skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said this in a reply, but lest it get lost in the shuffle, here goes. I have a tremendous amount of respect for mjd. His seminal articles on Perl, particularly "Suffering with Buffering" and "Coping with Scoping" saved my bacon more than once. However, I'm a release engineer, and this is an awful, awful Git work flow. As others have noted, Git was designed so that you can make wacky wild experimental changes off to the side in branches, and only when you're happy, merge them back to your working branch and eventually into master. This approach needlessly complicates things and seems incredibly error prone, especially the bit about having to do house cleaning on the morass of broken commits.
The public radio broadcaster said that the segment’s creator, Mike Daisey, had fabricated key details in his report. Although Daisey did actually travel to Shenzhen and speak with Foxconn workers, he later told This American Life that he should have been more forthcoming in his work -

adding “this is theater,” he said. “Not journalism.”

unbelievable. shameless.
> It would almost certainly be a breach of the law in most Western countries.

Twitter already let's you download someone's tweet in a .json file. Are you saying that twitter is almost certainly breaking the law? Or is it something specifically evil with the .zip file?

We're not saying you should "just do with it whatever you like". What they're specifically doing is making it publicly available. Which it already was, because that's the definition of what public means. As the previous poster pointed out.

Public domain is not protected by copyright. Most countries (though not all) explicitly differentiates the laws of what's public and what's copyrighted. Usually, both are mutually exclusive.
>"Daisey claims he met underage workers at Foxconn."

Just to be clear, Rob Schmitz, the Marketplace reporter breaking this story, reported on underage workers making Apple products for Marketplace, last year: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/apple-economy/app...

Note, the claim Schmitz is actually refuting is not that underage workers are employed making Apple products, but instead that Mr. Daisey saw underage workers - and to do so, he literally employs, he-said she-said.

Furthermore, Mr. Schmitz has reported (again for Marketplace) on ordinary Chinese reporting to have been threatened for speaking ill of Apple:

I recently returned to Tongxin village to see if things
had changed since Kaedar shut down the production lines.
This time, nobody wanted to talk to me. Some people hid
in their homes when they saw me.

When I ask two men about the pollution, they say, "What
pollution?' There's no pollution here." Another man said he
and others who spoke to journalists have been threatened --
he angrily accused me of working for Apple.

I ask one woman if she's been threatened.
"I don't know," she says nervously.

But then Dong Qiaozhen invites me inside her house.

Dong Qiaozhen: Yes, we've been threatened.
Village officials have warned us not to talk to
reporters about the pollution.

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/apple-economy/china-c...
The New Verizon iPad Works Perfectly On AT&T 3G Networks
I had one of the irritable incoherent ones once. He said "put your forefingers on the fingerprint reader". So I did. He then looked at me as if I was defying him in some way, and repeated himself angrily. I looked at him in confusion, and just as he seemed to be psyching himself up to send me off for extra screening, I worked out that he wanted me to put my four fingers on the reader.

Presumably he says the same thing to everyone, and to this day I wonder what must be going through his mind when half of the people passing his desk seem to be ignoring his instructions.
Correct, I still had my HEAD files, but everything else seemed pretty broken. I'm not a Git expert by a long shot, but I would imagine that Dropbox renamed some files like "Foo.bar (Eli's Conflicted Copy)" and that really confused the history.

Anyway, not something I would recommend.
CSS Regions: One Year In
Just because you state something as if it is fact does not make it so. Do you personally know Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, James Watt, or Albert Einstein? Probably not. So how do you know what motivated them?

Even if you did, business rules are like looking through a prism. They seem great from one angle, and then when you view another angle you realize the previous one was just an illusion. Likewise, business rules sound great when forcefully delivered, but if you ponder them for a little while longer, you realize there are not only a few exceptions, but many, many exceptions.

I think the bigger problem that you are getting at is that most people come up with an idea, and then when they don't see immediate success, move onto something else that seems more promising. More often than not, the successful people commit to a single idea they are passionate about, and see it through because they believe in it and have a long-term vision for what they want to create. If your goal is to be a millionaire before you are 30, well that is a tough goal and if you don't see instant success you panic and shift to another idea and another idea. Instead if you encounter a real problem and you say "I'm going to solve this no matter how long it takes," you are probably a lot closer to success than most.

I think Andrew Carnegie said it best when he said "No man can become rich without himself enriching others."
Just say what it is and let the reader decide how important it is. I say something like, Machine Learning 2011 (ml-class.org; free, online, no-credit Stanford course). Though personally, if I haven't even begun a class I wouldn't mention it - what is an employer to do with that info? Perhaps you'd get a plus for taking classes but...
An M.O. of many fabricators in the world of journalism is to first claim the source(s) can't be tracked down, and then to claim artistic license (this happened with Mike Barnicle of the Boston Globe in the late 1990s, and I recall seeing similar incidents at the New York Times and one of the Chicago papers over the years as well). Plagiarism is another problem area for publishers, but their excuse is often along the lines of "my notes got mixed up".

Whatever the case, the frequency of reported cases in the mass media is significant. Poynter has been tracking it for years; here are some of the reported cases from last year:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/156485/o...
That is really, really cool and inspiring. I think way more things can be fascinating and fulfilling than we think, its just a matter of thinking about them right. Shakespeare's "for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" rings truer every day to me.
all great ideas, thanks. the ads in the trailers are youtube's ads... so probably can't get rid of those.

i'll figure out a way to show movie times further into the future, midday bit is frustrating yeah.
Yep, there's a glitch. We'll look into it. In the meantime, feel free to email me and I'll hook you up with a copy.
This is somewhat misleading and certainly not due to patriotism.

Car companies have massive discount plans for workers, friends and family, supply chain workers, previous customers, etc.

Detroit has lots of automotive industry workers, and thus for many people around Detroit, it's silly not to buy the car that you can get at a huge discount. This isn't necessarily an American vs non-American choice, since workers are typically eligible for a steep discount with only one car company.

Around the time that Japanese automakers began producing quality products, automotive execs in Detroit looked out their office windows and saw an increasing number of competitors' cars in the parking lot and it scared them. What kind of statement is it when a worker buys the competitor's product. So they offered steep discounts, which are pretty much guaranteed to result in workers buying their employers' product.

In more recent years, this has also been used to boost sales numbers in times of crisis. US automakers have had miles of unused tarmac near Detroit Metro airport filled with cars that they couldn't sell. At some point they just offer a steep employee discount and now a bunch of dud product that is losing money can be turned into a few months of strong sales. By using employee discounts for this, the firm is not seen to be succumbing to massive widespread discounting, and so the technique stays off the radar fairly effectively.

When you consider the cities that have automotive plants, supplier manufacturing plants, etc. and all the discounting going on in these areas, the chart starts to make a lot more sense.

Now for a small rant: Ironically, preventing workers from experiencing competitive products seems to have created tremendous myopia in Detroit and may be responsible for the decline of the US auto industry. Detroit is still using cheapo vinyl and plastic on midrange and even low end luxury cars, far inferior to the materials used on low trim-level Honda and Hyundai models.

One can imagine that if more workers had needed to think carefully about what they wanted to drive, the handwriting would have been on the wall and something could have been done about it before it was too late.

Note to business owners. If you have to discount your product by over 20% to get your own employees to buy it, take a closer look at what they prefer about your competitor's product.
Bike sharing is coming to San Francisco and the Valley this Summer. http://sf.streetsblog.org/2012/02/02/bike-share-coming-to-sf...
Audacity 2.0 Released
Some people are very good at context switching. It is, at least in part, a learned skill.
DasIch is correct. This is meant to expedite the transition for those applications which have had trouble porting to python3 due to lack of developers or just difficulty in transitioning from use of unicode literals.
Why do all tech companies have exactly the same tone of voice
It's still down for me. =\
Dependency Injection (& Small Furry Animals)
Of course that works and I encourage you to do so. I always appreciate a go-getter attitude. I built Antiqua to make the process simple, transparent and to help myself stay organized.

I dare you to click through the signup and make your first archive! It feels pretty good.
Flagged because the title is misleading and unfairly besmirches the Oink team. All the data was public in the first place.

EDIT: The title has been changed to something reasonable so I've unflaged it.
Oooh, wye or delta? Tell us more!

I look forward to the fun stories we'll hear when data centers save a power conversion step by boosting line voltage to around 300VDC (necessary for PFC), and then put say 25 servers in series (floating from ground).
The curious incident of the Lisp in the night-time
The point is not who is more dangerous _in battle_. The point is who is more dangerous _to me_,

Your point and my point diverged somewhere upthread.

It's not about 'battle', never was to my mind. It's about intent, will, and capability.
Github is up ... at least when accessed from my town (Europe)
HN "Beta testing" section?
I think it would be cool to have a special section on HN where we can post beta versions of our sites and get feedback from the web-savvy people on HN, without the pressure and traffic that might result from a "Show HN" posting on the main board.

This would especially help those of us who don't live near a major tech hub and don't have a network of friends in the startup scene.
Github Pages is down. It is remarkable how unreliable Pages has been lately. I've used Pingdom for the last month, and they have reported down time more than 10 times in the last month, with various lengths. Worrisome.
What would happen is the price of new cars would be drastically slashed until people started buying them. This would start a chain reaction that would propagate all the way down the supply chain.

For the reason why this would actually be a good thing, I recommend (to everyone who will listen!) to read How an Economy Grows http://freedom-school.com/money/how-an-economy-grows.pdf

Its kind of long, but its a very entertaining read.
Taylormade R11S
That makes me feel better.. I bought a 2006 Accord last November with 70k miles on it for $11,350.
There is a quote here attributed to Thomas Jefferson: "Information, no matter how expensive to create, can be replicated and shared at little or no cost."

Any idea where this comes from? A Google search isn't turning up much for me.
I think this is one of the major points covered in the Lean startup. In essence, you start with your idea, and sometimes after you get customer feedback you learn that maybe one of your features should be your product. For example, @Flickr actually started that way. Flickr was at first a social gaming site, but when they implementing photosharing the demand for that feature was so overwhelming they made it their whole product. If you'd like to talk about your idea with me, feel free to email me, which is in my profile.
> Before you can sign a lease, very often you need two months' rent and a security deposit.

And why exactly do you need a whole house/apartment? Sublet. Find a room on craigslist. These options require far fewer upfront costs and are far more flexible (you tend to be able to leave with notice from a few days to a few weeks).

> Maybe NYC is the exception to the rule

I would say that for American cities it is. You can live many decent places around NYC without a car for not much money at all. Sure you'll have a 1.5 hour train ride into the city but you can move... when you can afford it.

Car payments, maintenance and insurance are expensive. That alone in many places when added to your rent will allow you to move to a substantially better place.

> You still need to pay for food, utilities, and continue to pay rent while looking for a job.

These you need to do anyway.

> ... no guarantee whatsoever ...

What, precisely, other than death has a guarantee?

If you want to see if you can live with your parents into your 40s being a bum or live off welfare, OK. If you want to get on your own two feet, it's probably going to require you to take some risks and make some sacrifices.

That means getting rid of the car, cable, cell phone, etc, buying cheap clothes and feeding yourself inexpensively.

this is my overall problem with the complaints in the article: the subtext of entitlement. "No jobs in my field", "I've spent hundreds of dollars on drinking glasses alone", etc.

There's what you need and what you want and it's important to separate the two.

> In response, they're voicing perfectly reasonable objections.

But they're not reasonable. It's tantamount to "I can't move without giving up stuff".
I never thought of the word 'friggin' as super-underlining, but that is a good simile and what I intended it to mean.

Thanks!
I understand most of the data was public anyway, but why not at the very least use a randomly generated string instead of your username?
Why Oink Failed
With 20% unemployment not sure how people are going to work.

Just so you know the underlying theme at France and Greece. Intellectual people in France know that their number of work days are not sustainable but as of now if government tries to make a change, they will not survive the election because people have taken these holidays as their right. So they cannot make the change even if they want to.

Greece has the similar socialism problem of big government, high government salaries and unrestrained spending no doubt they have high unemployment.

We are headed in that direction under current administration where government is growing without bounds and we have unemployment rate of almost 9%.
In all honesty, what did This American Life think it was reporting? Daisey presents a one man show, surely the folks at NPR can distinguish that from investigative journalism.

Marketplace's journalism is akin to investigating the false claims in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. That no person named "Stanislovas Lukoszas" was ever eaten alive by rats, is hardly a revelation.

It's This American Life which is unclear about where journalism begins and ends and what constitutes journalistic integrity and what constitutes muckraking.
In Daisey's response: "I am proud that my work seems to have sparked a growing storm of attention and concern over the often appalling conditions under which many of the high-tech products we love so much are assembled in China."

He doesn't seem to get why lying and exaggerating and sensationalizing a topic for the sake of its awareness doesn't work out in the long run.

If it's accepted when you do it for your cause, it's accepted when others do it for their cause. Now all you've done is diminished the attention garnered by the nature, impact and realities of a given issue by legitimizing the use of hyperbole and alarmism spun by its champions. To take a page from The Power of Nightmares, in the end the winners aren't the issues that genuinely need more attention, but the issues whose supporters can pitch the scariest stories to the public.

Any issue still needs good supporters and good supporters still need to frame strong, influential narratives, and there's plenty of room in journalism for creating a narrative while staying within the bounds of facts. There's also room in theater and the arts in general to contribute fictional narratives towards an issue but the distinction is very important. To lower that gate of verifiable facts and evidence for journalism does nothing but to erode the important role journalism has in society at large.

If what TAL says is true about Daisey misleading them with the fact-checking rounds, then Daisey certainly crossed a line and knew full well that he was passing off performance as reporting. His peers in this respect are the likes of Fox News where it's considered acceptable to spread information you want others to believe as truth, for the sake of the issues you yourself feel are important. It's a shame because I think objectively most would agree the working conditions in china are an issue that doesn't deserve the same tactics used by say the Obama birth certificate "issue".

Saying he regrets doing so now, while simultaneously saying he's proud of the attention raised on the issue, shows that he is in fact not regretful at all. It's even easier to see it since he never expressed regret until now. His only regret is that he was caught.
BTW, read this post...http://nodemaker.posterous.com/the-problem-with-ideas
Those things are all worth $0 because they are the baseline for an employer.

When accounting for these things in a total comp calculation, I do it something like this:

$comp = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5) - (6 + 7 + 8)

where

[1] Salary / cost of living index for area

[2] adjusted value of health care plan

[3] adjusted expected bonuses/profit sharing

[4] retirement contributions per annum

[5] dollar value of stock options given * chance of options
vesting at some worthwhile value (tricky to calculate for startups)

[6] expected hours per week over 40 * .025 * [1]

[7] estimated value of environmental and other stress

[8] cost in time, gas, stress, vehicle wear & tear,
inconvenience of commuting

Now, it may well be the case that other companies that you looked at had large negative values of 6 & 7, which makes Fog Creek look great in comparison, but I think that as a profession we're screwing ourselves in the long run if we think about uncompensated overtime as the norm and working normal hours as some sort of bonus :)
That was my first impression. But that's only one picture. Maybe the rest of the app looks better? Maybe the article writer only had access to an ugly one?
"We couldn't find any movies nearby."

Now, I am sad.
GSoC 2012 accepted organizations announced
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the need to improve working conditions in third world factories is real. Mr.Daisy in his 'passion' to be broadcast and the rare sloppy work by TAL will cast a shadow on future investigative reports of this kind.
Apple did release the list of its suppliers after the TAL story. i hope they keep up their drive to be more transparent irrespective of this blotch by TAL.
A lot of it comes down to the title.

Your title was "Michael Foord's mock library added to Python 3.3 STL" - there are a couple of problems here. Firstly, most people won't know who Michael Foord is so using his name at the start of the title won't pull in any attention. Secondly, STL isn't a well known acronym for standard library.

Something like "Python standard library finally gains a mocking library in Python 3.3" might have worked better.
IOS game developers cautiously excited about new iPad
What Do You Call a BlackHat in Amsterdam?
Was this a stage play? If that's the case the "Reality Distortion Field"? is part of the schtick. If ThisAmLife crimped "facts" from it, it's their fault.
America's Richest Cities Don't Buy American Cars
Daisey has himself conceded dishonesty (though he calls it "dramatic license").
Maybe I'm reading these graphs poorly, but doesn't the type of car people buy seem to correlate highly with the affluence of the area? There's more money in NY, LA, SF, San Diego, etc. (as shown by the graphs at the bottom), so more people in those cities drive nicer (european) cars.

What am I missing?
Repliers can't downvote parent comment. Or at least not within my HN user level.

Your comment sounds like generated out of HN headlines mixed with wishful thinking. How could web data "cure cancer"? Are you indirectly calling the huge amounts of cancer researchers idiots for looking in the wrong place? Please think before you post.
1. I don't stand anywhere.

I yell like a banshee, run forward, knock her on her butt and smash her over the head with the bazooka.

Or, I talk nice, put on my authority voice, walk forward and then knock her down and smash her over the head with the bazooka.

Depends on the cheerleader. Talking nice will probably work best, thinking about it. And oh, hey, there is that intent thing again.

2. Thunderdome is a much better example for a melee battle than a short tunnel.

3. It's fascinating how my comments in this thread get modded down to 0, or -1 but people keep replying.
For me it calls to mind Upton Sinclair. While working on Boston, Sinclair met with the lawyer of Sacco and Vanzetti, who told him they were guilty as sin and he the lawyer) fabricated an alibi for them.

By the time the novel was finished, Sinclair was convinced the pair were guilty; but he released it anyway because of its "higher truth".
Adobe adds 3D editing capabilities to Photoshop CS6 Extended
This American Life is not an NPR program.
Thanks for posting the email.

I'm a Chicago Public Radio member, too, but I didn't get an email. I'd certainly like to be on this list... checking spam folders now...
Hmmm. Interestingly, when I first met Mike Daisey, he wasn't a monologuist -- he was a comedian. He started the Seattle Sketchfest back in 1999. But that's not a defense for anyone practicing journalism.
Almost certainly your local Apple store has a stock reserved for replacements-- you should be able to walk in, show it to them and walk out with a new device.
Neutrinos not faster than light
I've seen ICE agents with machine guns in Miami International Airport.
Please don't try to guess where the location permission chrome will be. Also, your site is completely useless if I don't want to give you permanent permission to access my location. You should let users enter a location or zip code if they don't want to give you live access to their exact location.
well, I wouldn't upvote because of the word "finally" - too much editorialization
Wow! Kudos on executing! Sounds like you learned a lot getting to a MVP.

You may want to read over this article at SmashingMag on how to recruit a UX designer. http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/02/16/how-to-recru...
Designed bugs are still bugs.
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