skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one to feel like an idiot for not knowing Max Headroom was not an animation. I haven't seen the show since I was young, but now I just want to go find an episode to watch and look at the animation to see how they fooled my younger me.

I remember thinking I wasn't sue but how else. That's also why tv shows you watched when young where better than you remember, you could be fooled more easily and use your imagination whereas today were so use to the special effects that we almost need them, we can't easily imagine it unless its there and looking real'ish.
If you think something is impossible, you've just made it impossible for you.

Thus my approach is to do - time will show if it was impossible or not.
As quoted by "David Clayworth" that programmers tend to loose the interest after solving the problem in hand. It happens with me a lot of time.

However, I tend to write the comment and function signature when planning a solution to a bigger problem. In comment I mostly add what I want to achieve from the function or code block. There are more chances of putting a comment while developing a new feature from scratch.
Unless you block, modify or disable certain daemons, any Android device can be told to update the radio firmware by the carrier. This is called FOTA, firmware over the air.

As an aside, when I was porting Linux to the Motorola Q I realized I could easily turn off the display and key backlight and turn on the microphone and camera though the sysfs,this would appear to anyone as if the phone was off but I could remotely control it (SSH tunnel) and capture audio and video. The only problem would be the heat, but someone would likely assume it was used for a while before powering it off. This without any low-level firmware change, just booting GNU/linux ;) from HaRET.
> I think it’s fair to say that there’s a slowly accumulating consensus that technology is now destroying jobs faster than it’s creating them

Maybe, maybe not.

>> We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labor markets susceptible to computerization due to specialization in routine task-intensive activities experience significant occupational polarization within manufacturing and nonmanufacturing but no net employment decline. Trade impacts rise in the 2000s as imports accelerate, while the effect of technology appears to shift from automation of production activities in manufacturing towards computerization of information-processing tasks in non manufacturing.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w18938
Show HN: Chrome extensions packaging from git repos (bash script)
The whole TechCrunch article made me think of the Anamatrix.
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I'm looking into some DIY hardware projects, but I'm currently having issues finding certain parts, specifically LCD panels.

I have found some TNT panels, but I've had no luck finding IPS panels.

I know there has to be a supplier that will sell low quantities of these panels at a higher price, but I've had no luck finding them so far.
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For the Blue Card, you can change employers as much as you want because it's attached to the employee rather than the employer. Further, depending on the country, after two or three years, you can then legally take work in any other EEA country (except the UK, Ireland and Denmark, all of whom opted out of the Blue Card program). There are some technicalities involved, but those are the basics.

Germany's program is particularly great because you can get a permanent residency permit after only two years if you learn German (to a B2 level, I think), or after three years if you don't speak German. In other words, it's a permanent entry into the EU. I'm an American living in France and I'm married to a French woman, so I don't have to worry, but otherwise, I'd apply for the Blue Card in a heartbeat!
A TED talk with Andrew McAfee made an interesting observation: once long-haul trucks are fully automated (the tech exists, it's just a matter of time), there will be a massive number of truckers suddenly out of work. Yes, other types jobs will no doubt be created, but i'm not sure many of those truck drivers will be in a good position to make the transition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMF-Z74C1QE
How Did Work-Life Balance in the U.S. Get So Awful?
90 bullets a year in total, as much as they pumped into one guy in New York in the same year
Oh, you did work for Ben on GarnishBar. Right on.
What happens if there comes a day when absolutely everything is automated and humans no longer need to work? We have reached utopia, yes? But you can probably see where I am going with this: eventually there needs to be some way to provide an income to people, when the day eventually comes when no one needs to work.

I never understand the logic of this argument. If everything is automated and everyone is provided for (this is a utopia, after all), why would people need an income? By definition, if people do not need to work, then they do not need an income. The need to work and the need for an income are the same thing, just worded differently.
In which currency?
With Fronteers (the Dutch trade organization for front-end web developers) we've been running a forum thread for such CSS logos for the last year and a half - http://forum.fronteers.nl/topic/24/the-css-challenge/ - conversation in Dutch, but the images and jsfiddle links should speak for themselves - and I personally think the chief benefit in this exercise comes from the process of _creating_ such a logo.

When you're looking at the end result, you might be mildly impressed by the versatility of CSS, or dismiss it as a rather pointless exercise for the real world (both of which are quite valid points of view), but when you're actually looking at a new logo and pondering how you'd approach the process of recreating it in pure CSS, you'll be triggered to dig deeper into CSS than you'd do during the ordinary course of web development work. The amount of value gained from that is hard to overstate.

I've recently been teaching someone completely new to web development the principles of HTML and CSS, and she's been picking it up pretty swiftly, but otherwise not doing much with it which was terribly noteworthy. Until I loosened restraints, and got her interested in just playing with some new techniques for the sake of playing (which included that CSS challenge). Suddenly she was doing things I'd never seen before, layering radial and linear gradients for some cool effects, transforming and animating the result, and just bringing it all together in wildly innovative ways. (It helps that she has no idea about the bad old days where we were all incredibly restrained by limited browser support.) :) For the CSS challenge she had a definite goal, and I could just see her conceptual thinking leaping ahead as she bounced ideas off of me on how to reach that goal. In the process of this all she discovered two browser bugs (will still get her to file them after making certain they won't be dupes), gained a much, much deeper understanding of the finer points of various CSS3 modules, and had her self-confidence boosted a lot by knowing that she could really figure out these things and create something which would've seemed like magic to her just weeks earlier.

I highly recommend any- and everyone to, when it's not immediately obvious how a particular logo was constructed, pick it apart and _see_ the way certain effects are combined. Expand your thinking. Yes, there's an obvious way to build up your basic CSS for a bread-and-butter website, which just works, and there's often not much challenge or versatility there (nor needed). But the techniques and capabilities at the forefront of CSS are changing and expanding rapidly, and more and more of these techniques do actually become quite applicable to ordinary websites. Not in the particular combinations found in a CSS logo, but still in forms which will bear an uncanny resemblance to them. Why not have some fun teaching yourself about them? It's good to every so often remind yourself that you're in a very creative field of work, which keeps changing rapidly.
That's massively disappointing. Why aren't you doing something that you're passionate about, even if it's something like stamp collecting?
Society eventually will work it out. If you get too many idle and angry people you get a revolution, everything is broken in the process, and lots of work to get back to the beginning of the problem again. Or maybe technology allows us to move to other planets and have to start again. Or maybe a disease kills 50% of the population. Lots of possibilities. People always assume the future won't be much different than the present.
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> We can automate the service of robots.

Or just destroy/recycle them when they wear out, because whatever's available as a replacement is probably better/cheaper in some way than the old unit. In fact if you design them with that explicitly in mind, it becomes very efficient.

We do the same with computers and phones, it's usually better in our personal big pictures to just get a new unit.
I had not previously heard of Grav-mass. Now to go find Newton ornaments. It doesn't really matter if they fall off.
All and sundry: Testing Spring "session" scope
Please find a charity you want to support and donate the laptop and other items in your closet. You'll get a tax write off which will give you the marginal return. You'll get two closets back. You'll support a cause you like. If it's a small charity, you could make a major impact. Do it before things depreciate more.

The non-profit will be very thankful and you won't have to keep wondering what to do with those closets.
I've found a previous article with more information and the full article available: "The chemical structure of a molecule resolved by atomic force microscopy" http://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5944/1110

In this article, they explain that to get a good image, the distance between the tip and the molecule should be only ~1A. It's similar to the distance between atoms in the molecule, so the force is (relatively) big. Another important point is that using simulations to fit the data, they found that the main contribution to the force is not electrostatic, it's the Pauli repulsion (that is a quantum effect). Nevertheless if the tip "see" the molecule, then the molecule "see" the tip.

An important detail is that the Oxygen atom is small and it's not possible to measure how it is moved by the forces. The molecule applies a small force to the Oxygen atom that is attached to the Carbon atom that is attached to the big tip. The tip resonates like a tuning fork, and the small force on the Oxygen atom changes slightly the resonating frequency of the whole system. They measure this frequency shift and use it to calculate the force on the Oxygen atom.
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Ask HN: What do you want from a therapist/counselor?
I'm a student in a mental health counseling program (meaning I'll be licensed to open a therapy practice), and the HN population is a good sample of one of the groups I'm most interested in serving.

I'm interested in hearing anything you'd like to share on the subject of working with a mental health professional -- from modes of service, to method of discovery/marketing thoughts, to the nature of the relationship, to the expectations and goals you'd have going in. I'd also be interested in any ideas you might have for disruption or creative approaches.

Whatever thoughts you have, I'd enjoy hearing. Thanks!
Police let people reach Gezi Park and mainstream media started video. After a few minutes Gezi Park started burning. And turns out it was a gas cannister firing a building thats put there for the new building operation.

What happened then is people, the one you are accusing of looting is used all their supply water and solutions to control and the fire.

We are trying to loot and make fires and destroy.
> - You don't drool on your t-shirt

Taste of German humor? :) Kidding aside, Good Luck with your search.
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Pre-script: I would be interested in better informed descriptions and opinions on the following.

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The title is, per the article itself, a bit misleading.

Per the article (I'm not in a position to assess its accuracy), Swedish and Scandinavian students become financially independent younger than in the U.S. and some other countries. Meaning, at the time they attend post-secondary education / university.

The tuition and such are free, but independent students have significant living expenses that exceed the student stipend. Further, the amount they can earn through work before losing the stipend is capped.

So, students borrow to cover living expenses.

Where the debt comparison with the U.S. weakens:

This is the key. While Swedish students end up with relatively high levels of debt, the monthly costs of carrying that debt are pretty cheap. (It’s about 3.8% of estimated average monthly income of new graduates, according to one study.) Interest rates are low. They’re set by the government and maintained through subsidies. And the length of repayment is long: 25 years or until the student turns 60. In other words, the Swedish system of student debt is financially manageable and sets students up to begin their lives as viable adults separate from their parents...

Across Europe, slumping birth rates represent a long-standing economic, demographic and social problem. Sweden, though, is something of a hotspot for European baby-making. Some see clear links between young people moving out of parental homes early and taking the necessary steps to become parents themselves. (Anyone who has ever lived with mom and dad into their 20s will understand this intuitively.) “Childbearing in developed countries almost invariably takes place after young adults have left their parental home, and home-leaving constitutes a central correlate of fertility and union formation in Europe and other industrialized countries,” wrote sociologists in this 2006 paper.
Given that immigration laws are import quotas, that the free market will fix things is a confused argument. There's no such free market in software engineering labour.
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It's seems to be a project for

http://dolores.sp.cs.cmu.edu/15418_spr13/

Which answers the first question that comes to mind 'why would anyone do this, for an i/o bound process'. For homework, of course.
What's the tech stack ?

I think this would be useful information for all the sellers to include, as many people reading here will be programmers.
From the article:

"There is a different kind of shortage, but the American people won't like to admit it.

"What there is is a shortage of ultra-elite American-born talent, and Silicon Valley wants to hire the very best in the world. The view from Silicon Valley is that a lot of the US talent, while bountiful in number, just doesn't stack up."

That is the nub of the issue. Several of the leading companies in high-tech industry believe that "hire the best" is the most successful way to compete with other companies, and that requires hiring from a worldwide pool of job applicants. An immigration lawyer might point out that the "outstanding ability" O-1 temporary worker visa category

http://minsk.usembassy.gov/temporary_workers.html

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind10/c3/c3s5.htm

allows people who are truly world-class experts to enter the United States to work. (If I remember correctly, that is how Fields medalist Terence Tao was able to gain his faculty position at UCLA as a citizen of Australia, although his visa status may have changed meanwhile.) But, yes, demonstrating that a person meets the O-1 visa requirements is difficult for an employer, and even at that only allows temporary residence (not a "green card").

That American graduates of STEM programs vary wildly in quality of preparation for demanding work is why any smart company will hire workers on the basis of work-sample tests rather than on the basis of college degree requirements.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4613543

Until companies in general emphasize actual job task performance rather than school credentials in hiring, visa regulation reform won't do the whole job of helping companies meet their hiring needs.
In London UK, I will assume £, Pounds Sterling, GBP.
We really need unions. These polls only help so much.
Unfortunately also, there are both retard programmers, and actual programmers. I worked with a retard programmer, he thought that learning Django was a feat of strength...sigh..when I told him about OOP he almost shit his pants.
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My take on this is that anywhere you look, most developers are poor to mediocre. The problem isn't specific to America. What is [mostly] unique to America is that immigration restrictions is the only thing stopping them from swooping up above-average talent from other countries (in no small part thanks to good salaries and the near-mythical nature of the valley)

In other words, Portugal (as a random example) has the same shitty breakdown of poor/average/good developers as the US, but a not-insignificant number of the good ones are hirable.
This is actually something I've been thinking about recently. Once we've automated all of the "manual labour" jobs away in the name of efficiency or human safety, what do we do with the people who are only fit for manual labour?

Ethically, we're compelled to support these people. But does it make sense to maintain a population that contributes absolutely nothing? I imagine they'd start to get restless as well... I suppose we could always put them into giant hamster wheels to generate power.