skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Including...

Q. I know that the editorial staff at the Economist hates Silvio Berlusconi, so I have to ask...
Would you rather fight one horse sized Silvio Berlusconi or 100 duck sized Silvio Berlusconis?

and

Q. Who are your articles geared towards with regard to audience - professionals or academics?
A. They are geared towards a curious alien who has just landed and speaks English. This is why we say things like "Ford, a carmaker".
15 Years of Apple’s Homepage
Monday's Best Design Links #2
If you're just starting off I would recommend Fireworks. It's the best of both worlds.
Google doing so would imply them actively doing something politically sensitive which adds an interesting dimension to the story which the title implies is there but it looks like in fact isn't?
You're being incredibly rude and unfair.

Rude? Maybe. Unfair? Hardly. The OP completely mischaracterizes what the best groups in our industry do, then laments that people aren't helping his friend, and this lamentation is the extent of his contribution to his friend's plight.

Ad hominem means that I disagree with him because of his person, which is not true. I disagree with him because of specific hypocrisy and finger pointing. I am further disappointed that this story is so popular on Hacker News, because I read Hacker News for insightful posts, and this is just demagoguery - popular because it's what people want to hear. That doesn't make him more wrong, but it does make me more likely to say something about it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5089296

pg is good about handling people with kid gloves. He addresses the OPs points in a rational way that is insightful and without reproach. But I don't think that pg speaks to the problem, which is that a popular, long time contributor to the community is apparently upset that people work to make money and that some things are difficult for non-technical reasons. Bad apples ruin a community, and if the community isn't tended to it devolves into blithering noise.

I also did not comment on his original post, but on a comment thread that began with:

That being said, sometimes a man in a saloon has a few drinks and yells at the television, telling the coach of some football team what to do next. Just because he's drunk and in a saloon doesn't mean he's wrong, just boorish.

And any drunkard yelling at a television is wrong. His non-participation means that he doesn't actually understand the problem, and without that he cannot be anything other than wrong.
I'm just saying that, if you're a developer, isn't it better to directly code and ship an "almost okay" app in 1/2 week, get feedback and iterate than learning photoshop, wireframe, design, code and ship in 7/8 weeks?
Student expelled after finding security hole that compromised 250,000 records
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And here I was, thinking I was all awesome for playing Mr Do! with Mame.
So I sell a simple SaaS service and asked my accountant one question.

Do I charge VAT. Here is his reply:

"
Vat rules
You need to identify B2B and B2C UK, EC and outside EC customers.
A vat registration number is usually accepted as evidence of B2B.

1 All sales outside the EC have no vat implications and are ‘outside the scope of vat’.

2 All sales to UK customers (B2B and B2C) have UK vat to apply to them and are standard rated.

3 All B2B sales to EC customers have no vat and are ‘outside the scope of UK vat’.

4 All B2C sales to EC customers have UK vat to apply to them and are standard rated.

There is a further twist.
If you can identify where your service is effectively used/enjoyed, then
If the place of supply would be the UK (2&4) but the service is enjoyed outside the EC, then no vat (outside the scope)
or
If the place of supply would be outside EC (1) but the service is enjoyed in the UK, then UK vat applies."
I think the other thing I like about Reddit compared to HN is that even if the comments do start dropping in quality, it's usually because of humor rather than pedantry or general ill-will. (Which I quite like as a natural joker.)
I hate to be the negative nancy here, but there is absolutely nothing in this slide deck about learning design. You learned how to use Photoshop and parrot other designs--and that's a fine start--but you absolutely did not learn any design fundamentals.
This is the money quote:

>The prevailing scientific view of the exclusion zone has become that it is an unintentional wildlife sanctuary. This conclusion rests on the premise that radiation is less harmful to wildlife populations than we are.

I don't consider myself an environmentally focused person, but the effects humans have on the ecosystem cannot be overstated. I'm not saying the effects are negative or positive, just that we as a species need to be very cognizant of the changes we cause, and we need to think critically about what ramifications those changes have.
did anyone else think "Desgin" was a new framework for building mobile apps?
the question was "a good sized working program", the racket page is a great page but only has a few haikus, so "no" should be your first word, even if the rest of the comment is correct :)
BlackBerry 10 walkthrough with 100 photos of RIM's new OS
"The computing students, once gender effects had been eliminated, actually came out basically the same as medical and caring types: they had turned out to be normal, warm, caring human beings. It was in fact the physics-based classical engineers who were dead inside."

They also missed a key tidbit from the original news release. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130117084854.ht...

The computing students (who were found to be as empathetic as others once controlling for gender) were taught using problem-based learning techniques - i.e., working in teams on real-world problems and projects. The other group was taught using traditional methods (lecture, rote memorization).

"For computer engineering students, the differences were largely eliminated. The researchers have a theory about why: the computer engineering students are taught with PBL, problem-based learning, which is not the case for the applied physics students. Chato Rasoal believes this can influence the degree of empathy."

Engineering (and math and science) professors need to improve how they teach. Here are 3 simple, research-backed tips for doing so: 1) incorporate everyday examples in your teaching, 2) use tools and techniques to improve student spatial visualizations skills, and 3) talk with and interact with your students (out of class and online): http://www.engageengineering.org/
If you are doing any serious development in Unity, you will be programming and so your skills will likely come into use day-in, day-out. Maybe some of what you will do will be higher-level than if you were writing an engine from scratch, but that isn't necessarily true and isn't necessarily bad. In many ways, Unity does a pretty decent job of letting you go lower-level when you need to, but not requiring it of you all the time.

Maybe rendering is a good example of this. Unity ships with a bunch of built-in materials and shaders and has surface shaders to abstract away some aspects of writing custom shaders. But there are cases where you need something a little less mainstream, and you can write CG or HLSL if you need to. Just like you can also manage sending data directly to the card if you need to... or you can let renderer components on your objects handle things. The nice thing is that in 99% of cases, when you don't need to -- you don't have to.
For any other Americans who were wondering what bicycle stunts might have to do with this research:

> Noun. trick cyclist (plural trick cyclists)
1. (UK, slang) A psychiatrist

My ability to detect British humor through text must be pretty poor, because it took several re-reads and a Googling of "trick cyclist" to finally notice the sarcasm/satire.
I'm pretty sure I'm 36.6 C and very much alive, thank you very much.

I don't appreciate the "Engineers are ice cold" rhetoric. I can't tell if its satirizing the research or if they are just link baiting but this article seems to portray all engineers as terrible people.
Thanks for recommending Fireworks. Seems like the right way to go.
You don't need to be a lawyer to have a valid "legal" opinion.

And yes, there are centuries of jurisprudence, but it is always changing, evolving, and sometimes even reversing to meet the needs of the present.
You had me at the headline. :-) It is ironic to see Orwell misattributed given his dislike for doublespeak in the news.

I could attack the headline and say that news is really about the surprise factor - the more new information, the more it is news, hence the name. Then again, that's really besides the point of chasing the source of an insightful quote.
wow, the title reflects how epic is the development of journalism standards.
Thanks. I hadn't looked much into Fireworks. But seems like you are right.
"Just start 256 threads" means you're testing the OS (or /maybe/ your runtime libraries) not the language.
Maybe. I've been 25 years experimenting with it.

If every person complaining the world should be better would take the time to visit with a mentally handicapped person, or wipe the drool off an Alzheimer patient's chin, or have coffee with the lonely dude in the corner -- the world _would_ be an enormously better place. Better than they dream.

This is obvious. Also, that these things aren't sexy. Which leads to implications for people's motivations.

One reason Jesus commanded that his followers not let their right hand know the charities the left was up to, was that the pursuit of opinion spoils those charities.

This is an old and important problem. I am not sure that some occasional rudeness to the vainly well-meaning isn't part of the solution.
Which Harbaugh Will Wear This Shirt At the Harbowl?
0 - 12,000 downloads: The story of an iOS Newsstand Magazine
You can't survive in China without a stable VPN connection.
> or if they are just link baiting

The register is pretty awful rag and full of stupid annoying link-baity trash.
Good point about memchr, I missed an opportunity there.

edit: because it's clearer and faster, that's a no-brainer, updating the blog post with a remark to that effect and a link to parent.
In any case we had to get a design guy, even novice guys cost bomb, So I thought it was better spend a few weeks and learn.
Some days ago a guy pointed right to you why you have so much problems in HN, emotionally loaded text (the "political correctness" is here, you still use the same method apparently), according to him he did the same a year before, but you still insist the problem is with others.

Apparently by labeling the mods someone who moderate you, you again chose to ignore him.

If you authorize I'll find the post and put the thread link here, if not, I'll not be the one stalking you.

EDIT: wrote in a hurry including some lacking words.
All B2B sales to EC customers have no vat and are ‘outside the scope of UK vat’.

Interesting. I was under the impression that EC B2B sales were zero-rated only for companies that are VAT-registered. This is why we grab and validate a VAT number for each EC company that we issue an invoice for.

That said, God only knows how this might tie into the living hell which is Polish bureaucracy.
You could actually edit the title of this submission to remove the typo.
"putting on the map" does not imply marking
I'd say a healthy job market is also something anyone would want for their platform, and the more teams pick it up the more likely it would be for you to find a good job working with some stack you love.
PayPal, PayMill, Braintree etc are all 3rd party payment processors. So I don't quite understand your distinction. I believe FastSpring may mean you avoid having to get a merchant account directly so perhaps that's the difference you see? The biggest objection I've heard is the 9% flat rate they take vs 3% and 30 cents per transaction that you'd roughly see from a payment processor.
Mechatronic? Or do you have three degrees?
"It's called Dylan because it's so cool that nobody understands it." -- a manager in the Newton Group

[Kind of tounge-in-cheek; I didn't see that it was particularly difficult to grok]

The Newton was going to be programmed in Dylan from the metal on up. The week that it was decided to write it all in C++, there were a lot of glum ex-Dylan programmers wandering the halls, clutching copies of the C++ ARM.
We have prisons where people work producing military equipment, and how much one needs to go to prison?

How much law lobbying is done by prison owners?
This is untrue.

Surveys are sent by an organisation that is independent of the trusts. Patients are chosen at random.

I don't know what you saw, but it was not the patient experience survey that you linked to.
You can subscribe to the newsletter at the bottom of the official page: http://shanghaihn.org (hopefully that words fine despite being a Github pages :) ).
Kim Dotcom launches new file sharing website named Mega
There were two big problems with the banks:

1. A number of wine investment companies took card payments but never bought the wine. So the bank was liable for the money lost in those situations - and as a result that put a blanket ban on all fine wine companies. We were able to talk Barclays around on this.

2. Storage of wine would be handled by a third party warehouse. If they screwed anything up (e.g. broke the case, had a fire, and insurance refused to pay out), there was a chance that buyers could get the money back through their bank if they paid by credit card.

and for us when we did accept this:

3. Getting the fees to work with our model - we wanted to offer a fixed fee for trading cases, but all banks / payment services wanted to take a percentage, including for debit card payments (hence my point about doing more work to get the model to work payment charges).

Obviously fraud is a major concern, and is something that we do a lot of work on as we scale up (e.g. at the moment we're manually processing all orders, taking ID for anyone buying more than £10k total etc). It's not something that we're naive too and we're definitely not going to launch a completed automated system without adequate processes in place.
The greatest minds of our generation are not working at the googleplex. They are at universities and research labs working on math, physics, molecular biology, etc.
Free Big Data Education: A Data Science Perspective
Gorbachev, Havel, Walesa.
New Beta Book on Ember.js Available
CSS is Awesome mug (humor)
Bulls-eye with the comment, Learning design takes several years and I am in the process, I see this more like a guide for getting a MVP done. I ve outlined my learning journey.
This is an extremely important message. Fraud is very easily the thing that can sink many small companies that aren't used to the levels of fraud that you will see on the Internet. And because there are so many ways to defraud a merchant that isn't obvious, merchants need to be extremely careful and educated on the process. And handling chargebacks will become a full-time job for someone in your company, once your company becomes big enough. I work at a payments company, and fraud is something that ends up being a headache, although we are at lower-than average industry norms.

It seems relatively easy for someone to turn credit card payments directly into cash, by making a trade and then extracting cash through the bank account. And the gap between your withdrawal policies and the chargeback policies of credit cards are pretty wide. I would be very careful about this. Forcing users to enter bank accounts make it a bit harder for average people to defraud, but not a motivated fraudster. Also, allowing people to take delivery of wine through the purchase of a credit card, and then being subject to a chargeback will be extremely painful, although I'm not sure how easily chargebacks are fought in Europe. If you do suffer a lot of chargebacks though, even if you successfully fight them all, be prepared to be dropped by your credit card processor.

I think your business is actually very interesting, but I'm surprised that credit card companies would allow you to accept credit cards at all, since I would think they would lazily lump you in as a form of brokerage site. Not that I believe this, but it seems like an easy translation to stock brokerages, which don't accept credit card payments, but force you to transfer real cash into your accounts before you trade. Then once you have money in a brokerage, they can extend margin, but they maintain their own risk by monitoring the margin levels, etc.

Good luck though, I read through your site and I think it's a very neat idea!
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project
Black Market Pharmacies And The Big Business Of Spam
Why Web Literacy?
I will agree with everything but the first one. I prefer functions that claim to return True or False to return precisely that, rather than Truthy/Falsy values. Otherwise, if I want to do "if func() is other_val" where "other_val" is True or False, it will fail.
I think playing Crawl a ton is the only reason I remember so well. But playing too much crawl makes me think I can also move diagonally in vim (yubn).
One of them (from the Bauhaus) group is working with us now on some changes to look at adding alternate syntax support to bring back s-expression syntax. :)

Although he didn't move over to C++ Newton, he went on to SK8 and other things...
France Proposes an Internet Tax
thanks a million, Done.
I use Braintree for appdesignvault in thr UK and have found their service to be top notch.

The only issue was Ayden settling the funds into our UK business account every 4 days and getting charged £6 for the privilege. A quick support email fixed that
With a broomstick, wouldn't it be the speed of sound, since it's a pressure wave?
Yes, someone should. You can imagine some fun ways of doing so.
Thanks! Our preference was actually to take debit cards only - but regularly got told that it's all (credit cards too) or nothing.
This is not how things are done in a civilized nation.

My God man, have you no sense of decency or decorum?
now that is tempting, may be sometime in the future & thank you for your kind words.
Worst Bug Ever
But there are dreams that cannot be And there are storms
Yep, Jason Fried released a blog article about that few years ago. High Definition prototypes.
Using GIFs in your GitHub Pull Requests (for Good, not Evil)
I just remembered a philosophy prof. mentioning it. The phrase "the least integer not nameable in fewer than nineteen syllables" is a direct quote from Berry, I think.
Hey.

Firstly, we don't currently have a mobile version of the app yet (it is a web app, not a website). It's coming soon though.

Helishopter Lite will appear if you don't have Javascript enabled - can you check that? Thanks!
Here's the original scientific paper:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03043797.2012.70...

Sadly.
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Those are the ones we call "genius" in the classical definition of the term (as opposed to raw intellectual power). So, yes some people have both (or develop) the inner fire and the outer charisma to match.
Show HN: Texas Hold'em hand evaluator for node.js
I don't get your post either. On first glance, MerchantWarehouse seems to be servicing US businesses only. "Just calling" them from Europe would likely result in a very short conversation :)
From the article at:

http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/01/17/carmen-ortizs-sordid-rap-sh...

"An investigation by the Lowell Sun confirms this:

A review of Police Department arrest logs from 2007 through 2012 shows that despite a relatively high number of drug arrests at the Motel Caswell property in recent years, more suspects have been busted on drug-related charges at nearby addresses.

During the examined six-year time period, police made 19 drug arrests at the Motel Caswell at 450 Main St., five fewer than at the property where Walmart is located at 333 Main St. Twenty-six drug arrests were made at each of the properties located at 85 Main St. [Home Depot & Applebees] and 95 Main St. [Motel 6 & IHOP]"
There should really be a Department of Computer Security run by most national governments where people can anonymously report exploits, and that Department takes care of contacting the company or organization. If that group also deals with certain types of personal information that is threatened, there should have 30-60 days to demonstrate that they addressed the vulnerability appropriately, or face penalties.

Its really dumb that we're this far into the internet age already and companies and organizations can still play it so fast and loose with security and personal information. It's irresponsible and negligent.
Yes, you should never do ‛foo is True either :).

Also, here the point is that <some stuff> was a boolean expression already.
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Indeed. I think it might be a good alternative to fonts if it is a CDN hosted, widespread thing, CSS already cached and all.
Sky Show: Jupiter and Moon in Super Close Pairing
I disagree completely. His signoff line about a green on black terminal- _must be a hacker_ just struck me as arrogant and dated.

Programmers aren't some mythical beast people hear about but don't see. Open source software is usable by your grandmother.

Obviously there are exceptions to both sides, but I found it very conflicting reading his article with so many things that (to my interpretation, at least) read as though he was trying to put himself on a badass pedestal.
I understand that. But which one is better : 8 weeks to learn how to play with photoshop, or 8 weeks to learn about your market and users?
Planetary Resource's Arkyd Almost Ready For Space Prospecting
Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays.
Gosh those poor poor people. It's a crime what is being done to them.

No heat, barely any food, yet atomic weapons.

I've read that sometimes they can obtain smartphones and service if they are close enough to the border but they probably risk their very lives to even have one.
Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090007

As I write it's actually #3 on the front page with 412 points and 162 comments.
Well, how else would you check if a return value matches a True/False variable? if <var> and <retval>? That's horrible!
For your reference and enjoyment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChfIyHZqEd8
We operate from Belgium. We only have to charge the Belgian tax rate (21%) for other Belgian companies or consumers living in the EU, in all other cases VAT rate is 0% (have to put a disclosure on the invoice referencing Belgian law though). Then again we don't sell any physical goods (luckily).

We don't automatically check validity of VAT number, so maybe I'll be able to answer that question in a couple of months.
I see what you're referring to, basically:

"Stream of Consciousness, focusing on the concepts that arise"

I know it's already been said, and English is obviously not your first language, but you should try to tone down the verbiage a bit:

", while for myself, for the most part am most comfortably naturally operating abstractly, conceptually, strategically and focusing on outcomes"

No need to repeat "most"
"most comfortably" is redundant with "naturally"
If you are focusing on concepts you can't be focusing on outcomes
Sorry I should be more clear. Most PCTs issue consent forms to patients when leaving to allow the third party to perform the survey I.e. Collect then details from the PCT. On several occasions, I've seen them withhold these from the patients intentionally and have had to ask for the forms.
Notes from The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman (IDEO)