skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not untenable in the sense that it's possible to get that amount of work done, but that doesn't make it worth doing. TSA is fundamentally trying to solve an unsolvable problem. No matter how many resources they throw at it, there will always be ways to evade their checks. A smart terrorist will find a way to get through undetected, find a way to avoid the check entirely (say, by bribing a TSA employee or airport employee), or will just bomb the next available target of opportunity - perhaps the security line itself. There is simply no plausible scenario in which the TSA's checks actually prevent terrorism.

(Yes, one could postulate really stupid terrorists who somehow don't realize they'll get caught going through security, but terrorists who are that stupid are likely to have their plans fail without the TSA's help. See also: the shoe bomber.)
A Linux equivalent acronym would be childish.
I can't remember ever having to wait for an order to be delivered in Germany while they were waiting for the debit to arrive. As opposed to a money transfer that I have to initiate myself.

If I remember correctly, the e-commerce systems can check if the account is valid, and as most have overdraft and thus the responsibility for getting the money is transferred to the client's credit institute, there's little risk.

Yes, for downloads this can be a hassle, but it's not like this is the only payment option used by people, so it's not a big bother if direct debit isn't offered in this case or you're going through an intermediate solution like e.g. paypal. I think most people would prefer alternative solutions for one-time payments anyway, i.e. if they don't think they'll be a regular customer.

Not sure how the recent SEPA regulations will affect this...
This is the price you pay for a currency with:

1) Stability
2) A massive user base
3) An infrastructure to support that massive user base

BitCoin has none of those things, so I'd expect a discount on it!
> All of the names it makes fun of have perfectly sensible explanations.

Yes - OP just posted them. :)
(for the record: your explanations, while they may be true, are not much better than the OP's)
This is quite nitpicky. A worthless debate over semantics.
`Program Files` would actually be `C:\Program Files` (or the equivalent) if you're going for an absolute path. So `/opt/local/bin` comes out to two letters shorter.
That's a fair point on VM's loyal fanbase that was lingering since 2007. But Braff's project leveraged Garden State as much as Lee's Leveraged Malcolm X and others of his past films.
Your argument is biting its own tail: You're saying Lee's project was entirely driven by his name, but that's because Lee made it so. He could have made a more convincing video or written a better text giving more info (just like Braff did) but he didn't. My point is that he could have been more successful if he had put in more effort.

That's the whole point: Spike Lee's past films should outweigh Braff's effort with Garden State when it comes to convincing people about their respective ability to make good films, but it didn't.
No, not at all. Rwanda is probably safer than any place in the states.. you can walk around anywhere in the city in the middle of the night (and I do) and there are no concerns. There is still unrest in DRC but that is very much localized.
Note that it works hand in hand with `Excel can't save to paths over 218 characters (microsoft.com)` (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6281462)

bad name => earlier limit reach

</synergy>
Historical heritage unfortuantely. /sbin and /usr/sbin are other examples...

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952
This. I use my own domain for all of my email, and don't like to give out my gmail email address. This is a really bad idea, and should be one of your top priorities to be changed. Getting "bad" emails is part of the cost of doing business, so stop hiding behind the "it costs us money to send emails" line. So what?! You are eliminating users by doing this, which in the long run costs you WAY more than sending to some non-existent emails. Just validate the email addresses so you know they exist, and maybe re-check in 30 days - that would probably eliminate most of the "testing" emails from your system.
Super sleek web site and great music!
Looks like you were bitten by autocorrect (and meant steganography).
Pff, Asimov. I don't understand why people hold him in such high esteem, his imagination was flat and lacking.

Want to read some real futurology and prime-cut sci-fi? Check out Stanislaw Lem. (eg. Peace on Earth -- it will blow your mind).
But only because you're not their target group.
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The majority of jobs don't even pretend to require passionate employees. Nobody expects the clerk at 7-11 to be passionate.
So the advice reduces to "do the most fun thing you can do that pays the bills for the median performer". Sounds about right. Stronger versions, like "follow your passion no matter what" coming from Schwarzenegger, are wrong because of survivor bias.

I suspect that in many competitive fields persistence actually hurts people in aggregate, and everyone would benefit if everyone agreed to be less persistent. For example, in a sports competition with a large prize for #1, making people more persistent won't grow the size of the prize. After a certain point, the sum of resources spent by all participants will be greater than the prize, but by the deadly logic of game theory, everyone will just keep spending more and more. The same thing seems to be happening in music/art/writing/acting (because popularity is a zero-sum contest), and parts of the startup scene (for the same reason).
I love companies like this! With tests and bureaucracy they are able to give me a clear signal that I shouldn't work for them, as my work will be mired in paperwork, false metrics and needless hoops to jump through.
New term added to my vocabulary - thanks for sharing!
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No, they just place you on the no fly list and detain you for 4+ hours every time you cross the US border by land.
POS is the standard industry term for this kind of software. Anybody who would actually buy this product would never mistake this. And anyone who might mistake it for the other meaning needs only to click through to see it is indeed a POS system.
Isn't that kind of where "do what you love" came from?
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A partial solution to that is a better briefing and education for the HR team. Another partial solution is to make the selection criteria broader. Make clear that they should include the candidate when in doubt. But if for example you're looking for a team lead for an important project, you can certainly specify requirements that the HR team can handle, such as "must have 5 years of work experience. Must have team lead experience." etc.
The author put some thought into arranging elements according to their relationships, something too often overlooked in 'periodic table of $x$' mash-ups.

The more I look, the more I find. I am impressed.
A lot of people in the HN nouveau riche tend to forget: you can't just skip to the self-actualization bit; there's a whole hierarchy of needs you have to fill first. Starting with food on the table.
That's not the best part yet. Remember links? Apparently they survived the big Longhorn and made their way into Vista! They really only exist as the "mklink" command line tool, support for creating them is nonexistent in Explorer, and iirc they have some other underlying architectural failures that makes them generally unpleasant to use on Windows.

But hey, they exist, so someone had the glorious idea to translate these already terrible names into whatever is appropiate for your localized Windows, and create links for stuff like Documents and Settings. Confusion complete.
Ick, capitalization in a case-sensititive file-system? Of course, as far as I'm concerned case-sensitivity is generally a misfeature in anything user-facing.
I pound on my Apple keyboard and my Macbooks like a madman. It's actually quite loud, especially when I get going.

How soon am I supposed to feel pain in my hands? Two years? Four? Hasn't happened yet.

I have come to really prefer the low travel keyboards, even with my hammer hands.
I love this. I not only illustrates the concept of the false negative (which is presumably as likely as the false positive)- it also showcases that disciplines and best practices, even policies hr, finance, sales ops and yes, even product are not absolute. every case is unique and can be quantum- not binary right or wrong, but every infinity in between
Or "do the most thing you can do that pays the bills based on a realistic assessment of your competence."
As a biology and genetics grad, I can safely say that I never memorized the periodic table, but this looks like something I can commit to memory! Awesome, awesome work!
Do a more thorough search. I've done a bit more and have found no one but chiropractors suggesting chiropractics to fix this problem. Also note, while your link mentions degeneration, it is much less common of a cause than a congenital defect or the result of a medical treatment.

The prejudice is based on their ignorance of science. In fact, traditionally, chiropractics totally eschews science in exchange for philosophy. This leads to chiropractors using techniques that have been shown to be harmful, such as doing spinal manipulation to fix nerve impingement, which is contraindicated by numerous studies. Additionally, there are still many chiropractors that are anti-immunization, another scientifically baseless position, but one that is dangerous for both the individual and society.

Insurance coverage is not an endorsement whatsoever. It is the effect of heavy lobbying on the part of chiropractors. Remember, insurance is not incentivized to do what is best for the patient.
Great app! Is it possible to have the LaTeX code generated ?
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Hi! I'd like to thank you too! It was kind of disappointing to become aware that my reply wasn't probably read by anybody (since there were no new posts on the thread at all). And equally refreshing to read your reply! :)

Thanks for a tip about posting a link on HN news, it didn’t cross my mind since I usually think of it as if it is a feed with important and interesting stories for the general public. It's hard for me to judge if my reply was interesting to anyone apart of you and a couple of other posters on the thread.

As about conspiracy theories, maybe I didn't choose the right words. I don't think about the Russian homosexual issue as a part of some grand plan, rather as a temporary and somewhat arbitrary distraction from more important issues. At least today, when Russia is more or less compliant with the West on the major issues. Even when the most of the people like to think otherwise, Russia is nowhere near waging an independent foreign policy (we can probably argue on that for a long time, but I don't think it's worth it). Also, such distractions and theme changes as "Snowden revelations" >> "Problems of Russian homosexuals" don't even need to be conscious.

You've made a great point about Caucasus and the overall horrendous human rights record of Russia. And it is a really interesting point that the media has raised some relatively mild issue instead of, just from the top of my head, jailing of union workers that were fighting for better wages and improvement of abysmal safety controls on the factories of Western automotive conglomerates that are based in Russia. Or even something just as horrible and at the same time not strictly related to the interests of Western business. An equally interesting question is why we hear lamentations about the homosexual propaganda law now and not couple of years before, when the policy was implemented. These are important issues that you've raised, but the answers to them don't lie on the on the surface. IMHO, they also don't lie in the field of conspiracy theories, rather in the field of human psychology and the somewhat recent history of US-USSR relations. I'd really like to expand on this, but now I need to write some code, too. :)

Good luck!

It would be interesting to hear your opinion about Žižek's points! (Don't consider this too binding: if you won't find time to watch the talk, or would be reluctant to express your thoughts about it, I would understand! :))

P.S.
If memory serves me well, the largest media hype about atrocities in Chechnya was just before the Kosovo War, when Yeltsin hasn't yet decided not to provide direct military support to Milošević regime. At least, that was my impression.
This question might be too broad, but how would you compare the infrastructure, English level, technical talent, etc. of Rwanda with other African nations?
Even that has some warts: For example, Why not "MountS", since other folders are plural: FileS, ProgramS, UserS
Ask HN: What computer skills should you learn first?
I know how to roughly use a computer and fix most technical issues thanks to Google. But I don't know much more than that (no programming or hardware experience for instance) and I don't know where to start.

What should be the first things to learn when trying to become more computer literate after mastering the basics?

Regards
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I had kind of the opposite happen at my last 9-5 job. They were considering using this type of test for potential candidates. The managers got together and came up with the metrics they felt would make the best team members. To get a baseline they gave the test to all current employees in the department. The test was a combination personality and IQ test. The test was determined to be a failure and wasn't used, one of the primary reasons was I scored highest/closest to the benchmarks that the managers had set forth before we took the tests. I quit that job and am a lot happier.
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If you're going to speak about your app atleast provide a link some of us on HN are parents and want to renumerate apps that try to do the right thing.

Maybe the problem is you don't or are reluctant to advertise yourself.
How much you pay in London really depends on how/where you want to live. It's far cheaper if you're happy to spend an hour or more commuting each way.

I need to earn £50k to cover just childcare costs and the mortgage (looking forward to both of those going down soon). I could sell up and buy a similar property 5 miles away and those costs would both halve. I could sell up and buy a similar property 10 miles away and have no mortgage at all. Neither of those would make us happier as a family (no matter how much I'd love to have no mortgage); we want to live where we're living now, so I just get on with it.
Of course we remember! Here's how it happened:

https://gist.github.com/dchest/800407/raw/48fd662716b7d446e7...
6 hours?! Mine drains its battery in 12-13 hours and I use it regularly (facebook, whatsapp, google maps, spotify) all over 3g (I don't have access to wifi at the moment).
Why did you choose Rawanda over South Africa/Nigeria/Morocco which I would think would be easier African countries to work in
considering the whole google vs oracle thing... yes.
Tell you what. Let us enumerate the number of new advanced drugs that Non-Indians brought to India.
That list will be long; the worst part is that all those technical drug lists may turn out to have at least one Indian working on them, our emigration is huge. To take a technical comparison, what would have happened if Satya Nadella & Sundar Pichai had stayed back over here? Anyway, that's an argument for another day.

To get back to the topic, Non-Indians may benefit from the patent regime; but they got the products here in the first place.
In short, the "refutation" is a simple quid pro quo: the foreigners manufacture most drugs, and they get the most patents. There is no argument here on whether patents are bad, it is a stupid defense of an idiotic method of patent grants. Most Indian pharma firms have no meaningful R&D, they make their profits on generics.
Socialists like the present government will never understand a free market, if they want these expensive drugs for free, they have to pay for them somehow. Not by abusing a bad patent system which is protectionist. Either they should abolish patents (which is the best way) and take the results, or they start applying patents the ostensible way they are meant to be applied, which is to pay attention to whether the pharma breakthrough is big enough to merit a patent, or not.
Or, if you'd had a SkyDrive account before the change.
Hence ‘even’, saying that even the full path is only one letter longer than the single directory name. :)

Though, really, I have never seen /opt/local/bin – /usr/bin for package-manager owned stuff, /usr/local/bin for stuff not owned by the package manager and /opt/<Vendor> for weird things…
Really, really smart hire by @dickc. and @adambain knows this so it's no threat to his juggernaut advertising business- commerce and content could very end up two equal legs in a three-legged awesome @biz stool (sorry for the twitter cc pun there). more so than even FB, @twitter's just a few years younger and maybe the little bro that grows up taller
That is simply not true. While clearly not democratic, Hong Kong for example, is most definitely not an autocracy.
I don't think they're "making their way", I think they're already here in some tech segments. I've only been subjected to a test such as this once, administered by a certain mega-grocery-wholesaler in southern New Hampshire, and I thought it was hilarious. My answers reflected my "take charge, get sh*t done, &etc" startup mentality. They clearly wanted corporate drones who would quietly go about their assigned duties and submit to whatever authoritarianism was in the air at that location. I hope I bent the needle on their personality-o-meter as I sure tried to.
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WoW isn't meant to be cutesy (which I think you hinted at, but to be explicit for others), it stands for Windows on Windows, which is the compatibility layer between different architectures (first 16 on 32, and now 32 on 64).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_on_Windows
People have different yardsticks for quality.
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Bitsync is very good but it is not quite a dropbox clone as it lacks the ability to retrieve the files via web, it does very limited version control, it has a pretty rigid structure of sync'd folders (for instance you can't sync a subfolder of a folder you are already syncing). Some of those functions can be implemented using owncloud but this latter is still bit buggy and requires you to have server space.
Right, that's why they do a search. Amd if it's hidden so well you won't find it in a search, it'll be hidden that well tomorrow too - where is the sense in pestering this guy for hours and sending him home to get on a plane tomorrow rather than letting him get on a plane today?

The sad truth is that the terrorists here are us. The primary reason nobody has blown up a plane recently in the US is that nobody is TRYING to blow up a plane in the US. If somebody were seriously trying, they'd have done it already.
I've seen periodic tables like this in the past that were just, blah...But I still reluctantly clicked through and was amazed. This is beautiful and organized very well. I find myself clicking through various newer HTML5 elements I've never used.
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It gives you something like a heat map of any web page. Cool! I keep finding little surprises hidden here.
I've lived in China and Korea, and surprisingly, pretty good Mexican food was available in both places. Somewhat less surprisingly, good Thai food was also available.

Good cheeses, breads, and wines, however, were not. And if you did manage to find them somewhere, the price was double what you'd pay in the US.
It makes me uncomfortable. It feels racist against non-Indians people. The same go with these posts make a difference between US and non-US citizen for privacy stuff.
They should have called it "Prögräm Files", to force developers to support unicode.
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I prefer RoachBirch Anthill, or occasionally BeePine Mound.

Think of your files as termites. BeePine Mound is like a secure mound in the cloud for all your stuff.
Use of social media in the workplace treads a fine line
The more dramatic solution is flash paper, which destroys all conceivable evidence. Don't fly with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose
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Not to be nitpicky, but rather to help: You are using 'me' and 'I' backwards. It's really distracting and made it difficult to get through the beginning of the post to the actual story.

The rules are simple: Take Carl out of the sentence. Would you say "Me made myself available"? No. Then why "Carl and me made ourselves available"?

Would you say "score extra points with I"? No. Then why "score extra points with Carl and I"?

If you are in the subject of the sentence, then use I: "Carl and I went to the movies."

If you are in the predicate, or are the object of an action, use me: "The students handed their completed tests to Carl and me."
Bitcasa are offering 10GB for free. Their unlimited service is cheap too. I cannot comment of their security.
Is this Scalado?
Oh yeah, attacking the disbelievers for their blasphemy in the name of Science is a great idea.
I'm the author of the top voted answer on this stackoverflow question.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118984/how-can-you-progra...
I think I'm going to buy a 11 inch MacBook Air with maxed ram and processor based on the fact that I don't need a big screen and like portability.
Stack ranking wasn't around when any of this was done. This is early 90's stuff when stack ranking didn't even start until the late 90's.
I hate when the discussion devolves into putting flesh bodies into 40 hour a week boxes to repeat some repetitive task.

Me too. Apparently it's primarily a mass-media political posturing tool for the (fearing-to-be-)disenfranchised classes (ie. a huge proportion of the population).

producitivity multipliers in technology lets that demand be met with much less workforce supply, which means tremendous economic efficiency gains.

... and loads of people shifted to the bottom of the opportunity barrel, save for states with some semblance of social welfare (ie. not the US).
How to Google search.
I always thought it was funny that the hosts file is still in etc/ but under the windows system folder!
This is exactly what I've been looking for. Ever since Google Website Optimizer went away, I've been kinda floating in the wind when it comes to UI testing. Major props to SeatGeek for releasing this so that others can use it.
Hello, Mr. Cook, yes, yes, your EA here. No, no, you heard me right, God, Sir Isaac Newton and John Lennon are on the line.

No, no. I don't know who reports to who. Do you want me to guess?

What's it about? uh, let me ask.

Ok. they say they've trademarked 'Apple' and want to talk about a license

Oh, ok. Can you ask them if Steve can also join the call?
edit: Changed "GWO" to "Google Website Optimizer"
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