skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be worth noting that there's another possibility besides those. Perhaps people actually are less trustworthy in more racially-diverse societies, in which case it needn't be the case either that the more diverse societies aren't trusting enough or that the less diverse societies are too trusting.

... How plausible is that? Dunno. In a racially-diverse society, especially a poorly integrated one, people of different races might well tend not to treat one another in ways worthy of trust. But it's complicated: they might also be more reliable towards others of the same race. In such a society, anyway, there'd be no such thing as "the degree to which someone should actually be trusted" because it would depend on who's considering trusting whom. Not to mention, e.g., that in such a society there could be a lot of divergence between how much you "should" trust someone else for your own sake (less) and how much you "should" trust them to help fix the messed-up state of society (more), etc., etc., etc.

Some things that aren't clear to me about Putnam's work, and that seem important: In racially diverse societies, is it only inter-race levels of trust that are lower? Putnam's work, IIUC, is concerned with the USA; are things different in places where there isn't a history of slavery? or where racial diversity on something like equal terms has been going on for longer? What actually happens over time in these less-trusting more-diverse places? Is it specifically highly-visible racial diversity (black, white, ...) that is associated with these differences in trust, or do you get the same thing with religious or cultural diversity that doesn't have quite such visible markers?

Oh, I can answer one of those. According to http://abstractnonsense.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/ethnic-dive... Putnam found that intraracial trust is less in more-diverse settings, as well as interracial trust. That's a shame.
What type of internet connectivity is available in your area? How much is housing/cost-of-living expenses?
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Ah, but how does that replace DOSBox? iirc, Windows XP does not support real mode DOS software.
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Time with varying nature of the relationship of human dependence on animals have already been started. A time when the the cow had just given the most to our civilization. The use of animals vary according to time a man took his own flexibility. Today we know let 'll give you 5 to about Dangerous breed dogs who can be train the way that it becomes like the human blood hungry.
you might be interested at using Jekyll for that purpose; http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll
I've tried to use Quora couple of times but I really don't see the point of it. If you want to ask a programming question, you get an answer on Stackoverflow immediately and Stackoverflow is designed specifically for that purpose whereas Quora's design isn't good enough for programming questions. It doesn't even do syntax highlighting. For me, Quora is one step away from a forum.
Yes, that is exactly the problem.

One interesting anecdotes I heard from Stephen Wolfram the other day is the inverse correlation he's noticed between an employee having a post-graduate degree and their general curiosity and knowledge about the wider intellectual world. It's far from a perfect correlation, he said, but it is noticeable.

It's probably fair to say that the problem lies largely with universities and the way they structure their curricula and more generally the form of post-graduate studies.

I have no idea how to improve matters. But the obsession with early specialization and standardized testing is probably a good place to start.
What is Amazon's average conversion rate? BetBuy's? Victoria Secret's?
Someone told me on IRC that Plan9's maintaners can't keep up with the work and they don't accept much help.
Veracity looks definitely nice on paper and it will probably be viable option for new users / projects moving to DVCS.

However, the problem is that it doesn't offer any KILLER features that would make it worth migrating to it from Git/Mercurial/Baazar/Fossil.
Regarding Stack Exchange, I understand (and agree) with your view that there are lots of verticals it won't work in. But do you think programming is the only vertical in which it can work?

My view is, the model will work well for some places, badly for others, and that's perfectly fine - for the places it works well, it works really well. For the others, other solutions will be thought up.
I'm glad I'm not alone in making this observation. From where I stand, it sure seems like your could build a functional equivalent (or better) by just using a database table for the queue and be done with it.
It would be cool if you could automate a system like that with window sensors, multiple temperature sensors around the house, and the ability to automatically enable/disable the A/C and the attic fan.

It could text/email/call you to open the windows, and not stop bothering you until it detects the windows are open.
ah well, just read the readme. mobile webkit support is on the roadmap.
I love how an article in a US paper about US defense strategies and US lobbyists working to get US politicians to make choices that only affect the US, is filed under international.
No, it is insane to worry about every possibility.
Some telegraph systems appeared to continue to send and receive messages despite having been disconnected from their power supplies.

What would cause this?
I mean, really which rogue state can or will possibly launch a nuclear missile over Switzerland?

FTFY

Seriously now, nukes are not toys available at every street corner. And the idea of rogue states is more or less fanciful. The dangerous thing is painting the picture of an imminent US invasion, which can keep the crazy people in power (and justify the need for nukes).

You don't really need a nuke to strike terror, just plain old conventional explosives. You are also never safe so long as you are in a crowd.

See: terror is not about killing people, but terrorizing them http://www.schneier.com/essay-124.html
I get what your saying, but $400 is still a lot of money today for a lot of people including those not in the US. Other consumer electronic devices have dropped in price, but the entry point for a new computer has stratified into price tiers with the sub $200 being ignored.

Even the C64 or Atari 400 were not in the price range of many people. Spreading the entry point for children / teens to become programmers has taken a hit.

Given the down votes, it makes me wonder if people were really concerned with OLPC's goals or just wanted a cute laptop for themselves. We seriously need to fill the low niches so smart, poor children have an opportunity to get into programming and explore like some of us more privileged people did.
Refuse to be terrorized (2006)
While i agree with the thrust of the post, the argument is severely undercut at the point where the author writes that Quora's problem is that it doesn't solve a problem, and then immediately turns to observation that twitter doesn't solve a problem either, and is wildly successful.

This is not cogent writing :P
> Ditto for a few shooting sprees in shopping malls.

I don't know, the day after <insert your favourite high school shooting here> my neighbourhood supermarket was open like any other day.
That's true. It's said that Turing himself didn't immediately realize the importance of his machines -- he went straight on to considering oracles and super computation, as if Turing machines themselves weren't worthy of further study.

Perhaps it is nit-picking, but I'm going to play devil's advocate and question exactly how important the theoretical notion of a Turing machine actually was for the practical development of computer algorithms. Probably a much more important development was the invention of the Von Neumann architecture and its use in the IAS machine and later the JOHHNIAC. And also lambda calculus for its spawning of functional programming languages.

Von Neumann is the best example I can think of a blue-sky thinker whose work had profound practical impacts all over the place. Maybe a recent example of an ingenious pure mathematician who made a practical impact is Terence Tao's invention of compressed sensing.

But on the whole, no-one would argue that the next cryptographic breakthrough is going to come from category theory. Some parts of pure mathematics will always be useless, and everyone knows it.
So, if your living in an urban area that has a large base of people selling old stuff you are good. If that isn't available to you then you have problems. That leaves out a lot of kids who could have been programmers.
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>but the surge of electrical __particles__(???) produced by the bomb scatters down to Earth and affects electronics like a giant bolt of lightning

Where were the editors and fact checkers?? The __ __(???) was added for highlighting.
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It doesn't go very deep at all -- I've checked. It is pretty wide, though.
I'm confused - using TIMSS data to compare Asian Americans to Asian Singaporeans (what Sanandaji did) is laughable, but using TIMSS data to compare Americans to Singaporeans (what you did) is not?

I'm also not sure what causation you believe Sanandaji is attempting to show. Could you explain?
Probably not a bad place to start is just iTunes U. There is some pretty cool stuff curated there -- I'm just delving into Andrew Ng's machine learning course.
This is my idea of a natural stress test site. My last attempt (hasrebekahbrooksbeenarrestedyet.com) got to a sustained 3 hits per second.

(please no Denial-of-service-style hits though :) I can run ab by myself)
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Sorry to nitpick, but is this guy really making a point that a site with a bland design ( = no rounded corners and gradients) isn't fun to use?
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I'm surprised they didn't call it what it is -- electromagnetic radiation. Sounds much scarier to most people in our science-adverse society.
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http://www.schneier.com/essay-316.html

I didn't get to give my answer until the afternoon, which was: "My nightmare scenario is that people keep talking about their nightmare scenarios."
even w/o any sources it's very clear that FB is in some trouble.

FB's USP was a few weeks ago that it was THE social network and everybody was on it. That's changing and FB is just another social network. And that's not a good base for an IPO.

but anyway, the source this engineer sounds authentic -- fb uses so-called "lockdowns" to push product innovations
You can build radio transmitter to kick off other GSM, TV, radio stations, Wifi, but it's illegal and authorities can easily found the source of the signal. I don't think it could be a big threat to national security.
Counterpoint: the DC sniper meant that people shoot down plenty of outdoor gatherings just based on the fear that he might shoot somebody.

Or even the hunt against geeks/trench-coat wearing people after Columbine (instead of just going after people who had told you they felled homocidal and where on antidepressants known to cause people to feel that way).
As a millennial who actually works his ass off I always feel somewhat compelled to respond to these. Many of my friends who just graduated, especially non-developers, actually want nothing more than to put in hard work and get stuff done. Unfortunately the few jobs that are out there for young people rarely actually involve working hard if it is building towards a career. Sure, you can go off and work your ass of as a waiter, but if you want to go into something that's going to give you a long term career (an internship or intro office job), guess what: you wont be required to work nearly as hard as you can, and it will fucking bore you, and will not require even 20 hours a week of actual work, and in the end you will have pushed some papers around. When you compound this with the fact that the cultural presentation of work that we've gotten for our entire lives is that "it sucks and there's nothing you can do about it" (something I whole-heartedly disagree with), it's no wonder our generation is "lazy."

Millennials "lack direction" (at least in work) because they are being told over and over again that they are in the most fun time of their lives, it's all down hill from here, and that there is no chance at a fulfilling work life. Outside of software engineering, there is little "hard work" available that actually builds towards a career. Finally, when you add in the massive moral ambiguity of working at many companies (Philip Morris seems to own half the country), it again becomes very difficult to become motivated about work. I think most of us really do want to work hard and accomplish things but it is really not clear how to do that.
Generally it seems natural resources only stunt the state of a country and benefit very few. Norway appears to be one of the only places with rich natural resources and a working society.
Summary of what is on the list:
Tools and web services
Research, Web prototyping, Testing and Building Tools
Useful blogs and links for startups

Plus links for European startups and Israeli startups.
Telegraph signals are sent by turning on and off the current in the wire. If the solar storm generates a sporadic electrical potential (rather than a constant unchanging one), then the receiver will get an apparent transmission, although it will be complete gibberish.
Work hard, eh? I'm sure the author has spent many years contemplating this unique advice. I've got more fatherly advice while we're at it: save money, try your hardest, don't put your elbows on the table, and close the door, you're air conditioning the entire neighborhood.

In all seriousness, did anyone else find this post incredibly condescending? If the new generation has these problems (and I don't think they do anymore than the generations before), it's going to take a lot more than platitudes to solve our problems.
The Atlantic isn't a paper, and on the website, people who write have a bucket (business, politics, whatever). This guy is an Iran scholar, so it's unsurprising his bucket is "International".
"Why [The Author Believes] Quora is in Trouble"
I use it already for generating websites, but I haven't seen a plugin for it that makes it easy to generate slides like these.
I must admit, as an American male, a little older than you, my score was also so low, I'm too embarrassed to even mention. All those years of cheating on vocabulary tests (merely by memorizing the words 5 minutes prior to taking the test) in high school did not help. It's one of the those things I look back on in life and regret. Does anyone have any suggestions on ways to catch up ?

edit: forgot to mention, while I am a native English speaker, both my parents tend to speak Polish most of the time, while I always reply in English. I have to wonder how much this had an affect on me.
You could just turn it on for a few seconds, then go dark and drive away. Or trigger it remotely. You don't have to personally be at the source.
This looks pretty easy to use, and powerful too (3D?!). I'm going to try this out right now.
Let's not forget that work is a vector quantity: direction is as important (or more important) than magnitude.

Also, it's important to understand the relationship between work and productivity. I knew a wannabe programmer who once bragged about how much "hard work" he put into an 8-hour day of manually tweaking data, when he could have written a program to do it in a half hour.
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The vocabulary you need for scientific discussions can't be measured in these kinds of tests, because it is really very specific. So your english vocabulary may stil be a bit bigger.

The words that are measure here are the words that you'd use in "general" conversation I guess.
The problem is you probably can't reasonably fund a school for disenfranchised segments of the population without resorting to massive busing. So you'd literally end up with a system where normal students get a decent, but probably not vastly superior eduction, and other students get no education at all.

This is why the current system is better that the one proposed. If you want to contribute to other people not getting an education, the govt shouldn't pay for it (hence private schools shouldn't be funded if they're going to select who they want to serve).

The other alternative is that funding is commensurate with things like family income. So rich kids aren't funded at all. Poor kids are funded at 5x their cost, or something like that. This works a little better as its slightly harder to game.
So the worry is about terrorists launching an ICBM and detonating it at high altitude? How many conventional cell-phone bombs can you make for the price of an ICBM? How many would it take to knock out the US power grid?
Fixing XSS in Perl Catalyst apps with a really big hammer
So how long is the solar storm duration?
Triangular Notebook Design
While this is for a paper notebook, it would be neat if this were also applied to a computer notebook or tablet.
I am 4 short of 500 karma, so I can't give you a downvote - instead, I make this comment. I'm an Indian, and I find it very hard to believe that an entire nation unequivocally hates another country. Firstly, there are plenty of educated, curious and free-thinking Pakistanis who bear no such hatred toward India - just read the blogs in the Dawn website. Second, among those who aren't educated nearly well enough, I imagine that the preoccupation with day-to-day survival is far more important to them than the hatred that they are told they should feel toward a remote enemy.

On a meta note, why is this still on the front page? This is worse than politics - any discussion of this will devolve into vague statements(in the absence of actual knowledge or data) about how one country is better than the other and then rapidly into name-calling and jingoism. I hope we can keep this type of story away from HN.
I wonder if they could do this to a computer notebook or tablet?
Stop debating whether Ruby or Python is better and learn both. They're both great languages and they're super similar, so once you've used an in-depth technique like the one outlined in the article to learn one, you can learn the other super easily in a lot less time.

If you know both, you can make an informed decision and choose the right tool. Even if you're using Django to write your webapp, you'll be able to use Chef for configuration management. If you're about to embark on writing a new project, you can choose the language that has the most mature libraries for your problem domain.

You also won't have to rely on all of the apparently subjective things people say in comment threads about which language is better when choosing one.

While you're at stop saying how bad C/C++/Java/Scheme/PHP/javascript/haskell/C#/Cobol and learn those too (ok, maybe not Cobol).

Remember a few years ago when everyone was all hating on javascript? Now, all of sudden it's the awesome lingua franca of programmers and the language hasn't changed a bit. The perception changed because some smart people learned its strengths and wrote good libraries and runtimes based on those.
I also would be curious about the efficiency of said weapon. Most of what research I believe the US did into these kinds of weapons revealed that they wouldn't be very effective. Just because it's nuclear doesn't mean it's going to magically transmit it's energy over a 1500 mile wide radius through the air, and jump past all of the plastic and metal "shielding" around your electronics and the wrapping around the electrical system. I'm not saying it's impossible, I just think that if it were that simple to transmit electricity efficiently to devices, maybe we would have good wireless electricity already.

Update: I'm sure these guys are at the center of the scare, so they may be biased, but here it is all the same: http://www.empcommission.org/docs/A2473-EMP_Commission-7MB.p...
This is similar to the google io slides template:
http://code.google.com/p/html5slides/
and demo:
http://html5slides.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/template/index.h...

The html5slides supports some nice animation options.
I think for the HN crowd (generally not a lazy bunch), this may come off as a bit trite. But what the author is saying here is not confounded. I have plenty of friends who fall into this category. They fail to realize that in order to get somewhere, you have to work your ass off. Not to mention, his remark about caring about popularity and fame over having a nice family or caring for others is spot on. There are a lot of intelligent kids ambling about, carelessly making choices that for the most part will not help them to excel or move forward in life. For those that it applies to, this is a good article.
I have been a long time user of Quora, as well as a long time detractor.

While I think there is a very interesting critical mass of user, I agree that it is largely a valley audience. There are some really interesting answers on there, which I have found valuable; but I have maintained that its flaws are too big and too many for my tastes:

* The UX sucks. While they have made some minor improvements - it still sucks. I had posted about this prior on Quora as well. It was also made worse by their constant self-back-patting on the UX/UI where they were claiming that the users were too stupid to understand the design decisions they made, and that they were in fact design decisions not mistakes. They were constantly praising how they learned so much about good UX from facebook.

* The lack of threading is retarded, and makes discussion impossible. The fact that you can only have 1 sub level (a comment) is just wrong. The claim was they didnt want discussion and that the answers to the questions were meant to be definitive thus not needing discussion. BS.

* The colors and fonts/sizing used is horrid and makes it very difficult to navigate. The use of 'facebook blue' the light grey and then the bold black are all in the wrong order. (http://i.imgur.com/Y9EPV.png) It doesnt work for quick visual scanning.

* The entry boxes are broken; when you begin to type something, it hijacks your cursor and disabled the backspace. e.g. if you try to type @username or http - it makes it difficult to fix typos.

* it is impossible to navigate topics clearly, sort or save any meaningful data. You cannot tag or vote in a meaningful way so as to promote answers either. You can only browse a subscription/follow feed in a linear 1-dimensional manner.

Ultimately, Quora is a one dimensional service which had a lot of early hype due to its founders and early adopters having real influence in the valley.

There is good info, but the architecture of the sites containment of that data is like the work of a talented child with a lot of potential being praised for their genius too early and resulting in stagnation and reinforcement of an idea that started as a good seed, but was ultimately not thought out well enough to scale - ultimately feeling dated and as more-broken-than-not implementation.

So, I go there about once a week for a quick scan - or travel over via HN links to good posts, but I spend very little time on there any longer. The information value in exchange for my time there is too low any more.
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Still waiting for the GOP caucus on chemtrails or lizard people... what is it with the Republican party and paranoid conspiracies?
Correct me if I'm wrong but Quora seems to be useful only to those who have been invited to join it. It's not really a public-facing site in the way every other Q&A site on the internet is.

So I'd say it's even less useful than Yahoo Answers. I can't remember even once, googling for a question and getting a Quora page in the search results.