skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title is from the front page of the Economist, and is the most eye-catching I have seen in ages.

A little surprising to see the economist so directly critical of a Tory-led policy, and I am interested in how much we are reflecting a similar debate in the US.

On a personal note, I work for a US company right now. And I do so in Kent, England. Not so long ago I would have had to migrate to the USA and deal with visa and other issues. If inward migration is falling, is that actually reducing the number of people working for the host country, or are we simply seeing jobs going to people who just don't relocate?

Edit: added personal note
Original article linked at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4673219
Of course, if you live in Charleston, WV, then this doesn't really help you much personally.
That was in my opinion exactly his mistake. He got to comfortable.
Parchment Lands $23.5M To Bring Transcripts & Student Data Online
You need a valid call-id number for that to work. Many robocallers send (illegally) invalid call-id information.
Non-programming skills every programmer should have
Is this a submission for the homework? I think it was supposed to be fewer words en toto, not per nomen.
> I fail to see why voting for someone who you already know will not win is a satisfying experience

Because it has lasting consequences. Those numbers are counted. They are poured over by the major parties and those votes affect the platform of the major parties in the years to come.

Want to really make a difference? Vote your own beliefs.

> Only for a very few fleeting times in the country's recent history have third parties had influence at the presidential level other than as spoilers or cult-of-personality gadflies (Nader, Perot).

If you're going to restrict yourself to recent history, then even a few occurrences are significant. Regardless of what you think of Perot or Nader, they did affect the platforms of the major parties in the years after.

If you're not going to restrict yourself to recent history, you should realize that the Republican party was a third party when it got started. It had one overriding issue it was pushing at the time, the abolition of slavery. As a result of its success, the Whig party completely collapsed.
Yes, and that's part of the data we've been gathering about radiation dosage. The problem, is that is about radiation that mostly deposits its energy evenly throughout your body. The backscatter machines are set up so most of it goes into your skin, which is particularly cancer prone.

Note that the formulas that doctors use to calculate cancer risk from dosage are based on the evenly deposited energy data. These numbers would suggest that skin is less cancer prone than other tissues, but this is mostly because most of the energy would be deposited elsewhere.

I don't think I'm unreasonable in suggesting that lots of animal testing would need to be done before unleashing such machines on the general public and 10's of thousands of TSA workers. You don't risk public health on "spherical cow" assumptions.
Well yes as far as WB I meant from the view of the program. Modern CPUs do all kinds of terrifying rewriting and speculation internally.
Google’s Knowledge Graph now has “People Also Search For” Section
Couldn't you apply some kind of hash function to the first few seconds of each phone conversation? Then when you get multiple matching hashes, you analyze where these calls are coming from, perform some kind of statistics magic, and determine what numbers to block?
The relationship between ideas and execution is not a sum of the parts, but more like a multiplier.

Excellent idea (1.0) * Excellent execution (1.0) = Excellent result (1.0)

Mediocre idea (0.5) * Excellent execution (1.0) = Mediocre result (0.5)
Try this pill. It's free.
Let's see: Michael Chertoff was head of the TSA, oversaw the decision about the safety of the scanners, and held a financial interest in the company that made the scanners.

Sounds legit, nice work Mike.
From 3D Drawing to Small Scale Production.
I'm not sure I buy the theory about it originating in political discourse.

It's a very basic concept. Changing your mind almost necessarily involves admitting you were wrong in the first instance — if you do not admit it outright, someone else will likely confront you on it.

People don't like admitting they were wrong. It makes one look bad, and provides one's enemies with ammunition.
Awesome. There was a little bit of discussion here about the winner (http://findthin.gs/) a few days ago at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4659320 .

I have to say that I was really surprised with the prizes described at http://blog.railsrumble.com/2012/10/13/prizes-prizes-prizes/ . It seems modest given the sheer scale of the event (500 teams) and the size of some of the sponsors. Our local start-up weekend awarded $20,000 in cash between the top three winners, in addition to a lot of free services, and the competition wouldn't be nearly as stiff.
Now if we could only get D3-style animation in XKCD...
Also have you tried the PowerShell 3 ISE?
I'm glad to hear that others still opt out.

I fly constantly for work, and I've watched the number of people opting out slowly drifting down till it feels like, well, just me.

If I'm getting my rights violated, I'm at least getting a reach around for it. Plus, even though I know it's terribly childish, being able to ask if they're happy that they grew up to make a living by touching my balls gives me a little bit of false empowerment in a crappy situation.

Ya, just can't get that satisfaction when walking through a scanner.
I get this same call every time I'm "in the zone" working. The interruption causes me to lose concentration on my work and screws up my productivity.

I would say that cruise ship sound is responsible for me losing 20 hours of extreme productivity per year. The person that runs that company deserves the death penalty.
Extremely misleading headline. The body-scanning machines are being replaced with newer body-scanning machines.
You Will Not Be The Same Person When You Achieve Your Goal
This is a follow-up to those reports though. The article was published two days ago, on which date they released some of the documents as PDF: http://www.popularmechanics.com/cm/popularmechanics/data/Pro...
Yeah, I think that both 'change word' and either the 'change inner word' or 'change a word' ('ciw' and 'caw', respectively) should have been included. I find myself using the last two modifiers much more often than 'change word' by itself. I hope that's not a symptom of inefficient vim usage.
That's pretty Arbitrary. I prefer

Excellent idea (π) * Excellent execution (2.0) = Excellent result (2π)
I actually have been looking for something like this. Mainly so I can give some nontechnical people access to edit different parts of a page. This hasn't been easy to set up in drupal or wordpress (without a large learning curve on their parts). I might give Copybar a try and see if it works out for me.
"Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet. We're working to bring devices to more countries as quickly as possible. Please check back again soon."
Anatomy of a Solid-state Drive
Good point. I'm probably being overly paranoid. Just avoiding an obviously "Real Name" tag is probably more than enough. Thanks, at any rate!
> numbers having counterintuitive special features, "normal".

I don't think that 'normal' implies 'intuitive', even in normal usage.
Source maps? Source maps.
My teammate and I agreed that the site needs some work and thought it would have been fun to Rails Rumble a new Rails Rumble.
It's really not terribly complicated to figure out what it does, here's the formatted version for adding two numbers

(function() {
var __opal = Opal, self = __opal.top, __scope = __opal, nil = __opal.nil, __breaker = __opal.breaker, __slice = __opal.slice;
var __a, __b;
return self.$puts((__a = 1, __b = 2, typeof(__a) === 'number' ? __a + __b : __a['$+'](__b)))
})();

The first line just declares some Opal-specific variables (__scope, nil, __breaker, etc.), which I guess are created whether or not they're actually used. The second line defines the temporary variables used to store the numbers. Then, depending on the type, it either actually adds them or use its own '$+' function, which I guess it adds to the prototype for all objects.

In terms of having to ever debug something like that, I agree that it'd probably be a huge pain.
I agree. On top of this we need a 'mark as spam' button next to the hang up button in Android.
Possibly not yet born (well, at least for the 70s/80s) and probably not of voting age.
You may also want to take a look at SlickGrid https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid

It is a datagrid developed using pure javascript and jquery.
The codebase is one of the best that I have seen in my life so far. Proper use of separation of concerns, responsibilities. Very neat use of oops, methods.

There are lot of examples which will teach you great stuff.
I was not in the inner city and I was not alive/aware for the 70s and 80s (childhood innocence and all that).

Just because we didn't stand up when it first happened, due to whatever reason, doesn't mean we can't be outraged.
> That doesn't prevent someone from being right 100% of the time. It may prevent them from saying "x is the best database", but not from saying "x is the best for y use, z is the best for... etc"

PG has noted that Robert Morris was one of the smartest people he knew, because he always knew when he shouldn't give an opinion.

> The problem is with the fact that no-one is capable of always being right, not that the hypothetical person couldn't always be right.

No disagreement there. A corollary: a big problem is embodied in people who don't know that the above is the case and take steps to mitigate it.
Bottle of "Apple iShampo" Spotted in Beijing Salon
Can you interact with the dom inside opal?
I frequently found the language and notation used in math papers to be nearly unintelligible. It doesn't matter how simple the underlying concepts are, scientific papers manage to make them seem incredibly complicated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
HBR Celebrates Its Graveyard Of Obsolete Management Ideas
And not to be confused with the _original_ WinRT that many of us grew to love: http://www.pds-site.com/Bsquare/WinRT/default.htm

Port access and IRQs without writing an actual device driver.
Уральские пельмени. Тень знаний. часть 2 - (2012) - IPTVRip
Write Your Own Compiler in 20 Minutes
Yeah, the big change will be that there won't be a big change: the Windows PC market will continue on its slow decline, with Apple eating a slowly increasing share of Microsoft's lunch and profits. Windows RT, and the Surface RT will do slightly, but only slightly better than all of Microsoft's previous tablets. (Why Gates killed the Courier project is still beyond me). Window Phone 8 will do slightly better than Windows Phone 7, but in a few years will be about as obscure.
In layman's terms what are the major programming languages?
Bezos's observation reminds me of Philip Tetlock's conclusions in "Expert Political Judgement" (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7959.html). Tetlock studied it pretty rigorously and came to a number of conclusions, but the central thesis was that people who got things right the most were people who thought by building up lots of competing models and evaluating all of them (ie, having lots of little ideas) rather than guiding all their decisions by a single ideology.
How is it "less clunky" than stock Android?
The hypothetical cleverest, most correct person possible would be right 100% of the time and therefore would never change their opinion because changing it would go from right to wrong.

A subtly different view: The hypothetical cleverest, most correct person possible would be right close to 100% of the time because they would change any wrong opinion almost immediately.

And with this view, the closer you are to that person, the better you really are.
> it's a blatant violation of the 4th amendment

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

The US Court of Appeals disagrees.

FYI in the US, the boarder is defined as a 100 mile wide swath of land around any actual boarder. Live within 100 miles of a cost line? Congratulations, the 4th Amendment boarder exception applies to you.

http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/fact-sheet-us-con...
Brilliant Pando Interview w/ Instagram's Kevin
I assume (s)he's referring to Services.
If they wanted to pay it like they were paying an employee... they'd just do that. They don't want to.
I bought a galaxy s2 for all of those tech-savvy reasons, to find out that one year later I don't actually use any unsigned apps and don't want to run down my battery with multitasking.

My wife got a lumia 710, and in many ways it's a better phone than my s2, the quality of the software is noticeably better (even of the 3rd party apps). My next phone is probably going to be a lumia.
Increase the fines. Where can I have my $50K?
That's a much more realistic cleverest person, but in terms of hypotheticals it is clearly better to be right 100% of the time than to almost immediately change your opinion the 1% of the time you start off wrong.
Moving The Still: A GIF Festival
Thanks. Only after reading your response I understood.

Microsoft developed the Windows version for ARM. But then some big shot in Microsoft decided:

"No, you can't mention ARM in any name, we absolutely don't want to mention ARM anywhere in our propaganda or any other material. Our customers should not be aware that this thing like ARM processors exist. Intel promised to make something like ARM in just a year or two. Or we're going to make something. Or whatever, we just don't want to mention ARM. Verboten."

Underling1: "Oooh, how are we going to refer to the darn thing now?"

Underling2: "I know let's reuse the name that these developers use for the thing they produce, this WinRT thing. We'll call it Windows RT"

All together: "Bravo!"
Sure, we'd love to add a Django plugin. Can you email me at mark@copybar.io? We'll get one set up for you.
Social Engineering as a Technical Tool
I wonder if this technology is more efficient than generating hydrogen through electrolysis.
Stories from "The Launch Pad"
I just did a search on that page on a couple specific time zones included in your list, and couldn't hit any results for: Caracas or Brussels. It doesn't seem you linked the right page?

As far as separate checkbox for daylight savings: (1) there are more rules than just daylight savings, and moreover some timezones have daylight savings other than 1 hour (this is rare but still); (2) most languages have libraries that will calculate the timezone for you, and it's both easier and more accurate, both for the user and the developer, to use these libraries to do all the heavy lifting for you.
> I can see where you're coming from but I don't know if isolating map availability by region would work. Hyper-local travel is used in the majority of cases, but there are cases of regional travel too.

No duh. It wouldn't "work" in the sense of excluding absolutely 100% of people. So what? From Apple's perspective, it would be fine if it worked just 85 to 90% of the time. The point is to avoid a massive amount of customer dissatisfaction.

> IMHO, the real mistake here was setting expectations so that it would be lower and not affixing the "Beta" label to it (as was done to Siri.)

No disagreement there. Doing both things would have been even better.
Great comment. I appreciate the principle you're working towards, and largely agree with it. But I wonder if the analogy with Physics works well as a broad metaphor for "intelligence." The gaps between Newtonian, Quantum and Relativity model physics are singular instances of a peculiar, nearly paradoxical set of apparent contradictions that of course have yet to be fully resolved. Each is correct within its own domain, and the full realization of the implications of each requires complete commitment to the rules within the domain to the exclusion of the other models.

So the analogy can also turn around and bite you here. If a researcher in Quantum theory were to get hung up on the apparent contradictions between her own research and the implications within one of the other models, she'd risk being distracted and lose the fruitful path of research within her given domain. In this case, a certain level of myopia is helpful.

Did Einstein's tremendous resistance to Heisenberg and Bohr impugn his accomplishments in any way? Of course not. I don't think anyone would use that as an example of diminished intelligence on Einstein's part.

Your broader point is valid: be open to other viewpoints. But at another level, taking up a position and defending it has its practical advantages, when the position/opinion shows fruitful results.

In software, I think of DHH's 'opinionated' approach to Rails and how that has informed and guided the whole Ruby community. For many programmers Rails' implicit, "magical" approach to coding is not as good as, for instance Django/Python's more explicit philosophy. Both points of view are valid, but the strengths of each would be diluted if they tried to do both. I also think of the Torvalds/Tanenbaum debate over Kernel architectures. Deciding which is correct is way above my pay grade, but it seems clear to me that Linus had to take up a position here and commit to it in order for Linux to thrive the way it has.

I also think of the common criticism of JavaScript's OO structures, that it's a confusing hybrid of Prototypical and Classical OOP, leading to inconsistent or confusing structures. Perhaps a thorough commitment to one or the other would have been better?

So, on the one hand a certain openness and teachability is necessary, but then at strategic points in the development of an idea, a certain stubbornness and myopia seems to be equally important to the ultimate execution of a vision.
I think this is the beginning of the end for Facebook.

Let me explain ...

Like AOL, Facebook is a walled garden reproducing what is standard and open on the web/internet as a whole. AOL had AOL email, Facebook has html homepages, and RSS/ATOM

But "people" cannot create their own content - they cannot write HTML, host web pages etc. But contenteditable fixes all that - and with the clever Dropbox tie in, anyone can start with a templated page, drag and drop images from their own desktop, (#) and publish themselves.

Add in RSS via Javascript and its all over.

(#) oh yes drag and drop images onto a web page - its soooo cool. Aloha supports it at least.
Monitorama registration is open
It's been one day. That is too short a period of time to determine anything. Given the rush of people buying it on the first day, a high rating is to be expected. What is your point?

Incidentally, I do think that apps ought to cost less than $4, because that is the precedent that has been set. If Tweetbot would prefer to charge the inordinate sum that they are, that is their choice. But, so long as people are selling great clients for much less or for free, that will be the standard and that will be the point from which I judge value.
Asked about the changes, John Terrill, a spokesman for Rapiscan — which makes the X-ray scanners — wrote in an email, "No comment on this."

Rapiscan? Could they have chosen a worse name for their company?
What now?

I did gifted education, and plenty of "regular" education. The gifted education was basically useless.
What I Learned From The Founder of AppSumo, Noah Kagan
Good point, but people also need to understand the explanation, and they have to believe the change of mind is genuine and that x, y, and z are the genuine reasons (as opposed to some other contingent or craven reason) for the switch.

For example, John Kerry's "for it before I was against it" sounded to some like he was dissembling and hiding that he may have changed his opinion on an appropriations bill simply because the wars were becoming less popular with the public.
My day job is web app development, but for the past year or so I've dedicated much of my spare time to making games. Or, more accurately, I've been trying to make games. So far I've just published only one, a mobile game that was not successful and, I have to admit in hindsight, really wasn't very good.

When it comes to game development in particular, I've heard it over and over again that 'ideas are worthless.' But it's become obvious to me that the exact opposite is true: ideas are everything. What I've been struggling to do in this past year is idea-forging, basically. I've been desperately clawing my way towards an elegant game idea which is both (1) fun/unique/interesting and (2) small enough in scope that I can create it in my spare time. At many points I've thought I've had such an idea, only to realize that the idea wasn't that great or the scope was much larger than I anticipated after some prototyping.

I completely agree with the article when it comes to how difficult it is to evaluate ideas before they've been implemented: Good ideas probably don't often initially look like good ideas. And bad ideas often look incredibly enticing. And I'm pretty sure that truly new ideas almost always look like bad ideas until you've actually seen them in action. (I guess this is part of why we see so many sequels and remakes from established game companies these days. New game ideas are risky, hard to evaluate, and probably expensive to prototype.)
Walking Through Setting Up A TLSA Record for DNSSEC/DANE
Just one small feedback as a designer, if you want to see more conversions for sign-ups, convert that black sign-up button into green. Other than that, it's perfect!
So I decided to build this because I want to find the best way of doing things on Android.

I'm an independent developer and learned Android on my own. I can get most things done but I'm not sure if it's the best way to do things.

There has also been a lot of libraries for Android lately and it's hard to decide which ones to use. I've been interviewing developers at startups and asking for the libraries they use. You can find Pinterest's libraries at http://android.steerway.com/app/pinterest/.

I also feel the same way for Django development so I should be opening the Django section soon.

Feedback is always appreciated.
“Sam (Altman), you know what my biggest, overused, meaningless tech lingo is? On-boarding….It’s driving me bananas”. -Jessica Livingston

Great quote
One side note: some international Lenovo sites (notably, the Dutch one) offer a very unimpressive selection. Obviously, this doesn't hurt you if you're in the US.

(I ended up buying a refurbished T61 from our local eBay equivalent. Really cheap and works great.)
MS's propensity to attempt to create new buzzwords and terminology, though one of the least consequential functionally, is probably one of my biggest turn-offs with them. I'm a straight-shooter and prefer to be communicated with in the same way. It's like they're playing a psychological game, trying to get your mind to play something up better than it actually is....simply because it has a new and novel name.

Just call it what it is already, damnit. If you so happen to invent something new -- then by all means, call it what you want -- but please quit taking old ideas and applying the old web 2.0 naming convention everywhere.