skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the subject of actual newsroom expenses: Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism has an interesting piece on the budgets of major cable news networks. [1]

These charts (from [1] and [2]) are particularly interesting:

http://www.stateofthemedia.org/files/2011/01/31_Cable_Revenu...

http://stateofthemedia.org/files/2011/03/20_Cable_Cable-Chan...

http://www.stateofthemedia.org/files/2011/01/5_Cable_CNN-Lea...

http://www.stateofthemedia.org/files/2011/01/21_Cable_CNN-Re...

http://www.stateofthemedia.org/files/2011/01/22_Cable_The-Sa...

In short, when compared to CNN: despite operating few domestic and foreign bureaus, Fox News pulled in more revenue and had nearly as large an audience (as measured by viewers tuning in for 60 minutes or more monthly). Fox also allocates over 70% of its budget to "program expenses" (including salaries for its hosts), whereas CNN's program expenses are about 44%. The difference in staffing figures are also drastic: ~4000 for CNN, 1272 for Fox.

[1] http://stateofthemedia.org/2011/cable-essay/

[2] http://stateofthemedia.org/2011/cable-essay/data-page-2/
Multiple NBC websites defaced by hacker
Well it's a good thing I tend to not put non-edible items in my mouth.
I currently live in Belarus and dealt with the same crap a few days ago. Win 8 pro upgrade offer? Sure, but not for you, pal. Try looking for it at local resellers... Same situation is here with paypal, which makes us register it for different countries. So there I was, buying a VPN to buy Windows. How stupid is that? I've always been confident that internet is one single area. It can not be separated by countries. It is one network with no geography, no boundaries. Itunes music purchase? Yeah, very funny. Google Play books or movies or music? Amazon mp3 store? Nope and nope on every point.
So nope, I'll not give them a single cent until the day they fix their behaviour. And yes, I'll pirate as much as I can, even being a software developer myself, knowing all the efforts it takes.
"Bar Rescue" and the Myth of Secret Information
Cow - only sacred animal

Debatable, Pigs aren't kosher or halal, so you could claim they are sacred. I'm sure there are people who worship sheep or hens.
Rys is cool though. He gives out of office hours support for people learning 3d graphics.

Check out his recent talk at the London Graphics Hackerspace: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWzcEKHbBv4
Am I right in thinking that you could easily hook up a folder in dropbox with text files and have these automatically compiled and served up on a website?
At the begining, a responsive website was build around media queries.

Then it was media queries and a fluid grid.

Then it was media queries and a fluid grid and mobile first.

Now it's media queries and a fluid grid and mobile first and built around the content.

Tomorrow what ?

Meanwhile, responsive websites are as crappy as non responsive one, but 2x heavier because of the crazy CSS and all the async js.

If you can't detect the internet speed of your user, you can't make responsive websites, period. That's why the only good responsive websites are the text-content-only websites.

Come on, the linked post is nearly 2mb...
>For example, there was one that involved combining different restaurant menu items to get a certain total. But because I didn’t know something about how Perl’s libraries handle floating-point comparison, the puzzle in the comic actually has a really simple solution in addition to the one I meant, that the code missed because of this bug. Most people didn’t notice, but it’s always bugged me.

Oh wow, he got really unlucky, too. It's just 7 of the first item.
In the exceptionally rare case someone comes across this in the future, I've been informed that someone is doing this with DropBox! It's called URLDroplet, and is at urldroplet.com!
Or better yet: why don't we treat drugpins like terrorists? I mean seriously, why don't we just start lumping them under terrorists? Despite what I think of drugs (they aren't all that bad, do what you want in your own home) I seriously don't understand why we refuse to label them like this if it would mean more funding, more attention and better information sharing between departments.
I suggest removing the direct link to the crack if you want to avoid being flagged for deletion.
Just some advice for the international readers who might be thinking about dropping out: If you want to work in the US you will have have immigration problems if you don't have a degree. Getting a work visa without your degree is semi-imposible (especially if you're in your 20s).

Dropping out was one of the best choices I've ever made but this particular thing is something that has come back to bite me in the ass several times.
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Meet the most indebted man in the world
At least they only made a bad job of trying to take his money. Commonly when I want to stream a movie rental, the studios have seen to it that there is absolutely no way I can legitimately pay for that service.
Whenever I hear "hey u work in IT so u can fix why my computer is so slow and full of virus". Umm no, I m a programmer....
Yes exactly, that's a great way to explain it. I'll note it down. Thanks!
>Tablet sales are surpassing sales from all the largest PC manufacturers - combined

Reference?
He is referring the the revolutionary war against England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representat...
I have some of both and don't really notice a difference. I have some of the Buckycubes--they're pretty nifty.
The author is staggeringly ignorant about Android updates. It is true that you can do over the air updates, but that of course is only possible if the handset manufacturer actually releases updates. And in the US (one of the larger markets) there are all sorts of carrier complications too.

Many manufacturers haven't quite got over their liking of tethering to a computer to apply software and updates. For example Samsung has Kies (although you can often do OTA too). For one of my phones (HTC/Tmobile G2), there is an update available but it can only be installed over a cable from a Windows computer and completely wipes your device in the process. (I used CM instead.)

The real problem that has to be addressed for his contention about automatic updates is economic. Things that are sold have the payment upfront (eg operating systems, phones). There is usually no economic reason to have updates. The reason why they are done is to avoid losing customers, or because of (possible) harm to the vendor and their partners. At the moment this is a strong effect on operating systems, while almost non-existent on Android handsets.
Lets be honest, unless you are a toddler (and these magnet toy companies are very careful to make it known these are not for children, so if a child gets a hold of these an adult is to blame...), you are probably not in the habit of eating things just because they are small. What are they going to do, jump down your throat?
That's not really true. IQ doesn't predict well on the high end, but it's useful for predicting the outcomes of middle intellect people. And it works better for groups than for individuals.

For instance, IQ scores are bad at predicting wealth but are the best predictor of adult poverty we have.

And the US military uses them extensively. They generally don't allow anyone in with an IQ score below 90.
I wholeheartedly agree that ending prohibition of drugs would be a net win here, as well. In fact, I said it was probably necessary. I just don't think we should overlook the fact that there's likely to still be issues to deal with. The history of prohibition, so far as I understand it, doesn't undermine these points in any significant way. Law enforcement still had to deal with organized crime, and the size, scope, and influence of the cartels seems larger than that of bootleggers on the whole (though I would welcome hard numbers in either direction).

It's not impossible that the problem would just poof go away, but it seems a poor choice to bet on it. Again, that doesn't mean that legalization isn't the place to start!
tl;dr

Not bragging at all: I'm so creative and the IQ test is so culturally unfair that I just barely made it into freakin' Mensa.
That's because they're considered dirty, not sacred.
A static site on s3 or similar is essentially infinitely scalable: you never have to worry about whether it can stand up to some publicity and its performance will always be snappy no matter what. It's cheap. It's controlled in source control and backed up. Achieving those same things using other configurations instead of static files takes an order of magnitude more work and complexity.
"Microsoft certainly held a lot of things back by sticking to a status-quo for as long as possible. But how can you blame them? It was a profitable status-quo."

That is exactly the Innovator's Dilemma. That is why, IBM, for example didn't pursue the home PC market with more vigor. The status quo is enormously profitable. The emerging market is quite a bit less profitable. However, by the time you recognize that the emerging market has greater growth potential than the status quo, all of the first mover advantages are taken by companies who had no choice but to go into the emerging market. Going back to the IBM PC analogy, Microsoft and Compaq had no choice but to go into personal computers, because the mini-computer and mainframe markets were dominated by companies like Unisys, IBM, DEC, and Digital.

In the same way, Apple saw that the personal computer market was dominated by Microsoft. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, the company's marketshare had declined precipitously and it had ceded all but a few specialized niches to Microsoft. A lesser CEO would have waged a costly and futile battle to take back the personal computer market from Microsoft. But Steve Jobs saw that the battle was already lost. Instead, he focused on consolidating Apple's hold on the niches that it did retain (high-end, well designed, hardware sold at a premium price) while expanding out into emerging markets like MP3 players, phones, and tablets; markets that Microsoft did not take seriously precisely because its dominance of the desktop/laptop market was so complete. And now Microsoft finds itself in the same position that IBM found itself in when Microsoft dominated personal computers.
Its no simpler now than it used to be. People have been saying that (and citing the whole 14yo trope) since the 80's. It does require skill, even if you're just using scripts.

What would give them more technical credibility in you eyes? If they wrote the attack themselves? In C? In Assembly? We all automate the hell out of things and lean toward the highest level languages for server automation anyway, why demean them when everything is a 'simpler game now with scripts that any regular Joe can run.' Have you seen Chef or Puppet, Flask or Rails?
Do you want to raise a prodigy
Agreed. The only sane approach is to legalize sensibly (funding education and treatment with taxes and money saved) and clean up the mess we've made.
It's all good, but if you haven't had a close relative or a close friend die or come close to it, then no amount of preaching - Live now! Fight the momentum! Live it to the fullest! - is going to do any good. You have to experience it, unfortunately there's no other way.

My dad died suddenly two years ago. Just like that - here he is, poof, here he is not. I tried to capture the feelings in a written form and then have people relate. It does not work. It is a sort of experience that no one will re-live willingly. It's just too damn dark.
Unless, of course, you pin your most used applications to the taskbar or create a shortcut on the desktop. Honestly, it is pretty easy to avoid the metro screen if you really want to. In any given day, I may see the metro screen 2-3 times the entire day, on average, all because I setup my machine to work the way it is most productive for me.
IBM mounted a major marketing campaign for the PC when it was introduced, and it made a big splash. It sure didn't look like an afterthought.

When I bought my IBM PC, there was CP/M-86 (in an IBM box) on the shelf right along side PC-DOS (IBM branded MS-DOS). PC-DOS was $40, and CP/M-86 was (I don't recall exactly) $180. Everyone bought PC-DOS because of the price.

The company I worked for at the time did buy a copy of CP/M-86, so I had a chance to work with it for a while. I saw nothing at all to recommend it over PC-DOS. It was not a "real" operating system any more than PC-DOS was.

CP/M-86 failed because it was way, way overpriced. There was no conspiracy against it, and it was not technically superior.
Many surveillance cameras do capture sound. It's important in investigations to know what was said during an incident.

There are technologies like ShotSpotter - http://www.shotspotter.com/ - which according to the NYT has enough fidelity to pick up things like "doors slamming, birds chirping, cars on the highway, horns honking." as well as conversations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/us/shots-heard-pinpointed-...
Thanks! May be someday, its just matter of time.
I am not a developer and I don't grow my own food or use typewriters (much).

My small vanity site has an update once a month or so. I use Linux at home. I hacked a few bash scripts to get a basic flow going...

* edit text file with markdown (vim or gedit). Save to a directory in dropbox that has images and files under it
* run a script that runs markdown and adds a header and footer
* run a script that adds the new page to an index
* run a script that invokes lftp that uploads the changed files to server space

I find this quicker than maintaining a WordPress installation. YMMV

What I do find amusing is the range of really heavy duty technology that some of the static Web site generators are using.
Film izle
Our newly released domestic, foreign films and full watch online downloading sites.
Very fair points and I understand where you're coming from. I think this video demo will give you a better understanding of we're trying to do with Knok.Me: http://youtu.be/lBhzUAD7eJg
I actually like that. Reminds us of the good ol' days.
Clear for Android
Actually, in this case all you need is a rootkit. Nothing as messy as a trusting-trust based attack.
Not legalization, but portugal seem to have had some massive success on all fronts by decriminalizing all kind of drugs.

This was, for me, a somewhat surprising result, so maybe it's worth keeping an open mind about what would happen with full legalization of everything.
You're actually a big sack of chemicals, mostly water. It's actually remarkable that those chemicals manage to form such complex and remarkable things as habits.
You don't really need that many devices, and the cheap devices are cheap. For this kind of issue you can just use older devices since they automatically have lower specs. For example I use a G1 from 2008.
Cameras often do record sound.

There's also systems like ShotSpotter - http://www.shotspotter.com/ - which are essentially recording, in high fidelity from numerous points within a city, the sound of everything that occurs.

Acccording to this NYT piece the system can pick up“doors slamming, birds chirping, cars on the highway, horns honking” as well as conversations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/us/shots-heard-pinpointed-...
Sure the generally accepted 'right way' is constantly evolving, but progress is a always a good thing.

I'm not sure about your other points, I see no reason why a responsive site should be 2x heaver in file size than its non-responsive equivalent, after all it's only a few more bytes of CSS. The increase you're seeing is probably more to do with large JS libraries and in the case of the linked article, many large images.
I too am prone to enrolling in too many courses. I am always behind on courses. My strategy has been to learn and apply the skills, more than to get a certificate of completion. Some courses take far more time than others, specifically once that need Math refreshers. I am pleasantly surprised by the high quality of these courses and intend to complete most of the ones I enrolled in, in my own time, since it is really hard for me, with full time work, to follow the course schedule.
Yes, the dynabook concept was created by Kay in 1968. He claimed that the idea hit him when he was in a lecture by Gordon Moore explainig his law...you know the one...

Anyway, knowing something about exponentials he did some quick calculations and voilà, iPad, er, Dynabook.

Also, the Alto "PCs" that Xerox built during the 70ies, the ones with the bitmap display, mouse and Ethernet networking, were known as "Interim Dynabooks", so very consciously and deliberately approximations of the tablet computers to come.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
Central London To Get iPad Controlled Variable Street Lighting
Bullying: Are you Partly at Fault?
Yup, lets just label every type of heinous crime as terrorism, and then we can focus our crime-fighting efforts on the whole range of criminal activities!

More seriously, in some places they already are labelled this way because they are effectively terrorists, shadow governments, militias etc, so there are already full-fledged military efforts to bring them down in some countries.

Doesn't really work.
Great job! Definitely can't beat the price point :)

Feedback:
1. Put search in the main article list instead of in the left panel. Perhaps either a hidden search field that you expose by dragging down (like iOS mail client) or a search button that exposes the field.

2. The left panel looks like a junk drawer of icons. They could stand to be organized a bit since I don't see things like Support and history as peers to the categories.

Overall great work. I like the automatic loading as you scroll down.
Why Facebook will cut the Timeline in half
While I appreciate the frustration (and lord knows Microsoft have frustrated me plenty given I spend half my time developing for their platform), no matter how difficult they make it for you to buy, it's never an excuse not to.
I'm the author. I'd be interested to know which libraries you have combined with it and have had issues? Have you opened up any issues on Github about these libraries?

And what are the "non-standard validations"? If you are referring to custom validations that you wrote then you'll have to write the supporting javascript validation.
The problem with Mensa tests, or any other generalized test that tries to identify patterns in humans, is that some people are taking themselves far too serious. IMHO Mensa is meant to give you an indication of not how smart you are but how perceptive you are in a particular kind of problem solving. And that’s about it.

Now if you score above 115 and then you expect the whole world to treat you like something special you miss the whole freaking point. I’ve seen people who because they score something like 130 or 140 are intentionally acting like whims or try to say something very profound and they end up speaking BS. They are very hard to work with and constantly expect to be treated differently.

Bottom line if you happen to be supersmart try to do something useful and meaningful for the rest of the society, otherwise nobody gives a flying fuck how smart you think you are.
Hacker News clearly has a strong interest in education, I find this interesting because I see misguided attempts in trying to educate the masses on HN. The tone comes off the wrong way and it hurts the substantive content coming from the knowledge many HN contributors have to offer.

Some thoughts for HNers and their future attempts at educating others in this forum:

The comment threads are here for conversations and the exchange of thought, not for the assignment of homework in the form of white papers/books. Mentioning your sources I'm sure is always welcome, but many seem to assume that anybody who hasn't read the same material as themselves is somehow incapable of contributing to a conversation on the subject at hand. That is an egregiously poisonous mindset.

If you want to make the most of your time on HN have more respect for others and synthesize your knowledge. Let a conversation happen.

By all means link your sources, but say what you're going to say and don't assign homework.

Contextual synthesis > PDF

That's my $0.02 (not denominated in Verizon-units).

--- With that out of the way ---

More related to the article, I've visited Singapore and know a few Singaporeans. One of the main takeaways was that they're hyper-competitive and aggressive in ways I'm not sure US gov'ts/voters would ever really countenance for the sake of progress.

The article is rife with Orientalist gawking and murmuring of approval. Typical for the current mode of reporting on how Asia does things differently than the West. (Cf. Friedman's absurd pseudo-capitalist posturing on China)

Mentioning the chewing gum ban, seriously?

Money quote: "But it's really more about discipline than intelligence."
Imitation the weapon to fight Apple in China
What issues are you having? I'm happy to help resolve them
Might I humbly suggest that there are better ways to encourage your daughter?

Here's one: http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/01/sacca-styleseat-is-likely-t...
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Try OmniGraffle for iPad, it's awesome. I use it extensively, and its interface allows me to make diagrams faster than I could on a desktop computer.

At $50, it's not the cheapest iOS app, but it's worth every penny.

http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle-ipad/
Contributing isn't just about code
I am genuinely curious--is this essentially the contrast between frequentist and Bayesian ways of thinking?
asymco has some graphs charting sales of PCs vs mobile devices (smartphones and tablets).

http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/23/the-pc-market-overview-for-...

http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/12/is-the-ipad-a-pc/

http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/18/the-conditions-for-survival...

http://www.asymco.com/2012/07/04/the-building-and-dismantlin...

very interesting graphics. basically not a huge decline (some analysis suggests 2% decline IIRC) but certainly a halt to the growth.

asymco does some nice analysis based on filings by each company. very compelling, too.
The illegality also has other problems. For example one is getting justice - you can't take people to court when deals go wrong, the product is adulterated, you were paid with fake money etc. That pretty much leaves violence as an alternative to the legal system.

Another is that it makes treatment and getting off drugs harder because you can't be open about an addiction for fear of losing a job, health care or similar things.
Spend every penny on the chairs. Get really nice chairs, like crazy nice, and then get cheap desks (e.g. Ikea).

As far as lighting I would just say make it extra departmentalised. Some people prefer to work in the shade others prefer those horrible office lights. I would also look at air conditioning and how adjustable it is.

Nothing else matters because everything else will likely be changed as it is needed. Even if you decide on a layout, if it doesn't work people will change it down the road.

But seriously: Get nice chairs.
Maybe it's some sort of evolutionary fear, like when a lion keeps staring at the antelope

Also, it violates our sense of fairness. A security camera is watching everyone equally. Suppose we do the same with 1000 cameramen following 1000 people in the same square, how would people react?
Have read, still thinking.