skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like you're giving access to the people that need it the least. Seems like you're simply shifting the self-interested (I don't mean this in a derogative sense) motivation of making this country better by not allowing 'job-stealing' immigrants to the equally self-interested one of making this country better by only allowing those who will improve it.

I'm not completely sure how I feel about the issue, to be honest, but I'm an immigrant (my parents brought me when I was an infant), and I probably wouldn't have made it here under either the criteria that exist now nor the ones you are promoting.

What I know is that the dream of immigration to the US is about having a better life for you and your children. Don't the poor and uneducated deserve that dream just as much as anyone else?
Wealth is not money. Money is just a store of wealth.

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Yea, I know that legacy MBAs and "shareholder value" based on stock price is horrible and certainly helped the demise. Ackman (a activist shareholder who specializes in takeovers) once proposed that Borders takeover B&N, which of course would have been horrible.
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I hate those self-checkout things, but for a different reason than the lady in the article.

The bottom line is we haven't gotten the tech right yet. The machines measure several different variables in order to keep shoppers honest: the speed of the scanning and bagging steps, the weight of the bagged item (compared against a database of acceptable weights), etc. The problem is that false positives are all too common, and it's impossible to back out of a false-positive scenario without help from an attendant. I find the results deeply unsettling, like a science fiction nightmare scenario come true in miniature, and these machines have become like miniature versions of GLaDOS from Portal: hostile, paranoid, seeking to catch you out and make you feel bad with their irrefutably friendly female computer voices.

It's telling that when I committed the unforgivable offense of putting something in with a different measured weight than the database said the scanned item should have, the attendant came over and said "Sorry about that. She gets a little sassy sometimes."

That's my sign that the future we've dreamed of and feared is here. We're putting computers in charge of formerly human-mediated decisions, but people tend to forget they're not humans so they frequently get it wrong and you can't argue with them like a human.

I would love to see business processes streamlined by machine. But keep humans on the job until the machines stop sucking, please.
The Sun is now "dead".

Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data.
I always thought that Android's raison d'etre was to prevent any other company from dominating the smartphone business (Apple having apparently the best shot at this, but would still apply if Microsoft or RIM seemed likely to) because they would then have a huge opportunity to cut Google out of the loop - they could use Bing for their default search engine, have a built-in mail app that's not Gmail, etc.
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I don't know about that. There's still the rest of society to consider. Which is to say, there's still his personal professional integrity.

I guess it depends on the circumstance. If the school knowingly encourages cheating for profit, I would think integrity demands playing whistleblower. In fact, I'd apply that to any organization knowningly doing something shady -- bring it to light or accept guilt as an accomplice.

If the school believes in academic integrity, but the compensation for teachers results in perverse incentives, it is important to do the right thing anyway--defend the academic integrity of the school, work on fixing the system, and in the mean time put social pressure on other teachers to do the right thing until the system is fixed.

I agree that it's not the professor's responsibility to pursue the matter beyond his influence at the school. If there's an office of academic honesty, but it's lax, the best he can do is lobby to improve it. But inasmuch as professors have absolute control over the grades they distribute, I do think they have a responsibility to be fair with them.

I can see leaving an institution over a lack of academic honesty. I can see working to reform or improve one. I can see failing a student for cheating, but washing your hands of it when the school does nothing further. What I cannot see is saying to society at large, "On my reputation as an expert, this student can do calculus," when you aren't sure it's true, for the sake of a less stressful workplace and a higher salary.
One of the posts mentions:

"Most of the Linux distributions make changes as needed to make the
terminal emulators send ^? for "backspace", while almost everyone else
uses ^H. They should also modify the terminfo entries in ncurses, but
not all of the Linux distributions do _that_."

Almost every ncurses program I've seen seems to hack around this by checking for the ncurses definition of KEY_BACKSPACE as well as 0x7f.
I was not proposing censorship. Reddit, as well as slashdot, HN, digg, etc. have a community process developed with the intent that the best comments make it to the top. The structure of that process determines what makes it to the top. Changes to that process can, very substantially, cut down on amount of certain classes of degenerate content. When bigotry began to appear on reddit, the reddit founders did nothing to combat it (and, indeed, slightly encouraged it). At the time, I think it would have been fairly easy to contain.

At this point, I'm not sure what can be done, since now bigots form a substantial portion of the reddit community.

For example, there was this guy named Lou Franklin who was probably the biggest bigot in the history of the site, and they took YEARS to finally ban his account.
I think RoR and Django are both great frameworks. If you think that Django is too restrictive or inflexible, you are relying too much on the framework and not on your own abilities as a programmer. Django gets you up and running quickly, Python is where the real magic happens.
Second hand shops are everywhere, how is that any different?
is there really much competition? chile is in the southern hemisphere, so the seasons don't match up. i would have thought that when american peaches are in season, chilean peaches will be terrible, and vice versa.

as for transportation - america is a big country. i am not sure "local" californian peaches on the east coast will suffer much less than chilean peaches - in both cases, significant transport is necessary.

disclaimer: i live in chile.
I've been known to use the scanner instead. Then it's free.
This. I have a Master's from a top U.S. University. Both of my sisters live in the US. I have personal resources well above the average American. But, under the current law this is not enough to move to be close to my sisters. In a point based system, I will get points in several categories.
I would like to point out that I have no political allegiance to Joe the Plumber myself, and found that whole stunt quite pointless and populist.

My criticism is towards the parent's specific argument. I saw a strawman, and felt that it was doing a disservice to the topic.
...at the current market price for manual farm work, which is low because there are plenty of people from other countries willing to work extremely hard for low pay.

Prices are low partly because they have no bargaining power due to their lack of legal status. It is the threat of deportation and the resultant economic insecurity that keeps such people in an 'underclass' and prevents them from participating more fully in society, even if they are paying taxes or otherwise invested.

Tariffs have been repeatedly demonstrated to be a failure, as has economic autarky in general.
This is elementary TERMINFO stuff. Nothing significant about this at all.
The technorati seem to be obsessed with video calling but most people run the other way from video in business / team applications -- turn off the camera and get on with the work I say.
Obviously you're going to disagree with me. You gave a talk about this at Djangocon, didn't you?

I'm not saying Django completely sucks -- I'm saying that in certain ways, it gets more and more complicated, rather than staying simple as you grow or build projects that need to scale.

Disqus is a clear outlier here, so I could be wrong. It just seems that every time I encounter a problem, someone says "It's easy to hack Django to fix this!" and that's the problem. I don't want to hack it -- I want it to work like that in the first place.

Pylons was AWESOME. I need to give Pyramid a try, I've heard great things.

I'm also certainly not badmouthing the contributors, I'm criticizing the framework's design. Which is something that's really hard to change after years of momentum.
Just for your first line, feeling pressed is different from feeling depressed, and I think that the article is referring to "feeling depressed". It is more or less trying to convey the same message as yours which conveys doing something instead of sitting idle. It's just that you want to get things done in a hurry. See the analogies to believe - Gordon Gekko, Bill Gates.
I've often found myself needing -- and thinking a/b building -- a webapp/site for taking/collecting screenshots of other sites. But I'm not sure it'd actually be useful and I certainly don't know if anyone'd pay for it.
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Notice how you automatically assume that the person pointing out bigotry is in the oppressed minority. This is not always the case.

If you expect a Christian on a site full of atheists to have to be thick-skinned, then by the same logic, you should expect an atheist in a high school full of Christians to be thick skinned. I don't think either of those conclusions is acceptable.
"Classy."

It would shut everyone on HN (and the US) up that seem to think that we don't need TSA security.
"Murdoch Meltdown Monday."
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It's good relative to the assumed baseline of Novell keeping the MonoTouch etc. IPs but not actually investing in or supporting them, and Xamarin having to recreate everything from zero themselves.
Hi,
Product Manager for Datasheets.com from SiliconExpert here.
Good to hear your perspective.

Datasheets.com has direct relationships with hundreds of electronic manufacturers and dozens of distributors. As such, the likelihood of finding a part number on datasheets.com is greater than any single distributor/manufacturer website by itself. I would encourage you to try a search. Let us know how it goes.

Also, Google searches for part numbers can at times provide non-electronic industry related results. Simple example: search for "DMV" on Google and you will most likely receive results for the Department of Motor Vehicles. Search for "DMV" on datasheets.com and you'll see results for Diode families from electronic manufacturers.

The difference really is between horizontal vs vertical search engines.
www. works for me, * . doesn't.

*.newsinternational.co.uk has that error uniformly.
Is this really an option? I am Mexican, but don't know much about this type of technology. We have big deserts next to the sea.
Absolutely correct. The compensation part was just one of the many data points, but a point that many people can relate to. A couple of thousand dollars per year would not make a difference in my life. It is mainly a signal of appreciation for the work.
Since you talked about accomplishing a decent company, here is the argument - http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/28/peak-age-entrepreneurship/
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This just in.... users of NYT.com like yogurt (see banner ads).
Somewhat off-topic, but this struck me as an incredibly American comment. The idea that it's getting "too late" to achieve "impressive success" or whatever you call it before you have even finished your university education -- or even high school, that is. None of the richest men (counting the more-or-less self-made men) in my country seem to have achieved any success until they were well into their 20s.
Thanks for the feedback Ajju. We'll have this fixed shortly.
> coders who think that return is an keyword

What makes you think it isn't?
Kinda sad, but for my book-buying habits, used books on Amazon have killed my fiction buying, and NoStarch, Manning etc., have killed my bricks&mortar tech-book binges.
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I can confirm that is a ridiculous process in germany to raise money from VC's. It is mostly so complicated and time intensive. even for a small amount of money, less than $1 million, it is the same pain. finally the entrepreneur has many times to pay the lawyer's who are setting next to you and doing more or less nothing than some standard paper work.
There were quite a few of these that popped up ~5 years ago. I think most of them are gone.
Hard to believe a decade ago they made movies portraying Borders and BN as evil and ruining book stores. You have got mail came out in 98.
Why did this get downvoted? This guy is 100% correct and not being offensive. WTF, HN? See: post today about downvotes.
Should we compare technology with or without the ideological context in which it exists?

What if humankind got better results with an unethically (to some) produced program. Would it then be unethical to promote software or technology that would hinder our advancement, just because it doesn't promote certain ideologies that this person believes in? (This applies to any technology). Should the ideology of software be more valued than what the software itself does?
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As a very random anecdote, I attended NYU myself ages ago and while I was not a business student, I did take classes at Stern.

Unless things have changed, the amount of cheating in Stern is astronomical compared to courses from the other schools within NYU: Of course there were cheating problems elsewhere, but nowhere else was it done as brazenly or as part of the shared culture of the student body.
There's also no evidence that keeping taxes low (the opportunity cost) creates jobs. Just look at our employment performance over the last decade
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That reminds of a similar quote from F1 racer Mario Andretti:

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
"Re. Tylenol, 7 people died in an isolated area, and the response was national legislation and money and materials spent tamper-proofing every drug made since then."

This needed to be done, otherwise someone would be able to do it again. It's not like it hasn't happened. This fear is based on a real case where real people died. Just like the security the US has in its airports. Which is interesting, because there hasn't been any successful terror attacks since 9/11. I would say that their job is being done quite well.

"People are still scared of Halloween candy being tampered with (which in and of itself has never been recorded as happening)."

I will agree with you here, this is a ridiculous fear, which is based more on myth than an actual case.

"By that logic, we should have outlawed cars years ago; more than 7 people die every day in accidents."

They do, but we need cars. We don't need non-tamper proof Tylenol. Although it may never happen again, there is an obvious flaw in the way Tylenol was bottled and that flaw needed to be fixed.

Of course, if they didn't fix this flaw, there would be a fear of Tylenol and people wouldn't buy it..and if it happened again, Tylenol would get sued from anyone that died (then what would we say..stop being afraid?). Fixing it is the smart thing to do.

Should we not wear seat belts either? The chance you will get in a car accident on the way to work is fairly low. Is this just "fear"?

We take preparations all the time, even if there is a small chance that something bad will happen. This is because when something bad does happen, it means death. It seems you don't value human life as much as the US government if you are willing to take that risk (and force everyone else to take that risk).

When Y2K happened, there were a ton of systems fixed (I worked on a few myself). After the new year, many people thought that nothing happened, so why did we make such a big deal about it? If nobody had taken the precautions and fixed these systems, there would have been problems. You (and anyone else against security) are comfortable. You don't see any direct threats and feel that security and precautions aren't needed as a result of this comfort.
Yeah, most of those were for thumbnailing.

What I'm talking about is most like a screenshot version of archive.org.
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According to sabu they're going to release the sun's email dump tomorrow.

http://twitter.com/#!/anonymouSabu/status/93062692327264256
Thanks for choosing comfort and convenience. I'll let what's left of the icecaps know that you won't be having them over for dinner any time soon.
The difference between my keynote and your comment is that I gave suggestions on how to fix the things I saw problems with, and I didn't belittle people by implicitly trivializing their apps in suggesting they only have "10 users".

Development and production settings is trivial with Django, so if you had problems with this, then I don't know what more I can say.

Lastly, there is a world of difference between developing a Django app and developing an company that deploys Django apps. There are some design decisions that were made in the beginning that makes the former easier and the latter more difficult. I think you're conflating the two.

In any case, I'm done with this thread.
Of course there are. But I gather you doubt that there is significant variation in intelligence in the population at large, due to factors just as biological as those leading to the child/adult differential. That is the purpose of all this 10000 hours stuff: to deny that some people can't learn some things.
This seems really inappropriate for HN, to be honest with you. Please, with all due respect, leave this stuff for digg or reddit.
That's not how our diaper service works, as far as I can tell. They seem pooled to me.
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The 80/20 "rule" arises when quantities are distributed as a power-law with typical indicies [1]. "Incidences of cheating" is not such a quantity.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Pareto_princi...
The technical term is not 'a general practitioner' but 'one ordinarily skilled in the art.' And that ordinary skill is in the directly relevant art. So the proper question is 'was the invention novel and non-obvious to one ordinarily skilled in the art?' And here we run into endless problems because one of the best tested psychological phenomena is the 'hindsight effect.' Once things are invented and become part of popular culture or of the culture and lore of a technical sub-group they are (remarkably quickly) considered to be 'obvious.' Hordes of people who have never invented anything in their lives moan about how 'obvious' this or that patent is. If it is so easy, they should just stop moaning and go make those billions you so mistakenly believe are so easily to be earned by inventing things that are blindingly obvious. This is an absurd argument. It really is time to put it to bed. If something is blindingly obvious at the time, it probably won't get a patent. The USPTO and other such agencies are not perfect but they are not total imbeciles. Will some bad patents get through - yes. But if you want to spend your whole life focusing on edge cases why spend it on patents? Why not do something useful and campaign for prisoners' rights? After all, we know that some prisoners are innocent? So the whole penal system must be abolished, right? If we are going to have sensible discussions about patent reform we have to get some of the basic facts straight. And one of those basic facts is that what is 'obvious' now wasn't necessarily 'obvious' then and no amount of whinging from today will make that act any different. It has been 'obvious' now for some time that if you have HIV you should take antiretrovirals but it wasn't in 1982 when we started to identify AIDS. That's just 28 years ago. 'Obvious' is a slippery term - get used to it. There are no useful discussions about patents without getting over it.
I never followed it that closely, I just remember that there was an article or two posted here that made the claim. To me both look like as straight a translation of the command line to the web UI as was possible.
Of course - it's so easy that only someone of high moral character wouldn't do it.
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Funny to see this at the top right before StayFocusd (chrome xt) warns me I have 5 minutes browsing left!
I've got a slightly tangential question on this topic if you will. Do you track any stats on how many people have trouble with either finding or using the "forgot password" process? I'm asking because our web app follows standard forgot password process (the "send me a hashed link to the reset password page via email" version) but 25% of calls to our helpdesk (>1000 per month) are requests for help to reset their password. We've tweaked the process numerous times to try and make it more visible/easier, but the numbers remain pretty much the same. I'm curious as to whether anybody else is seeing similar numbers?
This essay is definitely something to keep in mind, albeit it's probably easier in theory than practice.

I'm probably a little older than most of the Y crowd. I've worked at a few very successful startups - pre and post dot com. For one of them, which changed the travel industry, I was literally one of the first people to put down code and my own stab at defining their architecture - I was there before there were any formal employees.

But now, I have a kid on the way, never really made millions (sorta got close), can't seem to find that 'magic' again, and there is definitely that notion that time is fleeting. Over the past decade I studied a lot of philosophy - mostly buddhist and hindu. I meditated, quieted my mind, enjoyed my moments, and felt very peaceful while the world flew by. I dropped out of working for a year to learn how to write electronic music (played music my whole life, got pretty good at the electronic stuff) - this was probably the happiest I'd been in a long time and I 100% did live day to day, creating, constantly getting better.

Lately over the past few years though, life's changed. The thought that I am getting closer to getting older and starting a family adds additional pressure. It seems much simpler when you're by yourself - which is why monks follow that route. Ultimately, we make the decisions we make and we have to learn from them.

As someone who's been programming most of my life, loves technology, and still appreciates the latest and greatest, I'm still drawn to it. At this point, I can see how things should work and feel like I really appreciate things that are designed well. However, there's only so much time in the day and I don't really crank on code for 10+ hours anymore. I keep thinking that I can compete with a lot of people for tech knowhow, but maybe my real potential is to pass all this on to the next generation.

I'm sure that I've been more fortunate that a lot of people on this rock, but I still don't feel I've felt that success I've wanted and, yah, it does feel like time is running out.