skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." - Cardinal Richelieu (a/k/a Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac)

The fundamental problem is that the order of operations is likely to be "what is the narrative we would like to portray", followed by "how may we select from the available information to convey that narrative".

The present tendency toward counterfactuality and/or selective factuality in various narratives (notably political, also concerning various other social and scientific matters) doesn't particularly encourage me.
Apart from the geometry the dBase tables of the Shapefiles from http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ are also exceptionally useful if imported elsewhere.
Now google not work :) :-"
Yes. Agreed. This is a jump the shark moment for Ubuntu, I am horrified they are taking this direction. Hopefully there is time enough for a correction (ask during setup?).
The issue with student loans is not that they exist or that they have high interest or any of that...it's that they're just given out to any and all college students regardless of degree or career path. Just like a high school teacher on a high school teacher's salary wouldn't be approved for a million dollar loan to buy a million dollar house, a kid looking to go to Harvard to major in Poetry shouldn't be approved for hundreds of thousands in loans.

Some degrees/careers are bad investment choices and some people shouldn't receive loans for them.
Why I’m not leaving Python for Go
We can make a stronger macroeconomic argument for keeping always-recoverable debts very, very low. And it's a simple one: the larger the amount of guaranteed-recoverable private debt in the economy, the less available aggregate demand to actually purchase goods and services and thereby run the actual economy.

Dumb people might be dumb, but very many clever people depend on stupids and suckers for their income. If "dumb people" (in actual fact: anyone who has made a mistake ever) cease to have any money, all those "smart people" lose their incomes too.
From my personal experience http://www.mediaon.com/ is quite flexible for these kinds of "things". I just send them their fees via registered mail. Depending on your paranoid level you can send it each time from another location (i.e. when you spend some time abroad). Works out fine.
> "If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."[1]

1. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you have a 3ivx or Parian on your machine? Sometimes that does crash our app. If you do then, please upgrade 3ivx to latest version and it fixes the problem.

Looking into crash report!
Don't get passive aggressive with the haters. Doesn't make you look good..

FWIW, early adopter here and I love the app. The only thing that makes me turn it off occasionally is the false positives from when I'm just touching my face.

If you could fix that, you're golden!
Past data isn't limited at all. We have at least 2 centuries of rapid innovation to draw on when we note that unemployment has not skyrocketed with technological progress. Real GDP per capita has risen almost uninterrupted over the last 200 years [1], and is on the order of 20 times what it was 200 years ago. Yet, unemployment is still exceedingly low by world and historical standards.

[1] http://www.acus.org/files/u3/USA-GDP-1810-2010.png

The market works to provide jobs to those who demand jobs. Shifts in technology are not discrete jumps, but continual trends that price mechanisms can smoothly correct for.

>assembly lines needed a large amount of labor

The reason that assembly lines became so useful was that they needed substantially less labor per product, and could produce products far more cheaply. What you're missing is that the reason that people were still employed at relatively similar levels and GDP per capitas was because consumer demand rose to meet lower prices. These are all matters of supply and demand.

> the currently in-progress one, of moving from industrial employment to service-sector and/or information-sector employment

This shift is already very much completed. Over 80% of the USA's economy is service-sector at this point, and we haven't observed any unemployment issues that can be attributed to technology growth.

What we can predict about the future is what our modern understanding of economics and historical perspectives tell us. As long as there is demand for jobs in a market economy, there will be jobs.
Why is this app free?

It's a feature added on top of other apps, there's nothing stopping any of those apps from adding this feature and making Flutter a moot point...why not charge for the app now so you can profit before any of the apps you're piggy backing off of pivot and make Flutter irrelevant?
Similar project in 2010, with a better video camera and detailed description:

https://vimeo.com/15091562#at=0 (also by a dad with his son)
No, Iran just run this project for "Against freedom of expression"
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What tax would charge you $1400 a month if you're earning less than that? I'm very unfamiliar with the American system for student loans, but your comment sounds very different to the examples the article provided.
Some fraction of people who request and get reasonable loans will be unable to pay those loans back through no fault of their own. For instance, like my wife, they suffer an unexpected injury and suddenly the career path they were planning on becomes closed to them. What should happen in that case?

You lay reasonable plans. But shit happens. What happens in that case? Is it really your fault if plans that were 95% certain to work out fail due to forces beyond your control? How are people that that happens to NOT victims?
btw, if you all haven't seen, he found a hard drive with an OS for this and pulled the data, but needs someone to figure out the filesystem and stuff; you can download the binary dump off his site.

http://www.chrisfenton.com/cray-1-digital-archeology/
I apologize if I am being dense (I am not a OSX person so maybe that has something to do with it). But I do not understand this post at all? And what does this have to do with Max Weber?
Your example provides its own counterexample. The same individual has encountered persistent questioning over the specifics of his birthplace, despite ample documentation substantiating his claims.

How information is interpreted depends very much on who's interpreting it and what their objectives are.

Hiring processes are notoriously opaque. Corporations are, very literally, machines for creating one-way flows of liability, shielding management and owners at the expense of the public and workers. What do you think the term "limited liability corporation" refers to? How many NDAs have you signed? What are your workplace's rules regarding disclosure of employment terms and/or compensation?
That's an awesome project. Congratulations to the developer! Good use case for Git-annex.
Love the video, awesome father
In the Victorian era, drug use was not nearly as stigmatized as it is today, but sexuality was deeply hidden. You didn't dare talk about your sex life, but use of opium for purposes we'd call "recreational" was commonplace.

People are becoming more tolerant of minor drug indiscretions (cocaine is a nasty drug, but he didn't use it as an adult or let it become a habit, so I'd count it as a relatively minor issue) because society was at an extreme of intolerance on that issue, but I don't think that's a general trend in social acceptance of error.
If students were allowed to default on the debt under bankruptcy there would be a corrective feedback loop where lenders would be pricing the risk of default in.
"...position sounds like a product development manager position, and will pay him $85k+ and all the moving expenses from the East Coast..."

"Apple Aggressively Recruiting Ex-Google Maps Staff..."

^These are contradictory statements
I tried it with VLC, the play/pause diagram showed up, but nothing happened. Does it only work with iTunes and Spotify?

Edit: I love the design of your site. Very comic book/Roy Lichtenstein-ish. One critique is the hand. Everything else has perspective or shading, the hand is flat and it should be a big part of page and be more noticeable, since it is a motion controlled app.
Ok, thanks for letting us know!
Are you still seeing false detections on the new version?

Would you please try it with new version?

This is one of those things where we will keep getting closer to 100% as we improve... working hard everyday to improve it!
Problem is, that's not the way it actually works in practice. In practice, the American university system is financially upside-down.

* Very expensive, very wealthy institutions like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and MIT can afford extensive financial aid for almost every single admitted student. Students at these institutions usually receive enough tuition reductions and scholarships to bring the education into their affordable range before loans come into the picture.

* "Cheaper" public universities have all had their budgets cut by strapped state governments and their associated greedy taxpayers (see: Prop 13 in California). They also have much smaller endowments and little extra income. They've started biasing their admissions more towards out-of-state and international students as much as state law allows them to, because those students pay the full non-resident sticker-price (which includes little to no state subsidy defraying the cost). As a result, the average student at a "cheaper" public university will now pay or borrow a larger price, closer to the sticker-price, than a student attending an elite private university.

* (Of course, the worst-off remain those who went to very expensive private universities/colleges that aren't actually that rich or that good, and who therefore have tens of thousands of dollars of debt for very little education. But they were always screwed.)
Don't have either installed :)
It should work with latest version of VLC - some old versions do not have script bridge support so we cannot support it. Are you having issues with Next & Previous on the latest version of VLC?
I think they left out a zero
Hmm... looking into your crash log. Will get back ASAP.
As a freelance CG artist who changes insurance providers a few times a year, if someone made a site to take care of finding doctors and making appointments I would give you my left arm.
It would seem like this doesn't actually buy you very much, because presumably the same places that would exclude your resume because of an ageist bias, would also pass on you after interviewing you

Disagree. If you transform your career story from VP-at-48 to VP-at-43, your social status changes and the interview is a completely different conversation.

Lying about actual skill is unethical, but people who are able to improve their social status by exploiting human shallowness, in my opinion, deserve everything they can gain in doing so.
The quote is: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
Thanks, we will look into it for sure. We just feel that we need to add more functionality first.
You are arguing for price control, which will likely cause a shortage.
Maybe they'll clean up the interface!
From the FAQ:

The initial compiler will compile into C or use LLVM for the back end

This is .. a rather fundamental point. More critically, there is no link that I could see to any code.

It is an interesting idea, but it seems a little too under-cooked to merit much discussion right now. However, one way that this could get really good traction is if it were to support Cython code (which doesn't seem to be the case, from the FAQ)
I actually faced a similar problem and I ended up writing an almost identical script which generated a JSON or XML file (depending on the user's need).
Great feedback, I'll change the "how to" ASAP after some reading on the subject. Is there a secure command option that I can use with openssl instead of -aes-256-cbc?

I originally tried to provide an example for openssl and gpg, but the gpg example ended up with a dependency on X11 via a dependency on pinentry so I took it out for simplicity.
"many of those individuals seem eager to accept due in part to the opportunity Apple represents to build new product, instead of just doing “tedious updates” on a largely complete platform."

Apparently, doing "tedious updates" on google maps is hard work and undesirable, but building apple maps should be a walk in the park.
Do you have a custom solution for monitoring via Graphite? If so, is it something you can share?
Do you mean the U.S. Dept. of Justice interface?
I don't think we have a lot of data on these kinds of large-scale transitions, even though we have a lot of data in nominal terms. That's a common problem in machine learning and data mining as well (my area of research), where a large amount of nominal data can be misleading if what you're really trying to model isn't that common.

In this case the relevant event is sector-wide shifts in employment, of the farms->factories variety. We have very little data on those, because they occur once or perhaps twice in our data set. So we can't really generalize with any confidence about them: which features of that particular transition are general features of a sector-to-sector transition, and which ones depend on idiosyncracies of farms or factories or the particular time? Will factories->X look the same as farms->factories? We do have somewhat better data on which depend on idiosyncracies of place, since you can look at the industrial revolution in the U.S. versus in the UK or Germany or Japan (though those aren't independent data sets).

We have a lot of data in raw terms, but I think of that as just having data on a small number of macro-scale events, but at high resolution (monthly or better for many years). Now if we had observed 4 or 5 such macro-scale shifts (at least), that's the kind of data that would be needed to build a good model of how such transitions work. So I don't think we can say with much confidence, certainly not statistically valid confidence, how market mechanisms handle such shifts. What we have very good data on is how market mechanisms work in the "normal" case, within a largely stable paradigm. But for farm->factory type transitions, we have basically small-N case studies that people are trying to extrapolate from. The "market will sort it out—it always does" view is certainly one possible extrapolation, but I don't think the evidence confirming it is very strong.
But even eliminating the wars, spending is higher than revenue. And historically, we can see that the government does not finance its spending with revenue, it does so with borrowing, and it pays back its loans with more borrowing. Lower spending does not reduce taxes, nor does increased spending raise them. To say otherwise is to ignore the facts.
> Real problems to attack: The pitfalls of implementing representative democracy via legislators who develop strong social ties with each other; […]

On that one, we could start by dropping the word "democracy" altogether.

"Democracy" used to refer to something like Athenian democracy. The people participated directly to the policy making of the city, or were drawn at random when it wasn't practical. They really have the power to rule themselves.

What we have now used to be called "representative government". The people do not have the power to rule themselves, they instead elect an elite that presumably would be better at ruling than the people themselves.

This is not much, but the mechanism is very similar to "intellectual property". Technically, the correct term is "monopoly". But it has bad connotation, while "property" has good connotation. "Democracy" has good connotation, "representative government" is neutral at best.
This seems like it would be good for watching videos at night (if the wrapping div can be selected). Many are embedded on white pages and this would help a lot.
> Bumping your college degree by 5 years in order to seem 5 years younger is, in my opinion, ethically OK

No. Not only is it lying, which is obviously not acceptable, but it is pandering to discriminatory attitudes.

It is not legal to discriminate based on age when employing people in the UK, and thus it should be pointless to lie about age.
In the Netherlands, interest on government provided student loans is pegged to the average interest on government bonds with terms between 3 and 5 years. It is calculated each year, and then fixed for 5 years. *

This year the interest is 1.39%, and it's my 6th year, so the current low interest situation rates benefits me. My brother on the other hand is stuck with 4.17% until his next 5 year period starts in 2013.

* Table of interest rates over the last 20 years: http://www.ib-groep.nl/particulieren/studieschuld/renteperce...
> Mypy will get rid of the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)
>Details of the concurrency model are still undecided, though

Wait, what? There have been numerous attempts to get rid of the GIL, most of which failed miserably. A promise to get rid of the GIL without even deciding on a concurrency model seems a little premature.
PUTs of URI-encoded XML queries in the request URL, ...

Or POST-only AJAX requests because an out-of-the-box install of a package wants to put 5KB of data into the URL: http://drupal.org/node/956186
Chrome extension tells you more about people in articles you read
Assuming that the robot predictions are correct, there really won't be any other choice. Welfare will be generous, but will come with Norplant, or won't come at all.
As much as I'd like to believe that there is a Python interpreter without a GIL, type inference, and LLVM backend that can support the full standard library I'm doubtful until I see evidence.
An interesting idea. I do like Python's syntax - it's how I indent my C code so it's quite natural. Having to hit backspace is a bit annoying though when you're used to the IDE auto inserting a } you can down-arrow over.

Personally I'd prefer explicit dynamic types and implicit type inference, but that's a personal preference. From working with C# and F# in my day job, F# is much more graceful without the 'var' everywhere that you get with C#'s inference.
I'm running 2.0.3 on Win7. How do you do next and previous gestures?
Sounds like they're not hiring engineers but "analysts", i.e. people who correct data manually or semi-manually (scripts, SQL queries, etc.). That explains why $85k is "aggressive" and also why working on Google Maps would be considered "tedious".

(I'm a Google engineer who works on maps/local, but this is purely my own personal speculation based on the article.)
Neat? I thought it sucks for me for the same reason… Once I started text selecting as I usually do, it went black, then back, then black… annoying.
>"The National Consumer Law Center, in a July report, said “pursuing the most vulnerable borrowers until they die” is inefficient and imposes “significant costs to taxpayers.” To help debtors avoid defaulting in the first place, the center advocates placing them automatically in repayment plans that make the payment a percentage of the borrower’s income rather than a certain dollar amount. Under this “income-based repayment,” which the Obama administration has pushed, any outstanding debt is forgiven after 20 or 25 years."

This sounds a lot like how it works in Australia now. Adding a minimum salary cutoff below which the debt didn't need to be repaid would make it pretty much the same.
Speculation in comments at TechCrunch is that the $85k was a signing bonus rather than an annual salary.
I guess I don't see how lying about this can inherently not also cause you to have to lie about other things.

By which I mean, changing your resume from VP-at-48 to VP-at-43 either means that you're lying about how long you've been a VP (which is definitely now lying about experience/skill), or it means you're just moving all of your work experience up a sliding scale to appear younger; in which case you are now potentially lying about your work/experience/schooling as well, as tying that experience to a point in time is more than just human shallowness.

For example, let's say I was a web developer in the mid-nineties, but I decide to change that on my resume to appear more recent (to make myself seem younger). I'd argue that being a web developer in the mid-nineties is pretty far removed from being a web developer currently (so at what point does it become disingenuous...is sliding things ahead a few years ok? more than 5?)

This all seems too "The Secret of My Success" for my liking.
A road map of mathematical objects
I'm sorry if my post sounded 'offensive'. I just don't think that in five years we're going to control our computers using webcams. They are just not made for that.

I'm still getting 20%, on 2012 Air. Maybe you should try it on a cheaper machine.
> You're not taking into account that there are many of us who prefer ThinkPads (or other PC hardware) over Mac hardware and prefer Windows 7 or Linux over OSX. We're not "compromising" on another machine, we're choosing the machine that best suits our needs.

Sorry, yeah, I didn't mean to say that. I was trying to say that there is a strong "style" element in picking a machine. People should be rational as you say and pick the one that is better for them, but often whichever is "cooler" is more important - again, until recently, having a non-MacBook in certain circles would get you odd stares and you would feel like you didn't fit in. That seems to be changing now though.
As a design project it's cool. I think you did a good job and I don't mean to rain on your parade. But of course now I will. I think as a data visualization exercise, it's mostly what Tufte would call "chart junk". The graphics don't aid into understanding, and actually sort of distract you from the point. It would be a lot easier to read if the axis labels said things like "Warrior" instead of an obscure graphic, that even as a GW2 player myself, I have to think about. Also, the pie chart...pie charts are problematic for understanding data because we don't do a good job at interpreting area. A bar chart is considered more effective. Again, as a purely visual exercise, I think it looks cool.
Hey malandrew

What kind of dishes do you cook up when you're just doing rice and beans?
I eat a lot of beans e.g. usual baked beans in tomato sauce, kidney beans, chickpeas, garden peas; and I do like various rice dishes e.g. indian rices, thai sticky rice.

Can you give me an example of a couple of dishes that you usually eat when you do this? 1) I need to save some money (wedding, startup) and 2) I need to improve my diet.
Love it. Volume controls would be nice, and I'm glad it's in the works.

Even with the limited functionality, I'd gladly pay for this.
This seems like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. The front page says, "Remember all those times you had to pause your music but had to find the right window?"

No. Every fucking keyboard on the planet has a pause button on it. Who goes searching for a window to click a button to pause music?
Unfortunately for Kim, finishing that last 10% usually takes 90% of the time.
I didn't say make it mandatory, and I would bet that a lot of institutions would reject the offer. I am just very curious who would take it and what would it mean for prices of the 3rd and following years.
Metaprogramming in RubyMotion
They're screencasts, not podcasts, but you might be interested in my two TDD-focused screencasts. They're code heavy. They are:

Let's Play: Test-Driven Development (Java focused)

Let's Code: Test-Driven Javascript (newer)

Click my name for the links.
The main (only?) thing it's missing is the Start button.
Nice idea but it doesn't work with selections that are changed using the keyboard (in Chrome on OSX). That is, if I make a selection using the mouse and then use the keyboard to alter it using Shift+Down, the focused area does not get updated and the browser continues to select text in the blacked-out area.
Thank you. Good to know.