skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I think simply sucks is that the US brings democracy to countries if those countries want or not for whatever reasons but do not do anything about the civil war next door.

The next step in human evolution is to wake up and for people to at least try to see things as they are.
I tried clicking your link but it doesn't seem to work for me. Perhaps because I'm using Linux.
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Why not?

I mean there are certainly folks doing "off the grid" experiments that are moving this way, and I can certainly see a future where you create enough power for most of your home needs locally, including using some version of a 3D printer to build common items out of stock you have around the house (once they can also accept such). Things that are too costly to build at that scale or require special feedstock could be built by a neighborhood machine (much like mills used to service their neighborhoods), with the feedstock being ordered as needed.

Yes, as long as it is massively inconvenient there is a benefit for trading money for free time. But I would like to spend some of that free time making it possible for me to have a choice of my own - rather than a choice for my provider (who likely will eventually decide they need to make a profit).
Be careful about putting dollar figures on things like this and estimating demand. What if this guy spends a few hundred hours on this and then no-one buys it? Sure, it's his risk to take, and you carefully qualified your last statement, but overestimating demand is a deadly thing. So let me as - why do you think people will be willing to pay for this service, and what kind of numbers are you talking about? 100? 1000? 10000?
Climate change will dwarf all other problems in the next decade or two. And, because it is global in nature, climate change is an international rather than a national security issue. It can be argued that we are past the tipping point, beyond the point where we can take any meaningful action to mitigate disaster, and that human survival is not assured.
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Could someone point me to a similar Win 8 comparison?
think the stories about effort required to look at applicants is a load of hooey and is an excuse to make HR departments and managers seem busy. It's very hard for for me to believe that a hiring manager has to eyeball a resume for more than a minute to see if the candidate goes in the "maybe" pile or the "no" pile, and no more than 5 minutes to take a good look at each resume in the "maybe" pile

I've been on the hiring side and have spent time with hundreds of resumes and it can take days. Especially in times of economic woe where you tend to get a lot more qualified applicants.

Even with strong well defined hiring characteristics anything past the first couple of passes takes time - or is arbitrary/probability driven.

Let's take your strategy with 250 applicants (and I've way larger numbers on occasion);

* 250 - 1m per resume into yes/no. Let's be generous and say that cuts out 150. At your one minute per-resume that's over 4.1 hours gone already. (I can tell you that 1m is a hopelessly optimistic number. 1m for the people who totally suck. 2-5mins minimum to deal with the amazing number of really quite talented people who completely suck at communicating those skills in a resume.)

* 100 left - at 5m per resume. That's another 8.3 hours gone (and again 5m is way optimistic for a vaguely deep look). Let's say that cuts it down to 25.

* 25 - deep look. That's time spent googling, poking at their track history. Discussing pros and cons with team. That's at least 10m per resume. Another 4.1 hours minimum.

... so thats more than sixteen hours doing nothing but reading and reviewing resumes. Which translates, once you take doing actual work around that, screen breaks, lunch, etc. into probably nearly three days of actual time. For time estimates which are, in my experience, optimistic...

Not that this is an excuse for not getting in touch after a 'no'. If you're getting hundreds of applications you set up a process that can deal with hundreds of applications - but the selection process itself can and does take time and effort. It's damn hard and, in my experience anyway, technical folk foul it up just as much - if not more than - HR professionals.
An app that ranks content that we provide according to the popularity of an associated twitter hashtag. Similar to andthewinner.is but where the tiles of each event shift around in real time according to realtime popularity.
Or perhaps he is referring to this:

"the Zetas would delight in kidnapping and torturing him for fun, videotaping the snuff, and finally dissolving the poor bastard’s carcass in an oil drum full of acid."

I believe it was "El Pozolero" who was the one notorious for the 'drum full of acid' routine.
Awesome. One can also use it to analyse various trends on HN. For ex. look at this story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4739649 from November 4th 6:40 pm to 11:00 pm. Shows you how HN'ers are eager to help each other.
And if you'd like to diff what's in the staging area, you can use this command: git diff --cached
Such a tablet would be great for travellers too. I have a friend who's planning on doing extensive travel throughout Asia, and I've convinced her not take her Macbook Air. However, I'd love to recommend something like this to her, so she can get 'net access easily without having to rely on shady internet cafes. Any recommendations for an inexpensive tablet? Preferably, one that can take a SIM card?
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I want to extend this a bit

* scrape your facebook data and most importantly the references to other accounts

* make accessing facebook available through your own software

* when you post something, it should appear on facebook but also directly into the very own self hosted version of your data

Why?

Use facebook but be ready to leave or parallely use one of the many Free Software wanna be social networks.
There sure is an abundance of these lately. I can see the reason why Bootstrap opens up the possibility of building this, but I don't see exactly where it's going. Maybe I'm missing something though, so I'd be curious to have the creators defend the work.

What is going to make one of these win over the others, and who exactly is the intended audience?
I am a huge Apple fan. I have had numerous iPhones, MacBooks, iMacs, etc. I've coined it the "law of large companies" - eventually they get their lunch eaten by someone who doesn't yet exist and they could never see coming.

With Apple, Steve Jobs has implemented a lot of policies that try and stave this off (a single P&L, cannabalization of their own products, etc.) but I'm concerned, as "Rands" is, that the ossification of upper management will reduce the agility.

See: IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo. It'll happen to Google, and it'll happen to Apple. It seems as certain as the laws of thermodynamics. As a company gets bigger and exists longer, the probability that someone is going to disrupt them approaches 1.
I want to build an autobiographical timeline with Google App Engine using a javascript bookmarklet that copies the url and title from any Wikipedia page and lets me add dates and annotations (eg toy I loved, book I read, etc)
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There was something very similar to this for reddit that was very handy and useful. It was at redditsnapshot.sweyla.com but it shut down at some point. I still think there is an opportunity for someone to index reddit's front page and have it hour by hour and maybe a premium version of all the subreddits you subscribe to.
Absolutely agree.

The problem with drugs has changed though in recent years. The new generation of addicts are doing mostly research chemicals or regular pills like painkillers and such.

So in a sense some of the biggest drug dealers in the future will be pharma companies. When you hear how severe something like oxycodone withdrawal is compared to heroin withdrawal you understand that our societies drug problems have not peaked yet.
It's just an alternative for someone already offering to work for free – I'm certainly not about to write a business plan around it.

My use case is simply that I like my own comments/SMS/tweets/etc. archived and searchable, as it's an easy way of keeping track of stuff with zero effort. In the case of HN it would also serve to avoid the common situation where I miss a reply until hours after the replyer's lunch break ended.
I had a crude but working version of that written in Go. One goroutine for the scraper, another for the email sender, it's pretty easy. Writing the website and billing is probably more time consuming than the gateway itself.
Loved this. I would love the feature where I could "highlight" (add a glow for effect) any particular story and watch it move up and down as I play with the arrows. Right now everything moves, so this would help spot trend for a particular story.

All in all, Awesome.
I would like some help on a small(?) pyparsing project for a prostate cancer research project I'm doing. First try and some test cases here.

https://github.com/2grep/CoPATH-Parser

What's in it for you?

1) Tell your Movember buddies you're actually working on prostate cancer research

2) Maybe a trip to SD (big maybe, but hey)

3) a chance to make some connections. For example, I'm getting some help on the postgres side from Joe Conway (has a postgresql commit bit, and author of PL/R, http://www.joeconway.com/)
This is great. Now u can seriously play around with a design without knwing photoshop skills. Great effing job!
The phone image makes me want to scroll the page, except there isn't anything to scroll to. Just a minor detail. I love the design of the voting pages, and I think the idea is executed well too. :)
Have to say, I didn't really see any actual point being made by this author. Maybe its just a misleading headline, but as far as I could tell his argument boiled down to 1.) We can't let the Estonians beat us in the election technology race 2.) We live in the future, its time our election system was futuristic. The rest is just quotes from security experts about why he's wrong.
At first glance that sounds like exactly what I need! I'll definitely take a close look.
I agree. I think surface is pretty cool, but this is a little too positive.
The solution to the one genuine problem mentioned in the article--that many people don't vote because the logistics are too difficult--is not online voting; it's early voting. (Which, btw, is what I believe President Obama was referring to when he said "we have to fix that" in reference to the long lines at the polls.)

The article says the inherent security problems with online voting are "not impossible" to fix. In this sense, it's "not impossible" to keep Windows computers virus-free.
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Looking for a Technical Co-Founder
I am looking for a technical co-founder to join me. I have been working very hard on planning and research for the last three months on this idea. I have over 130 pages worth of research which includes market research, competitor's analysis, design ideas, features and functionality document, site map, financial projections, pitch deck, and etc.

Here is a little about me:
-I have graduated from one of the top undergraduate business school in the US.

-I am willing to work my ass including weeknights, weekends, or whatever it takes. I am willing to work 24/7 on this and give up everything else in my life to work on this.

-I am really good at people's skills, presenting, networking, and business development. I am also an extrovert and pretty easy to get along with.

-I am well read. I love reading and have read books in many different fields including: management, psychology, philosophy, start-ups, and etc. I have also read the Lean Startup.

-I am currently learning Ruby on Rails and know bit of PHP and Python. I have taken several computer science classes in college and know the foundational of programming. I am learning programming non-stop for now until I can find someone technical to join me. Learning more programming can never hurt.

If you feel like working with someone who is willing to work his ass off and put his 110% on something then please contact me. I am very driven, have a sickening work ethic, and have hunger to build something that one day millions of people will use.

Please feel free to reach out to me at: matt.gerboth at gmail dot com
(there is a dot betweem matt and gerboth)

Thanks and look forward to hearing from you.
So, you want replies to your comments sent to you via email? or something more?
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While I'm all for things like this, locality needs to be addressed. For instance, my local (city/state) issue, is maybe something the whole (country) should not vote on.

Then again, baby steps right?
As always, security is intimately tied to economics. How many people are interested in breaking into the Estonian elections, versus how many are interested in gaining power over the US elections? It's quite a stark contrast. This is why you can't lock your Ferrari in an rusty shed with a cheap master lock on it. (Though the shed will probably be excellent security for a 2nd hand bike.)

E-voting in Estonia is probably a good idea. E-voting in the US is a catastrophically bad one until we get trusted execution infrastructure as described in Vernor Vinge's sci-fi books. (Yes, that's DRM, but DRM in the hands of individuals is very different from DRM in the hands of governments and large corporations.)

EDIT: Right now, we don't need an ID to vote. That's because creating zombie voters isn't yet possible with paper technology, unless you game the counting, which has better security. Keeping such a conspiracy secret would be difficult, though. Gaming the system and getting away with it would be possible with e-voting machines. Given that only a few swing states need to be affected, organizations that can command 100's of millions of dollars could pull such a thing off.
I learned something today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_flash is what I thought was the process that leads to novas, it is not.

That said, from our point of view a helium flash is pretty scary. Of course the Sun is not expected to do this for another 5 billion years.

But according to http://www.whillyard.com/science-pages/our-solar-system/sun-... the Earth is likely to be uninhabitable in about a billion years anyways.
Here's the thing: the frequentist in the comic has made an error even by frequentist standards, and that error is equivalent, in Bayesian thinking, to choosing an inappropriate prior.

The problem is that many frequentist techniques implicitly choose a prior for you. That's handy since choosing an appropriate prior is hard. But it also abstracts away the choice of prior.

If a Bayesian makes this mistake, anyone can look at their math and say "There. That's where you chose a bad prior."

If a frequentist makes this mistake, you have to have a complicated analysis to explain why the method used is inappropriate.
This is pretty cool, but seems to be a bit broken under linux. At least in my instance the camera was not reading correctly, was getting green and pink lines.
Actually a moment is an infinitesimally small amount of time, therefore in order to model the birth/death distribution across moments we need to rigorously define... wait, what am I doing with my life?!
This is a mischaracterization what curve-fitting algorithms do. You generally have to pick the function you want to fit, and then it's parameters are varied to minimize some comparison function. This means that this function would need to take the data, a chosen function, and a comparison function to minimize.

Also, this is a pure JavaScript project, and the OP wants to do something with HTML/CSS/etc.
Anybody involved with credit cards needs to be "compliant" The question is not yes or no but always around "Scope" Solutions that effectively use hosted payment pages (or even better in some ways a transparent redirect) so that the card data don't touch your servers usally allow you to just complete a SAQ-A (a self assessment one or two pager) So you must always be compliant but something like this (Stripe, Braintree etc) allows you to minimize scope to the SAQ-A level typically. (Caveats apply. You could build the best application in the world but if your support people start taking credit cards over the phone to help out customers who are struggling and 'set them up' you of course broaden your scope immediately so common sense still applies)
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Literally just poll this single page: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=forgotusername once every 30 minutes, extract the thread structure, generate some message IDs, and keep a database of which message IDs have already been e-mailed.

The ability to reply is more complicated and probably less useful.
It'd also be nice to have the option to create "elections" that use STV/instant runoff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
Quick thoughts on the sea of To-Do list apps
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Bookmarks manager which is browser independent, most likely local app which syncs online. Should have tagging, categories, notes etc. Should be super fast and quick to use.
I'm amazed advice like this needs to be given. I was contacted and asked for a resume by someone at Rumblefish who wouldn't divulge how he got my contact info and complained about how hard it was to hire good developers. The position looked interesting and I consider myself a pretty good developer so sent him my resume and told him I would call in a couple days to chat.

Before I called, I spent some time going over the job description writing down notes so we could make the best use of our time.

He didn't answer his phone, my last email, or his voicemail and I never heard from him again. Maybe he just knew after reading my resume that I was the wrong person for the job. Because of his lack of professionalism we'll never get to have a conversation about why, and I'll never refer anyone to them.

With such powerful analytical skills and immaculate professionalism I'm baffled as to why they're having trouble finding good developers.
The (very prominent) search works for what you are talking about, narrowing down to libraries for specific functions.
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UK teacher comment: can anyone explain what an 'educator' is? I keep reading this strange word on US Web sites and in forums.

There are plenty of forums that discuss educational issues available to me. Most of them use 'noisy' forum software. Would be nice to have 'quiet' software like I find HN available that could run on ordinary hosted Web space.
You're right, fairness isn't at hand. But maybe we would tolerate being mean to some people and nicer to others as long as we're being fair—that is, we're efficiently matching worker to employer.

You say that one employer's neglect harms other employer's hiring. That's a good point, and it shows that organized applications, if applied across all firms, help everyone.

A single application system with a single deadline is kind of how universities admissions work. Maybe that's the best system we know. Can we have a system like universities admissions without the fees, is the real question?
I have never enjoyed the idea of extensions for essential functionalities like power menu. With release of newer versions of Gnome Shell every 6-8 months, extensions break. Like Firefox, there will always be some extensions not working. You have to log-out to enable extensions. I don't like to reboot or log-out my Linux box, not for trivial things like extensions. I only reboot when there is a kernel update.

I am still unable to understand where do they want to take notification.

I like both Gnome and Unity. Gnome Foundations and Canonical should be left to pursue their own objective goals as long as they don't destroy projects that are used by other Desktop Environments like XFCE, etc.
Well not properly securing the system the us law enforcement used to legaly get info from google - that should have been locked down properly with hardware cypto gear so that it could only talk one way to approved system in the FBI or better still via an air gap.

Its blindingly obvious to any one with even a basic knowledge of computer security best practice.
It would be nice to see a working demo on the front page.
FYI, in case you added reaaally a lot of stuff, and want to split it into smaller commits, it might be much more handy to do partial commits using Git GUI (select lines in the file & right click to have a popup menu with appropriate option). Also, don't do it the next time.

Side hint: for things like fixing typos, I found that creating a new branch, say 'typos', is quite handy solution to not do these kind of things in the commits that are meant to add new things / fix bugs. Just checkout typos, fix, commit, checkout master / feature branch.
You can hide the micro-SD cards inside some of the coins sold by spy-coins.com (they're also sold by ThinkGeek). Only downside I've noticed is that when you drop one of the coins onto a hard surface it doesn't sound right - the "ring" it makes is different. But if you have it in with a handful of legit coins, it passes without notice. Just don't spend it by accident. ;)
"if you can read this thank a teacher" is a classic car sticker.

However, in England and Wales, we have half a million of them (in a population of about 55+ million) and the turnover is estimated at about 9% per year (some of that is family break teachers leaving and returning). All teachers in UK have to have a national curriculum related degree... The Normal Distribution being what it is (and wage rates not huge and currently frozen) there might be quality issues ahead.

What about US?
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Yeah, I do. (Though it runs on OS X too.)
What's wrong with that?
Do I need to create the function I want to fit? Or would I have to look for a function that looks 'similar' to a plot of my data? So say my data 'looks' like a cubic function, I would need to supply it a blank(missing the coefficients) cubic function?

Also thank you for clearing up the mischaracterization.
Tons! Of! Exclamation! Marks! :)
You don't need to log out to enable extensions, just reload gnome shell. Press Alt-F2 and type 'r' without quotes.
Off-topic: may I ask, which software is your DLNA server running? I'm trying to setup sth. similar.
Blown away on how fast this website is. I kept the left arrow key pressed and it didn't shutter once.
Thanks, that's really helpful! I just updated the post.
>>the US brings democracy to countries if those countries want or not

Per definition -- when a country is not a democracy, it is controlled by a junta that steals lots of resources and control the information to the citizens.

So, just for my information, how do you decide that a country does not want to be a democracy...?

Ask the (misinformed) population, which know they will be in trouble if they have the wrong opinions...?!
Quora has a great discussion on this: http://www.quora.com/Mathematics/What-is-the-probability-of-...
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Very nice. I actually thought of implementing this a few months ago but a quick Google search brought up http://hackerslide.com/ (also open source), which works fine as well.
Could you explain what work do you need done?
Pay as you go plans also typically charge a fairly significant amount for mobile data too, though. In fact, on giffgaff (a PAYG-only operator which seems to be insanely popular with young people here in the UK), the most sensible way of paying for mobile data comes bundled with unlimited texts anyway.