skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not assuming anything. As a recent citizen of the US I am just observing that the US doesn't seem to be willing to look at other countries and learn from them because somehow the US is perceived as special. Examples where the US could learn a lot IMO are:

- health system

- broadband coverage (argument "the US has low population density". But why does the coverage in LA suck then? It should be a dream for a competitive market.

- murder rates

- incarceration rates

- poverty rates

Reflexively rejecting other countries' experiences is hurting this country big time.
Thought I would get 8 out of 10. Only got 4 of 10.
Building the Netflix UI for Wii U
January, yes. December, no.

Like I said, I doubt he has cause to worry, but I know that I've had similar circumstances where a loss of income source occurs immediately after a big expenditure, so I know how poor the timing is.

January's a new month, a new year, and is likely to be rife with opportunity, but in the interim, there's to be a few missed checks that could be important.
"For Silver's cause and effect analysis to be incorrect, she needed to prove that the inaccurate models had absolutely nothing to do with the financial meltdown."

If I smashed your head in with a hammer, would people claim the hammer was the cause of your death? Is "hammer caused death" the end of the story, or even particularly important to the related series of causes and effects?

She's arguing that it's not, that Silver's cause and effect analysis is irrelevant because his purported cause is purely incidental. Intentionally inaccurate models were simply an instrument designed to further the self-interest of individuals.

(And further, she doesn't need to provide a "proof" to make this claim. But she does offer a compelling argument.)
[Show HN] GnuBackgammon port for Android
No more free Google Apps  Here are some alternatives.
http://rethinkdb.a.pogoapp.com/ - our demo has been updated to 1.3.1
Also, startups are more financially risky in unexpected sudden failure than most big-company jobs. Startups generally don't pay severance. There might be nothing to pay out.

Additionally, if you are unemployed you must get at least 45 minutes of exercise every day, and spend at least 4-6 hours on something career focused (skill building during the annoying latent periods of job searching) as if you were FT employed. Depression can turn what should be a 21-day gap into 21 weeks.
Maybe I'm out of line here, but if you're going to be developing with RethinkDB you can probably figure out how to install Homebrew.
We @ Alca Società Cooperativa (http://alcacoop.it) are proud to announce the release of GnuBackgammon Mobile for Android as well as its source code: GnuBackgammon Mobile and libgnubg-android.

libgnubg-android is a real port of GnuBackgammon (gnubg) AI (http://gnubg.org/) and, among the others, one reason of this port is also the chance to reintegrate our work into the gnubg source tree in order to create a real linkable library (as it happened for GNU Chess, as an example). Actually it compiles on x86 and ARM (v6/v7).

GnuBackgammon Mobile is released under a GPLv3 license, you can find source code on GitHub at:
http://github.com/alcacoop/it.alcacoop.gnubackgammon
http://github.com/alcacoop/libgnubg-android

A precompiled version of GnuBackgammon Mobile is available on Google Play Store at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.alcacoop.gn...

Our future goals are:
* extracting analysis and rollouts tools from gnubg
* introducing real multi-threading
* porting of SSE2 code to SIMD (neural net implementation).

If anyone would like to contribute, please fork us on GitHub or write at info@alcacoop.it
Does Website Speed Matter?
So Amazon and Google studies, along with most Web performance asay that a fast page load will equate to higher sales, or longer visitor stays to click on advertising. But, is this really the case?

Could the slowest the site on the internet with amazing content that draws the visitor in do just as well with the fastest Website on the planet which has boring content or unattractive offers?
Nancy - Lightweight Web Framework for .net
Curious why spam is a concern for privacy regulators. Would you know why?
This is horrible, and interesting! The biggest group to stand to make money off the back of Facebook is probably spammers, by charging a dollar they're either going to get really good spam or it'll still keep them away. Of course, if the spammers can Nigerian prince a few fattened gooses they'll take the $1 price as the entry fee and deducted it from the profits.

Puzzled why anyone at Facebook thinks this is a remotely good idea, but you know, business model.
Some thoughts on intellectual (dis)honesty
Behind closed doors at the UN's attempted "takeover of the Internet"
Which Business Tools Made Me Part Man, Part Machine
I have had to be in by 4:30 am literally because the ship was sailing. I worked for a Marine colonel who told me to come in whenever I wanted so long as I got to meetings and did the work. 10 years later I still run into people who ask me if I hated working for him as much as they did. I have had mandatory work hours that I had to log (no more than 80 hours a week). I have had a job that was embarrassingly easy and all I had to do was but my meetings on a group calendar (Outlook ruined the experience).

This things don't matter. What you are doing with your life matters. Are you still trying to change the world?
I will know.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. I will delete this in five minutes.
That's a large enough exception that one pot cooking and rice cooker cooking are two very different things. You can make some good meals in one pot, but you're doing things like browning meat in it, then sweating onions, then adding in whatever else. I make a mean poulet basquaise in a dutch oven, but couldn't make it in a rice cooker.

Can you somehow get a maillard reaction to occur in a rice cooker? Or caramelization?
The article was relatively short. Perhaps you could expand (or follow it up) with some consideration of how to spot the ecological fallacy and how to avoid it?

Also you don't go into much detail explaining the smoking cancer example. Is it the case that the data turned out to be right 'in spite of' the fallacy or was it a case where the data was immune to the problems of other cases?
So you are complaining that you didn't get the
karma 500 days ago that wallflower got?

Not at all. Karma is a proxy measure for something else, and since this submission proved "successful" by the karma measure, I'm happy to see that the submitter got the karma for it.

Or are you just pondering the mysteries of stories
getting picked up?

In part, yes, exactly this,

I see it isn't the latter since in this comment
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4097127
you indicate you've done research on that topic.

I have, and continue to do so because I have, as yet, come to no definitive conclusions. The investigations continue, even if only in a sporadic fashion,as and when I have the time.

So what are you saying?

I'm saying that sometimes submissions fail to attract any attention, even if subsequent submissions achieve significant success. This is evidence that the current system is, by some measures, sub-optimal. I continue to investigate the dynamics (as best I can), and continue to work on something that I think will improve the situation.

The dissonance between the comments there (even though downvoted) and the positive reaction here is also of interest. I thought I'd share that, hence my comment.
I just got into this a few months ago and it is amazing. my favorite is steel cut oats. I spray the inside with Pam skip any butter or oil. steamed veggies in the tray with brown rice is so healthy. The oats cook much faster this way and clean up is a breeze.
I watched the video, but it's not for me:

1. I can use mark-as-unread (or flag e-mail messages, I don't see the use of flags when you can mark as unread but whatever)

2. I cannot see how this would actually work. I mean, do you support Symbian? All applications that use any kind of messaging on Symbian? Does it integrate with the OS; Whatsapp; Nimbuzz? Pidgin on Linux? This is edging impossibility to do.

3. If I can't mark as unread or am too lazy to, I leave the application opened. Edit: Oh but most smartphone apps are always left running in the background, then this would be harder. I prefer an OS which closes an application when I close it. /edit

The initiative is pretty okay and I like the website. It just won't work for everyone (because of #2) and especially not for me (#1 and #3).
Good advice. Even better is to save 40-60% of every check with no intention of ever spending it.

I always thought it seemed too aggressive a policy until I hit my first round of financial hardship, and then it seemed so stupid that I hadn't abided it before.

Meanwhile, a friend of mine who does abide this rule just paid for his wedding and first home entirely as a cash transaction and hasn't incurred any debt beyond the credit cards he pays off every month.

Especially in today's day and age, stability is more and more precious.
Three Paradigms
I'm reading it as a prohibition of government action with respect to a certain class of people. Why with respect to a certain class of people rather than everyone in the world? First, because the text suggests as much ("No person..."). Second, because that's how it's always been interpreted. You can trace much of the language of the fifth amendment back to the Magna Carta, which was an enumeration of limitations on the power of the English King with respect to the free men of England.

More generally, at the time of the founding it was taken for granted that the Constitution only applied to American soil. Most of the extra-territorial application of the Constitution has been the result of subsequent legal development.
Everybody enjoys a good Christmas story so after you get that new job somewhere early next year, as seems a given, do come back here and tell us where you ended up :)
Doesn't snapfish already do this fine?
$1.00 per message is extremely expensive for individuals who make their money spamming inboxes.
What does "offered stock options" mean? I'd like to have a complete understanding to total average comp, but I need to know the total present value of these stock options.
The Psychology of Why Email is so Frustrating
5 Most Popular Math Puzzles in 2012
The entire article goes on in great length about how awe-inspiring the
engineering of this cable is, whereas I just see a bunch of complexity that
probably didn't need to be there. The 118 layers of paper tape, and the oil
pumps, and so forth. Surely there was a simpler solution.

http://www.howtospotapsychopath.com/2010/03/10/today-on-surf...

Take care that you don't come down with "Engineers' Disease", though - the
tendency for people with a high level of technical knowledge to decide that
their knowledge must be applicable to specialised fields that they don't
actually know a lot about.

You are a programmer, not an electrical engineer. Wild speculation regarding a field you know little about is not attractive.

Allow me to reverse your statement.

"I don't see why programming for multicore processors has to be so complex. Why not just run four copies of the program on all four cores?"

"I don't see why every web site makes you create a new account. Why not log into everything with my facebook account?"

"I don't see why the legal system has to be so complex. Why not just have the judge decide everything, and get rid of the lawyers?"
That's basically SMS in India in a nutshell from my understanding. Except I believe there's a third level allowing SMS spam.
There's also a third camp, for those of us dealing with structured data that doesn't fit into a "tables and rows" idiom.
One example of this that I recently read about was the measurement of development in india, that for a long time happened on a family level and so missed a lot of inequality and lacking of basic capabilities and freedoms for women. Not only did this mean that the information was wrong, it also lead to it taking longer to acknowledge just how important empowerment of women is in fighting poverty.
I get it. I'm dabbling in japanese currently and love puns like these.
It is also not as if the job is rote work.
That seems a bit alarmist. Someone who pays 20$ can have your phone beeping 20 times. That's a lot of money to pay for a mild annoyance.
PostgreSQL use case: www.leboncoin.fr (160 cores, 192 disks, etc)
Because at least in Europe, they consider the right to be left alone part of privacy. If my privacy controls say you can't message me, you shouldn't be able to message me. Otherwise, they aren't privacy controls.

It's not like you get to pull a name out of thin air and message it for a dollar, it tells you things about people you can't normally reach (IE normally have you blocked from sending messages), and lets you decide if you want to reach them anyway, despite the fact that you are normally blocked/put into other.

The wonderful spin they put on this is: "For the receiver, this test allows them to hear from people who have an important message to send them."

That important message could be "i'm stalking you, bitch", being sent from a throwaway facebook account. As the article points out it also allows you to send messages to people you aren't friends with, so you don't even have to have gotten them to friend you. Normally it would have gone into other and you'd likely never have looked.
A is the "financial crisis", not "everything falling apart".

Everything falling apart would be hyper-inflation in addition to capital control and gold confiscation : )

That could be 'D'.

Latter or sooner we'll learn if D <- A ; )
Showing my age, but I worked for years in a dark room with a green screen terminal. I've long since made a habit of setting my terminals (regardless of OS) to exactly the same bright green on black. I do prefer the font bolded though. When I first started (rather shortly after--few years) CRT replacements became available for my favorite terminals. So if I wanted I could use either bright blue on black or bright red. Both surprisingly useful in darkened rooms!
I'm curious to hear more about people managing large scale PG deployments.
Getting clients to produce content has been one of the most difficult tasks for me, but having them make a video and then transcribing that is genius.
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any good heuristics for identifying when the ecological fallacy is or is not an issue. As you suggested, that implies that one should always consider it to be an issue if the individual level data isn't available.

Does anyone know of anything I'm missing here?
Are you folks open to that?

I'd be happy to do a pull request that does paths for homebrew and ports, so that either OS X party can be OK with it.
They could get you to bid against the spammers, perhaps. If somebody will pay $1 to send you a message, maybe you'll pay $1.10 not to receive it :)

But if they feel their message is THAT important, perhaps they'd then pay $1.20 to ensure you get it...
I second this. Any recommendations? ReclineJS is OK but have not had great success with it -- wraps Slickgrid. This table may be enough to make me jump into EmberJS from Backbone.
IT'S GREEN :|

http://www.readability.com/articles/dcsyvhkh
Flat taxes don't work brilliantly except for rich people.

Flat tax is never going to happen.
This made me laugh. Mr Zuckerberg wants users to pay to send emails to each other? If so it must be a sign of how desperate Facebook is becoming to please shareholders.
It's in now!

http://ppladdressbook.org/documentation/commands/post/
AAAAH, missing closing paren!!!
If we're going to be pedantic about it, it extends no protection at all to women.
Not really. $870 could just be a sudden windfall.

I'd suggest paying off some debt, if you have any.
According to me this is the best place to start http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
Here it is for sale on Tufte's site:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint

And here's his sample:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
OP's spouse may be somewhat less confident. "See honey, HN doesn't think I'll have a problem! Look at all these emails! We'll figure something out."

Such demonstration is especially important if said spouse was skeptical about the start-up foray in the first place.

N.B.: Perfectly valid motive for posting. And not one that invalidates the inquiries.
That explains it. You probably have no idea how fortunate you are.
I think Windows marketing is entirely misguided. It keeps insulting its users rather than showing users why they should switch. Not just with Scroogled, but also with campaigns like their commercials showing other smart phone users being rude.
Well in a very real way the system has to intentionally obfuscate the 'way to the front page' because being on the front page is so valuable, thus a target for manipulation.

What I'm saying is that as soon as you find a fool proof way to submit something and have it show up on the front page, pg will 'fix' it so that you can't do that in the future just like linking the discussion in a blog post was 'fixed'.

I typically read the site from an RSS feed, which means I see everything that is submitted that makes it to the rss feed, regardless of whether it is on the 'new' page or has fallen off. I don't know what percentage of folks do that. There are also 'super powers' for some users but those are for the standard sorts of things (like make sure a YC company looking for people gets to the front page for a while).

Can you say more about what "improving the system" would entail?
Out of curiosity, which cookbooks?

I used to make a soup every time my parents came over because they loved it that used a lot of chicken stock. Eventually I gave them the recipe and they'd make it at home with bouillon cubes and then call me and ask me why it wasn't as good. To this day they still haven't tried just making their own stock, but I did eventually get them to try the liquid stuff that comes from the store, which is a tad too salty usually but still much better than cubes.
check your email - sent you some openings from my company & my gf's
Bad example. I'm a German citizen and my wife had to take the language exam in order to become eligible for permanent residency. Not because of any extraordinary circumstances either, just as a matter of course.

I know this for a fact not only because we were subjected to it but because at the time I read up on the pertaining law. (Sorry, too lazy to dig it up now.)
Not if they're also stealing credit card numbers.
They tried to do it in secret, but civil libertarians found out about it, and then some backlash started.

No they didn't. Not putting out a press release doesn't mean you're trying to do stuff in secret. The reality is that most people just don't care much about the intended targets of this legislation.
"A simpler variation on the deathtrap is the villain speech, also known as monologuing. The villain, after having captured the hero or another victim, gives a long speech [...]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathtrap_(plot_device)#The_vi...
Aren't links also proper global IDs, allowing us to address objects cross-service ?
> government is corrupt

Until any contrary evidence, all Government is corrupt by definition (and yes, I call lobby-led politics "corruption"). In a true and free market "finance" is not corrupt, if you can't pay your debts you're out of it, this has been true since this industry was first invented by the Italians around the 1300-1400s.

In this latest crisis the problem was that the financial market was mostly led by Government-mandated decisions, starting with the Bear Stearns rescue in early 2008.
I just wish Facebook would deliver messages I've sent to strangers to their actual inbox. Example - I found somebody's wallet. Found that person on Facebook, and sent them a message. Never heard back, but I can only assume my message is sitting in their 'Other' inbox.

Stuff like that makes it easy to not depend on the site for anything.
Coincidentally, I just finished a similar table using backbone. It isn't nearly as feature-rich, but it has sortable, movable, resizable columns, and a mechanism for adding filter fields. It was built for a specific purpose in an existing project, but I was actually going to work on turning it into a standalone library and writing a blog piece on it after work today.
Yes, it's really the case. I actively avoid sites that take ages to load.
"Accept that you are a foodie, great. Accept that there are non-foodies too."

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what I said in the penultimate paragraph. I just want people to try real food, both eating and cooking. Then if you want to go back to rice cookers at least you'll know what the alternative was.
Is it? You can send quite a few spam e-mails with a dollar, but with this, you're guaranteed your message will show up in someones inbox, that it won't be placed in the spam folder and it's legal to boot.
I'm the author. First, I'd like to point out that I started out as a programmer for embedded devices.. so I did know about the parallel nature and powers of two. BUT, I do know lots of programmers who don't. My intention was to teach those who know nothing of computer hardware and are asking these questions. Hopefully you'll be less grumpy now. (:
Meet Facebook’s Stealth Marketing Platform, “Publishing Garage”
I think it's because many people who have a rice cooker don't have or want a crockpot. Ebert's rice cooker recipes are probably directed primarily toward this group.
The article says that at the moment (realizing that this is still very early), users are limited to one message a week. I imagine that this will rise, but if they keep a relatively low limit on the amount you can send, I should think that spamming would be infeasible.

It's also (again, currently) "not available to Brands."
Briefly: there are a lot of common vulnerability classes which can compromise a user of your application / their cookie / their DB record, for example mass assignment (to update the "role" attribute in a free trial account to "admin") or XSS (tweet at your support account and have them click a link to your domain, bam, the adversary now has your cookie and can log in as you).

Separating the admin app and the normal app upper-bounds the impact of those flaws at something lower than "The worst thing someone could possibly do with the admin console." Given that many admin consoles have fairly extensive functionality, that's generally a good idea. (I mean, my businesses are pretty low risk as things go, and my admin consoles would trivially do about $20k of damage just with refunds if compromised.)
These are not particularly good arguments he puts forth here

Would you care to explain why you think they're not particularly good? You're blaming DHH of being "hand wavy" but I don't see any more depth from your comment.
I'll be the first to admit to being fortunate, but I don't think that makes me a rarity here.
California is pretty much dollar for dollar equivalent to Australian taxes (which, funnily enough, the IRS classifies as a "high tax country") too.

And you get much more for your money in Australia.

That's why a lot of US-ians are anti-tax. I think it has a lot to do with not seeing any benefits to paying it -- so they'd rather keep their money and fund private institutions. Of course, that's lose-lose and the country has almost no new infrastructure, terrible health care and no safety net and 8% unemployment. So there's that.

But most of these people choose to ignore the elephant in the room, which is military spending. But I presume you can't just say "divert all military spending to Euro-style 'socialist' paradise spending" because then a lot of people would no longer have jobs in the military-industrial complex.

TL:DR: nothing is going to change.
Apple's 6 Simple Rules for Designing a Killer iOS App
I absolutely agree with you, but I can't think of rote work that should be salaried to begin with? If it is done by rote, wouldn't the person just punch in, work, then punch out?
I think I just died a little inside.
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