skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My name is on the no fly list (well, mine and a million others). I get 'randomly' stopped by customs every time I re-enter the country through an airport. This doesn't happen at passport control but rather at customs. I've started leaving notes addressed "Dear TSA" in my luggage just to laugh at the expression on the agents face as they go through my dirty clothes.
I love how you guys at Priceonomics include our little town of Eugene in your analysis. Nice to see how we compare :)

Keep up the great work, always a pleasure to read one of your articles.
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Even the response is dishonest. "I'm sorry I allowed TAL to run an except from my story". The guy lied to fact-checkers to get the story on the air. There's nothing passive about that. Nothing he says is trustworthy.
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The Consumer Reports car issue just came out. There are a small number of American-made cars on the list of top cars. I would never buy a car not on that list, because reliability is an important factor. When there is a car on the CR recommended list that I like, I will definitely favor it over other cars not made here, but I won't be making sacrifices in quality just to buy American.

I am hopeful that Ford, at least, is on the path to making a car I would buy.
tiny nitpick, the typical three letter code for Japan is JPN, not JAP.
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Seconded. In theory, a manager could veto a 20% project, but I have never heard of it happen.

I personally think "managerial approval" is just for 3 things:

1) If someone decides to do something wrong/illegal as 20% project, the manager should've caught this (so this 'approval' is really a 'we reserve the right to blame the manager if things go wrong') ;)
2) People probably want their 20% project (and progress therewith) to be factored into their perf, as such, their managers need to know about it.
3) So that people don't pick clearly fraudulent 20% projects (such as 'my 20% project is to stay at home and watch TV')
Anyone who's ever spent more than a couple days in China (or HK, or Singapore, or Taiwan, really) can tell you that very, very little of what you see published about China/Chinese people in the western media is accurate. Much of it is hyperbole or selective truths or just downright fabrications.

It's designed for a western audience and plays on assumptions and stereotypes that exist of China/Chinese people - apart from interviews with serious professionals or scholars who have spent time there (like on Charlie Rose) you're bound to be left with a very distorted view of what "China" is (and isn't).

How do you describe one quarter of the entire population of earth in any sort of accurate way? It's impossible, but it sure does sell copy when you try.
From a naive viewpoint: Why is all this reporting about factory conditions focus on Apple, i.e. Foxconn? Is there proof that factories operated by Foxconn are worse than the typical Chinese factory? Or is Apple pushing them to Draconian measures, e.g. guards with guns, child workers, etc.?

How's this any different from any other Made in China electronics product?

EDIT: The replies are aligned with what I was thinking: If anything, Foxcon is above average in factory conditions. The major reason for the Apple focus is because of its high visibility.

I despise this easy targetism! I felt the same while watching Supersize Me, which focused on McDonalds, and some of Michael Moore's films. The basic premise may be correct, but selecting targets to ride on their name (McDonalds, Walmart, Apple) is an easy tactic and in fact puts off the critical thinking people who resist the manipulation (well, at least it puts me off). And what's more, in most of these cases the (more naive) audience is led to believe that the situation is this specific company's fault, leading to behavior like "Man, I'm never gonna eat another BigMac, will go to Burger King instead".
Been watching them for months on Roku... No subscription fee required.
You can definitely require() modules after installing them globally.

https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/lib/module.js
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I was more forgiving until I read in Ira's letter that he had invented the workers who were injured in the factory. That is a big fabrication and more than just pulling our emotional heart strings.

Apparently child labour is much less rampant than he makes it sound. It seems like he more of a dilettante trying to grab attention and get noticed more than he is interested in labour standards.
Very cool! Good luck with everything!
But in Google's framework, the only kinds of +1 are "your immediate friends" (those appear with profile pictures alongside) and "all the rest" which appear in the aggregate total "822,251 people +1'd this"
"if the company's sales people got lots of and lots of these potential customers calling/emailing/etc saying "you're overpriced" the sales team could begin to believe it and being probably commission based push internally to lower the price"

Or Worse, undermine their own sales attempts because they don't believe the value offered is worth the price.
This principle is one of the best things about learning CSS with modern tools (Firebug, Web Inspector etc): if you wonder why something works, or how it could work given different values, you can just change the values live and see what happens. Firebug allows you to click in any value in CSS, and use up/down arrows to continuously vary it (for non-numeric properties, this scrolls through all possible values).

This enables a style of self-guided learning involving forming a mental model of how particular bits of CSS work, playing with them until they break in expected ways (validating the model) or unexpected ways (prompting more experimentation or a visit to documentation, and subsequent improvement of the model).

I can also attest to the fact that live web page prototyping is a fun way to impress non-coders/non-web-developers :)

Comparing creative works built using a slow-feedback model versus a fast-feedback model is also interesting. With music, fast feedback would be playing an instrument directly; slow feedback would be putting together the output with a sequencer or drum machine, or writing it on paper to be played by an orchestra. The fascinating bit comes when you get sufficiently advanced practitioners of the art of slow feedback - for instance, composers who can hold an orchestral score in their head and imagine how it will sound, essentially having built a sufficiently advanced mental model that they gained a fast-feedback loop within their imagination. Does this suggest that for any given domain, even if there are obstacles in the way of fast feedback, that someone will eventually always be able to transcend the domain's limitations... or does it suggest that if we had better ways of communicating an entire orchestral score in realtime to an orchestra, that composers would generate even better works?
If you are a team, incorporating is important to clarify ownership. You dont want to have to figure that out later, after you are successful. You can also do that with a document among the team. But don't wait too long. It's amazing how everyone's recollection of an oral agreement is sincerely completely different a few months or years down the road.

If you are an individual, it's not that big of a deal either way. You can wait till you get traction to do it.

If you hope to raise VC money some day, I'd suggest creating a delaware corporation and not an LLC. But it isnt that big of a deal either way.

There are of course tax questions, liability concerns, etc. Talk to a professional (attorney, accountant) if you're not familiar with these.
Based on mucking around for a bit in Ubuntu Unity 11.10, it doesn't seem to be working. The option is there but it doesn't work. Looking more.
I've noticed that you have more flexibility in choosing your mechanic with an American car because the mechanic will be more familiar with them. My parents' mechanic did great work on their American SUV but kept botching their Volvo.
Does pusher works seamlessly on web and iOS?
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Speaking of good ideas, does anyone know a good way to save/record an idea? I always think of one at the most inopportune time and by the time I have a chance to write it down I forget parts of it. Is there an app or service to help me?
This is the thing that really bugs me. It was a well told story. I can even buy that it gets at a larger truth (even if the details are exaggerated or even invented). But then don't pretend like it's 100% literal truth. And then TAL made such a point of the fact checking when they broadcast their version. Oof.
It sure does, Pusher gives you websockety goodness that works across both platforms.
Really, I'm not this positive in my outlook. But I find it ironic -- if perhaps a bit naive -- to think that Hollywood's rampant, myopic self-interest might end up "forcing" the public into the arms of better quality content.

All those "History" and "How Things Work" and the like shows on cable have proven quite popular. (And "Mythbusters", with its enhanced entertainment factor.) Maybe not just Netflix, but aggregate culture, is onto something, here.
I've promised myself I'd never fly through Heathrow again after waiting many hours for customs and almost missing connections several times. I intend to keep that promise.
Are you on twitter? Have you marketed the product to the wordpress community? On your site focus more on visuals, less on words. Make it really easy for people to digest what the product is and how it can benefit them.
Why are we still talking about this? Besides the reasons listed are flat out wrong in multiple places. Not sure if it's the result of seeing the PR a week, two weeks later... 1 is completely moot. If a friendly can hack it, so can Somalian pirates. 2 is just inaccurate. 3 is applauding something that should never be necessary. 4 is missing the point entirely, as is 5. 6 is just stupid, it's not a response to "host your own Git repo".

"GitHub is a DVCS". Is the author aware that GitHub is... just Git... and that people can host their own Git repos manually? (Or their own mini-GitHub clone gitlab?)
Rhode Island is not a city.
As someone who has worked in manufacturing in China and the US, the safety standards across China are extremely variable. The closer you get to the coast, the more Western standards are applied. My understanding is that Foxconn and other similar caliber manufacturers in Shenzhen exceed standards of many American manufacturing facilities.
Privacy has a way broader social and legal meaning than the dictionary definition of the word.

Narrowing it down to a oneliner from a dictionary is not particularly constructive.

And yes, I would say if Twitter did that, it could well be a breach of privacy. It would almost certainly be a breach of the law in most Western countries. Just because you have access to the data, doesn't mean you can just do with it whatever you like without the consent of the owner. Once that zip-file spreads, making the Twitter account private becomes pointless.

Why do so many people think copyright is something perfectly logical, but privacy protection, which has much more to do with protecting the rights of individuals, is something weird?
Well, if there's a silver lining to this it's a good thing the development team behind that product isn't going anywhere where data privacy breaches could be a big deal.
I just realize that autocorrect changed routable to rotatable. I meant routable, as in able to be routed through a router.
Lotsa traffic -- no clicks to sign up. Should I make it more clear on the homepage that...

1 - it's free to make your first archive?
2 - no credit card info needed to sign up?

Everyone should click through and make their first archive. No reason not too!
It isn't easy, but it pays off. I slept on my floor for 2 years after I got a job as an engineer at IBM.

The overall point is this. If you say that you're poor, but you have a cable connection, TV, cell phone, data plan, multiple cars on finance, large student loans for that lib arts degree, and eat out at restaurants, then you're poor by choice. It's fixable via a change in priorities. I'm not claiming that everyone is in this situation, but many people fall squarely into this bucket.
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A very- well- told current events story should generally make you suspicious. Humans have a bias towards narratives that is easy to exploit, sometimes without even meaning to.

With a great deal of effort it is possible to craft moving narratives about events that happened after the facts of a story have settled. But when a story is breaking through the lens of a riveting narrative, start worrying.
Vitess https://code.google.com/p/vitess/ ?

That's 1. A trivial number, if not a trivial system.
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Very much true. I'm constantly amazed at the beliefs that people in the US and EU have about day to day life in China. In my (admittedly limited) experience, in the cities, it's a lot like day to day life in any western country. In extremely poor rural areas, it's somewhat different, but that's because of the extreme poverty, not because it's China.
No, there were aspects of it that I couldn't see the practical application of.
Thanks for pointing that out. Fixed it!
> The username and password are both joshua

This freaked me out for a second.
np, I've seen other transaction times on mobile are up to 4x faster than the web (from session start), but I have a suspicion that the immersive experience of an iPad app like Fab would actually increase average transaction time (but looking for data on it)
It's deliberately over the top. I don't know for sure how I'd react upon first seeing this, because I've known about Hugh McLeod's work for a long time, but I'd like to think that it would have made it past my filter.
$53k is $53000. k means kilo (thousand).
What "truth" in his story? How do you know? The most dangerous thing you can do with a story like this is try to pick apart the things that seem true; your brain is wired to make the wrong things seem authentic.
I'm all for journalistic integrity, but it sounds like all the important facts of the story were at least based on actual events and the rest was dramatic license to make the piece resonate emotionally. I think dedicating a whole show just to explaining the discrepancies is a little overboard and as a listener i'm not interested in spending that much time just for them to say "some of the things in the story were inaccurate". A simple 5 or 10 minute explanation and a long-winded piece online would have sufficed.
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Not saying that you did anything wrong - I obviously don't know your specific situation - but my experience has been the opposite (2008-present). The key is definitely networking. Through Python Ireland alone, I have got more job offers and requests for interviews than I know that to do with. Both last year and the year before I spoke to a lot of company reps and employees at Pycon Ireland and the general consensus was that its hard to find good candidates and that companies, large and small alike, are having difficulties filling their open positions due to lack of people. I personally get messages asking if I'm available from work every other week (and I'm not including recruitment agencies/shotgun HR emails in that).
Because they're in the middle of BFE. A beautiful wine country town far, far from everything.

[Note, I can't say for sure that's why the above person doesn't work there anymore, but it's likely. I interviewed several times and was astounded that they wanted me to relocate to the middle of nowhere for a 3 month contract.]
Why is Fox "easy"? They've never, AFAIK, broadcast anything requiring a major retraction on the scale of CNN's Tailwind story or CBS and the "fake but accurate" Bush National Guard memos.
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A notebook?

No seriously get one of those tiny (1/3 A5) ones which fit in any pocket, then all you have to do is remember a pen!
But what PR disaster would be negated by this type of data center news?
Foxconn apparently has almost 1 million employees in its Chinese factories, so its significant enough in its own right, but I suspect its also a shorthand for all Chinese factories (as McDonalds once was for all fast food).

Foxconn makes a lot of products other than Apple, but focusing on Apple products guarantees that most of the target audience will knowlingly own a Foxconn-made product.

As well, I suspect Foxconn allows greater access to its factories than other Chinese manufacturers (and my guess is conditions there are probably better than the median factory)
I predict that the anti-Apple movement will say that the story was mostly true as told, and any denials by the Chinese interpreter were politically motivated, forced by Foxconn and the Chinese government.
Nope - This American Life is in no way affiliated with NPR (other than that they are often carried on the same stations.) This American Life is produced by Chicago Public Radio and distributed by Public Radio International. Lots of TLAs there, but no NPR!
This is a very good analysis, and I would like to add some historical information to put it in context.

Originally, link analysis was based on a simple observation: people were maintaining curated lists of bookmarks in their personal webpages, because before search engines it was the only way to remember relevant webpages; I'm sure that most people remember that every personal site had a "my bookmarks" webpage. Therefore, every link counted as a "vote" from that person to a page.

Altavista exploited this by ranking by the number of inlinks. It wasn't long until people figured out that this is very easy to game, so someone came up with the idea of "transitive influence": a site is influent if another influent site votes for it. Algorithms such as PageRank and HITS solved the spam problem.

However, with the evolution of the web, the meaning of links changed. For example, most links are automatically generated by CMSs. Also, there is more and more ephemeral information on the web, and for ephemeral information as soon as you have enough links to it to evaluate its quality, the information is already old and irrelevant.

Luckily, if you are the most used search engine, you have another important popularity signal, which is given by your users: the number of clicks to a page for a given query.

In fact, in today's search engines I would say that the influence of link analysis is smaller and smaller in the overall ranking, and probably done mostly at the domain level rather than for each single page.

However, with the advent of social networks, a large amount of clicks doesn't come from search engines anymore, but from social "shares". Which means that the search engine can not observe them anymore, losing a precious signal of popularity (together with "Like"s and "+1"s).

I'm not sure if this is what Google is after with Google+, but most probably the click and share data on Google+ affects (or will affect) the search rankings.
It was this talk:

http://events.cornell.edu/event/orie_colloquium_yaron_singer...
It's not. A generous interpretation: nobody thinks about the branding on their Samsung phone or their LG television, but people feel a personal connection to Apple's brand (or, alternatively, are hit over the head with it every day). So if you're optimizing your story for relevance to a US audience (a perfectly valid thing to do, if you stay within the bounds of the truth), you naturally focus in on Apple.
I think you might be looking at this the wrong way. Credit card authorization occurs in miliseconds but is still a good anti-fraud measure.

If her ESTA application had been denied, she would not have been able to travel and would have to apply for a visa at a US embassy. The pre-board checks for ESTA were performed electronically. I believe there's also a state where an application has to be reviewed, and that can take days to reach a decision.

I don't know anyone who has had that happen though.
Background: Spend most of my life in America, growing up mostly in So. California. Went to Dublin to work for 2 years between '06-'08. I came back right when the financial crisis hit in '08.

Good things about Ireland.
It is beautiful when it is not cloudy.

The people here are very easy to talk to if you want to have a bit of a chat.

If you want to go visit Europe, flights are cheap.

Bad things
Expensive, especially electronics and food. I believe the rent's dropped since the economic crisis but that was pretty expensive too.

There isn't much to do besides drink.
Food is terrible. I heard it's gotten better but if you've lived in SF or LA and you love food, don't work in Ireland. There were a nice row of Chinese places on Parnell that were pretty good though.

Customer service is shite.

It rains a lot, which isn't too bad since most of the time it's a light drizzle but then it's always cloudy. The worst part though is the winds that usually comes with the heavy rain as it makes it difficult to carry an umbrella since they'd just break.

Banks open from 10-4 with an hour lunch break during that time (where they'd completely close down) and on some days they'd open half an hour later for "training." When I was there none of the banks were open weekends, with a new bank that was opening up advertising, "OPEN ON SAT" as a benefit of their bank. I didn't have a car and my work was too far from a bank so it was a pain to do any kind of banking that required me to head down there.

This makes it sound like I had a rough time in Dublin, honestly it was pretty fun and enjoyable for the most part. All the bad points are pretty minor but having to deal with it day in day out was not fun.
If you walk around in downtown Ithaca you might get the idea that Chevy and Ford are exotic nameplates like Ashton-Martin or Ferrarri.

Hang out at a gas station 8 miles away, however, and you see maybe 50% American cars.
We bought an American Toyota Sienna. It was made in Kentucky by American employees, with the profit margin going to a large, multi-national corporation. Its competitors were a Canadian Dodge, a Canadian Ford, an Alabaman Honda, or a Chinese Kia - each with its profit margins going to a large, multi-national corporation.

I'm not even sure what an American car is.
Can we cut this thread short and just stipulate that all the major media outlets have had slipups in the past? I think we can all see where this particular argument leads, and it's nowhere productive.
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What's really tragic here is that the truth in Mr. Daisey's story will get dragged down by the weight of his lies.

[disclaimer: I have never taken journalism classes but I date someone majoring in journalism in college :-)]

Disclaimer aside, I believe you comment is the whole 'moral' of the story. And were someone to write a pulitzer prize winning fictional story about a journalist who was so passionate about the topic they were reporting on they stepped into the cess pool of making up 'facts' and by doing so, lost their soul, and the thing that they were most passionate about gets dismissed and ignored. Its like a Greek tragedy except that instead of the hero dying its some noble cause that dies because of the acts of a selfish reporter.

This is why people who want to be known as journalists have to never, ever, cross that line. Sadly it has a similar mechanism to cheating on your spouse, you do it once and don't get caught and its thrilling and exciting and nouveaux so you want to do it again, and again, and again. And then you do get caught at some point and all the good that was your marriage goes "Poof!" in an instant. (not a personal experience but related by folks daily it seems).

As a literary tool it is very powerful, you can relate to the protagonist's passion, but cannot forgive their transgression.
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