skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, you're comparing apples to oranges. Government bond prices reflect the default risk of the government in question.

They also reflect overall competitiveness of the country in question which by definition includes legal risks. This is primarily driven from currency fluctuations. In Europe, the German Bund is currently priced stronger than Spanish bonds which is due to default risk.

If each country had their own currency (compare US to Europe as a whole), the bigger fear would not be default risk, it would be inflation risk. This inflation risk is a function of competitiveness.

'Legal risks' include things like getting sued because of perceived defects of your product. Some statistics about that would be interesting, but probably vary greatly by sector: medical devices probably involve lots of ass-covering, whereas something like paper notebooks probably incur fewer lawsuits.

I agree with your assessment of what legal risks are, but keep in mind it is more to do with the change in legal structures rather than current legal structure. If there is no change, businesses can make projections and be confident in them. If there is a risk of change, that is perceived as a larger legal risk.

I don't have statistics, but I would say that a country (France) which elects a president that is perceived as socialist (radical change from previous president) has far more legal risks than the relatively stable US.
The thing this misses for me is what it can do and what it does do for most people.

Smartphones are now mass market which means that a lot of people buying and using them aren't engaging in a lot of config, customisation and so on, that 90% of what they do and how they work is how it comes out of the box.

Only about 7% of Android devices are using ICS 6 months after launch. By comparison 80% of iOS customers using iOS5 12 months on. What that means is that what's in iOS6.0 is probably way more relevant to your average iOS user than what's in ICS is to your average Android user.

I've not seen anyone say ICS isn't good, the issue seems to be that it's not what most people experience when the use Android.
Yes service sharing is the killer Android feature thanks to API design; Virtually all cloud and social services can have a share button on my android.
Interesting. I had no idea we had a special visa program for Australia. Are there any other countries we have special visa programs for?
Is Flame virus fallout a Chinese, Russian plot to control the Internet?
None of the Apple devices that you mentioned are sold at retail anymore. How many Android devices that are being sold in stores can't get access to the latest operating system update?
A bunch of disjunct thoughts:

1. If you aren't profitable now, and don't expect to be anytime soon, will you ever be? Don't forget that the purpose of a business is to make money and sustain itself, not merely to exist for as long as possible.

2. Let's say you have X dollars, which can be used either for keeping a startup afloat or for finishing your degree. Imagine it's a year from now, and you've spent X. Either you'll have a degree (something that shows an accomplishment) or you'll have work experience at a defunct startup. Maybe you will have become profitable, but it doesn't sound like you're trying that hard.

3. HN probably isn't the best place to ask if a degree is worth it. You'll get a lot of extreme answers from people in the anti-college camp.

4. I don't have any personal experience with working for companies, but I'd imagine that a degree would look much, much better than an extra year at a failed startup. Especially considering that you worked on it for 1-2+ years and still didn't make money (assuming you don't.) This sentiment will only increase as the company gets larger; a small startup may understand that you learned a lot from a failed startup, but a mid-size company or larger will assume you just dicked around for a few years.

5. A degree more or less sticks with you for the rest of your career, especially if it's from a top 3 school. Will anyone care that you had a (failed) startup experience in 10-15-20 years?
Agreed. And they also belong in the former category -- they are taking a risk and moving from away from their comfort zone.

My point was H1B candidates of the former type have self-selected themselves into a pool of skilled risk takers and could perhaps be an asset for a start-up. But your mileage will vary.

As for the latter category, you are not really hiring an employee ; you are merely hiring a vendor . Buyer beware !
I'm not really sure that the point needed to be restated, as I think that we all know what qualifies as an HR nightmare. Gender inequality is a problem that definitely needs to be avoided, but (what seems to be) the core issue for this article seems to be a non issue. We don't really have any context for the Hooters-ish photo, so I can't make any concrete deductions, but it seems as though an all male startup team decided to go willingly, and most likely unanimously to the wild wings and boobs eatery. If they had female counterparts that felt as though they did not belong then there could be a problem. Again, we don't have much context.

I can understand the sentiment regarding the "unprofessional" nature of the given photo, but I highly doubt that their employee outing is going to be the cause of burned bridges and lawsuits.
When I scroll the page, it lags slightly. I'm using a reasonably fast computer on Linux and this kind of thing doesn't happen all that much. I can only assume it's because of all the elaborate javascript, CSS, etc.
Verizon Shared Everything plan: Share data among devices, unlimited voice, text
And yet, only 7% of Android phones run last year's OS, at least as of May 1...

I wonder what that number is today. I would expect it to be a little bit higher but not much.
Since I already get a text message each time I authenticate, I'd even be in favor of one that just texted me each time I authenticated a new computer. That way I could use the security of the app, but the notification of sms.

I believe Facebook used to do just the notification part with some optional security feature where you had to name each new computer you used. They have 2 factor now, of course.
This is just a guess, but since the iPhone 4 currently doesn't support Siri, I doubt the 3GS would.
"Oh, so your 10.4 has indexed search and Expose? Well look at what my pimped XP can do.."

"So you have hardware accelerated video filters? Well look at what I can fetch, hack and compile my Gentoo into.."

I'm not saying Android is bad, but this znet post is just stupid, sorry. Apple has never really been a big inventor of new technologies (apart from industrial design), but integrating existing ideas as good as possible. Some people prefer to tinker on their smartphones, some people like me get enough tinkering on their desktop PC and like their notebooks and smartphones to "just work" (quoted because it's actually not always like that with Apple products anymore, but at least their iOS devices are pretty solid in what they do).
Great to see this as I am graduating soon in Sydney, will definitely check this out!
The top post of the top thread in r/theeternalwar say he's working on exporting it for everyone.
The keynote and Apple website point out that all purchases of Macs from now on will come with a free upgrade to Mountain Lion once it's released.

I wonder if the free upgrade will be the App Store version that allows you to install it on all authorized versions. If so, this could be an advantage to buying after the Mountain Lion release, since Macs that come with newer OSes generally don't allow you to upgrade your other Macs to the new OS.
I'm curious if anyone has experimented with educating potential customers about the fees associated with each delivery option. For example:

1. Buy on Amazon.com for $9.99 (I earn $5.10)

2. Buy on iBooks for $9.99 (I earn $7.00)

3. Buy a PDF for $9.99 (I earn $9.25)

If I felt any connection or goodwill toward the author (highly likely) I would be inclined to pick the best option for me _and_ the author.
Thanks for building it :)
I loved the part about having responsive design baked in and it being on top of django (since that's one framework I know the best). Myself have been thinking of building something similar for a while.
I was hoping for the 512 upgrade option too. In the keynote though he mentioned that a lot of pro users like to use external disks and with thunderbolt transfer rates will be very fast. That's probably their reasoning.
I'd be very surprised if iOS 6 included Siri for the 3GS (or even the 4, for that matter).
User experience is not a checklist. There's a big difference between having those features be usable out of the box to every customer versus giving a user an unfinished phone and making them do shitwork to make it work.
A friend of mine who has family in Brazil would buy electronics like game consoles in the US and take them down on the plane, because it was significantly cheaper that way.
I can absolutely vouch for ubiquiti hardware.

I started in ~06 putting it in soekris machines as "use this to microwave a burrito" levels of powerful wifi APs for our campus.

Now Ubiquiti sells enterprise level hardware for next to nothing. Check out that unifi stuff, which is amazing, or the picostation2 HP, which is even more amazing.

And deceptively cheap. Like...<$100 for literally the best wireless AP on the market.
Unfortunately I often have problems with my lower back. Thing that helped me the most was plain exercise (pilates) ball. It forces you to sit correctly and keep your back straight. It can be hard at the beginning but when you get used to it :)
A Third of US Teenagers Text or Send Emails While Driving
Verizon Introduces 'Share Everything' Service Plan for Up to Ten Devices
Had my kids when I was 20 and 23 ... they're healthy. All that matters.
I love Civ 2, but how is it that the OP can't win against two AIs? They weren't geniuses, AFAIK. And though the AI was vicious early on, it never seemed competent at the end. And even if it were, it's hard to imagine that the AI could adapt to a focused, determined attack by a human player (taking one city at a time).
First, do you really think people creating weapons of war would bother obeying the GPL?

And secondly, that would result in the GPL no longer being complaint with the Open Source Definition[1], which does not allow "field of endeavour" restrictions. Whether or not the FSF cares about that point is questionable (I doubt they care much) but it could make life more difficult for F/OSS developers in general.

[1]: http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/perens.html
Except there are plenty of legitimate DMCA takedowns.
Is there a reverse-engineered Civ II api (i.e. akin to bwapi)?
It appears correctly-sized on both displays, at least when I tried it in Lion a few months ago. It's an impressive effect.

If you have Xcode and Quartz Debug you can enable HiDPI on any external monitor and try it out.
It won't get Siri. Even on iOS5 only the 4S supports Siri.

As far as I'm aware this is a deliberate disabling thing as the original Siri app worked on earlier models (maybe not the 3GS but the 4).
Wage discrimination based on visa status is illegal, though. Before a company petitions for an H1-B on behalf of a foreign worker, they first have to apply for a labor certification showing that the worker's wage is close to the mean wage for that job title in that region.

What is most likely happening is that once the foreign workers get their H1-B visas, they are denied raises and bonuses. And since their staying in the US is contingent upon their employment, they don't have much negotiating power.
simulated war, apparently
There appears to be a lot of discussion about market penetration of the two operating systems. This is a separate discussion. The author is comparing the new iOS functionality to that present on ICS.
Is that what all that white space in the article was? With Adblock on, it rendered very oddly.
A cloud ate my source code!
I have an iPhone 4S (Work) and an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S II (Personal - EU version with the physical button) and I am still to receive the ICS update here stateside!

By the time iOS6 is released to users, there will be many a people with Android phones who wouldn't have received ICS updates for their phone!
Django and Neo4j - Domain modeling that kicks ass
While it's awesome that the experiment has been corrected and is now working properly, it is a little disappointing to me that the answer isn't so strange.

I would have loved it if it turned out to be something real just because it would have made some form of communication between planets without a delay possible.
NASA opens up Launch Control Center for public tours
The Oatmeal campaign breaks 105,000 after asking for 20,000
Follow the count: http://www.indiegogo.com/bearlovegood?
Analyzing the MacBook Pro with Retina display
ShortcutFoo: Learn shortcuts. Code faster.
48% of H1-B holders are from India, and another 10% are from China. IMO, it should be illegal to hire them in a capacity where they are "consultants" in a shop. This would shut down the vast majority of the abuses in the system.
Why would you need a class name like "admin_controller" if you are using namespaces?
I take your point, in part, and I don't necessarily disagree with you, because by and large the system does work. But (to use your analogy) when it comes to the law-making branch of government we have this massive sprawling "codebase" and it doesn't necessarily need a lot of new code (laws) putting in place, but rather, there's a lot of cruft and old legacy stuff that maybe needs to be removed or updated, and the time it takes to get things done is just incredibly slow, which can lead to a lot of frustration for a lot of people. While on the whole that may not actually be such a bad thing, as you rightly point out ("...law needs broad consensus and relatively few are passed...") it strikes me that the attitudes of many people (even myself, on occasion) are strikingly similar to the OP's in the excerpt I highlighted wherein due to a perceived inefficiency of government (rightly or wrongly) we may come to the conclusion that the best course of action is to abandon the democratic process in favor of something which addresses these inefficiencies...which in itself leads to...well...that's the scary part... I suppose. In a game of Civilization it's not a big deal. In reality...

My only real problem with the representative system of democracy generally, is the way we have to proxy our voting authority through our political leaders. It just seems archaic and ludicrous for a region of people (sometimes many hundreds of thousands of people) to have to boil down their political ideologies to a single "best fit" candidate. Even ignoring the potential for corruption, personal motivations, hidden biases etc. you've simplified thousands of separate beliefs on an equal number of issues, social, economic, all, into ONE PERSONS' beliefs and worst of all...that person then has a legitimate claim to believe that they're representing the people.

I suppose it's the difference between a politician believing that they're a "representation" of the people of the electorate, OR a "representative" of those voters. I think most politicians consider themselves the former, and I think that's a mistake.
The Galaxy Note still ships with 2.3. That's not just available but pretty high profile.

A quick look round a random sample from one of the big high street dealers here in the UK shows that a fair number are still shipping with 2.3.
There already are laws against identity theft, so we don't need another one that has the convenient side effect of adding more ways to cut free speech. This law might be used in rare cases like this, but probably more often to shut up negative opinions about policy and large companies.
http://checkthis.com/885l

I liked it until I read "fuck it" in the options when publishing.
>I'm not really sure that the point needed to be restated

It does. As long as professional companies allow outings to locations that marginalises/objectifies others it's a problem with respect and how it reflects on the industry.
The other two countries with special allotments are Chile and Singapore http://immigrating.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/h1-b1s-chile-and...
It's definitely possible to dress up without looking like a stiff in a suit. Get a decent button down from somewhere like J Crew or Banana Republic, a pair of nice, dark jeans (or khakis) and some dark leather shoes. The key take-away is

a suit doesn't necessarily = well-dressed
no suit doesn't necessarily = not well-dressed

Think of your typical office drone (like the guys in Office Space) - they're in crappy suits and don't look that good. Likewise, some of the best-dressed people hardly ever wear strict "suits."

But, I do agree with the poster below: If a company balks because you overdressed for your interview it's their problem, not yours.
Blizzard Reveals New Units for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
I forget where I read it (The Selfish Gene?) but Richard Dawkins predicted that life expectancy would increase as people had children later.
I'll answer this completely fanboyish article with a slightly fanboyish response.

First of all, just because ICS had it "first" doesn't mean that they did it better.

Let's add the fact that the feature being present in the operating system doesn't gauntness that Android users will get it on their phones like it does when Apple adds something to the operating system (with a few exceptions).

Counting your "3rd party apps" (which apple really had first, two can play at this game) as features of the operating system just doesn't count. I don't care that apps can add functionality to the operating system. If it isn't there by default, it doesn't count as a feature. Claiming that a 3rd party app offers the same functionality as passbook for instance, is moot because 3rd party apps on the iPhone could do the exact same thing.

Please don't compare your crappy voice actions or other skin specific implementations to Siri. She doesn't always work, but when she does, it's better than yours.

Yes email on iOS has been lacking a little bit. Doesn't make it any less of a feature when things get added to the email client.

I'm shocked that the author waited until the very end of the post to mention "glanceable widgets" since this seems like it's the champion of all Android users since it's really their "killer feature." Be that as it may, call your HTC One X more powerfull all you want, when it comes to platform integration and ease of use, the iPhone is still the king.
Really appreciate the feedback. I still need to add that stuff as well as work on some of the features in the app as well.
[replying to myself]

I'd be the last to argue, though, that the US immigration system is a good one. It seems to tolerate any number of unskilled illegal migrants on one end, but pretty effectively bar educated, skill migration on the other. I'm no economist, but that intuitively seems to be the wrongly skewed to me.
This is true. My perception of android is definitely affected by the fact that I have a rooted phone and run CM - but for the general populace they'll never be able to take advantage of most things. Which is really unfortunate.
Curious what field and capacity you're working in basic science. I'm considering pivoting out of industry. Studied physics undergrad but quite frankly couldn't cut it to do so post-grad. However I do wonder if another field would be doable for me... but without prereqs I'm not sure how to get onto that path now (I'm not a coder, getting really into bio/chem/neuro/genetics). Been out of uni 6 yrs
Thanks for suggesting SelectorGadget. I ended up building an in-browser firebug+firefinder clone to make the app even more easier to use. Please check out Preview webpage for any API
well to each his own. In case of the cleanup phase before return I find it to be much cleaner with goto, since usually it's sub 10 lines and you'd have to program a function that gets pointers or objects passed that then get freed/destroyed, which I find ugly as hell. I look at such an outer procedure as an 'owner' of these objects and therefore I want to see the allocations and deallocations in plain text right there.
I've worked at companies that used strip clubs as part of their sales process. I won't again if I can help it. I'd avoid working at a company that posted a photo like this, too.
I strongly suspect that the US munition export law will have a section saying "This doesn't apply to the US military" or some such.
There's certainly that factor, but then it even happens with the app store. Though what I think happened is that the distributors kicked up a fuss when the iTunes store was made available in Australia, so the record companies made the prices higher. Apple learnt from this experience that they could make the prices higher, so they've replicated it across the board. I guess there's also the possibility that some larger app store developers have been able to convince Apple to make the price differential higher for Australia as well.
Discovery of new “zero-day” exploit links developers of Stuxnet, Flame
The FSF have what seems like a well-considered position on such things: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/hessla.html
I really don't like the approach of hiding the display's real pixel size. By now, we should have solved the problem of displaying GUIs with correctly sized elements at various resolutions. This approach only makes it more complicated to do it right in the future.
For creators, one of the reasons to own these devices is to create content for retina devices.

I'm curious of Apple and Adobe have worked together to allow image documents to display at true resolution, within a scaled output?

Does that make sense? I suppose what I'm saying is, working at a 100% canvas at 100% zoom level (instead of say, a 50% scale level) while all system elements are scaled.

EDIT: This might not even matter, from a practical perspective.
2FA using phone calls/SMS is basically lameness (similar to KBA; it protects against huge numbers of users with bad passwords being a vulnerability to the bank, and is a cheap compliance step, but provides no additional security to a targeted victim).

Overarching all of this, there's a great opportunity to fix things in the desktop -> mobile transition; desktop OS security is IMO a lost cause, but mobile started from a much better place AND is progressing well.

2FA using a physical token, or, better, some kind of key storage device + secure I/O (to unlock and verify), reasonable increase in security.

2FA using a software application on a phone paired to your laptop (and hence having full ability to extract data, etc.) is somewhere in between -- implementation details and use case. Requiring two distinct devices does help (especially if one is stolen but not the other), but over time, people will move to mobile-only with some kind of cloud syncing, so it will make less sense.

The ideal is still something built into a mobile OS with hardware protection (e.g. iOS Keystore), storing either random long string passwords or some kind of public key credential, and either a trustable network proxy converting that to standard username/password to log into sites, or sites adopting this as a means of authentication (client cert auth sucked a lot in the past, true, but it doesn't have to suck).

Then, all your identity/presence (biometric, geofencing, heuristics, ...), backup, key recovery, etc. could be handled in one place, by one API.

That's what I was hoping Apple would do with Passbook/iOS6/iCloud, but doesn't appear to be anything they care about. Only Apple could build this (due to how the platform works, you can't override things), since every app would need to use the API, and web browsing (via Safari) would be 90% of the use. Unfortunately Android has no platform security (and anything would be 2-3 years away, once MTM is available), BB is dead, BB10 is stillborn, and WP doesn't seem to care.
Key word is 'basically.' The funge factor adds up.