skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post I was replying to has no statistical claims. My example was illustrative; the broader point is that to advance a hypothesis that riots accompany withdrawal of social safety nets, but not their absence, you would need to show a general lack of riots in periods where social safety nets didn't exist in the first place. But there are thousands of examples of riots in countries and periods with no social safety nets; the Haymarket riots are just one random example.

Perhaps it is possible to perform a statistical analysis that shows that the absence of social safety nets does still, in general, produce stability, but I haven't seen one put forth. The linked article certainly does not include any data relevant to that hypothesis.
Agreed on all your points. However, the kids involved in this will come from homes that actively encourage them to shun all forms of authority and actively discourage betterment via education. They'll go on to have families of their own who will think and act the same way. There is honestly nothing in the UK that will prevent someone from succeeding other than bad parenting and there's only so much the government can do about that.
I wonder how these people sleep at night.
This is one of the reasons javascript should be used both on the server and the client.

The server would offload as many procedures to the client as possible (that is none if js is disabled, some if you don't want to expose your guts).

The server html renderers would be the exact same code in the client, the api would be a simple thin wrapper around your "protected" procedures.

You could event support ecmascript5 features on IE6, executing the js in the server.
Probably the Maybe monad most often, in usual code.

Or really as a shorter way of writing any smaller monadic code blocks.

I really look forward to using this new feature.
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Fire the usability consultants who designed this piece of garbage
Love the idea, but wouldn't it be simpler and more effective to just have them fill in the missing word without the images.
Not saying this was what happened, bu my netbook lists my broadband as Verizon Broadband Connection and displays it under wireless networks. If someone were to make a publicly available wifi hotspot under the same name, there is the possibility that someone not expecting the possibility of this to happen, to connect to the hotspot instead. Very low tech in nature, but just a random possibility.
> You can't mask wifi as a mobile broadband connection. (If you know how to do it, please share - I'd be interested to know!)

No argument here, I'm not an expert... but isn't this exactly what the microcell devices that AT&T (etc) are giving to customers do? You set it up on your home broadband and nearby users invisibly use that "tower" and it goes over your home network.
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That would work well provided your site isn't a high traffic site.
There is no oppression, just no equal opportunities for all. However, a sufficiently motivated and able person can do well for themselves in the UK regardless of their background. They're just statistically unlikely to.
So, i can be a d*ck as long as i'm smart?

Edit: I'm disturbed by the amount of grammar nazi's here that think the quality of someone's grammar reflects their personality...

If the goal is to keep the conversation civilized, why not do something along the lines of "Doing X is a more nice thing to do".
IMHO one thing the client needs to do to get a decent Python programmer apply is either relocate that job somewhere cheaper, or pay significantly more. In London, too much of that £45k is going to be swallowed up by accommodation costs.
My only concern with this is the reaction of various groups where culture places a heavy emphasis on the development of male children. Gender discrimination before birth (which can lead to abortion) is just something I'm not down with.
I guess smart dicks are slightly better than stupid dicks?
these companies need to realize that the old model doesn't work

You give them entirely too much credit, the cable tv industry is joined at the hip to news networks and inextricably to movie producers for broadcast rights.

And what do we know about the news industry and the movie industry? Both are in a state of flux because instead of chasing down a new method of distribution, they held on to increasingly irrelevant business models and now they're paying for it.

<CAVEAT EMPTOR>If Time Warner suddenly comes out with a portable VOD program, instead of locking me down to my living room - and produces one that actually compels me to keep using it, and doesn't expect me to have both home service and VOD as an extra premium, I will gladly eat my words. As it stands, I doubt that will happen, and I doubt it will happen in a cost effective way.

It's a beautiful idea, honestly. If they made a VOD service where you paid one flat fee that isn't a ridiculous cost for online video, I'd reckon the demand would easily make up the difference in costs leasing/selling boxes.
</CAVEAT EMPTOR>

edit for clarity:
With the news this is more talking to print news.
I'm sure there is a cool, hacked-together way to automate the process. And that might actually be a great idea for an app or utility of some sort.

My system to date has been very paleolithic. I keep a spreadsheet with all my bullet points, categorized by job and mapped to different Skills and Experiences (i.e., the things to be demonstrated via the bullet points). When compiling a resume, I cross-reference by job description and its keywords, skills/experiences to be shown, etc.

Then I sort of treat the process like a compilation of overlapping sets, i.e., "The job requirements are A, B, and C. I want to show that I've done X, which demonstrates A and B. Then I want to show that I've done Y, which demonstrates B. But maybe Z demonstrates B and C in a more effective way, so I'll use X and Z as my bullets." There is definitely an easier and more automated way to do all this, perhaps with databases, but I still value the organic process of poring over everything myself and gut-checking if the overall narrative flow makes sense.

As you might imagine, I played too many RPGs as a kid.
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I've made this request already on another thread. Please consider this rerequest:

I would love to see a tab on HN for people launching new products. i.e. a way to submit your startup for review. Since HN is essentially a startup community, wouldn't it make sense to distinguish a 'review my startup' entry from a 'NASA discovers oxygen on Pluto' entry ? ... especially considering that the submitter often has put months and months of time into it, and would REALLY appreciate and value feedback from other users, instead of quickly dropping off (or not even making) the front page ...
It is my understanding that -exec is almost always slower, since it generally needs to invoke whatever program you are using many many times more.
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Yeah; now that I think of it, it also may depend on how easily you can decouple inflation in external terms (currency devaluation vis-a-vis another currency) from internal inflation (change in prices in local currency). From what I can tell from Greek relatives, the average person didn't see much effect from the 83/85 devaluations, because there wasn't much internal inflation. Imported items got more expensive in drachma terms due to the exchange rate, but going to the barber didn't: he still charged about as many drachmas as previously, so your local buying power wasn't really reduced. It's just that everyone now both made and charged less money in dollar terms, which is actually deflation from an external perspective.
Am I to understand from the title that we are equating “poor spelling/grammar in English” with “idiot”? Or is there some more subtle mechanism at work, such as equating “can’t be bothered to stare at hard-to-read-text just to post lulz, wat?” with “idiot”?
How is the Brazilian embassy 'within the geographic borders of Australia'? That piece of land is part of Brazil (full stop), and for this reason (embassies) all countries are multiply-connected regions.

Edit: To be precise, their largest regions (excluding their own embassies) are multiply connected.
About the calculation of this WinFall game, visit:
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The best startups are those that show their data in a way that feeds into some psychological need, or become immensely useful as more and more people use it.

Anyone can also create a text box where you can type in 140 word status messages, but noone would use it... but once you design it so that it looks like a feed that makes you look like a Wall Street stock trader WHIZ, everyone loves it.

Anyone can create a Facebook, but it's worthless until you got millions of users. Same with Quora. Anyone can build a Q&A, but noone would answer any questions if there ain't people to impress with your knowledge.
I don't know for sure until I try, but I think can be useful for logic monads.
ok, I resubmitted my request as a thread, here's hoping it gets read by enough people to upvote:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2868110
this would also seem to discriminate against people who aren't native english speakers (or w/e other language).
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>Kayak lets you save searches so at least you don't have to enter all your information again.

The free iMacros macro recorder addons for IE, chrome and firefox solve this issue on any website: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imacros-for-f...
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I really like Sublime Text 2. My only complaint thus far is that in order to change colors in themes -- in my case, I only change the comment color in Monokai Bright from grey to green -- you have to find and manually edit the config files. Which, honestly, is pretty easy. I like the fact that I can use it both at work on Win7 and at home on my macs.
I don't really know per se, because we don't even have Starbucks where I live, but:

I thought the image was pretty indistinguishable from the app when viewed in an image browser. Most of them don't show any borders, so if you walk on the desk with the image ready, you probably couldn't tell the difference?
If you don't mind me asking, are you running those 120 paying restaurant customers as a SAAS type of deal or is each an independent individual?
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Very well in fact, pillows stuffed with dollar bills can do that.
Totally agree!

Ever tried the new Twitter? You now have to wait 12 seconds to see the Tweets.

Why not load the page in 1 sec. without the use of Javascript and use Javascript for realtime updates?
Because it's cool to use Javascript and make your page slow as hell?

Whats wrong with page-reload-apps that are lightning fast?

Maybe the hip Javascript developers don't realize a Javascript driven page needs at least 3 request (page + javascript + content) instead of 1 (page)?
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"Humans" doesn't consider eating bugs strange, just us westerners do. The only reason for it is cultural.

Eating bugs is very common around most of the world actually:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy
anyone know where I can download the hi-res versions of these pics? it looks like they're displayed through flash so all I could do is take a screenshot of a small pic
i like this idea..! I am planning to open source my CAPTCHA research if any one interested please contact me ..! you can find my research on http://dndcaptcha.blogspot.com/2010/04/textareaid.html

You can find presentation of the same concept here:
http://www.slideshare.net/desaiguddu/drag-and-drop-captcha-a...

If anyone of you are researching or preparing Survey presentation or educational research on CAPTCHA feel free to use the content from the presentation.
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as someone who ran a restaurant a night club -- everything above is correct.
I just have a script called 'bell':
echo -n "\a"

My terminal (urxvt) will detect the bell and set the 'urgent' flag on the window, which is detected by Awesome, which sets the appropriate tag* icon to red.

* Tag in Awesome is more or less akin to a virtual desktop.
He's missing this one

Fill in the gap:
a) it's
b) its

"The hacker got access to the server and killed ... processes"

lolz
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No, that's just a sideline, a thing people are investigating as to proof to the actual main question, whether or not this is a viral campaign sponsored by Starbucks. He quite firmly denies that.
I don't think it's really about being smart. Having a basic grasp of language so you can adequately articulate yourself in a conversation is critical to discussion. If you can't, then you probably shouldn't be taking part in the discussion anyway.

Too many people will spill there emotions into a discussion with sub standard spelling and grammar which makes it very difficult for others to understand them, which leads to inevitable misunderstandings.
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It might discriminate in their favour. On average, foreign students I studied with had much better basic grammar than native English speakers.
“It’s a theoretical issue now, but people are already doing it using ultrasound,” Bianchi said.

This comment seems off base. Gender selective abortion is rampant in northern India (especially Punjab) and China. Even the Economist has written on this (http://www.economist.com/node/15606229)
You're absolutely right, that was kinda the point of the article. I've run across quite a few people who think git is "distributed svn" and the gap between these two tools is much bigger than most appreciate.
Thanks for sharing this excellent talk. As a grad student and someone who wants to be an indie developer, this really resonates with me. I also enjoyed the _years of my life per program implementation_ idea.
Might be effective at keep the idiots out, but not the bots. The challenge sentence should not be in straight-up HTML.
This made me smile, but I don't think it would work. I suspect a lot of people could use the right form when asked outright like this (and as a last resort, they could Google it). The bigger problem is probably when people don't care whether they get it right or not when they're writing their comments.

[Pre-submit verification of 'there' homophones . . . . 100%].
And too few people know that GNU Parallel[1] is most of the time a better xargs than xargs itself.

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/
To be fair, some of them mostly submit stories (compare e.g. tptacek and fogus; the first has lots of comments but few stories, the other is the other way round.)
In my personal experience, non-native English speaks are far more well-versed in grammar than native speakers.
Could any js ninjas briefly explain what's the actual secret/js philosophy behind all these methods?
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Recruiter here. I get back to everyone that applies, or at least try to. Current recruiting software doesn't have a good solution for dealing with all the different use cases that delay the hiring process. Combine that with high volumes of job applications and it becomes a real pain.
That is a hack at best around a usability problem in your service if that is your recommendation.

If I ran a website and my users were using such a thing I'd consider that a major fail on my part.
There are multiple kinds of devices. Femtocell is basically a little cell tower that is in your home/business. UMA is when you can do voice over WiFi and it was backed by T-Mobile, but they have shied away from it and not introduced it with Android. It's somewhat tricky and needs phone support (for the handoffs between networks), whereas any phone can support femtocell.
The original article claims that a % change in social benefits is a strong predictor of riots. I'm assuming that by choosing to focus on this factor, the article intends to imply that it is the strongest predictor within their data set.

If that is the case, then the number of riots is related more strongly to withdrawal of benefits than to their base levels.

This would support joshuaheard's claims, though of course it doesn't rule out the possibility that riots(social benefit levels) is a nonlinear function, increasing near 0 and flat in the regime where the original dataset lived.
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Yes. The lower traffic your site is, the easier you can make the captcha. The truth is, most of us have pretty low traffic sites with no more than 100k hits per month, blogs for example. The key here is to have a simple but different captcha compared to the standard stuff. Pairing this strategy with a little bit of site-specific domain knowledge goes a long way towards discouraging trolls and idiots.

I think overall, bots would be negatively impacted by a more diverse captcha ecosystem even if the individual implementations are easier to crack. Spammers don't invest 10 or 20 minutes in cracking a domain-specific captcha system just so they can spam one single blog - they'd rather move on to thousands of sites that are protected by the same standard word reading puzzle. Of course, if your site rises into the upper strata of the web, you're also quickly entering a zone where the standard, hard-to-decipher image strategy isn't working so great anymore either.
I have to agree, this would be awesome
Interesting. Video from the site
http://news.discovery.com/videos/space-sdo-captures-eruption...
I think native English speakers are more likely to make such mistakes. Non-native speakers usually know the difference between those words, because they have the ability to translate the words back into their native language to see the difference.
And that the question randomizes pretty well. Otherwise posts could be automated.
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Seems to be a lot of serious comments about this when I believe the content was created with tongue planted firmly in cheek. That said, a valid moron captcha would be a wonderful thing in some places. It comes down to the old saying:

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook
I know this is very subjective, but in my opinion, the best sci-fi shows are those that manage to blur the lines between fiction and reality (fringe, alphas, not-so-much-but-sort-of warehouse 13).
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a cloze test (i.e. some text with a gap for a word) would do very poorly in filtering out bots, as they're much easier to do automatically than captchas.
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Actually yes, i left skype off the list accidentally.

I've successfully pair programmed via skype screensharing, but the image compression can often be a problem (as well as refresh rate), and there's no way to actually share work/alternate control in a pair.

It sort of works, but gets like a 65-70% score from me. Can get the job done, but seriously inhibits productivity due to lack of features.
According to the calculation by Hao Li in 2006 (should be at MSU that time) (see Hao Li's article at http://www.jofamericanscience.org/journals/am-sci/0201/06-li...):

By knowing the total tickets Ntt each time, Pjh can be estimated easily:
Pjh=1-(1-P6) Ntt
Lottery P6 is the probability of matching 6 numbers. In the case of the WINFall lottery, P6=1/13,983,816.
The total tickets Ntt each time can be estimated by its samples and their probabilities. The WINFall lottery has 4 samples, matching 6 numbers N6, matching 5 N5, matching 4 N4 and matching 3 N3 respectively. N3 is the largest sample of the WINFall lottery. As far as we have four samples in hand: N6 N5 N4 and N3, we use N3 to calculate the total tickets. Because the more sample are there, the small differences we have (Statistics Accuracy). The Ntt is:
Ntt=N3/P3
P3 is the probability of matching 3 numbers. In the case of lottery WINFall, P3=1/57.

To win is really practical.

However, government should make more money than buyers even following the abave rule.
Dang, I missed the link right at the top. Sorry for the blogspam.
Not necessarily especially if you've learned the language at school, analytically rather than organically.

These words/phrases are wildly different in other languages, and thus well distinct in the mind of non-native folks.

For example, in French:

were -> étais; etions, etiez, étaient (2nd person, singular; 1st, 2nd and 3rd person, plural)

we're -> nous sommes

where -> où
Agreed. If you're going the grammar route, why distort the words at all?
The attribution has a link to here[1] which can get you a days worth of images. --I'm not sure which telescope the article images came from-- The telescope name (or names in the case of the top image) are in the bottom left of the image, and they are from August 9th.

[1] http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/aiahmi/dayform.php
The grammar issues presented on this page are picayune distinctions with very little potential for major misunderstandings. Getting them correct is more of a social signal than anything else, like eating salad with the correct fork in some places and not eating food with your left hand in others.

I have real trouble imagining that a good point made with substitution erros is somehow less critical to the discussion than a poor point that doesn’t confuse it’s/its.
I don't think that cable companies view this as a problem. My cable company, Cablevision, has probably been the best of a bad lot with their iOS apps but none of them really wants any major disruption to the current system.

Those who are cutting the cord probably would've done it anyway because the prices have got incredibly expensive, especially with OTA networks demanding large fees.

I could see a Netflix, Apple, MS or Google managing to break the 'HBO window' but TV shows are going to take a much longer time.
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Jeff from coding horror for a long time used a very very simple "CAPTCHA". You just had to enter 42 (if I recall correctly), and it was always just that, nothing random. It served him well, and he has a high traffic site (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/10/captcha-effectivene...)
It would take much more proofreading to make sure the questions aren't ambiguous. Look over ______. What am I thinking? U = {these, there, this,....}
Aha, indexing the characters out of "false" and "true"... clever.
That's pretty much a courtesy, no?