skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "to give you a bit of context, when this guy wrote his first piece last september, the backlash was quite big"

I appreciate we Americans don't know everything about the system, but you added nothing to my understanding. This is from the article:

>"When the journalist Mouloud Achour, the rapper Mokless and I published a column in the French daily Libération last September, arguing that France was a decrepit, overcentralized gerontocracy and that French youths should pack their bags and go find better opportunities elsewhere in the world, it caused an uproar."

We might gain something if you'd try to explain why you think the view that France is a bad place to live for the new generation.
"And if you read the news, even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter."

Oh sure... I mean, this country started out with slavery, no voting rights for women, use of child labor, gunning down union workers, etc, etc, etc. And today, things are even worse. (/sarcasm)

Please stop fantasizing about the perfect America of yesteryear. It never existed.
Many of the people I chat to from Europe on IRC confirm that notion. They consider themselves E.U. citizens first and foremost.

Of course these are heavily tech-oriented chat rooms so I'm not sure how far that can be applied. But I find it interesting myself, especially given the history of the USA, where right up to the 1870s people considered themselves a citizen of the state first and not the nation... obviously it has eventually inverted.

But should this inversion actually happen, when does the USA get to ask for the E.U. to act as a singular entity for things like Olympics, U.N. representation, and other international protocols? ;)
The cycle in Scandinavia seems to have played out rather differently. The social-democrats (at the time considerably more socialist than they are today) were mostly elected in the 1930s and '40s, when the countries were extremely unequal, with a lot of poor farmers and factory workers and a small aristocratic class. They implemented a sort of welfare-state capitalism, and the countries prospered after WW2, during a period of almost unbroken left-wing rule.

Only after the countries became prosperous, now there has been a political turn moderately to the right and towards some expansion of free-market policies and privatization (Denmark's particular version is called "flexicurity").
I don't understand the XKCD. What's the joke?
Apples and Oranges JacksonGariety. Diet Coda allows you to code external projects that are stored in a server. This is for allowing you to write Codea applications on your computer rather than right on the iPad.
Reminded me of the Seiko Thermic, a wristwatch powered on the same principle.
London has been called France's sixth biggest city. According to this BBC article from March 2012 there is an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 French citizens living in London. That's more than the population of Bordeaux, Nantes or Strasbourg.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18234930
No, it's not. There is no tremendously productive part of society that generates 10,000% profit. There is a shrinking middle class paying welfare.

And no, people are not going to innovate anything if they are getting taken care of. Entrepreneurship thrives in unregulated environment, which France is obviously not. I mean...you can't even work legally more than 35 hours there, good God!
I have the 1997 version and I liked it! I think I might pick up the updated version even though Java is not my currently favoured language. Converting the examples to another language shouldn't be too arduous for anyone familiar with Java.
The Last Rhinos Find Refuge in World Heritage Sites
Print your Open Dive virtual-reality goggles to play Quake
How a total n00b mined $700 in bitcoins
Because the tooling support, for the most part, is lagging.
What was that phenomenon called where you come across something new and then notice it the very same day? I just learned about Foundation a few minutes ago and this page uses it.
Many in "our" community assign a fair amount of credence to the statement: Information is power.

We see the trend. A... -- I seldom haul out this word, but I will now -- "neo-Fascist" [1] regime absorbing a potentially exponential increase in information while seeking to increasingly restrict our access to and control over same.

That is, I think, in good part what it boils down to.
Also see: Eastern Canada.

(Mind you, this was in the 18th century, but still.)
Ur is a really cool language from Adam Chlipala of MIT. It has a bunch of novel language features that help you write correct web code.
Through a Murky PRISM
How do I convert to German? :)
> To me this guy has zero credibility.

Could you provide an example of an action or stance he takes that makes you believe this?
Blean (n.)

Scientific measure of luminosity : 1 glimmer = 100,000 bleans. Usherettes' torches are designed to produce between 2.5 and 4 bleans, enabling them to assist you in falling downstairs, treading on people or putting your hand into a Neapolitan tub when reaching for change.

~ Douglas Adams and John Lloyd
Mr.Reader and Feeddler supports BazQux on iOS. And there is a beta Android app from the author of gReader https://github.com/noinnion/newsplus

I'm not a native English (Russian in fact) and didn't knew that qux (or bazqux?) is unpronounceable. I'm reading it like Buzz-Cooks which sound somewhat funny in Russian.

There are some advantages with this name. It's unique (very easy to find mentions) and always on top of alphabetical lists.

And from what I'm seeing name is not that important if you have good product. But maybe I do some "rebranding" later.
Absolutely. It's not a very sexy language, and I can't stomach a lot of JEE, but the language and the jvm are absolute workhorses. Especially when you're dealing with high performance networking code.
> French youths lounging on the Champs-Élysées.

The legend of the photo of the article is ridiculous knowing there is 90% of probability that they are tourists.
Germany is doing well, because of :
1. Germans working hard
2. Qualified immigrants from Eastern European countries(and other parts of the world as well). Their labour is cheaper, which in turn is like adrenalin to the economy. I'll let you figure out why.
For those who require custom domains, try something like https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ which offers static hosting at very affordable rates.

It's really interesting to think about this for all sorts of static site generation from non-static sources (Wordpress, rails, django, et al).
That's called the Baader-Meinhof Pehnomenon or the Frequency Illusion. It used to have it's own wikipedia article but now it's just a single sentence in List of Cognitive Biases [0]. Check out this post here though [1].

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon#Frequ...
[1]: http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon...
Look at c# and I think you'll have your answer.
Show HN: Help me build a better alternative to basecamp
Use beta invite code "hacker news" to sign up - only 50 people... This is VERY early and is missing lots of features but you can help shape the future... Let me know what you think...

See http://www.ubercamp.net/
There are people (myself included) who cannot remember how exactly to use tar, the Unix command. For me it always goes like this: "Is it 'tar -fzhf... ' or 'tar -vgsf...'? Ok, I'll google it again, just this one time, promise".
Actually, this is similar work but by different people. The links you posted are about work at University of Washington, whereas the OP is work done at MIT.
> It can't be a conspiracy if it is not a secret, right?

Well, basically.

The Navy even managed to make Paramount Pictures pay for the privilege of taking footage of aircraft carriers and their fighters in action.

Paramount tried to renegotiate the payment by offering to let the Navy play a recruiting video or something silly in theaters, but the Navy quite wisely opted out of that, as the movie is already a recruiter's dream all by itself.
OP here - I built this to get more familiar with anuglar as well as rails... It's a lot of fun and I am trying to scratch an itch that I have because I think basecamp is extremely limited... Even if no one uses this, I am still having a lot of fun building it :)

Again this is very early private alpha... thanks...
I use Clojure and JRuby a lot, and I am working on wrappers for some of the examples. Look in the github repo for the book in a week or two, and they should be there. You may not need the fourth edition since you have the have the first edition, but at least get the new code examples. Also, you can get a free PDF for the third edition from 2008 on my web site.
Thanks! Everything looks very familiar. Is that's all to know about Java (the language)?
Because Scala is not Java. Scala is complex. Java will get better with future releases but Scala is certainly not the replacement for Java.
Here's the source for a Chrome extension: https://github.com/jffry/console.image-chrome-extension

I submitted it to the Chrome web store; it should now be available to install via https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onmiijbokejkiadcpl...

If you prefer, you can clone my GitHub repo and install it in Chrome as an unpacked extension via the "Developer Mode" option in the extensions tab.
Yes, my fundamental question about this article - where are they going to go?

It's not like there are jobs begging to be filled in other countries, barring perhaps the oilfields in North Dakota.
Kind of curious that the article ends with mentions of Brazil and China... I think neither are the best options for young French people right now - for one, wage levels there are significantly lower than in France. Canada, USA or Northern Europe seem like better targets to me.
Power seller collection
Looks he answered that at his reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1ha5dd/rss_reader_w...
Average cell phone call duration has decreased into less than 2 minutes.

Assuming that NSA compresses the stream under 2kbit/s, they could store 1 Billion phone calls for a year using 10 Petabytes of storage.
ASK HN: Should TV stay as it is?
I wonder... And have wondered for quite a while, why does the tv-channels/companies work as they've done for almost 100 years?

In Sweden we have an fee called Radiotjänst which everyone in Sweden has to pay monthly(they say it's optional but if you own a tv-receiver you have to pay. TV-receiver according to them = TV, smartphones, tablets, internet, computers yea everyone ha to pay it). Then there is an fee for getting a plan with channels and on top of that there is commercials so what exactly do we pay for? Do we actually pay $100 monthly to watch commercials? In my logic it should be either free and profitable by commercials or a paid service with no commercials.

How do you feel, do you agree or disagree? Should services you pay for actually contain commercials?
Why is everyone suddenly making Google Reader replacements?
I get that Google Reader was probably a good service and whatever hole it left remains a void to be filled, but I am also seeing virtually no difference between one reader app and the next. The point of a news reader is to let you read and otherwise get out of the way and there are plenty that already do that. None of the last five Google Reader replacements to have made it to the front page of HN did anything more than that besides "having a clean UI."

The way all the Google Reader clones are suddenly popping up rather reminds of the accusations people are making right now about innovation, that instead of making anything new, people are building things like recipe sites and to-do list apps. [1] Which is not to say people should stop building RSS readers--people are entitled to work on whatever they're interested in--but why are people so fascinated by them?

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[1] I don't mean recipe sites or to-do list apps are necessarily useless. I used them as examples of high saturation, not of low utility.
France is a good example of a country where its citizens and leaders have chosen to protect the status quo at the expense of innovation, advancement and particularly at the expense of our generation (namely those born in the 80s). This is a trend that I find is beginning to happen in the US... less productive (and more expensive) older workers are creating rules & legislation to protect themselves (unions are classic examples of this... AirBnb & Uber are constantly fighting this). We have to stand up for free markets else we'll fall victim on the road to serfdom.
you mean now that the US and EU are dealing a comercial treaty?
Moreover not every spy agency in the world tortures people at a massive scale, assassinate anybody it wants across the world or is part of the biggest army. And many countries are so small that anyways they can't spy that much or act that much on the information, but also many countries would not feel it's right, many of them are less corrupt as the US.
From what I see people pay for a feed readers. Especially after Google decided to close one well known free RSS reader.
> a youth unemployment rate of 25 percent for nearly 30

What does it ACTUALLY mean to be unemployed in France?

In the US, if I lose my job and cannot find another for a long time, here is what happens:

• I have to start paying for health insurance. This will probably be in the $500-1000/month range.

• Unemployment insurance pays me for a while.

• In a little over a year, unemployment runs out. At that point, I'll be living entirely on my savings.

• When savings run out, I lose my house. Oh, I also lose my health insurance.

• Before becoming homeless and losing most of my possessions. Hopefully, in the prior year I've been eating good healthy home-cooked food to save money, and also hitting my treadmill regularly, and so might have gotten into good enough shape to no longer need my diabetes and blood pressure medicine, since I can no longer afford them.

To sum it up, being unemployed in the US means you are majorly screwed. Our social safety nets are just not very good.

Our health insurance safety net, for instance, is the emergency room. If you show up with a life threatening condition, they are required to treat you regardless of insurance or ability to pay. They only treat you enough so that you are no longer in immediate danger, and then they can kick you out. Given the choice between providing someone with $30 worth of drugs a month that will keep their condition under control forever, or letting their condition become life threatening and treating it with a $5000 emergency room visit every 2 or 3 months to just keep them alive--the US goes with the latter. Giving them a $30/month prescription would be socialism, and we can't have that.
> This advice is wrong. Try turning off an older feature phone's regular operating system, and then plugging it in to charge. Many of them will immediately come alive with a "charging" indicator on the screen, even when supposedly powered off. This pre-boot mode is perfectly capable of turning on the mic and recording what's going on.

Smartphones do the same thing. But that's triggered by a hardware interrupt (you physically connecting power to an input). You CAN NOT do that remotely, as there must be power on the receiver to receive the signal in the first place.

Or here, let's simplify it. Power off your cell phone, then have someone call it. Does it ring? No, of course it doesn't. Your argument is that by changing the caller from your friend to the NSA that somehow the phone would now be able to react to that signal. Which is utterly idiotic.
The moral basis is irrelevant. International dynamics are a might-makes-right affair.
I know there has been tons of see-thru-the-walls work done over many years... But that used UWB and required specialized equipment and antennas, IIRC, whereas this uses "commodity" USRPs. Could you provide examples of the type of work you're talking about?
I didn't make this, but I like it:  Mergely
Does it cover political conflicts? That was really the only legit chance Snowden had of claiming asylum at practically any nation he goes to anyways.
You're manufacturing a meaning that isn't actually there.

A nation protecting its citizens has absolutely nothing to do with creating a police state or obliterating freedom. It would be absurd to claim the opposite: no nation can ever protect its people, because to do so is to destroy freedom.

It is absolutely the first responsibility of any nation to keep its people safe (notice I did not say create a police state, or spy on everybody, or violate the constitution). If you can't do that as a government, then you have no reason to exist.

I think the root of your error is in confusing what a modern politician might mean with the word "security," and what classic liberalism would say when it comes to the responsibility of a nation to ensure the freedom of its people (eg to ensure that they are safe from physical assault both by domestic enemies such as gangs or militias, or by foreign military invasion). You assume when I say security, that I mean Obama's (or Bush's) equivalent framing.
Definitive source is easy as shit - power off your phone, then see if it's drawing any power from the battery. If it's not, then it can't be remotely activated. Period, end of story. That's just flat out not possible. If we had the technology to receive wireless signals without using any power our cell phones would have batteries that last for weeks instead of a day.
Had no time to fix landing page )
I'm using the AOL reader (yeah I really wrote that) at least initially. It's a very simple (one might say blah) interface that takes almost 0 effort to learn.

Most positive thing is that it was dead easy to import my Reader feed selection.

It would most definitely be weird if Google killing Reader gave AOL some relevance again.
That is the whole reason people are unemployed in France, you realize that, right? Incentives being what they are, and all....
Your point about 'coalitions of candidates' is a great point. This is how the Tea Party is succeeding in taking over the Republican Party at this point, which has led the Republicans in Congress to being far more intransigent than they normally had before.
I don't know its backstory, but from my relatively superficial perspective, I view the TV show "24" as one of the most successful instances of propaganda ever created.

I don't care what its individual participants may have to say about its role. "Everyone" seemed to be watching it, and it seems to at least correlate with an increasing public attitude in the U.S. that "the [t-word] could be / are everywhere". And with the attitude that "anything is justified" if it "stops them".

Seriously, if non-U.S. participants here want some insight into the recent U.S. psyche -- on a general level -- one good starting point would be to watch "24".
First step to Haxe/Javascript
CES and SXSW to Feature Bitcoin Showcase Hosted by Startup Debut
What is the point of this article? That we're not living in the 90s anymore?

Yes, times have changed since Radiohead first made it big and perhaps the author is right that they couldn't have made it today without label funding. But why? Internet downloads? Spotify type services? Increased cost of touring? Or TV talent shows diluting the talent pool? Or perhaps record labels just thinking they can make loads more money from kids with generic disposable pop stars instead of original music?

Who or what is to blame for this? I don't know and to save everyone some time, it doesn't look like the Author does either.
This article misses the overall value of teamwork and devalues face-to-face communication. Talk to other professions and see if people work this way. Do doctors work on their own if they encounter something they don't know? How about engineers? Lawyers?

I'm not advocating disturbing a senior all the time, or for extended periods. However, your search and spelunking through the codebase does not beat random access from the person who knows it. By all means, then take the time to document it, and provide a roadmap for others.

Face to face is an opportunity for the senior person to do a running heath check, and make sure your plan makes sense or is consistent with the framework in place.

If you recall, BeOS's performance on SMP machines was attributed by Gassee to having the two kernel and gui engineers sitting next to one another.

If you are in business, then you are competing with another company. It is no longer university where your personal abilities are tested.
> Yes, my fundamental question about this article - where are they going to go?

Germany, The Netherlands, Norway or Sweden. Lots of countries left where there is still work.
I'm usually a php guy, and recently I had to use some vendor's python api to do some data integration and this might have come in handy. I picked up python, or atleast the basic syntax in roughly 1 day, and was done with my implementation within the next day.
Yes, but this is to avoid casual, non targeted wholesale surveillance and analysis which is what PRISM is. So would work to hide your local traffic from your ISP and avoid Gmail leaking all your emails. It would be better if it was hosted in Iceland instead of Finland because the EU has data retention laws and Iceland told the FBI to piss off when they showed up to seize wikileaks servers.

It's not Julien Assange, or blackhat on the run from the feds level security. For that you have dee.su live o/s or your own custom build, tunneling Tor through a mixmaster network like Jondonym to prevent easy traffic analysis and bitmessage or Nym servers with PGP for emails. In fact you probably would'nt even be using Xorg and all it's attack variables you would be using tmux shells w/lynx and running Tor in a chroot, using virtualized routing tables and behind a pf firewall. You would also be wearing a Roy Orbison wig and sunglasses everytime you moved your safehouse from one location to the next, and never use anything except hacked wireless for a one time connection nowhere near where you live or cameras.
Why did you choose Java? I don't have a problem coding in Java, but I thought it was an interesting language choice considering most AI programs I tend to see are written in some derivation of Lisp.
For reference, the United States' "youth unemployment rate" is 22-23%.[1] And yet unemployment over the age of 25 is 6.3% and falling.[2]

One must wonder to what extent this is the fault of our economy and to what extent this is the fault of the youth themselves. I suspect a combination of both:

1.A lot of people simply don't want to hire "kids" to do anything.
2.The jobs younger people are typically trusted to do are being filled by people with more experience and more maturity.[3]
3a. The most in-demand jobs require a college education, which few 16-19 year old's have.[5,6]
3b. We've seen a cultural shift where these kids see low-skill low-pay jobs like McDonald's as being beneath them. Unfortunately, these are the only jobs for which they are qualified. Fast food service is still hiring. There are plenty of health care aide and fast food jobs available, but no one wants them.[5,6]
4.(Opinion) Gen Y has even less expectation that their children work before graduating college. The youth may say they want a job, but have little motivation.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t10.htm
[2] http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/04/06/number-of-the-week...
[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-25/why-are-so-many-col...
[5] http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/Content.asp?pageid=146
[6] http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2012/01/art5full.pdf