skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no marketing expert, but I would expect more students to pay attention to the USB key than would pay attention to a paper flyer with a URL.
Heh, collectively ownership and decision making would be great, only it's impossible in our world. There will always be a person who has more influence over others, therefore making him the leader.

Capitalism is kind of like advanced socialism, since everyone IS compensated based on merit or amount of work, only most people aren't ambitious or want to put in the amount of work that others will (i.e. not everyone wants to "maximize their potential"), therefore creating the inequality.

The exact same happened in the USSR, actually, and what did they do? They just put those uninterested people to work on the same jobs, for the same pay, as those who actually liked working there, and that brought the overall productivity down, because why would anyone work better and faster if the slacker next to him gets paid the same for half the work?

But hey, everybody had jobs, right? Problem solved! :-)

Capitalism would work amazingly well at advancing society/humanity and making individuals wealthy and happy IF every single one of them would want to always maximize their potential and do their best at everything, but sadly that will not happen very soon (or at all)...
HN does this frequently. We are Anon, we take down obscure but interesting blogs and small companies.
Free Petit Pique Cotton Texture Pack | webexpedition18
Lawn maintenance calgary
lawn maintenance calgary : Nature`s Green provides organic lawn care fertilizers, yard and lawn maintenance and snow removal.
What does "unconditional love" mean in this context, then? Are we still allowed to hate the little fucker temporarily because they got shit everywhere? If so, how's that mesh with the unconditional love?

My point is just that it's apparently unacceptable to complain unless it's also tempered with something like, "but it's awesome and great and they're wonderful and it totally outweighs the downsides!" The moment you talk about your children as troublesome without explicitly bringing up all the wonderment and joy and love, you get accused of having mental problems. Bambax presented a view of parenting where the children aren't absolutely wonderful all of the time. He fails to add on the socially mandated "but they're the best thing ever", and as a consequence people start wondering about his mental health, just because he presents a realistic picture of parenting. This, to me, is sick.
Edit&execute your codes in C#/C++/Go/PHP and 40 more langs with your Android dev
MIT creates method for generating heat and electricity from solar energy
We do not have candidates perform "project work".

The amount of time people spend on our tech challenges is (a) calibrated to be less than the amount of time one spends on an all-day tech interview and (b) designed to be broken up into three short chunks (by short we mean "an hour or so") so people can do them at their convenience, rather than having to take a personal day from work to "run a gauntlet".

We go way out of our way to respect people's time; in fact, after interviewing candidates from our earlier process, we designed this process with that as a primary goal. Which is why we say that over and over again on the Careers page.

"Drop everything for a few weeks" is disingenuous hyperbole. As is the idea that --- working in information security for Fortune 500 companies --- are hiring violent felons. I understand that you're irritated with how I've responded to your comments and I don't blame you for being uncivil, but please constrain your irritation at me, not my company.
That banking example would be better if the text viewed from an angle obscured the bank balances as well.
i love the idea. need a way to know who i sent a password to, and if they've used it.
If I were being charitable I might think that he was referring to conservation of baryon number or lepton number...but all other indicators point to him not knowing what he's talking about. I'm actually pretty surprised that this paper was accepted. MNRAS is a fairly prestigious journal.
Introducing #Obama2012's Tumblr
This is hilarious because this is exactly what both my wife and I think and we would have said exactly the same thing as you just did.

I think some people are geared for it. Some people are not. Unfortunately, a lot of people that aren't geared for it still end up having children anyway and that becomes a huge mess, obviously.

I personally just don't like children. My family begs my wife and I to have children and it annoys us to no extent. We understand the complexities of having a child and we also understand how selfish we currently are. We would probably end up despising the child if we ever had one.

We go through periods at times where we'll see a baby and be like "aw, how cute", but that quickly changes when that child starts screaming and crying.

I can't even stand my nieces and nephews. I'm serious... I hate holidays because I know I'll have to put up with them. This sounds harsh, sure... but it's the truth. All I see out of them is a mass quantity of pure concentrated annoyance. While I love them because they are family, I simply don't want to be around them. If they ever needed help, I'd help them. If they ever needed a home, I'd house them... I'd be there for them because they're family and that's what family is there for... however, nobody said I had to like them!

Our views may change, obviously. As you get older, your priorities change and we both may have different opinions. However, we're both in our mid thirties and time is not on our side anymore and we still, to this day, feel that not having children was a great idea.

As far as the 51/49 split, I'd personally say I feel that way with my dog. :) However, when I want to get away from my dog, I crate her and go out to dinner!
Thoughtful response :) Clearly, you're in the US? Because in GB, the situation doesn't even resemble what you describe. I've had near-misses with cars, but none of them deliberate, just careless, thoughtless, occasionally utterly incompetent. No verbal abuse, although on two occasions (for reasons still a mystery to me) motorists sounded their horns and made obscene gestures. I'm guessing they found me irresistibly sexy or something, and just had to let me know... Nobody has drawn up alongside me to tell me what they think of me or my bike-riding, and I strongly suspect I'd give them a smack in the mouth if they did.

Overall, most motorists I've encountered are happy to share the road, appreciate that I'm sticking to the rules and carry lights, etc, and there's no problem. While parts of the US are making immense progress with promoting cycling, it seems there are still places where there's a lot more to do. Still, whenever I do get any hassle from motorists, I just remind myself that fuel prices are rocketing and in a few years, they'll be cycling too.
Yeah, that always bugs me too. It seems like a relatively recent thing, too; I feel like I always heard it with the negative connotation growing up and in early adulthood, but within the past 10 years or so I suddenly see people who write as if there were nothing negative about it. It would be like next year seeing people start using words like "terrible" or "PHP application" non-negatively.
Design costs as much as the designer is willing to design for.

Whatever it is you charge for a doing mock-ups, there are people who think you are foolish to charge so little.

The no-spec movement works great at the local level, but in a global market, it just isn't relevant.
Your language could disallow references from permspace to normal space. Or even make permspace objects immutable.
In the US and Canada, you generally yield to the driver on your right.
I am confused. Why is only FBI information out-of-scope? You guys have the CIA, NSA, DHS, smaller agencies, and local police forces that are likely to be involved if there is, say, a plot to blow up the statue of liberty, no? (Corrections are welcome; in particular, I'd imagine that the NSA spooks laugh in your face if you request their records.)

(Also, "terrorism" tends to be uncomfortably broadly defined. Witness the PATRIOT act.)
you're correct; if you go to bed with the sun shining on you, not only will you have uncomfortable sleep, you will also have an extremely weak immune system and will be more prone to sickness (due to the lack of melatonin). further points are discussed in the bullet lists.

the best environment to sleep in would be a dim/dark room. personally, I'm sleeping in the living room, so I make sure that the blinds are properly blocking potential sunlight to ensure uninterrupted sleep.
Julius Caesar gave way to Augustus (who in turn gave way to Tiberius, Nero, Claudius and Caligula).

I wouldn't get your hopes up.
We have never used SSRS, instead we have been slowly building an in-house analytics suite that reports all the information we need in real-time.

Our analytics package is also based on MongoDB and it currently aggregates over 60 million events daily in real-time and with a negligible performance impact.

It is a lot like Mixpanel, but on the server side.
Gaming+Programming-CoderCharts hosting contest for NewGameConference2011 (Nov)
If I had cancer and science showed chicken soup could cure it, I'd take the chicken soup over chemotherapy. When I have the flu I'm not thinking chemotherapy. Marx talked about those with nothing to lose but their chains. People in the U.S., Europe, the West, are not in that situation. Chemotherapy has saved lives and people have won revolutions with Communist leadership.
Wow. The sense of humour is in this community is very immature.
--"The most objective explanation of our problem is that the economy is changing faster than humans can adapt."

Why did the banks collapse a couple years ago? Wasn't it the regulatory changes that allowed them to bundle sub-prime mortgage derivatives? No, the economy was just changing too fast.

Why do billionaires pay a lower percentage of their income in taxes than struggling families? Isn't it recent tax loopholes that favor people with loads of money? No, the economy is just changing too fast.

Starts out interesting, then jumps into jargon. The economy is changing too fast? What does that even mean? It's super ambiguous. Can you imagine that in a protest sign? "The economy is changing too fast. Lets do something about it."

Plus, his assumption about the math level and college major make up of the OWS crowd is rather obnoxious.
JQuery Chaining
I'm not clear on how if something is claimed to be "most important" that it thus "is all what economics was about". The former seems to deny the latter.
At first I read too fast and saw "I'm a psychologist and..." Now I'm happy to see that you are not! ;-)

Again, I love all my children the same way. Really. I just meant to say something really trivial: having three (very young) kids is a lot different than having just one.

With the first kid, everything is amazing, and eventually kind of funny / charming. With three kids, you're just tired.

Tired makes you upset, and it doesn't have anything to do with any of them. The cure? Sending them to their grandparents. After only one day I miss them so much I have to go back to check on them; and then it starts all over again.
I'll fork the process, with something not impossible:

On the ninth time they tell you to get out of there and never appear again, because you are annoying and creepy.
Thanks for the context and the extra detail. It was so interesting I thought I'd poke around a bit more on my own.

As for (3), please note that this involves intelligence, counterintelligence, or international terrorism.

So now we're back to FISA, the PATRIOT act, NSA doing SIGINT on domestic/foreign internet traffic, etc. [insert long discussion here about the necessity of having intelligence and counterintelligence and the conflict with an also-necessary open society]

More to the point, there's no way to determine that the process would be followed correctly. (This is the same problem the FBI is having with warrantless wiretaps: the law's wording and the actual practice is much different, and there are no independent outsiders monitoring what's going on)

This is a good link to chase down. It directly relates to both FOIA and national security. In this case, you can't even ask about the general interpretation of a law by the government. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/newspaper-sues-government-to-r...

"...The New York Times is suing the U.S. government for refusing to divulge how its law enforcement interprets the Patriot Act...."

Note that this isn't the detail of any particular record. This is simply explaining what the law is. If you can't go there, good luck trying to chase down the actual application of the law in any specific circumstance.

I'm not getting into the overuse of "national security" to cover all sorts of things, or how you can target the FBI with the statute and end up pulling in all of DHS with the application. These are old discussions and probably best left for another day. Just wanted to point out that you could drive a Mack truck through the holes in that statute. It sounds very limited in theory. In practice, based on past experience, it doesn't look that way at all to me.
How to Meet Women at Tech Conferences
I'd argue running red lights is stepping several feet over the line.
Luxury brands salivating for Silicon Valley riches
My LinkedIn rant:

A year ago LinkedIn released the "Publications" section for your profile:
http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/10/18/linkedin-profile-section...

Now you can list your academic papers on your profile, awesome. The problem being that YOU are listed in the "first author" position on any paper you submit. Author-order being very important, this is a major issue that should have been caught in the spec stage. It hasn't been fixed in over a year.
An Interview With Grace Dobush, Executive Editor of HOW Interactive Design
Its hard to think this is a balanced article when the title is: "Microsoft: Why innovate when you can litigate?"

Because to be in the position they are in to be able to litigate involves having innovated first. The modern MS is well known for its R&D and innovation.

And lastly does anyone expect anything different from MS? they have a solid history of using the courts as a way of dealing with competitors.
Benefit of change 1: It would be easier for users to understand the otherwise-mysterious fluctuations in their "average" karma.

Benefit of change 2: Average karma estimates would never be far out of date. (This would also make it easier for users to see what's going on.)

Benefit of change 3: Average karma would be more representative. The point of ignoring the 5 most recent changes is to avoid giving a misleadingly low average when recent comments are still gaining karma -- but if a user's most recent comments happen to be high-karma ones, the result may actually be to lower the estimated average, taking it further away from what the average would be if the scores all had time to settle down. Again, this is liable to be confusing to users.

(The specific situation that prompted this: My "average" karma is currently substantially lower than (1) the values it's generally had in the longer term and (2) the scores of recent comments I've made. I found this puzzling -- I knew about the ignore-highest-score trick but not about the ignore-five-latest.)
I'm getting a phishing warning using Chromium trying to go to your site, you might want to get that looked at :-)
I went through the same thing last year.My startup went with python/django over php/codeIgniter. I think the top two selling points of the python/django solution were the quick-to-prototype (tones of apps) and the cool factor. My boss was worried about attracting hackers, so the cool factor was important to him. The development benefits of django apps were nice, features were implemented faster, but at times it was frustrating to customize. The other big benefit was south - a django app for managing data and schema migrations. In our php solution we had to manually write sql scripts.

All that being said, I agree with everyone else, the most important thing is to make the developer comfortable.
Relationships & Dating
Hmm. Must be regional differences. I'm in Canada.
Google Gadget Sales Lead to Microsoft Profits
Have Spacesuit, will travel
No, it doesn't. If you don't support Wikileaks you can choose not to donate money.

You can't choose not to pay your taxes (at least without breaking the law). You can choose the kind of politicians you vote, but again, those politicians may choose to do something else with your money when they have the power.

If you do support WL, and believe in what they have achieved so far, I think that it's wise to trust them, given the amount of criticism they face from almost every government in the world. I haven't read about any government denying anything that was published, but I've read a lot about those governments trying to censor what is published. So, who's the censor here?
well if you read our docs you'll see that they're entirely in agreement with that. separate mapping/table design is called "classical mapping" and was years ago superceded by the declarative style. Update your sqlalchemy knowledge before commenting on it.

interestingly enough a ton of users still prefer the mappers/tables to be separate.
You're positing a false choice; it's not either-or. The proper abstraction for a cut-and-pasted 10-line function is generally an 11-12 line function, with just enough extra complexity (i.e. an extra argument or two) to capture the differences in the two implementations.

The huge abstraction with class hierarchies is an entirely different kind of idiocy. It's orthogonal to this problem. You can (and I've seen it done) cut and paste giant class hierarchies too.
I think we would need to know more about the patent in question before we can determine whether it was first invented by netscape or microsoft.
"It's widely claimed..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word#Passive_and_middle_...
Klout is a real slave-driver. If you spend a few days away (on holiday or busy doing other things) it doesn't matter how engaged you are during your regular social periods, it penalizes you. That really annoys me.
* I do agree that the title should not be "public" records, as these records are by definition not public unless the FOIA succeeds.

The first paragraph of the article states that context:
>>A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do.

The debate, of course, is whether or not these scenarios are legitimate reasons to block records requests. It's whether this particular rule change is either needed or allowed by FOIA. The main question remains: In cases where such concerns are legitimate, why is it not sufficient for the government to say: "We cannot confirm or deny the existence of such records"? Why does the government need legal cover to mislead records requesters?

As a civil libertarian, you probably know enough examples of where the government has overextended and abused what it has been granted in good faith.
A Look at Linux 3.1
Portland and Lake Oswego Seafood Restaurant - Five Spice Seafood + Wine Bar
The world's most economically successful and secure states today (China and Russia) would best be described as fascist or nationalist. The socialist states of Western Europe and the mixed economy of the US are in debt up to their eyeballs and careening through a series of financial crises.

So it will be interesting if in a few years, people start calling themselves unrepentant fascists. Probably the word itself won't be rehabilitated, but you may see more and more people declaring that the Chinese and Russian states provide a better business model than the failed American and European models.
I'd like that better if the images in the sprite weren't cutting off your arms when you flail them. Maybe you can make an image where you look less rectangular.
Paypal, credit cards and physical handle large amounts infinitely better than bitcoin. Look at mtgoxlive and see how much money it really takes to move the market a good amount. $10,000 would move it 20 cents on the buy side which is a 7% move because the demand is shallow. It's a toy currency. Paypal can handle 5 figure transactions without blinking (maybe even 6, havent heard of anyone try but I've seen 5 figure transactions).

My point is, you can't even move a good chunk of money without influencing the value of the market. It doesn't help that you can't store value in it either because of its volatility.
I've found Linode fantastic: fast connection, reliable service, reasonable disk speed (for a VPS), responsive support (rarely needed), decent control panel, and continually improving value. My servers are mainly in their London data centre.
Daily Mobile Minute: Does Kevin Rose see the future
Fantastic, I look forward to it. I started this post mostly frustrated by the idea of someone creating "yet another" js testing tool, but now I'm legitimately interested in seeing where this goes. Thanks for the fast and helpful feedback.
I think that the idea was more to give students a "portable desktop" than just the software. An USB key can be plugged and used on any computer (high school libraries, for example).

Practically, I don't know how it turned out. I can't find any studies or numbers on the actual effect it has had.
"only implemented after numerous attempts at corrective feedback have failed."

That's not how it works. You say something that offends some random moderator, and he/she can trivially silent-ban you. No comment under your comment saying you will be banned etc.
Woman, 74, claims government agents roughed her up over speck of moon dust
Designers doing mockups for free is probably a symptom of more designers looking for work than there are clients willing to pay designers. Why aren't people willing to pay? Is there a glut of people offering high quality services for cheap, or is it that clients can't see the value in the higher priced designers? What would be great would be a chart (backed by solid data of course) showing the ROI on an expensive logo vs cheap logo vs 99designs logo vs the logo made by a founder's teenage neighbor who just discovered photoshop and comic sans. With that kind of data it would be much easier to convince people that 99designs is a good or bad idea.
Nokia shows the making of an N9 [video]
Intel announced their ultra book initiative at Computex, on May 31st. At the time, only Asus showed a concept. On September 6th, Intel announced its stimulus package. Suddenly, shortly after, several other manufacturers showed interest. The first ultrabooks started shipping this month. I don't think it's far-fetched to say that the stimulus had something to do with that.

Assuming weight is constant, what are the pros of ultra-thinness that outweigh the lack of upgradability?

I'm not sure I understand the question. A thinner notebook usually makes for a lighter notebook. If a 'regular' notebook does weigh as little as an ultrabook, it's probably made of cheap plastic -- one of the characteristics of a MacBook Air is its rigid unibody aluminum frame. Besides, the difference in upgradability between a MacBook Air and a MacBook Pro is negligible (storage, RAM and battery are not user serviceable on either of those machines).
Stanford researchers build transparent, super-stretchy skin-like sensor