skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people, who don't use computers extensively. But most - are using both, PCs and mobile computers. Current interface of mobile devices isn't comparable and can't possibly replace PC ergonomics (keyboard, monitor and etc.).

Real alternative would be some holographic interface that pops out in the air from a computer a size of a grain. That's an alternative to PC ergonomically. Not the current day tablets or handsets.
I see nothing suspicious. Has it been fixed?
I apologize for the "link bait." I didn't intend it as such, I was actually making fun of my "accomplishment," having contributed a tiny patch that fixed an obscure problem.

I can see how it reads very differently on Hacker News...
Which is what you would expect, unless the OP was Guido, wouldn't you?

If my patch, how much so ever minuscule, was merged into CPython, I would be similarly elated as well.
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A police department in Connecticut rejected candidates who scored too high on an IQ test: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95836
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It's fair to mention the other taxes like national insurance, but VAT shouldn't be mentioned here. VAT is simply "collected" from the customer, and then sent to the Government. No company ever includes VAT in their prices when they plan out the prices. They are simply added after the fact, and the consumer pays for it.

So disregarding other taxes, if say Apple wants $500 for the iPad, then they won't include the VAT in that price, they will simply add the fact to the $500 price, and make it $600, or whatever the VAT is in that country.
I think this is a huge reason for the popularity of static blogs. For dynamic blog software, your choice is basically WordPress. Unfortunately, WordPress has a pretty bad security track record. Things might be different if there were a reliable second-place blogging engine, but as far as I know there isn't.

Another reason is the rise of version control for small projects, and the way static sites fit nicely into a Git workflow.
Whoa, why the negativity? Dude found a bug in CPython, fixed it, and had his patch accepted. Regardless of whether he fixed the bug that you wanted fixed or not, it's always good to have more eyes and hands on a project, especially if people are getting involved for the first time.
I went on a little bit of a mini-rant a while ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4680626), which, while not so eloquently worded, attempted to share my frustrations about scientific writing that this article makes much clearer.

I think it's easy for technical people to write something and think "well, this is clear to me", so they don't put much additional thought into thinking about how their writing will come across to others. Someone that writes journals or articles for a living realizes how important clear communication of ideas is, and it would be nice to see this carry over into more technical domains.
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Non-paginated, printer friendly version here [1]

[1] http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.877,y.0,no.,conte...
Also, how many women submitted applications? [Encouragement for my daughter.]
Right, like I said, they stopped short of full legalization; it was simply a massive decriminalization. They also put money into education, as you say, and into treatment.

My point was simply that "heroine and cocaine are so dangerous that we have to keep them criminal" is not necessarily a valid position. Your point, which seems to be that such changes should not be made in isolation but supported by other policy measures, is certainly one that needs stressing as well.
something perplexes me about talk of "winning the drug war". okay, we're at war with the cartels. let's characterize the enemy. the enemy:

- has no land, territory, or people that we can lay siege to. in fact, their civilian population is our civilian population!

- has more military funding than we do

- as a result, they have an endless supply of soldiers for all levels of their command hierarchy

- has less oversight requirements than our military (effectively zero)

- has no need for popular support

- has no need for large infrastructure, facilities, or anything really. if you take away some building of theirs with soldiers, vehicles and drugs, they will buy 10 more to replace what you took. they can continue to do this because for every dollar that you produce, as the state, to fund your war, they produce 3.

so you're fighting an insurgent war against everyone and they have more money / resources than you do. and you expect to win? hey, maybe if we took away their ability to make money and recruit people, then this starts to make sense...
I experimented with S3 but found Rackspace CloudFiles better for my needs. S3 does not serve content compressed, where CloudFiles does. CloudFiles is automatically served through an Akamai CDN, while S3 can be served through CloudFront but needs configuration to do so.
I don't think it's fair to say the president IS the president of the states. The office certainly used to work that way, but because every state elects their electors, it is no longer true.
Really good article! There's too many designers calling their work responsive when they only work on desktop and a couple of Apple devices. It's much better to design your CSS breakpoints around the content instead, so you can be sure it looks good at every size.
"It gives you access to other cube mates fairly easily"

If those cube-mates have to spend a lot of time thinking about things, this can be very bad news indeed. I see it all the time, and I think DeMarco poked at it in Peopleware all those years ago. If it takes someone ten to fifteen minutes to get into a mental flow situation, holding the context of their task in their head and thinking about, a cube-mate leaning over to ask something they could have looked up for themselves in a minute saves that cube-mate one minute, and costs the interrupted thinker several minutes to get back into flow. I even see it reach the point where people who know they really need to think about something gather up their paper and disappear elsewhere in the building.
I almost feel obligated to pirate Office for Mac
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Not knowing the difference between slash and backslash-

"Go to www.ourlamesite.com BACKSLASH user".

What's most interesting about the error is that it's almost always one error only (slashes referred to as backslashes, not the reverse, as if "back" makes it correct usage), refers to punctuation we all see and use on a regular basis, and involves extra syllables.

It's also counterintuitive. Asking yourself how to write "3 slash 4" will almost always result in your correctly figuring out what to call the two symbols even when you're not sure. It's a bit like dyslexia, I suppose, but in reverse. You wouldn't hear a dyslexic call a forwards f "backwards f", I wouldn't think.
Yes, people do this - it is called Social Network Analysis and has been around a few decades. It is well introduced in http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1449306462 . There is actually a thorough example of analyzing an organization's "social leaders" and arranging departments to take advantage of them.
They could be just hitting on you.
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When I was 14, butterflies.

( http://xkcd.com/378/ )
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I think the primary limiting factor of tablets is UI bandwidth. A large chunk of what people do with computers is select and modify. It's really hard to beat the mouse at the select step. Then there's the whole real keyboard thing. With a physical buttons you can be slightly off and get tactile feed back where as with on screen buttons you don't.
You can use this, many people have reported it does well. I have not used it.

https://cloudyscripts.com/tool/show/5

You can also use the APIs to do that S3 copy I mentioned. Here are one of the many write ups of that technique.

http://alestic.com/2010/10/ec2-ami-copy
Sorry for the negative comment (I'm about to delete). I missed the tongue-in-cheek nature of your posting and as others pointed out. It was a real bug.
Hah. I always find it funny how the same people who are capable of hacking these high profile websites haven't updated their design, HTML and CSS knowledge since the '90s. Scrolling marquees and the horrible moving star background.. really?

Here's a screenshot for when they notice: http://i.imgur.com/UT4we.png
You have nothing to apologize for!
Pretty much nothing you've written is true.

I've been studying election administration in the USA for a few years, having worked as a pull judge, pull inspector, and observer. I've attended HAVA hearings, EAC hearings, and testified many times. Etc.

New Jersey is now issuing and CASTING ballots electronically. In the clear.

By "complications for privacy", you must mean the complete lack of privacy. There is no privacy. Zero. None. Zilch.

The only balloting system in the USA that preserves the secret ballot is a dropping your ballot into the ballot box at a poll site. Because the box scrambles the order. Postal balloting can partially preserve the secret ballot (on the receiving end) if proper rules are followed (but generally aren't). Exactly no electronic system preserves the secret ballot.

You misrepresent the photo identification requirement. Meaning it's a complete non-issue trumped to scare people. In the USA, everyone must first be registered (except in North Dakota?), which establishes your eligibility to vote. On election day, until recently, voters merely have to prove who they are with any form of identification showing their current address. This is mostly to ensure voters are issued the correct ballot (for their precinct).

Knowing what I know about the history of election administration and its current direction, I'm curious to learn what you'd consider "moves us forward"? I'll even give you an out: Anyone advocating any form of electronically mediated voting must admit that it eliminates all voter privacy (secret ballot) and most of the public vote count (ability to audit). So the challenge is to create the digital successor to the Australian Ballot system used in the USA. Something that will give all observers confidence that elections are run clean and fair, despite the lose of voter privacy.

Any thing short of that, you're just blowing smoke.
Maybe the sentence would have been a bit less sensitive had Daniel used "if I were a citizen of India" instead of "Indian", in order to remove the possible racial interpretation.
I mean, he is making an elaborate statement. People don't yell at him because he's standing there, they yell at him because he's filming them. He's not breaking any law (except for arguably when he keeps entering the Church of Scientology), and is exercising his liberties.

The words "childish" and "annoying" are dangerous to throw around here, because it creates a culture of non-acceptance and weirdness for someone who is doing nothing wrong. This is how liberties erode.
I call for a moratorium on journalists quoting taxes either only on a single year basis or singling out only a particular type of tax to focus on.

The proper way to understand the tax burden of a company is to look at the number analysts use: effective tax rate, averaged over some substantial period of time. This is not a complicated number. You basically take 100% - (income after all taxes) / (income before all taxes)

Apple's effective tax rate, according to their 10-K filings, has been 25-30% for the last 3 years: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/04/18/apples-9-...

I should note that there is, somewhat ironically, a wild inaccuracy in this Forbes article which I don't want to seem like I'm endorsing: "We might ponder upon the way that federal taxation as a share of the entire economy has grown hugely over this period as well, meaning that what you can extract from corporations has fallen not because corporations are taxed any less but because others are taxed much more."

Total federal taxes as a %-age of GDP have fluctuated between 15-20% for the last 50 years. It was as high as 19% as early as 1952, and hasn't been as low as it is now (15%) since 1950. There is a mythology that the federal government keeps getting bigger, but almost all the growth in the federal government came in the 10 year period between 1934 and 1944. This growth can be explained almost entirely by just three things introduced in this era: social security, medicare/medicaid, and a huge peacetime military.

See: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Doc...
Sorry guys, I am seeing so many "legalize" that I really need to say that we cannot really legalized everything.

If we legalized so powerful/bad drugs like heroin or cocaine we build a business, if we legalize those drugs then we need to legalized newer drugs, if we let corporation to make money out of drugs, well the first scenario that I can think about is a big pharmaceutical corp. who is investing in order to build super addicted drugs, super cheap drugs (free for the new-consumers ???) and commercial like "Try fancy-cool-drug-name you will get smarter, more beautiful and every woman will want you" (and at the very end a little voice will said very very fast "It can give you dependency")

I mean, I already hate the commercial of antidepressant (that are about the same stuff) and I am sure you do the same, legalize everything will be too much.

There is only one single scenario where it would be possible, when we will Educate (note the capital E) every single person, then no one will use such powerful drugs (heroin, cocaine and acid, i don't know anymore).
Browser support on this framework is laughable.
It's a good book. I love the quote about "electronic voting being crack for conspiracy theorists". But the conclusion is correct: Electronic voting cannot preserve voter privacy or ensure the public vote count. So it shouldn't be used. Note that Rubin also worked on the SERVE project for the DoD, reaching the same conclusion. But the money people keep the dream alive.
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If you understand what VAT is and how it works, then you realize it's not the company paying the tax, it's the ultimate consumer (British consumers in this case).
Great insight.

Regarding Mensa itself, or any claims to intellectual superiority: one of the big lessons of my life has been that being intelligent has no intrinsic value. If you are unable to manifest your intelligence in a way that can substantially (disproportionate to your effort) improve your life or the lives of others, then your mind doesn't matter. It has no impact in the world, and I am not the first person to observe that having a powerful mind is at many times a burden.

You can see that other people may be more stupid than you, forwarding simpler arguments and relying on less rigorous thinking than yours, but if they don't want to be convinced of that, then you are powerless to make them see it. They go off blissfully, and you burn with anguish. Again, if you cannot manifest your intelligence in a way that forwards your agenda, who cares?

To phrase it in a more confrontational way: if nobody is forced to contend with your mind, nobody knows it exists. Or to summarize it in a quote:

"[Intelligence] is like being a lady: if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
-- Margaret Thatcher

This clicked for me during my final year of college, when a friend of mine was taking an LSAT preparation course. During a break, he was chatting with the instructor about realistic outcomes, and said earnestly that he hoped to get a score of 168 (which IIRC is a very high score.) The instructor, a man of maybe 30, who had been out of school for several years, scoffed and replied, "Good luck, I only got 165 and I'm a genius."

And what did the genius do when not teaching LSAT prep courses? Why, he worked at Target.

Edit: expanded a little on the first couple of paragraphs.
What are the benefits of being a member of Mensa?
On of the main reasons I like static site generators so much is that it makes maintaining a website more like developing software. I have 'sources', which I keep in a Git repo for powerful versioning, I 'build' the website from the sources, and then I 'publish' the final product... which is the user facing HTML website.

Developers just find that workflow sublime, and since we're often making websites for ourselves or for our companies, it only makes sense that we've started to use tools that fit our mentality.
When I was 14, I had to create the universe and wait billions of years before it assembled the first computer
IQ tests have long been criticized by a variety of groups. At the end of the day, it merely measures your ability to perform well on tests that are similar to an IQ test. Traditionally, this set was populated with academic tests, so the IQ could be used to predict your performance in schools (it was actually designed to predict the performance of French schoolchildren.)

However, as the school based subjects have broadened out from traditional liberal arts conceptualizations to include more serious discussion of alternative conceptualizations (CompSci being one example), the IQ test may be decreasing in efficacy of prediction even with regards to academic tests. I have no evidence for this, just an opinion. The issue you ran into seems to be a result of these differing conceptualization paradigms.

At the end of the day, it's an assessment of performance in a very limited subfield of life. I try not to take it too seriously.
I was talking about organic search results; i.e., the standard list of links that come up for a query.

Marissa was talking about this: http://i.imgur.com/RQhOH.png
This is great! It's so hard to find bugs in software tools because the conventional wisdom is that "it's never a bug in the compiler."

Interesting that you had to create two patches for python 2.x and 3.x. (Frustrating, no?)

Seems like you were able to get this submitted and fixed fairly quickly; the Python guys seem like a welcoming group.

Has anyone else had experience contributing to this particular project?
I've been lied to so many times by so many election administrators, I would take Thatcher's advice: Trust, but verify.

There's a difference between CANNOT tell how you voted, vs we didn't look.
Election prediction in Python a la 538
Did you do an ocular threat assessment of their risk, Mac?
In theory, I believe there could be an objective way to determine the "simplest" answer if it is defined as having the lowest Kolmogorov complexity among valid answers (if I read the Wikipedia article correctly) [0]. In the context of an IQ test though, it is not a very practical solution.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
Band together around two popular members of the community.

Have someone that has been around for few years but just has 100 of karma post a similar call for help and see how many upvotes will receive.
I had to make two patches because the testing style has changed slightly between the two, but also, it's guaranteed to apply better if I make them against the tip of each version.
It means there's a chance you're no longer the most boring person you know.
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Modern x86 CPUs aren't that much closer to being x86 than to being 68k since the Pentium Pro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro#Summary

They expose the x86 instruction set externally for compatibility, but translate it to a different instruction set internally. It is conceivable that you could have instead translate 68k instructions and the rest of the CPU would have remained the same.
If this were the case I would argue that the bigger problem is the apparently very easy accessibility of client data to employees.
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Like how angularjs works with directives? In angular you can create your own directives (HTML elements, so to say). You can add attributes to these directives. In this directive simply check if the browser supports the HTML5 element. if(this_is_true): render_this_element() else: mimic_behaviour().
Nice comparison. Anyone can now run the Go version in the Go Playground at http://play.golang.org/p/w0N-ZtBBw_
All taxes are collected from the customer, just not necessarily "simply". Arbitrarily dividing taxes into simple and complex and then reporting only on the complex seems even more misleading to me.
Unfortunately since Sparrow was acquired by Google [1] they are no longer working on Sparrow.

I still use Sparrow and have zero problems with it, though for some reason I still keep my eye out for new apps to replace it.. I think I just enjoy playing with new features, heh.

There's also the similarly named MailPilot.[2] They're apparently planning on making native apps for every platform. There's currently a public beta for their web app, though there is no free trial; you have to pre-order a year's service (at $60) to gain access, which is a little steep in my opinion!

[1] http://sprw.me/
[2] http://www.mailpilot.co/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity#Incomputa...
http://imgur.com/a/cIQbk
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> But it bugs me that I might not have been
> creative enough to fail their test.

I know Tanya, and she most certainly is creative enough to fail their tests. It's clear she was trying to conform, and did a job that was good enough for its purpose.

But she is certainly creative enough to fail, and way more intelligent (for pretty much any meaning of the term) than the test will have indicated.
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http://www.informationweek.com/georgia-tech-device-disables-...

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/10/28/worlds-largest-private-y...
They're not rolling back the interface.
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Because in that case they have no choice. They want to get whatever the store has. Here they can argue with the person taking the video. In fact, the video taker is specifically targeting them, which raises only more questions for the subjects being filmed.
I'm keen to know what the research is about cleverness and overthinking and multiple choice questions.

One of the most intelligent people I know IRL has trouble with the UK driving licence theory questions because she very rapidly provides 6 correct answers, and then has to try to detangle her correct answers from the choices.

I suspect that she'd do better if she tried when she was drunk (not the practical!!) because that would filter out the overthinking.

Of course, maybe this is all post rationalisation and some people just are lousy at some stuff.
> Being famous is just as much their job as acting.

This seems like sloppy thinking to me. Becoming famous is a potential side-effect of their acting job. With fame comes other opportunities, but that doesn't make being famous a job. Who is the employer?

Likewise, getting a good night's sleep brings opportunities to excel that might not otherwise be available. It doesn't make it my job.
That's a nice looking gem. I'd love to use it on some of my larger projects, but I don't like unwieldy... Can you share any specifics of what doesn't Just Work?
Being ashamed of "it" (corruption, handling of the case) and being ashamed of being an Indian seem to be extremely far removed from each other.

If nobody is ashamed of the process of law in your country, then change will probably be a long time coming.
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