skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm fairly technical, I do a reasonable amount of programming and I've been using various flavours of Linux for well over a decade, but installing vanilla Android on a phone where the manufacturer doesn't support it is just ridiculous. There was a time when I'd be fine to issue endless arcane commands during an install process, or I wouldn't mind manually partitioning my drive and setting mount points, or getting stuck into some X config file to try out some new window manger etc., but now I just want things to work. And that's if you are supported by CyanogenMod, if you aren't it's just a recipe involving random .exe files from "HaKerD00dz" with animated gif avatars from some PHP forum that you have to trust. It's a total mess.

The android OS ecosystem is totally broken on this level by the carriers who have every interest in making the higher cost phones more attractive by not updating the Android version on lower cost phones and not updating the version for existing customers. This issue is exactly why Linus' rant resonated with people and Engadget's position attracted so much fire. Nobody should be on an old version of Android. I've got my phone up to Android 4.0 after a stupid custom process from the manufacturer (which only ran on Windows) but I am fairly certain it's the last official update I will see for it even though it's more than capable of running newer versions. However, unless I can get a source more reliable than some php forum for updating it myself I am unlikely to update outside of this manufacturer version.

I really hope Google's Nexus intervention clears up this issue and finally turns the telcos into dumb pipes, but I am afraid it will only make the carriers offer an up-to-date Android on sale, which then won't be updated later. This is why the ecosystem for installing vanilla Android needs to be seriously improved and Google needs to step up to their responsibilities to provide automatic updating to carriers or a really properly supported community for mods.
So now, only outlaws will have Buckyballs?
I'll take your word for it that he's a cool guy. And I don't even fault him for working for a company I have a not-so-great opinion of -- it is quite possibly a great place to work for employees and might be the best option to pursue his interests around where he lives. But none of that changes the fact that knowing where he works brings to mind the old saying about people living in glass houses.
Well then you're proposing that we should have issued 1,700 "Darwin awards" since just 2009, almost all of them to small children.

I think it's much less likely that you actually mean this, and more likely that you haven't read much about the CPSC's side of this story.
Predicting the future is much like a sweepstakes.

Many will enter, few will win.
Until you write a post that ends up on the front page of HN and it brings your server down. The chances of that happening are small, so it's probably not worth optimizing a dynamic site for that use case, but with a static site you don't have to do any additional work or introduce complexity.
> Einstein was an assistant patent examiner. Wittgenstein was a gardener at a monastery and then a primary school teacher.

I take your point, but Einstein and Wittgentsein are not good examples. You list jobs they held, but those jobs don't reasonably express the success either man had in his lifetime. Einstein was also a member of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies from 1933 to 1955 (when he died)[1]. Wittgenstein was also awarded a PhD at Cambridge - without having done coursework or exams - on the basis of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and was an idolized professor for many years there[2].

Neither man was by any stretch of the imagination an unrecognized genius - they were both absolutely recognized as huge intellects with superior achievements in their respective fields when they were alive.

[1] http://www.ias.edu/people/einstein/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein#1929.E2.80....
I'm pretty sure this post was marked [Dead] few hours ago.
We have that. In germany the Berufsgenossenschaft mandates that every company with more than 2 and up to 20 employees has at least 1 person trained in first aid on site. Companies larger than that need 5% - 10% of the personal trained, depending on what work is done.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfallverh%C3%BCtungsvorschrift...
I am curious: Does the US have any webbased citizen identification system? In the netherlands we have something called 'digid.nl' which might not be up to e-voting standards, but it is at least a lot more secure and reliable way to identify and authenticate citizens.

Digid.nl is sort of like a firewalled openid. Government websites like the dutch tax office will redirect you to there to authenticate, you get redirected back with a token, and the government website can verify that token with the digid servers. Effectively moving most security/privacy problems to 1 single service that is done right, instead of leaving it to every ministry to get it right.

What perhaps is a bigger problem than if it is secure enough, is does it have enough penetration? I'm sure the US constitution has something to say about the election booths needing to be accessible to the majority (if not all) of the people. If this many people are displaced, is it reasonable to expect that if not a house they have access to internet?
Your site is down?
http://www.isup.me/sqlzoo.net
Indeed. For a few years I commuted the other way (from south west London out of town). It was luxury, I'd have a seat (or whole carriage) both ways and could get a lot done. Now I'm working in London I just cycle everywhere. It feels like the right thing to do in every way.
Ah, I see what you're saying. Well, as a practical matter, I'm pretty sure NJ would have to amend its state constitution to change election day for local office. I'd be very surprised if that's even legally possible to accomplish before Tuesday.
Interesting, that sounds worth checking out.
When is a race not a data race?
1-3 the same apply to the current court system.

4, a higher legal association, that deals with lawsuits against courts. The association would be in as much market pressure to be honest and reputable.

You would choose courts based on their contracts with these associations.

But as I mentioned above, I personally don't believe in having a private court system. I support a state run law court (ala minarchy).

There are thousands of things more important and much more obviously broken than the court system (military expansionism, war on drugs, domestic surveillance, federal reserve etc, etc).

That being said, I fully support the non-aggression principle in all other contexts and (obviously) in the efficiency of the market model.
Are they working this hard all over the country? For how long have they done that? Are they working hard not smart?
It is a smart solution to the problem, to an extent: mitigating risks in ways that are unrelated to the intended functionality of the product is usually a good idea. But mitigating risks inherent to the nature of the product in a way that reduces the product's functionality, reliability, or adaptability for other purposes isn't an appropriate solution.

More broadly, and more importantly, designing risk out of our environment gives us less fodder for the development of our own faculties for risk judgment, and therefore makes us more dependent on external articles and less so on intelligence and caution for our safety, and this ironically makes is more risky for us to explore aspects of the world which haven't been already made artificially safe, and more subject to danger if the external sources of risk should shift.

In other words, maintaining risk-free environments ultimately makes us less adaptable, makes the prospect of change riskier, and therefore reduces our evolutionary fitness.
I care about the "people in tech" pool containing as high a percentage of the "qualified people who could be in tech" as possible, as both a hirer and a buyer/user of tech. If there are qualified women or minorities who aren't working in tech for artificial reasons (their early-childhood education deterring them, racism or sexism in the workplace, etc.), that affects me as a white man.

I don't have as much self-interest in whether people from Ohio, Eskimos, or women are proportionally represented. (I sort of care in an abstract way, because tech jobs are great and a good way to live a happy life, but if there were some innate reason why gingers were comparatively far better at medicine than at tech, I wouldn't cry that there were few gingers in tech.)

The nice thing about capitalism is that even with my own self-interested motivation, it tends to solve problems like this.
No, we do not.

Fun fact: DIGID.NL was secured by Diginotar, the SSL CA that got hacked, tried to cover it up, and later had to admit that fraudulent certs for many of the most popular sites on the Internet had been issued by their hacker.

The US Constitution does not have much specific to say about how voting is accomplished. Each state is allocated a certain number of electors. It's left up to the states to determine how they're apportioned to candidates. The candidate who receives a majority of electoral votes wins.

In practice, it's 2 centuries of precedent set by the courts and laws set out by the legislatures, stemming from the principles in the Constitution (rather than any specific mandate from the Constitution), that determine the specifics of what is and isn't OK in an election.

We have a relatively old Constitution (as liberal Constitutional governments go), and it changes very, very rarely.
I felt somewhat betrayed that this had much less to do with algebra than I initially expected.
So, essentially, Save The Children?

Besides the fact, this regulation seems almost pointless. If you can still sell these small round magnets, just not as novelty and toy items, then they will still get into the hands of consumers. As the article mentioned, even with severe restrictions on where they were placed in stores and even with them being absent in physical stores at all sales still held steady, clearly signifying a demand for this product.

At best this ruling is ineffectual and will end up in a cat and mouse game between manufacturers and the CPSC which could potentially end up in heavily overreaching legislation. At worst it's a dangerous precedent set to control the kind of things we give to our children.

I don't need the mayor of New York telling me how much to drink, and I don't need the government telling me what to buy.

Food for thought: The CPSC seems to be fine with the warning labels on cigarettes.
Joining Mensa was the dumbest thing I ever did.
What about minority women? that's a two for one.
Don't you think that building something solely because it excites you is what causes startups to fail?

I'm not sure customers really care about our motivation. That's the ultimate test: do enough customers buy the product to make it profitable?

I was trying to think of a few product flops that might relate to this:
Consumer example: New Coke
Small app example: Backpack (by 37signals)
Venture funded example: Color
Big app example: Google Wave
Competition is promoted instead of teamwork (not only amongst students, but also amongst teachers and civil servants in general).

I've heard this from colleagues who've worked in Singapore. Teamwork and collaboration don't appear to be cultural norms. I remember during my degree there were always one or two hyper competitive individuals who would deny having any knowledge of a problem when asked for assistance. They seemed to think helping others would adversely affect them in some way. The reality is that explaining concepts to others reinforces your own understanding, so you both benefit.
The internet bubble didn't create the surplus, the "peace dividend" did. After the former Soviet republics became our BFFs, we promptly eviscerated our Cold War military. Combine that with some good growth in the economy (which obviously includes the tech sector) and some welfare reform that Clinton and Gingrich worked on together, and you got a nice surplus.

Throw in Bush-era tax cuts and two wars, and you can say bye-bye to that.
Great work. Conceptually Not unlike Youtify.com. Think its open source as well. https://github.com/youtify/ - you guys should team up!
He really should have used fixed-point arithmetic.
I've gone back to static generators almost exclusively - full circle really as some of my first web pages were generated with Userland Frontier (anyone remember Clay Basket?) nanoc (http://nanoc.stoneship.org/) is currently my tool of choice. WordPress and (popular) plugins are a huge target these days - happy to not be worried about security with static pages. Comments can be handled by Disqus, mobile publishing with dropbox and some plumbing. Certainly not as easy as a "one click install" at a webhost, but fast, scalable and infinitely configurable. Generating feeds in the build process is not difficult either.
I believe that the idea that someone who works a "menial" job "isn't getting much value out of being highly intelligent" is the fundamental misconception here.

If you are a genius, your time is not necessarily well spent on ANY job, whether it is considered menial or not by the intellectually unwashed masses, unless it is for exercise, relaxation, sustenance, or pleasure.

I refer you to the classic essay The Outsiders
http://www.cpsimoes.net/artigos/outsiders.html

'The second kind of social adaptation may be called the marginal strategy. These individuals were typically born into a lower socio-economic class, without gifted parents, gifted siblings, or gifted friends. Often they did not go to college at all, but instead went right to work immediately after high school, or even before. And although they may superficially appear to have made a good adjustment to their work and friends, neither work nor friends can completely engage their attention. They hunger for more intellectual challenge and more real companionship than their social environment can supply. So they resort to leading a double life. They compartmentalize their life into a public sphere and a private sphere. In public they go through the motions of fulfilling their social roles, whatever they are, but in private they pursue goals of their own. They are often omnivorous readers, and sometimes unusually expert amateurs in specialized subjects. The double life strategy might even be called the genius ploy, as many geniuses in history have worked at menial tasks in order to free themselves for more important work. Socrates, you will remember was a stone mason, Spinoza was a lens grinder, and even Jesus was a carpenter. The exceptionally gifted adult who works as a parking lot attendant while creating new mathematics has adopted an honored way of life and deserves respect for his courage, not criticism for failing to live up to his abilities. Those conformists who adopt the committed strategy may be pillars of their community and make the world go around, but historically, those with truly original minds have more often adopted the double life tactic. They are ones among the gifted who are most likely to make the world go forward.'
Show HN: Opendoor, open source pin-based apartment access
I think it is pretty clear that I am refering to teenagers eating magnets getting a Darwin award, not children..... Talk about uncharitable interpretations.
Show Me Your Badge
An interesting bit about Steve Jobs (from the biography) was that he had a foreboding feeling that he'd die early. That also seemed to encourage him to work against the status quo before it was too late.
This is one of those things that can make an otherwise intelligent person look like an idiot. And I'm not talking about the typo.
One of my coworkers and I both live around the same area. I commute to work via bus, he drives (occasionally we carpool, but our schedules are different most days). He doesn't understand why I would take the bus when it's a fifty-minute ride via bus and a twenty-five-minute ride by car.

However, I can use the time on the bus to catch up on email and news (I'm paid by the hour, so no point in working on the bus if I'm going to put in an 8-hour day anyway), or even doze off slightly. By contrast, when you're driving, your attention has to be entirely focused on the freeway. So while he has 50 minutes of being locked up driving, I have 100 minutes of time to relax.
As a founder, you do need a certain type of blind arrogance, but if you've been doing this for a year and not a single person has said "hey, you're onto something..." maybe you should start listening to them.

Any startup will have nay sayers, and while the traditional thought is to say "meh, who needs those guys?" you should still be getting 3 or 4 people out of every 10 you pitch saying "cool idea! I see the potential!"

Chances are, if everyone you pitch says, "hmm. I don't get it," your potential customers will be echoing the same. Unless you're your own customer, at a certain point, you'll need to convince someone (your customers) you're worth something. If you haven't so far, you may never.
This looks much better than Janus & Co. but he should drop all the options and just leave the SetupVAM function.

set nohlsearch, for example is completely useless.
Im curious to know the suspected cause. Since he was young, it seems like it was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrophic_cardiomyopathy
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4261619
Are blacks underrepresented among engineers, relative to their representation among college graduates?

There's also the issue that male-female disparities are generally more tractable problems. One of the saving graces of gender inequality is that it's not deeply tied in with socioeconomic class.
You could make the speed limits 5 mph and 20mph on freeways/highways. Could also make kids wear helmets while on the street, or even better yet at all times. I read somewhere 10 or so kids die in the bathroom from slipping, how many would have survived if they were wearing a helmet? Full ban on peanuts would save a couple kids lives a year(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_allergy).

All these things may seem ridiculous, but doing so would have greater impact for child safety than banning rare earth metal balls. Children lives would actually be saved.
I think it's pretty clear that I don't think you're OK with little kids being hurt by magnets.
The first one is more succint in a sense, because normally it wouldn't be represented in this literal, long form.
A 5MPH speed limit would cost trillions of dollars. Banning lawn darts cost practically nothing.
FWIW, the Norhtec Gecko Surfboard is a rebadged DM&P Keyboard PC. WDL Systems sells a lot of DM&P products, including four variants of the Keyboard PC:

http://www.wdlsystems.com/modperl/view_services.cgi?request=...

(I'm not affiliated with WDL Systems, other than having bought about a dozen DM&P eBox 2300s from them in the past.)
There are lot more factors at play than simple cost of housing. Financially speaking, there's the cost of commuting to be factored in, which depending on whether you drive or use public transit might or might not be substantial. More significantly, there's comfort: would you rather live in the middle of the city, or the burbs? How much is it worth to you to be able to bike to work?

I've made a point of living biking distance from every job I've had. It's definitely cost me much more in rent than it's saved me in automobile costs because of the astronomical price of living in an urban center (downtown San Francisco and Manhattan, in my case), but for me the financial aspect was dwarfed by quality-of-life preferences (and the good fortune to be in a situation where I could make such a trade-off).
"Save The Children" is indeed the charter of the CPSC's regulation of toys.

As for "ineffectual": you can't have it both ways; either the ruling is devastating to companies like Zucker's (his claim), or it does little to keep the toys out of the hands of children.
I'm not sure my employer has much to do with my free thoughts on my blog, or how sorry or supportive you feel for me. I'm not IMG personified and neither are they a corporate version of me, so you shouldn't overly couple the two things.

I thought the post was pretty clear on a few points: I won't pirate it, because I'm a programmer myself and just goes against what I believe; I actively wanted to pay for it; I want them to make it easy for me to do so.

Yes I'm frustrated, but no, I won't go against what I believe just to get what I want and I actively want to give them the money they ask for. I want that situation to be simple and straightforward for me to resolve and for them to claim their revenue. That should be quite clear, and it also should have nothing to do with who I work for.

That said, since you brought IMG up and how we are at supporting open source drivers, that's something that's overwhelmingly down to our customers and what they want to do. When a customer or partner does want us to open code up, we work with them to make it happen as much as we can.

I think you're more frustrated at Intel than us. You could argue that we should provide an open driver in parallel to our customers, but that wouldn't help you much because of how the drivers have to glue to the rest of the software running and the SoC's systems architecture. So you'd also need support from our customers, so we just punt to them.

We could do better, but I don't think we necessarily do badly there.
Looks great!! I have been playing with jplayer for a bit now and have been wanting to get started using it with the Youtube API. Are there any good tutorials or information about using the two together?
> The nice thing about capitalism is that even with my own self-interested motivation, it tends to solve problems like this.

It really doesn't, for two reasons. 1) the rational actor model is a bad abstraction, and irrational prejudice can be an important factor; 2) there are various "bootstrap" problems in any given field that can keep unbalanced equillibria even in situations where discriminatory forces aren't actively pushing things towards those equillibria.

Women in tech is actually a striking example of this phenomenon. If you look at "qualified" in terms of something measurable like Math SAT scores above 600 (typical for a decent engineering program), women are dramatically underrepresented relative to their qualifications.

You would think there would be strong pressures to get more women into the field, given the ostensible shortage of engineers, but companies make no such attempts (partly because the self-selection happens long before they can really influence things, and partly because of "boostrap" issues).
Nice library. I wrote a small jQuery form validation library called Chackmate [1] for a project I was recently working on. I think the reason that so many end up writing their own validation library, despite that fact that there are so many already out there, is because everyone wants to handle the validation a little differently. Form validation is something where it's arguably more effective in the long run to roll-your-own rather than learn someone else's code.

[1] https://github.com/reidHoruff/Checkmate
completely irrelevant for this site. man get this kinda of shit out of here.
I don't think I justified it. I just pointed out that I can see why it happens. Overwhelmingly the post was about wanting to pay for it but being totally frustrated at not being able to, and I was also quite clear that I wouldn't pirate it because of what I believe in.
At the time I'm writing this, yours may be the only answer in this thread that doesn't try to signal moral superiority to Mensa members by piously insulting them. (There are a couple of other comments that I would consider borderline -- not overtly insulting, but carefully suffused with cynicism.)
See also "The True Cost of Commuting" http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-c... with some more math.