skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you spend 900 hours without someone taking responsibility for it? After 4, you say 'give me a project nr or talk to my boss.' I'd be pissed too if my staff spend 900 hours on a dud without approval or accountability.
I absolutely agree that two focused, creative minds solving a problem are 110% better than one. But I have also experienced a dark side to 'pairing'.

Let's say you are on a team with more blackened engineers (Java for example) and the business needs more front end development for a while (AngularJS and build tool and testing friends). In this implementation of agile the senior blackened folks need to shift to doing a bit of front end work. Never mind the CSS stuff, let's just get the app foundation built and ready to ship.

I saw two types of pairing.

First there was the pairing with a backend engineer who had jumped in for a week, understood the tool chain and had questions related to applying Java concepts to the 'AngularJS' way. This was good and productive for both of us.

Second was the Sr/team lead type who wanted to pair on a task. They had spent zero time setting up the tool chain and AngularJS. I spent several hours walking them through this. When it came time to address the task (modify the HTML and logic for a directive) I had to tell them what to type. Verbatim. I found myself feeling a bit guilty for thinking the whole afternoon had been a waste of time, it would have taken me only a few minutes to make the actual changes and the sr engineer would have been much better off spending time learning the ecosystem and trying to understand how it was similar and different to what they were familiar with (SpringMVC).

So I think it's a double edge sword: an excellent way to share khef/ken (in dark tower parlance) while creatively solving problems or a poor way to spend limited time and resources on an agile team. The biggest caveats I see is the one I have no control over: the personality of the folks you pair with on your team.
As someone who spent 4 months in Qatar several years ago, I am unfortunately confirm the pathetic treatment of foreign physical laborers there.

As an example, one thing all the malls there do is "family day": the idea in theory being that it's then to make Muslim women feel more comfortable. Turns out in practice though, a decently dressed Arab male can go in, as can a white male. "Family day" is really "no laborers at the mall day", and it just so happens to be on the one day most workers get off
Yes. And for all that, if you present it as an argument for why people need to be using a computer that's inscrutable to them, they'll dismiss you as a hopeless ideologue at best. At worst, they'll get offended by your nerd chauvinism.

"No you can't do as much with this system and are generally much more dependent on others if you use it, but the point is that you could be if you did have the technical knowledge. Which you don't, but that's beside the point!" might be a well-intentioned position, but it's horrendously privileged. For someone to whom the abstract Freedom offered by free software is, by any practical measure, inaccessible, the concrete freedom offered by well-designed user-friendly products is vastly more valuable.
It was a breakin on kernel.bkbits.net - I don't think we ever figured out who did it.

http://lwn.net/Articles/57137/
So parent's comment was "it will be great once the tech improves" and your response is "no it won't because the tech currently sucks"? I think you're missing his point.
What to cook for dinner is a recurring problem in my house, and this feature makes it really easy to try out new dishes and get ideas.

My only complaint is that they try to obscure prices. Item prices only appear upon hover or if they appear on the side they're grayed out and difficult to find. It resembles fine print.
You obviously weren't in there when I was, broadcasting from my skull-shaped office whose walls are shark tanks.
No, you would start with suing the company using the extensive freedom of expression protections in UK common law, then if the UK court didn't rule in your favour, but you felt it was in the wrong to do so, you then appeal against the court using the human rights act.
Unmoderated comments are inevitably a disaster. Shame they didn't look at previous evidence before deciding to repeat other people's failed experiments.
Instacart does it, but not quite yet it seems for this.
I will see your infinite monkey theorem and raise you Bicameralism (psychology).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
I smell a class-action suit.
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Have been playing with their contests since I finished ML course on coursera. I think they worth it, pretty fun and addictive, plus a very good way to practice your machine learning/data mining skills. Community there is very good and helpful.
In my experience, yes, have both i3 WM and Awesome WM setup in my fedora 18 + Gnome 3 install.

Assume the same for other WMs
How do you calculate size of something without reference? For all you know that animal is 200 feet tall. You could use shadows I guess if they were standing outside and you knew their location and the date and time.

Oh, and the fact that some dogs are small and some cats are large.

But otherwise, I think you're on to something. Something that won't work, but it's something.
TAFIM
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Taking that class now. As a professional developer, it pains me to say: That class is fucking hard. I haven't managed a perfect score on an assignment yet, though I'm still working on Week 2. Good luck to you! It should be a great adventure regardless.
So with a few minor complications convexity generalises to Riemannian manifolds like the earth. You need to replace "straight line" with "minimising geodesic" i.e. shortest path, which don't depend on the choice of coordinate chart, just on the Riemannian manifold structure (which includes an inner product hence a metric).

This is complicated slightly when there isn't a unique shortest path between any given two points (e.g. the earth's north and south poles), leading to definitions of strongly convex, convex and weakly convex. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_convexity and the debate at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Geodesic_convexity#Dispute...
I just noticed that Gmail has reverted that cog icon and replaced it with good old envelope image. Power of an HN thread may be?
I thought they had safe guards against this! like lack of battery power. ;P
24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly
I grew up in the Palm Springs area (summers regularly in the 100-125F range), and played soccer my entire life, through the summer. It's absolutely possible to do it, although it is not fun. The issue is that you have to hydrate completely differently, and to be fair, our substitution rules were different (unlimited subs, and you could be subbed back in), so players who have never played in that environment are at risk. Also, it gave us an extreme home field advantage whenever clubs from the California coast came into town to play.
> Centralized power generation seems like one of the great successes of the 20th century.

From the point of view of large producers and investors, sure. Tesla's idea of decentralized power was viewed as pie-in-the-sky by his benefactor, JP Morgan.

I wouldn't call nuclear power a success story.
Well it was a joke, not a solid theory so take it with a grain of salt. But basically yes, it would mean that a single electron is moving around and bashing with itself (although most collisions are done with protons which have a much larger mass). If it can move back and forth in time you can have a gazillion of them at any single moment without knowing they originate from a single source. As for the speed of light, quantum entanglement suggests that the barrier is violated. If there is information exchanged in quantum entanglement, experiments have shown that this information should travel at speeds x100 the speed of light. It’s one of the dozens enigmas of quantum physics. If you have a single electron the enigma is solved.

I don't remember the source but once I've heard a hypothesis that God is an electron with intelligence. It could be the same electron Feynman was talking about :)
This is a nice app. Is there a way to allow multiple people to work together on the same whiteboard?
How is that the US' responsibility? It has nothing to do with balls at all, either.

If you think the US has any interest in exerting its economic or military power in the interest of morals and ethics then I've got a bridge to sell you.
This seems so wrong. By giving up, they're just letting the trolls win. I'd rather keep the option to read and post comments, even if that means that there is the occasional uncivil one. Heck, I'd even keep the anonymous comments on Youtube, although they are 90% crap.

There is no need to hide the comments, make them more civilized, unanonymized or something like that. Rather, what we need is media literacy - the learned ability to weigh the importance of comments correctly.

There is this thing that they call "shitstorm" over here in Germany (I'm sure it doesn't mean in English what they think it means). Basically there's some minor event, and a very vocal minority complains about it on the internet (esp. on twitter). The media jumps onto the bandwagon, it gets completely blown out of proportion, and suddenly there's an artificial public outrage. This is the exact same thing. We have to learn to ignore the vocal idiots, and filter the important from the unimportant information. This is a social skill we have to develop. The social development hasn't kept pace with the technological development.
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You are mostly correct, except for the last part. EPR denied that it was faster than light transfer, but instead thought that the information was already present in the second particle, thus implying that the theory was incomplete. This was also more exciting since it left open an avenue for further development in physics.
Someone once told me: The client know what he wants, but not what he needs. Success is discovering that before the project ends.

Great post!
I'm getting tired of repeating this every time. WordPress.com does NOT power the 20% of the internet. The open source WordPress project does. WordPress.com represent a small % of all the WordPress installations.
I can't speak to a feature to feature comparison, but heres some key features you get with counterclockwise.

Automatching parens (parenedit?), rainbow parens if you want, a built in repl, and after your repl is started for the namespace you are currently editing, auto suggest for any namespace in dependency graph. Viewing any included namespace code is simple as a double click - very helpful for learning clojure. Edit the file and after a key combo, your repl has your new function definition.

Counterclockwises workflow is pretty nice. I like it. I don't even have to go to command line to update deps, just edit project file and right click update dependencies. The only thing I use the command line for currently is lein ring server.

Eclipse has the concept of templates which you can define for other content types, but CC's editor isn't enabled to use them. I sort of missed them at first, but didn't after I realized anything I would put into a template should probably be a macro in clojure.
That's not a study of actual users, but the application of random metrics plus a bit of personal opinion (in the user friction section). It's as good or bad as the OP.

This is what I'd love to see, regardless of the results: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usab...

As far as I know, the closest thing that's publicly available are customer satisfaction surveys.
I think it's an important part of the model that there are no tips. This keeps the prices very attractive. You rarely see who brought you the package - you just find it by the door.
Pakistan quake island off Gwadar 'emits flammable gas'
Do you have sources for it being so profitable? For who? Everything I understand about events like the World Cup and Olympics is that they are massively wasteful, corrupt, publicly funded economic disasters. Is that just the Olympics?
> It pains me that the U.S. has absolutely no balls to stand up to the Middle Eastern sheikdoms.

It's not that they haven't the balls, it's that the USG doesn't care about middle eastern (or anywhere else) countries having a poor human rights record, so long as those countries support US foreign policy.

So for example, the USG has been a lot more vocal about human rights abuses in Syria and Iran (enemies of USA) than Bahrain and Saudi (allies).
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Better to let the reader make up their own opinion rather than to push your own.

'Slave' is a loaded term, it's like calling someone a 'terrorist' or a 'murderer'.
The killer feature is extensions.gnome.org

After you spent some time customizing it, I cant use any other WM that does not bring in this ease of customization.

After that, the WM gets out of your way.
It doesn't matter to me in this case. The book is relevant to the discussion and the poster is a human.

But I can certainly understand some people here may want to draw a line in the sand (to use a metaphor from the linked book's description) to prevent spam.
> what exactly are we decentralizing?

In another generation or two, people will have the ability to design and print their own circuit boards. Technology itself is becoming decentralized which will have the longterm effect of decentralizing society.

Less than 200 years ago, railroads were the height of technological achievement and the most powerful centralizing force in society, industry and government.
Do you need a better tool to bulk schedule Tweets?
I'm very productive with it, mainly because GNOME Shell has very good keyboard usability, fron launching an applications typing the win-key plus the first two letters, from switching from the same applications Windows with alt-(key above tab) etc. I almost don't use the mouse.
Sgùrr Alasdair

http://jamiegrove.tumblr.com/post/62265934579/sgurr-alasdair
That's incorrect. The word kafalah roughly translates to sponsorship. Migrant worker sponsorship and adoption have nothing to do with each other.
The Dynamics of Labor Market Polarization
I'm on 3.8 in Fedora 19 and my overall impression is it's pretty fast & clean.

Haven't had much luck getting gnome-shell-extensions running well. I got the weather one going by taking the one from the gnome site rather than the rpmforge package but system monitor, pomodoro timer and a couple of others aren't playing ball for me currently.

I have had to google how to do a bunch of different things since switching to it. I still don't know any commands except restart for the snazzy alt+f2 command overlay.

I'd most like it to add a apple key+space style search from the mac world.

Most interesting new app there is "boxes", a virtual machine / remote machine viewer / manager mashup thing. Looks quite promising to me.
Or just, you know, have your kids obey the rules. Without your daily intervention.
Sit back and grab some popcorn. This should be fun.
Side Note: You can get OS Grid data on Wikipedia. Then you can use the conversion tool without the need for Silverlight.

http://oslabs.s3.amazonaws.com/convert.html
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By request, I'll see your Bicameralism and raise you the Banach-Tarsky Paradox.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox
Physics professor here. As others have said, this is a really cute idea in physics that touches on some neat properties of the universe (like fundamentally identical particles, conservation of lepton number, and the effects of time reversal on particle properties), but:

1. It's more akin to philosophy than to science: this suggestion either has no testable consequences (or if it does, its predictions look obviously false: see below).

2. In all of our observations of the universe there seem to be many more electrons than anti-electrons, but this concept would seem to imply that the number should be exactly equal. You can try to get around that, but anything you do is a stretch.[1]

3. The formalism of quantum field theory naturally includes plenty of situations where electrons and anti-electrons form "closed loops" in time. (The classic example is a something like a photon giving rise to a virtual e-/e+ pair that immediately annihilates back into a photon, but they can get a lot more complicated.) Those closed loops would not be connected to the hypothesized "one electron" bouncing back and forth through all of time, so this idea would fail to explain why they also look identical to the rest.

So in my book, the beauty of this idea lies entirely in the fact that it could be suggested at all. It doesn't actually match reality, but it does give some striking intuition about how particle physics works.

[1] You could suggest that there is some other (unobservably distant?) region of the universe where antimatter dominates, but there's absolutely no evidence to support that suggestion. As another idea, the quote in the link suggests that "maybe the extra anti-electrons are hiding in the protons or something". But anything of the sort would seem to eliminate the whole point of saying "it's all one electron" (which always has the same properties, etc.).
Paraphrasing: "You don't know how to do something until you can write a program to do it"
Whenever I go shopping, I bring two canvas bags with me and fill them. That's all I can carry, basically. And having to fill a lot of that space with heavy detergent or bulky paper towels means I either need to go on a second shopping trip (which I don't want to do), or decide what things I'm /not/ getting that week.

So sure, some people might end up weaker, but I'm still lugging some heavy bags home with me each week.
I'm starting to see more and more projects written in Go.
If you can afford to own and fly a light plane, you can afford a rental car or an "airport car" you keep at your usual destinations. The scope of the problem this solves is vanishingly narrow.
How to grow a nose in your forehead
You're absolutely correct -- "scare quotes" are an element of American English, not British English. In this context, they're simply indicative of the fact that somebody (not the paper) has called these workers "slaves".

Two countries divided by a common language, as they say. When I moved to the UK from America, this was admittedly one of the more confusing points of differentiation for me.
This is Linux, though. Even if a timer isn't built in, it will be trivial to install. You could probably use something already in the apt-get repositories.
Finding and relocating all the tortoises and keeping an eye out for missed ones while the construction was going on is expensive but not relative to the total project cost.

Source: My uncle does this work and was on this project.
Back on topic with physics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time#Overview
No, not at all. I am saying the CONCEPT sucks. It's not really a technology issue, since to overcome it we would need to be at like literally jack-in-to-the-brain, bypassing the optic nerve levels of tech. At which point we will probably have something better to do than play Half Life 3D.
Do you think they'd be paid in full at the end of their period? From the pattern of treatment described in the article, I'd expect it's common for them to be left unpaid or underpaid at the close.
Have you seen the ads purchased by Lumosity on cnn.com

This indicates to me there might be a little too much loose money floating around.
Been there, done that.

Key binding continuity issues are still a problem for most games.
They have one name on the list that is noted as (Gawker Media). This should be interesting to watch. Grabs some popcorn

Part of me thinks this is more about getting their fees than spying on anyone. Uncle Sam never misses a dime.
Grooveshark does it as well.

http://developers.grooveshark.com/docs/public_api/v3/

However it depends on a shared secret for generating/verifying signatures, and some companies (cough Stripe cough) have yet to implement that. As someone else has already mentioned, thankfully each webhook request from Stripe has an ID in it so you can query their API for verifying a webhook's authenticity.
To add further: there is only one XBOne hw configuration, there is only one PS4 hw configuration, there is only one WiiU hw configuration. Does Valve think it knows better?
I'd take it from a different angle - those worried about "fidelity" that don't play instruments and have never worked on a studio recording simply have no idea what they're talking about. They latch on to numbers because numbers are easy to understand, and bigger == better, right?

After engineering/producing a bunch of albums, one thing I can say for sure is that a good-sounding album is totally fake relative to the actual, natural sounds of the instruments involved. That's fine, because it sounds good. An accurate recording doesn't sound good. It's too loud or too quiet (often in the same passage), lacks a sense of space, and lacks impact.
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Motorbike helmet with navigation
I've found that to be amazing. Given the differences between a Great Dane and a Chihuahua¹, how do dogs identify them as being another dog at a distance? They're vastly different sizes, they have different ear shapes, nose/face shapes, tail shapes, gait, and coat.

¹ There's argument that they're now different species, since they can no longer successfully interbreed -- for purely mechanical reasons.
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Part Feynman's idea is that that the electron when travelling backwards through the slicing plane (current moment) become positive electrons that are travelling backwards in time. This then leads people to ask, where are all the positive electrons?

I propose that the electron when going 'backwards' across the reality projection/slicing plane are not actually travelling in time and producing 'negative' electrons with a positive charge, but are actually the 'electrons' we observe with opposite spin. This brings us back to a single electron on a twisted path with a single spin but giving us observations showing multiple electrons with 2 spins.

Paradox again resolved ;-)
Ask HN: When will clipboard support finally come to browsers?
I'm working on a project where automatic copy & paste would come in very handy. A simple Clipboard API with Clipboard.set and Clipboard.get would be awesome - but browser simply don't support it yet - not even Webkit!

I read a lot about security concerns, but seriously, we are already able to record the microphone and webcam using JavaScript with the user's approval. Why isn't there any way to do the same for the clipboard?

Thanks in advance for your answers :)
Thanks! I had found a link to just the video, getting the context is much more interesting.
It will take some time for distributions to package the latest release. Arch Linux typically has the new release in a month or so.
Would you consider passing it on to someone else, with a view to getting hands off royalties for a time. Or would you just want to sell it and have it clear cut?
I use cinnamon, never tried wayland though, Gnome 3.10 looks great I'm giving it a try, I hope all the annoying things are gone now.
In 2003, lecturers and students from the University of Plymouth MediaLab Arts course used a £2,000 grant from the Arts Council to study the literary output of real monkeys. They left a computer keyboard in the enclosure of six Celebes Crested Macaques in Paignton Zoo in Devon in England for a month, with a radio link to broadcast the results on a website.

Not only did the monkeys produce nothing but five pages consisting largely of the letter S, the lead male began by bashing the keyboard with a stone, and the monkeys continued by urinating and defecating on it.