skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please take note that currently these new types of mass jobs are not being created; there is already observable mass structural unemployment, and there are no new major economy sectors that need a lot of people. In recent years the jobs "working with data and information", i.e., white collar middle-class clerical jobs are exactly those shrinking because of automation, not growing; they were growing 20 years ago but not in 2010s.

Where is the next wave? Historically new sectors opened up three times, but it's not a natural law that requires that to happen once more. There are some new jobs created in software engineering and product design, however, they are an order of magnitude less than the shrinking areas. Unlike the earlier shifts towards artisanal, industrial and later service jobs which could employ a majority of population, the new industries need relatively tiny numbers of employees - such as the (classic, exaggerated) example of 140.000 employed by Kodak vs 11 by Instagram.

The "new new" jobs are scalable - i.e., you need a few of the best specialists that can cover some need X for a billion people, instead of earlier nonscalable jobs where there was a need also for lots of average and below-average employees to fulfill the quantity of work. The whole modern "information age" that we enjoy needed only 3-5 million engineers to create it, that's 0.1% of the global working population. Even the ever-shrinking farming currently needs more people than the Silicon Valley 'digital economy'.
I am not on a carrier plan, we don't have subsidised phones in my country. We pay the full value. And I can't afford to buy a new one ATM.
This does not even come close to the best tie-in theory of all times, as seen in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fknp2aDXQyU
It's subtitled, but trust me it worth every second (especially for tarantino fan bois, such as I)
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Apparently, Russia is the 4th most smoking country in the world, behind Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece [1].

"According to a survey reported in 2010 by Russia’s Health and Social Development Ministry, 43.9 million adults in Russia are smokers. Among Russians aged 19 to 44 years, 7 in 10 men smoke and 4 in 10 women smoke." [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cigarette_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Russia#Smoking
Or, perhaps a little less cynically: she's the minority leader so she's expected to vote in the party's interest. When your party holds the White House that basically means supporting the administration.

I don't mean this as a defense of Pelosi though. I'm also in CA-12; I usually just abstain from voting for US Rep.
Something like this? http://camelcamelcamel.com

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This is the scary truth. I am familiar with aspects of an intelligence project that has as it's duty not just an internet archive, but a sweeping back-tracker to identify the source and time-start of rumors or repeated phrases and memes. I suspect it has access to all email and IM in addition to a simple web-crawler.

The architects are liberal ex-hippies who just do not understand that they are building the framework for totalitarianism. I think there are a lot of us who just like playing with toys and do not evaluate the ethical ramifications of their actions.
Where are the adventurous tech guys in Berlin?
I am looking for a CTO and CO-F. And to be honest, it's damn hard to find one. It seems like most gr8t techies are employed by large companies (Zzzz), or being hired away by funded StartUps.
Would love to get a hint or two from the community, where and how I can find a great CTO.
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What cheap PaaS do you use to host nodejs/Meteor applications?
-dotCloud
-nodejitsu
are the cheapest services I found
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Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute
Would be cool to see at the same time straight line showing how much they'd need to receive on average every day.

So $32m/31day = 1.032m every single day
Can we label these defenders of spying "Statists"? Surely all of their political beliefs fall flat when you consider that they will happily sacrifice any and all values for the advancement of the State.

Fascists would also be appropriate.
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cracked.com did a skit about this almost a year ago.

http://www.cracked.com/video_18459_why-pixar-movies-are-all-...
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Except you don't necessarily have to do 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 with this. It either has controls over lock screen or in the notifications tray depending on the app. (and most users don't use passwords anyway. So really it's just a matter of picking up your phone and turning it on, which is usually easier than finding a remote.
The result of pricing too low for demand is ticket touting, e.g.:
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/pax-tickets
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The fact that someone is using an argument that was also used at one point in time by someone who has a loose relationship with the truth (like Cheney) doesn't make that person today into an automatic liar.

If the argument was wrong when used 7-8 years ago in a somewhat different context, it's not automatically also wrong in today's context.

Peter King and Michelle Bachmann might be bozos, but on the rare occasions where they agree with you it doesn't mean you are also a bozo by some sort of associative property. This seems like the most illogical of smears, to say that because person A and B have the same opinion on a single topic they are similar in all natures (reminding me of the billboards touting the fact that the Unabomber believed in global warming).
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>"Or a teacher or headmaster running Education." //

You were probably thinking of a high-school teacher (?) but ...

[via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Educatio... though I remember quite a few, especially as my parents and in-laws were all teachers]

[Michael Gove]

Ed Balls (Labour Secretary of State for Schools 2009-10) according to Wikipedia was "from 1989 to 1990 a teaching fellow in the Department of Economics, Harvard University". So a modicum of teaching experience at least.

[Alan Johnson]

There's Ruth Kelly - "taught at University of Navarra, after she joined the Labour Party in 1990" [Wikipedia again] - Labour SoS for Education 2004-06.

Charles Clarke wasn't a teacher but was President (I think) of the NUS which would clearly give him some insight in to Higher Education. 2002-2004

Estelle Morris - "Morris was a PE and Humanities teacher at the inner-city Sidney Stringer School on Cox Street in Coventry from 1974–92, becoming Head of Sixth Form Studies" [ibid] - Labour SoS for Education 2001-2002. She was apparently the first Comprehensive school teacher to hold the post.

Before that:

Blunket had a PGCE and was "a lecturer in industrial relations and politics between 1973 and 1981". Labour SoS for Education 1997-2001.

Gillian Shepherd "gain[ed] an MA [Oxon] in Modern Languages, after which she became a school teacher and a worked as an Education Inspector for Norfolk County Council from 1963 to 1975". Conservative SoS for Education 1994-97.

tl;dr the majority of SoS for Education in the last two decades have teaching experience of some form. Moreso than I expected TBH. Would appreciate it if someone else considered the SoS for Health postings.
Laptops and desktops are (almost) always in landscape mode, don't have to deal with virtual keyboards occasionally taking up large parts of the screen and have subtly (and not so subtly) different use cases.

I agree with the point that content providers adapt but it's not a case of what's right for one type of content, it's what's good for one type of content on a specific device type, possibly in a specific situation.

(Worth noting that Apple certainly don't believe 4:3 is some universal "right" ratio - the iPhone 5 is 16:9 as are Macs, 4:3 is only the aspect ratio for the iPad)
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Although I don't have a solution to your immediate requirement, I am working on a startup aimed at solving just this kind of problem. In other words, how to go from understanding the basics of a language to using it in an enterprise environment?

The idea is that a user uploads a real working application, then provides a series of guides through the different aspects of the project; configuration, security, mvc, testing, persistence etc

For exmple, using the same application, this guide explains how to configure MVC http://www.lishman.com/project/5#card/278/file/82 and this one how to configure JPA persistence http://www.lishman.com/project/5#card/73/file/103

Unfortunately these examples use Java and Spring, but if by some miracle I can get someone to donate a ruby on rails example, you will be the first to know.
> The first kind of thinking is what got us into the second kind of situation.

Or, the current situation is a vindication of that sort of thinking.
It's interesting how many design links pop up here. I came here with a technical background and developed an interest for entrepreneurship reading HN, and I think that in the same way a design interest develops in those who are already sold on the idea of doing a startup. It'll be interesting to see what collective interest will develop here after design has become a core part of the "HN mentality".
Does it mean that I have to disconnect from my home wifi and loose ability to google stuff during this process?
...Stalin, Franco, Pinochet?
Finally someone made this, great work
I don't really understand why people think Google Analytics is hard to use. When it comes to basic statistics that this example site illustrates, I think it's extremely easy to use Google Analytics.
UPD: Ilya is in coma with no brain activity, but not dead yet. (http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...)

--

Ilya was very vocal about his contempt for falsifications in Russian elections. He went to protests and helped develop an app for election observers. This app helped volunteers submit proofs of violations during the elections.

http://webnabludatel.org

He adopted several children and hated the recent law forbidding child adoption by USA citizens.

He will be missed by many.

---

Edit 1: Rephrased the first sentence per suggestion in reply

Edit 2: Added recent info about coma
How does the Anthropic Principle change the meaning of the universe?
Too many objects
In case the name doesn't ring a bell, The Design of Everyday Things is an extremely readable introduction to usability, and an absolute classic in its field:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things

You'll never look a door the same way again... particularly if it has a handle but still expects to be pushed open.
The image is modified heavily by Samsung. Besides their custom UI, they need to write/integrate custom drivers for the hardware in the phone. As for time, it could be a few months before it's updated.

This is the advantage of Nexus phones, as Google ensures that the manufacturer has a release ready, and that previous phones are updated (within reason).
I also assumed it was a bug!

as a result I uninstalled the app and use the mobile site now, which is far less laggy than the Android app...
And my Dad's friends take great pride in the deliberately simple feature phones with as few features as possible.

Smart phone ownership for 60+s is about half what it is for 18 - 36 year olds and I'd wager that engagement levels are proportionately lower too.

I'm not saying no older users will go for this but I think the core users will be younger and will be far, far more likely to be under the 18 - 35 bracket than over (that group being willing to tinker and price sensitive therefore more likely to use Android phones and see the appeal of a $35 device).
> no politicians have the expertise or mandate with regards to technology, the internet

That's easily disproved. This guy is in parliament in Italy:

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Quintarelli

He's quite clearly competent with regards to technology and the internet, as even a translated version of that page ought to show.
I tend to use base debian for VMs. It's much smaller than base Ubuntu from both a kernel and userspace perspective.
"My wife should not be thrown out of the venue" is hardly an unexpected and entitled demand, though. It falls more into the "not going to mention it because it's implied" category.
How much ram do you win, blacklisting those modules ?

All the kernel modules of my desktop sum a few KB. Only in 1 system I see "nvidia" is a big module, but it doesn't use to be loaded in virtual machines.

About the blacklisting method... I use to never touch the distribution files inside /etc/modprobe.d (to ease upgrades, differences across hosts, etc).

I think it could be better to use something like /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf or hostname.conf

And note, that the "blacklist" directive, by side effects, may avoid module autoloading at boot time, but the real way to disable a module (forever) is to use this instead of "blacklist":

install modname /bin/true

For more information, see blacklist in: man 5 modprobe.d

I did expect to see more tips about "userspace" configurations, where it's more easy to win MB instead of KB.

At kernel level... after change the kernel for one more light, and tune which modules are loaded... if we go for details... still you could see which params are available for loaded modules (some params may affect ram usage) and which sysctl values we can tune in the kernel (buffers, limits, etc) to affect ram usage.
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On the other hand, I'd say alienating the developer community would prevent hackers from making things for new(er) Microsoft platforms like Windows Phone or Azure. Things that might have been the killer app for that platform.

Hasn't that already happened though? This is Microsoft with 20 years of bad press in hacker-circles we're talking about!
San Jose Mercury News just redesigned. Thoughts?
Ah, good explanation, thank you. I did wonder why they never took off.
Reminds me of http://danceinayear.com
USA is already a fascist state by Mussolini's definition. In the future , there will be no need for conspiracy, corporation will run the show directly , when all states are bankrupts.

That's the only likely future for mankind.
Tech firms and their founders: Monarchs versus managers
Some compared this to AppleTV, but I would love to point out sellers of overpriced hdmi cables ($20-60, gold plated bla-bla-bla together with new TV). Also, Samsung sells wifi dobgles for their SmartTVs for $60-80 in my country. Hopefully that business will get more reasonable...
The problem isn't that it's dangerous or physically harmful, the problem is that it's rude and disrespectful.
I agree it's not a logically consistent argument, but I read it as slightly different from the Unabomber-believed-in-global-warming arguments, which try to tarnish a position with a universally unpopular figure (the smoking-bans-were-first-proposed-by-Hitler argument is similar). This argument is more along the lines of alleging that "our" side sold us out by taking up the other side's positions. Among Republicans, "the GOP establishment has sold us out by taking up traditionally liberal positions" is an argument that comes up now and then, and among Democrats, you see its opposite, "the Democratic establishment has sold us out by taking up traditionally conservative positions". Greenwald is basically taking the 2nd view, writing an op-ed for Democrats arguing that their leadership is in cahoots with tough-on-national-security conservatives, rather than fighting for liberal values.
Show HN: Cool 3D RTS game (up to 8-players) running in the browser
My two good friends have spent months on building a VERY cool 3D game running directly in the browser. Until now they have only been focusing on building the game, but now they wish to turn it into a business. Please tell us what you think about it and how they could improve their current Indigogo funding campaign. It's a little sad that they have not built an audience before they launched their campaign (and on the first day only got 700$ funding), so any good advices about how we could spread the word would be very much appreciated.
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The site looks great guys, and there's definitely a lot of cool tech behind it!

Why did you create this search engine? What's the one thing SEOs and marketers wanted that no other tool could give them and only NerdyData gives them?
Same here!

Specifically, although I am not bothered by the exteriors of an early-2011 iPad and a mid-2011 Mac mini, I returned a mid-2013 Macbook Air because it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up to touch its aluminum-alloy exterior.

About when was the iPad that you hate made?

My email is in my profile. If you give me a way to contact you, I would update you on any new information I get about this issue.
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Realistically, what would they do if you showed up in jeans? "Sorry folks, the talk is cancelled. Your speaker decided to wear jeans today."?

That is the sort of bullshit that I always call bluffs on. Worse case scenario you get someone all huffy and upset that their rule has been ignored (making them feel unimportant, as they should), and you give them a "whoops, too bad."
Do you have a list of your favorite resources. Would be great to see that path... Like I built this and used this to learn. Fantastic job btw. Kudos!
If anyone wants to try out the game, my friends gave me some demo keys for HN users to try out the game (will only work for a few days):

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There's some amount of selection bias: I've authored some of these features.
It is valid perhaps for the website she is maintaining, but I think she is totally wrong in applying this to ALL websites.

Her premise is that if someone is looking for information and has not found it - it prompts a question ie. "Where is the information I am looking for?" and that indicates your failure to successfully provide that information. Which is true.

However, often-times questions are a result of critical thinking, and their lack shows lack of true understanding of subject material. On other occasions questions are simply technical problems with edge cases of procedures outlined on the website. Such edge cases should not be part of procedures themselves because they would distract 99% of people who do not encounter them.
I've seen fans firsthand in SE Asia deployed for this reason and I can confirm it really does not work at all. They do cool you down though. Stop propagating this myth people, it does nothing. Especially in SE Asia with their aggressive mosquitos.
Graham Stuart was also involved in education prior to entering Parliament, albeit as a Governor.
There's this thing here in Copenhagen: http://www.goldentable.com/restaurants-copenhagen/

A number of top restaurants (otherwise booked, on a Saturday night, for 2 weeks) auction off a single table, where 50% of the proceeds go to the restaurant, and the rest to a foundation for gastronomical research.

Another approach is to require a credit card and charge almost the price of a full dinner if you don't show up. The 41 in Barcelona goes one step further and makes you pre-purchase the entire meal.

Some guests will spend another $300 on an expensive bottle of wine. I think it's fine to let some people pay extra in advance to be guaranteed to get a table.
This idea that you can create software that people just understand, is so flawed.
I don't think it's a good idea to base your business around a Google service.

Who knows what they will decide to arbitrarily shutdown in a few weeks time?
Feras from buttercloud here (author is my co-worker).

We have a complex application that heavily interacts with webhooks - that's what prompted us to create StripeTester. We can now easily spec out the interactions and set expectations when a webhook is received. A side benefit is that this can be used without connectivity and really cleans up our test suite.

Previously, we used Requestbin for manual webhook testing, and made heavy use of Mocha for stubbing. This required us to maintain fixtures and test data to simulate Stripe's.

There's also https://github.com/mindeavor/stripe-ruby-mock that provides some testing hooks (although repo says it's incomplete). We're planning on keeping the webhook data up-to-date when Stripe releases newer versions.
FAQs are a good fit for game manuals, where often layers of rules have strange interactions which make a FAQ to settle a few rule questions or "gotchas" important and interesting.

But FAQs for a web application I think is a bad fit, it is generally more useful to have a forum (so you can get real feedback on what is frequently asked) where common questions will bubble to the top more often.

Or if you're big enough, a stackexchange which handles genuinely frequently asked questions better still.
What are the values in the body that is sent in a webhook? Are those dummy values.

Mostly, in response of a Stripe webhook, one would want to do something based on the id. For instance, for a charge failed event, one would like to retrieve the customer for which the charge has failed and would retrieve the customer details from Stripe. Dummy values will not help here.

Just thinking aloud, how would one use this? I have been in need for something to test Stripe webhooks.
While it's easy to use, it can be a little...clunky at times. I'd be interested in seeing someone design a more streamlined interface over a more beautiful one.
It's so weird seeing prices on courses, coming from Europe. With that said, I've taken a course heavily based on this book. It is mandatory for all comp. sci. students at my Uni. Many didn't like it, being to "soft" when they wanted to hack, and complaining that "most of it is sooo obvious". And yes, it may be obvious when spelled out, but far too often overlooked and forgotten. I quite liked it.
Yes, except I have seen very few packages that are not sdist's. Another issue is that unless the package maintainer disables it explicitly on PyPI, pip will go searching over the package's home page for a newer version. This is just broken since even if PyPI was to implement some type of package verification, example.com/~/devfoo/ might not. Often times these pages do not even have HTTPS set up.

As you said, this is a complex problem, but I think the first step is to take care of the easy things. Let me know if you'd like to chat off HN about this.
> If you attempt to use them to solve a problem like this, you have to have a mechanism in place to deal with the very real case of a false positive (or decide which group to build the filter with - which one is less damaging to have show up as a false positive).

Hmm, so it is possible to have two bloom filters? One for the black list and one for the white list.

If black list filter says no, then the element is definitely in white list. And vice-versa.
FAQs carry meta-data. They aren't just information they're filtered as being relevant to a significant cadre of users.

That said they're probably not useful on a site with such a broad information base as gov.uk unless they're tagged and presented in an easily searchable manner or confined to specific areas.