skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad headlines aside, its remarkable that its only $4 more expensive to make a phone in the USA! Why in the world aren't more electronics being made in the USA then? (Think quality control and product security, at least.)
I wouldn't go that far (see my rant about NZ above).

I'll be interested to see more analysis on this bill, or how it's interpreted in court.
Thanks for doing this for all of us who make things. Indifference towards people's side projects and new startup ideas has been creeping into the HN community for the past couple of years and I find it discouraging. Personally, I'd rather read about people's Show HN posts than the latest mainstream news stories that I could find anywhere.

HN Showcase highlights the problem: Hardly any of the Show HN posts get voted on anymore. I think we've become more a community of critics than makers. I haven't even thought about posting Show HN's for my last couple of projects (and my current startup), where 5 years ago that would have been the first thing I did! A cool hack is worth sharing, even if it's not perfect.

EDIT: Actually, if you feel like me and have held back, why not use the comments section of this post to "Show HN" your project. At least in here you'll know everyone cares about side projects and maybe we can all endeavor to give you constructive feedback :)
Exactly. I read this:

> Today, lifecycle emails are the state-of-the-art in customer engagement. Immediately after a user signs up, they receive an email. A few days after creating an account, they receive another email. A week later, email; then a month later, email; if they haven’t logged in, email.

And thought this article was going to be about how annoying these spammy emails were. Nope, quite the opposite.
Converting WebKit Pointers to References
China to launch unmanned lunar lander by year-end
One of the useful modes for backups is to take a parameter (--link-dest) specifying a directory containing a previous backup. It will build hard links to the previous backup directory for files that did not change.
Relational databases are a kernel of mathematical relational beauty buried under a million tons of ugly hacks you have to do to keep them performant.
I was agreeing with him with a bit of sarcasm, but it does seem (looking at it) that I was replying to him with sarcasm. I apologize. Patents make me so angry my brain deactivates.
Yahoo has been a butthurt-engine for over a decade, the complaints are best thought of as noise.
I literally love that map warper!
You can upload your own images at mapwarper.net as well.
> The reason why this works is because while people will answer "Would you consider yourself hard working?" with "Always" or some other unrealistically gamed superlative, they won't realize that other questions that are seemingly unrelated are highly correlated with that quality

Can you provide a deeper example? I'm honestly curious - what sort of question is innocuous enough to be answered honestly, yet useful enough to provide information? (i.e., do slackers like the color yellow or something?)
How exactly are you using it? I envisioned it as something like this:

1. Search for item or select a tag.

2. Open interesting item, check it out.

3. Check out similar items at the bottom of the page/tags for that item.

What would you suggest as a way to reduce shuttling back and forth between pages?
New York Times, Twitter, Other Sites Reportedly Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
Everything's a cargo cult now. Everyone's a hipster now. You know, you can just say you don't like something or someone, and why. You can totally do that still.
It's a bit of a mystery, truly, and bias can mean different things (e.g., slope vs. intercept predictive bias). Note also that predictive bias is not the same thing as mean subgroup differences (e.g., mean score differences of White vs. Black candidates).

This is a quick overview of the topic: http://www.siop.org/_Principles/pages31to34.pdf

An interesting thing is that the predictive bias is reduced for open-form response questions vs. select-one tests. It's an indication that there is more at work than just subgroup differences.
Oh, I don't think it is a complete fiction either. Just for starters, something as simple as plagiarism is reviled with the law rarely being involved. We don't need the law to tell us that plagiarism is unacceptable.

What I do think is a fiction is trying to apply concepts meant for physical goods to ideas. Concepts like "theft", or being able to transfer ownership. It strikes me as the political/legal equivalent of what programmers do when they try to add a bit too much abstraction.

They saw a little bit of duplicated code about "ownership" and mistakenly though that the two concepts were probably related and rather interchangeable. As a result things become kludged with nothing working as well as it would if the concepts were left separate. Basically it is a botched attempt at optimizing for complexity.
How many collectable watches are available vs antique Soviet memory modules?
Electric vehicles need new "assembly line" breakthrough
If you sit all day the couch stretch [1] helps a lot to undo the shortening in your hip flexors. 2 min a day each side. Really painful if you sit a lot.

Kelly Starrett has a lot of great information about mobility.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-ZX...
I don't understand where your hostility comes from.

From the dishonest spin that you put on everything you say.

I wrote:

That's equivalent to popping up
shareware nag-screens into my face.

You reply with:

"popping up shareware nag-screens at random intervals"
is completely false.
There are absolutely no nag-screens
in Phusion Passenger.

These little 'misunderstandings' and strawmen add up.

Consequently I won't even comment on your further spin-doctoring here.

I'll just encourage anyone interested in the matter to also read what EngineYard and UserVoice say about passenger;

https://blog.engineyard.com/2012/passenger-vs-unicorn

https://developer.uservoice.com/blog/2012/08/08/the-dark-pas...
Alternatively they should ban drug marketing which eats up the lion's share of the budget, thereby reducing the cost of producing the drugs. Not to mention that there are other social factors such as imperialism that ended only 70 years ago. Indian firms should have huge R&D budgets and in order to get those budgets investors must see a potential return on their investments. In order for that to happen the Indian economy must grow and there should be more income with which Indians can pay for those drugs. In order for the economy to grow more money must be kept in the country and not allowed to be siphoned off by foreign companies. Indians have obviously benefited from foreign inventions, but then so have foreigners benefited from immigrants responsible for many of those inventions.
Each docker RUN command is like a git commit. See those cache keys? Those are the commit sha1sums.

According to the article, you can roll back to a (any?) cache key and branch off into a new direction. I wonder about merges though.
In hope of finding relativistic effects, I calculated the outer edge of the spinning object travels about 7.85 m/s. Sigh...
This can be boon for Environmentalist to figure out:-
"How many trees in a given area is cut down in given month." we can zeroed-in on places where deforestation is happening rapidly, and publish that data to "Goverments" to look into that.
What must really drive you nuts about your 3.5" floppies are the fact that they are not 1.44 MB, or 1.44 MiB, or anything else that resembles 1.44 x some factor. They are actualy 1000 x 1024 x 1440 bytes (so 1440 KiB). The 1.44 on them is derived from a mixture of SI and Binary units.
You have the freedom to use violence prevent anything you bloody well like.
This is my primary use of Vagrant. I think it's amazing to be able to set up a Docker-ready host.

Combining these technologies to have the Docker builds released in ready to go AMIs/VBox/VMWare images for easy deployment is on my dream list. Does anyone want to help?
3.25"... is that a Russian format?
It is a strange fact that government grants and enforces monopolies on molecules that are designed to save lives, monopolies which then lowers the supply.

This is a simplistic view. After the molecule was discovered, the patent certainly lowers the supply, but if the patent is what enables the molecule to be discovered in the first place, then it actually increases the supply.

Of course, whether the claim holds is questionable, but it's not like these drugs where flowing from the trees until the bad government came and limited it.

As for the taxes, I don't know the Indian patent office, but the US counterpart makes money.
I don't have stats on % of frivolous lawsuits for patents vs. employment matters. I'll be generous and stipulate there are fewer bogus employment claims. But it's not 0%.

In the U.S. legal system, you can sue anyone for anything, and it will cost them _something_ to make you go away. It's not hard to come up with _some_ claim that's not obviously absurd enough to get dismissed quickly. There are individuals who realize this --- as well as attorneys who have an economic interest in helping more people realize this.

So again, I grant that many claims have merit. But I don't think you can stipulate that every employee claim is automatically valid, i.e. that every company is automatically guilty of every claim against it. Sometimes companies suck. And sometimes so do employees. It's life.
In regards to the role of HR in hiring a candidate, I think it is a bit more complicated then you make it out to be. The problem is that a candidate won't just exist in isolation on the team he/she was hired to. There needs to be some representative of the rest of the company, outside of his/her project team and managers, to vouch for him/her. After all, this is a person that may be given building access, that will interact with other employees at company events, the cafeteria and the hallways.

I don't know anything about the details of the test in the article, but I can imagine someone doing well in their technical interviews, but failing miserably on company fit. Maybe he (settling on a 'he' in this case) is a brilliant programmer but showed serious misogynistic tendencies when interviewing with a female HR person. Maybe something came out of his HR interview that revealed him to be a borderline psycho who could code well but was a troublemaker. Considering that it is HR that will have to deal with this person in the future if there are complaints against him, I think it is only fair that they set some baseline level of acceptability for candidates.
You LITERALLY built that map warper! ^^ this guy ^^ is one of the partners at Topomancy, the crew who envisaged and built our whole historical geospatial stack with our Geospatial Librarian. And the Map Warper/Digitizer is absolutely amazing.
Tips voor het verven van je interieur met een airless spuitpistool
most of the yahoo mail users I know are getting hacked and spamming links to all contacts.. looks like they are trying reduce the number of user requests they are getting (it would be pretty easy to create id's and request novel usernames multiple times).. Yahoo mail is the most insecure mail I have every used.
What bothers me the most about the discussion from marketers regarding the new tabbed inbox is the sense of entitlement, as if they should have some sort of right to not only bother me with pointless emails to try to lure me back, but also expect me to return to their app/service (after I've opened their email and brought their funnel full circle, of course).

You read some of these outcries from marketers, and you'd think that Gmail decided to stuff all of these emails in the spam folder, never to be seen by anyone, ever. I'm speaking anecdotally here, but when I'm checking mail now I always tab through each inbox and review my new mail in each one. It's not as if the "promotions" or "social" inboxes have been blacklisted, I just tend to not care about the messages that end up in them (but I wouldn't care about them if they ended up in my primary inbox, either)

When I actually come across an email that catches my attention from a service I find valuable, what do I do? I open it (yes, even when its in the lowly "promotions" inbox). That doesn't happen too often though, because as is astutely pointed out, most of them are bullshit emails from services that I don't care about. Again, that's just my own perspective and I'm sure there is data to suggest lower open rates/conversions etc. since the UI change, but at the end of the day, the premise remains the same. Send me a relevant email that actually captures my attention, and I will open it (regardless of what inbox it falls into).
Ask HN: Just got sued by patent troll – what should I do?
Hi fellow hackers, I could use some help here. We developed an simple location sharing app 3~4 years ago, and got sued yesterday along with Apple, Google, Verizon, Sprint, T-mobile[1], Glympse[2] by some company called Remote Locator Systems LLC in Texas. They claim that we infringed their patent called "Method and Apparatus for Locating Personnel and Objects in Response to Telephone Inquiries". Any one know what we should do about it?

[1] Apple being sued: http://www.macrumors.com/2013/08/28/apple-number-one-target-for-patent-trolls-with-171-cases-in-five-years/, last paragraph.
For everyone being sued, just search for the patent name "Method and Apparatus for Locating Personnel and Objects in Response to Telephone Inquiries" and look at the top 10 results from Google.

[2] Us getting sued along with Glympse and 5 other companies: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9alxrfqg8iwcnpa/aries%20app.pdf
How Honesty Can Save Your Startup
Type on your iPhone/iPad from your Mac
I'm very excited about Docker[1] as both a development environment and deployment solution. However, from my early experiments, it seems there's an important difference between LXC (which is what Docker manages for you) and a full VM, namely that the model revolves around running one process at a time: you can install mySQL on your docker image, but once it's up, it's running mySQL -- you can't then ssh into it as you would a VM to poke around, modify config files, etc..

There are trivial ways to solve this, obviously. You can stop the image, restart it running bash, use that to modify config files, and then restart it again. But it requires a change of mindset: these things are much more than background processes, but they are less than a full VM. As the piece mentions, configuration management for newly-started images seems to be a missing piece of the puzzle right now, and debugging running Docker images can be... strange. [2] Not necessarily difficult, but different from what you're used to, and learning curves are barriers to adoption.

As this tech matures I think these things will be quickly solved, and I'm looking forward to the results.

[1] Plus Virtualbox, started by Vagrant. See mitchellh's comment.

[2] Unless, of course, I'm missing something. Docker-people: how do you configure vanilla server images to work in your environment?
Yep. Even 2 year old machines (especially laptops) are unsuited. We have recently been testing Hangouts, Vidyo, Bluejeans, Polycom, Skype, Fuzebox.... and it was a lot of fun trying to diagnose degradation of user experience. Almost never was it network-related (except in cases with 8-10++ endpoints). It's much more common to be CPU-constrained than anything else.
Yes, "Simple Made Easy" is a must watch imo. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

"Are we there yet" is also great: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic...

I also love "Hammock Driven Development": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
> Nope. Looks like a private deal with Buffer, and for business Pages only.

Well, it seems to be using the Google+ Pages API [1], which is only available to whitelisted "social media management companies".

[1] https://developers.google.com/+/api/pages-signup
sued - sucessfully? ;-)
How would this theoretically work w/ Chromecast? Camera from existing port, new Chromecast model, or just use your laptop cam?
Anybody got a good date-range selector? jQuery is fine - just need an elegant way to choose a start and end-date of a date-range, and everything I've found has had some type of flaw.
You decide
Get back in touch with me when Docker can help with Windows deployments. (Is there an issue I can 'star' or otherwise track?)

Edit: To say Docker is analogous to Git for deployment fails outside of the Linux server realm (lxc). I'm trying to think of an OS-specific source control system to fix the analogy but can't come up with anything only-Linux... 'TFS for deployment'? :)

I plan to check out http://ulteo.com/home/en/download/sourcecode as an alternative.
Pgreplicaproxy Load-balancing proxy for PostgreSQL read-replicas (beta)
It's actually selling the shovel and the mining grounds, you just have to invest the time to use the shovel. A good question is: if the miner is so good, why don't they just use it and profit? This actually happens, as many bitcoin miner sellers only deliver them after a waiting time.
Nothing says "uninstall me" like an uninvited push notification.
It's really quite strange. No-one I know was told about me posting this, so I have no idea what happened.

Quite frustrating.
If it hurts, stop
In some workplaces, not fitting into the social clubs makes you a poor "cultural fit". You have to go to the right meetups, drink the right beers with the right people, and so on. Contract extensions and promotions depend on it. Thank goodness it doesn't work that way everywhere.
Sigh...

Dammit Google, quite making amazing products. I'm trying to move away from using American products with NSA backdoors.
Looks nice. Here's another site that aggregates jQuery based UI toolkits that you may want to refer to for ideas: http://jquery-jkit.com/
To protect the company from employees.
Docker is a pretty thin usability wrapper around LXC, which has Linux right in the name, so very unlikely to become useful on Windows (or even OS X, which is BSD) anytime soon.
A similar idea was put forward at length about economists by Axel Leijonhufvud, in his paper "Life Among the Econ".

"A comparison of status relationships in the different “fields” shows a definite common pattern. The dominant feature, which makes status relations among the Econ of unique interest to the serious student, is the way that status is tied to the manufacture of certain types of implements, called “modls.” The status of the adult male is determined by his skill at making the “modl” of his “field.” The facts (a) that the Econ are highly status-motivated, (b) that status is only to be achieved by making ”modls,” and (c) that most of these “modls” seem to be of little or no practical use, probably accounts for the backwardness and abject cultural poverty of the tribe. Both the tight linkage between status in the tribe and modl-making and the trend toward making modls more for ceremonial than for practical purposes appear, moreover, to be fairly recent developments, something which has led many observers to express pessimism for the viability of the Econ culture."

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/05/axe...
Hello,

Is there any way to run this on a recommendable way with other platforms than ubuntu?

I could love to see it running smoothly with debian and centos to turn immediately into a converted user.

Nice work, looks impressive.
People can and do protect what they believe to be their property. Families and tribes can and do protect the territory they believe to belong to their members.

I like David Friedman's description of property rights not primarily as moral or legal constructs, but as mutually recognized commitment strategies which discourage trespasses. He points out that territorialism in the animal kingdom is similar to property rights (obviously without the existence of a state). Animals mark their territory (e.g. with urine), and other animals tend to respect those boundaries, because there is mutual understanding that the territory holder will fight a trespasser to the death if necessary, and the damage to the trespasser (even a stronger trespasser) will most likely not be worth it. Perhaps the territory holder would be better off just retreating, but what makes it "property" is the near certainty that he won't retreat.

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Order_without_the_sta...
is there any reason to believe that Yahoo had not already shared information with government agencies?
Everyone has motives and biases but it's not fair to attack someone in this forum just because you happen to know their motives and biases. I don't see your contact info or bio listed in your profile -- how are we to trust your motives without knowing more about you?

We should discuss ideas on their merits rather than trying to psychoanalyze or dig up dirt on the commenter.
A knee-jerk introduction of the "NSA" keyword to a thread with the "Google" keyword doesn't add much to any discussion.
Humble Comedy Bundle
Found it! http://tympanus.net/Development/MultiLevelPushMenu/index2.ht...
Similar to how Meteor is installed:
curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh

After downloading it asks for your password.
Before anyone runs to the gym to buy a membership to copy the above, what rfnslyr did takes intense dedication and focus and he likely has very good genetics. Compound exercises that SS teaches are the best method for gaining overall body strength and mass. Just remember that working out is 75% nutrition and 25% lifting. If you don't eat right you wont make gains.
I usually see them advertised as Drafting Chairs :) I have tried this very solution, and it worked fairly well. Unfortunately my drafting chair broke and I haven't replaced it yet.
You're free to define "government" in such a way, but that's not a very useful definition in a discussion about what role the "government" should play.
The tuition is too damn high - Part 2
But if you don't want to get these can't you just unsubscribe?
Was your first question rhetorical?
Shareholders vote against Zuckerberg's pay package
There is no such thing as an inexact science. If it is science, it is exact; if it is inexact, it is simply confirmation bias fodder.
is there any reason to believe that Yahoo hasn't already shared information with federal agencies?
Mandatory timeout means that even the best photos go away. No proliferation of the beautiful and perfect, no buildup of the quick and dirty.

Every one dies.
To slightly edit/correct your statement: I think they are saying the cost of manufacturing the Moto X in the USA ($12) is only about $4 more than the iPhone in Asia ($8).
"He drugged his unit using a large amount of sleeping pills in a cake he baked."
This is very good, but there does not seem to be any way to download the tex script?
Most clear clojure code doesn't look parenthetical at all really. Usually my code ends up looking like a few let declarations and then a single line of execution - and I'm only a beginner!

4clojure.com is a good resource to see how experienced clojure programmers can turn what would 50 lines of imperative code into a handful of keywords. The self-similarity is a non-issue. Saying it is a negative is like saying Mozart used "too many notes" in his music.
Yes, sorry :/

Well, maybe I didn't realize it though since I don't spend much time thinking about my freedoms in the state of nature, and people were making all these arguments about physical property being a natural right.
The Bureau XCOM Declassified Review
I was hoping I could find something natural that spun faster, and thought that neutron stars might just be a candidate. Nope, not even close: " The star rotates 716 times per second - faster than some theories predict is possible" http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8576-fastspinning-neut...