skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. But I guess if they had missed out the "American" we'd have people saying "The world is bigger than America".

I live in England. We have the BBC. BBC Radio Four news coverage is excellent, but even that is lousy when it comes to a lot of international news. The BBC World Service is better, for obvious reasons, and domestic BBC does make extensive use of their foreign correspondents. Just not so much in news bulletin coverage.

UK print media, especially newspapers, especially the lower end, is a cesspit of vile idiocy. I'm surprised there's no movie about it. It's disturbing how often the Daily Mail gets posted to HN.
If an engineer or machinist used to working with SI tools goes to work somewhere using metric measurements, perhaps building equipment for space travel...

Oh wait.

Obviously, doctors can get things done under less than ideal circumstances. I'm sure every TV show has had an episode of someone doing an in-field tracheotomy with a swiss army knife and a biro cap.

A license is not necessary for a Linux admin to work (in general). Screwing up a service file isn't on average going to result in the CEO of his company having a meeting with the company's attorneys and practice review boards to determine how much to pay the victim of his edits.

Worst case based on negligence (maybe taking all the zones down for a DNS provider), the admin loses his or her job.

You're comparing something minor with something that has both a high risk of serious damage or death (throw the statistical average value of life in here) plus an environment (especially in the USA) where attorneys advertise on bloody public buses for people who were "harmed" by a doctor, and there's a lot of ass covering with best practice behavior.

The human body is not a car (there's the metric/SI thing again). Things are bigger, smaller, in a slightly different location, softer, harder, or any of a million other combinations of complications that make it safer to use appropriate customized equipment.
It depends. "Brain drain" is a real problem for many nations.
I noticed I had no data at around 23:30 last night and still no data at around 8:30 this morning. I was pretty surprised to see the outage last that long.

Things appear to be working again now (12:30) albeit slower than usual.
I'm tired of the Three coverage and "uptime".
Fine, now they're down, shit happens, I can deal with it.

What pisses me off is their permanent shitty signal - enter a supermarket - no signal, enter a data centre (at work, where I spend most of the day) - no signal, go in a building with thicker walls (e.g. Barbican) - no signal.

In all these places Virgin Mobile has no problems.
+1!
Awesome work Donald!
Ah, errnoh on IRC also explained some things to me, it seems that Docker reuses "parent" images, so if you launch 10 Ubuntu containers they will only take up 10x20mb plus the parent image of 600 mb, rather than 10x600, hence the freezing.

That's amazing, it means that I can replace my small VMs with Docker containers on a big box.
Wait till you go back to your own code in 1,2,5 years and think who wrote this rubbish - only to look it up and find out it was you :-)
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I don't think the point of the article was to compare infant mortality between countries. Finland had a problem with infant mortality and this is one of the steps they took to improve. The program seems to be working well and makes the Finns happy.
That's right kids, Americans choose never to have any vacation time and spend all their lives in work...

Also LOL @ Savings. From what I've read only around 55% of Americans have more savings than credit-card debt.
And how do you observe:

1) that essential stuff has been forgotten

2) that those you see were even eligible for the grant (it is only for those receiving income related benefits).

Note while not the nicest area of London suburbs the Job Seekers Allowance claimant rate is only 3% [1] with another 5.5% on Incapacity Benefit or Employment and Support Allowance. The vast majority of JSA claimants have been claiming less than 6 months rather than long term. [2]

There are particularly deprived pockets though but I question your ability to identify by pure observation outside a supermarket real income sources.

[1] http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/local_economic_assessment_overvie... (p iv)

[2] Same report (p 37)
Interesting, I understand not wanting to know and I also understand wanting to know, but why would people keep it a secret? (Just in case I'm not judging, just curious)
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If you dont trust him he shouldnt be your co-founder. Else you have trust issues. What would you do when you employ your first developer?
The article's 5th paragraph says it all. From today's perspective, Japan's defeat in the war is obvious. But Japan's leaders still needed an eye-opener then. One bomb obliterated an entire city, and they were still deliberating about the possibility of surrender?

About the bomb, it's not a question of necessity, but of economics. That was a time of war. American forces beat the enemy every step of the way in the Pacific. The Allies may have enough power to bring Japan down to its knees during the war in the long run, but how tempting is a weapon that wreaks destruction unseen yet on the planet, but gives zero casualties, instead of sending your fellow soldiers to their deaths on a foreign land? Who wouldn't get sick of a long war and not seek to end it as soon as possible?

Of course, someone may argue that since it's a question of economics, then it is unnecessary, and therefore, the bombings were wrong. But surely, if there is something you wouldn't want to give to your enemy, one of those is time. The author mentioned a Japanese nuclear research program, and that really deserved a red flag.

It took 6 more days after the Soviet invasion and Nagasaki bombing, before Emperor Hirohito publicly announced their unconditional surrender. If the emperor made the public announcement before the Nagasaki bombing, then the second bombing may be wrong.

If there is something I would admire of the Japanese people, it would be their sense of patriotism. Stalin did not beat Japan. What kept the country from surrendering and hold that long was Japanese Pride.

Little Boy and Fat Man are very weak compared to today's nuclear weaponry. Historians and article writers should be discreet when discussing sensitive issues like this, as they can fuel hatred. Focus should be on preventing nuclear war, or there would be no more history left to discuss.
Obviousness is actually an interesting issue because it's dependent on context and context is moving pretty fast now. A lot of web inventing/entrepreneurship is as much predicting as it is inventing.

Some of the great ideas will become obvious later. That doesn't mean they're not valid & creative ideas.

Generally describing patents as creative works is problematic. In some cases they are like literature or music. In lots of other cases they are more like scientific discoveries. Out there waiting to be uncovered.
Works brilliantly so long as you remember exactly which walls you've coated :)
Recently got hired at a new place and I defiantly am having the same problem. There are two major hurdles: Domain knowledge and code-complexity. Then trying to dive into the countless layers of logic in the code itself.

With a large codebase, it's impossible to understand everything. So the only thing we can do is to gradually learn how it works.

Sticking with it will make you valuable to the company in time. Moving on will free your mind to do other things.
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Thanks man, really appreciate it. It's been a fun ride! You're absolutely right. I think, "will it scale" is often a fairly silly question when you think about it. Not every company has to become a billion dollar company to be successful. And while scaling geographically is great, one can create a model that goes deep instead of going wide, and for a local business this could mean totally dominating a city with multiple verticals. Either way, "will it scale" shouldn't be the question. "Will it sell?" is more important, especially for a boot-strapped company.
I find Three has superb coverage throughout London. Elsewhere it's not so good.
Somebody please pack this all together and sell it for $50. This is how Apple do business. Sell hardware and software together.
Beshr :D Thanks bro!
I think this idea is often over looked. How much money/time is spent solving problems caused by overwork?
Vine started out as a small (3 person) startup that Twitter acquired just before their launch. Could they, post acquisition, have gotten the android version out quicker, maybe, but it's unlikely that they could have built the backend, an ios, and an android app with the amount of polish the ios app had at launch and launched at the same time with just the 3 people they had prior to the acquisition.
> So yeah, if you need a box to run your webserver 24/7/365, you can find a better deal elsewhere. But that's really never been what EC2 is for.

What Amazon offering is? This is AWS we're talking about. They have a service solution for nearly everything. You're saying in 2013 they still don't have a service for 24/7/365 website hosting?
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And there are plenty of health care companies that evaluate AWS and decide they don't need a BAA, due to the way the system is constructed. This is a 'your legal team' issue, not a global issue (ie: it's an issue, but not a blanket problem for everybody).
I second the "pure uncut bullshit" vote above.
If you are concerned with what happens to your code if the business doesn't work out. Then you might be able to put it in writing that if you split up (within a reasonable amount of time), then code copyright falls to you. He might have the same feelings, in regards of frontend and graphics. Think of it as a prenup to your business-wedding.
have you guys read this: http://esayas.com/post/52052551164 - the future is already there in the universe. humans are just villagers to get it.
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he may also have a kind of stockholm syndrome also.
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That is definitely not true, read the comments.
Err, not uncut bullshit. 4 billion dollars increased debt per day was the figure I read last week.

(Edit: http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ claims 2.7 billion dollars increase per day. Anyway, it's huge. It's not bullshit. Treasury source @ http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/pd_debtposactr...)
I would guess (based on wild and unsubstantiated assertions on my part) that parent is referring to eastward European countries such as the Balkans.
It was pretty slow for me. I'm using Firefox on a relatively high-end laptop.

>? Of course you need to be online to do multiplayer...
You know on many desktop games you can host servers without needing any central authority or even your internet online right? Like in Minecraft? Quake? Halo? is the LAN forgotten?
The site's tagline is "Tweet faster than you type!" but the associated twitter account (@emph_it) says "Tweet faster than you read!"

But maybe Twitter needs fewer people tweeting faster than they can type, and people probably should not be tweeting faster than they can read...?
Prenda seeded its own porn files via BitTorrent, new affidavit argues
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OpenELEC+XBMC! Nice :D is it on github ? would like to give it a shot
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Look - some people don't want to bring down anything. They just want a more efficient, cheaper means of exchange and a more reliable store of wealth.

Besides that - when it comes to effects of such a currency on geo-politics... <cue spooky music>... NOBODY KNOWS... Really. No one has the absolute foggiest idea about what would happen if bitcoin main streamed. I wish people would stop thinking that they do.
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Thanks! It's a totally different architecture, I'm using Raspbian and WebSockets, really hacked this in 4 days..
How many folks saying EC2 is too expensive because there is a cheaper alternative are doing so on a Macbook of some kind?
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Sure thing! I'm really surprised of all the feedback, let's fork it guys! I believe in an open world.
More likely, you prefer not to pay because it costs way more than it should. I am not familiar with analysis of e.g. Day care costs, but Americans pay significantly more for healthcare than Europeans, and get significantly worse results; also, they pay significantly more for education and get significantly less.

The party line is that it is a preference - but anecdotally, I've only heard that preference from people who never really looked at the numbers, and from the obscenely rich.
One question I find interesting is to what extent governments should be in the business of building solidarity and shared values.

Personally, I'm all for it - but that's a product of my age (40s), location (Scotland) and where I grew up (a small village in the North of Scotland).

NB Having a father who served in the RAF during WW2 probably influenced me far more than I realised at the time - my political views around 20th century history are now almost identical to what his used to be.
I like them off.
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It's slighty more complex. You're talking about asking people what they want, then building it.

"A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
— Steve Jobs
Why doesn't github just fix it to send the correct content-type back?
I took it as a synecdoche, the cardboard box itself is obviously not very significant.
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Even explicitly knowing I was looking at signs telling me to "relax and enjoy myself," I found myself interpreting the sign as the warning/restriction counterpart message until my second or third (even more careful) reading.

It's a lot like the phenomenon where if you include and and twice in a row, you'll likely not realize the typo.
To be fair to the Daily Mail, I don't think it's all "vile idiocy" - just about 98% of it (especially the "sidebar of shame").
Having done a little research the grant is £500 available to parents receiving an income related benefit (including some in work benefits) [1].

It was changed a couple of years ago to apply only to first children rather than each child which I presume is the yanking referred to.

Essential stuff being forgotten. That happens there is a lot to learn quickly being a parent. Can you show that reckless spending caused necessary items not to be affordable when the error was realised?

"Expensive fashionable buggies" can easily cost more than £500, pushchairs are unsuitable for very young infants, those on low incomes are unlikely to have cars and may need a better buggy than those only nipping out of car although I'm sure there are solutions well under £500 especially if you look at 2nd hand.

I do agree that a universal box would be a good idea even though I'm not comfortable with your lazy tabloid stereotyping of "the locals". It may be that the box should be supplemented by a cash grant (of a reduced amount) for those currently entitled to the grant.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/sure-start-maternity-grant/overview
Read the FAQ, rawgithub's source is here: https://github.com/rgrove/rawgithub
The better question is why governments spend so much time trying to reenforce social stratification by placing so many qualifications on social programs.
Interesting back story to that one. Thanks for sharing those details.
I sometimes do, but not neccessarily as a customer but as a normal visitor. For example if I read an interesting blog post on a startup's blog, I often open the on-site chat just to tell them that although I am not their customer or target market I like their articles and they should keep up the good work.

I hope this sometimes makes the day of a founder org engineer a bit better.
I like that Finland has added cloth diapers and taken the bottle out. I wish, though, that sleeping with baby wasn't stigmatized, and that ultrasounds weren't deemed to be expected and normal during prenatal care (you may not hear or feel it, but watch a baby who is further along react - they freak out).

Anyway, the Finns seem to have their hearts in the right place. Well done.
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If someone can host arbitrary html and js on the *.github.com domain, they can set cookies for github.com. See http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/03/hacking-github-with-webk...
> I also like being able to run my own software on my own devices.

And you can. Visit http://forecast.io from iOS Safari and add the icon to your home screen, then run that.

This is the app distribution method Jobs tried to sell developers on. Developers mostly don't want want it.

Of course, you can also run your literally own apps, native apps, by installing them yourself. You only need the App Store to sell them.

Finally, you can set up your own distribution platform. See TestFlight.
What if you were tell him the same thing?

Why on earth is he to trust you, but not vice versa?

You two are now equals and peers and it's time for you to start acting like it. If that's unacceptable to you then you never should have put yourself into this situation - a cofounder is not an employee.
I work within the Bitcoin area but not on Bitcoin exclusively, and I have lived in many countries. I own zero Bitcoins. My take is that decentralized currencies and settlement systems (an important distinction, mind you; Bitcoin tries to be both) do have a strong potential to alter the status quo, particularly with vast numbers of European and US citizens in unemployment or various levels of relative poverty, and with the Chinese government's exceptional stance against capital flight. The combination of these elements is extremely potent and is not going away any time soon.

Monopolists (credit cards, USD, SWIFT, etc.) have had it too good for too long; all empires fall, nothing lasts forever.

We have alternatives now: they're affordable, they're increasingly approachable, and they're potentially more transparent (and therefore legally compatible and corruption resistant) than the legacy systems. We even have a foothold in politics.

Anyone who thinks change isn't coming is probably not versed in economics, a staunch conservative, or (sub)consciously expecting greater plays toward totalitarianism and technocracy from our surveillance states.

The coming change will be a massive one for humanity and its ultimate result will be a different relationship not only between individuals and their governments, but amongst the people of the world without regard for government.

We have seen the separation of church and state. Witness: the separation of finance and state.

Nationalism, Einstein's infantile disease; the measles of mankind may finally be put to rest, without the need to accept the hidously risky alternative of global governance.

Let us celebrate the creativity and differences in the world, not criticize those who seek to create opportunities for change in the best way possible: non-violently and from the ground up, through individual citizen participation.
> to be honest I don't quite understand this parent thread thing in HN

It's quite simple. Click the `parent` link to see which comment I was replying to. The reason why I didn't give the parent link directly is because there are many replies.
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Agreed. At my first company we used to make sure every employee had a fresh packet of business cards and a mug on their desk for the first day. A nice box packed with thoughtful stuff you'll need is a good idea especially if it includes a few pair of gender-neutral-adult-size-onesies emblazoned with the company logo.
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I don't know whether the Balkans still live up to that reputation, but Austria certainly does ...
The Register is hiring?

As a licence fee payer, I object to the BBC taking my money and favouring proprietary platforms. They bend over forwards to work with and on DRM-encumbered platforms, so they're no strangers to "complexity".
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This is called Vox Populi, and I think it's done throughout the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_populi
Ahh would love to... and make it open!
I'm surprised no one has mentioned WhatsApp groups and Google Hangouts yet. To me this is the evolution of social networking, where people finally start sharing stuff with each other again. Only this time, it's in a very private group of people, real-time and organised around a common interest/background.

I see this happening all around me: groupchat with pictures is the new Facebook.
This is cool but this is not Google TV. The article title is misleading. I have a hard time even calling it a version of Google TV.
Philips had a working concept with a beamer some years ago. It was called the "Drag Draw". Can't find much about it but here is a movie of the device in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WsPncFFrRw
> to what extent governments should be in the business of building solidarity and shared values.

To the extent that government is the actual exercise of the public's solidarity and shared values, I'm inclined to think it does have a legitimate role to play in giving expression to those values.
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This is remarkable, I initially thought you'd typo'd your typo and had to do a double take to spot it.

Isn't the brain a wonderful and scary thing.
These are pie charts of "where are HN users" and contain little information more useful than that.
I've tried that here [1], gh-pages has replaced master as the only branch. It seems to work well [2] for the static site.

[1] https://github.com/shurcooL/latest-tweets

[2] http://shurcool.github.io/latest-tweets/
I agree that most of scrum is focused on engineering. The product owner is where it focus lies on product. I've seen companies where product managers became better in having product delivered on time when they adopted the Product Owner role with scrum teams.

@BenLinders
You're not alone. But you're also missing an important point. You often use libraries without fully understanding their code, don't you?

You have to. You usually don't have the time or luxury to dig in and understand everything when you have a specific task to complete. Unless you're refactoring some old code where you try and make sure that you understand everything relevant to that codebase. Or you can just wait until it breaks...

Things like automated testing and proper documentation try to help in this regard, but they're useless if they're not kept up-to-date with the code and they have their own set of problems.
This post summarises everything you need to know about Marco Arment and his entire blog. End to end trollbait and best avoided.

That said: I can see why BBC subscribers who pay with their tax dollars are unhappy about seeing their tax-dollars invested in closed, proprietary solutions and ecosystems, while the open counter-parts remain ignored.

It doesn't hold water logically and it is against the contract on which BBC is funded.
Looks like an attempt to re-establishing connection with reality: Flash-games cannot be valued in billions even in a delirium.)
(half remembered, take with a grain salt)

Building penetration of a signal gets worse as frequency increases - so Three UK (2100 MHz) suffers more than Vodafone UK (900+2100 MHz) inside large/heavy buildings. Three has LTE (4G) coverage planned at 800+1800 MHz so eventually this should improve.
The Twitter experiment has failed. Let’s go back.
The 'Reserved' sign is the only one I'd object to. It's likely to be read from afar, and never approached close enough to get the joke. Even then, it would be easy to reason that 'fun and games' was an in-joke from whichever party made the reservation.