skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iraq is well known for its huge Sufis....
What is the need to do this anonymously? It seems like the intent is only to complain and not contribute back to the project itself.
From what I remember from my childhood in the UK, I'd say that Britain is very close to America. Everyone focussed on "intellect" there, and my friends there broadly use the American strategies (hyper + TV).

I've noticed the difference in The Netherlands. My wife was just this afternoon planning the bedtime rooster for our first child (due in September!). I put it down to her Dutch tick for planning/organization.

What is true is that the maternity/paternity system here is awesome: it's like society has accepted that yes, people do have kids. And, if we all want to keep working (and share the job of raising the nippers), then we need to make some pragmatic decisions. Like be flexible with work time, and have subsidised childcare.
What is better about it? Why should I trust you on this?
Are Facebook mobile developers that bad they can't check if they're on a Homeified device and degrade gracefully if they're not?
Very cool. Django and the associated stuff (south, virtualenv, etc) would be a nice addition.
Ask HN: OpenStack/StackOps at Hetzner (or similar hosting provider)?
I'd be interested if anyone had a firsthand experience with OpenStack / StackOps installed on dedicated server hosting, e.g. Hetzner or Server4You?
This is why some one wins a lottery and the wants to see the hard cash, its always in small bills. Showing them in large bills is a massive disappointment.
One problem with these kinds of visualizations is that they're often used to visualize things like the U.S. federal budget or, especially, the federal debt. The problem is that to tell those stories accurately, the visualization of trillions of dollars should be accompanied by a visualization of 300 million people.
Definitely does feel as if the project name was chosen based on domain availability. Unfortunate example of putting the cart before the horse.
Before I installed Facebook Home last night, I'd replaced the Facebook app with a Chrome bookmark, but kept Messenger. I still received and could reply to text notifications, so Messenger is definitely a real app.

I wonder if Home is just a shell so they can maintain huge install counts on the main Facebook app. Then again, they could require the main app for API access and still use Home separately to handle drawing the Home UI and listening for Home interactions.
self-imposed exile
Overcoming Anonymity
It is true that the stakes are higher when you are dealing with money management, so people who call for more regulation and scrutiny of WS do make a lot of sense. But, I still stand by my opinion that the practice is pretty prevalent in all industries and merely a symptom of a competitive capitalist society. At some level, your product or service is not 100% in the best interest of your customer, whether it is about the best fit for the customer, price or a potential alternative. I am not making a moral judgment call on it, it just what I have noticed.

I totally disagree with your second point, however. Banks are providing many services that are valuable to their clients. For example, they help companies and institutions raise cheap funding (usually tailored to the wants of the company and the investors), allow liquidity for investors to offload unwanted investments, provide advice on takeover, acquisition and restructurings, help with the price discovery process, invest directly in companies through VC and PE firms etc. If they provide nothing of value, why does the economy suffer so much when the banks are unhealthy?

The "gambling" aspect is really a byproduct of the fact that no one can predict the future in markets - just like a project manager usually needs to guess on which project to invest the company's resources in. Business is always about intelligent gambling and hustling no matter where you are. I feel like many engineers don't understand this because they often believe that success is only directly dependent on "building something of value" whereas in reality it is often due to good marketing and a fair amount of luck.

I agree with your third point (and is why I am a software guy) although I was making point about WS providing a valuable service too and not doing comparisons between raw innovation in the industries. Although to be fair the financial space is much more limited and regulated than the software and hardware space is, so it is not surprising that SV is more innovative. Moreover, WS has a been a big player in terms pushing the envelope of high performance and concurrent systems, artificial intelligence/pattern matching/forecasting algorithms and other cool technology; whereas, many SV "innovations" recently have been yet another photo sharing app and look at this old program that has been ported to the browser. That being said, the open-source developer community is definitely something that is amazing and unique to SV.
This is interesting.. and kinda creepy. I'm having the hardest time finding a webcam that can be controlled, though.
And yet you think that original tracks are crap and boring, as if the artists sampling them didn't find them fascinating, or weren't obsessed with them in their youth. This reminds me of a would-be film critic I knew who saw no point in watching old balck-and-white films, which he also derided as 'boring'. You think instrument makers might assert copyright over their sounds, and equate using the sounds from an electronic instrument to sampling records, despite the obvious legal and creative differences.

I do compose music and am actively involved in several musical communities. While I publish very little of it I've had plenty of time to think about the process differences. The weakness in your argument is that you claim sampling generally results in a completely different song, as if a remix was equivalent to a completely fresh work. If this were the case, you could pull the primary samples out and just replace them with something else, and it would have no impact. Since this would be so much easier than dealing with all the headaches of sample clearance or possible lawsuits, you have to ask yourself why people don't do it if the original sample is as unimportant as you claim.

So you have over 10,000 tracks of electronic music. Big deal, I accumulated thousands of tracks on CD, vinyl and DAT when I was spinning goa trance back in the 90s. If you think the beginning and end of creativity is in the selection and mixing, then I invite you to try doing it with individual notes or drum hits for a while and learn the difference between sampling riffs, breaks and so forth and building them yourself.
If you find the book helpful - great! I'm glad. I can definitely see a lot of faults in my own work but I don't have infinite time to fix them, which is why the book is on Github ( https://github.com/mixu/singlepageappbook ).

There are things that I would definitely discuss differently if I wrote the book today - since things have developed a quite bit in the past year and half. I'll probably start working on a second edition late this year to rewrite the parts that I find most annoying in my book. I need to finish and ship a bunch of open source stuff before that though.
Stereotypically, USA is more socially conservative than Western- and Northern-Europe.
Maybe I'm missing something because I'm not in the US - what's so special about this?

It looks like merely a link to the Spotify website.
I suppose there are some developers who are not advanced enough to contribute to the project, but smart enough to use a framework? I don't know: Tom Dale did reply to the gist, and mentions there are non-trivial CS problems being solved.

Ember is actively trying to compete with angular (backed by google) and others - and I think the people rooting for ember are just people feeling let down after deciding to move forward on it in production.

edit: Tom's actual quote: "trying to solve are novel computer science problems"
I wonder if this is one of the named heroes in the letter, wishing to maintain his position in the group, however weak.
Password Trivia: Character Sets
One would associate 'shelter' with the word 'vagrant' more than 'hospice', which also makes it a strange choice.
Makes sense. We will consider changing it. Thank you.
It's not the first time he's inconsistent.

One of his recent articles:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/07/09.html
also reads a little bit like bashing his own product FogBugz and advocating that it's a bit useless:

"Do not allow more than two weeks (in fix time) of bugs to get into the bug database."
"Then close as “won’t fix” everything left in the bug database. Don’t worry, the severe bugs will come back."

Maybe they discontinue FogBugz soon and only concentrate on the more hip Trello?
Quick note: I realize I have a bad habit of trying to talk about business school stuff on HackerNews. Basically that's like trying to put a square peg in a round, or something. But it's pretty much the intersection of two major parts of my life right now, and so the two seem to cross paths more than they should.

Anyway, this seems like a pertinent topic as it relates to a great deal of general life and career topics - such as that exec from Microsoft that just resigned because of his Twitter comments.
Those on Windows, see https://github.com/manojlds/posz

Also, an implementation of CDPATH - https://github.com/manojlds/cdposh
Now that's the kind of out of box thinking I like to see (leaning on selection auto-copy). Works well, thanks.
To work longer hours is NOT the same as being more industrious, as suggested by the article.
Is there a go-to password list, if you still want to go ahead and use it?
After living in both countries my whole life, as a Brit, I can honestly say that Britain is not very close to America at all. Maybe on the surface, the popular culture (mostly because of Hollywood & TV) and the language are similar, but that's about where the main similarities end, and the subtitles begin.

What George Bernard Shaw said was true. England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
This is impossible to do with any other type of language. With concatenative programming, a parallel compiler is a plain old map-reduce!

This statement (in context) draws a defining line around what is and isn't concatenative, and the statement by Norman Ramsey should have been refuted succinctly with a derived definition: Composable expressions with associativity.
Why everybody is building a Web music service
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z4872dg21mvuizs/single_page_apps.p...

PDF for tree-killers
For those in the Spotify web app beta, this is a link to an entirely web-based version of Spotify. If you have a Spotify account, but don't yet have access to the web version, check out http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57551372-285/enable-spot....
All good points and I'm sure many of the app developers on HN will be able to give reasons as to why they are unable to provide this information on the apps they develop and I suspect it is all closely controlled by the platform as opposed to the developers themselves.

If the app I downloaded said "Our free version requires your location due to our arrangement with our Ad providers" I would have at least known why they were wanting my location.

I know this doesn't solve the problem, people will still have the choice to either accept it (albeit grudgingly) or uninstall the app. What it does do however is acknowledge they are asking for permissions to a users data. If someone asks for my permission to use my car is it unreasonable for me to know why they want it?
Good to see another groundbreaking Spotify "innovation."

I remember Grooveshark getting into the chrome web store almost two years ago.
Isn't this just a bookmark for http://play.spotify.com/ ?
Contributions are not only in form of code right. The anonymous person can help in documentation, interact with the core devs on problems through back and forth communications etc.
It's scary, but even if you release something as open source, for free and free for people to modify as they please, you're still in a weird relationship with the people that use your software. You haven't exactly promised to do anything for them, and the code as-is is in itself a great gift... but on the other hand, there's an implicit acknowledgement that "yes, you can build on this".

(Both the open letter and the response from Tom Dale seem to acknowledge that there's two sides to this issue, which is refreshing. Usually you get these really boorish "dude, it's open source, just fix it yourself will ya" responses.)

It makes me wary of pushing any of my projects. I still open source pretty much everything I do, but usually with a big fat "for your edification, don't expect any support or ongoing development" disclaimer.

(Also see fat's "What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty? at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDb6VBO9os)
> As a person who has lived half his life in a society where being "well rounded", conformity, and obedience to authority are considered a child's primary virtues, I must confess that I am quite partial to the American style, tradition be damned.

My observation is that the value placed on conformity is the US is astounding. Just take a look at the undergrad girls on any university campus. They all look so alike; it is almost as if they were wearing uniform, it's staggering. Also: the importance of "rules".
DNA Project Aims to Make Public a Company’s Data on Cancer Genes
We really need to start naming and shaming the people willing to have their names listed on frivolous patents like this, and not just their employers. If you're listed as an inventor on an unethical patent, you have violated the implicit moral code of technologists and positioned yourself in opposition to progress.

Michael Stephen Brown and Herbert Anthony Little: you are not good people.
How about:

5. Do nothing and adopt a "it will be done when it's done" attitude bordering on passive aggressiveness, leave work at 5:01pm every day, etc. while preparing (mentally and/or practically) for switching team or company. At least that's my natural tendency.
Are you sure you can't qualify in the US? A quick Google search for "memory loss disability" suggests you may have some options. A recent story on NPR [1] suggests the examining MD has some discretion in deciding if you qualify for disability. I hope things get better soon.

[1] http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
Oh, but use our Google Glass. Record everything you see on the way. Don't watch/record a couple kissing on the bridge. You recorded it? Uhh..hh.. well, upload on YouTube anyway, it's not that bad.

Hypocrisy. Hypocrites.
> but more importantly, the manager failed.

Exactly. In my eyes, this is grounds for dismissal. As a manager, allowing all competent voices to be heard is your fucking job. While the gender issue complicates things, it's really just a red herring - the core problem is this "alpha male" culture within IT, total lack of humility, disingenuousness, selective memory, outright dishonesty, etc.

I've seen this chronically in at least 50% of the places I've worked, without females even being involved in the situation. Technically, it's by no means restricted to IT, it's just especially common there.
Simple user styles
It won't solve the problem. The default response will be to simply refuse to run at all. And, for an app like facebook, which has the upper hand, it is not a big deal that the user doesn't like it.
Geographical Tracking of H7N9 Bird Flu
Four-word story
PG: is it possible to configure HN to show the domain as gist.github.com instead of just github.com?
Fascinating narrative but was this a true "research study" in which hundreds or thousands of families were given the same questions? I can't find it in the study text, which reads more like a book chapter than a study. I can't find it in the article, nor do I see it in the Slate interview.

Can anyone else find the actual text that says, "We surveyed this many families and asked them these specific questions"?
Google’s Plan To Fight Human Trafficking With Big Data
As someone who has lived on both continents myself I find that Americans are more conformist and worried about stepping outside cultural norms than Europeans.
Zuckerberg bores staff in new Facebook Home ad
Sexual norms are not necessarily representative of a society's overall openness to change. My impression is that America (modulo some parts of the South) makes much more fuss celebrating innovation than most of the rest of the world does, and even if this is not a good reflector of the status quo, it certainly has a long-term impact on how people think.
The "mother" of the dollar bill stack visualizations was done by "crunchweb" in 2003/2006 to visualize the cost of the Iraq war (then 316 Billion - now > 1 Trillion)

http://87billion.com/

Another good one - visualizing the cost of the 2008 financial crisis (581 Trillion)

http://duvet-dayz.com/archives/2008/03/27/632/
Shameless plug: I wrote a similar utility for myself called 'Goto Bookmark' which allows you to bookmark a directory so you can jump to it from anywhere when needed.

Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/amarsahinovic/gb

Github mirror: https://github.com/amarsahinovic/gb
How apt. Ruby is from Japan. April 18th is, according to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_18#Holidays_and_observanc...) "Invention Day" in Japan.
Now do it in pennies.
So is there any chance you might get some of your memory back? Because you may be better off switching to a different, but possibly complementary, field. And if you manage to regain some of your memory you'll have that too.
> I would like to see Apple, Android and Microsoft provide a mechanism where the developers can explain, in their own terms, why they need access to certain permissions.

iOS (and OS X) does this: when a permission is requested, the developer can provide a usage description string to explain what that capability will be used for: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Gener...

Note that on iOS permissions are requested to the user at runtime when the app tries to access a restricted capability, which helps understanding the request because it happens in the context of what the user is doing with the app.

Also, each one of them can be accepted or declined separately and turned on or off at a later time.
ASMR – That pleasurable feeling you can't explain
This is pretty awesome. I love the bit at the end where it pauses the game to avoid losing!
Here's a nice relaxing swimming pool: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36877
A Facebook Home Review
What are you asking here? They probably can, but they still need to request the permission upfront because that's how Android is set up.
Problems that are clearly formulated are easier to solve than ones that are opaque.

At the very worst, it lets the devs know where the users want new features. At the very best, it helps crystallize aspects of the problem that make a solution easier to find.

User feedback is always a gift. Even if they are yelling at you, they're giving you valuable information.
Visualizing wealth inequality in America [video]
Thousands of login request in few days - hackers?
It seems someone wrote an application to generate many thousands of authentication request from authentication service we created. They used some phone numbers to verify account that seems temporary (acquired from voip service). This seems a little wired. Why someone would do that? He managed to make the system spend some small amount for making the calls but that is probably what they spent to receive the phone calls.
I posted this because I regularly experience ASMR, since I was a child. For years I would look for a reasonable explanation that I could give to others. Such a strange phenomenon and possibly the hardest to explain to others.
This site is completely unreadable at least on my iPad, why is tweeting and Facebooking more important than the content!?
Is there a relationship between the colors on the graphs? Every graph has different value scale. Hard to compare values between graphs, which is the whole point of the article.
Not a single mention of "whinging sods", which makes me suspect this study is inaccurate.
No, but we're talking about brute forcing billions of attempts per second, and we're not up against randomness, we're up against "the best pseudorandomness the human brain can muster", so the odds aren't 1 / <number of possibilities>. A password is severely weakened if it isn't sufficiently random.
Time Based Advertising
Mongraph, graph database coupling Neo4j + MongoDB
Perhaps Step #1 should be to find a way to move to Europe.
Teenagers and young adolescents are desperate to fit in everywhere though, I'm not sure I would take that as a sign of the society as a whole. I would want to see how this compares to university outside the US, as well.
git, svn, where is mercurial?
http://tech.cornell.edu/program/

http://www.cornell.edu/nyc/

Not a lot of info on curriculum, this seems similar to Zipfian Academy discussed a few days ago, or a certificate program in Data Science at the Univ. of Washington, but you get a Masters

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508261

http://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/data-science.html
Exactly. Since 50% of high growth companies are funded with less than $50,000, $1 trillion would fund the start of 20M young high growth companies. Fairly certain at least one of those, 20M, would have solved the financial crisis.

In other related news, as of a couple of years ago, my town has a beautiful new landscaped highway median, welcoming you as you enter the city.

Source:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/201209/inc-staff/survey-of-inc-5...
Worth noting: that figure of $581tn is the total worldwide exposure in derivatives, not the actual amount lost. They give the much more reasonable figure of $1.1tn earlier, and suggest that's unlikely to be accurate, but then go on to visualise the higher amount as though that's what the crisis cost with no real evidence at all.

Given the nature of derivatives, it might well not be possible to lose that much ever, even if the zombiepocalypse happens.
Original report here: http://www.eei.org/ourissues/finance/Documents/disruptivecha...

I believe that distributed energy is the future, plugging your house into your car, charging your car with solar and selling power to the grid when your forecasted household demand is lower then your forecasted supply.

Because of the internet we now have distributed information and it is changing the world in every way. Anyone can share anything in real-time with the world. Everyone is a producer and consumer of information now.

The impact of everyone being both a producer and consumer of energy will also be profound.
Compared to most other parts of the world except Northern Europe, I would say that American campuses teem with diversity. I agree with you that there's not enough diversity, but there's still a lot of it.

Just take a look at the undergrads in a Chinese/Japanese/Korean university. It's as if they belonged to some sort of military organization.
Do Immigrant Engineers Depress Engineer Wages?
1) I dont see a way to import PSD.
2) I am not sure if this is the right tool for what I am looking for. My need is to be able to quickly slice out some layers from a PSD file as images. Does it have that capability ?
It is very real -- I am living proof. :) I choose my own hours for work, and often sleep twice, and my rhythm varies between being awake during the night and the day. I do think that not everybody is like this though.
It reads like a book chapter because it is a book chapter:

"Themes and Variations: Parental Ethnotheories in Western Cultures ... to appear in: Rubin, K. (Ed.), Parental beliefs, parenting, and child development in cross-cultural perspective. New York: Psychology Press."

http://brown.edu/Departments/Human_Development_Center/Roundt...
Why is there drama for such a small community? Angular doesn't seem to suffer from these constant HN threads.
Another "mother"
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/derivatives/bank_ex...
Yeah, I think the point is that it's finally web based.