skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really cool map! I have a few questions about it though. Racial Segregation are very strong words to use when describing this map. I have lived in Chicago for my whole life. I have heard people say that Chicago is the most segregated city in the US. That line might be true. But when I look at this map it is very hard to draw the assumption that Chicago is incredibly segregated. Looking at this map you could easily say white people live here african american live here and asian / hispanic live here etc... But it is much deeper then the top overview. Chicago has a huge polish , german, irish community. I'm talking about people who have moved from their home country to live in the US. I notice a trend that when polish people move to chicago they move to where polish people live not any old "white" neighborhood they move to a place where they feel comfortable and have common ground. Never in my life have I or the city say white people need to live here and african american live here. There must be a reason that Chinese live on the south side Vietnamese live on the north side and Korean live on the further north side. Latino is the same. I forgot where i was going with this point. But I feel the way we see racial segregation is that some higher power says that we must not live next to each other. When in truth people want to live by their people.
Our most successful game is also our least profitable
a fair point, I hadn't factored that in...
Yeah that was me, sorry. I tried, for fun, to cheese my way into GM and it's entirely possible.
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So how do we make a broad cultural impact with examples like these from other cultures?

That's the question I think is most essential. There are no doubt a lot of people that know these stories at the top of the hierarchy, like policy-makers. But the accounts in this article emphasize the role of the culture in backing the investments and choices made in education. So what we really need is a cultural shift from the bottom up.

Thinking about the way that Americans actually engage other cultures at this moment, I think an effective solution is a reality television series. Seriously! It has turned out to be a very effective medium for people who are fascinated by very different cultures to explore and engage with them. Documentaries are great too, but still a lot more top-down.

Now then, here's the idea -- if you want to change American education and influence the debate, make a really good reality series about Finnish teachers who are struggling to be selected and meet the high standards to be teachers in that country.
I'd say this is an example of a title that, while technically wrong, is ethically fine - well, maybe not quite, as it's wrong, but it's wrong for the right reasons.

I doubt anyone cares about their credit score for the sake of the official number of their credit score, people care about it because of what it means when you want to buy a house, or take out a loan, or sign a mobile phone contract. If Facebook friends affect these things negatively (or positively), then I don't care whether it's because they change my credit score, or because everyone looks at these things as well as my credit score, either way it has the exact same effect.
I long ago reached the point where I can type much faster than I can coherently code. I haven't reached the point of being able to type as fast as the nonsense that my mind thinks up.
Agreed. Most startups and indie games especially are fucked. More emphasis on how long the odds are or how difficult the journey usually is for a startup or small business would be good. I know a bunch of people working on startups who are just so naive when it comes to the risk and low probability of success.

It's so easy to get excited about a project and caught up in hubris and optimism.
Show HN: Fast gif capturing + 1-click upload (Mac App)
I'm wondering how many of the factors are based on things that can be identified from photos. You can probably get some very strong (and useful to lenders) criteria from photos, and yet be treading very dangerous water with regards to discrimination.
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As an example of a really porous border, the German/Swiss border. I used to live right at it (there are 3 bridges in my town leading into switzerland). There's one which you can only walk/bike over which used to have a border control which is now deserted. The other 2 ones have border controls, but they seem to be solely tasked with checking whether cars are allowed to drive in switzerland (road fees), whether swiss people are buying more stuff in Germany than they're allowed to (the price differences are immense, so we've got people comming from as far as Zurich to shop here), and sales tax refunds (Swiss people buying in Germany don't have to pay the Mehrwertsteuer of 19%, but the significantly lower Swiss sales tax. As the MwS. is factored into the purchase price, it's centrally refunded at the border).

It's more of a tollbooth/administrativa affair, really.
It is called Corveé:

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

While a part of feudal practice, it is far more ancient and widespread, having been part of Sumerian culture.
This. The API and its feature set is liable to change. This isn't a broken promise because no promises were made.
Thanks for this exchange, Jason and Steven.

It's rare to get to see, paired tightly together, such a vivid example of what's going on inside the heads of two participants in an otherwise ordinary and well-meaning conversation (even though it's hypothetical, in this case). Both the traveler and the agent are projecting certain beliefs upon the other, and feeling certain ways about themselves that the other doesn't realize.

I don't know why, but I found reading this exchange really powerful. I think because it happens all the time for many of us (playing both roles), but we never stop to think about what's going on inside the head of the other person.
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How is software development like the practice of medicine?
You may be interested in dnode[0] as well. Protocol documented here[1].

[0] https://github.com/substack/dnode

[1] https://github.com/substack/dnode-protocol/blob/master/doc/p...
I'd say levelling (getting inside a players head, understanding how they'll react to a situation and staying one step ahead) is important for higher level play in both games.
Reminds me of http://camlistore.org/
Emerzia static website built with Nikola (python)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html?page...

For best UX, set your "Referrer:" header to google.com

Also, I think Cisco paid over a billion for one mesh community network's project. I think a YC cofounder may have been involved in that project. Not sure. Its Cisco brand name is Meraki.

It appears portable autonomous networks (i.e. no telco needed) are useful and valuable for many, diverse reasons. I posit that if you can build your "no telco required" network from affordable parts and can get it to work consistently, then it has value, irrespective of whatever "intended uses" for it you might have in mind.

Of course, I could be wrong.
People appear to be standing on principle more than anything else. If you are at the airport you will see that the overwhelming majority of people have no issues going through the scanners. People from all walks of life with all sorts of jobs and intelligence. Curious also how many of these people who are standing on principle (or fringe science) smoke cigarettes or do other harmful activities (climb mountains or use power tools without eye protection).

"I hate being ordered around by flunkies who can't get any other job every time I go to the airport"

Well do you think they should merely raise the wage in order to attract higher qualified people that would normally go into other careers? You can get frustrated because when you get served in a restaurant they get the order wrong or you can realize that the rocket scientists are not holding jobs serving you in a restaurant and realize things are the way they are for a reason.

Are you interested in giving up whatever job you have and working at the TSA (or any lower level government job say a postal carrier?) I'm not so I've learned to accept these things as necessary economically.
If your arguing about promises VS callbacks you're doing it wrong
Every one of the methods listed for accessing the Start menu in Windows 8 causes problems in a remote desktop connection.

-The mouse isn't always locked into the active rdc window, so finding the corner of the screen is tedious

-Swiping in from the side of the window with a mouse doesn't work

-Pressing the Start key on your keyboard will open the host Start menu, not the remotely connected instance

Of course rdc is a bit of an edge case, but it's very important for business/power users.
Available for all, at $5 per month you mean. There is a subtle differences between "all" and "all that can pay", isn't it :)
I don't buy books to look good for my peers. I buy books because I like reading them, lending them, etc. The social signalling is just a side benefit.
You are probably referring to this - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/nov/07/comment...

Although that is in the comment section rather than the leader, which I would expect as she is a columnist. But it is certainly funny in retrospect. Polly has always been something of a statist however, and is someone who seems generally ready to give government the benefit of the doubt on first principles.
> As a foreigner, this is exactly what you don't want to do.

This is unfortunately correct. The border agent has final say in letting you into the country (regardless of the legitimacy of your documents).
I would assume for 72, not 90.

At least for the USA, 90 seems a pipe-dream unless you are fortunate to be wealthy or a congressperson awarding yourself gold-plated healthcare.

If you are in China, your government is killing you with unregulated industrialism that is making the very air posionous.

If you live in Japan, the radiation may already be seeping into your area and causing cancer.

And if you are in the middleeast, your government might kill you for the wrong trivial actions against their religion, being a woman, or daring to challenge a dictator.

90 definitely seems like a pipedream unless maybe you are in Canada, Europe, Iceland/Greenland, or Australia/NZ (apologies to all those I missed, ie. South America and Africa, may you live a long and happy life).

Wow I just depressed myself.
If you want to know what they are thinking, check out Robert Hockett on SSRN. He's the intellectual force behind the whole idea.
UTF-16 has the same issue with invalid things appearing to work due to surrogate pairs. A lot of UTF-16 based applications actually only support UCS-2, because you can assume one string index equals one character and get away with it if it never occurs to you to try to use stuff outside of the BMP.
"Not just the people, but it's ideals as laid out in the constitution and the bill of rights."

Where are you getting that from? They have a job to do which they were hired to do. At the end of the day they go home, eat dinner and watch TV. Nothing more than that.

Why don't you go out and talk to them and see if (other than lip service) they have a clue at all about what you are suggesting they should be protecting.
This is never gonna take off.

Come back and post when you have a cutesy domain.
Not knowing the culture or language is as big of a barrier as people are making it out to be.

The #1 concern of someone leaving a country, is whether or not the receiving country is actually a better place. It is absolutely critical to understand the culture of where you're going to, if you expect to evaluate how you're gonna live.
The one HR benefit every startup should add
"The goal of Project Byzantium is to develop a communication system by which users can connect to each other and share information in the absence of convenient access to the Internet. This is done by setting up an ad-hoc wireless mesh network that offers services which replace popular websites often used for this purpose, such as Twitter and IRC." - from http://project-byzantium.org/about/
"Simply writing correct code isn't enough"

This doesn't make sense to me. Customers don't know or care what your code looks like, they just want your product to work.
I modern Linus-speak, I guess it would be:

"Hi minix fucktards,
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be retarded like gnu) for stupid 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like you to take your stupid feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things), print it on A4 paper, roll it and shove it up your ass.

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I'll get something as practical as having to re-compile the kernel to use a new printer within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want so that I can insult a larger audience in less posts. Any suggestions are welcome, as I like to teach Finish swearing.
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You're wrong on several accounts, but the easiest to pick out is: The DSM is psychiatry's bible, not psychology. They are two separate fields.

Here's the psychology English wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology
Ask HN: How do you learn new english word?
Hello everyone,

I want to develop an app for learning new english word. I make some research but i need further. If you are not native speaker, can you write how you learn new english word and do you use a web app for learning english word?

Thanks everyone!
http://www.goodtyping.com/test.php worked for me.
Open Sourcers - is verbing a thing now? Why not 'Open Sourcerers', or 'Open Sourcists'?
Imagine doing this for 5 people, all the time wasted by the team necessary to spend this much effort on each person. Eventually I would think employees would get tired of this.
I think I'm going to try and play this game now, I've been playing call of duty for the past 4 years I'm addicted to Black ops and I feel like this game also increases decision making and better understanding of strategy.
Project description: We wanted to solve the problem of capturing gifs quickly and easily. Existing solutions were complicated and yucky: you need the video source file, photoshop, or some specialized software, or a limited Youtube-to-gif service like Gifsoup.com. You ran into codec issues, it took a while, you needed lots of experience, etc.

We made it easier by giving the user a floating capture window which essentially grabs frames from whatever's underneath. It basically takes screenshots. Naturally, everyone wants to share the gif they created, so we threw in a 1-click process to upload that gif to our server.
Entitled much? What obligations does Google have here, exactly?
I worked for 2.5 years for a company who interviewed me for 5 hours straight. I had no warning about how long it would last, and it seemed that if I'd been struggling at any point they would have called a halt and said thanks.

That said, their interview process was all fiddly little tests, although since they were in the habit of hiring arts students and training them to code, particularly philosophers who'd done a little formal logic, they weren't about "algorithms", more just little brain teasers with simple, made up languages, and follow up questions like "could you make this any faster?"
I need to remind you that you're using the fact that your financial situation isn't successful as a justification to being a jerk to another human being.

If a border officer was rude to you, then be a jerk to him, not some random stranger who just happened to be in same situation to him.
I was a little upset when I was forced to take typing in junior high. Now I think I should send them a thank you letter as I watch everyone hunt and peck.
It includes everything. Hong Kong is a pretty small place.
Can you elaborate on the risk to eyes? I've not heard about this, and Wikipedia doesn't mention it, either for mm-wave or backscatter (I hadn't even realised there were two different technologies in use until now). What kind of risk level are we talking about? Do your eyelids offer any real protection against it?
Stop trying to blur the lines between you, the company, and me the employee. Nothing would make me come into the office on a Sunday and 'hang out' with another employee. Do you really want to fill your company with people who want to be there 24x7?

The way these tech interviews are going we'll all end up being sole traders as none of us will put up with these ridiculous parlour games.

Just chatting with my girlfriend, she pointed out that we can hire lawyers, doctors, and surgeons on the back of a CV and an hour interview. So how did we get into this crazy mess over hiring programmers?
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I don't think I've read a more privileged, arrogant, myopic comment in a very long time.

In what world is it your role to judge a person for going to work every day to feed their family?

"Basically, it's your opportunity to remind them that their job is to sit in a little cube talking to people who are actually out there leading exciting lives."

I'm trying not to read that sentence in the voice of a young English aristocrat from the 1920s, but that's how it sounds. Mocking the working class for the distasteful faux pas of needing a paycheck to survive?

You are blessed for having been able to find a way to live a life of travel and pleasure while others have to worry about which bills they can pay, hope they don't get sick, and dream of someday being able to take even one vacation. Does that mean you are better than them? You certainly seem to think so.

"One day they'll quit . . . the ones that need this sort of treatment . . ."

Honestly, listen to yourself. Are you some authority appointed to correct the misbehavior of your inferiors? No. You're a guy with talent who drew the right cards, played them well, and was rewarded with a life others would like to have. Learn a lesson about humility from my grandmother who grew up in the Great Depression, and reminded me always to tell myself "there, but for the grace of God, go I."

On a side note, I see that you are the founder of Twiddla. Not that the opinion of a single user matters, but as a user, I will now look for an alternative. I have no interest in supporting such arrogance.
Uhm, this was not my intention. My intention was to put several layers on top of each other as colors. But because this couldn't be colored, I chose white.
Thank you for the feedback, working on a fix!
This is closer to using a DVCS to manage the files on disk than block level snapshots.

See also the Solaris 10 IPS, which appears on the surface to have many similarities (checksums, http delivery of files, etc.) to OStree
Ask HN: Created Scraping SaaS, best way to avoid misuse?
In light of the last few days, and all the scraping topics popping up. I figured I'd ask how to approach this.

I created a service that's in very early alpha that's able to use lots of different techniques (pattern matching, NLP,javascript) to get data out of webpages.

For data gathering, I planned on having an interface to different kinds of APIs, along side the scraping, that users might need to do mashups.

It's already paying the bills for me, so I'd like to start scaling this out now. There can be a lot of potential for misuse here.

Besides the obvious things like robots.txt, naming my user agent, and users being able to opt out of things like emails gathered by the system and throttling. What other things should I should be aware of?
So basically this post is dumb and wrong, and the author is clueless.
As a 21 year old, I don't see how you could try to go indie with a family and mortgage.

As a seasoned developer with a family and mortgage, I don't see how you could go indie as a 21 year old. Your probability of achieving absolutely nothing approaches 100% (and the end result may be career damage that will carry through for the rest of your professional life).

This story really has nothing to do with the fact that the guy has a family or a mortgage, and exactly the same realities apply to a 21 year old with rent and car payments. So it's a little humorous seeing every 21 year old (speaking of many if not most of the comments on Reddit) trying to declare that his core issue, which is really wishful "it won't happen to me!" denial. If anything, the guy with the mortgage and family obligations should have the motivation to achieve what is necessary, whereas this guy seemed to make horrible choice after horrible choice.

The story here is simply that he had a gross inability to estimate (if, as his runway comes to an end, he has so little...wow). And despite the fact that you disparage 2d platformers and Unity, the reality is that Unity, for instance, does a dramatically better job as a basic engine (for essentially all sorts of games) than the overwhelming majority of developers will do on their own - if you aren't John Carmack, your probability of doing something better is incredibly unlikely.

This isn't about pride (oh, boastful "I'm too proud to use that..."), it's about raw stupidity. It's building your house by deciding that you'll first make your own drill because surely you can do it better than DeWalt. Starting your web app by first making a custom web browser. It is project planning and introspection gone perilously off track.
It's not so much that I mind Google doing this, as I wish people would stop pretending that Google is somehow more "open" or different from other companies that restrict the functionality of their devices in similar ways.
>And if you’re wrong about a bunch of things, you’re obviously not as smart or as good or as worthwhile a person as you previously believed.

These are all true statements. Most people are not as smart or good or worthwhile as they believe, myself included. That makes true rational implementation of policy extremely unlikely .
A passport was not originally intended to be an identity document, only a travel document. But the US doesn't have any official identity document, so the passport gets de facto used as one. This is unfortunate for a number of reasons.
I don't entirely disagree, however the past thread I linked to makes me weary about pursuing this discussion further.

The problem is that we are seriously limited in what we can actually do/use if we base psychology entirely on this premise. I mean this both conceptually and technologically. We haven't fully mapped out the brain, we don't know about all the neurotransmitters out there, and we don't even know what fMRI shows us exactly, so we gotta be realistic with our expectations given our current limitations. Likewise, we don't actually fully know how most psychoactive compounds work to produce the effects they do, much less 'designer medications'. This isn't a reason to dismiss their usefulness though. There's a difference between being 'limited', and being 'wrong'. You could've made a similar argument about physics back before we really understood the atom (again, due to limitations).

Additionally, the notion of 'wrong' here is only relative to the philosophical theory of falsification, which is good, but has it's own set of gotchas and nuances that others have tried to address:

http://www.loyno.edu/~folse/Lakatos.html

http://philosophy.wisc.edu/forster/papers/Lakatos.htm

http://coraifeartaigh.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/the-philosoph...

http://andrewgelman.com/2004/10/14/bayes_and_poppe/

So while good, this definition of science is still far from a stable building-block to deem all nonconforming studies unequivocally 'wrong'.