skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting linked article demonstrates something we all need to understand: The majority of Americans are science-illiterate and reject the most basic scientific findings like the age of the earth. Therefore, to be a politician, to be electable, you must lie. You must pretend to be as bone-stupid as your constituents are. To tell the truth is to lose your job.

As time passes, there are more things a politician can't be truthful about. Abortion, gun control, religion in schools, social security, and anything that contradicts the superstitious beliefs of a religious fundamentalist -- all off-limits. This explains why campaign debates are so boring -- the candidates do all they can to appear to be debating something substantive, when in fact they don't dare mention anything remotely important.
Google. Both google and facebook have some questionable ethics but facebook seems to have a total disconnect in this respect while google still has some semblance of honor. But why the false dichotomy? Why not Google, facebook or somewhere else?

Both will look good on your resume though, if you are intent on being in the employment cycle this won't hurt.
Ask HN: Presentation Software?
Hello,

What type of software do people here generally use for presentations?

I'm looking for something exceptionally simple and quick to learn.

Thanks!
> (Mount Weld) has high concentrations of rare earths, is a huge site, and has low levels of thorium contamination.

just a guess, the thorium was not what they were extracting there -- otherwise they wouldn't have left it behind. Maybe it was moved there to be used to extract(?) some of the other more valuable heavy metals? ...and then discarded along with several other by-products the as cheaper as possible.
Mexico has killed or captured a large number of drug kingpins in the last few years. The idea that they're not trying is absurdly uninformed.

http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21564897-most-wanted-...
"Sebastian has a whole team and much more than a year!"

of course. sorry that was sloppy writing on my part. Edited.

"This is from the perspective of a Seattle Google employee, so I don't think location is an issue."

Oh I was thinking more Bangalore or Buenos Aires, not Seattle vs Mountain View (though I keep hearing that the really cool projects are run out of MV, with the occasional exception like the V8 work)

The real key to doing such work might be "become a superstar and do cutting edge work" ;-) . Then the fact that you work at Google is just a detail.
We have plenty such politicians. We need an electorate that understands economics 101.
Wonderful, thanks for letting me know! Goes to show how long I've been using it for! Can't wait to convert everything to md.
One could always do better, I suppose. But Google has a better post-acquisition retention rate than any other company I know.

(Disclaimer: I've been acquired, and so far, retained!)
Seems to me that your evidence is entirely consistent with the OP. Does your dog understand shape, though?
> users exchange data through encrypted transfers and the network setup ensures that the true sender of the file is always obfuscated

If this were really true in practice, the authorities shouldn't be able to see whether copyrighted content is transferred through your computer in theory (except by breaking the law themselves by putting surveillance software on your computer)... or am I missing something? (or do they have a "weaker" meaning for the term 'obsfucated'?)
The FBI does whatever it wants. The US government bends the law how it wants. I'm sure they will fabricate some sort of evidence to ensure this set back is not a set back.
Over 5000. But doubtful that I would upload them all. maybe 200 max. I think a photo limit as flickr has done is the best format that a site like your can go with. Heavy users are willing to shell out extra for more photo limit (unlimited). I think you need a free option though (even if it's limited).
Why do you think that would stop drug trade? The market is driven by demand, not by supply, and the US demands a 150,000 strong army of drug traffickers to keep making the drugs for us.
Well this is just rubbish.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review/2

The iPhone 5 has nearly DOUBLE the battery life of the Nexus 4 for typical usage. If you disable LTE it will be even better.
To me, Marco is saying "Everyone's opinion is valid and equal. Yay! We should teach them all!", while Obama is saying "Well, it's probably metaphorical, but I don't claim to know."

The implications of each are different and it's pretty easy to read between the lines of Obama's comments if you ask me.

Either way, I agree with the article. Overall, the right answer ought to be, we will teach science, whatever that may entail.
"we both recognize that wireless broadband is different from the traditional wireline world, in part because the mobile marketplace is more competitive and changing rapidly. In recognition of the still-nascent nature of the wireless broadband marketplace, under this proposal we would not now apply most of the wireline principles to wireless, except for the transparency requirement. "

IE, nothing about network neutrality, except telling people what you throttle/etc should apply to wireless.
Pick the company that gives you the right position. If Google puts you on Search Quality team while your interest is in Compute Engine, would you willing to spend 6-18 months there before getting switched to another team? Get the job that makes sense. But I will always pick Google over FB. The obvious reason is Facebook is boring. Their projects are always about social networking in one way or another. Boring. At least Google projects spam from the whole spectrum.
2012: Windows 8 requires at least 8 GB of RAM [4] even though Microsoft claims it has the same requirements as Vista (1 GB RAM). That also means the 32-bit version of 8 is crippled from the start.

I use Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 in a 4GB virtual machine. This works fine and is fast.
Neither at this point. Both have become too big and bloated. Employee number 8,000 isn't cool. You know what's cool employee number 1 - 100 at either one.
I wasn't trying to suggest that they weren't doing anything, just not enough. The cartel is a massive problem, and to get rid of them would involve a massive conflict. If the Mexican government was acting alone, it would pretty much demand a full-scale civil war. It would be a really shitty solution, no doubt about that, but it's a shitty situation no matter what. Basically, Mexico has to decide what it's willing to tolerate. If they think living under the ever increasing threat of being murdered in a turf war is more acceptable than the casualties they would endure trying to get rid of them, then that's a decision they should be entitled to make.

But what saddens me, as it does in all nations where people face death on a daily basis, is that often, the actual people, the working class Mexicans in this case, don't get to make a real decision. They have an ineffective government on one hand, who is so used to having its members assassinated that it is mostly afraid to do anything, and on the other hand you have an insanely large band of murderers, torturers, and rapists that never should have been allowed to grow as large as it did. No matter what happens now, the general population of Mexico is going to get fucked pretty hard.
I kind of like the rationalization detailed here. However, can you explain more on why would you choose to be googler than founding something of your own. I thought that starting something of your own has its own learning, which noone can take deny.
Sorry, but it's not a complete FUD.

For example: we frequently use Excel as a client for OLAP-cubes in Analysis Services. Even "average" user.

Calc do not have this functionality. We cannot use it.
1-"degenerate shitbags, or maybe adults making a rational decision to work for an employer balancing risk & compensation in a chronically high unemployment society working for a company operating in a very high margin business.

2- "there are bullets enough in this world to solve such a problem." the same amount that solved the Afhanistan war, right ?

3- "I think first of finding ways to prevent children from becoming addicted to hard drugs" . what a patronizing & woefully uninformed profiling of the typical drug user.

4- "Unfortunately, just because something can be accomplished, doesn't mean that it's going to happen." 50 years, trillions of dollars & hundreds of thousands of dead beg to differ.
Word on the (Mexican) street is that they just destroyed the competition, leaving one big cartel that could be linked to the president.
Some sort of tower defense game would be totally awesome
But suddenly when it's the oil industry that uses vasts swathes of forest and arable land then it's ok and it's free http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/Energy/tarsand...
(sleep (* 7 30)) ;; coffe time
The FBI shuts down a site with hundred of thousands of user because of 36(!) infringing files

This I've never understood. I thought the US upheld the principal of due process. Is it really possible to shut down a person's business without a civil or criminal conviction?

What I find odd is that I'm not familiar with any cases outside of the Internet space where a business was shutdown during the process of an investigation. I'm sure there are examples somewhere, but it still seems wrong that the executive branch has the power to shut down a business without judicial review.
Humans don't eat electricity or oil. Sure, they may be used to increase yields of harvests, but the limitation is still how fast plants grow and how much area they need.
I just did it. You don’t get the individual themes, you get a single package with all themes called “Dayle Rees Color Schemes”.
If a baby were born on mars, I am curious how their growth would be affected by the difference in gravity. Would their muscle/bone development be cause problems due to evolutionary effects, or would they grow to match the physics of this planet, and therefore be physically fine. Perhaps the only issue would be growing up on one planet and moving to another.
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Facebook is a tumor on the Internet.
1) According to previous news of this, the FBI did not explicitly tell MU to preserve the files, they simply told MU not to interfere. After the NinjaVideo case was closed, MU emailed the FBI about what to do with the evidence, but received no reply.
Ya, and in my humble opinion / coding style (everyone's got one...) it's not too hard to just add the

foo(const foo &);

foo & operator = (const foo &);

to every class definition that needs it. Small amount of basic, simple C++ boilerplate > magic.
0.5% looks like what you get from corn, really

Soil area to absorption of energy is small, from leaf area to absorption of energy it looks ok.

Efficiency is overrated! Sure, you need soil, etc, but you can have two crops at the same area (or just some kind of grass or other vegetable cover)

And funny how the land usage argument disappears when it's the oil industry that's using arable land http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/Energy/tarsand...
"Both will look good on your resume though"

Not to me.
I'd much rather the Mexican people deal with the Cartel than the United States. I wasn't suggesting a U.S. Invasion. Clearly it's difficult to solve someone else's problem. If the overwhelming majority of the Afghan people wanted the Taliban gone, and they had U.S. support, and we didn't fuck a bunch of stuff up, then of course we could have rid Afghanistan of the Taliban. If the Afghans legitimately trusted us, and supported us in large enough numbers, the Taliban would have had trouble finding even caves to hide in.

Also I never made any claim that the "average" drug user was a child, just that it is a huge problem. The drug addicts that you know might have been adults when they first started using, but without exception, every one of the dozens of drug addicts I know started as a teenager. I can only speak from personal experience.

Feigning ignorance to the fact that there is an epidemic of children in our country becoming addicted to drugs is the most "woefully misinformed" thing I've ever heard. Just because someone wants to be pro-legalization, doesn't mean they have to ignore reality.

Edit: Apparently I have a habit of using the terms drug addict and drug user interchangeably. No offense was intended by this and I'll try to be more specific in the future. I understand that there is a distinct difference.
True, there are people that would definitely not appreciate either one or both. But those are likely in the minority.

I personally would not hold having either one on your resume as a negative about you. In fact I just helped an ex googler to find a job.
How does one study the effect of non-standard gravities on early development? What effects did you discover?
Reminds me of this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3491402
"At the right place at the right time" is overly dismissive. He cofounded Apple and the company as it is today would not exist without him. However, I don't think that's relevant to his technology commentary today.
I've implemented a very nice word to html converter previously but market research have shown that people are barely willing to pay for such a service. Maybe related consulting services can make it worthwhile for you. Good luck!
> Example, Twitter attracts both sides of the camp - Django and RoR

I'm not sure how this sentence is related to the previous sentence; are you associating django and/or ruby on rails with duct tape / "core" products ?

Google is overwhelmingly C++/Java/Python, but there are outliers (especially among acquisitions). I can't comment as to Facebook's mix.
Duh. We've been saying this for years.

Legalize all drugs and tax them.

You can't stop something that people want them.

If you think it's bad for somebody's health or is addictive, then I've got news for you: alcohol, sugar, caffeine, bacon.

I've never even tried pot or anything stronger, but I still support legalization.

But let's cut to the chase, this is not about drugs and health issues. This is about money and jobs for DEA. Essentially, we're pissing away our tax money to pay for DEA agents and their expensive toys, who, in turn, don't provide any real service.

This drug war is expensive, it costs dollars and lives. It's trivial to end it, but it's not happening. Too many dollars at stake.
Sorry it was not intentional, just wanted to make the title short. I guess I should have mentioned the full title.
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Prezi.

Quick to learn and it's beautiful. however, it's not for everyone, limited features and it's not a go-to for every type of presentation. It takes 2-4x time to build effective presentations, but spacial movements allow for greater communication.
To further your point, it doesn't even necessarily imply consuming resources at all: a person using his wrench to fix a car is creating wealth without using any resources.
A lot of politicians display hidden depths of intelligence, clarity, and insight -- usually after they no longer need to run for office.
I have first hand experience with big enterprise shops. Pretty much all apps behave like this. Everything is slow, including the platform. Nobody cares.
The result is, it totally kills productivity.
Any app that takes 8 minutes to load will only be loaded if absolutely necessary. By then you'll forget what you wanted to do anyway in a busy business day.
"soldiers"?

http://nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/narco-war-update

I'd rather fight marines than these guys; at least I'd get a double tap instead of something much worse...
I spent the summer working with a lot of old time programmers who were in the field since the early 70s. To me Linux was a privilege to them it was stingy: they wanted PowerPoint, Outlook and did their work in Putty.
I was thinking the exact same thing: what would the HN comments section have looked like a year ago?
I find the quality of most iconsets, both free and paid, wanting. Even some of Apple's own. Read this to know more http://blog.scoutzie.com/post/36068395929/consistency-in-ico...
> Why is the DHS tracking down copyright infringers

When DHS was established, a bunch of existing government agencies were rolled into it. One of them was Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is the federal agency with the most staff handling international IP law enforcement (traditionally, mostly counterfeiting). Copyright also falls under that category, so now DHS ends up being the one that investigates copyright infringement at the federal level.
My testing shows that versionist works just fine with rails-api apps to provide versioning capabilities. If you run into any problems, please file an issue.

https://github.com/bploetz/versionist
I looked at the headline and actually expected this to be some rant about performance in CoffeeScript.
Of course a war isn't as simple as killing the enemy. I assumed that was a given.

I feel sympathy for the people who are forced to join violent gangs. I also feel sympathy for the young, uneducated, impoverished people who join such gangs because they feel they have no other option. But if they are committing violent acts not just against rivals but also against young, uneducated, impoverished people who are completely innocent, then the amount of sympathy starts to fade. When and if the Mexican government decides that they have truly had enough, these misguided youths still have the option of throwing down their weapons.
I like building consumer web products. That seems more likely at Facebook than at Google.

Working at small companies is far more appealing to me, so those offers would be my backup plans to begin with.
Thank you Bush administration for meth.

"At one time, the sleeping pill Quaalude was as big a problem in the United States as heroin and cocaine. But then, in a matter of just a few years, it disappeared. If the successful strategy the DEA pursued in cracking down on Quaaludes had been followed when meth surfaced a few years later, experts say it is unlikely the meth epidemic would ever have happened. "

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/faqs/quaaludes....
Producing drugs is almost as easy as growing flowers. And people are clamoring to give you billions to get them. How can you imagine to stop that?

Of course it is possible to kill the current 150 000 drug soldiers but it just becomes a giant game of whac-a-mole.

One gigantic waste of money, time, and human lives.
"Delivering status updates and plumbing ads, that's it."

Facebook's messaging, events, photos, and groups products have replaced entire classes of web products for me. I don't know how it is on the inside, but from my vantage point, it seems like there's plenty of interesting work going on there.
In what planet have you been leaving?

What are the C++ libraries for

- Networking

- XML

- Reflection

- ORM

- Database access

- UI

- Asynchronous programming

- Make use of std::string and STL, instead of providing their own types.

- Web Services

- ...

Don't forget that your list should provide libraries that work across multiple OS (UNIX and Windows are not enough) and multiple compilers (besides gcc, clang, msvc).

The libraries also need to be compatible with the possibility that the developers compile with exceptions, RTTI enabled/disabled.

Did you know that STL was actually developed in Ada and later on adopted to C++?
I prefer faded comments, because some of my code is quite heavily commented. The code itself is what I always read, and I want it to jump out at me. The comments are background info, observations, sometimes wordy descriptions of why things are the way they are, and so on. If I've been away from the code for a while, I'll read the comments to help reestablish the context, refresh my memory of failed experiments, of shortcuts, optimizations, and so on. Most of the time, I don't need to read these comments, so having them faded into the background works for me in every way except for the briefer, more urgent type of comment that SHOULD jump out.

One thing I would like to have is an editor that responded to tags within comments (so it wouldn't be a part of the programming lang syntax, but just a convention used by the programmer) which would apply different colors to different types of comments. I would then use a faded color for wordy background info or comments needed by anyone proposing to change the code but not needed for reading the code, brighter colors for brief comments on the intent of a chunk of code (making the code easier to skim) and maybe a very bright color for WARNING, or FIXME, or STUB-ONLY, or TODO, etc.
Today is the fourth time in 2 months this has happened. At first it was hard to imagine the government would go through with it but they did.

It's strange, the first time any such news get floated (blocking FB, YouTube, phones or Supreme Court rulings) it comes as a shocker, people huddle and complain and with some passing of time expectations are lowered across the nation. Complete mobile network blackout doesn't feel like a big deal now that it has become a regular occurrence.

People have been making plans ahead of the scheduled outage and some are even happy to be offline and free of interruptions.
Neither. Same shit, different taste.

Well, if the only other option was starving to death, I'd pick Google, but working for the company I actively and thoroughly despise isn't fun.
and probably spend the tax dollars to educate society about using said drugs responsibly in a controlled fashion, and you probably have a pretty good system.

After all, a big part of the problem is a lack of knowledge in the users on how to manage their use of the substances.
Surely the simpler solution is a restoration of dictatorship (it worked wonders for Paraguay under Dr. Francia), with a Benevolent Dictator (plenty exist!) who understands Econ 101 (and, one insists, a great deal of other things the electorate is ignorant about that are highly relevant if one's job is running a country). It also tidies up the problem of inaction. But I'm sure the new report from the Organisation of American States will bring about radically new ideas that everyone will agree to implement immediately!
In that case...

Public Domain and CCZero would be a very efficient way to quiet people's fears about what they can't do with this icon set, without alarming them that they need Legal Advice to build their app. You've tried to trim down the restrictions to almost nothing, but we have an established protocol to encompass all uses. Why not go all the way?
The Myth of Internal Code
Pretty funny seeing this come out of Canonical - maybe they should have considered this stuff before making Unity?
Calibre [1] can do a reasonably good job on most types of PDF files,
but a lot depends on the type of PDF file you want to convert. PDF
is essentially a container format, and as expected, it can contain
a whole lot of different types of data such as images, text, fonts,
scripting, and much more. The results you'll get from Calibre (or
any other conversion tool) will depend heavily on the types of data
within the PDF file you want to convert, and also on what kind of
output you want to generate.

[1] http://calibre-ebook.com/
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The natural place for these ads would seem to be on Facebook canvas apps. They already have those ad slots optimized, since Facebook shows their own ads outside of the canvas area. There is no competition from Google because Facebook does not allow you to use AdSense in the canvas area.
Node-PDFReader - pdf2png and pdf2txt using pdf.js and node (proof of concept)
I agree in part.

This is not something to throw into your average mobilized web page, but into an HTML application designed for mobile. Facebook clearly does something like this for their mobile app.