skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the particular study you are talking about, so it's hard for me to comment on it.

In the grand scheme of things, I'm inclined to agree that it's social control from families, neighborhoods, and governments that determines crime. In the case of the decline of Detroit, the lack of social control was intricately tried to race in all sorts of way (ex. a history of societal neglect under Jim Crow that gave rise to an underclass culture, the black power movement that gave young black men a rationale for beating on whitey, racist policing that failed to police the black projects). Again, we're not discussing race to lay blame, we're trying to understand what happened. And in the context of this discussion, I had to emphasize and highlight the racial aspect, because the parent comment to my comment specifically denied that there was any racial aspect at all.

Imagine we are talking about slavery. I can certainly imagine a study that proves that slavery is not innately based on race, but rather has to do with relations of power (black on black slavery in Africa was really common, white on white slavery used to be common in Europe, a few slaveholders in the antebellum south were black, slavery has been common in virtually all civilizations, etc). Now imagine someone denies that "whiteness" had anything to do with slave owning in the American south, and that anyone who discusess it should be shunned. Someone else replies extensively and highlights that slave owning and oppression of slaves in the American south of the 1800's was "almost entirely white" and was intricately tied to race. Is that person racist against "white" people? No. Is that blaming all whites living now for what happened then? No. Should we not talk about the racial aspect of slavery, because some racist young black men might use it has a justification for violence? No. Understanding the racial aspect of slavery in that particular time is essential for understanding what happened in that time. Similarly, understanding the racial aspect of crime in the 1960's and 1970's is essential for understanding what happened to Detroit.
This is a good idea, but will never work. First of all the requirements wouldn't work. You would be investing in companies that would hire a ton of people only to lay them off after a project.

You would have better success by finding businesses that would hire and retain people. These won't be a company that has been around 10+ years. Those companies would put this money to better use.

Also it would be a crazy bet to give money to any business that has only been in business for a short time.

If you're really looking to freak people out, put your presidential candidates on American Idol and see who gets the votes. Why not just make a push for a resource based economy? Not THAT would really freak out a lot of people.

Good article :)
External monitor, keyboard, and mouse makes a laptop exactly as ergonomic as any desktop, but still perfectly easy to pick up and go.

It eludes me why any developer would be using anything other than a laptop. Headless machines for VMs and heavy lifting, sure, but why would a desktop be what you're actually "working" on?
Good point. The more people are scared, the less they'll give useful information, and the less they'll benefit from the service, so the less they'll give useful information...

Public versus private is a tough one, because many times I do click through to things largely based on who recommends them.
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You need to prioritize that never-ending list. Visitors having a bad experience should be somewhere at the top of things to fix. Adding feature X and Y should probably be somewhere at the bottom.
Very informative and nice summary, thanks for posting even though I knew most of it already it will surely be a good refresher to some. ;)
Seems like these guys are way behind Lockheed which has an unhooked version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kat8I5UM_Vs&feature=relat....
Growth is just another word for efficiency and innovation. We are far from having optimized away all possible production processes on this planet.
Google Code is BOSS! This is going to come in real handy.
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A lot of people aren't very conscious about this kind of a decision and are used to a lifestyle of driving multiple miles before getting to a grocery store.
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Actually, I think LinkedIn is a very interesting case for this kind of behaviour. I have long since removed a lot of personal information from my Facebook account because everyone on there is already my friend, and anyone who wants my phone number can just ask me for it.

However, LinkedIn contains a great deal of discovery and connection with people you don't know- if you removed your work history etc. then the site isn't going to be as much use to you. It isn't anywhere near as easy.
Out of curiosity, how do you categorize expenses such that in-office food is covered? I've wondered this before with coffee (getting in-office coffee as deductible, whereas out at Starbucks is 50% at best). Would be interested to learn how you file these expenses for your taxes.
Could you go into a bit more details? I'd find it very interesting to hear about a fresh real-world experience with converting a HaXe game to another platform.

Are there many places where the same code should work but, for some reason, doesn't? Or have you knowingly made some parts of the code platform dependent, and simply need to port/independentize them?
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For money- and while you might think it has tarnished their reputation, I guarantee that 90% of users have no idea about what's going on.
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> Some people have pointed out (fairly) that by not using noreply, you open yourself up to autoresponders and delivery failure notices. My response to that would be to go with an email address like friendlyrobot, which, when somebody replies to it, replies with a friendly helpful message explaining that nobody checks this address, and offering other addresses to contact.

Does this not run the risk of ending up in a loop?
The kindle app looks great, but it is definitely slower than the native app.
Is this new, or unusual? Not disparaging the submission, just wondering why.
neat. I wish I had a bit more time to play with your TOS gist. Unfortunately, I just skipped my morning workout to get what I got in the comment there, and now have to run off to work. (boo)

Oh well... that's why they call it a gist right? :) I think focus and blur events on the document or window are key to getting "perfect" TOS. Just have to think about how to make it most efficient ... I prefer doing away with the timer and just sending the data once in the UNLOAD event.

There's peril to that (browser crashes?) and maybe the 10 second 'tick' is better.

Dunno. I really have to go now. Breakfast! Starving.
In a sense it's like having a baby. There are always 100 financial reasons to postpone, but if you wait too long (despite 100 good reasons!) you wind up saying, "I wish I done this years ago!"
The only difference is the greater bureaucratic procedures in handling this data, but there is technically nothing off-limits (information-wise) to law-enforcement or security agencies. This is especially true in the wake of anti-terror legislation all across the EU. This will become more apparent as copyright lobbies are pushing for greater surveillance of internet users.

The old adage that 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear' has been thoroughly incorporated into modern state doctrine.

So downvote at will, but it would be nice to do so with some counter-arguments.
"outside the USA" != "in Europe"

I assume that WW would have used a much stronger phrasing, had the "Google spokesperson" actually said that. And a Google spokesperson is obviously careful when talking to the press.

Yes, it's not unlikely that they did -- but Softpedia is blatantly misquoting here. They base their writing solely on the WW article, and that one doesn't include anything to back up the claim.
"It eludes me why any developer would be using anything other than a laptop."

Based on my own experiences, here are a few reasons that I can think of:

+ Has a setup that involves 3 or more screens

+ Needs to use 2 or more hard drives

+ Likes the idea of having a video card that can be easily upgraded

+ Likes the idea of having a processor that can be easily upgraded

+ Needs to have two or more video cards

+ Needs to have two or more optical media drives
There was no bug tracker for nginx apart from the mailing lists up until 8 days ago :-) That's a pretty good and important addition for the project to engage with the community in my opinion.
Restaurant menu design is a highly specialized field, and there are many companies around that just do that. Everything makes a difference, the layout, the fonts, etc etc.
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Looks nice, looking forward to a Linux demo.

But that hideous image scroller on the bottom hurts my eyes :[
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So, are you saying that any features not offered in one OS but offered in another OS should be free, regardless of the development required?
The building I work in was designed in the early late 70s with that fact as part of the heating plan.
I'm not in SF, so maybe this is ignorance on my part, but how common is it for employers to provide lunch for their employees? Is that a Thing now? A few years ago, it was a big part of news stories about Google, how they have in-house chefs and lunch is free to all employees and all that, and that seemed like a big deal at the time. Has "lunch for employees" trickled down to small companies and startups? What % of startups do that? And is there a split between VC-backed startups and bootstrapping startups regarding who does/doesn't do it?

ZeroCater seems like a good solution to that problem ... I just had no idea there were so many companies doing that. Would love to hear experiences of people here.
Too bad Wikirank has been shut down... it was a great way to visualize Wikipedia pages traffic.

http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000998.html

The stats data dumps are available here: http://dammit.lt/wikistats/
> There's a difference between hiding something and simply not announcing it loudly to the world

But not a huge difference. It's something that would definitely be of interest.
I am highly skeptical.

1) 1 litre of fuel doesn't get you that far.

2) Was the entire course programmed into the plane? This is non-trivial given that high winds would likely push a small little plane off course.

3) Article claims that GPS telemetry was sent continuously. What did they use? Wifi doesn't work. There are no cell towers in the ocean. The only option that could remotely work is satellite data. That costs a fortune and has heavy equipment.

#3 is the big one.

EDIT: I am still skeptical but less so after reading the child comments. It seems HAM radio was used to relay telemetry. Communicating with a tiny moving object via HAM still seems a bit unbelievable. But I don't know enough on this subject. Also, the craft was supposedly using auto pilot over the Atlantic. I don't see how it is an RC craft ... perhaps a UAV would be a more appropriate term. Anyways, upvoting child posts for a stimulating early morning thought exercise :)
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Thanks for the explanation. I guess I was repeating what I've heard from the talking heads on TV that really provide popcorn financial advice.
> the law takes a backseat when security and anti-terror are involved

Read that statement. Again. Are you worried yet?

Are you saying that Europe is not governed by law, and citizens protections are optional there, or just that this is what happens in the USA?

If the former, I hope Europe can fix that. If the latter, why is Europe's problem?
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> seriously, people still use desktops?

Hell yes -- my desktop system is orders of magnitude faster than your laptop for development.
You are vastly over-estimating injuries on construction projects. They happen, but not like it was 1920 or 1850 or 2000 BC.
Just register a domain and hand out email addresses at this domain. Using google apps you can get away with just the domain reg. fee.
I did something like that.

I registered a new email at a disposable email address and set that as my main email while deleting the rest.

After that I changed some keydata in my profile to things that are incorrect and waved goodbye linkedin.
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Why is this a "hole"? One could argue that while such a feedback loop was necessary when computers first appeared, it may not be necessary in a world where computers are ubiquitous.

I don't think anybody is suggesting that PCs will vanish. Mainframes, after all, are certainly beyond their golden age yet they are still in use today.

Moreover, the penetration of PCs does not need to decrease in order for them to be eclipsed by something else.
Yeah the timer is a bit crude, working on a better script which considers an interaction as a click, scroll, or keydown and sends minimal events to GA.
Do these web apps work offline after you've visited/logged in and purchased content? One of the perks of my iPad native apps is that I can do things like read ebooks and play games when offline.
This is my favourite: http://stats.grok.se/en/201107/Rupert_Murdoch (it's amazing to think how influential Wikipedia could be at times like that)
My own conclusion: exercise and diet are overrated, I'll still do sleep experiments because I don't want to spend 1/3 of my life unconscious in bed. Things like uberman, everyman, siestas, melatonin supplements, and modifinil are all intriguing.

The writing of this entry bugs me. Generalizing from sample size of 1, "confidential sources" (he won't even link to papers apparently already published, all years ago!), and the sentence "For lack of space, I cannot explain here the ideal sleep architecture."

Taking the last stat to be true (Sleeping for <=5 hours per night leads to 39% increase in heart disease.) that's still only a change from something like 0.6% to 0.8%. (Initial percent from memory, so it may be off.)
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You can have my mouse and keyboard when you pry them from my cold, dead hands! (Or alternatively: When you invent input devices that are genuinely better for the purposes of inputting huge amounts of text and indicating intent on a large display mounted in an ergonomically suitable position)

I think that our current idea of what a PC is in in its twilight, however. A co-worker bought a brand new Macbook which proceeded to self-destruct (it quite literally melted) 2 weeks after they purchased it. The Apple store turned around a new one in minutes, obviously, but I couldn't help think - in a year or two from now, all his apps would be storing their data through Apple's cloud. The hardware would be completely fungible in that case, and failure would be an almost non-event compared to how much hassle it is currently.
Here's a smidgen of info: http://tam.plannet21.com/FAQs.htm#electronics
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It feels a little like the MoD are being attacked for not investigating these things more seriously, but as a taxpayer I'm not particularly upset by that. What do you think? Should I be?
If this compiles into Lua/JIT bytecode then there might be a use for it, if this transforms into Lua code then what is the point? Lua is a great and simple language, so this would seem useless
> It seems to me stunning that anyone can dispute the statement that "black people played a role in the decay of Detroit".

That statement, as it stands, is ambiguous, and that its implications depend a lot on what it's taken to mean.

Statement 1: Many of the people involved in the decay of Detroit were black.

Statement 2: Many of the people involved in the decay of Detroit were black, and their blackness was an important factor in the decay.

Statement 3: Many of the people involved in the decay of Detroit were black, and their blackness was an important factor in the decay because of some actual difference between black people and white people.

Statement 4: Many of the people involved in the decay of Detroit were black, and their blackness was an important factor in the decay because black people are stupider or nastier or crazier than white people.

Statement 1 is clearly true. Statement 2 is not clearly true. Statement 3 is very likely false. Statement 4 is almost certainly false. (These are of course all my own opinions; I am not claiming that they are self-evident.)

Statement 4, if true, might well have implications like "We should try to get rid of the black people" or "We should make it easy for white people to keep black people away from them" or "Black and white people should be segregated". Statement 1, on its own, would not.

There are plenty of people around who would endorse something like statement 4, and who would be happy to draw such conclusions. It is widely considered (and I agree) that these are not very nice people, and that the policies they prefer would be socially harmful, and that many of the things they believe about black people are factually wrong, and that if their ideas were more widely believed it would be a very bad thing.

That is why expressing views like statement 4 may "get you shunned". For the same reason, if what you intend is (say) only statement 1 then it seems to me that you ought to make that clear.

(I must say that I don't see why anyone would find statement 1 interesting, unless they think that what's really true is one of those later statements. And if someone finds such statements worth making, I am going to suspect that they may have in mind some conclusions of the sort I mentioned above. I suspect I'm not alone in this.)
My laptop can use 3 or more screens.

My laptop can use 2 or more hard drives.

Why does a developer need to upgrade the video card in their laptop? What is it they're doing? There are a lot of developers, and a fairly small set of them care about fast graphics.

Why does a developer need to upgrade their processor more than every few years? What is it they're doing? For the relatively rare developer that still has long compiles to deal with, why doesn't their company have a build farm?

Why does a developer need two or more video cards? What is it they're doing? Again, most developers are not in gaming or other high-end graphics work.

My laptop can use two or more optical media drives.

Laptops are not a little black box with zero expandability. Ports exist for a reason.
I'm not being naive, I'm being factually accurate. I would 100% agree with the statement "Microsoft has probably done the same", for example, but this article does not provide supporting evidence that they have.
Obviously, what you needed was a heated keyboard:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/heated-keyboard-keeps-fin...
Sorry, no. Source: http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-how-people-use-qr...

The title suggests that it could have been an ad hoc study done at the recent Lollapalooza http://www.lollapalooza.com/
What kind of development is that, exactly? I bet your IDE runs just as well on my laptop as on your desktop. Does your company not have a build farm? Why not?
1 litre of fuel could work with an engine that has a cylinder of a few cm3. Telemetry was probably by HAM radio or something similar. Nothing fancy like WiFi or satellite.
No one said it wasn't. The author claims that MoonScript is programmer friendly, but he never said that Lua isn't. It's an alternative, but not necessarily an improvement.
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Are 9, 12 and 13 year olds capable of being nice when they aren't genuinely feeling it?
Things like rate-limiting google by serving different disallows on every request, or tuning sitemaps for different crawlers.
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If this had been the other way round, I can easily imagine this issue going to U.S. Congress, leading to hearings, etc.
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It's a fascinating situation. I don't claim to know the answer or how much debt is viable. I do agree that the US isn't in the same basket as other debt-laden countries. They are an exception -- but for how long... I don't know.

I think there is a ceiling -- and I'm not talking about the official debt ceiling -- of debt. Is it 100% debt to GDP? 200%? 300%? It's somewhere. There's a point at which it just isn't possible to repay the money.
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It wasnt continuous telemetry from memory, just once an hour. The power consumption would have been huge otherwise. Cant remember how they were transmitting, but probably radio, which is why they didnt get the signal for 3 hours.

Also remember the wind is behind you flying that way across the atlantic. Helps a huge amount in terms of power required.
Orders of magnitude? I can believe your desktop is faster than a laptop, but 100x faster seems a stretch. Still, I think there are valid reasons for preferring a desktop. Besides it being faster, you can have bigger screens etc.
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I hate noreply as well, at least as it relates to paying customers. At Hover, we switched to a policy of using help@hover.com for the default reply-to on all mailers and it works quite well. Zendesk and our mail system do a great job of filtering out the automated messages and bounce backs and a human being gets the rest. The remainder are usually full of opportunity for us. Consider this Startups - every time you use no reply, you are throwing away an opportunity to solidify a relationship with a customer or potential customer.
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The users I know are aware of it, I made sure of that.
5 down, several million to go...

Seriously though, I think they're only doing themselves harm by mass opting-in their users.
Anecdotal Example: the deluge of 'opt-in' email that I receive has made sure I'll never opt-in to any advertisement program, and has at the same time assured that I un-check any box suggesting automated / marketing emails will be sent my way if it stays checked (such as those "Send me updates about the service" check-boxes that appear when you signup for many online services).

Now I'll be the first to admit there's no guarantee that if they didn't opt-in users that I would feel differently, but I have a feeling I wouldn't have such a grudge against companies and their automated emails if they behaved themselves. I think to some degree they are hurting their own cause.
On a similar theme, I wish Amazon would tell me earlier when an item won't be shipped to my location. You have to go right through to the purchasing stages to find out.