skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't really sound like a job I'd like to do, but I would imagine it compares favourably with the other jobs available for unskilled workers - supermarket checkouts, building site labourer, care assistant etc etc.
The position is given to someone that is sympathetic to corporate journalism, it has nothing to do with being a "veteran". And the fact that "complicated" issues, as defined of course by someone employed by the NYT, are off-limits just serve to bolster my point. Notwithstanding the fact that nearly all of the important criticisms are dead simple. Why are the main issues raised by serious media critics, like systemic bias and corporate influence, never raised by the public editor?

The intent of real criticism is to improve the actual role of the newspaper in relation to the public. The NYT doesn't hire people who do real criticism because real accountability to the public isn't the main incentive of the NYT: revenue and power relations are. The illusion of accountability is necessary, which is why they have the public editor in the first place, because otherwise people wouldn't buy their products, be influenced by their messages and see their ads.

It is the height of absurdity to believe that someone who gets paid by an organization would be unbiased in its criticism of it or that they would act in the interests of a third party, in this case the public, from whom they receive no direct benefit.
If all you're given to drink is dirty water, and you complain about it, that doesn't mean you want nothing to drink. It means you want something better to drink.
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Amazon bought a company called Kiva Systems that builds warehousing systems where robots bring the shelving units to the human packers. It's really neat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWsMdN7HMuA

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

So essentially this system eliminates the up to 15 miles of walking that each worker does per day. Amazon paid $775m for Kiva, and the cost of fitting out each warehouse with the Kiva system can't be cheap... The cost to pay an army of people to walk 15 miles per day must add up real quick!
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Sadly it's already common in the UK, and not just for big firms with seasonal variations - local councils (for example) are looking for an out-sourced employee 'bank' that can be easily adjusted with fewer headaches. Recent changes in employment law for temporary workers may help, but may also lead to more cynical manipulation (e.g. replace all temporary staff before they become eligible for higher status...).
I meet you at the mall. I ask you how you got here. You say:

A) I drove here.

B) I drove here in my car.

C) I drove here in my Hyundai Accent.

If you say C (or even B) people will look at you funny because you've given them too much information. Why can't people say, "I sent you the spreadsheet" or, "I'm going to show you my presentation", or "Here is the text document"? Why when it comes to computers do otherwise smart people suddenly start spouting gibberish?
Which makes me wonder, why is Wales' tweet linked here as the news, whilst it's the original article that should be linked and upvoted?
Yes, and made a huge loss as well.
Glad it's working fine for you!
For a different point of view see http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
They're providing a rather expensive service (Bandwidth and server costs ain't cheap) for free. The wait times are simply rate-limiting in nicest possible way. Also, it's laughable that you think "Wait X seconds" isn't "proper" mirroring, I guess you never use SourceForge? Or are they also filled with warez and penis pumps?

>"Sort through this 500+ page forum thread, and find the guy who posted a 'fix' without sourcecode that comes in the form of a several rar files from Mega, adding up to 2GB. Oh and by the way, he even included a bunch of pirated gameboy roms for you too!"

You apparently don't give a shit about how things actually work (for the most part); you'd rather disparage them. How about you hop on over and see how many of the "minor" problems are actually fixed in the mainstream distros?

http://review.cyanogenmod.org/
http://gerrit.aokp.co/
Use Pillow instead, then it works seamlessly with pip: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/2.1.0

(assuming you have the relevant libjpeg-dev etc already installed)
InfraStructs - embedding information into physical objects
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The walking part of it was one of the things that jumped out at me. 15 miles is a hike. To do that every day on concrete would tear you up.

Since you work at such a place, what is the feasibility of motorized "scooter carts", that you could ride on, perhaps standing up, as you go from location to location?
These major media companies are just that. They are in the business of business, so what drives eyeballs to newspapers or television screens, or ears to the radio, is what will often take precedence.

They're essentially giving the public what they want. The public doesn't want to know about dead babies in Pakistan. They're much more at ease hearing news about the latest celebrity baby (royal, or otherwise).

The media could take responsibility for its lack of ethics, the population could decide that it wants those ethics, or things will just stay like they are.
You can't, in general, do that.

The kernel developers and the FSF have always claimed that loadable modules (like the exFat driver) are "derived works", which has a specific meaning in copyright law. In particular, the GPL very clearly says that derived works must be re-licensed under GPL.

The vendors claim that "derived works" doesn't include linked code, or plug-in patterns. They say that they aren't really releasing their own kernel, just releasing the stock kernel with a bunch of proprietary applications on top, along with their proprietary kernel module.

Like that guy said, it's a gray area.
Readability cache, with images, good formatting, and images intact: http://www.readability.com/articles/djg4qlyo
You Will Fail....but that's okay isn't it?
In politics, partial victories can snowball. And vice versa: repeated loss teaches helplessness. The direct real effect of this would be small, but I'd expect it to be much more useful than a loss.

Added: If you read about Watergate, the scandal wasn't any one event or one reaction: it took over two years from the break-in to the resignation, and people weren't sitting still. Some of the important action was in Congress. (Admittedly it was a different country then.)
If it has a Word icon in Windows Explorer, then it is a Word file. You can ask ~90% computer users if you don't believe me.
Who said I don't want to do nothing? I might want to learn and build other stuff, while earning too.
Do you have links to any good tutorials about programming (in any language) for this purpose?
'unpaid volunteer' is a tautology in this context.
I think historians will look back at the early 21st century and note that Soma was best served digitally, rather than chemically.
I don't think that's the same. A business needs a lot of coordination that is not (currently) possible with a crowdsourcing approach and people work for money. Founders of a crowdsourcing endeavor have its merits but at the end is the community working hard (many times harder than in a business) who owe the praise.
The larger the screen, the lower the ppi. Wake me up when someone comes out with a 4k 24" er.
The blurry line between cyber threats and competitor lobbying
Maybe not that bad, but certainly someone that calls in for help every time they need the parking brake. On the same car, for years.
It should still be flagged for not linking to actual content. It is, effectively, blogspam.
The (i)Message we crave
Thanks for mentioning this, involuntary memory themed book sounds awesome. How long did it take you to read through in calendar time, not active reading time?
I haven't seen it.
Somehow, we grew content with 1080p television. I'm not sure why, the ($20-80k) 4K televisions that I've seen are substantially more impressive than the 1080p counterparts, even at 12 feet away.

Resolution really stalled out on the larger screens, until people realized how nice 'retina' is on the screens that they keep 1 foot away from their face. Smartphones are finally starting to hit resolutions that match the upper limits of the human eye, and people are finally starting to want that on larger screens.

I imagine that once monitors have started to max out the human eye, there's going to be a much larger push for higher resolution TVs. I'm still surprised that TV resolution stalled out for so long, but I think that 4K TV will be the future (eventually). The eye is good enough to see that many pixels.
Well summer is almost over now, but I would think starting off doing a summer day camp would be best. So your biggest problems there are that you need a location and legal protection. If the local University doesn't offer something like it, you could take to someone in the CS department and pitch your idea. They'd also have some of the resources you'd need like a computer lab, and then they would also do a good deal of the administrivia (fliers, insurance, etc.)If it has good results you might be able to convince the uni to take you on as some sort of employee. Best of luck!
I wonder which has a greater life expectancy and quality: workers who have to walk several miles a day in a clean warehouse, or workers who (ignoring the more immediate occupational hazards...) spend their careers breathing coal and silica dust.

Of course mining sucks more than warehouse work... it kills you slowly.
Today, Richard Nixon would be booted out of the Democratic party as "too liberal". Go figure.
" But in a one-shop town (like the one I grew up in, or the one in this story), at the end of the day, what do these hard working people have to talk about?"

Family, sports, national or local politics, world events, movies come to mind. A lot of people are fine with walking out the door at 5 pm and leaving work behind.
First, after hustling for 15 miles a shift making minimum wage, you aren't going to be able to return to your shelter and work on a skill or education. You'd have to eat and sleep and recover.

Walking for 7-15 miles, spread over an 8 hour day, is not actually all that strenuous. It's worse than an office job, but it's pretty light exercise. In terms of calories burned, it's about double a typical boxing workout (roughly 1000 cals for boxing, 2000 for walking 16 miles@2mph), which is something I do every morning before going to an office job. In terms of intensity it's about 4x less (2x the work / 8x the time).

So figure 8 hours/day at work, another hour commuting, 8 hours sleeping, that's 7 hours/day to do whatever you want. (Hint: skip the TV, learn a skill.)
My first one was $12 piece of melamine sitting on a cheap desk and 4 monitor boxes. And yeah, it wasn't much different than the version I have now. I leave mine up, but others, who move them up and down, do appreciate the electric motors.
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Well, it depends on which definition of flight you use...
But we're still using that word "collect" which they have re-defined to be useless to stop (a normal concept of) collection: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/wordgames#collect

I'm not sure that this bill would change anything they're doing.
But many of the things the author lists are not as basic as using a steering wheel.

Why in the world would an average user need to care about when "www" should be in a url? Or even need to know when the term "download" is appropriate?

Yeah, if you work with word and double-space things a lot you should know how to do that. But I haven't encountered many people who don't know how to double space. And yeah, at this point people should know how to google things. That's a little more problematic, but I rarely run into people who don't know how to use google at this point either.

Some things on the list are important. A lot of things on the list are things that are minor annoyances that are likely similar to what my mechanic experiences when I try to describe my problem to him.
This was posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6080048
I think since I'm in high school, I can shed some light on the kind of demand there is for what you're describing. Generally, parents would be happy to sign their kids up for an intro programming class. When I was in elementary school I certainly did at least a few, ranging from a robotics focused one, to one specifically with UDK for games.

I'm not sure how the classes are marketed for parents, but to kids, the thought of building your own robot, or creating your own game is very exciting. Obviously, the reality of the class is that instructors end up spending the majority of their time working out technical issues and helping the kids whose parents signed them up for something they have no interest in. It happens to be much like a typical classroom. I didn't end up learning nearly as much as I wanted from any of the classes, and spent most of the time working ahead with little to no supervision.

I think the main thing you have to decide if you really want to do this, is whether you want to teach the kids who have the interest, and the basic level of experience, or the ones whose parents are looking for a good way to spend a few weeks. It sounds like you, like me, fall into the former group. If you're really passionate about what you're teaching, it will be a much better experience for everybody involved if you can get those kids. I can't offer much more advice than that, only being in high school, but I'd be happy to answer any other questions (or try to answer for my parents).

As somewhat of a disclaimer, I'm not sure where you live, but where I am (Northern Virginia) _many_ of these kinds of classes/camps offered after school, or during the summer. Of course, this has to do with the region, so take that with a grain of salt.
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I lived in NYC in the mid-late 90's, and people who were good at teaching math were getting ~$80/hour tutoring kids, and helping them prep for the SAT. If you live in a place that could support it, I imagine you could get a decent rate tutoring kids interested in programming. It's an interesting thought, with parallels to developing a freelancing/ consulting business.

I was never keen on the idea, though. The thought of only helping kids whose parents are rich enough to pay $80/hr felt like I was just widening the already-deep achievement gap. If you have any of this sentiment, you might try to put together a cohort of four kids, and charge each $20/hr.
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I've thought the issue through. I'd rather not murder people. And yes it really is that simple.
I'm surprised at the amount of negativity here.

It's work.

As demonstrated in the article some of these people were surely just subsisting on unemployment prior.

My first job wasn't near-minimum wage, it was the absolute minimum. I didn't have work-issued safety boots to complain about, I had to buy my own. I didn't walk around a clean warehouse, I walked around outside cleaning up after every kind of urban nastiness you can imagine regardless of the weather. I wouldn't have even considered missing work in the first week for anything that didn't have me fearing for my life, let alone blisters. There was effectively no chance of being made permanent.

I was happy as hell to have that job. It changed my life and I used the small comfort it provided to study up and find my way into better things. I'd have been overjoyed to do the kind of work described in this article.

There are certainly a lot of idealistic ways these jobs "should" be, but in reality I think the idea of treating this work as anything but a temporary (for the workers and in general in light of automation) stepping stone is fantasy.
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Just for the record, this will not help. There are a lot of foreigners who will still be under surveillance and I am pretty sure they will start seeking ways to pull their data away from US soil.
The remark pointed to the impression that when Mayer left the floodgates opened and lots of UX changes happened.

She had been holding things back -- for good and bad. It was very hard to get new things done while she was the gatekeeper for UX. There were a lot of things that didn't work too well when it came to the process of developing the user experience. A big part of which, as far as I could tell, was Mayer's inability to conduct UI reviews in a meaningful manner. I was present at a few of them. It was like attending a meeting being presided over by the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. Sadly you wouldn't find many people willing to speak up about it, because that could potentially be Very Bad For Your Career within Google. So people would just tolerate her childish, spoilt behavior.

The good thing was that very little frivolous nonsense was shipped. The bad thing was very few positive changes were made as well.

So when Mayer was "reallocated" (and eventually resigned) there was all this pent up frustration and pressure to get work done on UX. And I think the pendulum swung a bit too far in the other direction because of it.

In the beginning most of the changes that came out were incredibly positive. For instance I think the overall look of Gmail and the move to a flatter overall design was a good thing.

But eventually things started to go a bit pear-shaped. For instance I have no idea what made the Google+ people think that the mad scrolling animations was a good idea. I can't imagine how it enhances the experience, and if you are on a smart phone, it is a really slow way of flicking through your feed. Slow is not a Google value. Google products should never be slow.

In Google+ I wish they would have focused on usability rather than embellishments. For instance: why the hell is it so awkward to start a hangout on Google+? Why is the UI for this so fucked that it takes people a dozen uses to learn how to do it without mousing around for ages? Seriously, if I were the PM for that product I'd nail down fixing that problem as the top OKR for the next two quarters and focus on getting just that done. Hangouts is the single most useful feature Google+ offers, and the key thing that differentiates it from Facebook; yet the user experience for getting a hangout going between a group of people is fiddly.
Are we getting better at designing programming languages?
Just because one aspect of the patent system has been abused and applied incorrectly doesn't mean that it's an invalid system. There's a great deal of benefit to the patent system if it is applied correctly.
Mindstorms used to be great, but compared to Arduinos and the whole ecosystem that sprang up around them, it is just too expensive, too proprietary and too limited. Here is one example: http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/shield-bot-p-1380.html a pre-assembled $69 robot where you plug an ordinary Arduino Uno or compatible board, with a chassis full of possibilities for expansion using off-the-shelf components. For block-oriented programming there is now Scratch which is free software and works with Picoboards (also open hardware) and Arduinos.
> I wonder if grilling enthusiasts write articles titled "Things People Believe About Grills" targeted at folks like the author.

Oh boy, you wouldn't believe how serious some BBQ-ers can be. Back in college, an alumn loaned us (the Uni IEEE chapter) a very nice trailer-mounted smoker / grill setup, the kind used for serious business BBQ competitions. The owner was a great guy who had a great sense of humor, and told us all to have a good time. We didn't have a lot of money, so we bought only the necessities, you know, a dozen kegs of beer, condiments, ice, 47000 plastic cups, those cheap flimsy pre-stamped hamburger patties, hot dogs, and importantly, lighter fluid. So here we are, late on Friday night before the event (annual Uni traditional festival for no good reason), having a good time with our too-loud music, and typical responsible college student amounts of drinking. We've got a good crowd in our area. To keep the crowd enthralled, someone is shooting lighter fluid directly into the grill sending flames into the air. It was very popular with the crowd. Shortly after the flame stunt began, in rushes a troop of middle-aged BBQ dweebs with a fire extinguisher. Who immediately set about lecturing our "cooks" on how "real BBQ-ers" don't use lighter fluid because it "colors the flavor of the meat", or some such crap. We quickly confessed our thoughts that it was a likely a fruitless and unnecessary task to attempt to turn the discount-club paper-thin patties into anything resembling fine cuisine. They were unimpressed and after some more BBQ snobbery from them, and some appropriately disrespectful words from us, they retreated.
Or that San Jose State did a crappy job of theirs. We'd need more than a short news article to determine which.
My responses are based knowledge of poverty in many parts of the world. I mentioned my childhood in Africa because my knowledge of it is deeper than that of most people discussing the issue. In addition, as I mentioned, I have a keen interest in the topic beyond my personal experiences.

The question of why poor people don't take advantage of the amenities available to them or, in other words, pull themselves up by their bootstraps (in this case, using computers with free internet access) does come up. The answer is that some do. But it is not the solution for everyone, just as it is not the solution for the rest of society. You might and I would, but I am an exception and would not expect others to follow the same paths I have.

On the issue of genetics, I understand you to be saying that only the stupid are poor. Sorry, genetics don't work that way and poor people aren't all stupid. There is just as much variation in their ranks as in others.

In any case, I think further discussion of the topic would be unproductive so I'll stop here.
I concur. And it's not just mere ability that's at issue, here. Kids who enter computing at a young age are typically motivated more by genuine interest/passion than the later entrants who are more likely just picking a career.

Caveat: we're both dealing purely anecdotal evidence and a fair bit of conjecture. We could easily be wrong.
"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

Who's putting up a wall now?

It's funny that when it came to USSR and China,
we believed that people-to-people contact would improve relations. Why doesn't the same apply to Cuba and Iran?
who even answers these questions? have you ever had the patience to stay on the phone and be interviewed about computer use?

I rest my case.

(oh, I should mention, I loved reading and will love quoting that stat, regardless)
Precisely what I came here to say.
Surely the sites mentioned (Kayak, Expedia) just use third-party data from airlines and such to provide listings? If so, it's unlikely they are the ones removing Iran from the tables.
so why does hipmunk still work?

[edit: i looked at ita. it says that it supplies kayak and google flights. google flights shows flights to tehran (i checked). kayak does not (according to the article). that does not seem to support the idea that ita is filtering data, unless it is doing so at the client's request.]
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$5m+ in hardware to keep serving your current data

Can you explain this a little further? Are you speaking specifically about buying hardware, or do you mean buying virtual servers/ database infrastructure?
Economic sanctions are an act of war. It's the citizens that are hurt the most.
Cringely has great articles on this subject:
http://www.cringely.com/tag/bufferbloat/
https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm#345