teacher, I'd like to see other teachers' contents, peer review them and maybe use them as my course (under some sort of licence). As a student, I would like to be given easy access to high quality didactic contents even if they are not written by my teacher or inside my university.

I also think wikipedia and google are not enough here, since I'm talking about university-teacher curated university-grade contents. Arxiv and similars neither, because I'm not looking for papers.

Isn't this a major issue in the university didactics? What is the state of didactics in your university?
Could not agree more... spreading the counter message is best way to deal with it.
I'm not sure how reliable this data is because some vendors like AVG, Microsoft (for .net) forcibly install their extensions without prompting users.
I know that nobody outside of the Python community cares, but it's disappointing to see that Tornado still doesn't use Twisted for its event handling.
Mate, I've spent time in every mainland capital. I would put Darwin, Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane ahead of Sydney. Sydney is, IMNSHO, overrated.

Adelaide is boring and Canberra is a freezing public service ghetto; Sydney has them well beaten.
There is no rule for rolling back transaction in real world too: once other party is gone with whatever was traded you have almost no way of "rolling back" this transaction.

Real world brokers though have settlement period for releasing funds for exactly this reason - so the transaction could be rolled back if necessary.
Weird as it may seem, but Microsoft's change in focus from native code development to the .Net platform with all the associated hype, has been the single most important reason why they were left behind in the technology race.
And, I am sure this realization is dawning on them. :)
I love this kind of thing... It started at almost kind of sort of science, the it wasn't, then it was, it became legend, then people research it to see just where it came from.... And no one really knows. I love this cultural-socio-anthropology. Thanks for sharing. I will undoubtedly add this to my vocabulary.
Did anyone else feel uncomfortable with Chrome turning on the mic, recording sound and posting it to a foreign server without asking whether it was allowed to? Feels like this could be abused. Would have appreciated an "Allow goolgle.com to access your microphone?" security question.
That's not a very good analogy. I mean, when they do that they are not seizing the items in other stores and keeping them.
hilarious because reddit is down right now.
In Hong Kong, it's basically 16% income tax. No sales tax. No capital gains tax. There's little you can deduct.

It's my understanding that most of the governments money comes from, what is essentially, property tax (I think technically you can't own land in hong kong and it's sorta rented out by the government, but I think the more I'm typing the further away from the truth I'm getting).
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I moved to Australia 4 years ago from China, uncensored internet is one of the best thing I have here, in China, government monitor everything on internet, and block plenty websites regarding politics and free speech etc, basically, government block anything they don't like, even the websites they not sure about.
I wish the internet won't be that bad in Australia.
Shenzhen isn't the safest place to go though (for a tourist)...not the worst either.
Android: Things That Cannot Change
Duplicated story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2681554

Many many comments there.
Artificial milestones to proceeding with a plan or taking an action, you're describing a literal milestone of fitting everything in your car due to a practical need.

I was down to the point of it all fitting in the boot of a sedan but had no rhyme or reason to it at all, I was just acting out against a bunch of other stuff because I figured once I was done, I'd be "ready"

_that_ is an artificial milestone.
china?
Aah looks like they are only counting addons installed properly from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/. So that rules out rude vendors.
"radical new case design" for the next iphone 5
Adelaide is bad, but it is the cheapest as well. Each ticket lasts for 2 hours, on trains, trams or buses. The problem with Adelaide is that it is too spread out, as soon as you leave the 1 mile city center, you hit the suburbs with houses with front and back gardens, all low density housing. It will never be good.

Sydney public transport sucks, it is very expensive, each ticket counts for only one trip. The trains are ok, the buses are very bad. The roads are awful in Sydney, and too much congestion. The state governments response to this is to build more roads, because they are too scared to make proper decisions.

Melbourne has the best public transport, but as with all Australian cities, it is too spread out (not as bad as Adelaide).
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I'm not saying it's the best place in oz, just that it beats the hell out of any place I've lived in the States, Latin America or Europe.

The quality of life you guys have is ridiculous. I don't know if a lot of Aussies get that.
Another city in Aus, perhaps?

The 'huge tax on wine' is because you can get four litres of cask wine for $4 - or sometimes less. Oh, how onerous! I actually find it amusing that wine-lovers are screaming bloody murder because their preferential treatment over other alcohol types is coming to an end. Wine isn't being 'super-taxed', it's being equalised.

High prices for imported items? Traditionally it was because we had a weak dollar, and prices haven't caught up to the strong dollar - but that's okay, because we can order online with ease now. Our dollar hasn't been strong for very long at all, only a couple of years. General pricing moves slowly.

Ridiculous house prices I'll give you (and no politician will sign their own resignation by doing anyhting about it), but moving to another country merely to avoid those things you list? You're cutting off your nose to spite your face. If you like US culture (or wherever), then sure, move there. I know a guy that moved to Canada and won't stop raving about it.

But be familiar with the culture before you jump ship - you may be suffering from 'grass is greener' syndrome. The US has plenty of problems as well; they may suit you better, they may suit you worse.
For web development the Chrome developer tools are very good. Frankly I can't seen myself living without them now.
You go through a lot of trouble to try to secure an inherently insecure protocol (email). Or do you mainly use on-the-wire encrypted mail as well?
> owning decent cookware and some living room furniture adds a lot to my life

Yes. The debate between "having things" and "not having things" seems wrong-headed and the OP sounds a bit like a thing-vegan. "I gave up things and now I'm sooo much healthier".

Things are tools. You should own things in order to do something with them, not because merely having them makes you happy (or because not having them makes you look cool (you think)).

Also, you find that good tools are often old tools, because you know them well; since you know their flaws they slow you much less than having to learn the workings of a shiny new version. (Joel Spolsky talks about this somewhere when he says he's still using Corel Draw).

My motorbike is 14 years old. I'd find it hard to live without a motorbike, but I certainly don't need to buy a new one when the current one is still running.
"Batteries need to be replaced every 3-6 years depending on use, so figure $9000/yr battery cost for this machine, not including the $1000 or so fees for disposing of the toxic waste (lithium batteries are not accepted at the dump)."

Batteries are going to be way more cheaper when you give the old battery, in fact as technology improves, they even can give you money if you replace the battery( when nano materials improve, you need way less lithium and other raw materials that will be more expensive as demand grows up).

"which are a serious toxic waste disposal problem."

You will be stupid if you throw them away "at the dump":
(Those people extract lithium, watch the tendency)

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:SQM

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:FMC

Recycling batteries is very easy to do, compared to extracting it from the earth.
Speaking of the cheap economy, how does it effect things like consumer electronics? Would you expect to pay $1,500 USD on a MacBook pro, or is stuff like that also cheaper in India?
Of course, he could have some arbitrary thing against cities which start with the letter 'M'.

But why would that be worth posting?

I'm trying to argue the more general view of how amazing this country is and how _that_ is the consensus view and the OP is in the minority.

He could be a miserable sod for all I know. But again, that's not my problem or that interesting to anyone on HN.

The awesomeness of Oz on the other hand? There's a lot of supporting material for that position.

I was simply trying to balance the picture for other HNers who have never been to Oz.
SF is unusual in its love for public transport (cablecars! trains! trams! buses! trambuses! bustrams!), I don't know about Sacramento. But SF certainly isn't normal for PT in the US.
I was going to say this. IE probably looked at the development cycle of major releases for the next year and thought it would cost them a fortune in cakes!

Wouldn't surprise me if Firefox changed their release tactics to get more cakes...
This is like sending elephants to catch mice. They cause more trampling than all the mice combined.
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I'm kind of surprised an URL with "justin bieber" made it past the HN crap filter, but the article (and linked paper) are interesting.
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They are required to block some usenet groups, though: http://www.internode.on.net/residential/product_features/pre...
Cool stat. I don't use extensions normally because I just don't feel like I have time to install them or care. I have a million ideas for serious life-changers, I swear. But at the end of the day, where do you fit in installing a browser plug-in to your schedule?
I'd like to live overseas at some point, so I can't speak to global comparisons. I just think that if international folk put Sydney at #2, the other capitals I named ought to be coming in at places -3 through 1.

(Grass is greener etc).
Ok I'll great you the fact that for security issues trying to contact them privately is probably their preference. But in this case where talking about a bug that causes a machine crash. I don't know but does that even constitute a security flaw? This is more a major software flaw then a security bug. If all bug that makes browsers crash were sent to that security report email, they would be overwhelmed quickly. If it could be used to exploit the machine I'd be with you and would suggest that the bug be reported through the vendors security channel.
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What advantages would switching to Twisted bring to the Tornado project?