skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I don't think it's fair (to answer your central point), merely that it's doable. But I'm not trying to be difficult - I was actually asking if a commute is possible, not being rhetorical for a point. In New York City it is possible to commute, but I wouldn't want to work there and commute to the city from a suburb.
How can #1 be false? No optical measurement can distinguish between good and evil photons. Eve can simply cut the cable, hook a pair of quantum machines up to the ends, and proxy the data between Alice and Bob.
I've used and loved Xubuntu for a while now, but I've recently installed Linux Mint w/ Cinnamon on a new computer, and I think it's a little bit more polished. Both are much better than plain Ubuntu.

Linux Mint + Cinnamon is probably the distro I'd recommend to most people, especially if they're coming from Windows. If their computer's a bit older, I'd go with Xubuntu, and if it's really old, probably Lubuntu.
What is stack ranking?
Well, I've never fried with olive oil and light cooking didn't seem to affect the flavor too much. Also, I use it mostly for the health benefits, not so much the flavor alone. I've also been experimenting with sesame oil. Made this the other night and it came out pretty well :

http://www.theperfectpantry.com/2012/01/recipe-for-bok-choy-...
First off, you're claiming that there is 1 common reason underlying all those 3, which you've not proven.

But even if we assume that, is your claim that the only thing common amongst those three is the majority religion adhered to in each nation?
It would be trivial for someone to record you saying it without your knowledge, to unlock your phone at a later date.
Seattle is ramping up cameras on officers.
I actually have experienced the opposite. I have tried Ubuntu first, then all others to eventually go back to Ubuntu because it DOES NOT have the problems configuring other devices. Even mint gave me issues on some CPU's with either internet connection and/or monitor drivers.
Pretty much, most other services for chat are for single participants like hangouts (or most XMPP clients) and it doesn't make it particularly easy or obvious how you would invite others. That's generally what I meant by 1v1 when I wrote that.

Right now, echoplexus will broadcast to everybody in the channel (unless you whisper). In the future, we'd like to use WebRTC data channels for pure P2P 1v1 chat (possibly also allowing GPG for identification and encryption) falling back to the whisper-like implementation if unavailable (but trying at all times to make it clear how you're connected)
What specifically do you find different between the east/west life styles?
It's worth noting that Amazon will pay the same employee less money to work in Toronto than Seattle, yet cost of living in Toronto is slightly higher.
I quite like Unity, its way of presenting files and applications is better than stock Gnome Shell, plus I never had UI freezing issues with the former as I had with the latter, although I will admit that GS does allow greater customisation.

The only better Linux global search function in my opinion would be KRunner, but there's no easy way to bind it only to the super key (Windows button) like Unity and GS.
No tax dollars went to make this space Viking photo
It's called a recommendation. Generally speaking, when people recommend something,it's a positive. References might include a negative, so long as you ask a question that allows for a negative answer. When doing references, I usually ask for a potential 'area for improvement' so I am fairly certain to get at least one potential concern.

Being that the person requesting controls whether the recommendation is published, we shouldn't expect to see much negative. A well-written recommendation (even on LinkedIn), written by someone with some level of industry credibility, can actually be a fairly powerful tool to get noticed.
A meta-comment:

If we are talking about Microsoft and Seattle, UW means University of Washington; if we are talking about Toronto-area, UW means...University of Waterloo, right?
I can't imagine what Reddit would look like with fact checking. Redditors would not be happy if a popular story drops off the front page because someone deemed in inaccurate. How would the incentive structure work?
Sorry, meant to say: charge $3 for a reservation, not a $3 cancellation fee. Deduct that cost from your bill for the meal.
Jeff Bezos buys Washington Post for 250 Million.
IIRC 5 is fired, 4 is on their way out should they not improve, 3 is close to "you're not doing anything wrong, but not doing anything great".
Easily one of the best CEO letters I have seen. Most CEO letter have a lot of weasel wordings but this one seems written by a normal person. You know like, I would write like this.
Background:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2012/07/03/the-te...

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-dow...
Just checked my 3-L tins to be sure, and they're extra-virgin also. The problem with the lower grades is that they're extracted with chemical means (hexane solvents) and generally worse for any usage. The modest price savings isn't really worth it, since better stuff is affordably priced anyway.

It varies by country, but heating doesn't necessarily exclude an oil from "extra-virgin olive oil"; the separate "cold-pressed" label covers that.
He became vegan in 2011, after setting records.
Your agenda is off-topic here. Take it to Reddit.
Haha ya, this confused me a LOT when I first got to Seattle (when I say UW I mean Waterloo).
I'm getting a lot of replies that are confused as to just what a conspiracy theory is, so I thought it would be worth following up to elaborate on that.

People seem to think that a conspiracy theory is about what is being theorized. The moon landing was faked. 9/11 was an inside job. The NSA is recording every American phone call.

But that's not it at all. It's not about what you theorize, it's about how. A sane and considered theory that leads to a crazy-seeming conclusion is not a conspiracy. Similarly, an insane theory that leads to a correct conclusion is still a conspiracy theory.

Some examples. Saying that the moon landing was faked because the flag was "fluttering" and there are no stars in the photographs is a conspiracy theory. Saying that the moon landing may have been faked because, say, you managed to get ahold of a secret memo from JFK discussing the possibility of faking it, would not be a conspiracy theory.

Similarly, saying that the NSA is spying on everybody because of the testimony and documentation provided by a whistleblower is not a conspiracy theory. However, saying that the NSA is spying on everybody because all the numbers in your e-mail header add up to 666 is a conspiracy theory.

What it comes down to is how you interpret the evidence. If you interpret it sanely, then it's not a conspiracy theory. If you twist mundane things to build narratives that are not justified by the evidence, then it's a conspiracy theory.

That is what's happening with this story. Is it possible that this person was assassinated by the US government? Sure. Is that theory supported by the evidence discussed by this article and other similar articles posted to HN over the past few weeks? Not even a little bit. And that, not the supposed outlandishness of the conclusion, is what makes this a "conspiracy theory" that is not worth paying attention to and frankly not worth making it to the front page of HN.

If an article on this matter shows up that sanely analyzes the evidence and comes up with the conclusion that it was probably an assassination, I'd love to see it on the front page. So far, this has not appeared.
Totally agree, completely not important.
While We’re Trying To Follow His Game Of Checkers, Jeff Bezos Is Playing Chess
Anecdotally, the IT recruiters I know make more money than the developers I know. If you look at industry averages then you'll probably find recruiter income to be misleadingly low. Like most sales jobs, there's an incredible amount of entry-level turnover and stagnation at the left of the curve. Once you limit yourself to looking at people with a few years of successful experience under their belts, they actually make quite a bit of money.
Surprised there are no comments about the icon. I think the icon is awesome (so geeeeeeky)!
In Econ 101, yes. As I said, "Since soybeans are not the primary crop but are grown relatively in proportion to massively overproduce corn, I would expect soybeans to be pretty damn cheap". Soybeans are not soybean products though, and a high supply of soybeans doesn't mean that soybean product prices should be low.

I posit that there is a low supply of soy-products caused by a low-demand for soy-products. Only a fragment of consumers are interested in soybean products, and demand is unlikely to change much as price drops. Worse, the vegetarians I know tend to be pretty loyal to particular brands of soy product. Basically, demand for soybean products is pretty inelastic and low. Not many people are interested in soy products, but the people that are interested will pay what they have to.

Premium soy products are the Bloomberg Terminal's of food. Almost nobody wants a Bloomberg Terminal, but a few people need a Bloomberg Terminal. Worse, the people in that market need a Bloomberg Terminal specifically. Bloomberg is unlikely to lease more terminals by dropping their price. If there were more demand for that sort of product, we would probably see more companies making suitable products for far cheaper. That's not the case though, so it is a shitty market to break into.
It's very unevenly distributed: dealing with it is a way of life for African Americans and Hispanics.

But you can certainly be screwed over by corrupt or, worse, power-hungry police even when you're a well-to-do straight white male.
mbed

Oh my goodness, this is fantastic. I had been exploring another platform for this but there wasn't nearly as many examples/tutorials etc., plus it was closed source.
It's more like $60k in USD, and while that is still lower than I've ever made out of college I have a suspicion that you are not aware of how cheap the cost of living is in Podunk, Nowhere. I don't even live in Podunk, Nowhere, but in a rather large but medium-COL city, and I do very well for myself.

I can't help but laugh when a friend in SF, making easily $30k/year more than me, can't even afford a place with his own washer and dryer. Meanwhile I could buy a 4+ bedroom house with 20% down after one year of working; or, if I choose to rent in the city, I can get one of the nicest apartments the city has to offer in an upscale area. The only nicer places would be high-rise penthouses with doormen, valet parking, and panoramic views of the city.

Granted, the real problem here is that London is not cheap. It's fucking expensive. So you're not going to be living like I am on that sort of salary in London.
Tesla to produce all-wheel drive Model S sedan next year
Actually these kinds of practices have been used by the Chinese "shanzhai" for a while to quickly churn out products. They appear to have their own internal "GPL" / code of sharing that they self-enforce.

From http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284 :

Interestingly, the shanzhai employ a concept called the
“open BOM” — they share their bill of materials and other
design materials with each other, and they share any
improvements made; these rules are policed by community
word-of-mouth, to the extent that if someone is found
cheating they are ostracized by the shanzhai ecosystem.
Bit of a waste to couple those lenses with anything but the most exceptional of sensors
Except for the part where it was the Federal government and it's "war on drugs" that established the civil forfeiture laws.
The issue was that none of the trio of shell scripts/awk/sed could stand alone, so the "language" by necessity consisted of all three tools. You'd write the main loop in shell and use awk and sed when required.

Remember, this was 1987—25 years ago, before bash and other modern shells, and with much more primitive versions of awk and sed. Nor was the web available to look things up.

Writing shell/awk/sed scripts back then was awful, no matter how much the Bell Labs folks touted its superiority.

When perl showed up on comp.sources.unix it was an incredible breath of fresh air. I downloaded and built perl based on its claim to replace shell script/awk/sed programming and Larry Wall's reputation as the author of rn [1], my preferred newsreader for usenet. Perl lived up to its billing and was an enormous improvement for writing scripts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rn_%28newsreader%29
The Onboarder Test: 12 Steps to Better Onboarding
Why do you say that? Being able to change the batteries is extremely useful for many people in countries were you check it out before buying a new phone.

Having security issues is very important for all the business market, and because of them the device might not be allowed in the business phones fleet.
>Plenty of children are raised on a 100% vegan diet and thrive just like children fed with animal products. //

Citation? The only children I know [that I can recall] that are brought up in vegetarianism are noticeably "weedy". Shorter than average, low muscle tone, paler skin than their peers. That's completely anecdotal and a very small sample but it informs my demand to see your support for this claim.

Now it's probably quite possible to create a vegan diet with all required nutrients a child needs; but how practical is that and does it happen.
Crossbar Resistive RAM stores a terabyte on a chip
Nobody who has ever made a commercial product for a living would be trumpeting a new industrial revolution brought on by open reference designs. Fact is: that stuff is there already. Component manufacturers literally have field application engineers who are just waiting to send you reference designs that use their products, if you're working at the PCB & discrete parts level.

Hardware designs are already open in a way that can't be matched by software - you can look at a product, take it apart, and :voila: - you have the design in a way that is far easier to grok than disassembling a closed binary. Many high end products have full schematic drawings included with the technician's repair manual. Anything novel enough to be patented has mechanical drawings and a full description listed in the patent.

The only things you can't take apart are ASICs and other computer chips. But BFD!? Any player in that space has to have hundreds of thousands just to prototype one, let alone rent time in an IC fab to make them. If you have that kind of money, there's plenty of fab-specific IP floating around for your use at nominal prices.

Open source software is revolutionary because the incremental cost of duplicating bits is nearly zero. The same can't be said for hardware. In fact - it's worse. The smaller a player you are, the more expensive it is to duplicate a design. And it is a pain in the rear to duplicate designs if they're at all pushing the envelope, since manufacturing tolerances and capabilities differ so much from outfit to outfit. Can you imagine the pain and suffering you'd go through porting software that relies heavily on compiler-specific directives? Well, it's like that when you move from one factory to another.

Some Chinese outfits have met with success with open / copycat hardware. I'd argue that's less a result of open reference designs and 3d printing and more of drastically reduced labor and part costs, all situated in a global hub of electronics manufacturing.
I'm not disagreeing with your observation - just making one of my own. I happen to think they're mutually informative.
Can you offer a bit more info? Did you get an error? Did you click on something and it not go somewhere? Did the page look borked? Aliens take over the screen?

Can't fix it w/o a bit more info as it's working on our end (including processing payments).
The outdoors and the mountains just breed a different culture from my experience. Living out west I would go camping, hiking, climbing and I even got into mountaineering. Toronto doesn't really offer any of those to the same degree that you will find out west. I tried going outdoor climbing once up at Rattlesnake point and it didn't even compare to places like Smith Rock or Tieton. Being able to go jogging in the morning and seeing the Olympics or the Cascades was breathtaking. People out west are just generally more active and up for adventures outdoors.
I believe all of the material is still pertinent. It primarily uses the MovieLens data set and mostly builds off of textbook techniques and generic Python. It's not a book that will go out of data quickly.
We tried to put together something useful to help companies bring on new employees. I know I'm not Joel Spolsky, but I've always been inspired by The Joel Test.

I've also had some tougher experiences transitioning to new jobs. Lack of direct deposit and not having a laptop on my first day were some of those problems.
anyone know how much these recruiters get paid?

Seems fairly easy to do an above average job considering the bar is so low.

I imagine you'd only have to work a few hours a day sending sensible emails and you'd out perform the majority of recruiters.
I live in one of those countries...the battery is not the problem, otherwise they wouldn't sell so many iPhones here.

Putting a custom Linux kernel on your phone probably won't convince your IT manager one way or the other to let your phone on the network.
This email is more infomercial than the emails from the past weeks. I reread the last two emails and I think they are more interesting, but this got much more upvotes here.

Anyway, this email convinced me to try to run an A/B test. I have a button that I don't like and I got negative feedback about that button in the past. So I will (probably) try to optimize the microcopy, but I must understand and change the php code that renders that button. I'll report the result when the experiment finish. Wish me good luck!
Why work in Arizona?
This isn't a random WSJ article; it's a Steve Blank article. That doesn't matter except that your "ta-da!" probably doesn't generate credible Steve Blank articles.

You also haven't contradicted Blank. He didn't say companies shouldn't ever transition out of their startup phase; he just said that the purchase of an optimal new building signals that transition. The implication is that you should be sure you're ready for it.
But we are not the 99% of the stupid end users. We are the 1%, the HN readers, hackers who want to own a phone, and dont want to be owned by the phone.
I imagine one reason investors like co-founded start ups is because of the bus factor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

Or boiled down: less dependency on a single person.
Reddit was built with a different purpose in mind. People just use it because its the closest thing you have to what should exist
I agree, you are not an art critic.
How do you calibrate the sports watches? Or do they only care about deltas and thus don't need calibration?
I haven't used this distribution, but is it not possible to just change your namservers to Google's for example, or the ones provided by your ISP?

The way you put it makes it sound like you're locked into using OpenDNS.

I have used OpenDNS before and while I didn't like their ads in place of not found hostnames, it is part of their revenue model and they have to make something back for what they provide. It seems a reasonable exchange for a free service.

I presume LinuxMint has some sort of partnership with them, but I don't see this as being evil, considering they also would probably want to make some money off their custom distro/work they put into it.
Stock price coming down seems to have made Apple happy, judging by the number they bought back.
Besides, we all know that the élite meet up over VTC when no one suspects they are subverting the world, and leave their boring chit-chat for their "semi-public" appearances for the paranoid to fret over. That way they can let the truth of their conference (when it does leak) work to their advantage, while none are the wiser about the underlying conspiracies! ;)
Considering people from TFA were being pulled over for being "too close to the white line," difficult is an understatement.
IIRC the only place the mustache syntax has a FOUC is in the main index.html file. Everywhere else is fine, directive templates, partials, etc. So it makes perfect sense to teach and show off that nice syntax .

http://youtu.be/ZhfUv0spHCY
Some care enough to spend the money & time to hire better PR teams than others.
This sounds a little bit similar to The Samaritans, a charitable organisation in the UK.

http://www.samaritans.org/
Definitely. There's a handy table on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_point I'm thinking about the table color-coded smoke pt and a space for notes. A bit "paint by number", but there's plenty of other variables.
Grassroots + newswire = grasswire
> shifting fossil fuel demand from heavy nuclear users toward developing or lower-tech countries

Right! Let someone else pour blood and treasure into the sands of the Middle East, while we enjoy a nuclear-electric-hydrogen economy. The goal is our prosperity, not the stability of a bunch of oily camel jockeys.
Also, things like selecting office location are so deeply political that decisions about them invariably creep to the top.
It's used mostly by outsourcing companies:

Rank	H1B Visa Sponsor	Number of LCA *	Average Salary

1	Infosys Limited	15,810	$75,062

2	Wipro	7,178	$76,920

3	Tata Consultancy Services	6,732	$64,350

4	IBM	6,190	$82,630

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2013-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx

Those aren't average salaries for a highly skilled worker in an expensive American city.
The surveillance video also shows the car driving at extremely high speed. Indeed, with a little work you could probably id the location and model of the surveillance camera and extrapolate the speed data from the footage. I don't find this especially convincing of anything new - cars don't blow up at the drop of a hat nowadays, but if you crash one fast enough explosion isn't an especially remarkable outcome.

Offhand that looks to me like 70mph+. I haven't done any measurements, and am just relying on my film industry experience, which has naturally entailed watching a great deal of footage from a variety of cameras over many years. I could be totally wrong.
With these types of companies popping up, I'm left wondering how carpenters feel when someone watches a few episodes of HGTV and decides they can build their own house. There is so much more to programming and building a product than simply typing some magical symbols into an editor. Sure, it's a start, but once a product is built, deployed to production, and then has customers, it will need constant nurturing. Databases get slow, hardware fails, logs fill up diskspace, and yet that's only the tip of the iceberg in programming. Stating you can learn to code in one month is nothing more than the 'Teach Yourself $LANG in 24 Hours" from yesteryear. It minimizes the amount of skill and experience one needs to be a programmer and make $120,000 per year (which is still a lot of money).

OneMonthRails is a start, especially if you want to learn how to program, but I find it unethical to insinuate that one can land a $120k/yr job after 1 month of training.

For all my fellow Canadian compatriots, I read the marketing page of OneMonthRails and see visions of Tom Vu [1] trying to tell us about his guaranteed technique to becoming rich (later found out as the greater fool theory).

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQNdi-fRExc

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
Similar problems apply in other markets too (as I'm sure you are aware). Fake Manuka honey is one that causes locals here some grief.
http://i.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/8928858/Manuka-hone...
I don't know, I think State of Texas vs. One Gold Crucifix might be a little closer to the apotheosis of this nonsense...

It's at least conceivable how $125k USD could have been involved in The Drugs. But a crucifix?