skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on, one-liners are fine.

There is correlation between education and happiness and world well-being. Hans Rosling has plenty of great talks on TED about it. No-one can say his analysis is shallow.

What is interesting though is that Egypt and especially Tunisia did invest heavily in education. The result is countries with highly-educated under-employed generation and, eventually, peaceful(ish) revolution.

In a global Adam-Smith scheme of things, what can a country like Egypt or Tunisia export? Where can jobs come from?
I've got both iPhone and android phone, and I always noticed strange scrolling and slow response on the iphone when using the html facebook app.

I don't see these issues with the android version, and it doesn't seem like Facebook is jumping at getting a native android app out there.

Is HTML really to blame?
This answers the question I asked on Quora back in March:

http://qr.ae/8ig4p
How to clean up oil spills
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technical hews
Actually, flying since 911 is a nightmare. We used to travel back to the US every year to visit my family. Since 911 I've flown back twice and decided against doing it anymore. I actually get pulled aside every time because i have a "common name". No hint at how I can avoid this happening every time, just sit in a room watching people be humiliated for two hours until they call my name and say "you have a common name".

The new x-ray machines are not even as good as the machines they had previously. Who are you listening to to think that? If you listen to actual security experts (none of which are working for TSA) they'll tell you that this is security "theater". The security is not even slightly better than it was pre-911. It's just now massively inconvenient.

And you find getting to the airport earlier is a "minor" inconvenience? Having to get to an hour flight more than an hour earlier? I.e. the waiting time being longer than the flight itself and the entire travel time being close to what it would take to drive is an "minor" inconvenience? What would constitute a major inconvenience?

No, TSA costs a lot of money, creates a huge amount of inconvenience and provides no extra security. A complete and utter failure and only done so we can feel like we're "doing something". We didn't need to do anything. There have only been two attempts since then and both attackers (a) got through the heightened security anyway and (b) failed due to their own incompetence.
It's really not that difficult - you shift your weight all the way back, flex the rear knee into a very low stance with the front leg 'pushing back' against the deceleration. With proper technique you can brake almost as well as a bike.
Although your account is definitely not "less than a year old", I suspect the following HN guideline [1] might still apply:

> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The service can stay free by monetizing the traffic I am sending to eBay using their affiliate program. Currently I create landing pages for all searched terms and try my limited seo skills to get these into the google index.

Is there any feature at the top of your head that you would like to see in this tool?

Thank you for your comment!
The frightening part about Enron is how much of it made sense, in a theory kinda way.
I was thinking on this a bit today and I realized that we're actually a little bit better off in the software world, since good software can be copied infinitely. So well written operating system kernels, server applications, libraries, etc. can have a huge impact on the overall software landscape, regardless of how few people contributed code.

But even so, there is still far too much code out there which is the culmination of mountains of mediocrity. It is rather frightening to think about, considering that everything these days relies on software.
Royalty check, please! ;-)
The world's most innovative companies list according to Forbes
At the risk of being patronising towards someone using English as a foreign language, to my mind the best thing is the text accompanying the cartoon story: "The piteous woman is disturbed. A sweet dreaming is broken. She is feckless in the hospital". For some reason I find that utterly charming.
Was this a publicly available gem? Did you pass your feedback upstream?
And all of them are tools to move atoms around! So it's not really about power or religion, but atoms! This is an example of false reductionism: just because it is about one thing does not mean it's not also about a subtype of that thing. Superficial though my analysis might be, it is at least not contrary to fact.
He probably just lost the non-US audience with all those baseball references (certainly lost me).
>Tell that to the Palestinians when they voted for Hamas in a free and fair election only to be shunned.

I hate to pull out this one, but Hitler was democratically elected, as well. Just because a government was chosen by its people does not mean that it is legitimate. Hamas seeks the eradication of a state and its people; it is rightly shunned. Now, I'm by no means pro-Israel. The Palestinian people need to have their own contiguous, viable state, despite how dim that prospect looks at present.

>Assuming you are American

I am not, and you'll find no support for the current American legal system from me. I do, however, highly value the American Constitution and the values it represents. It saddens me that those values are not better defended at present.

What I take from your post is that you seem to think I am some neocon imperialist. I am not. I despise injustice wherever it occurs, and my sentiments are distinctly post-statist. That said, Western civilization faces an existential threat from an enemy who despises its very foundations, and it is our very pluralism that blinds us to this threat. Too often, too many commit the fallacy that damns cultural relativism: that we must be tolerant of the intolerant. To this, I say no! We cannot tolerate that which attacks the very ideals our society is based upon. If we truly believe the foundations of our society to be morally superior, then when must defend them. It falls to those who deny this claim to show how a society predicated on subjugation and inequity can be morally equivalent to one predicated upon liberty and equality.

I feel it necessary to further clarify that I do not defend the actions of any particular Western country wholesale, rather I defend the precepts upon which Western civilization is based. Were the religious fundamentalists (of any origin) content to keep to themselves, I would have no problem with that. The fact is, they aren't. For them, it is not enough that they follow their beliefs; others must follow them too. This brings them into direct conflict with us, and it's a conflict they started. If we wish to maintain or, better yet, improve our society, we must first defend it against those who would see it remade in their likeness.
"Thou shalt remember the Eleventh Commandment and keep it Wholly." --Heinlein
An intuition/reality clash in Go
Because the ring will slip from the top of your finger during the night. Not very practical.
I'm sorry, I really can't see how something can be more trivial than, "It's not religion, it's power, lol." It's not an analysis at all, it's just a straight up falsehood.
The problem with Metro: it's boring.
This effect isn't odd at all. It is explained quite well in: https://xkcd.com/1053/
This is correct. Pebbles, cracks, small sticks etc. are not a problem for these boards. I mostly credited the bigger wheels, but as you said it is of course because the wheels are powered. A high enough ledge will stop you dead though (hopefully not literally), I have been sent flying by roadwork a few times. Smaller ledges can be 'jumped' by just shifting weight.
> after the debacle of the OPERA group’s claim they discovered faster-than-light particles

AFAIK, this is wrong! They never made such a claim: they just stated what they had observed and asked for help to find out the error in their own measurements.
Thanks for the link. I had read that before, very good post.
I'm surprised that they seem to require course creators to build courses using HTML and Javascript, when most online learning environments focus on browser based course builders.
"I don't see who gains from staging protests on a sensitive day"

Did you miss that the protests were a reaction to an incendiary anti-Islamic video?
Apple's iPhone launches no longer excite
> Using low bit rate Opus may yield a 3MB file for a song, were as FLAC may end up being 150MB for the same audio.

3MB will get you POTS-quality audio though. Lossless codecs usually compress audio to half the original size (so a 150MB FLAC file — for music — will correspond to ~300MB of raw bitstream). Lossy compression to something worth listening to will usually be around 10x compression, so ~30MB for an original 300MB bitstream.

A 35mn song compressed in 3MB probably won't be worth listening to.
Don't see how this is relevant to my observation that the violence was in fact religious in nature.
The key thing is that FB when the HTML5 route because they wanted to side-step Apple's signing process. They wanted to roll out updates on the server that downloaded to them without redistributing the app.

HTML5 webviews helped them do this, and worked on both android and iOS.

NaCL would, like java applets vs java apps, or flash, have let them do this too.
> I don't own a weapon because I want to kill someone.

That is the point of a weapon (hence the term weapon). If you own one - you do want to kill someone with it - context is irrelevant to the purpose of ownership (namely specialised directed use of lethal force).

Stating otherwise is - frankly - bullshit.
I agree, Apple has gone a bit lazy and a bit boring. As they have become more and more popular it's as if they have stopped trying. I haven't bothered upgrading to the latest OS X I switched to Ubuntu. I am not going to switch my iPhone 4s for the iPhone 5, but I am tempted by some of the new Android phones.
They use MongoDB, and MySQL. This worries me immensely. The Mongo part more than MySQL, only because historically, MongoDB has not had a great story around HA, and reliability...
Controversial? That is an interesting word choice. I've heard some describe it as expensive, but what is the controversy surrounding how they have modeled their prices?
If NdGT asked for faith-based thinking and had doctrino-moral systems that the followers were required to obey, I think it would be fair to say that.
Computer Crime, Then and Now
Here you go!

A medieval European city. A famous museum. Some grisly deaths. Very little research. A shadowy figure on the cover running in a fashion vaguely suggestive of danger.

Danger!

Professor Joe Bradley, Harvard-educated expert in religious history and symbology, is just hours into a research trip to Florence when he's thrown into the grip of a sinister scheme by a sinister sect to destroy the world, sinisterly – and Bradley's all that's left.

Confronted with the savage murder of the genial, elderly curator of the Uffizi, Bradley quickly realizes that geniality and old age are no match for malintent and bullets. Shockingly, all the signs point to Bradley – except for those that point to someone else: the curator's own granddaughter – enigmatic dialog vehicle, Adriana Modena.

On the run, they only have one clue: a cryptic message scrawled hastily across the museum floor in the curator’s dying minutes. The only other clue: a nearby portrait of legendary Italian astronomer, Galileo Galilei. There’s one more clue: a terrible secret pinned helpfully to a nearby fridge.

But a host of obstacles threaten to derail them: the police, sadistic hitmen, a few believable puzzles, a lot of punctuation, and textbook betrayal. The questions mount. Who can they trust? Will they ever stop to eat? When did being a white, middle class, American male cease to be a sure ticket through life? And why is a new main character introduced on page 112?

Tweedy academia and existential danger reunite in Galileo Had a Secret Too in a satirical romp through the genre that checks all the boxes: a plot, characters – and lots and lots of sects.
Depression might be linked to low vitamin C levels in some cases:

http://parrster.hubpages.com/hub/The-Vitamin-C-and-Depressio...
Top Ubuntu app downloads for August 2012
Fresco - A Beautiful Responsive Lightbox
It's quite possible there wouldn't be cheap smartphones without Android. At least, not ones with a decent browser. Meego imploded on its own, Palm took webOS down with it as a realistic option, and MS would probably never let the word "cheap" attach itself to Windows Mobile. What's left? Openmoko, maybe? And, just as importantly, if you assume the cheap smartphone makers wouldn't gang up and make their own platform, who else might have pushed a new, free, mobile OS other than Google? Funnily enough, the only other company I can think of who might have had a go at it is Amazon. Today I could see Facebook having a go, but where were they 7 years ago?

Then again, markets are funny things. In a world without Android, I can't imagine the expensive iOS ecosystem being the only game in town. Something might have filled the sucking void at the cheap end of the market, but what?
Portraying yourself as the underdog does have some advantages provided you still believe you can win. It can inspire greater effort to beat the odds, it can remove some pressure of expectation and place that on the other side. It can also free you to take risks as you have less to lose.

There are disadvantages too if it gives the opposition healthy confidence of if you don't actually believe that you can win.

I'm British so maybe my attitude to underdogs is a bit different to the US one.
Can Apple's iPhone 5 launch really excite the marketplace?
Ask HN: At what point did you just start working on a prototype?
I'm ready to quit and move to another job but I started to think about a prototype for an idea I have. I've worked on it off and on, and maybe I should try to carry it as far as I reasonably can. It'd be nice to have a change of pace.

Do I just quit one day and then start work on it? Will it sound OK to employers in silicon valley if I took 3-6 months off to work on it and had nothing to show for it?
Reality Check

Canada's backlog of (immigration) Visas is huge, and they are apparently not keeping up with it

Check the website and see the average delays in processing.

Apparently Canada has almost everything that is needed to have great startups, except the culture (and maybe the drive).
While I agree about the use of /usr/bin/env, you should be aware that some systems will perform only one word split on the shebang line. That means that if you use env, you can't pass any options to the $executable.

You can try it if you want, save this into an executable file (test.awk):

#!/usr/bin/env awk -f
{ print $2 }

Then run:

echo "Hello world again" | ./test.awk

I get the following:

/usr/bin/env: awk -f: No such file or directory
Interesting to note the organizational and social aspects of the language being discussed over the "feature set" - does the philosophy of a language (such as encouraging clarity and simplicity) matter more for creating good software?

"if you give clever people clever tools they will use them in clever ways"
Likely. But maybe there is enough control groups? Societies with less or minimal porn consumption?
Divide that by the number of owners of each platform. There's your answer. Well, there's part of your answer. Chances are that Android owners are bimodal - some (like me) do a lot of surfing, others very little.
You're right. Good to know that man checks this path by default.
I'm using a custom path for homebrew, that's why I added /usr/local/homebrew/share/man to the $MANPATH.
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The figures of a cult don't actually have to be present for a cult to develop around them. People are inherently tribal. Sometimes tribes become more controlling or violent. This happens in secular tribes just as regularly in religious tribes. That's his point- r/atheism, to name one irreligious tribe, can be thought of as a cult of personality around their favorite atheist icons.
Yes. I had that whole list in my original comment, than deleted it because it was longwinded. I'm just asking if porn might _also_ be a factor.
There are definitely other factors at work anyway. Look at France, which has a much higher birthrate than its neighbors, despite showing similar values in all the factors you named.
It's already being done by a startup I know, I think they might still be in stealth though.
Wasn't the context "unexpected braking"?
That's right. If trauma medicine was still at the levels of the 70's the US murder rate would be about five times higher than it is.
luriel, you added considerably to your post since I first replied, and I feel like it now merits a different response. I agree with almost everything you've said, but feel like your criticism is misdirected and may do more harm than good.

Knowing you have a psychological issue is like knowing your application is crashing for some customers. You might have only vague guesses as to what the triggers are, and no understanding of what's actually going on or how to fix it. But now you are in a position to assess the cost and allocate resources to fix the problem. Maybe it will take years of man-hours (in either case) to handle the problem, but now you have a place to start.

I don't think Wil was telling people to take medicine; I certainly wasn't. The only thing I'd like to emphasize is that Depression is a problem that can be addressed. Don't ignore it. If you have a problem with Depression, do your research; find out what helps, and what doesn't. Stop treating your mental state like it's an immutable part of your environment: change your environment and your behaviors as you discover what you need to be healthier.

"Changes to your environment" might include drugs, and even they don't work over the long term, they might temporarily be enough of a lifeline to help you get to a point where you can start hacking at the problem in other ways. Doctors can be helpful guides on this path; sometimes they're not helpful, but in aggregate, I believe they help more than they hurt. Scaring people away from seeing a doctor by telling them that they'll be locked up in a kafkian institution against their will is liable to prevent people from getting help. Of course this has happened, and continues to happen, but it's rare. I think a much more common (and in aggregate, more serious) mode of failure is people's belief that the doctor is in charge of curing them---that the drugs are all it takes---and that they can't or don't need to work on themselves.
Linux doesn't support options, unfortunately. The executable path /usr/bin/env is parsed, then the remainder of the line is used as a single argument, spaces and all:

$ cat x.py
#!/usr/bin/env python -i

$ ./x.py
/usr/bin/env: python -i: No such file or directory
I may be wrong but I thought that there was no ad removal option on the new Fire?
Of course it's true. Here's a simple proof.

1) You can start a business with a bad idea, and through customer engagement, find the right idea.

2) Since #1 is empirically true, then it must also be true that you can start with no product idea at all, and get to a good one. You simply start with no product, make a bad (or just random) product, and we're back to #1.

Starting with no idea is the same (or maybe better) than starting with a bad idea. Picking an industry is good enough.

I'm not even sure why people are wedded to the idea of picking a product at all - picking an activity, or industry, or group of people is a fine seed for a business. My business has very little to do with where we started 4 years ago, though we sort of started with an idea. Sort of.
I'm sorry, but you seem to misunderstand my position. No doubt this is due to my failure to communicate it effectively.

I am not saying we are at war with Muslims, or Arabs, or Persians, etc. I am not saying we are at war with Islam. I'm saying we are at war with religious fundamentalism. It is fundamentalism, not any one group or another, that threatens Enlightenment values. It is fundamentalism that causes people to behave so barbarically, and it is fundamentalism that we, as a species, must defeat.
He's saying that there are motivations at play, as important if not more than the religious one.
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Has anyone ever explored the idea that depression is a western disease?
I'm a graphic artist and art director, and probably not your target market. But having said that, I think you've got a good idea.

However...

- I would have like to see a very quick visual narrative other than the video that efficiently explained what Moshbag is.

- The site has poor UI and UX.

- Visually the site is dull.

I don't know what resources you have available, but here are some nice examples of simple visual summaries/narratives:
https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/
https://build.phonegap.com/
http://www.getballpark.com/

Keep going though. You want to be able to say you gave it your best.
It occurs to me that if someone came out with a new technology and said "hey, you can now describe your entire interface's structure in one markup language, the visual look in a second language, and the code in a third language, and then your app will run anywhere that has the required runtime interpreter" they'd be shouted down faster than you can say "go Swing".

Yet that's essentially what HTML5 apps are all about -describing the interface in markup and processing it at runtime. In what way is native not always going to be better for a given platform?
Ad clicks is the product, and not users' data.

Google's using data they aggregate about me to pick and choose which ads I should see, ideally optimizing for ones that I'll click on. Those clicks are sold to advertisers.

Google's selling our clicks to advertisers. We are the product they're selling.
My point is simply that Western civilization, and the Enlightenment values that underpin it, faces an existential threat from religious fundamentalism. That further, our society is not compatible with this fundamentalism, and must be defended against it.

I fail to see how saying this is "privileging emotions over logic".
Just curious, which Apple Machine are you running Ubuntu on? I have a late-2010 MacBook Air and also have skipped the last two OS X upgrades since they seemed to degrade quality. I'm definitely tempted to run Ubuntu instead but I assume there will be issues, like lower batterie life.
> that try to bolt on proprietary components

I will always prefer something that has no ads bolted on.
I didn't say there weren't other motivations, I just pointed out that it's false to say religion wasn't one. So the comment is definitely irrelevant, or he meant something else.
Cigarette advertising is still legal in the USA right? And a packet of cigarettes costs less than an hours work at minimum wage because the taxes aren't that high, right?
I don't think we can agree on philosophy. But how can we punish those who misrepresent what their software does, when a large portion of the software out there was released anonymously? At least, if software developers were held responsible for malicious code in their products, software that could not be traced back to a developer would be easierto create than software created by a company, which would likely need more developers to review code, and insurance to cover possible lawsuits.
I realise I've effectively written Symbian off here. It's funny, it took me a good 5 minutes to even remember it existed. I suppose we could hypothesise that in a world without Android, the Nokia of 2009-2010 might have seen the light, but I think that's extremely unlikely.
TLDR: Take Your Meds. Most people will miss this part of the story.