skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretending to be Dutch is not such a good idea. Almost all dutch people speak very good English. In fact I've noticed that some Dutch people will get a bit offended if you ask if they can speak English because they all can. So if the officer knows anything about the Dutch they will know you are taking the piss.

On an unrelated note. I dont know about other countries, but in the UK I believe it's a criminal offence to bribe a foreign official, so UK citizens might want to bear this in mind when posting about thier experiences on the internet, other countries may have similar laws.
How common are the three apps? There would be a market if they are pretty common.
Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Came To Save Us All
Looking for performance? Probably you should not use [].sort in V8
Aloha is an RTE, I'm not talking about RTEs in my comment I'm talking about bare, basic fields. Such as the one I'm typing/editing this comment in.
A Conversation With Loren Brichter - Letterpress creator.
Stores like Brookline Booksmith and Harvard Book Store are barely making it too, but they have the name recognition to keep them going. Mainly, they pay their employees well below living wage with the promise of more "once the store starts making money again."
"Because the public are angry, politicians will be nervous too, and uncooperative politicians are bad news for tougher copyright law. But in the short term anyone sent a “pay-up-or-else” letter from CIAPC (if they even dare to send any more) will be thinking long and hard about paying. The chances of the police coming next time must be slimmer than last week.

And the fact that they will be able to thank a child for that is why this is some of the best news all year."
>One man's premature optimisation is another man's common sense...

I doubt common sense comes into play into such complex matters as determining keyboard layout performance. Without testing between different options, using control groups and working on some specific domain (e.g performance for programming vs prose writing), common sense is useless.

(Not to mention that even in programming common sense can be both right and irrelevant --e.g. common sense might correctly assume that some function can be optimized to perform 3x faster, but fails to that it takes only 0.2% of the total running time in the first place so the win would be negligible).

>You can see some automatically-optimised keyboard layouts here, and decide whether they look different enough from Dvorak for it (or the site itself) to qualify as a scam: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization*

I never argued against alternative keyboard layouts, or that qwerty is the best. Just that Dvorak is not worth it (and mostly, badly tested placebo solution). I've read the mwbrooks article in the past, the points he makes are not really worth it -- mostly a hack job.

In any case, if we need a future keyboard layout standard, it would have to take into account use cases (e.g programming vs journalism, etc), modern typography and extended glyphs, and of course since this is 2012, international language switching (I, and billions of other people, alternate between english and my language layout).
Crushinator, Google's tool to create animation sprite for doodles
We just added a CONTRIBUTING file to OpenStack Swift (and I believe the other OpenStack projects are getting one soon): https://github.com/openstack/swift/commit/fdf55c2817c9a457de....

The odd thing about OpenStack (from a GitHub perspective) is that the OpenStack development process doesn't use GitHub's issues or pull requests. This has been documented on the OpenStack wiki, but that info is now also in our CONTRIBUTING file. Our file is an example of something to share with potential contributors to point them in the right direction.
"A pretty good job" (not so pretty when you are waiting in-line for an hour) is not enough. If they can do the grunt work just as well, or better wrt refuelling/cleaning, and a better booking system, they will win.

You also missed the picture of car sharing.
I don't thing FNFJW is correct, I think it's a U. There is another very definite W written in the note, and it looks nothing like the square-ish looking U in a couple of other places.
Learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse C# programmer
Good example of making ads look like content.
> And although its competitors (especially Chrome) have now largely caught up, it also can't have hurt that Opera was an early leader in security features like encryption, useful in a police state.

What exactly are they referring to here?
"always" is indeed the operative bit. It wasn't always like this. Not at all.

Starting in 1994 Chile made a real push to clean up its act (which it really had to, it was making some other countries with very bad reputations look good by comparison).

They not only created a whole pile of legislation (which is the easy part), they actually acted on it. The net result of this is that Chile is now ahead of the United States in the corruption perception index:

http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/

A result they can be very proud of, especially given the surrounding countries. There is still a lot of work to do, there will always be a pressure for the return of corruption where it has already been dealt with but on the whole I think this is a fantastic achievement in a time-frame that makes it even more impressive.

The effect of cleaning up at the higher levels of government has trickled down to lower parts to the point where bribing police is no longer acceptable/required, as it should be.

In Chile the various achievements have been in reaction to scandals that got wide exposure, it seems that that is one avenue through which real change can be brought about.

If all of Latin America would adopt the various Chilean policies I'm pretty sure that it would benefit the region greatly, just imagine if 17 years from now you'd be able to say the same about Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. Apologies to Uruguay, they've been doing pretty good as well.

More reading:

http://csis.org/files/media/csis/event/070710_Penailillo.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
The Legacy of Linus Torvalds
Recommended by a friend - do any HNers use FreeAgent Online Accounting Software?
There is not much to pretend, I am Dutch... it also says so in my passport & driving license. And my English, as you can see is absolutely terrible.
Also makes you think about profiteering and exploitation. Universities and financial aid institutions have deliberately strip mined the perception of the college degree as a career asset. The result is that college degrees have less meaning, and that the labor market has been flooded with college graduates with staggering levels of student loan debt and no job to help them pay it off.
Hopefully this girl will create a paradigm shift. All of this anti-piracy prosecution makes me feel like im in a dystopian future where hearing music and watching movies is forbidden. :(
This "piracy war" is starting to look more and more like the drug war. I could see how in US especially, if marijuana is going to be legalized, all those agencies which would now be left out of work, could refocus on raiding "pirates", barging in and shooting people's dogs, and whatnot. Then this parody might become a reality (the part with the girl at the end):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
I can't find any info on browser support (maybe I'm looking in the wrong place). Anyone know?
I tend to walk into (South African) bookstores to buy Wired's UK edition and browse books for a while until I know what else I'd like to read.

At that point I write down the book's title and later download it for my Kindle. I've often thought that bookstores should have QR-codes with amazon referral links that make my purchases easier.

Sure, a referral isn't as much income as a physical book sale, but I really can't amass any more "real" books, since I want to stay mobile. I'm sure I'm not the only one using bookstores just for their coffee shop and easier browsing.
If you feel that it is not enough you could have added 'Dupe/more discussion' as you see fit. As it is your comment doesn't improve on the situation.

Typically a lone link referencing another HN thread is a dupe link or a place where there is more discussion on the same subject. I'll be more careful next time.
Reading visual braille with a retinal prosthesis
> LLVM IR is also machine independent

Not true. See http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/0437...

LLVM IR is more abstracted than a concrete machine assembly language, but it still contains implicit and explicit signs of the machine it was compiled for, for example

* Types that exist in one machine and not another (e.g. x86_f80 does not exist on ARM).

* Endianness

* Structure alignment

As the link above says, LLVM IR is an excellent compiler IR, but it was never meant to be a portable machine-independent IR.

But it can be abstracted enough for some purposes, and some projects do use it for related things.
Strange that this is the only other comment mentioning referral fees.
Nothing to do with loyalty. I just legitimately don't see how one gets from that name change to deciding there must have been a sex change. Knowing that the conclusion was correct doesn't help with that, but it's still good to know, so thanks!
Might as well read the programmers.stackexchange post [1],
it's better formatted.

[1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/163985/why-is...
This looks interesting but the website seems to lack information, could I have just walked up to this place one day and offered my services as a developer to any idea that took my fancy?
GE Buys 3D Printing Company To Make Parts For Jet Engines
Separation of concerns is a good thing.
My count of favorite HTML5 games moves up to 3. First Subbania then Buildy and now this one. You should probably add more physics as @ivan_ah said.
I believe https://makelovenotporn.tv/ tries to fill that space a bit. It's definitely good quality and isn't limited to the very softcore movies even if the name suggests otherwise.
Gebruik nooit antibiotica en hoestsiroop bij babys met het RSV virus
An explanation for the link:
A link to a previous discussion on HN about pretty much the same article. The original link is to Quartz and the article is by Tim Fernholz, so I guess it's reprinted by "The Atlantic". In the Atlantic version it's even stated at the top "TIM FERNHOLZ - Tim Fernholz is a reporter at Quartz."

Meta: I don't know why you've been downvoted, I find your complain perfectly valid. Maybe the reason is that the only thing you did is complain and decrease the S/N ratio.
It took me a minute to figure out how to edit the field.

You're creating new behavior which is counter to how we all understand links. Underlined words take us to other places. And dashed words unfortunately have the stigma of opening up some crappy add referencing the word.

Consider instead a little edit carrot next to the word and clicking anywhere in the cell makes it editable.
It's the next part of previous article: http://yuzhikov.com/articles/BlurredImagesRestoration1.htm
16 bits per second - the bandwidth of consciousness (2007)
RubyMonk is awesome, it's really helping me to do things the 'ruby way'
I suspect that what you are witnessing is nothing more than the Thanksgiving holiday effect.
I suggest you donate all the books and start another business. Keeping a brick and mortar bookstore is an uphill battle and it is better to cut the loss sooner rather than later.
Self-filling water bottle takes cues from desert beetle
I wonder if that's part of why the geek community is fighting harder than most: we've all read a couple cyberpunk/farenheight-451-type books and realize that future is not as impossible as once thougnt.
This one is done well:
http://opencomparison.readthedocs.org/en/latest/contributing...
Here's the thing, though: You have to assume that they are correct. If one believes that they are incorrect, he is effectively stating that he (someone thinking abstractly in the absence of any hard data) is better at pricing the value of the work than the manufacturer (who is directly affected by the outcome and has a wealth of hard data).

Several commenters have basically claimed that the manufacturers are behaving irrationally; a claim like that requires some powerful arguments to credibly support. I haven't seen much of that yet here.

I suspect that the truth is that manufacturers would be willing to pay to train workers if they could be reasonably sure that the investment would have time to pay off. But thanks to Moore's Law and everything that comes with it, manufacturing technology is changing far more rapidly than it used to when everything was more stable.

It seems likely that it's more cost-effective for the manufacturer to lower that risk by training lower-paid labor elsewhere and letting those workers go (or retraining them, if it's cheap to do so) when they're no longer suitable, than it is to do the same thing in first-world countries for much higher cost.
More H-1B visas needed because of skill or money shortage?
You often hear entrepreneurs say we need more H-1B visas. Are we really facing a skill shortage in tech or is it the lure of having an employee who is tied to their employer for lower wages than older americans (who have a job shortage) the real reason?
Computing a sum modulo 2 (cumulative xor) of n boolean inputs requires an exponential number of elements if you only have or, not and and gates to work with. (regardless of circuit depth, actually).
I heard a great song on Spotify today, a service I pay for. Interestingly enough those payments are not for the music, just the ability to listen to the music, as I abruptly realized when I started contemplating using that song in a DJ mix.
Yes we lost a couple of servers and associated data in a fire thanks to no DR policy and it caused the loss of a major contract worth 1.4m GBP a year.

That's when they employed me to fix it all and make sure that it was engineered properly and that there was a DR policy in place.

You can't have a DR policy in place for functionality that cannot be moved from the cloud so imagine the above with no hope of recovery.
The notional eight hour work-day wasn't invented for occupations with high cognitive/reasoning workloads; it was invented for factories that needed workers to operate three shifts per day consistently.

It became culturally ingrained because, back at the peak of labour-intensive industrialization, about 50% of the work force were employed in factories. But it doesn't actually bear any relation to how much time we can spend working effectively in tasks that require high-level reasoning skills. Nor does it bear any relationship to the earlier pre-industrial paradigm (agricultural labour from dawn 'til near-dusk, which could vary from 6 to 18 hours per day depending on the length of the day -- indoor lighting consisting of [expensive] candles).

Unfortunately it's also easy to see whether a body is physically present or absent from an office -- easier than measuring the quality of its mental outputs -- and it's still relevant to service occupations, which is why we're mostly stuck with it.
ok, i think i have finally found what you're talking about -
in 94 frei's govt created the Comisión Nacional de Ética Pública

but this was related to the transition from the junta to civillian rule (and of course the junta was corrupt). that is really old news.

so sorry, i misunderstood your original reply. yes, that's a/the historical explanation. but if you ask someone in the street why you don't bribe police it's because it's a simple fact of normal behaviour these days. the kind of corruption that occurred during the junta is seen as exceptional to those times.

there have been several scandals more recently, but they're generally related to politicians more than police (and probably helped pinera get elected in the hope that a new broom would sweep cleaner).

[edit: sorry, have been editing significantly; thanks for updated link]
I like the "Political Prostitution" (website now defunct) one: http://vimeo.com/45864549
LLVM IR can be target-independent. It can also contain target-depentent pieces when compiled from a target-dependent language (like C or C++).
339 Gbps: High-energy physicists smash records for network data transfer
There are no Opera Mobile for iPhone, only Opera Mini.
Pretty cool ideas, not sure if I'd rent someone my car but I'd definitely rent someone else's.
Yes for data. Data is easily recovered, but under the circumstances that your cloud apps suddenly become instantly unavailable, how do you recover your applications?

You don't - you have to migrate and retrain everyone, which if you've used all the features in your cloud platform requires major process and tooling rewrites.

With an offline solution, you can shelve it and migrate slowly. When someone else hosts it, you're at their mercy.
> LLVM IR is a lot easier to generate than machine code and unlike machine code, it can be optimized after it is generated.

Just a small nit: it's possible to optimize machine code. In fact, LLVM has some peephole optimization passes on the MachineInstr level, and hooks to add others. LLVM IR is, however, much more amenable to optimization, since it's higher-level, contains type information and was generally designed to be optimizable (i.e. SSA form).
Python open-source tool that generates images with a URL
Because Opera has a mode to bypass government firewalls? (Opera Turbo)
Sure wish I had a nickle for every time I've heard/read this.
It's amazing how many reposes pg's post generated.
Surely the burden is squarely on the author to show what the generalization (in this context) offers that the specific concept of sufficient statistics does not? In other words, how else can a statistician or ML expert use this foreign "monoid" concept to improve or better understand parameter estimation?
Not Old, Vintage
As pointed before, this was discussed a few days ago here (the original was on quartz.com, so is this like a "reblogged in theatlantic" thing?):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4801782

FWIW, this comment from that thread had many good insights.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4804173

@4ad makes some good points (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4828181) in this thread. FWIW, I am reproducing my comment from that previous thread here.

Disclaimer: Long time Opera user and probably an Opera browser fan.

I have been using Opera since its "ad-supported" days. It was bundled with one of those PC magazines that gave out free software/shareware for the bandwidth challenged in those days (97/98-ish?), and fell in love instantly.

Opera is probably the most configurable, hackable and feature-full browser out there up to this day, and I still find things to configure and customise to this day (now on Opera 12.10). Opera also provides the user with an option to install itself as a portable version which I found very cool. It is also very light on PC resources (YMMV -- anecdata)

I also find it very annoying that a looot of websites do not support this browser.... at all despite its being on par (if not better) in most if not all browser tests (I heard they lagged behind on the most recent tests).

Opera Mini is blazingly fast on not-so-smartphones (used it on the Nokia ASHA series) and Android smartphones as well (anecdata -- my experience). It beats out Nokia's own browser which incidentally has adopted the "Turbo" architecture for its own browsers.

IMO the article does great disservice to Opera's technical/technological advanced capabilities by ignoring all of those and solely focussing the article around socialism and dictatorship and poor net connections in "those other countries" instead ( [almost] creating a straw-man in the process). Booo!
RubyMonk rocks!!

Wish there was a HaskellMonk too.. :[
Congratulations on winning the Merck contest! That was an impressive demonstration.

About 12 years ago, I switched from a Bio major to CS. I hoped to major in AI, but after taking 2 upper level classes, one focusing on symbolic AI and the other focusing on Bayesian networks, I was completely turned off.

Our brains are massively parallel redundant systems that share practically nothing in common with modern Von Neumann CPUs. It seemed the only logical approach to AI was to study neurons. Then try to discover the basic functional units that they form in simple biological life forms like insects or worms. Keep reverse engineer brains of higher and higher life forms until we reach human level AI.

Whenever I tried to relate my course material in AI to what was actually going on in a brain, my profs met my questions with disdain and disinterest. I learned more about neurons in my high school AP Bio class than either of my AI classes. In their defense, we've come a long ways, with new tools like MRIs and neural probes.

The answers are all locked up in our heads. It took nature millions of years of natural selection to engineer our brains. If we want to crack this puzzle in our lifetimes, we to copy nature, not reinvent it from scratch. Purely mathematical theories like Bayesian statistics that have no basis in Biological systems might work in specific cases, but are not going to give us strong AI.

Are these new deep learning algorithms for neural networks rooted in biological research? Do we have to necessary tools yet to start reversing engineering the basic functional units of the brain?
also look into my buddy's company loudpixel.com

big brands at executive level care about reports more than anything.
Yeah, that one seems very relevant to the story here. Almost forgot about it.
What on earth is OpenStack? (open source cloud compute/storage/admin)
The Cause-Effect system
I think you're in the right part of the Venn diagram. Selling physical books in a physical store as the business is probably disappearing.

Doing "something else" (exercise for the reader, sorry) that offers something book-related as one of many services is probably where the future of non-Amazon book business will be.

A work-space with services ...
clojure!!!
Sorry about the broken link, I really hate it when google does not allow you to cut-and-paste links to documents, especially pdfs.

http://csis.org/files/media/csis/events/070710_Penailillo.pd...

Here is a re-try. The document linked is quite frank about achievements and areas that still need (a lot of) work.

Yes, the Junta was corrupt, but the government that replaced it had its issues too, and they worked quite hard on fixing those.

The kind of corruption that is not tolerated in Chile is par for the course in pretty much all the surrounding countries.

I'm not sure if pre-transition Chilean materials are representative of reality.
As someone slightly colorblind, it is almost impossible for me to distinguish Firefox and Chrome. With four things to show, even grayscale would have worked.

Here is the interactive map. Hover over countries to see percentages:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-monthly-201208-201210-...
> Many teens still prefer Opera for unknown reasons here.

This demographic trend in true in many places.

One reason could be that Opera offers an unprecendented level of hackability and configurability (for a closed source browser) that in turn gives teens a "I am soo much in control of this whole browsing experience thing" feeling?

(Correct me if I am wrong) :-)
I bet that all made sense in your head; not so much for the rest of us.
Making it easier for a post to hit the frontpage might be desirable to reward people for interacting with the "new submissions" page - if it only needs 3 votes, there is a much higher likelihood of instant gratification.

Might be something to build into the next algorithm.
Only at the first third and already delighted. He's moving between music, physics, programming in such a simple and pragmatic way, thanks for the bottom-up dynamic evaluation demonstration. Many many thanks.

links aside, he uses (and is a project contributor)
http://overtone.github.com/

ps: they also provide a nice emacs setup
https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live