skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it has more to do with the market segment to which your home belongs than it does your geography. For example, where I live only higher-end homes have built in wiring suitable for computer networking. However, homes in the mid-range can be fitted with this type of wiring as an upgrade. It's not uncommon to see it listed as an upgrade when it's present, and this is in a non-urban area of the Florida east coast.

I bootstrapped my way in to the startup scene by starting out doing in-home computer repair, so I've been in a lot of houses to see the variety and extent of the wiring available. My experience is that a homeowner only needs to experience a home wired for ethernet one time time before it becomes a "must have" on all future home purchases. Even for non-tech-savy home owners.
Thank you, very interesting. Am I correct that the button 'Visible to: All' is basically an action button where you can use the arrow on the side to change the action within? Those are not really common on OS X. Guess that's why it looks a bit out of place.

I would side with the reader below, I think that going for a completely different look works better than 'almost' native. Ableton Live is a good example I think that has (almost) the same UI on Mac as on Windows which doesn't look bad on either OS.
I do feel it's a bit distracting from the content for me; not every picture is gif-like, and I found myself scrolling to animated ones. I'd like to know how 'average' people would like the content presentation, from a reader standpoint, not a hacker standpoint.
> Some web applications are more platform specific than others.

Rarely.

As I said before, you're not developing for Linux when you make a web application. You're developing for Rails/PHP/whathaveyou. These are all OS-agnostic and can be run on any OS. I can run my PHP app on my Macbook, my Linux server, or my friend's Windows desktop. They all work. Because it's not meant to be built for a particular OS.

I don't understand how you can be this stubborn about it. If the language can be run on any number of platforms, then, by definition, it's not an application for one specific platform.
Absolutely. It's called lead time bias, and there's a great illustration on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_time_bias

Gil Welch at Dartmouth is one of the experts in unnecessary medical screening and lead time bias. He's written numerous academic and media articles, especially regarding lung, breast, and prostate cancer screening. Also an amazing public speaker:

http://tdi.dartmouth.edu/faculty/h-gilbert-welch-md-mph
I actually disliked this page design.
The image and text always faded to black before it went off the top of the screen. I am in the habit of moving text to the top of the screen to read it. It kept vanishing as I did so meaning I'd have to move the text I wanted to read down to the middle of the screen.

Did this not happen to anyone else?
Why no body is talking about this great phone?
Where do you pull "40 point IQ difference" from? The gap between these impoverished kids and normal is only 20 points. And that is easily explainable with nutrition, stimulation, and education.

To start look at http://www.thewayforwardproject.org/file_uploads/Gen10%20IQ%... for a meta analysis of thousands of studies finding that the IQ difference between growing up in an orphanage and foster care averaging 20 points.

Independently, the estimated difference between average IQ in the mid-30s and today is 20 points. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect for verification. In that time period the main things that have changed are nutrition, stimulation and education.

So there you have it. Two unrelated analyses of completely different things finding that nutrition, stimulation and education can explain 20 point IQ differences between otherwise similar populations.
Ask HN: Tech Community in Finland?
I've read a lot about mobile/indie games being developed in Finland. Game dev and tech company numbers are huge here when compared to the total population.

With that in mind, where is the community? I've come looking for it and so far am empty handed. Google doesn't seem to help.

Where/when/how does the Finnish tech scene meet up? How can I get involved?
"But buyers first discover their books online only about 17 percent of the time."

A greater percentage will discover books online if brick and mortar book stores disappear. Plus there's still the local library, so Amazon may not be quite the death knell for book publishers as this article is making them out to be.
But you can already upload your software to phones. You don't need the simcard for that.
5 microphones and 5 cameras. Not very pleasant to think about. I used to keep a piece of electrical tape on my laptop's webcam but it looks like it came off, time to put a new one back on.
The way I see it, Facebook manages and displays all the content you and your friends provide, so it is nothing without the content providers. There is something really odd about paying for a service so you can look at what your friends' content.. it's an upsetting idea. Sure, a paid subscription is totally optional, but it will still make me (and probably tons of others) queasy to see Facebook asking you to pay if you want to use it better.
Apple is set to report their earnings on Tuesday, July 23rd. If this isn't back up by Tuesday evening, it's going to be a very interesting earnings conference call.
Yup, sent the author a note on that.
A Tale of Two Rust-Belt Cities
The 9% would be the bloggers - in particular those that left 'real jobs' to become part of the new wave of commentators.

Yes, they can produce huge volumes of readers when they get an HN hit, but once they've thoroughly exhausted the pent-up ideas that had been percolating for the previous decade, they realize that the only way to sustain themselves is to become increasingly sensationalist (since it's almost impossible to have earth-shattering ideas on a strictly weekly basis).
A good question. I'm not an Android user, but the K900 hardware is fantastic. I am particularly interested in seeing Intel come into its own in the phone space.

Give me that with Windows Phone and wireless charging and I'd be on board.
The useful part of the vaccine is on the order of micrograms. 10,000 * a single vaccine would be on the order of milligrams. The goal of a vaccine is to introduce molecular geometries that cause your body to react and form antibodies - you don't need a lot of liquid volume to accomplish that objective.
Library sounds about right, maybe?
My book: "Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon"
Five companies Yahoo should buy to turbocharge its turnaround
Loved it, and It's awesome that they are not afraid to go out of the box and even get this done right. I think the core of it's success is that as a user you are still in full control of the presentation with the scrollwheel in a natural vertical plane.
And then to top it off the content itself is made more pleasant to look at, and the use of the map and smooth loaded video's just delivers an overall immersive experience.
Point taken, but...

"In the US, 67% of mobile internet users surveyed by Decision Fuel and On Device Research in November 2012 said they mostly or only used mobile, as opposed to the desktop, to go online and surf the web."

Read more at http://www.emarketer.com/Article/How-Do-Internet-Users-Divvy...

If your goal is to connect with people, then ignoring the mobile experience for the sake of optimizing the web experience may be to miss the mark...
You're meant to read the text alongside its picture, and the text is viewable when the picture is on screen.
In MOOC "hype" and "backlash" I see echoes of early open source.
I am taking my wife to the movies, but I will be back in a few hours to answer questions.

This is the third edition of my book "Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon." I removed some of the older material from the earlier editions and added application examples for using Common Lisp clients for: MongoDB, Solr, CouchDB, and relational databases. I also added a chapter using my Natural Language Processing (NLP) library and a short chapter on information gathering.
2 microphones, 0 cameras
The gif made the experience even better for me.
http://classroom.tv/site/search/math
No, that is actually stunningly good, considering the alleged state of the Linux desktop and considering the audience that the Linux desktop has traditionally been targeting. It is so good, that I suspect he has a strong selection bias (he is probably only installing Linux for users he thinks may be able to use it fulltime. This selection is probably unconscious.)

(And because it always seems to be necessary to add this disclaimer: I've been using Linux fulltime for over a decade; I'm not a critic, just a realist.)
I watched on a 5 year old Mac in Chrome. Looked great to me.
It seems like what's most likely is that you didn't read the article correctly. They were measuring the IQ of the children, not the parents. These children didn't 'end up' poor; they started life that way. Their IQ was then 10 to 20 points below average by the time they were four, regardless of the parents' cocaine usage. Or are you suggesting that four year olds with low IQ are responsible for their place in society and the poverty of their parents?
I know you're doing devil's advocate. I liked this part of your comment:
kijin>"What if all those people gave lots of damns about things that actually aren't worth a damn?"

Because I certainly don't know if these things are worth a damn or not, and I generally don't trust people who believe that they do know.

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But this uncertainty about whether "any specific thing matters" cuts both ways, and I'm not sure it is clearly stated in another part of your comment:

kijin>Sounds like defeatism and resignation. Why resign yourself to the "ride" and pretend that there's something nice about the long, arduous journey when you know very well that there's not much to see at the destination, or if you believe that everyone is riding in the wrong direction?

I think that there are 2 defeat/resignations in your hypothetical. The first defeat/resignation happens at the point where you become convinced that "you know very well that there's not much to see at the destination". The second defeat/resignation is the one that you pointed out, when you make the decision to pretend that here's some destination.

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skore>>it's related to the fact that even our understanding of the heat death of the universe is based on and limited by our human brains.

Skore is raising the question that maybe we DON'T "know very well that there's not much to see at the destination."

Some people believe that there is no way to know that "there is not much to see at the destination", and some people believe that there definitely is a worthwhile destination that is worth struggling towards. Religious people, anyone believing in transhumanism or "the singularity" to name the vast majority of humans.

Some people would lump everyone who doesn't commit suicide into this category: "If you aren't getting off the train, you're moving towards station."
Well the reason I have this idea is that couple of my friends have asked me about naming (company and product) and the process of coming up with words is pretty tedious. I thought this tool would make it easier for that. So I guess that would be the first use case I have in mind :)
Though I heard the name so often I never read the man, I think have to rectify that.

We need to recover, and give to one another, the trust that we once gave our placentas.

Wow! It's so refreshing to hear something like that put so strongly. When discussing politics, people often say competition and struggle is normal and lets us have all the nice things, but I like this radically different outlook much more, man should not be predator to man. After all, we can also invent things because it makes ourselves and others happy, just as an expression of our creativity or intelligence... I would even say we can't avoid it. Competition is nice, sportsmanship and/or cooperation are nicer.
I recall just reading an article that omega3 supplements should only be taken if you never eat foods containing them, so if you eat tuna and continue to take omega3 you actually increase your risk of heart disease. But at this point with almost weekly medical studies released contradicting previous ones who knows.
The Cicada Killers Are Coming
Why not put the magnet on the cable?

Saying that this could "never work" is silly.
Yep, I am thinking about getting data that way.
Designing experiments in this area is not my expertise, but my inclination would be "study premature babies with and without crack" You could also simply study premature babies in general, and then study why crack seems to cause more premature babies.

I imagine somebody who is actually in this field would not have much trouble designing experiments to study premature "crack babies". Premature babies are something they chose not to study, not something that cannot be studied.
anmo does all that, and more: https://github.com/sthulbourn/anmo
I don't know what this comment means. Could you, or someone else, explain it? Who are the "white hats"? Why do they have different perspectives on full disclosure than other people? Who are those other people?
>It's totally preventable, and the lack of understanding of consequences is devastating.
While the behavior that causes FAS is easy to stop for most women, for some segment of the population (those who are addicted to alcohol) it is seemingly impossible to eliminate or moderate alcohol consumption for even 1 week, let alone 9 months. The success of preventing FAS should correlate directly to advances in treating alcohol addiction.
Works great fine over here on my 4 year old windows machine. Maybe it's time to do the annual windows reinstall...
I mean that a very large share of these applications are in practise deployed to Linux. If you total the $ revenue of these applications you would no doubt come to a very large figure.
I don't think there's a minimum. There's plenty of startups that were started by college students or even younger. As long as you're smart and know where you want to take your startup, you can succeed.
By your own source, news and media is only 5% (/4% as part of the table below it) of mobile use. This would fall into that category.

Furthermore, I get the impression that their definition of "mostly or only" means more than 50%, which is not the most helpful. It'd be more helpful to do a category-based breakdown for that, which will probably see desktop usage being higher than mobile for news/media.
> Bash scripting in the style of hypercard.

This feels like what Automator is. It's definitely not as powerful as Hypercard was, but just for shell stuff its very cool. Not text based, but it can help accomplish A LOT of bulk processes.
Ask HN: Marketplace payments
Which payment gateway/combination of services is best for marketplaces where the seller doesn't want another account (like with stripe connect) and the marketplace operator (me) wants to take as little risk as possible (i.e. avoid payment aggregation like balanced payments)?
Time to trot out trivia. As the article points out, the Silk Road faded in importance in the 1400s. But it doesn't say why.

There were three major reasons why it faded.

The first was the final fall of Constantinople in 1453, ending the last remnant of the original Roman Empire. This made trade with Europe harder.

The second was the development, initially by the Portuguese but followed by others, of direct sea routes to India, and then China, which bypassed the much more expensive land routes.

The third was the opening up of the Americas as potential sources of commodities.

The result was a long-term economic and military decline of areas like the Middle East. The extent of which was not realized by the West until Napoleon conquered Egypt.
Wow, now thats taking journalism to a whole other level.
C++14 version: https://dpaste.de/a8g9D/

You obviously can't pass this to C code, but it's a portable and extremely efficient solution if you are working purely within a C++ code-base.
So, you want to hire me? My response to recruiter spam.
The problem is that running an MPI program on a remote node starts a new non-interactive SSH session. That SSH session has no parent login session, so it won't inherit environment variables from any session that read the .profile file. And because the SSH login is non-interactive, the only file that the shell inside the SSH session reads is .bashrc.

Sure, you could source .profile manually, but this is awkward to code inside an MPI application. In addition, this will cause .bashrc to get sourced twice, because your shell already read .bashrc when it started the SSH session. Hopefully your .bashrc is idempotent, but even so, it feels wrong to have to read .bashrc twice.

Try this on a remote server:

remote:~$ cat .profile
echo "read .profile"

echo "sourcing .bashrc from .profile"
source ~/.bashrc
remote:~$ cat .bashrc
echo "read .bashrc"

And then from your local machine:

local:~$ ssh remote
read .profile
sourcing .bashrc from .profile
read .bashrc
local:~$ ssh remote -k true
read .bashrc
An alternative would be to drop login requirements completely – Debian mailing lists work just fine, and on a large percentage of them, anybody can post without any password whatsoever.

But email spamfiltering is likely more advanced than similar routines for web fora.
This should not be viewed on mobile, but yes, a mobile alternative would be great.
So? That's not the discussion at stake here. We're talking about apps being written for Linux vs OSX. By definition, a web app is not written for a particular platform (with certain exceptions like ASP.net). If anything, it'd fall into its own category.
Math Behind Leak Crackdown: 153 Cases, 4 Years, 0 Indictments
The size of the company doesn't change the fact that there are numbers smaller than 10%, 1% or even 0.1%.
I thought this route was financially impossible. Looks like I'm proven wrong.
This affect only users outside the US
This very long article is at once both thought-provoking and rather confused, like reading the beginning of a hundred interesting conversations, each interrupting the last before they get anywhere. I'm not really sure what to take away from it, other than "if you want to finish the conversation, buy the books."

The title here gives a clue as to what someone else got out of it. "Against Cynicism: A philosopher's brilliant reasons for living." We might infer that this was about reasons for living, that they are brilliant, and that cynicism isn't part of those reasons. And yet, I'm not entirely sure that "reasons for living" are what Sloterdijk is even addressing. It seems more like he's addressing the concern of minimizing suffering in a culture that's largely given up God. He's an atheist who admits that religion in general and the belief in God in particular has utility, and he's exploring replacement therapies. An eminently reasonable thing to do. But this isn't a reason for living: for the vast majority of people, the "reason for living" is simply that the alternative, death, is petrifying.
Have you spent any time on the Verizon or Sirius XM sites? How about the average multinational insurance company? "Among the worst corporate sites" is a huge leap, considering the profound amount of crap. Spending 5 minutes using the average electronic medical records (EMR) web application would be enough to make your hair fall out. Forget about interoperability of EMR formats. It's a mess. I'm not defending Apple at all, I've spent many nights throwing iPhones over the provisioning and certificate process, but to me, the outcome of surviving that process is that I'm making money from the apps, so it's not ideal, but at least my iOS users are actually paying me money, as opposed to Android users that, as a group tend to expect something for nothing.

We ought to also look at the inefficiencies of the Android system while we're here. 35% of users are still on Gingerbread! You can't really expect to earn money as a developer if you ignore 35% of your target market, with iOS we have over 90% running iOS 6 and only about 6% running Android 4.2, which means that developers can't take advantage of a new Android feature without leaving behind the majority of their market, or creating multiple versions and then on top of that, having to test on a myriad of different hardware configurations. The fact also remains that Android users are generally cheap -- they don't like to pay for apps. So you have a highly fragmented OS environment, coupled with a user base that, in generally spends much less that iOS users and, on top of that, you have a royal mess in the copy-protection scheme used in Android -- which had to be disabled in Jelly Bean due to it breaking apps.

Of course, the security in Android is top notch! Great job on that Google.

If we want to talk inefficiencies with Apple, we certainly can, but to ignore the Google mess is disingenuous.

As far as the effect of Apple's "inefficiencies," is it really affecting them? Are people still buying apps and computers?

My last point is that the assertion of Apple "stubbornly refusing to see the flaws.." That's interesting, because unless one works for Apple at a level high enough to be involved in the conversation, that suggestion is merely conjecture. That's right up there with the pundits being disappointed that iWatch has been delayed, despite having no proof or any acknowledgment from Apple that even such a product exists.

There's an easy solution to not having to deal with Apple's "inefficiencies" -- don't deal with Apple and go make your money with all of the people paying money for Android apps. Or, respond to one of the hundreds of job listings at Apple and do something about it.
Of the 110, two are dead - one shot in a bar and another in a drive-by shooting - three are in prison, six graduated from college, and six more are on track to graduate.

It seems rather depressing to me that the college graduation rate by 23 is under 10%. Talk about different worlds
I would look more to LinkedIn Premium or OKC which lets paying users see more about those in their network (like who's visiting their profile).
This is a pretty sweet/different use of D3. If you poke through the source, you end up with this file:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/07/21/silk-ro...

In addition, d3's scales are used to set up the variable-rate scrolling (see kazak.interaction.scroll function).
> Charging a subscription now, is not plausible, people will leave.

From the article:

> For $10 a month, people who really love Facebook (and can afford it), could see no ads. Maybe some special features too.

Biz isn't suggesting a paywall here; he's suggesting a freemium model. I'm not sure people would leave if Facebook merely announced that people could pay $10/month for extra features if they felt like it.

Of course, I have my own concerns about ad-free premium services... it creates a socio-economic divide between those who can afford to avoid advertisements and those who cannot. Not the end of the world, but it gives me pause.
"Japanese pilots are better trained because the culture of their training program is different"

This statement is basically devoid of any informational content. You can just insert the word "culture" in any similar statement. Watch:

"Google search is better because google has a superior culture oriented around search"

"Italian espresso is tastier because of the superior espresso-loving culture of Italy"

"If you don't believe culture has an effect on behavior, why do you think my ancestry has anything to do with my behavior?"

-----Whoosh----->

"I specifically asked, "Who's to say that the lives of the individuals in charge aren't fully responsible?"

Another nice sounding statement that's irrelevant for the topic at hand. The whole debate is about Gladwell specifically blaming Korea's national culture of deference on the airline's safety record.