skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anti-corruption bodies work well in countries with a strong history of rule of law and stable democracy, because there's a pool of incorruptibles to draw from, and the elites have a mutual interest in appointing them. Here in Australia we have a bunch of them at state level: ICAC, CCC, OPI etc.

Sometimes they turn out to harbour bad apples; but eventually those people too are discovered and removed. Recently a former manager in the National Crime Commission (a powerful anti-organised crime body) was charged, tried, convicted and imprisoned for colluding with criminals to import drugs.

The problem might be that the people with the power to appoint the guards are themselves only going to appoint their friends. It's a chicken and egg dilemma, but worth struggling with. Eventually there's a tipping point where corruption becomes the abnormality and everyone accepts independent arbitration. It can unleash enormous prosperity, which Indians deserve as much as anyone.
Research Paper Writing Styles
Academic writing is an important part of curriculum. The style plays very important role in writing various kinds of academic paper. Have you known that the guideline to your writing depends on the chosen research paper writing style?
well, here is a canvas / javascript version of something similar http://www.barbafan.de/farbzauber/w - works best on the ipad (and iphones of course) and some modern android thingies, wp7 not yet confirmed, as i do not know anyone with such a phone (would love a wp7 works/sucks confirmation if someone has a moment to spare, thx)
The world economy: A call to arms
One strong leading indicator of house price is rent. When rent is increasing, house price is 1.5 to 2 years away from appreciation. This is because increasing rent means the vacancy in a market is going down, more people coming into the area. Higher rent will push some people to start buying houses. Both factors force house price higher in the near future.
I might be missing something, since I just started learning it. But instead of drawing a circle like this

sampleSVG.append("svg:circle")
.style("stroke", "gray")
.style("fill", "white")
.attr("r", 40)
.attr("cx", 50)
.attr("cy", 50)
.attr("width", 100)
.attr("height", 100);

I'd prefer to express it like this

sampleSVG.append("svg:circle")
.style({
"stroke": "gray",
"fill": "white"})
.attr({
"r": 40,
"cx": 50,
"cy": 50,
"width": 100,
"height": 100});

That way, I can just pass object literals as arguments to functions such as attr.
Eyeborg: Man Shots Videos Through His Missing Eye
Rob Spence lost his right eye in childhood, but modern technology has allowed not only to replace the body of bionic prosthesis, but also to improve it – now in an empty eye socket Rob fitted a digital video camera.
The CEO's job is to do things that can only be done at the head, and delegate everything else.

Obviously by the time you have hundreds of employees you can delegate most of the work, but at a 20 person company, there are a lot of little things that fall through that don't necessarily belong on anyone else's plate. And at a much larger company like Apple, the title of CEO probably doesn't mean the same thing with regards to Steve Jobs as it does with regards to Tim Cook.

The only constant is that the CEO is the final authority on day-to-day business. But if I think you followed around 100 CEO's at various sizes of company, you'd see 100 different workdays. Yes, there are similarities, and you've named four of them. But there are differences, too. Being the final authority, and having the final responsibility, means you do whatever it takes to do what needs to be done as well as it can be. Usually this involves delegation and hiring, and sometimes you can't afford to do that.
Expression Sketchboard
Probably because Khan Academy is heavily biased towards mathematics and OCW heavily biased towards science/engineering.
Eid ul fitr 2011 wallpapers, pic, cards, Photos & information 
India is a multi religious and multi cultural country and there are many festivals celebrated. Eid al Fitr will be celebrated this year on August 30th, 2011. Eid ul Fitr or the "festival of fast breaking" is the most celebratory of all Muslim festivals. Eid means festival in Arabic. Muslims offer feast also called as Ramadan iftar to their friends and relatives during this month.Muslims celebrate by gathering with friends and family, preparing sweet delicacies, wearing new clothes, giving each other gifts and putting up lights and other decorations in their homes. Families begin this Eid morning with a special Prayer also known as Eid Prayer. People distribute sweets and children wear new clothes on this great Muslim festival known as Eid. To Get free download of Eid Mubarak greetings 2011 Wallpapers, Eid al Fitr photos, Ramzan festival 2011 wallpapers, Ramadan Mubarak cards, Eid ul fitr Pictures, Happy Eid Greetings 2011 pics, images, eid ul adha photos gallary.
that scenario isn't harassment but it is free speech. I'm not making direct personal attacks against you and I'm not threatening you, although I'm not saying great things about you

Your understanding is not correct. You are discussing territory involving slander/defamation laws. Slander and defamation are crimes. The important thing to know about slander/defamation is that, at least in the US it is not considered slander or defamation if it is provably true.

Now in that 2nd, really fucked up scenario, that's harassment

It's a whole host of things, many of which are wholly unrelated to free speech.
I searched for "Grizzly Bear Ready" looking for "Ready, Able" and got TechN9ne songs. Where are you scraping your data from?
Don't sweat it and focus strongly on your strong points and their weaknesses.
Window Treatments: 5 Mistakes that Could Devalue Your Home
The act of trigger-happy cavemen.
It just means the dollars have depreciated substantially. Nothing to see.

Seriously, housing is one of the best inflation hedges.
Thanks for writing it. I decided to start learning D3 last night and your tutorial was really helpful.
They're not shutting down deals. They're shutting down the desktop version - the mobile deals product still lives.

I think this is a sign that people are more likely to use a deals product when it's relevant to their location and current activity.
The matching segment to your query +- a few lines?
Who chooses the tastemaker? If that person doesn't have taste then the tastemaker won't either.
Envolve looking for Engineer, Designer, and Marketing Manager
Come on who in their right mind would claim that iTunes and iCal look as nice as the iPhone 4?
Why Blog?
Apparently some people feel that any violation of free speech is unacceptable

My favorite counterexample is, do you believe that disclosing state secrets to your country's enemy to bring about the destruction of your country should be protected by free speech?

As a side note, I get the feeling anymore that people trumpeting absolute free speech aren't exactly staunch defenders of Liberty and Justice; they just see a convenient excuse for why it's O.K. to make other people miserable.
Decoding in c#
There's also http://www.darklyrics.com/ but only for metal.
UI is something that is engineered? I'd hate to live on the planet you live on, buddy.
Twilight of the Information Middlemen
The assumption of "alumni" status amuses me, somehow. :)

But the answer is no.
Or a deliberate link bait to get eyeballs.
Personally, this seems simple. All speech is protected, you should in fact be able to post over 9000 messages in a threatening or harassing manor, whether the medium be twitter or some other online venue. Context is the tricky part, and no law will ever be able to define the posters contextual intent.

It would be too challenging to police resulting in far too many regulations defining what is/isn't acceptable use of freedom of speech.

Where do you draw the line? Twitter, message boards, email, web page, reporters, etc?

Enacted laws will amount to a game of cat and mouse where the cat is chasing every edge case possible. The First Amendment would be reduced to what the USPTO has become; A joke.

If the recipient feels violated, unsafe, or harassed, they should file a restraining order. They should use the tools that we have had at our disposal since the beginnings of law.

Restraining orders put due burden on the complainant, preventing frivolous complaints clogging our legal system, generating a barrier in which there need be noteworthy substance to the claim. If it is truly trivial, the complainant would not bother to take the time and expense ( http://aol.it/rtzBsd ) to file a restraining order, let alone go through the process of possible embarrassment for being what amounts to a crybaby.

Public figures, with their in place legal teams and massive resources must learn to thicken their skin. Unfortunately, it comes with the territory. A sanitation worker has to deal with less than ideal work as a result of the carer choice they made, the same holds true for those in the public space.
Individuality | Great Stuff You Need
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Pushes to Alter Anti-bribery Law
The people outside that group that don't are often in the category of moving outside their current city after they got cell phones. When you're going to have to change the landline number anyway, and notify all your friends of the new number, and they already all know your cell phone....

Most of the over-25s I know (myself included) that don't have a landline ended up dropping it during a move.
Thanks for the detailed comment. The first idea is a task management tool. The tool I'm building is to solve a. info overload, b. task management, c. solid reminder system etc. Current tools doesn't work for my needs. So, I'm building it, so that I can maintain my sanity in future.

I have mockups done, also finished a small prototype, using that felt good. So, I'm going on with it.

Second Idea is very big, but not tough to implement. So, I'm going to try this too.
Possibly scraping the lyrics?
Blogging Is An Addiction?
Your Questions About Work From Home
C&P from the project FAQ:

Q:

Why does better 3D TV matter?

A:

Desktops, then Laptops, then Mobile, then Touch: It has always been hardware revolutions that have enabled a burst of new software products and software companies.

3D is at the tipping point where it is not quite realistic enough to be heavily favored by consumers. We hope that the innovation of allowing the viewer's eye to accommodate will make 3D realistic enough that it will tip over the threshold where every consumer will want it for every product.

Imagine 3D laptops, 3D smartphones, and 3D tablets. Imagine when every web service and every application seem as tangible and vivid as reality.

Beyond that comes virtual reality. Light field 3D gets us one big step closer.
I need a little clarification. Are you essentially arguing that you should be able to say anything anywhere, and be judged at an appropriate date for it, rather than "prematurely"?
There's some really interesting data here, but I think one of the main conclusions they draw is wrong:

Confused students are far more likely to actually understand.

Looking at correct vs incorrect answers (almost 50/50 for 'confused' students), it seems like confused students are far more likely to guess.

Edit: I realize after posting this that it's important to know the test format to figure out whether students understood or were guessing. The article unfortunately doesn't say much about the test format.
Close, but in Clojure you'd actually write:
`(~foo)
or:
(list foo)
I like it, just needs some polishing:

* Black text in dark gray boxes is hard to read

* The logo takes up too much vertical screen space

* You should really point to your sources

* Some meta information (song writer, year) would be nice.

* noscript tags are missing
We are working on filtering out malicious code right now, we'll start thinking about content after that ;)
Don't people use google for this?
My problem with Mobclix was actually getting payment. For the first three months they only paid me after I waited the 90 days and contacted them numerous times asking why I hadn't gotten paid. After the third month they stopped responding to me completely and last week out of the blue I finally got paid for advertisements from more than a year ago.
Apart from cabinet secretary Lokpal is answerable to Election Commission which is autonomous. Along with this, the election process of a Lokpal itself will reduce chances of corruption.
OK, now that someone's mentioned Expression, I'll note that I use it extensively - the original version, that is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_House_Expression

Aside: Creature House Expression was a wonderful - yet industrial-strength - 'painterly' vector drawing package. Superb UI (which many users complained wasn't 'Adobe' enough), and a fun, quirky website. The combination of science and art made it one of the highlights of successful software development. You can guess what happened when Microsoft acquired the company... ;-)

Anyway, MS were kind enough to make the Windows and Mac Classic/OSX versions available for free - follow the wikipedia links.

Just remember, this is software that was a rival to Adobe Illustrator, and contained technology that some thought would threaten Flash. Steep learning curve (but excellent PDF manual included), and capable of far more than UI mockups. The old Topica mailing list is a mine of useful information, and Yahoo has a current (but less trafficked) list.
Are VCs with operating experience more successful?
So it's like an incredibly verbose Raphaël?

http://raphaeljs.com
Hey that's a pretty great list of four songs to search for.
higher contrast, bigger fonts
If you have any pointers to evidence that rents are increasing in the US, and of a historical positive correlation between rental prices and house prices, that would be very interesting.
First Circuit Panel: There’s a Clear Constitutional Right To Openly Record Cops
GitHub/BitBucket for source and configuration. Dropbox for documents, photos, music, and the like. Added bonus: I have access to everything, everywhere.
How long do you think it would it take an employer to read through 50 Masters level thesis papers on chemical engineering, plus few hundred shorter lab reports and papers, to determine which of the 50 people applying for a job actually knows anything about chemical engineering? Also where will these potential employees get the lab equipment needed to conduct the experiments necessary to produce this work to put up on the internet?
The video of it seemed simulated. The interviewee mentioned that they hope to have a "working" prototype soon, implying that the current version is not fully functional.
For making a circle, I thought the same thing.
I just tried again, it's working for me now.
But Khan is basically only high school level material, and doesn't really compete or overlap with anything offering university level courses.
How would this work? You would be sued in the US, as that is where your product would be (supposedly) violating the other party's patent. Where your IP is doesn't matter.
Thanks for the input, neither of us are designers so we especially appreciate usability feedback. We'll be getting to work on these, and yes, I agree we should be pointing to our sources. I'll be committing changes once I get my network connection back from Irene
My guess is that it could be a supply and demand problem — I bet that for almost any niche you can think of there could be a mobile app (or even dozens of apps). So do a test: Come up with the ten most niche ideas you can for a mobile app, google them and see if there are any results.
IntelliJ works just fine with OpenJDK.
We had a really bad storm a few years back when my first kid was only about 3-4 months old. That house was at the low-point for the block, so water would pool in our backyard when there was a lot of rain (and the city has horrible storm sewers). Our house has a nice basement with a great drainage system that keeps it dry - so long as the sump pump can run. The rain was horrible: ~5-6 inches overnight. There was also a tornado warning, so we were in the basement for most of the storm.

Then the power went out.

Now, I had installed a battery backup sump-pump six months earlier, so that was able to keep up for a while. Our cell service also went in and out as the power outage was very large and our service at home was spotty (and the towers were over loaded). The only way for us to get ahold of family for help was through the land-line. I still keep at least one plugged in phone (non-cordless), just for this reason. Because of the land-line I was able to get my father-in-law to bring over a generator to power my sump-pump for the next day or so until our power was restored. Our basement had almost no water damage, mainly because we kept a land-line.
Ask HN: Do you cross procrastinate?
I've asked this question yesterday about, can I work on two ideas at the same time. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2931558

The reason I asked that question is, because of my behavior pattern, I've been noticing of myself. I'm constantly losing interest in one thing I'm supposed to do, but I suddenly find some task that was boring yesterday, appeals to me now.

When I fight against this conscientiousness, I often doesn't get anything done. But, when I go with the flow, and jump in to do, what interests me at that time. I get great results out of it. This works great, as long as I'm switching between my pre-defined useful tasks, instead of inventing reasons to go online, read, check facebook or twitter.

I call this "Cross Procrastination". Do you experience anything like this?
If you want to think Woz and Bill Gates did "more" than Steve Jobs, then you are entitled to that view. I don't agree, but I don't care enough to argue my point.
Probably. But it's one step away from content spam.
Heh. That's up there with the university once known as the Cassurina University of Northern Territory. They changed their name pretty quickly.
Worlds lartgest integer
You’re supposed to be the professional, remember?

I do.
I use Ext JS at work (it's awesome) and jQuery for my home projects (it's also very awesome but very different than Ext JS).

I would recommend taking a look at Ext JS as it can do some pretty incredible things. For instance it features a layout manager which allows you to make web applications that look and function very much like home-computer based applications.
Well duh, the TV show Cops has been filming cops for 20 years.
Even if they don't come back, it's still better to have the Groupon chasers in your studio. You get paid at least a little bit if they buy a Groupon, compared to nothing if they don't. The marginal cost to a Yoga studio of adding another student is zero.

Of course this doesn't apply if you're running close enough to capacity that the addition of more students will degrade the experience for everyone else, but a lot of yoga studios don't have that problem, especially not at off-peak hours.
Does this belong on Hacker News?
The Bored of Directors (2004)
I didn't get your point. Are you trying to say there is more supply of ideas than demand? or vice versa?

I believe there are many unshared and undiscovered ideas to share with people and there are many hackers who are looking for new ideas/problems to solve. It's just that there isn't a proper tool to do it which both idea sharers and idea searchers feel excited to use.
Undoubtably guilty of that most hanious of crimes: contempt of cop.
How do you think this will be sustainable? I remember a good reddit or HN thread asking why lyric websites seemed to be particularly ad-laden. The consensus was that due to the nature of the visitors, it was the only viable revenue stream. Users to these kind of sites really only visit for a short period and leave after they've found what they came for. Having said that, I have no suggestion on what would work.
How to Make a Blog Better
Is there a good way to deal with the case of sigma = 0 (i.e. all posts have the same number of votes)?
No. It's a worthy topic needing our attention but it belongs on Reddit.
Why are people marking him down for making a factually accurate statement?

Yoga is a form of Hindu mysticism which was practiced by Hindu ascetics as a form of religous penance or as part of their meditations.

Yoga came to the West as a form of mysticism, largely due in part to the influence of the Beatles and the Hippie movement of the 70s.

While yoga in the West has largely been divorced from its spiritual aspects, many American Yoga classes still incorporate them, even those taught by non-Hindus.
Killapache: DDOS tool - Half of the Internet is vulnerable now
I've never used an illegal drug in my life (edit: not that it matters). But, I really don't care if someone smokes weed. I think it takes a certain dysfunctional personality to get worked up enough to go after someone selling pot so aggressively.

The real problem is that the people with the dysfunction are the ones attracted to positions which give them power over people. Some join HOAs and torture their neighbors about the height of a fence or color of paint. Others, like the law men in this case, abuse their discretion and the American taxpayer. It'd probably be a lot cheaper to get them all therapists.
I did something similar to this a year or two ago (http://www.lyricfuser.com)

I'm not sure how you guys are scraping the lyrics, but almost all of the large lyric sites ended up blocking my server's IP. You should do this in Javascript if possible to avoid getting blocked. Looks great though!
IaaS clouds compared to co-location of servers
How can anything which receives attention here not belong on Hacker News?
Shocking. The magazine with the closest journalistic ties to Redmond claims Windows Mobile is the best. And with such scientific precision, no less.
Remote sensing with federated wiki
Alright, HN, I'm out for the night. Leave a comment here or email songrabbit@songrabbit.com if you have any more suggestions or complaints. Godspeed
I've been watching the housing markets in Canada (where I'm based) and the US, as it is an indicator of the economy, consumer saving and spending.

What's happening to the housing market in the US is incredible, but in case anyone is interested in a foreign view, read on.

In the US:

- Most types of mortgages in the US are tax deductible.

- Interest rates are fixed for the entire term of the mortgage.

- Houses cost 2-5x average family income.*

- Some states allow homeowners to walk away from mortgages.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/02/us-existing-house-price...

And yet with the housing market in the US is still in shambles. In Canada, we don't have the luxury of these three things.

In Canada:

- Canadian mortgages are not tax deductible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_mortgage_interest_deductio...

- The average mortgage in Canada is a 5-year fixed rate mortgage. That means you lock in your interest rate (approx. 5%) for at most 5 years, then you need to re-mortgage. Interest rates can change drastically in 5 years.

- Vancouver currently has a house price to average annual income at 10x. That number is double the value of when the US peaked in 2005-6.

- Homeowners cannot walk away from their mortgages. I think it's called "personal guarantee" or something. IANAL, but bankruptcy doesn't necessarily clear out a person's mortgage debt.

So while the US housing market is terrible, you guys have some amazing perks for home owners. Just remember to never use more than 33% of your monthly income to carry your mortgage, and don't look to your house as a way to make money.

At the end of the day, a house is a consumable and not (necessarily) an investment.

* I'm not counting places like Detroit, where I've heard rumours of plots of land going for < $100.
From their FAQ: http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=8

> Is PoE (power over ethernet) possible?

> Not in the base device, but it’s been a very commonly requested feature, so we’re examining options for later releases.

PoE would make it AMAZING. Connect it to HDMI, install Linux, and you now have an awesome set-top box capable of very high quality performance.
yeah, you should just totally give up. theyre gonna win, for sure.