skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My objection to this line of reasoning is that there is only one entity producing U.S. legislation, so there is no real point of comparison. One cannot even compare Congress as a whole over time, since its membership changes (however slightly) every 2 years.

Also, is there any subject for which everyone can agree that Congress is good at proposing legislation? The whole point of the legislative process is to adjudicate between competing opinions; so whether any piece of legislation is "good" or "bad" will vary, to some extent, according to the observer.

Edit to add conclusion: Each bill should be judged on its merits, not on the fact that it comes out of Congress (since that is where they all come from).
Bingo! All the interesting, financially-remunerative jobs these days for ambitious young people are bullshit. Not in the sense of not creating value (because I think there is value created in these industries), but because they are all open to criticism of this sort in one way or another.

Are you a rocket scientist? You probably make your money directly or indirectly from the military industrial complex. Are you a doctor? You'd make much less money if the AMA didn't artificially restrict the supply of doctors. Are you working in Silicon Valley? Your product is either based on ads, or is a side-project of some company that makes all its money on ads (e.g. Google, vis-a-vis Glass or self-driving cars).

It's not worth worrying about this shit. Do something you find interesting if not morally fulfilling, and try to make a lot of money doing it because we live in a country where your kids can't see a doctor unless you can write the checks.
Multitasking, meditation, and using your good ideas
Yes and no.

While I disparage the whole "marketing" side of things, I don't necessarily discount it. A good marketer or sales person can add immense value to a business and can source and provide connections that prove to be make or break. Just the same as that rare engineer who is capable of solving that one critical technical puzzle that makes the business work.

I just happen to think that the popular model of some business graduate having an "idea" and finding developers to build it for him is lame - that shouldn't be the norm. Developers are the builders, they just need help coming up with the business framework to make a living around what they build.
I find this a little odd - firstly, by far the largest volume of oil in the chart is the theft of 60,000 barrels per day reported by Shell from their pipeline in Nigeria. But theft != spill - presumably the oil was used for the same kinds of things it's normally used for, and wasn't tipped on the ground.

Secondly, the volume of the Shell thefts alone is 2.5m gallons per day, so either it wasn't actually added into the total (so why mention it?) or they got their math wrong.

Finally, 1.2m gallons sure seems like a lot, until you read that it's 2 Olympic swimming pools. Given the amount of oil processed around the world in a month I'm surprised we don't spill more of it.

BTW, Google never ceases to amaze me - I never expected it to understand "1185000 gallons in barrels of oil".
Usually when someone writes a piece on taking gaming seriously, I get the impression that the author does not take gaming very seriously, finds some other issues to be pretty serious, and thinks that to take gaming seriously is a matter of relating it to those issues.

Usually those other issues are mostly things I don't take very seriously. So it kind of comes off like the opposite. Like people should take rocket jumps and knight forks less seriously, and politics and morals and some faff more seriously.
And another: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2013/04/11/...

Seems this is more frequent then people are aware.
It adds to the noise, so, yes, there is something wrong with pointing it out.
>>I find it hard to believe that television or other advertising for a product like Coke or Pepsi makes a big difference in sales. I'm already aware of the products, I already have my opinions on them, and they aren't going to change them.

Companies don't engage in the marketing bombardment of certain brands to remind you that they exist or to change your opinion. For 'commoditized' consumer products like cola or light beer, there is a premium placed on being 'top of mind.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_mind

I am not a frequent consumer of soda or light beer. However, on occasion, when I 'have to' purchase it (for a party, picnic, barbeque, etc.), I find myself subconsciously steered towards certain brands. which I believe is the result of years of 'conditioning' from constant immersion in uqiquitous marketing.

>>If these companies stopped advertising tomorrow I don't think there would be an immediate effect on consumer behavior.

Not immediately, but in due time absolutely. Why else would Coca-Cola spend $11 billion on marketing last year? http://beta.fool.com/stockcroc1/2012/04/13/coca-colas-new-co...
SMS does use the out of band but it was more of an accident of the SS7 protocol. you should read up on SS7 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7
When I first read about it, I thought it sounded like something designed and dreamed up by marketing team with little regard as to whether it would be useful in practice.
It's just the auditory equivalent of a wait cursor.
Please see my comment upthread about rustc --pretty.

You can't figure out what a pretty printer should pretty print until the style is figured out.
I un-downvoted you, because I think it's ridiculous to downvote someone for the content (rather than presentation) of an opinion.

I'd like to see some CS in the standard curriculum, though, and I think I would replace "earth science" with it (in a typical US high school curriculum). "You don't think earth science is important?" is a red herring. Yes, everything is important to some extent, and we don't have time to teach everything, so almost every important subject has to be left out entirely or mostly.

I think a gentle introduction to the methods of programming is even more important. This isn't about computer skills, it's about thinking.

I say this because of experience teaching my own kids to program. It's amazing to me how hard it is to get the kids out of the standard "express your opinion" mode so beloved by the schools into a "nobody cares about your opinion, just whether it works or not" mode that they'll have to be prepared for to deal successfully with life in the real world.

And seeing them just try something, scratching their heads, try something else, scratching their heads without ever bothering to methodically walk through their own code line by line to see why it's doing what it's doing is hilarious. And asking them, "well, what exactly should it do?" and getting some vague handwavy answer, then asking for a precise character-by-character description of what it should output along with which line will produce each character and seeing their jaws drop in disbelief is amazing.

Their schools are so busy telling them to "be creative [because it's such a hassle to teach you to be skilled]," "express your [baseless, uninformed] opinions," "draw twenty pictures [because it takes so much time for you to do, me so little time to grade, and no one can objectively dispute my grading]," that to be forced to methodically, deliberately, and precisely reason through the creation of something that has to actually, objectively work, in which personal factors (politics of the teacher, student's ability to BS, etc.) are utterly irrelevant...that is something sorely needed in the curriculum.

And, yes, we already have math, chem, & physics for some of this objectivity, but programming requires learning to build systems that objectively do what they are required to do, and I think that's a vital skill that needs a bigger place in the curriculum.
Chrome has a default zoom setting. I have it at 150%.
I agree, United States and Europe has a greater variance than Canada for employee income.
Like the david bowie of creative coding which can only be a good thing.
Nice find, but I think it's a pretty big jump to say that because there's CSS rules for something that it will necessarily be in the final product.
It's all fun and games until someone's economy gets Really Unalterably trashed and then the guns come out.

The Bitcoiners live in some digital utopia where no one ever pulls a real gun because of politics, but the rest of us are going to have to pick up the pieces for their hubris.
`(new Error()).stack` is non-standard. But that’s a nice hack, nevertheless.
Third world citizen here. Here is the simplified rosy image of outsourcing that I have in my dollar starved brain.

Outsourcing helps spread the monies. Without outsourcing, many cs guys in argentina would never work for a tech company. Without outsourcing many wouldn't get a cs degree in the first place. With outsourcing third worlders get better salaries. This creates local competition and an eventual increase in the baseline salaries for cs guys in that third world country. North american companies then move on to a different third world country say india. Salaries there rise too. Then they move on to vietnam, bangla desh and so on. Eventually baseline salaries everywhere becomes the same and outsourcing stops making sense.

Benefits whom?: third world country and the company

Negatively affects: north american cs grads. They will have to wait till everyone in the world is getting the same salary.

So according to my calculations, let outsourcing be for the next 500 or so years and the world will appreciate your sacrifice. Till then think of starting companies because the company and third worlders will benefit.

Believing this helps me sleep at night.
As a corollary, we need more men & women in the world who love and appreciate people like _why, so that people who are like him but are less confident about showing their character in public (or even just to their immediate peers) would be more comfortable with doing so.

In other words, to be more accepting and appreciate of each others' quirks and differences.
You're probably thinking of Zed Shaw. _why just added flavor and whimsy to the community.
Really? I find few things more annoying than going to a business's or organization's website and finding it has no details about them, their products, their services, or anything else useful -- all because some genius has decided that facebook/twitter/google+/etc is a better platform for that information than their website.

Want to know the result? My money goes elsewhere.
What's remarkable to me is how many here find this insulting. We exist on the upper crust of the first world and are actually insulted because someone claims that Argentinians aren't actually backwards incompetents. We take offense because we "deserve" our jobs more than (much poorer) Argentinians, and we "deserve" to be paid several times their going wage.
Do you have additional knowledge beyond this article to back this up, or are you getting all of this just from this one thing?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5531679 (net-security.org)

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5527230 (net-security.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5528482 (net-security.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5531702 (net-security.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5531872 (gizmodo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5537891 (businessweek.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5538549 (sophos.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5539077 (businessweek.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540655 (cnbc.com)
Common complaints (after looking through a few pages):

* Only useful if you live and breath Facebook; it makes email and texts and phone calls second class citizens

* Removes all your widgets

* Would be better as a lock screen than a launcher

* Hides notification bar

* Quick Select only shows Facebook apps (and the most recent app)

It seems like a lot of complaints are from people who didn't really understand what they were installing ("Hey, I like Facebook! Let's try it!"), and were surprised when it turned their phone into a Facebook phone.

A lot of people seem to really like it, too, though.
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Another thing I'd like to point out is how people confuse flavors of crude oil and crude oil itself. Tar sands/bitumen/whatever you want to call it is crude oil, it's just really viscous, really dirty crude oil. Condensate generally means crude oil in this situation as well (that is, if it's coming straight out of the ground and being sent to a refinery).
"First off, who are you to decide that this kind of poll is useless"

I am a HN contributor like you, my opinion does not count more than other people's. And I didn't say it was useless, it definitely has use. I said I disagree with collecting this type of demographic data data.

"Just don't ruin it for those who care."

If you read my comment I haven't actually ruined the data at all, I clearly stated which wrong bin I placed my vote in. The OP can now subtract my vote. Compare and contrast with the 300+ people who clicked on <10, >90, and "I clicked on more than once" categories. Now, that's immature, I think.
The actual quote was "after suffering a reported theft of 60,000 barrels of oil per day from its Nembe Creek Trunkline pipeline, Shell Nigeria shuts off the pipe for 9 days to repair damage."

which to me sounds like damage caused by the thefts is causing (some undefined amount) of leakage/wastage, that they're trying to fix.

If they're including the full 60k barrel as 'spillage' in their graphs then it's definitely somewhat disingenuous, as you say.
Ask HN: How to format code while commenting on HN?
I've seen some people use code blocks to format text so it's more readable on HN? How do you do that?

Thanks.
That's exactly how it comes across.

For people who live Facebook as if its the sole purpose of the internet this app seams fantastic. Until they realize that the issues they've always rallied against on the website (typically UI stuff) will now be part of their device. Facebook is driven by ads and the research into fitting as many ads into a space as users will accept; how was a mobile app expected to be any different?
They are never going to be everything for everyone as long as they hitch their fortunes to the old licensing regime, in which case this group is more of a trade organization for rate negotiations.
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What to ask a millionaire?
Hi, I have a lunch coming next week with a millionaire (CTO of Fortune 500) .
It's a rare chance so I'm making a short list of questions that I'm going to ask him. Please let me know if I miss anything important. Your advice is really appreciated!

Also, I'll be glad to ask him any questions you may have, and post his answers here next week.

1/What are 3 skills you think the most important to your success?

2/ Is networking a must to be successful? If yes, How do you expand your networks? (go to conf, meetup, keep in touch with old friends...)

3/ If one advice you could tell your younger self, what would that be?

4/ Do you read often? How do you apply knowledge in books?

5/ Is being a millionaire what you originally aimed for or it's just a sweet side-effect? :)

6/ Which one is more important to your success? Technical skills or entrepreneurship?
The new design is much easier and faster to use - I especially like the big colorful buttons to guide the video cutting and sharing process. It took me under 15 seconds to snip and share a clip. Great work!!
I find the "half-witted, nonsensical, semi-racist" YouTube comments are the only real democracy on the Internet.

It's the only one place were you can say anything, there are people of all ages, religions, creeds, sexes etc, from the most progressive to hardcore KKK members, and they can freely discuss anything, with no censorship and no moderation from a higher source of power.

Only the whole community can vote and "hide" a message they deem bad.

YouTube comments, which some "intelligent" people don't like, are the closed thing we have to a truly free discussion.

People don't like them because they like to flock with their own and only exchange mild agreement and trivialities, and abhor any contact with the true Other, be him a black gay Latin American or a white, protestant Bible Belter. To put it simply: some supposedly progressive people hate talking to other people with different ideas even more than bigots.

Learning to co-exist and talk on YouTube, I believe, really makes you a better person.
As a dude, I experience the latter two scenarios frequently.

To bring the topic to a more constructive angle, does anyone have any techniques that might help in these cases?

My default is either extreme ambivalence, or raging hard ass. It's hard to find the middle ground.
Ask HN: Best way to get emoji support in Chrome for Mac OS X?
Anybody know the best way to get support for emoji in Chrome on OS X? I see some add-ons in Google Play, but it seems like there should be a way to get native support for emoji in Chrome.
> This is a silly false dichotomy.

Um, who's really creating the silly false dichotomy here? I'm based on the east coast (US), I run a (very) small development shop, and I work with contractors all over the world, including some locally. I prefer to work with contractors rather than hire employees for the same reasons the author prefers to hire remotely instead of locally: employees have much higher maintenance costs.

However, I hire based on experience in relevant Open Source communities, not on hourly rates. I have never, ever negotiated with anyone over their rate. I ask them how much they want to make, and that's how much I pay them as their base. I love paying my contractors higher rates and bonuses.

> However, it's fallacious to state that they couldn't have built their business otherwise.

This is complete guesswork at best. You have no idea what this person's situation is. Further, one could probably infer from this comment that you've never had kids or a mortgage.

> You, the business owner, have all the upside. That's how you justify it.

This is exactly as it should be! As a business owner, I also have all the risk. Whether or not a client decides to pay me (on time or at all), I'm bound by the terms I agreed to with my contractors to make sure their cheques show up, no matter what. This risk/reward balance exists in every employer/employee relationship. I fail to see how it's a problem.
The cost of the filament is about $30 to $50 per kg. In practice, I've found that a spool lasts me for about 2 or 3 months with vigorous printing. Otherwise, it lasts me about 6 months with less frequent printing.

There are people making machines that recycle the plastic to make your own filament. This means that you can buy ABS pellets for much cheaper and roll your own. Search for the Filabot or the Lyman Extruder.

I'm not as familiar with the filament industry as I should be, but I do know that the quality of your filament makes a big difference in the quality of your prints. Because 3D printers are open systems, there's no feedback as to how much plastic is actually extruded. 3D printers depend on the filament to have a consistent diameter in order to make good prints. Because the layer heights are so small, and a change in diameter is a squared change in area cross-section of the filament, any slight changes to the diameter will affect the amount extruded, and hence the quality of your prints. So quality control probably adds to the cost of the plastics, but with good reason.

So far, the 3D printing community hasn't succumbed to lock-in of printing material like the inkjet printers. All the material is interchangeable between printers
Just bought the book too.
Good question, we have a variety of metrics we use to track this - perhaps this would be good for a blog post?
North Korean army 'split' over Kim Jong-un
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The underlying construct (console.log processing "%c" and styles) is nonstandard to begin with.
Well, being ignored is something that should never be done in a business model, be it a coffee shop or the biggest tech company in the world. However, that statement was completely out of line.
> I don't see where any complexity is being added to compensate for that that is being lost.

You are focusing on only a single usage of a clock: To coordinate time to speak.

Clocks are used for much more than that, for example: Our store hours are 9-5 days, well no, 9-5 in this city, but in that city it's 8:30-4:30, and so on and so on.

Every place you go you'll have to find out the local time when stores close, or when a tv show is on. Of course you could setup regional borders where all the cities in that area close at the same time.

Maybe we'll call it zones instead of areas - I know! Call it time zones!

Or laws like: Checks must be cashed if received before 4PM that day. Except now you'll have to create a system to be able to say, no, it's 4PM in this city, but in that city it's 3PM.

Congratulations: You've just invented time zones.
Dial tones were always meant to be just a signal that the Caller has reached the Switch and there is an attempt to make the call happen. It was never meant to synchronize with the actual Called party's phone. Fixed line phones simply get an electrical signal to make the phone "ring"
I am cs Student from a non english speaking country doing offshore development for a start up , which opened a "Industry Exposure Programe " and getting paid peanuts .This article makes me want to quit my job,but the I can do with the credits. For Cheap founders ,one more model to get cheap talent.
I like to imagine someday Microsoft is going to come out and say the results which they said Google won Bing won and vice versa. This is the only thing that makes sense given Microsoft's marketing speak on that site (suggesting Bing wins in the majority of cases) as I've never known someone to actually have Bing come out on top.
> there's no way to grab the line number of a caller in JS

But this is easily fixed by converting the function call to a macro, right?

Oh wait - this isn't a ClojureScript library... so nevermind.
Sometimes a minor offense needs to be committed to avoid a larger problem.
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>Twitter Music will integrate Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, Soundcloud, Vevo and Youtube

It will then proceed to eliminate integration one by one as Twitter Music proper gains traction and mindshare.

Unfortunately this is going to be the consensus attitude towards anything Twitter & 3rd party. We just have to look at things with suspicion and cynicism. Call it mental-self-defense if you will.

(Come to think of it, "partner with someone until we catch up to them, then shut them out" is fairly standard practice in the manufacturing/hardware companies in the past.)
I installed it just to see what it was 'all about'. I pretty much agree so far with the 1-star reviews. It really would be something better left as a lock-screen. The application list is pretty terrible as well (and honestly other than access to the Facebook app, that seems to be all the 'Home' program is really giving you the ability to see).

Also, honestly, do people want to see their 'friends' all that much as the background to their phone navigation experience?

P.S: I ended up disabling it. I wanted to play with it for a day just to be able to say that I gave it a fair shot, but it changes the dynamic so far in favor to Facebook that it makes even dialing a phone contact problematic. Sorry Facebook, Messenger is NOT a replacement for my contact list.
This is a rehash of the aftermath of pretty much any new UI design. People dislike change itself far more than they dislike the actual change.