skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The statement "business leaders, entrepreneurs and workers were the most dynamic and innovative in the world." is completely true. You will be in denial if you do not accept that.

I'm not American and I accept it. If you go to Silicon Valley you will see more Indians, Chinese or European people than Americans.(engineering in USA have 60% foreigners)

There are economic "hubs" where people that do things well love to go as they meet other experts and learn a lot, and could make money doing what they love. Like it or hate it,but a lot of these hubs remain in America.

USA is only 4% of the population, but represents 50% of the economy of the world. If you are creative or innovative in Argentina maybe you could survive as you see only corrupt people can earn money, or you could travel to the USA and get a lot of money.

In South America you can not innovate because there is no middle class, as simple as this is. There is only super rich people that own properties the size of the state of California, or those that have very little. No market for you.

Something similar happens in Africa, when tribal leaders(or kings like Mohamed of Morocco) own anything as "fathers for the benefit of the tribe, or country".

In Europe and Asia population is old and society values "security" and innovators are not good considered if they fail just once(and innovators by definition fail a lot).
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On side Note : If someone decides to build train timetable site - it would be highly useful to add Local taxi hire company numbers (near destination station). It will be highly useful as people would love to pre-book taxis as well.
You seem to have entirely ignored my point and just repeated yours. Your claim probably holds true, and I didn't dispute it, but that doesn't make it relevant.
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Bad guys don't know how to go to Staples.com and buy a Diamond shredder?

Staples.com doesn't actually carry diamond-cut shredders. At least, none that I can find.

The smallest shred size I can find there is 3.175mm x 9.525 mm. By comparison, the document in the fifth puzzle is taken from a legal pad (8.7 mm line spacing), and the shreds are only a little bit longer. Would the shape really make that much of a difference at this scale?
This doesn't make sense - you can see extreme inequality even in areas with little consolidation.

Consider Valley startups - the inequality there is overwhelming. To borrow Occupy Wall St language, the top 1% probably has more than [1] 100% of the wealth.

[1] A simple example showing how this could be possible: 99 startups have lost $1. 1 startup has earned $100. Net wealth = $1 and the top 1% have 10,000% of the wealth.
This is good nationalism. If you start a myth that Americans are highly innovative and entrepreneurial, and that myth becomes embedded in the culture so everyone believes it, the result is that Americans are more entrepreneurial. If everyone believes that they are, they will be.

Yes, sometimes nationalism can be a fog that hides the truth, but it and other cultural beliefs can also be good for people.
Youtube animation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQBzdcFkB7w
Here's what I sent to the Khan Academy for a job: http://davidchouinard.com/khanacademy/

In my experience, anything that gets around the formal hiring process is a win. Finding a way around the application process is the application process.
There's a typo in the link above, it should be:

http://news.ucsc.edu/2011/08/eris-simulation.html

instead of:

http://news.ucsc.edu/2011/08/eris-simulation.htmlv

Diff: there's a v.
Actually there's plenty of evidence to say entrepreneurship could be partially hereditary (or more to the point a genetic disposition to be intelligent and a genetic makeup that allows you to deal with stress through low blood pressure, a chemical makeup that gives you a calm disposition, and so on)

So do you have another point or do you just specialize in attacks?
> Also even if the CEO isn't stupid and makes an effort to get accurate information, the middle managers might just give him inaccurate information putting politics ahead of company loyalty. Do not underestimate the magnitude of this problem.

The isn't it the CEO's fault for hiring bozos?
How the 1% become Rich?
I think Nassim Taleb's Black Swan book gives examples of the exception proving the rule a few times. Unfortunately I don't have the book to hand to provide a direct quote.
Energy conservation
Energy problems are only partially technical problems—to a large
extent economics and politics dominate the picture

It is a law of nature that energy
is conserved.We degrade or randomize energy, just as we randomize mineral resources when we process ores into metal and then discard the product as we do, for example, with used aluminum cans. All energy we use goes into heat and is eventually radiated out into space. The consumable is not energy; it is the fact that energy has not yet been randomized
The reason I pointed out that it was morally wrong was so we could separate that from the economic argument. I could go into detail about why it's morally wrong but what's the point. People are just looking for excuses to justify their behaviour. Imagine you pass an artist with a stall on the street. You say you like one of his paintings, but it's £500. You say that's too much for you, so he shows you a print you can buy for a modest price. You then say you won't buy the print, but then proceed to take a picture of it, make your own copy, and then start selling copies to other people. All against the express wishes of the artist. Does that strike you as a decent thing to do?
It is quite hard, but I think it is impossible if you are not doing TDD and asserting throughout the process.

Basically, write a whole bunch of rules, fail safes, etc. So for a twitter crawler the tweet should always be there, the username should always be there, and the response should always be more than 400 characters.

Then any response that fails doesn't bring down your app, it just goes into the "needs review pile" and your app continues unless it gets 50 or so of these errors in a row. Then it SMSes or emails you to let you know it shut down.

It isn't like normal programming, it is dirty and any analysis you plan to do has to take the assumption that you will never get all of the data.

In terms of cleaner code, TDD will help here, but yeah, you will need dozens if not hundreds of methods while you're trying to classify a response.
The problems you described are failures of workflow due to bad process and/or bad developer education, _not_ failures inherent in the design of any given distributed VCS. I have never had to deal with any of those issues, because we have always ensured that we have a good workflow in place.

Most of the features you're discussing encourage that workflow/bad process/bad developer behavior, because they were built entirely to support Linux's development methodology in which that behavior isn't not considered a hindrance.
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Foursquare also beat feet to win the hearts and minds of small business owners - I've lost count of the number of bar and restaurant owners excitedly telling us about how the Foursquare rep came in to talk to them, pointing out the sign on the wall where the "Mayor goes," arguing with regulars over who's the Mayor this week, who cheated to become the Mayor last week, and so on.

We've travelled a lot, and this happens coast to coast in big cities and small.

I've always really dug Gowalla (when I check in, typically only around an event like SXSW, it's what I've used), but when real people are talking about you in real life (an initially slow, but snowballing and very effective advertising model), all over the country--you end up winning.
Yes but the western world itself is less than a third of the world's population and no one would argue against it having the majority of so-called "dynamic" people. Without knowing how many people we're talking about (and neither of us do) you can't argue percentage of the population as a reason.

The one point I'd agree with though is this: there are probably tons of third world people who are just as entrepreneurial as people in the U.S. but who don't have the resources to do anything more than start a coke stand. But in terms of dynamic people who have the resources to start a company I still think the U.S. is in the lead
Just had a quick look and they seem to be very Python oriented. As a bit of play space I might sign up with them. Thanks for the link
Without significant drag, distance becomes far less important than you might think in space. The real question is time, and people have spent a lot of time in space after 1980 vs any of those short visits to the moon. We could have built a slightly larger rocket in 1972 and sent someone to mars but we had no idea what such a trip would do to their body. And if we had tried it they would not have survived the journey even if nothing had gone wrong on the trip.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_records

Note: Valeri Polyakov, launched 8 January 1994 (Soyuz TM-18), stayed at Mir for 437.7 days,[1][2] during which he orbited the Earth about 7,075 times and traveled 300,765,000 km (186,887,000 mi), returning 22 March 1995 (Soyuz TM-20).

Compared to that landing on the moon was physically easy. Valeri Polyakov took a long time to recover after landing, and you don't get a lot of help when you land on mars.
NTRUEncrypt is a public key encryption algorithm that is considered unbreakable even with quantum computers.

Citation needed. Who considers it unbreakable even with quantum computers?
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You can also use the same method (or similar) to check if a user is logged-in in any 3d party websites.
No one is saying that innovation doesn't happen in other places in the world, or that the people there aren't brilliant. Only that by evidence of the size and output of the economy in the US, it is the most effective. That may not be true forever, and there have been a great number of words dedicated to making that argument, but it appears to be true today.

What worries me most about the thinking in the US right now is the xenophobia. If there is one thing I'm most proud of, as a citizen of the USA, it's that people want to come here. I want to welcome them with open arms. I want to work hard to make the US the "place to be" for starting a business.
I accidentally fireproofed myself against this attack. I have the Web Developer extension installed and I forgot I had the Disable Cache option on.(The script works as advertised with it off.) Not really practical solution if you want pages to load fast.
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I'm not saying it's not a good thing. But it's an equally good thing if a Mexican family pulls_themselves_and_their_families_out_of_extreme_poverty. If you thought through my point rather than just emoting you would have realized that.
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I don't know if it's accurate enough to be a concern. What could an attacker do with such information that is so scary? They could publish "IP address X has been to Y, Z, and W recently", or they could use it to target ads, I guess, but it doesn't seem like it's reliable enough to cause any serious harm. You could just say, "Um, no I haven't" if it becomes an issue.

It did correctly detect some sites for me, but it gave one false positive and three false negatives. With that kind of error rate I just don't see it being taken seriously in anything that matters.
"So you did it. Well done! Now this is where it gets interesting. Could you use your skills and ingenuity to combat terrorism and cyber threats? As one of our experts, you'll help protect our nation's security and the lives of thousands. Every day will bring new challenges, new solutions to find – and new ways to prove that you're one of the best."

It's funny that they go for ego-stroking rather than for something that baits people who are smart enough to crack an encryption scheme. It reads like typical Go Army marketing.
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Totally agree. Folks who migrate here keep the "greatness" "non-hereditary". I'm not sure how much longer such a thing will last though, as more opportunities continue to develop in their home countries.
So isn't your best strategy to install both apps just to be sure? They don't seem to have the exact same detection procedure nor the same result.

I'm starting to wonder why I'm even arguing, it's like comparing the landing page of a company website to its wikipedia entry when all you want is the exact spelling of their latest product.
If you weren't disputing it, why did you respond? I was replying to someone else entirely, specifically the point that pirated copies made doesn't equate to number of copies that hypothetically would have been bought instead.
All well and nice, but it doesn't explain how to actually DRAW something! I used to write a lot of text in Latex, and used metapost/tikz/pgf to draw box and arrows diagrams. Drawing straight lines was OK, but trying to make nice curved arrows going around nodes was a PITA and based mostly on experimenting. I knew where to find the math behind Bezier curves, but it was (and still is!) mostly useless from the perspective of a "end-user" not using a GUI.
"Obviously the immediate benefit is owning your own content from the top of the page to the bottom." - I guess. I keep a copy of my G+ posts locally (even though Blogger posts from ten years haven't gone away). Posting it on a blog or G+ doesn't affect the copyright. I still own the content.
Yep, and that page links you to http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk/cyber-jobs/ which is equally linked to by anyone who didn't solve the puzzle but just looked on http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk/Jobs/

That said: you would never expect them to use the online test as a deciding factor in interviewing people, they can do tests as part of the application process. Really it's just a marketing campaign, and a way to let people self-test themselves to see if they are suitable.
They are trying to get vary accurate location information. What's so neat about this is they blocks are just sitting on top of each other it's the shape that holds the structure together not mortar / pins etc.
Besides latency, you don't pay for internal data transfer within AWS services. If you did the image processing on your own machines, you'd be paying for bandwidth every operation; where if you do it in EC2, your only outbound transfer is viewing the images.
They had had microsoft people helping them, including helping to code. Who knows what sort of other help they got from MS? An average developer may not get that help, which might make the difference between doing well or not.
I'm no expert, but I'd say having shreds for which the orientation is not as obvious makes the problem much harder. Add to that the amount of work necessary to get a clean image of the thousands of particles a page produces...

Amazon sells relatively cheap security level 4, and rather expensive security level 6 shredders.
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> USA is only 4% of the population, but represents 50% of the economy of the world.

According to the IMF, US GDP is actually about 23% of world GDP.
It is missing some sites which have https-everywhere rules. Still a scary thing; looking at the comments in the source, would coalescing load events deter the attack, or at least make it probabilistic and slow? And why isn't Firefox displaying requests to the sniffed sites while it attempts to access them? The request is already issued, even if the script manages to abort it before it completes.
It's a tricky connotation based on context, but I read it as sometimes more positive than others. It does imply that the talent in question is quite talented, and worth paying significant money to acquire, but it also sort of implies that the product/company wasn't in itself particularly great or interesting to the acquirer.
There are certainly niches where this might make sense. But the general trend has been for low wage jobs to leave Mexico and go to China. Mexico is a middle income country, closer to Greece or Poland than to China.

Don't get me wrong - I think there are great benefits to North American economic integration. It was only very recently that China supplanted Mexico as our #2 trading partner. I just don't think it's reasonable to expect Mexico to occupy the same niche as China.
Of course. It shouldn't be caching anything to disk.
Valeri Polyakov took a long time to recover after landing, and you don't get a lot of help when you land on mars.

To be fair, you don't need as much help when you land on Mars, because the surface gravity is only 38% of what it is on Earth. You can lose a lot of muscle mass during the flight across before you're unable to stand upon landing.
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Ouch. I was sort of hoping they'd make something of it.
I used that all the time when coding with svn, and while not as handy has git stash it is workable.

But what I was specifically referring to is the -p flags of various git commands (stash, reset, add, checkout, ...) so you can interactively only stash away what you wish instead of the entire working directory (or an entire subdirectory of it).
No one is suggesting that. What is suggested is that it doesn't really matter how innovative you are if you are a child soldier in Zimbabwe, in a place where the taxes are so high that very few can start a new business, or in a country that is so corrupt that only an official's cousins brother could get the necessary permits to do business. Therefore business leaders in the US are more innovative because there are fewer non-merit based restrictions.

The fact is the most successful people in the US were not born here. But ask yourself why didn't Brin, or Grove start companies back home? Mostly because those countries didn't provide the right environment to do so, and America does.
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Some loaded language (to put it mildly), but don't let it distract you from the rest. Reason I post it on HN is because it matters for our future. And there is a rebellious nature that may resonate with some and provide troll bait to others (lots of low hanging fruit in there to point out and troll on!).
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I am terribly amused by the lack of a "less than 40 hours" option. I know a lot of people that work part time hours, either in big companies or as contractors. And my full time hours are 35-per-week.
Amazon sells them:

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>He’s right in the sense that real essays don’t have to take a position and defend it, but teachers insist on thesis statements for the same reason bikes for three-year olds have training wheels: otherwise the student-writer will fall over.

This part got to me. Falling over is important. Why wouldn't a teacher allow a student to fail? I think the real issue with essay writing ultimately stems from a one-chance-only, end-all, be-all system of grading. (Which is also a gripe across many subjects, as it tends to produce Swiss cheese-like education.)

I was lucky enough to take composition courses in high school that focused on writing a single essay over the course of the entire semester. There was literally no other homework. Just draft after draft of the same essay. The teacher did hardly any lecturing and spent most of his time working students over intellectually, forcing us to sharpen our essays. I think if you want to teach writing, this is the way to do it.
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One thing that Amazon does is shove a load of adverts, i.e. leaflets, into their parcels. Given that Google is also a behemoth in the ad industry, this might just make sense.
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I'm not sure about the hereditary bit (whether culture or risk aversion can b passed through genetics), but the culture bit has a lot of basis. Just look the the whole 'American Dream'. The US has been sold as a place where anyone can make it with some smarts, work, and perseverance. That attitude was ingrained in the country through its formation and then its expansion. Look at the silver rush in CO, gold rush in CA, oil boom in Texas, financial boom in NYC, and tech boom in SV. People have been coming to the US from all over the world to get rich since the country was formed.

One thing to remember is that the US is a relatively young country. It may be that all young countries have a disproportionately large number of risk takers and that over time that portion shrinks.
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> I see the appeal in it though, with the real-time commenting it supports and the level of engagement you get with it. That being said, there’s no reason why you can’t augment your own blog with Disqus commenting to get the same kind of features and results.

I don't see nearly as many comments on my site (with Disqus) as I do on my Google+ page. This is to some extent an apples-to-oranges comparison, but given that a lot of stuff that shows up in my Google+ stream is meant to go into my site, it's not that bad, and the disparity is like 4:1 or higher.
Ebay/Paypal are investing big time in area too. I've chatted with a few of their recruiters to help.
Thanks. I increased titles and subtitles by 1px.

It does make it a bit easier on the eyes.
Hah, I'd missed that. I thought you were talking about the overall effort to port to Python 3, not the particular flurry of activity from Vinay.
I'd be impressed if they could reassemble a shreded CD or DVD.
In light of this distressing news, allow me to cheer you up with a video of Harry "SuPa" Hong, the Tetris world record holder, maxing out the point score of the NES port of that game to 999,999, starting from the highest selectable difficulty level of 19. It is effectively a "perfect" Tetris game. He eventually stops at level 29 because at that point the blocks fall to the bottom faster than the fastest human reaction times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99R-fKRr73I

It is startling what an engaging experience watching that video is. If you have ever played tetris even for a minute, your knuckles will be white and your brain will be swimming in adrenaline. It's like watching someone juggling knives.
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You seriously need 30hrs, 20hrs and 10hrs or at least "<40 hrs". If you want a fair average you also need to know who is working less then full time. Otherwise of course you will get the result "Oh, most people work more then full time".
The author appears to be a university professor. There are also several indications that he is referring to university freshmen.

"Now, one could argue that students have been brainwashed by 12 years of school by the time I’ve got them, and to some extent that’s probably true."
No clue why they got all the attention.. but @mattt has gotten involved in the community here and there. I've run into him a few times at @damon's Friday Night Hacks.

In terms of other startups, we have Other Inbox, Infochimps, WPEngine, and a number of other things that are relatively quiet. In terms of "big" players, we have Facebook, Evernote, Zynga, some of Sony's game dev (DC Universe Online started here), and Ebay/Paypal is moving in. OpsCode and Mozilla both have lead evangelists here too.

And there are probably dozens of things I'm missing..

Disclosure: I'm a Developer Evangelist for Twilio and based in Austin.
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