skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the article?

He's talking about this, mass censorship that many of today's games and TV shows cannot pass:

5.1 Your app must not contain adult content, and metadata must be appropriate for everyone

5.2 Your app must not contain content that advocates discrimination, hatred, or violence based on membership in a particular racial, ethnic, national, linguistic, religious, or other social group, or based on a person’s gender, age, or sexual orientation

5.3 Your app must not contain content or functionality that encourages, facilitates or glamorizes illegal activity

5.4 Your app must not contain or display content that a reasonable person would consider to be obscene

5.5 Your app must not contain content that is defamatory, libelous or slanderous, or threatening

5.6 Your app must not contain content that encourages, facilitates or glamorizes excessive or irresponsible use of alcohol or tobacco products, drugs or weapons

5.7 Your app must not contain content that encourages, facilitates or glamorizes extreme or gratuitous violence, human rights violations, or the creation or use of weapons against a person or animal in the real world

5.8 Your app must not contain excessive or gratuitous profanity
So who is it aimed at? Why would my mom or college-attending cousin get this over say, a Transformer or iPad?

Windows apps? Not available for RT option. Cover? $100 more.

What need does this product fill for it's users that it shines at?
and don't forget, Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar!!
Who do you mean by "you"? The DNC? Because yeah, they're going to be biased. I wouldn't have thought they spent "so much time" on this- it's a one page site I could put together in around ten minutes. It's a little jokey promotional toy.

For an actual tech response: surely this isn't pure CSS? There must be JS involved in there somewhere.
From what I have seen both the x86 and ARM perform on par with the iPad and have 9+ hours of battery life. I think you are just making stuff up now.
CEOs: Will you crack? Or will you conquer?
As far as I know, these kind of abuses happen only in "consulting body shops": where they need to fill up number of workers working on a contract. But since IBM is now pretty much consulting company I see how they have incentive to cheat on H1B and L1.
Well, maybe it turned out so that it was the closest available tool and we didn't think about alternatives as we're all Facebook users.
So, what criteria must hold for "banter" to be classed as racism towards an Englishman in Scotland?
I wonder if there is room for some smaller languages optimized specifically for data analysis. In particular, I wonder how a carefully designed non-Turing-complete language would fare.

That would be a really cool project to work on: design a minimal language for expressing most types of data analysis at a higher level. If the language is sufficiently small and simple, I could see some very powerful tooling being possible for it.

Perhaps it might make sense to go even more specific: have a small language designed not just for data analysis but for analysis in a very specific vertical (say finance or bioinformatics). It would be awesome to let people express their ideas in terms of the domain and not worry about low-level details like loops.
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I would think most people here on HN would wait a little bit to preorder the WIN8 tablets instead of the RT ones.

I'm not really sure why you'd go with an RT tablet unless the price was your only limiting factor
True. iTunes is the best, no arguing that. But it doesn't mean it's any good :) It just happened that the rest are even worse!
TOUGHLoveANGEL: CEO WHO CAN'T SELL OR LEAD THE PRODUCT?
This seems like a quick hack version where a variable has been changed to pink.. My problem with this is not the pink by itself but mostly how it doesn't fit with the other elements. Try changing the background of HN to pink to have an idea of what I mean.

The Nokia cyan is different as it still fit with the overall design.
Also, first check "our" the video. Should be "Out."
I'm currently involved with immigrating to Canada as a skilled worker, and I've previously worked in the US on multiple J1 visas, and applied for a H1B.

My take on all of this is that bringing in foreigners in this way destroys the whole supply and demand setup of jobs and employees.

As an example, let's say company A wants to hire a salaried employee for $x. After 6 months of not finding anyone, they should offer more money, etc. until eventually someone is found. If this is across the country for a given profession, then more students will be educated in that field, and the supply of employees will match the demand that has grown and salaries will go up and down in relation to how well the supply matches the demand.

With programs like the H1B and similar, when Company A doesn't find an employee for $x, they don't have to offer more money, they just bring in someone from overseas. In this way Company A is getting employees for less than the supply/demand equation says it should be able to in their local country.

This means Company A makes bigger profits, and people inside the given country are now earning a lower wage than they otherwise should be if Company A had to raise salaries because of a lack of supply of employees for the demand in the given field.

Here in Canada it happens all the time. All the big players (McDonalds, Wal-Mart, KFC, etc.) have an agreement with the govt. where they don't even have to go through the process to hire a foreign worker, it's automatically rubber stamped. When they can't find a local to work for minimum wage, they just bring in a foreigner to do it. So now even though there is not a supply of Canadians willing to work at KFC for minimum wage, KFC can fill those positions, have higher profits, and there are thousands (millions?) of people living in Canada with a standard of living below that which the average Canadian will accept. In my town tehre are lots of foreigners living 10 to a house because they don't earn enough money to do it any other way.

This is not a good thing for a country, or the people in it. It is a good thing for the big companies that now make bigger profits, thanks to being able to get employees at a lower salary.
I used to use OpenDNS, then my own servers (you can set up a local resolver with BIND in minutes), then Google's DNS but all those options are slower and give worse results than using your provider's DNS servers.

You can see for yourself, in your particular setup, which configuration is the fastest using namebench[1]. But it's not only DNS latency, it's also that some CDNs depend on your server's location for determining the best response for you so overall browsing experience also gets better.

Right now I use local BIND but forward queries to other servers. It's a compromise between latency, caching and flexibility. For example it forwards requests for .bit domains to the dot-bit's DNS server and requests for OpenNIC domains to their servers.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/namebench/
European Union cripples future graphics cards
Cupcakes for Bitcoins
>was wondering what you thought about Scala ?

For my preference, I'd rather use Haskell or Clojure but, I appreciate the ecumenical attitude it brings to the table and I think it's an excellent choice for Java developers that want to grow and learn.
Twitter Acqui-Hires Mobile App Development Platform Cabana
Iran: As Sanctions Tighten, US Exports Go...Up?
really nice project -- built with "Open Web technology, including Grunt, Backbone.js, Backbone Boilerplate, Node.js, MongoDB, RequireJS, PhantomJS, and Engine.IO"

are they ready to scale for tonight? :-)
OSX isn't even targeted for normal PCs and afaik not easily installable. And it has means in place to close the system, see https://developer.apple.com/resources/developer-id/ and the consequences. And yes, obviously talking about desktop-systems here, so Android is not fitting (and in this context subset of Linux anyway).

And I still think the different technical situation influences the situation, it is not only about the UI (and the jump not as big as the jump away from DOS).
World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'violates' UN rules
Corporations are using free trade to introduce foreign-made goods at huge margins, while at the same time trying to prevent consumers from practicing price arbitrage.

If corporations were not artificially inflating the cost of living for the US consumer (through the cost of medicine, software, textbooks, food, clothing, etc), then there would be no issue with an open labor market.

But the corporations want to have their cake and eat it to. Free-trade means we get to sell you foreign-made goods at higher margins. Free-labor means we get to hire foreign workers are lower cost. Neither of things things are good for the US consumer, only the US corporation.
> "90% of tests fail"

This is a valuable point for those looking to get into split testing, growth testing, growth hacking in general. Unless there is this kind of understanding going in, a 90% 'failure' rate (failure to find something that works) can be quite demoralizing.

Additionally, startups that hire or look for a growth hacker should be obsessed with the number and quality of tests, not just the graph magically beginning to go up and to the right. It's easy to think that anyone that gets things 10% right isn't really good at their job - don't fall into this trap with growth hackers. The good ones are testing 10 things a week, so good results will come.
any of those points can be easily challenged i suppose!
Connecting Things That Are Inherently Disconnected
As mentioned by someone in another thread, one possibility is that Surface is partly meant to set the bar for third-party manufacturers.

It's high enough make the competition (Dell, HP, etc) put out good products that won't tarnish the new Windows platform image. But not so high as to make third parties not want to bother competing.

This was a problem with early Android. There were so many poor devices that the entire Android brand was hurt (but since recovered).
That's ridiculous! It just makes it harder for everyone to sift through the new page and find quality content to upvote.
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The H1B issue is not simply salary as measured in absolute numbers. Naked salary numbers may be the visible tip of the iceberg but there are bigger issues to consider.

1. Most H1B workers are under 30, and most unemployed American programmers are over 35. This is by far the biggest part of the iceberg, made invisible by the fact that these people drop out of statistics.

2. Visa handcuffs are not slavery per say, but close enough. (If you think that's an overly dramatic statement, you are probably not an immigrant from some place you really don't want to be, like me, or someone whose family will quite literally starve if you don't send them money). People endure getting beat up by their husbands for 5 years straight for the sake of a green card, so there is no doubt they will endure long working hours and much more.

3. The whole "shortage of IT talent" hysteria is way overblown when you look at the actual numbers. Just one example, latest DICE salary report:

http://media.dice.com/report/2012-2011-dice-salary-survey/

Contrast the opening sentence:

Technology professionals enjoyed their largest annual salary growth since 2008, according to the 2012-2011 Salary Survey from Dice, the leading career site for technology and engineering professionals.

... with the actual numbers:

After two straight years of wages remaining nearly flat, tech professionals on average garnered salary increases of more than two percent, boosting their average annual wage to $81,327 from $79,384 in 2010.

So, let's see. While the inflation is chugging along at ~3% per year, we get 2 flat years, followed by a 1% increase? So basically, we make less money each year?

Is the tech industry an economic miracle? Are programmers the one must-have product whose prices get lower when it's in short supply and the buyers have pockets full of cash? Or is there a simpler explanation?
I can get a $30 adapter for my black and white 3rd gen iPod that lets it do that for cameras and HDDs
Did you not do your a-levels? Why not try an access course? Surely this is not the position you would like to be in? For university, the only subject you really need for CompSci/IT courses is Mathematics (+further maths for oxbridge/imperial/warwick). Why don't you do that? It will help you learn fundamentals + land you much better jobs
I see the Surface as a great replacement to netbooks. I'm not sure if I'll get one yet, but a lightweight, small laptop that is not at all a pain to take with me anywhere is still a useful thing.

I got a lot of use out of my 10" MSI netbook, and at 1.5lbs with a great keyboard/cover system, this could fit in as a nice replacement for that, without nearing the cost of a Macbook Air. The ability for it to double as a tablet for light internet browsing makes gives it some added value, as well.

I think that a key market for this will be for people who could use a tablet and a laptop, but can't justify purchasing both a decent laptop and a tablet. Of course, as the price of a good Android tablet moves closer and closer to an ultra-affordable $99 price point, this advantage may disappear pretty quickly.

It will be interesting to see how the market responds, and how much people enjoy using the hardware. It's different enough that it has a real chance to make a dent in the market.
That's what I thought of to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
Python from JavaScript and viceversa
Slurpy is an RPC mechanism to call python methods from javascript and viceversa.
I don't understand what they are actually doing to prevent the sale of stolen bikes through their site? I don't see anything on the bike listing or stolen bike search pages that would help with this.
I think you've missed some of the rumors. Rumor has it that the new 7" thingie isn't retina. It's going to be have a 1024x768 display (i.e., iPad 2's display resolution) but with more density. If you do the math, it turns out that it will be 163 PPI, the same as original iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S. So Apple can use the same machines that it's been using for years to produce iPhone (non-retina) displays and just cut them a little bigger.

So, according to rumors, there won't be fragmentation. How well that would work in practice? I'm personally pessimistic.
Patents (at least as defined in the US Constitution) weren't created to protect intellectual property. The idea that they were is a recent invention that is at odds with history.

Patents no longer serve their original purpose and the current system should be dismantled (though I know it won't be, because the big money is on the side of keeping the broken system).

I'm okay with the idea of something new being created to give protection to intellectual property (on a much shorter timescale, say 2-5 years), but the current patent system is incredibly broken.
You have the 4000x4000 file with a jpg suffix but it is actually a png? I ran the image through pngcrush and it decreased the file size by 50%. You might want to do the same and save on bandwidth / page loading...

$ du -sh fractal*
14M	fractal-optim.png
27M	fractal.png
Show HN: phpconsole - a new tool for web developers
Hi HN, I want to share with you phpconsole - my dev tool that I started developing quite a while ago, got to the point where it was usable and started testing and implementing it in my daily workflow. In the last 10 months me and some of my coworkers used it over 17k times in total, which gives me an indication that it may be useful for many more people.

Phpconsole is aimed at PHP/JS devs, but I believe that porting the client code to other languages would be fairly easy.

All feedback is welcome and if you're interested, leave your email on the page - you'll get an invitation to a beta version.

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Product tour: http://phpconsole.com/tour
Likewise. Seems like a smart use of the pricenomics search/algorithm engine.
If they do this - and they have always wanted to - it will open the door for massive development on other platforms. I say this as a Microsoft developer. After looking at what's coming, both in the mediocrity of the upcoming OS releases and the push to put everything behind a MSFT wall, I've been actively looking at whether we should be moving primarily to Linux.
Clickable links:

http://phpconsole.com

http://phpconsole.com/tour
As an analyst, I the killer app for this is Microsoft Excel, which you really need a keyboard for.
The MS surface keyboard is an extra $100 (if you buy them together; $120 if you buy independently)
Myriad's Dangerous Patents and their Negative Impact on Women's Health
Or a modified version of the follow model would be interesting.
SAP is a space now? I thought it was a company.
FUD.

Desktop apps don't have to be distributed through Windows Store. In fact they can not. Windows Store contains only Metro UI apps, available for both tablets and desktops.
All the software and games and stuff are installed exactly the same way as in other Windowses, without any restrictions implied by the article. Steam isn't going anywhere, Skyrim, Mass Effect are not, either. The problem does not exist.
It's Office RT, whatever that means. I tried to follow the link to the description http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/home-and-student/office-ho... - but on my Linux/Firefox combination, it shows nothing. Perhaps it's a silverlight thing, but the HTML is so messed up that I wasn't able to see if it was.

Way to go Microsoft!
I was thinking about trying to make a similar tool. I got the idea when I was trying to decide in which format I wanted to buy the complete series of The Wire. I found it too hard to compare prices between all the different sources, including DVD. Google's Shopping results are only for the DVD format. I would incorporate prices to make it more useful. Moki.tv was a good app that was pretty similar. http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/17/moki-tv-is-the-ultimate-per...
Walmart's New High-Tech Labs: You're Not in Arkansas Anymore
I think that is a big tech geek bias. It's really hard (impossible) to put ourselves in the shoes of the non-nerd, but we should try. I don't think the non-nerd will care as much as you do, or if at all. I think that leading with the RT model was actually a great call, because it will jump start the market of tablets that can only use modern apps and then in turn give a lot of incentives for developers to make them. If they led with the x86 surface, then the app market would have been a lot smaller come end of year.
Where are you seeing `larrys`? The guy you're replying to doesn't seem to be "larrys", and when I looked at larrys profile here on HN I can see there was some recent arguing, but nothing that I would think would merit a ban, and additionally, I don't see a 'inappropriate response from the mods' (but perhaps I'm not sure what to look for; do mods get special CSS styling or anything?). I'm confusered.
All of which are CYA statements that are there to remove MS' liability for any app used for any of those purposes.

It's worth pointing out that Google has roughly the same requirements in their Google Play content requirements( http://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html ), as do Apple and Amazon.

Google's ratings requirements are potentially even more stringent, especially because they're in plain English.
My side project Cactus is a simpler alternative to Jekyll and has s3 deployments built in: https://github.com/koenbok/Cactus
stb-tester[1] captures video from a set-top box or smart tv or similar appliance,
and runs automated tests against it by sending infrared signals and
analysing the captured video. It uses python and OpenCV. It is
open-source software (LGPL).

Currently stb-tester's image processing is very simple: It looks for
specific, previously-captured images, accounting for some noise. But
there is plenty of scope for much smarter processing: Identifying areas
with text within the image, then doing OCR; or measuring some aspect of
image or video quality.

[1] http://stb-tester.com
>Apple is reaching down to cater to this market?

"Reaching down"? Targeting people who prefer a smaller form factor is akin to what, scraping the bottom of the barrell, for you? Fact is, some people just prefer that size (e.g. a 7'' tablet fits easily in a purse, while a 10'' doesn't )

>iPhone - plain, retina, retina+ iPad - 7" plan/retina?, plain, retina

This was bound to happen, unless you expected Apple to never vary the bit depth, resolution, and aspect ratios of their phones and tablets? Deal with it. Or don't.
I didn't say single-shot, I said single-use.

It's very unlikely that it will be possible to make a safe, practical, reusable gun from a 3D printer in the foreseeable future.
Primarily community driven to raise red flags about stolen bikes. That said, it's pretty easy to look at an advertisement for a bike and know if the seller actually knows anything about it.
Non-nerds generally tend to seek advise from nerdy in their vicinity (social circle). Sort of trickle down effect. The impact is quite significant now, given that nerds and semi-nerds are aplenty.
Reaching down in terms of price point. That's a very saturated market, and for once, they are late to the game. They should stick with the high price points and quality devices.
I am making it up that I couldn't find a notebook with ipad comparable snappy response times and ipad comparable battery time? I'm not saying I'm all-knowing and that I survey every single piece of hardware that ever goes on sale everywhere, but I did spend considerable time looking for a Windows one (I needed it for a product I'm selling, and ended up with a $2200 HP notebook instead! and it has less than 6 hours of useful battery life!), and came up empty.

If you know of such a notebook, please let me know. As they say, put up or shut up.
" Python a compelling alternative: not as tuned to numerics as MATLAB, or to stats as R, or as fast or elegant as Julia "

The part about python not being as fast as Julia jumped at me. Wes McKinney's benchmarks show that python is faster than Julia for numerics: http://wesmckinney.com/blog/?p=475

EDIT: should not have said "python faster than Julia". They are comparable because the slow bits get done in BLAS anyway.
Creativity 'closely entwined with mental illness'
A fair amount; I've seen some of his work and I think it's pretty good. I don't really like Octave (his program of choice), but I understand why he used it. I would have gone with something higher-level, since a lot of decent tools are out there that add a layer of abstraction to ML.

Anyway, I consider Bayesian logic a cornerstone of ML modeling. It's not so much the content that needs to be memorized/understood as much as it is the way of thinking that Bayesian methodologies present over frequentist statistics.

Still, I'm sure it's a good class.
Hypermedia affordances
Do I need to explain? You're soliciting opinion about some random logo. This isn't even remotely relevant to the subject matter of Hacker News.

You could call skydiving or tennis 'a bit childish' if you like, but that doesn't make it thus.
I love the shared groups concept. I always thought there would be a lot of benefit for small local businesses to benefit from group messaging.

SendHub seems like a great way to make that happen.
Requirements for licensing Windows RT could have also stipulated certain hardware minimums. I know that MS did something similar with netbooks, where they stipulates hardware maximums.

I believe the major difference is that Microsoft has entered the computer manufacturers arena as a 1st tier manufacturer. Everybody else is now tier 2. And this leads to problems with monopolies and vertical integration.