skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome 24 / Win 7 - clicking in cells in the Date or Population columns changes the column width.
DIY Mood Tracking (Part 1 of 4)
Title spam: "Carmen Ortiz to run for governor" vs the actual article "Carmen Ortiz may be in Mass. governor’s mix"

Also - article from December, pre Swartzgate.

Probably doesn't belong on front page of HN.
To each his own. Half the fun of traveling is the friends you're with, for me at least. The first time I went to NYC and SF I spent ~8 hours wandering around by myself (friends were still working) and I didn't get much enjoyment out of it. Sure I talked to some random people, but honestly I was bored after about 2 hours. The moments I remember and enjoyed were spent with friends, regardless of the location.
Oddly, I feel this needs some basic machine learning thrown in. If every day you rated how good commute (and what type) was for you, it could start making the prediction based on your preferences. Possibly even with more information such as when you are looking. (e.g. Some people are ok with colder weather, or if you are running late, the option that is consistently faster will be the better choice.)
They also produce a bunch of stuff, thereby increasing aggregate supply commensurately. Since they are high skilled, they likely increase AS more than AD, since high skilled individuals tend to produce more than they consume.
Yes. I was able to find employment as a felon, even while I was on probation, partially because of becoming a cliche - a "born again Christian". I honestly did find religion (a big surprise to me) but I didn't realize what a benefit that can have for employment. I even ran into some of my senior management at my church (I was there first). It sucks to even hint of that as sort of a scam, but it happens all the time. Or maybe just check out some churches and truthfully find something. Evangelical Christians tend to love stories of guys that have made mistakes and have turned their lives around.
Question: What does this do for accessibility if navigating with a keyboard? How would one genuinely tab out of the field?

Suggestion: Big notice somewhere saying "NO JQUERY DEPENDENCY". Things are so bad these days I assume jQuery dependency until I see something stating otherwise!
Think Before You Breed
Dinkins came between Koch and Giuliani.
Odd. Maybe it's hiding it from you due to low karma. Looks like we just connected on LinkedIn. Thanks.
not according to some twitter discussion:
https://twitter.com/brianaker/status/294228373377515522/phot...

http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/330152,passwords-ssh-keys-...
Sure, you shouldn't let your friends hold you back. But I wouldn't underestimate the value of spending time with friends/family. One quote from Robb Wolf has always stuck with me: "It's understood that people who don't have enough social connections, they have as high a rate of mortality and morbidity as a pack a day smoker." http://youtu.be/Tvh23EnFDio

Maybe if your friends are holding you back then you should find new friends? The thought of going to restaurants alone isn't particularly inspiring to me. If you'll indulge me, here's a song about it: http://youtu.be/MnqdNErdVcU
Crowdsourcing the fight against tech patent trolls
Ambient Devices, an MIT Media Lab start-up, had a beautiful product concept built around analogue gauges like this, with replaceable backplanes to show different information. Their original business model was all around representing complex information in an unobtrusive way -- an umbrella with a pommel that flashes if its going to rain today, so you notice it on the way out of the house. Sadly, they pivoted into making ugly weather boards for Brookstone ...
Shadowstats has been discredited so many times that not even libertarians (such as myself) would go near that as a reliable source.
I would rather a guilty man gets off than an innocent being wrongly convicted every single time. Law is there to protect the innocent first, if not, then it has no purpose. The guilty and always be gotten later on, the wrongly convicted innocent is ruined for life. If the innocent cant rely on the justice system, again, it is fundamentally broken.
What language do you use stack overflow for?
True, but I think the point of the post is not to miss out on things because you don't have a group.
Carriers must have lobbied for that in order to kill the second hand market. Locked phones have very little resell value so it makes their bundles much more attractive. Needless to say, telecom operators had to innovate to continue growing !
The senior banking executives who ignored the early warnings were making tons of money. The mid-level bankers assembling and selling mortgage securities, who also ignored all warnings, were making tons of money too. The ratings agencies and lawyers giving their stamp of approval to these crazy securities, who also ignored all warnings, were making tons of money as well. The mortgage brokers and originators who were making irresponsible loans to home buyers with sketchy credit histories were making plenty of money, and they too ignored the warnings. The home buyers who successfully flipped properties in a matter of months or even weeks were also making money, and also ignored the warnings. The homeowners who borrowed more and more against their home's seemingly ever-rising value were flush with newfound cash, and felt like financial geniuses.

To a close approximation, no one wanted to hear the warnings.

To find culprits, most Americans need only look in the mirror.
These days, long neckties are banned in hospitals because they transfer infections. Your bow tie-wearing doctors likely figured this out for themselves years ago, and settled on a bow tie as an alternative way of looking presentable. For a certain generation of doctor, it'd be unforgivable to appear in front of a patient in an open-necked shirt. (A cravat, of course, being suitable only for confidence artists, gigolos and Europeans.)
By changing the headline of this article, you have made it say something that isn't supported by the facts.

This article is from 6 weeks ago and it makes it very clear that Ortiz is NOT running for governor (yet) though she may in the future.
Travelling? Two is always better than one.

If you break a leg in Thailand, someone can help you to the hospital. If you have a friend who lives in Korea, he can be your Seoul mate. Going on a roller coaster? You can sit beside someone you know. Ordered some weird food that you don't like? Just swap with the friend next to you.

Two is better than one.
Sounds like the lunch time running club at work. It's just me, now. And I'm not even the organizer...
The electoral process
Hi, Because, my other (main) account is anonymous - just to be able to speak my mind without any attachments :-)
Python has some nice tools to interface with R when needed (rpy2 for example). On top of that, scipy/numpy/matplotlib provides a lot of scientific routines.
I believe that they are waiting for arb_robustness.

http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/robustness.txt
- and old-school physics professors at Harvard
I'm really excited about trying this after all the positive feedback listed here, but I've only had 504 errors and result pages containing "Damn We've had an an error."
Here are my rules for using the phone in the car: I don't.

If someone calls, I let it ring and go to voicemail. If I'm expecting something that may be urgent, I will pull over as soon as practical and check it. Otherwise, I will wait until I get to my destination. Really, the vast majority of the time it's something that can wait. In fact, I've never had a situation in which something critical depended on me answering right then. I tend to try to avoid getting into such situations.

How do I give an ETA? I do it before I leave. Sure, traffic might be a bit bad, and slow me down a bit, but usually that can be reasonably well predicted (based on rush hour, weekends that lots of people are travelling, etc). If my prediction is wrong? Well, life goes on. People got on just fine before the invention of cell phones. If it's a multi-hour journey and I will be substantially delayed, again, I pull off to make the call; usually there's a rest stop somewhere reasonably accessible.

Do you really think that your life is so important that you must put other people's lives at risk just to give an ETA of when you'll get there, and you can't be bothered to just plan a little in advance?

Of course, most of the time when I'm in the car, it's with someone else. I generally avoid single-occupant trips. I commute via public transit (where I can talk on the phone all I want safely, though generally limit it to be polite to other passengers) or bicycle (where again, I pull off if I need to make a call). My trips in the car are generally only for longer trips, which I share with someone else, and I can ask them to call or answer for me if I need.
Examples does not show up on Chrome on Android 4.2.1. It shows a blank area instead of the grid.
You are on Hacker News and surprised to find pedantry?
When people say "better than average", their intuition tends to be "better than half" (the concept here is the median), as opposed to "better than a particular number that happens to be the average value of that hing" (the concept here is the average or arithmetic mean). And in this context indeed only 50% can be above median.

People's intuition of stats is not that bad actually, but most invariably fuck up when it comes to mapping their fuzzy intuitive concepts to mathematical concepts: they make the mistake of mapping their "intuitive average" with the "mathematical average" when instead it should map to the "median". And yes, for people that understand the word "average" as "arithmetic mean" (as Excel does and most technically literate people do), there is no such "intuitive average" and its wrong mapping to math. But for "lesser minded" people it works like described above, and in their understanding of the words (incorrect... but real, as this how their minds work), the phrase "but only 50% of people can be above average!" is actually valid.
Right - or 3D printing as the OP suggested.
More than half for me. I was in Munich by myself once. It was boring as hell. I ended up shifting my travel plans so I could leave a day early. The next time I went I had a friend and it was awesome. Munich didn't change much in between these trips. The company did.

On the other hand, I know people who love to travel alone. They might disappear into Budapest for 2 weeks and tell tales of how awesome it was when they resurface. It depends a lot on the individual.
yeah, for sure. though, you can't lie that it's a great way to manage tasks. i love the trello UI and i'm sure more people are going to use the trello UX when building task management apps.. thetaboard looks super new.. comments on the card itself? i prefer to keep the cards height minimal, so i'm not a fan of that design choice.

otherwise, it seems neat, but i def trust trello more with my data. thetaboard terms and conditions could actually have some content :\

edit: clarification.
This sounds related to Restraint Bias: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restraint_bias
Is there a reason to pay $5 per month for a hack like this when BitBucket is free?
Gandalf - a REST api written in go to manage git repositories
How'd you find it?
The Lausanne metro is fantastic. The M2 cuts straight through the hills and the M1 runs parallel to Lake Geneva and can get you to, say, EPFL in no time. On top of this there are the commuter trains which can get you to Geneva in about thirty minutes.

How fast can you get from 4th & King to the SJC?

Nevertheless, comparing San Francisco to Lausanne is unfair. Lausanne provides better infrastructure for a smaller population.
Yup. OpenWRT supports 802.1q VLANs. So does the stock firmware from Ubiquiti, AirOS (which is just linux).

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/networking/network.interfaces#vl...
Ask HN: web developers best work
For those web designers out their in Hacker News. What's your best work you ever created?
Dang, all this time I thought that putting effort into learning Erlang would /improve/ my job prospects :(
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(Bokeh developer here)

The core goals of the project are to offer: interactive, easy-to-specify, powerful novel graphics, with good support for statistical plots, in a web browser. That's quite a handful of things to balance, but we are picking up the best ideas from already existing projects: matplotlib, chaco, ggplot, protovis, stencil. The project is still nacent but we have promising results so far. (For instance, here is an ipython notebook export with interactive ggplot-style faceted plots of a Pandas DataFrame: http://htmlpreview.github.com/?https://github.com/ContinuumI...)

This kind of composite plot is a one-liner in the grammar of graphics. It would be much more with Matplotlib or Chaco. There are also marvelous novel graphics that are possible with Protovis-style Marks & Glyphs: http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/ Although these are technically possible with existing libraries, the amount of programming skill required to create them is outside the capability of most data analysts. Our goal with Bokeh is to make these all accessible to that larger audience.
Well, my brain does multitask.

How would we do anything if our brain would stop processing arm movements while processing visual information?

Or stop talking while moving the head?

These are all forms of multitasking, or does the brain do sequential processing for all required information?!
I was just in Thailand for Christmas. I can tell you definitively people there will help you in a heartbeat if you get hurt. Alone or not. The Thais are absolutely wonderful people.
It just depends on your goals. For a lot of people, these kinds of activities are, on some level, a social catalyst. For those, it doesn't make sense to do many of them without the social part. But if you're simply interested in the event itself, you shouldn't feel any need to wait for others to participate.

I golf by myself routinely, and back when I went to the movies I would go by myself if it made sense. I wanted to do those things, regardless of who participated. I know many others, though, who would not say the same thing.
Not necessarily IMO, considering it still does make sense to ask questions even "after" you've learned a language, as long as you are using a language/platform and continue to push yourself outside of your comfort zone, you are bound to have questions. Wouldn't it be boring otherwise?
I understand the underlying point, but I don't agree in every situation, such as travel which I explained. Most leisure related activities are enjoyable to me because I have someone close to share the experience with.
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Continental tie would be acceptable, no? Or do only 50's band members and western outfits get those?
Android is in serious need of better user control over app permissions.

Apps should have their permissions in two groups:

* Must-have: the app will not work without these (e.g. camera access for a picture-taking app)

* Optional: some features of the app will not work (e.g. camera access for Facebook)

Despite how bad the Facebook app is, I find it to be much better than opening the website on a mobile browser, but I wish I, as the user, could specify what permissions to grant the app.
A light REST library for Django.
Whilst there are many existing RESTful API tools about, many of them are very complex, and [as I found] some are quite slow!

I wanted to take the solid serialising pattern from TastyPie, with the separation of roles of django-rest-framework, and include a Publisher API I developed some time ago.
Might just be the circles I hang out with, but there hasn't been anything distinctive about a geek in a bowtie since Doctor Who said "bowties are cool".

I do like the ties in the shop they linked to, though.
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Also, is it your claim that if it frequently took two weeks for Gmail to deliver some emails, then that would be OK because Gmail is free? After all, even if it took two weeks, you could still send E-mails, receive E-mails, and forward E-mails.

For many purposes, two hours might as well be two weeks or two years.

Barring network outages and the like, people expect email to be delivered within two minutes, not two years, two weeks, or two hours.
I don't think there's much to be gained from stating either way whether you prefer solo or group travel.

I have personally enjoyed travelling solo and with friends. They both have positives and negatives. As people have said at least you are guaranteed company with friends around, and there's much to be said for sharing experiences with someone who you know inside-out or at least well.

Having said that, travelling solo has always pushed me out of my comfort zone into seeking out company (if I was in the mood for conversing). Meeting like-minded people in new countries has always for me been a very enjoyable experience.

It's fair to say also that even being in close proximity with a good friend can lead to friction on occasion because that close proximity can be a very different experience to your usual relationship away from travelling. Perhaps I should select my friends better though!
I use SO in a lot of different ways. I enjoy looking for questions that I can answer in any of the languages that I have experience with. I also use it as a simple search engine for inspiration; if I have an implementation task I'll often search SO first with some of my ideas to make sure I'm not reimplementing the wheel. All of our development at the lab is in Java, which I've been using for about 4 or 5 years on-and-off, so I don't often find myself asking a lot of "how do I do this?" syntax or technicality questions when it comes to the day job stuff; it's usually a cursory search for details or an algorithmic type question.

As far as actually asking questions, I've been on SO for a few years so I've used it for a lot of different things over time. I used it when I was first getting acclimated with C and Java outside of class projects, and now I use it whenever I'm picking up a new pet language. I've been asking and searching a lot about Haskell lately.
Not that I wouldn't take fashion advice from HN, but I would never take fashion advice from HN. I can guarantee there are more important things you can do to change your appearance and 'have an effect' than wearing a bow-tie. An example would be having a proper fitting suit, which most men can't seem to understand. This can show attention to detail.

I'm not going to go on because frankly there is probably a threshold for interviewers - if you look like shit, its a bad thing, if you are passable then that is status quo. It won't matter how well you dress beyond that unless you're being hired as a stylist.
It's very simple. As long as bonuses are based on the amount of business booked, fraud of this type will continue. Once they get their bonuses, they can jump ship and spout, "I don't remember" all they want to investigators.

EDIT for a typo.
JS is #1, and JQuery is #3. That's a runaway win by the JavaScript stack.
The most dangerous points in a normal freeway drive are merging and lane changes. To exit and park you do multiple lane changes off and on, merge, and have to navigate local traffic signals.

Compare to remaining in your lane, in smooth traffic, when you can see well ahead and know it remains smooth, while making a call and saying, "Just letting you know it looks like I'll get there around 8:20." "OK, drive safely." click (Any other variant of this conversation ends with, "I can't talk, I'm driving." click)

If I needed to make a longer call, of course I'd leave the road. But for this, I believe that just making it is safer.
I don't know about anyone else, but I feel extremely awkward going to nice restaurants alone even if I bring something to do. I don't experience this feeling anywhere else...just restaurants. I think I'd be more likely to travel alone than to go out to a nice restaurant down the street alone.
This is really fantastic... every times when i need to search a flight to go from my city in a cheap way around europe i had to do a lot of researches.... this is a really useful service!
Wall Street is from Mars, Silicon Valley is from Venus
The re-titling of this article here on HN(#) I feel misses an important point that it's trying to make. While we are all affected by the death of Aaron Swartz as a member of our community, when it comes to issues of prosecutorial / judicial excess, hackers are an extreme minority. Most victims of overly aggressive prosecution are disadvantaged racially, socio-economically, educationally, and are often addicts in need of medical treatment. Aaron was privileged in all these ways which most people in the grips of our legal system are not; and while his privileges don't lessen the tragedy of his death or the injustice of his situation, they are the reason his name has national recognition at this point. Describing the situation as "Aaron Swartz was Screwed by the War on Drugs" ignores the millions of other nameless, faceless people who have also been screwed by it. It's fine to use Aaron as an example. If his privilege can be leveraged to effect greater change in society then there is some positive to be found in it, but I get a bad taste in my mouth when I see many people limiting their concerns solely to other hackers.

(#) EDIT: The original title from The Economist has been restored since I posted this.
One of my lecturers (many years ago) did some interesting work synthesising circuits like band-pass filters using genetic algorithms:

http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~stsgrimb/netsyn.htm

The algorithms came up with some very unusual circuit designs which did the job better than classical solutions, in some cases.
Prisoner's Dilemma, though -- if you're the only guy who participates, you end up worse off. It would take a reasonably large number to tip, and you get progressively worse off until a critical value is reached, as your trial will be delayed more.
"Never trust a man who doesn't shine his own shoes."
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Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
Fuck it, I'll do it live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HyZ5aW76c
I'm no economist, so take this with appropriate skepticism:

I think the issue is that there probably isn't a "true" inflation. The main contention seems to be between those who use inflation as a measure of cost of living, and those who use it as a measure of policy-driven change in the value of money. Both views have their uses. Personally, I prefer the growth in money supply view because it seems to be less susceptible to manipulation by an agenda. The basket of goods is by necessity a small sample of the total cost of living, and I think that the main complaint lodged against it is that the goods are chosen and changed over time in order to portray a picture that's better than it would otherwise be. shadowstats.com has more information on how the CPI changes with selections in the basket of goods.

Using the money supply as the definition of inflation gets closer to the viewpoint I care about, which is trying to get a sense of how policy is changing the value of my savings and income. I like to look at a simple ratio of money supply growth to GDP growth for some idea of how policy is changing the value of money, but this too is fraught with danger because it ignores important things like technical innovation, changing resource bases, and money velocity. So, I think it's a matter of personal preference and probably the best policy is to look at it from as many angles as possible if it's something that's important for your decision making.