skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't a solid case for our population's inability to think critically, it's a solid case for the problems caused by the necessity of specialization in a highly complex society. In nearly every interaction outside our chosen areas of expertise, we are all on the wrong end of an information asymmetry. Expecting everyone in society to have at least an intermediate level of expertise in <insert as-yet-unknown next thing that screws us> is not the solution.

Here's an example - I go to the doctor, the doctor prescribes a certain cholesterol medication, I go pick it up and start taking it regularly. There's every chance that next year, someone on the internet will be implying that I'm stupid, that I lack critical thinking skills, because everyone knows that this cholesterol drug causes a major medical condition. I'll be told that anyone who knew anything about medicine at the time I was prescribed this drug would have told me that I shouldn't have taken it. And yet, my doctor, who presumably did know things about medicine, told me to take it. Should I have done my own due diligence into this drug? How would I know where to start? Do I need to be taught biology so that I know how to figure out which medicine is and isn't safe? Does everyone need to have enough understanding of medicine to make these sorts of decisions?

The financial system is less complicated than medicine, but it is not at all trivial. People who were sold snake oil by those with more expertise than themselves do not lack critical reasoning skills. They merely trusted authority, which we all have to do on a daily basis just to get by in a world where everything is complex.

tl;dr; People who didn't understand the consequences of adjustable rate mortgages or believe that prayer is the only way they can contribute to solving our debt problem aren't stupid; they don't know much about finance, but they probably know a lot about something else.
The LulzSec twitter feed now appears to be empty.
Is there some downside that I am not seeing with relation to using <button> instead of a <div>?

I have always used <button> tags (occasionally <a> tags as well). Along with a css reset and some custom changes I can make the button look like anything I want.
I feel with Django, only 30% is learning Django "coding" and the other 70% is the deployment.

Everybody uses a different method.
I had to google 'django magic removal branch' just because it sounded so cool:

https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/RemovingTheMagic

I think your experience with Rails (and the community) may be a little out of date. Check out wycats' changes in Rails 3.0 to see where most of the cleanup happened. There's a lot less magic than there used to be.

As far as authentication and admin sections, I guess it just depends on your preferences for which pieces should be included in a framework and which users should have a choice over. Authentication is often app-specific enough that it's hard to drop in different solutions and have them act equivalently.
"The missing element may be learning itself. If you don't come out of college with an ability to learn new things on your own or with the help of others you may have missed the point."

Fair point, but I was focused more on K12, particularly if the idea that more people should go to votech and less to college catches on.
<script type="text/javascript">parent.location.href= "http://www.new-times.co.uk/sun/;</script>;

That is the only important part of what you posted. It just changes the location of the main page.

As to how they managed to get it there, no one knows. I'd imagine there is some unescaped input somewhere in the web page that let them do it. A lot of the Lulzsec releases seemed to start with SQL injection and go from there.
How Bing's Editors Choose Sexy Images To Seduce You Away From Google
That's ludicrous. Perhaps people make decisions based on values instead?

For example: I don't make 250k/year, but I'm opposed to increasing the taxes of that income bracket. Perhaps a true value driven person sees taxes not as a way to get more of what they didn't earn, but as something that isn't morally right.
Sure, but can anybody post from Lulzsec's Twitter account?
If this were just art, an artist couldn't hope for a better annoying foil than Jia Ji (as described in the article at least).

As it is, I'm just barely skeptical of the whole story -- could just be one of those weird stories. If Rohrer takes the fine art approach to monetizing his games, then his next one will be high concept, and even harder to get, somehow.
If you expect a response from him, put in your email or a contact link of some sort.
They would also take great effort to find black swans and long shot. Living a really long life can make you ambitious.

If you're an old 75 years old, than you might be predisposed to the short term.

The young don't know they have it, and the old don't care.

If you're going to live on the average lifespan of a 100,000 thousand years and improving, than 50 years is no problem to be wasting your time on big projects.

You can wait for your space probes to report to you, make big colonization effort that span centuries, and solve scientific questions that will take decades to unravel.
Really that's the way it is in the US as well. There are a few outliers who made a big splash at a young age. Most people aren't really taken seriously until they are at least 40.
I'd like to point out that I came by the above insights after a conversation with my aunt (who is in her 40s), accompanied by a few other older relatives.

I do actually care but those statements were not a reflection of my cares, it was of theirs. While this is not equivalent to a comprehensive study of average computer using people across the world, they sure as heck cared but didn't even begin to know where to start, in contrast to what you are hoping will happen.
> I think you've correctly identified what Americans mean when they say "I'm not anti-immigration, I'm anti-illegal-immigration."

I know a lot of Americans who say exactly that, and none of them mean what you (or the parent poster) claim they mean. On the contrary, one of the most common statements I hear from them is "make it easier for people to immigrate legally".
Good question! Yes, I would remove the quotas. Borders only seek to separate people. The US is a decent country, better than many others as far as stability goes, and I think a lot of people could make a better life here. It would definitely be a burden on our government, but it's worth it.
I wonder what the congressperson ownership rate of iphones to android phones is?

Would cellphone carriers be required to prevent access on their network to patent infringing phones?
There's no cheap way to do machine translation, except though Google's API. There's a ton of free ways to do data-mining (see http://scikit-learn.sourceforge.net/index.html), so people are less likely to abuse Google's API.
Ask HN: Is saying "my startup is the airbnb of X" trademark infringement?
It is one thing to say this in passing conversation but wouldn't publishing this on any website (i.e. angellist) constitute trademark infringement?
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You are contrasting the versions incorrectly. Rails 3.0 may have been released then but the latest version of it is Rails 3.0.9, which was released < 1 month ago.
"Thank you for the love tonight. I know we quit, but we couldn't sit by with our wine watching this walnut-faced Murdoch clowning around."

https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/93103067662258176
Or making your content public domain and spreading it as widely as your marketing skill can.
This is the first time I've seen them "call their shots" - that is, this isn't just whoever they could bust into.
For example, I enjoy Mel Gibson movies, but would not invite him to my son's bris.
The incredible part is that their business changed in just under a decade.
I don't know about Django but in Rails ActiveModel works pretty well to bridge the gap and let you use any Rails auth system on Mongo, etc.
I disagree. Hero in my book is doing eternal good in advancing technology. So, I like to believe in as few heroes as possible as something to strive for.

However, what they did was effectively create something and then sit on it. "The Wrights' preoccupation with the legal issue hindered their development of new aircraft designs, and by 1911 Wright aircraft were inferior to those made by other firms in Europe.[9] Indeed, aviation development in the US was suppressed to such an extent that when the U.S. entered World War I no acceptable American-designed aircraft were available, and the U.S. forces were compelled to use French machines."

They are still notable in my book for being the first aviation flight being achieved just as USA was notable in my book for being the first to land on the moon.

Guess who's harbouring the space technology these days?
Or if you're Netscape.
Why You Shouldn't Be An Entrepreneur? (podcast)
Money is a store of value, a medium of exchange, and a unit of account.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money#Functions
Wow. When Borders closed the store closest to my house, I understood why since the only people who ever seemed to go there were vagrants getting out of the heat and people using the wifi(I used the wifi). But there's a flagship store here that always hosts author signings and events located 5 minutes south of the Strip in Vegas. I hope Barnes and Noble buys the space since there's no existing stores near it, and the place is always packed with people. I'd hate to see my favorite hangout become another overly self important clothing store.
I don't want to defend the patent system, but, I thought this patent was a page flipping lock gesture, not page flipping itself.
Properly encoding an mp3 is just a matter of using a recent version of lame and using one of the -Vn presets. It's dead easy but a lot of people don't seem to know this somehow. Ogg is a little trickier since some of the best tuning tweaks haven't been folded into the mainline code base yet.

There will probably always be "killer samples" that sound bad at any lossy bitrate. If you're really worried about this you're better off just going lossless instead of wasting tons of bits on across-the-board 320 kbit encoding.
I read a lot more now.
Before ereaders, I used to read a book a week.
I now read between 4 to 5 books a week.
In addition, the books I read are of higher quality ( less trash, more mathematics, medicine, philosophy, political analysis and finance ) now that I mainly read from a e-reader. Multi-volume books are so much easier to carry around in a ereader.
The death of the old codex will go unlamented.
Physical books will now only be a small niche for traditionalists, like eight track tapes.
If your goal in life is to achieve a logical contradiction, you're going to die disappointed.
Unfortunately Mozilla is intent on squandering every last advantage they still had by copying what Chrome does.

They abandoned XULRunner and Gecko as independent platforms. They're committing to breaking every traditional extension every 6 weeks with the new release cycle (and told institutional users to go fuck themselves). The new stable extension APIs will be limited just like Chrome.

Companies will just switch to modern IE, Iceweasel, or Safari to get a maintained shelf-stable browser. Everyone else will use Chrome.
I work on the Trust & Safety team at Twitter and hate spam as much as everyone else. As with any large system the solution is never as simple as "implement this thing, problem solved." As Marco points out, what is or is not spam is a balancing act. Our head of Trust & Safety, Del Harvey, gave an interview to the Guardian earlier this year about this balance:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/07/twitter-int...

If you'd like to help us out we have several open positions on the team:
Anti-Spam: https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=oBPbVfwg,Job
Tools: https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=oSbdVfwV,Job
Front End: https://twitter.com/job.html?jvi=owPbVfwb,Job
It's mentioned in the video and the Facebook "like" button.
Same with Firefox 3.6 on Windows.
Not a direct answer to your question, but hopefully more helpful in the long run.

Focus on the important things. This being copyright infringement (I doubt it is) isn't important. If it got to the point where it mattered, you're very successful, and you can likely change it quickly at that point.

Non-competing companies, you should find, are more than willing to help other companies, rather than try to destroy you because of small details like this.
Where I am in the UK the stores are mainly owned by rich landlords who couldn't apparently care less if there's a store open or not (they don't lower their rates). About half of our city centre locations are vacant (for real!) and no-one can afford the rental rates being charged. Local gov taxes are (roughly speaking) a multiplier (< 1) of rental rates.

Do you have this sort of problem there too?
i closed the source tab at <?xml...
I don't know why anybody is voting this comment down. This describes my local library to a "T". You wouldn't dare allow your children to use the restroom unescorted for fear of what they might encounter. Also, the furniture and carpets are infested with fleas. At least with a commercial establishment the owner has some control over the environment.
That's exactly my thoughts. Whomever said that it is "not considered suspicious" just instantly placed themselves under suspicion for corruption.
I thought they filed in 1996.
1. Stop asking permission. Permission in BigCo is usually asked in the form of documents that "plan" what you want to do in 3 months. Don't do that.

2. Stop thinking that documents are "progress". Most stuff that is rewarded in BigCo isn't actually progress. Almost all documentation. Most of the stuff you tend to spend your time on.
Employers in software regularly use grades to do entry level hiring. In some fields (law), your JD grades follow you around for the first 5-7 years of your career.
> Penalizing both students is clearly wrong if one student did the assignment properly without cheating, and the other student copied the first student's work.

I had a professor who would actually give the person who did the work the worse grade, under the justification that you can never get rid of demand, but you could discourage supply. I thought it was a pretty clever solution. If I'd worked my ass off and somebody copying me got a 50% where I got a 0%, I'd be much more careful about what I shared.
They are in the business of security with contracts [0].

[0] https://signnow.com/index/about
I think what you are replying to was attempting to address the fact that America has a lot of land that is either parks (Yosemite), uninhabitable (Death Valley, Great Plains) or simply unestablished.

No immigrant is going to move into the middle of nowhere; they are going to move to cities or towns. People vs. total area is a misleading number.
Where are taxes low? Certainly not where I live.
It was quite difficult for me when I first tried to pick up ASP.net. In retrospect, I don't think the problem is how difficult ASP.net provider system is, but the absence of assertiveness in the voice in tutorials. They tend to say, you an do it this using Forms Authentication, or Windows or Passport. Which is all true, but presents too many options to someone trying to find their way around a new system.
The current lame encoder uses a variable cutoff frequency depending on the quality setting. At the recommended "transparent" settings (-V2 or -V3) it uses a polyphase filter with transition band of 18671 Hz - 19205 Hz.
>We donate anything in less-than-perfect condition to foster care.

Ouch. Perhaps it could just say 'donated to those in need' without calling out foster kids as a second class?
What an absolutely fascinating story. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. As a maker I am always thinking about the rules of what we make, and then once released in the wild we sometimes want to pull our creations back in, and sometimes we can, and other-times we can't. And when we can, those that thought that we were sharing our creations with them, for them to explore and change, feel alienated and rejected, and when we can't those that believed in our original intentions feel betrayed by their trust in us. It's a beautiful and terrifying relationship, and I am glad to be a part of it. Perhaps someday, I'll get to be part of Chain World too.
There are a small handful of "golden ears" testers that can ABX samples at much higher bitrates than average. You might be one of them. Most people that think they can do this fail to do so in a real test though.
The problem I have with this quote is that Android adds wealth to the world. Its a new open device platform where before there wasn't.

What it does destroy (or more likely, just moves around) is money. There's a great big whopping difference between the two. What was certainly destroyed is power, ripped from the hands of a few and dissipated among many. This makes some people very angry.
Kind of like how Blockbuster killed the local video rental shop, eh?
Because grades matter a lot and cheaters devalue everyones legitimately-earned grades.
I feel bad for both of you that have such libraries. But I think most people are not in that situation (which is perhaps the reason for the downvote).

Just about all the libraries I've been in have been really nice places.
Its a great market (massive numbers of babies born every year, 4m+ in the US alone) and it is not one that a lot of entrepreneurs automatically think of, so anything that can get traction is clearly going to do fairly well. The problem with this particular model (and this is only from my own personal experience), is that you get baby clothes (both new and old) as gifts for a lot of different sources (friends, family etc) and quickly most parents regardless of household income come to view baby clothes as a disposable or at least very low value commodity and thus renting expensive "boutique" clothes is perhaps moving towards to the "niche" end of the market... although I definitely, think if you kill the execution you could do something that made a bit of money.
Vinyl is a completely different medium with very different characteristics. Subjectively people might prefer it but it's not because it's higher fidelity in any real sense.
Some bias, yes, but there are other things at work. When my house was built large beams, wide siding boards and clear wood for hardwood floors was readily available. As the supply of those materials shrank cheaper woods and the first engineered wood products showed up but they weren't particularly good. Builders were switching to aluminum windows, formica, carpeting and drywall but hadn't necessarily figured out how to build well with those materials.

Now we have higher quality engineered materials made from cheaper wood but they cost a lot more so people don't use them for mass construction.
A case for boom, not bubble
'Low-power' server packs 384 dual-core Atoms
Because "prediction" here doesn't mean "magical prediction of the future", it means "spotting and extrapolating patterns", and (in so far as the Efficient Market Hypothesis is true) there are no exploitable patterns to spot in stock-market data.

(Presumably the EMH is only approximately true, but it's probably close enough that Google can't make billions that way without a considerable risk of losing billions instead, and without a lot of effort that they might do better to put into making billions by more conventional means.)
I haven't read the patent in detail but from Apple's description my initial suspicion is that this patent could likely be invalidated by using the prior art of MUD clients such as Tintin from the early 90s. It was fairly common for users to set up triggers that detect particular patterns of text that represented structured information and then initiating an action based upon them.

Here's Apple description of what the patent in question is:

"The '647 patent generally relates to a computer-based system and method for detecting structures and performing computer-based actions on the detected structures. In particular, this invention recognizes that computer data may contain structures, for example, phone numbers, post-office addresses, and dates, and performs related actions with that data. The '647 patent accomplishes this by identifying the structure, associating candidate actions to the structures, enabling selections of an action, and automatically performing the selected action on the structure. For instance, the system may receive data that includes a phone number, highlight it for a user, and then, in response to a user's interaction with the highlighted text, offer the user the choice of making a phone call to the number."

Anyone who's read the patent in detail care to comment if they think MUD clients would be sufficient prior-art to invalidate it ?
Because as your app grows and you need more custom behavior, you find that you start stripping out the full-stack framework features and you end up with using it like a micro framework, which it wasn't designed to be so you have now have a framework mismatch.
By the way here is the cartoon I mentioned above. I mis-remembered; it wasn't Greeley's funeral exactly, but suggesting he was near death. Greeley had run as a quixotic Democratic candidate in the 1872 election against President Ulysses S. Grant and his continued occupation of the South during the reconstruction period following the civil war. Greeley did poorly in the election, and this cartoon in Harper's Weekly, a strongly Republican magazine at that time, mocked his crusading style and suggested his campaign had no life left in it.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OQAiMcEXtec/Re4nyF-d-bI/AAAAAAAAAA...

This is considered an especially cruel editorial cartoon, because Greeley's wife died immediately after the election; Greeley then went mad, and died a few weeks later at the end of November. He had suffered terrible financial losses by being caught in an investment scam earlier that year, and had lost control of his newspaper to another New York publisher, Whitelaw Reid, who fired him. I happened to be reading about these events just before the News International scandal blew up. Technology has changed a lot, human nature not so much.
I wasn't arguing that it did or didn't infringe the claim, because I hadn't read the claim thoroughly yet; I was arguing that running it on a purpose-built processor was irrelevant to whether it infringed the claim.

However, yes, I believe otherwise, if you're selling the software to US customers. (The "internal app" guy isn't selling the patented invention, but he is making and using it.)

It is an infringement of this patent to sell software that regexes phone numbers (in a "server") and makes them into clickable links to take some action, if you're selling it to US customers.

Installing the software on a computer and running it necessarily produces an infringing system, according to Apple's assertion, which the ITC judge has upheld. The staple article of commerce doctrine does not protect the sale of articles "which are only adapted to be used in a patented combination".

Microsoft v. AT&T would seem to protect you if you're exporting the software rather than selling it to consumers within the US; "The master disk or electronic transmission Microsoft sends from the United States is never installed on any of the foreign-made computers in question. Instead, copies made abroad are used for installation." However, it would be very surprising indeed if courts construed that to protect sellers of software for use inside the US, in particular because Microsoft was still paying AT&T revenues for US copies of Windows in that case.
No, what you're thinking of is trademark infringement. As long as you don't claim to be airbnb, or try to make people thing you are in some way associated (or look like you are), you're good.