skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is rather vague. When you get specific it stops being spiritual. For example, I have decided I will go to the gym tonight. I haven't gone yet, so clearly my mind is aware of my decision to go the the gym before my body actually goes to the gym.

Of course, you didn't mean that. You meant something like "if I'm driving my car, and an animal runs in front of my, my body reacts before I am consciously aware of it". This is true, but I'm not sure what this has to do with spirituality. What is "spirituality"?
It's working perfectly for me. Thanks OP.
WHO | Electromagnetic fields and public health: mobile phones
I will consult your website's current UI/UX
Are you actually offering up an anonymized corpus of your data to play with? Not just because I have some questions I'd like to ask it, but because offering up some data the only way you could actually make that claim.
# hours after post: 7

# comments in this thread only expressing how they
thought the "double stealth" bit was funny: 10

# American Psycho references: 3

# top level comments providing absolutely no
information or any point at all[1]: 10

# of reddit-style "one-up" threads[2] 5

jgc: Very funny but in the end I'm more disappointed beacuse of the responses here. This could have been a simple blog post and these comments probably better belonged as comments on your site.

[1]: perhaps including this one?

[2]: is there a name for this yet?
Show HN: Jsoda
Short of making it a requirement in the licensing to the carriers/vendors, I don't see any way for Google to improve the situation. The carriers have no incentive to provide or enable updates.
Ask HN: Is it time the word Facebook is declared a verb (like Google)?
What do you guys think ? We are using the term "facebooked it", "facebooking" etc. Is it time it gets added to the dictionary as a verb ?
Tindie is a marketplace: many-to-many. 4pcb.com is not a marketplace it's a manufacturing service. Shapeways is a both a marketplace and a manufacturing service. The beautiful thing about their marketplace is that they also provide the manufacturing (3D printing). So as a seller all I have to do is provide the 3D model STL file and people who buy the product get a physical object. It would be awesome if Tindie did the same thing with PCBs. Currently I don't know of any PCB marketplaces that provide manufacturing as part of their offering. Sparkfun will sell products for you but there are minimum orders, and I believe you have to purchase all the raw materials ahead of time. It would be awesome to have an appstore for PCBs. If you make one, email me and I will be an evangelist customer.
> You should live outside USA for a while

That's amusing, considering I was born in Mexico. Keep trying to 'school' me though, you're doing great.
Google teams up with Lego to bring 3D Lego maps to the Internet
The password was what prevented his coworkers from taking the program and earning more bonus money.

It probably also kept several people from being fired.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/11

Legislation in the UK creates a presumption that unless otherwise stated, first ownership of copyright works created in the course of employment will vest in the employer. So it is up to the written contract to rebut the presumption.
Google's Nexus 7 tablet image leaks onto the Web
>> "3. There are only so many form factors a tablet can take. Doesn't the Kindle Fire look suspiciously like the Playbook?"

A lot of people say this but there is much evidence to the contrary:
https://twitter.com/digeratii/status/165324320179109888/phot...
No, assuming it's unrelated to your work you still own the rights to it. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire
Legislation like this would be unenforceable at the scale the internet operates at, even in a small country.

If I whip up a HTML5/CSS3 website over the weekend that does nothing to be accessible, is it still technically accessible? The entire document is readable with a screenreader even though the contents may be out of order if your reader does not support CSS (or even a certain CSS revision).

What if I use Facebook Connect exclusively to let people login? That's not gonna work with a screen reader.

Who, exactly, will be judging my site to ensure compliance with this legislation? Are they really going to ensure compliance of every page on every website?

Nothing against disabled people (and I, like most people probably do, have some in my extended family), but if I'm building a lean startup and getting stuff out to market quickly, I'm not going to do an accessibility pass. Sorry. If this does become law, you'll start to see Internet entrepreneurs move to more accommodating countries like Singapore as Western countries continue to legislate everything in sight.
Official Introduction of the Google Nexus 7
"Facebook" feels like a noun to me. "Google" feels more abstract. I do not care for the idea of using "facebook" as a verb, but I also rarely (if ever) use "google" as a verb.

The bottom line: I doubt what I think will have any impact on what becomes common practice! :-)
Although I'm having trouble locating it atm, I remember seeing an article a few weeks ago saying that Google was going to become more active in the selling of phones, so as to circumvent this very problem.

They, too, are frustrated at the big providers not only taking their sweet time, but also that they add in all of the bloatware seeing as both of these practices hurt Android, and ultimately, Google as well.
Assuming the story is true, I especially like the part where he insisted that his former coworkers keep their employment with the company, even though he automated their existing jobs out of existence. Nice solidarity!
Australian Carrier Telstra sends users web browsing data overseas
A quick off topic question -- this is Java right? I have 2-3 years to catch up on the latest developments, but the font smoothing seems quite nice on OS X. Is this Swing based?
MIT Lecture Notes on Cryptography
No, but I will now. Thanks!
Company time = company property, even in the Netherlands. In fact I don't know of a single country where it's not the case; even more so when talking about developed countries.
How does this thing know when I'm eating or exercising? I assume it's got a gyro and accelerometer; how does it know if I'm doing squats or just waving to a friend on the street?
please, and i don't say this lightly, quit your day job. make a blog called "fake startup CEO", a la "fake steve jobs".

please. this is gold. i need more.
This trends pretty far off-topic, but Denmark is an interesting case, in that it's very, very easy to fire someone, but there is a very strong social safety net (we're talking years of unemployment benefits) which creates a pretty distinct environment for hiring and firing.

Contrast that to most of the rest of Europe, where companies are reluctant to hire because it's so difficult to fire people.

Any Danes out there care to elaborate or correct my misunderstanding?
My opinion in the svn vs git debate:

Unless you are working across multiple groups with developers in different time zones and a choppy set of releases you'll see almost no benefit from git.

However, if you are in that situation the benefits are large and immediate.
There's value in both types of analyses. For knowing what users do after they perform action "A", "B" & "C", many people currently rely on implementing Map/Reduce programs.

That can be a bit heavyweight if you want to simply compare people who did action "A" or "B", filter based on complex criteria, or apply simple analytic functions. Also, apart from standard relational algebra operators, SQL provides a lot of convenience functions for math operations, string manipulations, date and time formatting, pattern matching, and so forth. These may come in handy to users who want to quickly gather insights out of their data.
I don't know what you mean by "facebooked it", "facebooking", etc.
you don't get karma for self posts on reddit
Yes, but aren't worker protections stronger over there?

I'm surprised the company's HR didn't notice that there was one worker sucking up all the bonuses. In fact, his manager should've flagged that well before the OP informed him.
Breathe, avoid McDonalds.
Then they would just not pay and not get any updates.
How ReDigi Lets You Resell Digital Music (and Why It’s a Big Deal)
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is now available
I only try to report exactly what I've learned directly from a living Enlightened Being - I'm not claiming qualification to see and teach the Truth. I've been studying this for a while, so I get better and better at recognizing people's questions when I encounter the particular cases, but always make sure to tell them that this is what I learned from the master. Monks in today's world never wanted to learn from a living Buddha, because he never lets people tell even a little lie in front of him. Instead, the monks stay with the dead Buddha because he never scolds them and just smiles..

So, about the period that an Enlightened Being comes to the world, there are a couple things you need to know.

The first thing is that an Enlightened being only comes to the world in certain circumstances. The last one we know about is Gautama Buddha. There was no one among the religious practitioners of his day who knew the correct teaching and right way to attain Enlightenment. They all had quite varied practices and did some strange stuff. Because nobody knew, that was why he had to come teach and search on foot for 45 years for someone wanted to listen to him.

Gautama Buddha, after he taught, said that his teaching would stay and brighten the world for about a thousand years. The period after that thousand years is when his teaching begins to disappear. And finally, the third 'ending' period after that is when his teaching has disappeared completely. It's only when Buddha's teaching has disappeared that an Enlightened being comes to the world again to reveal the truth.
I have a pile of rocks in my yard... need work?
When it comes to drivers, I think the issue is mostly who does (pays for) the testing, when, and how long it takes.
Tin + Indie?

Where tin is a metal commonly used in solder.
Tangent - remember this when reconciling claims of "protecting creators" from those that want stronger IP.
If the screens are off and you're only allowed to see the front, I presume. Which seems kind of artificial.
This doesn't consider the value he's creating for the company. Apparently, the company was willing to part with that money already (before the improvement) - so clearly they should have offered him more for the automation.
I'm not entirely sure this guy is a "kid", and this clearly isn't just data entry that he's doing (as many people are claiming). He claims to be making 250,000 USD with bonuses a year [0]. I'm surprised no one has questioned what's really going on here, but if the author's claims are accurate this certainly isn't the story of someone fresh out of college guy working a mindless data entry job just barely scrapping by.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tenoq/reddit_my_f...
I find the note on laptop reliability vs desktop reliability rather surprising...

I've always assumed that laptop components run in a hotter environment - because cooling is a tough problem in a small device. Apparently that doesn't affect reliability at all?

It would have ofcourse also be interesting to know how particular brands / models did better in terms of reliability. I guess there are legal problems with releasing that kind of info?
The secret to creativity: Background noise
How SimpleCrew Shares Internally: The Internal Knowledge Database
Show HN: epistly now has an API for hand-written notes
If there's one thing that's always been proven true it's that startups are made the same way objects are manufactured.

More seriously I do wish them success, the tech scene in Berlin seemed vibrant when I was there for a conference and it's a beautiful city.
If I recall correctly, that's what the judge did. He held up both devices, one in each hand, and asked the defense's council to identify which one was which.

They could not.

Ovbiously, this wasn't the only reason for the ruling, but it definitely hurt Samsung's case.
Rbfu 0.3.0 released (light-weight alternative to RVM)
It's not that the web is dead, but the technology stack on the front end side of things is crappy. There's a lot of hype about front end development of course(yes I expect the downvoting by posting it here on HN), but it is not that the tools are superior, but rather because of the necessity of the web.
> There is no excuse for using HTML5 when the native platform offers you so much more and the user base is substantial.

Sure there is - the ability to push rapid updates to the UI, without needing to go through the Apple review process each time.
This is reddit nerd fan-fiction.
I'm working outside the bounds of my understanding here, but why can't that result be formed from a query that pulls from the user_history table and a subquery that pulls from the user_history table with different conditions on each one?
I also suffer from wanting to view items side-by-side or at least multiple on the screen at the same time to have some way of making comparisons and feeling out this new service.
So much of the software work I've done is around getting computers to do the things that computers are good at. My response to the "what would Peggy do?" question is always "something that only Peggy can do"

Automation doesn't have to be about reducing staffing costs, firing people, or hiring fewer people, it can be about getting more and better output from the humans on your team. Humans are great, and are wasted by reading passwords over the phone.
The only thing surprising to me in the results was that laptop CPUs and memory were more reliable than desktop. Their reasoning is that laptops are built more conservatively. Maybe so, but desktops come from many more sources and may simply have. much more variable build quality. I want to see that data for desktops made only by the companies who make the laptops.
The style of presentation strikes me as awkward - why wouldn't they let the main presenter just use the phone and control the slides himself? It adds a lot of unnecessary "next slide please" interruptions.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1695460; http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1722924; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2010....; http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1970072
http://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-02-10/s70210-122.pdf
Coull Enables Video Skimlinks
Yeah, we wouldn't want derail the thread.
>Um. Why on earth would the article mention that? What does US foreign policy have to do with the life and work of one academic/writer?

Because 99% of "academics writers" on such issues push US foreign policy, with very few exceptions, like Chomsky (which is not an academic in those fields of study, anyway). Think tanks even more so.

This very article, for example, targets US's target du jour, Iran.
He's already assuming that latency-sensitive apps are using UDP (which they are); the problem is that apps that are (properly or improperly) using TCP can easily kill UDP. For example, a single TCP connection can near-instantly queue up 10 packets (15KB), creating >100 ms of latency for any UDP traffic.
IANAL, but my understanding is:

If you were hired to do some work, the result is "work for hire" and the copyright resides in the company. If you write software, emails, etc unrelated to your job you would ordinarily retain copyright to those. Cases like the one in the story are rather ambiguous. That's employment agreements almost always elaborate on the topic, saying that, for instance, code you write on company computers or on company time belongs to the company.
I still don't see that you are actually challenging the original claims, which were simply that splitting the language in two was a very bad idea, and that the split damaged the Python ecosystem.

I stand by my claim that any reasonable general-purpose programming language should be able to run simple CPU-bound threaded tasks properly. I didn't claim arbitrary parallel programming should be easy; just that the GIL causes multi-threaded programs written in standard style in Python to not work properly in CPU-bound contexts, because the GIL prevents these programs from using all the cores available, and, furthermore, because even in single-core contexts it is prone to performance failure modes such as convoying and starvation that induce worse performance when there are more cores available. (cf. very extensive discussions in bugs.python.org on GIL problems, along with David Beazley's, Antoine Pitrou's, and others' attempts to address them).

It is a standard, uncontroversial expectation of general purpose languages that offer threading that the threads run in parallel, using the available cores. I don't believe this needs substantiation any more than the claim that general purpose programming languages should run serial programs deterministically.

I believe the better course for Python post 2.X would have been to fix the core problems with the language's reference implementation, while maintaining backward compatibility with the very large existing code base, rather than adding features of dubious value, doing nothing to address the GIL problem, and breaking compatibility with the vast majority of 2.X code. While this is certainly my opinion, and yours obviously differs, you can't badger away the limitations of the GIL, and you can't just browbeat people into accepting the 3.X series as a good thing.

Look, I don't hate the language -- I use it every day and like it a lot. But don't pretend that there aren't real problems with Python when there clearly are -- the discussions on bugs.python.org are mainly driven by strong proponents of the language and are hardly politicized -- and don't pretend that Python 3 wasn't problematic; it's created years -- yes, years -- of problems and confusion with 2 vs 3 incompatibility, has expanded the footprint of the language and changed its semantics in substantive ways (cf. the many, many accepted PEPs post 2.X) that make implementing the language harder. Every language bump (whether 2.5 to 2.6 or 2.7 to 3.0) has meant additional work for the developers of alternative implementations; this is obvious on the face of it; you need only read these projects' blogs and look at the elapsed calendar time.
as in "hey did you see my graduation pictures online? Yes, I facebooked it yesterday."

OR

"I am facebooking about 2 hours a day"
My experience too. But well, it was in the NGO field so my sampling may be slightly biased. Still.
Just think of it as a commit having a pointer to its parent.
After a couple days of rock moving, I'll just build a pick-n-place robot in my garage to do the work for me, ok?
Nexus Q
well in my case it's because SVN branches are useless. I still find mercurial much easier to use than git though.
No:

http://www.sutherland.com/files/Publication/803e946d-83fe-4f...
we do a reference check and although this wouldnt normally tell us much we can also structure it this way:

1. get their last 3 (or so) jobs on their resume.
2. During phone interview, ask the person how their last three bosses would rate their performance out of 10.
3. Ask them what their ex-bosses will tell you when you call them.
4. Call the references and ask their bosses what they were like as staff, why they left etc.
5. Ask them if there was one thing they could improve on, what would it be.

This works pretty well as an integrity test and is related to actual behaviors rather than written tests.
With Sights Dead Set on the Living Room, Google Debuts A Streaming Media Device
I wonder how many of those overclocked systems belong to people who are 100% convinced their system is stable and the programmers of Microsoft and <whatever other applications they're using> are idiots for having stupid crashing bugs.

My system can prime95 for 5 minutes, obviously it's rock solid.
> I haven't had to make my life depend on employees as of yet

And that's where your opinion comes from.

To be absolutely clear, I am not putting you down. I am merely stating what I believe to be a fact.

I see a lot of opinions on HN that obviously come from people who have never actually run a business. Of course, everyone is entitled to an opinion with the caveat that opinions loose a lot of validity when they are not backed by "skin in the game".

Bringing an employee onboard is an expensive process. The search itself can be expensive. If you found the employee through an agency you owe the agency a finder's fee. This typically runs from 15% and could be as high as 50% of the employee's salary. To put numbers to that, if you pay someone $100K and the agency charges 25%, you, the employer, owe them $25K.

Of course, it doesn't stop there. There's a lot more to employee compensation than the agreed-upon salary and recruiting costs. A quick Google search located this calculator:

http://www.artlogic.com/resources/employee-cost-calculator/i...

Using that as a reasonable reference I calculated that, if you keep your $100K/year employee for three years your annual cost is $150K per year.

If, however, you only keep them for one year (change "Expected term of employment" to "1") the cost goes up to $170K per year.

If we look at a $150K/year employee who leaves in one year the cost of that employee sits at around $240K.

Even this doesn't paint the entire picture. Bringing someone onboard takes work and will definitely consume clock cycles. More than one team member is likely to be involved in the on-boarding process. Overall productivity will be affected during this period until the new hire comes-up to speed and can "solo" if you will. The effort isn't trivial at all and it costs thousands of dollars for every hire.

There's also a hidden "cost" which takes the form of internal competitive data that you have to trust your employees with. Nobody thinks that this is a cost until you go through the experience of training someone for months only to have them go work for a direct competitor. These things do happen, and believe me when I say that it never sits well. At that point thin ethical walls protect you from a competitor gaining a leg-up through ill-gotten insight. This very directly equates to money.

The cost of poaching by --presumably-- the very agency you might be working with is also not trivial. You just dedicated a ton of money and time to bring someone onboard and the agency convinces him/her to go elsewhere. Now you are left with a hole to fill, which will take time and money. During that time team productivity will take a hit, product delivery will suffer and you will be distracted away from product and business development in an effort to fill the hole. I can't put a precise number on this but believe me when I say that it ain't cheap.

So, yes, anti-poaching is fair and just. For some it takes going through the pain of having this happen once or twice to understand the concept.
You are correct in that Gwangju is the watershed moment of anti-Americanism in South Korea. It indeed confirmed that US is not on the side of democracy in South Korea, as they legitimized Chun regime and condoned the massacre.

On the other hand, while US formally held (still holds) "the ultimate authority over the South Korean military", what it meant in practice is questionable. US troops "occupying the country" is not really the correct description. I'd say "assented when consulted" rather than "explicitly gave the orders". Many description is possible, but I think the best description of what US did about Gwangju is "nothing".

It is certainly arguable that US should have done something instead of nothing, but unfortunately I don't think that is the normal standard. Also Korean war should be evaluated separately from Gwangju.
> in that it's very, very easy to fire someone, but there is a very social safety net (we're talking years of unemployment benefits) which creates a pretty distinct environment for hiring and firing.

This seems better for the employers and the employees than what the rest of Europe does.