skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Actually they have.

I found the youtube to be more compelling than the OSU study. The OSU study contradicted lots of other studies that found nothing conclusive for nearly the same hypothesis. The author of the study managed to fit a curve that he was apparently looking for by allowing for enormous flexibility on the time axis. That's like finding pictures in clouds. You can see what you want to see if you look at something from enough angles. To be meaningful, you would need to apply those findings to lots of other data sets to see if you're just seeing what you want to see or if there's a real likelihood of a pattern. Science isn't finding one occurrence of something that you were looking for. Science is predicting where and how you'll find something and then having others find you're right over and over.

On the Youtube lecture: The statistics seem to show correlation, but causation? Is the inequality the cause of a lack of trust? Or is it the other way around? Furthermore, I saw lots of other correlations in the data they showed. Graph homogeneity of the population's ethnical background vs trust. Look at the states and countries that scored high trust. At a glance, they seemed to be the highly ethnically/religiously/culturally unified ones.

> Nope. I think revenue spending isn't really good metric of government power

Okay, what would you suggest... Watts?

> I'd wager that there is quite a bit of income inequality if your gov. revenue is low but they spend a lot of money.

Wait, your conjecture agrees with me. Spending is high and inequality is high. The gov. revenue is almost a non-factor in terms of government power. For the part of the curve where the currency hasn't been completely devalued because of over-borrowing and printing money, the amount the government spends is all that your really need to describe government power. Lack of revenue to back it up is just a ginormous credit card bill that no one seems to remember is out there.
Not nearly as disappointing as the fact that Webkit has not become a standard in all browsers. We should all be working on a single rendering engine. Webkit has won, and should be the standard.

People/organizations can continue to experiment on components of that. V8 vs Nitro etc... We'll just have beta/dev forks of Webkit that can eventually be merged back into the core.

Browser fragmentation is fine. It's the rendering engines that are killing us.
> I think a truly "smart person" is someone who is always staying open to the possibility of people changing radically, however unlikely that may seem.

That's a very humanities 1990s definition of "smart," and one that I don't think is remotely accurate, either.
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That's interesting. Someone who was born in country A and is a citizen of country B and decided to live in country C, no longer wants to be a citizen of B (which would be understandable for a lot of reasons, taxes being only one of many) still has to pay taxes as if he/she were actually using country B's tax-funded services.
I've not seen fake profiles or fake posts on my Pinterest.

Maybe the fakes are good enough to look real?
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Some schools allow students to graduate earlier. I got out of high school a semester early; my sister and mother both received their Bachelors at nineteen.

While making no call on the politeness of the phrase, "feather not dot" is one of the best I've read in days.
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> clear path to monetization through affiliate

Pinterest tried affiliate links with Skimlinks. They didn't have a great time, and they've dropped skimlinks.

Personally, I think they should work out a way to try it again.
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Hey, Pinterest being cloned by Pinspire? Google "pinterest for porn". It's an easy enough model to clone. So is Flickr and Wikipedia (hey, they'll give you the software for free!) and lots of other sites, but it's hard to recreate the same passionate community.

I think the important value that Pinterest has is the community of pinners and their collective aggregated opinions. That community has the potential to actually be quite a useful testbed and market research mechanism (or even sales channel) for a lot of consumer brands. Maybe not $1.5bn worth of value, but there's quite a bit of space in the social web for more of a female-oriented, arts-and-craftsy, fashionable, aspirational type of site.

Go to your local magazine seller: there's a lot of women's oriented magazines, lifestyle oriented magazines... that's where I think the value in Pinterest is, as a sort of online complement to "aspirational lifestyle" brands.
I'm not sure why that's controversial. Sure, Perl was quite popular in the CGI days, but at scale? I guess Yahoo has been using PHP for a long time. Certainly things like Ruby, and maybe Python, were not really feasible until we had faster hardware.
Very good post.
In fact, thinking in terms of smart / stupid is fairly pointless. Firstly, there are numerous forms of intelligence (as the first phrase of its wikipedia entry confirms). Secondly, sticking to the IQ kind of intelligence, most tasks require only a sufficient amount of it (say, more than 90 or so), more of it doesn't necessarily help. The guy with the highest IQ I ever met (180 or something) had a junior job (at 40yo) as a statistical analyst in a bank. This applies also to developers: for instance, getting things done is more important than being IQ-smart.
Thirdly, and I think this is the poster's point, the form of intelligence I came to admire the most (and I find most useful) is the one that makes you humble enough to know what you don't know, and capable of listening to and appreciating people who think differently from you. Hard to really learn anything new without that one.
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From the reddit thread (which I just read through) a TED organiser responds http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/tqi15/too_hot_for_...

"TEDChris 21 points 9 hours ago

Chiming in here, as TED's Curator..

First of all, thanks for all the attention. Glad you guys care.

We do too. Income inequality is a huge issue. Most of us here at TED are pretty passionate about it.

The trouble with this talk is that it tackled the issue in a way that was explicitly partisan, framing it as a critique of "an article of faith" for Republicans. TED is avowedly non-partisan. We want to share ideas in a way that brings people together, doesn't throw sand in their faces.

We release one talk a day on our home page, and that talk is pretty much guaranteed 50,000-100,000 views within 24 hours. Every day there are numerous amazing talks competing for that slot. We have to make the best call we can. Talks that aren't selected aren't being censored, any more than the NYT (or Reddit) is censoring a story it decides isn't appropriate for its home page.

The text from this particular talk is already out there. You can make your own judgement.

Thanks, and let the discussion continue. We're listening.
"
Aye, but in a few weeks time I might have forgotten exactly how many "a"s :-)
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Is parsing not an illusory problem caused by using the wrong data structure?
On top of that, they want to make it official that people who do avoid paying their taxes by renouncing citizenship are unable from ever re-entering the country again.

That is so braindead, it's not even wrong. You'd be hard-put to come up with a worse policy if you were actively trying.

Well, Schumer (D-NY) and Casey (D-PA) are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. They will call Saverin’s $67 million tax “duck” an “outrage” today in their press conference when they detail the rest of the Ex-Patriot act.

The "outrage" is these dipshit politicians and their big-spending government and their obsessive desire to steal every cent they can from the rest of us.
It is on torrentfreak.

Expecting this site to be fair and balanced is like expecting the same from RIAA website.
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Anyone care to explain how medicare + medicaid (which don't apply to everyone) manage to consume 23.2% of the US budget - yet the UK's National Health Service, which does cover everyone, only takes up 10.7% of it's budget[1]. The NHS, for it's flaws, is starting to seem like a bargain.

[1] http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_health_care_budget_2009...

Update: i'm an idiot and read the "Public net debt" row instead (just skimmed to the bottom row and presumed that'd be a sum). The actual percentage is 17.09% which is considerably higher than I originally had it, but still a great deal less than the US.
False dilemma fallacy

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

You can't attribute the existence of "jobs" exclusively to "businesses" or exclusively to "consumers", because "trade" definitionally requires the existence of two parties.
the html5 spec specifies exact parser behavior, and ensures the same rendering across all compliant browsers. If we did standardize rendering engines (which could /never/ happen, for an incredible number of sociopolitical reasons), what fragmentation would exist?

Competition creates innovation.
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What this law will effectively do is provide a huge incentive for foreigners who earn money in the states never to become US citizens.
Looking at the front page, I didn't really experience the problems you describe. I had just two issues:

1) The photos of the candy should really near the top and visible without scrolling -- 'candy' is not a term I come across often, so I wasn't completely certain what was being sold. Perhaps I'm unusual, but I don't bother with videos unless the product has already interested me.

2) My eyes skipped past the price completely. I was actually about to write here that they left it out, finally spotting it only when I went looking.

...the green pay button was fine for me -- not particularly ugly or dodgy looking.
None of the graphs are from the Bush era, so your question is irrelevant.
Nothing is fair and balanced. Isnt that a Fox News expression by the way? They are mocking the viewers but they dont even understand it. :)
I'd say it's the other way round: the greater the suffering of a society (poor health outcomes, higher crime etc.) the greater the inequality. Your ability to protect yourself grows with your income. Therefore those who earn less are more likely to loose which widens inequality.
Isn't it great India also wants to rally all the world's governments to take control over the internet, overseen of course by the UN

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3423018.ece
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Don't forget administrative costs. An interaction with a medical professional in the US can involve multiple billing departments (the clinic, the lab, the actual doctor in some cases), your insurance company, any medical reimbursement schemes you may be involved with (HSA, VEBA etc), and your own time dealing with this mess.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa022033

"The gap between U.S. and Canadian spending on health care administration has grown to $752 per capita. A large sum might be saved in the United States if administrative costs could be trimmed by implementing a Canadian-style health care system"

This probably doesn't even include the added cost to businesses of having to employee additional HR staff to coordinate the insurance and reimbursement accounts.

Every politician interested in job creation should be pro universal/single payer/socialised healthcare. The financial burden of administering and paying for private insurance has to be a significant burden for both small and large businesses.
I'm confused. It says "...or anyone claiming through them be and are hereby restrained (...) from in any manner infringing the applicant's copyright in the cinematographic film...". How is it that a court can order someone not to break the law? And how can that be understood as "cease all operations"?
Are they blocking by IP or just DNS? Are you guys typing just domain names, or are you trying the IP addresses too?
Add a line to your HOSTS file and see what happens:
74.113.233.128 vimeo.com www.vimeo.com
Hope he has an exclusion list for countries the post office don't post to. Whether it is political or temporary due to natural disaster.
NASA in fact did knit memories for the Apollo guidance computer.

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

"Software written by MIT programmers was woven into core rope memory by female workers in factories. Some programmers nicknamed the finished product LOL memory, for Little Old Lady memory"
I am somewhat amazed that you are clubbing somewhat unrelated issues with a problem that directly threatens freedom of internet access in India.While, I do not take any sides -tinting of car glasses was prohibited by few state governments before. Also I am not sure if installing speed regulators is a step in the right direction but people getting killed in road accidents is a real problem in India. Remember that Lambourghuini mowing down several people in New Delhi?

But lets not call it "getting ridiculous by the day" yet. These orders were passed by court and not laws that parliament tried to make to achieve a totalitarian state and as such these orders are open for challenge by anyone. For example, it is likely that Madras High Court judgement was rushed through and there weren't anyone[probably] challenging it and hence it is now being enforced by ISPs.
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Speaking for myself, I know the first time I took the ACT I went in not even sure what the four subjects were. Did well, took a study class at my high school, bought a review book, did practice tests, etc. Took it again two months afterwards, exact same composite score.

I realize the test prep helps some people tremendously, but I think the ACT at least does a decent job of testing what you actually know (or at least how good you are at taking tests) than how well you prepared.
CSS prefixes are dumb, why not just drop them?
Ed Cooke - the memory champion Joshua Foer writes and talks about (in part) - has co-founded a site with cognitive scientist Greg Detre for memorising vocabulary (or indeed any "word set" users create). The principle is the same as that which forms the basis of Foer's talk - transforming the information you want to remember into something vivid or extreme in any sensorial aspect, and then revisiting that memory to firm it up. It certainly works for me: http://www.memrise.com
Maintainer here. It is ~30kb gzipped, and is modular but there is no modular build yet. Individual plugins and chart types are not required, which cuts out a lot of the size.

The 100kb minified unzipped is a concern of mine, however. As the library evolves, keeping it trim and trimmer is a goal.
I think that you get the whole thing wrong. GuysHelpMeDecide is a tool where you enter a question for example:

* What iphone should I buy?

And lets you enter 2 or 3 choices:

* iPhone 4S 16GB white
* iPhone 4S 16GB black

The key here is that the search for this products is light fast and easy. It grabs from amazon.com the title of the product, image, description and even the price, but let's you modify it (if you don't want the price to be public or you want to customize the description with your opinion on that product).

Once created the poll it appears on your facebook friends wall, if they click on the story they'll see the page with the question, the choices and they'll be able to vote and to comment.

See a quick iPhone color example here:

http://guyshelpmedecide.com/uA7L

None of your friends needs necessarily to own an iPhone for providing a valid opinion.

I have endless conversation with my geek friends about the new LCD HD whatever 3D tv and none of us have ever tried it.

Hope it gets clearer now
> While making no call on the politeness of the phrase, "feather not dot" is one of the best I've read in days.

Really? It was an inappropriate remark, I was surprised to read it and even more surprised to see it lauded by someone else.
They were asking the questions, and I was sketching a map of things only as they arose as a necessary part of answering them. I agree, it seems like a detour, but actually it's a bit like Dirk Gently - everything really is connected.

I'm thinking of writing up this farrago of topics and trying to make sense of the connections between them for those who are interested, but I was interested in hearing people's reactions to the topic. In essence, though, there hasn't been any. Which is disappointing, but there we go.

So I think it's two "yes" answers. They were asking the questions, so I felt that answering them was necessary. There were other questions that I dodged because they were too much of a diversion. And yes, I do feel that the person in question was sufficiently capable, they just didn't really "get it" at the end. Perhaps they just need time to absorb some of the specifics, and then next time they'll be in a better place and get further.
50 years ago in Afghanistan it was 1962.

Today it is 1262.

Sort of makes you realize that peace, freedom and technological advancement aren't defaults, but aberrations. I can't imagine what it would feel like to be an Afghan citizen who was born in Kabul in the 1940s... It must feel like being stuck in a time machine.
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Wow, some great pictures. It's exciting to think of what we'll think of pictures taken from the year 2000 when we're all living in the year 2050.
They're actually rather different: http://saltofportugal.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/pasteis-de...

But yes, it'd be hard to keep them fresh while not inflating the costs too much (I don't expect them to be sold as expensive delicatessen).
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Demos definitely need work!

Edit: back button should be ok now.
"You can’t just measure what teachers do and slap a number on it.”

I think you can, it's just that the Teacher Data Report doesn't seem to be doing a good job of it. It's a broken model, not a broken idea.
CSS hat is going live next week :) So you can get it then ;)
You also can't discount the fact that when Napster came out, music sales as a whole dropped like a rock. I don't think I knew anyone that bought music after this.

Anything digital (like movies, music, or software) is only as valuable as what people are willing to pay. Look at the iPhone apps market. Because most apps are under $10, you will have a hard time selling an app above this price point.

The same thing will happen if the record industry embraces piracy. People will just expect to get it for free from then on. It will be very difficult to convince them otherwise.

It's difficult for me to respect a community that feels entitled to someone else's hard work (and without their permission).

If they really want to make a difference, compete with the record labels. Create a record label with signed artists that gives their music out for free on the torrent networks.

I know this will never happen because it takes too much discipline and hard work. The community also doesn't really care about the artist. If they did, they would have come up with some sort of solution for artists to make a living in the past 12 years (Napster launched in '99).

Until They can show me otherwise, I feel that the entire point of the community is so they can get things for free.
I don't think this goes beyond gradients, patterns, shadows, etc... Still looks useful though.
I imagine fresh food would have a bunch of weird import restrictions.
Hi, I'm dev from CSS Hat team - we will export regular CSS3, vendor extensions (webkit,moz,o) are optional.
Thanks for interest! :)
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Pretty scummy, more like.
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Far from it, Jython devs continue to attend and present at Pycon. Although these days I've been using Groovy lately for my JVM.next() needs.
Totally agree with your virility point.

Perhaps the title of my Ask HN is too much ambitious. I't be better something like "how to make it start getting traction" (more convenient than getting viral)
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It's still a very different scenario to specifically acquire a single targeted person's DNA which they left lying around, than to collect a massive database of millions of people's DNA that you can use to make all sorts of queries for whatever purpose you wish.

E.g. insurance companies wouldn't go through the trouble of following around their customers to catch their DNA, but they certainly would like to have that database which can predict their future illnesses.
It may just be for demo purposes, but using the mouse cursor as a light source seems like the 2012 equivalent of animated GIF backgrounds. Might be cool it could you specify a point light source at a given coordinate and let the page render from there.
Only two components have been forked: mutter and gnome-shell.
It's reasonable to assume they can keep up with those.
I ran across this the other day (it's a dependency of jsdom)

cssom - https://github.com/NV/CSSOM

* edit: fixed typo
Furthermore, adding two days' development time doesn't mean shipping two days later, especially if that time is spent reimplementing functionality for which you already have a perfectly useful (although not shippable) alternative.

All it means is you'd have had to allocate two more days worth of some programmer's time away from some less important task. For something like this, the programmer wouldn't even need to know thing one about the Android project - just that "we need our own implementation of this standard Java function".
d3 and cubism are great.

I have written another library, envision.js, which is more suitable for realtime data. Here's an example: http://humblesoftware.com/envision/demos/realtime. Envision here is adapted to Flotr2, but working with it is higher level than working with Flotr2 directly.
It's just blending options from photoshop. It's not layout/positioning/sizing, although that would be boss.
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I think "scummy" is a bit of an overstatement. I would have preferred it if there was a message first explaining how CSS Hat helps you stop using Flash (I'm assuming that was the intent). I'd be more likely to tweet in that case.
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The wall is going up one brick at a time...
Ask HN: Any decent web apps for generating web site screenshots?
I need an app that can generate large-ish (800px or 1000px wide would be nice) web site screenshots quickly (within a couple seconds). I don't mind paying. On Google I see a lot of apps that do this but for the most part they seem to be slow and/or output small image sizes.

Is there a service that does this that you have personally used and can recommend?

EDIT: Just found http://url2png.com/ which looks like it might be the winner, but definitely open to other (cheaper?) options.