skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree.

The problem isn't lack of access to information or the motivation to exercise your freedoms, it is the rampant apathy of the masses.

I do not believe I am better than anyone or that I care more for the welfare of the world, but I just try to learn and contribute as much as I can.

I am saddened by the fact that most people do not realize how long it took for life to emerge and how much longer for liberty to be considered a birthright.

We really need a perspective shift on our planet if real change is going to happen from within the populace. It is also discouraging that most people put the burden on the shoulders of a few to lead and fix the world and get angry when they find out they have little or no say in the direction of society. It's a double-edged sword.

There is definitely a selection bias on HN, exactly why this is one of my top five news sources. I strive to get a 360-degree perspective on the happenings of the world.
it's not the job he wants to do, or feels he'd be most effective doing. from the article:

> As a scientist and educator, my goal, then, is not to become President and lead a dysfunctional electorate, but to enlighten the electorate so they might choose the right leaders in the first place.
I think that's a red herring. Sure, the iPad mini has a higher DPI than an iPad 2. iPad 2 is 132ppi and iPad mini is 163ppi. But guess what else is 163ppi? That's right, every non-retina iPhone. So if your touch areas are large enough for an iPhone user to use, then it's large enough for an iPad mini user to use as well.
Why would an inflated ego be an obstacle to becoming president? Isn't it actually necessary? After all, you have to believe you're more qualified than a hundred million other people.
you forgot about juicy j
Sid Roth Wiki
And this has happened again and again in Sid Roth messianic vision radio. As we get in the bubble then it’s like you are a steward of the atmosphere around you. You don’t know to what degree, but that atmosphere may be five feet within you. But that, the presence of God, the shekinah, because we are filled with the Holy Spirit it should start emanating from us on Sid Roth 2010. It’s all because of Jesus and what he has done on the cross. But we can be in his presence, and therefore, you and I are supposed to be, and those watching us, are supposed to be ambassadors of the Glory of God.- Sid Roth Wiki
Not indoors, but most RC planes are using engines (or were 15 years ago when I stopped paying attention).
I'm surprised at the difficulty I have in convincing people that eliminating the FDA is a good idea. The FDA makes the build-compile-run cycle in medicine 10x longer and more expensive. That's a mighty brake on technological progress.
My reaction to this is, "It's about time!"

Yelp needs a competitor.

Foursquare needs to be more useful.
A shipping container last time I looked cost $6k. Air freights really won't add that much cost to something the weight of the iPad, less than a dollar.
No, this is not an exercise in statistics (which I understand, trust me). The NY times public editor article clearly articulates he's promoting his book.

Articles don't get written by people who wake up and all write the same headline, even lazy journalists do better than that, unless they are being fed information from PRs.
Google fights for Internet freedom
Please, rather than just bashing could you provide any critique of why they suck?

Bearing in mind that everything sucks, and now I'm left with the problem of finding what sucks less.
> One way in which you could finance your move is by working free-lance for companies via the net. I know a few people doing this right now and they can pretty much work from anywhere in the world. Enjoy your freedom while you're still mobile, young and healthy.

That's exactly what I'm going to do! But doing it in a situation where any delayed payment means I can't afford to buy food is just irresponsible and borderline stupid.

So really I'm not so much waiting as I am spinning up a freelancing business and getting it to a point where it's a somewhat reliable income stream and making sure I don't find myself in a situation where I have to take on jobs out of desperation.
Definitely the maxi. http://goo.gl/d61qY
With AMD jumping in the ARM game, I thought it might make sense.
As I've explained to jacquesm ... while I "wait" to leave the country, I'm spinning up a freelancing business to the point where it's a reliable income stream so I don't find myself in a situation where I take on jobs out of desperation.

But this is a matter of perspective. Ask my mum and she'll tell you I'm a bohemian idiot who doesn't want to get a regular job and dicks around on his computer all day.
Hey John,

First of all, gorgeous mockups! I love where you're headed with the design and user experience. The cluttered WordPress dashboard and clunky post editor are my least favorite aspects of WordPress. I also really like how you're incorporating Markdown syntax.

There are a few points where I disagree.

Forking WordPress would mean keeping loads of legacy code. It would also mean you'd be binding a future platform for publishing to technologies WordPress adopted nearly a decade ago. Why use PHP? Perhaps Python, Ruby or server-side JavaScript (Node.js) are better choices. Why use MySQL? MongoDB or PostgreSQL may be a better fit.

Wouldn't merging 8+ configurable plugins into core be contradictory to avoiding bloat? Shouldn't you start with a clean slate? The plugin system is a great way to customize your environment to fit your individual needs. If you add defaults, you make it less personalized. You also add more bloat by adding functionality not everyone wants.
So what? HN is full of obvious PR. PG even has an essay on it (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html). That doesn't discredit him. You say you know statistics. Take a crack at his methodology if you think it's flawed: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/methodology/

I'm sure it would make a great blog post.
Thank God NDT is never going to be president.
Or the programming language Racket...
Indeed, although not to quite the same degree as x86 implementations. They are also dual issue so you'll only get a maximum ILP of 2 although that likely won't hurt that much. I was going to include a bibliography but the post was long enough!
Interesting. It seems that only Truman's debt-cutting is responsible for 'outweighing' Obama's dramatic increase in the debt (relative to GDP). Even Reagan and Clinton increased debt relative to GDP.

That being said, this definitely over-represents the increase in debt when a president increases the absolute debt while the economy shrinks/stagnates, and vice versa.
Once a patch exists (as in this case), it becomes a bit more meaningful, as the (non)existence of wild 0-day vulnerabilities is important. On the other hand if Travis could come up with more vulnerabilities than they can handle, I wouldn't be surprised to see wild 0-day exploits before the next set of patches on 11/28, as this headline will prompt more scrutiny into their product.
The trouble is, the Constitution, and the systems it put in place, while a great advance over the systems it replaced, is old, and the factions and interests much of its machinery was intended to foil, have subverted it, and wage-slavery and mass media have nearly finished the job.
everything sucks less than 37signals
Facebook owns them. I imagine even if they provide this option for you, it will be opt-out, and they will opt you back in when they feel like it..
I've made couple posts about it - including links - over the past week, still got downvotes. People are not realizing the unthinkable is actually thinkable.
Is that iPad HW generational issue, or would a software update could bring the browser to where it needs to be to handle such a thing?
So you're attempting to remedy that by generically promoting it as a cure all, even claiming it's capable of providing immortality? I don't really think you are making an attempt to understand what I, or anybody else here, is saying. You're defending yourself as if we are just blind naysayers, but in fact those people didn't even bother commenting. I swear I'd seen some insightful comments from you before, so I figured that you might be open to seeing wisdom. However at this point, I give up.
I dunno man, Frederick the Great was pretty great, as was Augustus Caesar. So clearly there are "right leaders". It seems the problem is more about when one gets a good leader, how to keep getting good leaders afterwards when the good one dies or retires. Corporations have solved this pretty well--IBM has lasted longer than many governments, and there are plenty of other examples.
Love it. Keep up the good work.
I don't need to argue with him. Its the amusing narrative that using statistics somehow original or new that's interesting. I've even said here on HN some of the data visualizations they do are great.

But the storylines or headlines are clearly cynical, PR driven linkbait. Just look at them. They all say the same thing, just slightly disquised like an undergrad trying to hide his plagiarism.

Its just self-awareness that is missing. That's why i posted links: so people can see the patterns.
> Voters are not too "dysfunctional" or ill-informed to make reasonable decisions. Approval of the US Congress was at %10 in August, the lowest in 38 years. The electorate isn't smiling through the failures of government.

The 10% approval with Congress is only half the story. Those same people will tell you that they're 80-90% satisfied with their own congressional representatives. The reason the electorate is so dissatisfied with Congress as a whole is because they think either things aren't getting done, or they aren't going their way. Both are true.

And yes, voters are ill-informed and unlikely to make reasonable decisions. One needs look no further than Glenn Beck and the conspiracy material he peddled for several years to see how far the news has gotten from reporting actual news. I remember the "cash 4 gold" advertisements being prominent during his show; do you think that informed people were the ones making that business viable enough to advertise like they did?

A media that relies more on data, that provides context and scope; this is what we need to have to get informed voters, but a lot of people aren't smart enough to place value on that when they can get a daily dose of things to rage about and blame for their issues with the world. (I would further argue that people of lower socioeconomic status simply don't have the time or energy to deal with complex information when they're mostly focused on making ends meet, but that's a separate argument).
"BSON"? What does the S stand for?

This seems like an ignorant acronym.
Hope it goes well. I don't think Romney winning or losing is as dire as dying, which you very likely will not do, Tim. :) Good luck.
Terence Tao: https://profiles.google.com/114134834346472219368/buzz/YT9BZ...
Impressed at how good this looks on mobile.
If NDT is showing any arrogance, it's in thinking that he has the ability to raise the level of public discourse. He's really smart, but apparently not smart enough to realize that no amount of education can change the basics of human nature.

If this were true, then Jews as a demographic wouldn't have a reputation for being well-educated and literate. What you're talking about is as much cultural as it is inherent, if not moreso. And if it's cultural, then education can change it.
That loading screen, albeit fancy, is really jarring.

The drag & drop also seems buggy here (shuffles the div's pretty randomly).

Other than that this looks really nice.
Hm... your comment sounded quite strange.

Do you really know we're talking about NDT, right? One of the most hard-working scientists when it comes down to educate people. And you're saying this:

> If you get off your high-horse and actually talk to them, you'll find that they are just as brilliant as you, in their own ways.

That doesn't make any sense to me.
Super hipster site:

http://hn.site44.com/

HN top page, parsed by webscript.io, hosted by site44.com, using ratchet :)

Edit: pattern matching a little off.. Only 28 results showing up
https://gist.github.com/e449457ff64cf4bccc44
If you're interested in adding the left/right style example and you're already using jQuery UI, you can use the ones I built here that inherit your slider styles:

http://taitems.github.com/UX-Lab/ToggleSwitch/index.html
It seems like you're trying to discredit Nate Silver by how bad his PR people are. I assume everything is PR so I can focus on merits. Are you interested in merits or taking shots at something you've (apparently) given no thought to?

It's not like 2012 is the first time he's used this methodology. I've been following 538 since it launched in 2008 and generally find it to be insightful and informative. And more right than wrong. And when he's wrong, he usually has a good post to talk about how he got it wrong, and how the miss will factor into future projections.
Ten Finger Touch Screen Keyboard
Despite all the blather, copying is just infringement. In order to make copying into theft, we'd really have to warp society. I personally think that making copying into theft would mean creating a privileged class of people, "rightsholders", analogous to the Nobility of feudal England or France.

Also, this little cartoon is really cool.
This is super nice. I love it. Sometimes feels over the top, but nicely themed.
But, it's not free. On a two year contract, I'm sure you pay for the phone many times over. A $350 discount maybe.
It's our generation's text editor.
I agree with this - A similar example of patents working in a reasonable manner is the pharmaceutical industry, where the time and money investment of developing a new drug is astronomical, and it can be reasonably argued that this justifies the 20-year monopoly that a patent entails.

The above cannot be said for design patents. Because there are essentially no barriers to entry in getting a design patent, yet they last the same 20 years as the development of a new drug, it's easy to see this getting stupid and destructive for the tech industry.
>Isn't it actually necessary?

That... actually makes sense.
Karate lunges
A political system that effectively rules out more than two contenders can't be greatly representative, since it's easy for the two contenders to collude - even unwittingly - and provide no effective choice.
Answering Behavior Based Questions About Your "Customer Focus"
It seems like it overvalues Gists a bit. :)
A Beginner's Guide to iOS Passbook
Direct link to the virtual keyboard trainer (set your input manager to US/qwerty first): http://asetniop.com/keyboardTutorial.html
It actually only values them as 5% of your score...despite their prominence :P
From the guidelines link at the bottom of the page.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

So I would say off topic but considering what tomorrow is not much can be done about it.
Exactly. When they do a Retina display / A6 next year the margins will be lower yet the retail price will remain the same. They have to factor that in from the start. Apple almost never paints themselves into a corner on pricing.
Some other information. Your username will be green for some amount of time and then turn black. If it turns black, you have either passed the trial period and are legit or you have been ghosted, which is likely only to happen if you either appear to be a spammer, a troll, or you don't fit in. You can also be ghosted after your username turn black. If you try to post too much, you will be unable to post anymore for some period of time. If you try to create too many new users in a day by axing your account, it tracks that also. There is cookie-based and IP based security/tracking. Don't try to say anything funny or you will >50% of the time get downvoted- it isn't slashdot. Don't be mean or controversial, but throw foul language in and be emotional when you want, as long as it goes with the silicon valley flow. PG is Paul Graham- know him and love him like the rest. He runs this place, and maybe the world for that matter as far as HN is concerned and the world of startups as they exist on this site.
Best of luck. I imagine noone imagines themselves being in this situation.
I'm curious to see how well they'll do.
Amazing; they even have achievements for holiday sex. <sarcasm>I can't wait to see this site showing up in my facebook feed...</sarcasm>
It's true, software totally doesn't help with design at all. That's why no respectable car company uses computer-aided design, or computer-aided simulations.
Complaints about Amazon’s rise ignore how long it has taken the company to rise
Uncaught ReferenceError: twttr is not defined

EDIT: My cookie-blocking plugin apparently was blocking something critical.
As I read it, in the proposed system the heat generated during compression is stored, and then recovered, hence the advantage over the plain old air compression.

But I'm going to be that guy who says it will not work, and cannot work, based on fundamental thermodynamic theory. Here goes:

1. The best efficiency of a thermodynamic cycle is 1-TL/TH, where TL is the temperature of heat rejection from the cycle, and TH is the temperature of heat addition to the cycle. TL and TH are ABSOLUTE scale temperatures.

2. In the proposed system, TH is necessarily low, no higher than the temperature generated during compression. Efficient compressors work at low temperatures, usually no higher than 450 K (certain INEFFICIENT compressors, eg gas turbine compressors go as high as 700 K, the mechanical inefficiency gets converted into heat).

3. If <450 K assumption is correct... and if TL is the local ambient temperature (what else?) of around 300 K the MAXIMUM efficiency of the heat recovery cycle is 1-300/450, or about 33%. At least 67% of the heat energy would be lost, leading to a very low overall cycle efficiency, far less than you would get with say pumped water storage, or batteries.

Dani Fong, please comment on the above. I would be most happy if there was something wrong in my analysis, and the new technology was a success.
How Facebook can be used to Curse Preachers
All voters are smart in the same tragically mythological way that all babies are beautiful, all soldiers brave, and all teachers competent.
No BS Podcast #191: Surface Launch and Vishera Review
I have personally spent time in the cath lab with one of the doctors mentioned on that site doing ablation therapy. By absolutely zero means whatsoever is it a cure all. More typically, it is a palliative modality.
I've had a strange idea cooking in my mind for a few years now, although I've never really fleshed it out.

What if we had an AI-like system instead of representatives? Imagine this: "Pennsylvania-One" is an AI. Every day, from their smartphones or another device, PA citizens vote on issues, ranging from small to big. Using this data, "Pennsylvania-One" creates a model of what its constituents want, and then, using its vast knowledge of political theory, history, economics, etc., makes a decision. This decision can be double-checked by constituents or by some other "watchmen"-like individuals.

Of course, this would never happen (people trust people much more than machines), and it's more of a sci-fi idea, but it's an interesting thought nonetheless.
Ask HN: To Bootstrap or Not?
To make a long story short I am quitting my job December 1st and programming for money. I am 18yrs old by the way. As I am learning web development the phrase "bootstrap" keeps popping up and so I Googled it. I think it is a good idea but here is my problem. Considering the fact that this will be my first web development endeavor should I use things like bootstrap and such to ease the process of coding? Or should I just stick to doing all the coding myself so I can learn more Also let it be known I have absolutely no real programming experience before this month at all.
I think it depends on many factors: Will I be told which answers were wrong and what would have been the right ones? I had similar problems with ambiguous questions as the OP and this might help me to understand what the test writers understand as "canonical" or "simplest" answer. Also, I am rather excited when I take a new type of test, so I guess my biggest jump would have been from the 1st to the 2nd test.
Honest question here (and I hate how I feel compelled to preface with that): In what situations are the "circle stats"/circular representation of a bar graph useful? Aside from its aesthetic appeal, it doesn't seem very functional.
I dont like tweeter and I want to copy the link to the results easily. Doesn't seems possible. Bleh ;-)
Agriculture seems extremely slow to adopt analysis, is it a massive opportunity? It seems the only way to break in is with your own land though, since the incumbent group doesn't have interest. I assume there is a strong desire not to drive the price down goods down even further because for most farmer it becomes impossible to operate.
You say our problems stem from divergent interests, but yet what he speaks to here is our ability to observe objective truths, and to build our solutions on those. Our current system has no interest in building or finding solutions that help everyone, but instead in pushing their own agendas in the assumption that once "we" win, "they" will have to admit how right we were!

He's saying that our subjective opinions of what the facts SHOULD be (often our very notion of what is in our best interest,) should be investigated until we come to an objective reality of what is in our best interests. He's saying science provides those answers if we can get beyond ourselves.

He says we should not elect people only to chastise them for being both too smart, or too dumb. How, from that, do you get "he's saying we're dumb!" He's not saying someone is dumb, and someone is smart. He's saying as a scientist, it's his job to hunt for objective truths, and that as an educator, he seeks to teach everyone to find those truths.

Should scientists and educators not... Educate and seek objective truths? Isn't that kind of the point in those professions? What's arrogant about that? What's EXTREMELY arrogant about that?
Almost sounds like you want something like zagat.
A little off topic but having used the iPad Mini for a few days I'm convinced it will dominate iPad sales in the near future. Even today I think the form factor makes up for the lack of a Retina display. I happily switched from the 3rd generation iPad to the iPad Mini. I'll miss the Retina display (temporarily) but I won't miss the bulk of the 9.7" iPad. My iPad Mini has already left my house more times than my iPad 9.7" has. It may not seem like a big difference but being able to pocket the iPad Mini in a jacket actually makes it a lot more like a big iPhone than a small iPad IMO.
I am a very infrequent commenter on HN. I have one page, total, of comments since I signed up. Two of those comments give a reasonable run-down on MSR technology, if you're interested.

The "die hard" MSR guy in the US is Kirk Sorensen of Flibe (Flih bee) energy: flibe-energy.com He's easy to find from a Google search, and is incredibly dedicated to MSR. He's the evangelist, for sure.

Bram Cohen of BitTorrent fame is on Flibe's advisory board.
Sometimes hire fast, fire fast really works. If you find someone even matching 50-70% of caliber you are looking for, it might be worth taking a risk. If you are concern is his/her code quality, then ask for code references and if your concern is culture fit related, then you'd know in 2-4 weeks. Keep the conversation transparent though. As an early-stage company, i'd avoid going through a recruiter.
FtG was effective -- at starting wars and killing people to further his own dynastic ambitions. People who wanted to live in peace and prosperity would not agree he was the "right leader"