skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The proper response if a potential employer wants to see a private profile is something like, "Oh of course, I imagine you want to verify my religion, you don't want any of those dirty (jews|christians|muslims) in here." And then you leave.
I have to move back to California
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The headline is designed to sound like a causation was established, when in fact the research can only point to a correlation.

People who are more sedentary probably just have higher incomes and therefore avoid other health pitfalls.

Why can't the MSM learn a bit of statistics?
http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/ What caught my attention was the fact that you (the potential employer) get a full refund if you're not satisfied with the responses you receive. Also jobs posted here apparently show up on JoelOnSoftware boards too.
I wonder how much background checking the feds did on No. 6 before they hired him to be the warden of Alcatraz.

(an absolutely beautiful casting decision)
Can We Really Stop Identity Theft?
Don’t trust any single person with your credit and always keep it under your sight. Bear in mind, that the advanced technology has made it achievable for credit card readers to gain all your credit card related information with just one swipe.
The article makes some strong claims about the statistical validity of their results. However, 1,000,000 observations is not always better than 3,000 observations. If the data are not representative, then a Gallup poll (which is) of a order of magnitude smaller sample is much more powerful.
They are used fairly often in geometry and analysis. Other times should be used but are not (I assume due to authors who don't know much latex).

Regardless, I'm drooling over this. If only you didn't need to use MS word to make it work...
The only way to run an experiment that could determine optimal BMI would be to lock up groups of randomly selected people in a jail-style environment for decades, where their diet could be accurately controlled. In other words, we'll never know the answer to this question for humans, despite what this article claims.

We've done these experiments in animals and those experiments suggest an extreme starvation diet leads to the longest lifespan.
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I'm not so happy that NSN sold lawful interception gear to Iran, but I don't think lawful interception should exist at all in any country. Every government that spies on it's citizens is an 'oppressive regime' in my opinion.

If law enforcement is an acceptable excuse for such surveillance in the US then why not in Iran as well?
"On the whole, the summary seems to be "some people tried to use public domain work and other people complained but they shouldn't have.""

Not quite. The Google book search stuff, for example, is problematic: digitizing a public-domain book, or printing a new copy and slapping a binding on it, generally isn't sufficient to grant you a copyright in the resulting work, since there is no original work involved in doing so. As a result, publishers who claim copyright in public domain works after having done nothing other than digitize or otherwise republish are making false claims regarding the copyright status of those works.

I'd personally be interested to know whether the heirs of the original rightsholder could -- even after copyright expires -- bring a suit for slander of title over this sort of behavior.
I am having serious problems with the big "find recipe" button. I entered a goal of "Energy" and clicked the button, and nothing happened. I tried selecting more options from the dropdown, and the button started moving around the screen. Then the CSS started looking strange for div id "recipe-header". This is in FF 3.0.11

I like the layout, and how the recipes are presented though. If the sorting worked for me I could give a better review.
All of the IPCC reports are available online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Fourth_Assessment_Report#E...
Recent scenes from the ISS
Early drafts of great work are encouraging
As a scientist in a previous life, I love Michael Crichton's idea that there should be strict separation between the people that collect the data and the people that analyze & interpret the data for politically charged areas of science. Both would operate from independent institutes, funded by all stakeholders. If you let me collect and analyze my own data, I am open to all sorts of influence depending on who is funding my work, peer pressure, etc. Once the data has been collected, then the analysis portion could even be split tested, with two independent groups funded to do the analysis independently on exactly the same data set, and then we can compare truly independent conclusions.

The other problem that pervades climate change is the shockingly bad statistical analysis. At the least, there should be a separate statistical institute that can put its stamp of approval on the statistical parts of the results. With such limited historical climate data older than a very recent period, and projections made far into the future, we must ensure that only the very best statistical analyses make it into the public awareness. Alas, climate researchers are often not at the leading edge of statistics.
It's a bit hard to tell from the image shown, but contrary to the claim in the article, it doesn't look like it would be difficult at all to steal the front wheel of the bike.
When it becomes a public issue, such as a teacher or CEO with naughty pictures, then it reflects real badly on the organization. Facebook and other sites become a public record of you and your activities.

One case that might not have happened is the Australian worker who called in sick, then wrote on Facebook that they're still trashed:

http://www.hrblunders.com/was-facebook-sick-day-star-framed/

Swiss worker says: I can't come to work because I'm too sick to use a computer, then logs into Facebook. Result: fired.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090428/1140394681.shtml
How do you judge science as an outsider? You judge the correctness of the predictions made.

How has global warming fared on the accuracy front? Terribly. We were promised monotonically rising global temperatures for the next hundred years, and instead, they plateaued, then dropped, only ten years into the predictions.

As an outsider, the rest hardly matters. Why the predictions were wrong is something for the scientists to go work out. Explaining away the wrongness with "whys" doesn't change the wrongness, it only explains it.

If you think I'm wrong, show me the prediction from 2000 or so that actually matches what happened to the real climate. Show me the error bars that the global temperature is still within. (Most global warming graphs don't even have error bars, which itself is pretty telling.) As far as I know, you can't.

Explaining that failure doesn't change the fact of failure. If the last ten years is "mere weather", then the error bars should have reflected that.

That is how you judge science as an outsider. You may not understand materials science, but the bridges the materials scientists help build behave as they predict (mostly). You may not understand organic chemistry, but plastics behave as such people predict. You may not understand political science, but the real world only sort of acts as they predict, so their science is less reliable.

You may not understand climate science, but their predictions completely fail to come to pass. Fairly routinely, too. Make your conclusions about the validity of their science based on that. You don't have to be a climate scientist to do that. (As it happens, it is the same standard they should be using themselves, and the field's apparent refusal to do so is also very telling.)

(Where no predictions can be made, there is no science. Sometimes that's just the way it is; economics isn't going to be a very real science anytime soon. There's nothing wrong with that, there's only something wrong with according it the belief levels in the predictions made by the field that should be reserved for real science.)
I agree that your premise is important to consider, but I come to the opposite conclusion. I think that if you have the power to push back against unethical practices (because you have the good fortune to have other options available) then it's your moral responsibility to push back, since others are unable to do so.
Agreed, a transcript would be helpful. Dark stages and monotone shouting don't make for an effective presentation.
Google Starts Welcoming New Users to Voice Service
Google’s universal voice mail box is opening up to the masses. In March, the company announced Google Voice, a service aimed at simplifying the way people manage their phone calls, voice mail and text messages.
Wow, it's the outsourcing version of the urban legend where you get something of extraordinary quality at a low price from a foreign land, only to discover...

http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/mexicanpet.asp

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/cactus.asp

http://www.snopes.com/critters/snakes/coat.asp

As for the license incompatibility, it's kinda hard to see the game console manufacturers licensing anyone to create a derived work from their SDKs under the GPL. That's a natural consequence of their well-known business model where they use their intellectual property rights to require licenses to develop for their console. As it is, Atari violated both the GPL and Nintendo's license, so there can't necessarily be the release-the-code-and-all-is-well ending you would want here.
I would think that even in SF or NY you could squeeze more out of that kind of money

Good luck.

studio apartment, best deal in the city: $1000
1 burrito per day (or equivalent) $150
1 coffee per day $45
2 beers per week $30
health insurance $250
muni pass $45
cell phone $70
cable modem $50
stuff like soap toilet paper, laundry $30
github $7
hosted slice $40
subtotal $1717

Note that in SF or NY renting a room in an apartment is often more than $1000. Renting your own studio is usually at LEAST $1300. I have a special situation, I don't have to pay utilities. Everywhere else you will have to pay utilities on top of rent.

NYC will cost at least 30% more than this.

It's very easy to spend $2000 living a "cheap" lifestyle.
I don't know what I'd cut out here. Aside from coffee and the beer, I don't really do anything a normal adult single male would do. That budget contains no dates, no movies, no restaurants, no books from the book store, etc. If I do any of those things a couple times a month I'm hitting $2K.

Moving to the east bay doesn't save much money unless you move far, far away. The nearby nice parts are not cheaper, the nearby bad parts are sketchy, and the far away parts require a car or else hours on the bus.
There's only one reason JSON was remotely feasible as a "standard" -- there were no decisions to be made, no arguments over syntax to be had.

Every blog post advocating for petty changes to JSON completely misses the point.
Whether or not the data is statistically valid across the general populace may or may not be relevant to people who are concerned with the sample that is represented.
How McDonald's conquered France
On the contrary - you are now actively aware of and can manage your online "persona." (I do this to an extent, but I'm not very prolific). I think too many people think: "I'm going to post this on the Internet and then hide it." Sorry, folks, if it's on the Internet there's a pretty good chance you won't be able to control it.
It would be, but it would also be easy to lock the front wheel to the arc itself.
(I assume he was thinking tablet input => MS TabletPC)
Or NYT opinion page, or HuffPost, etc.
If you want the backend twitter/rss code I'll give that away right now: http://dpaste.com/hold/60154/

Be forewarned: this was my first python/django project.
Those categorizations are an interesting way to search through recipes - I like it.

For what it's worth:

I think the UI to the right and the UI at the top of the recipe pages is really busy and not all that intuitive. (things like print / save / search) The options seem crammed together, and I spent a good chunk of time trying to figure out what my options were rather than reading the content.

If you have a busy page I think you might be better off using text than large icons.
Either this has a cutoff of a few weeks (likely, since I've seen higher-rated comments than the ones here), or HN suffers from insane inflation.
But in all seriousness, if we ever perfect human cloning, we could really use about 50 clones of Jefferson to send to troublespots like China, North Korea and Iran.
This is a geo-politically complex situation. Assume this program was wildly successful. All of a sudden Saudi Arabia is destitute; Venezuela is broke; Russia is impoverished; Mexico is crippled; Nigeria is even poorer than it is now. Has the overall geopolitical environment gotten any better? Or do you now just have a bunch of very unstable countries, some of whom have WMDs?
Try craigslist. I live in a private bedroom in a 3 bdrm apartment in Park Slope, 2 subway stops from Manhattan. I pay $900/month. I have a friend in Sunset Park (brooklyn) that pays around $700/month for a private studio apartment. That's about 30-40 minutes by subway to manhattan.
... Because I've injured myself. I cannot practice kung fu for 6 weeks. I need something to do in that time.

Taking over your project sounds a lot more productive for both myself and future customers than just sitting around playing MMORPGs.

That, and I'm the only person so far who answered your direct question of, "Why you should get the project."

:)
It isn't space efficient, but I think their business plan is based on perception of efficiency. You can see that by the way they placed the arc over the tree, which gives the illusion of having more sidewalk space.

What they haven't counted on is that people will lock their bikes to anything they can, and in any way possible. People will end up locking directly to the arc itself which will case insertion and removal of a bike on the arc to be problematic. This is because the front wheel needs to ride in the groove of the arc, and a lock will obstruct it.

I see this product as something that non-bike people in the city offices will love because it gives the feeling that they are doing something to encourage bike use. The reality is that these racks are far more expensive than a standard inverted U, offer much less flexibility, and are less space efficient.
Counterintuitively, if the sample is truly randomly distributed, you gain very little additional information as you go beyond 300 samples. This is why every political poll has an error margin of + or - 3%.
I appreciate you mentioning the issue of experiment design in your reply. I enjoy posting in HN comments a link to Peter Norvig's article about that issue

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

which mentions some of the trade-offs involved in different forms of study designs.

The history of the prescribed drug Rimonabant (Acomplia)

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

illustrates some of the problems with using animal studies to establish safety of interventions for human beings. The animal studies have to be done, and they are generally very helpful, but some aspects of human behavior are sufficiently complicated and not analogous to animal behavior that what looks safe and effective for animals turns out not to be beneficial for human beings.
There are tons of sublets for that price on craig's list.
Maybe put up an ad saying you are looking for a space, it worked for me.
Major League Baseball's outdated, misleading offset camera angle
The claim it makes is this:

And a word about statistical validity: the best questions on OkCupid have been answered over a million times. Therefore we have unique insights into the American mindset

Yeah, so OKCupid users aren't representative of the average American, but somehow I don't think a post titled "Rape Fantasies and Hygiene By State" is meant to be a serious exercise in statistics.
Don't. Unless you are a gay guy, or a girl. Your numbers are against you. (a lot of guys and few girls), especially in the Bay Area. That green thing is probably a lot of guys skewing that result.

From a personal anecdote evidence, I have had much better luck in the East Coast for casual stuff.
I just realized another problem with this design. As any bike person will know; many bike racks are littered with abandoned bikes that are just locked up. For a traditional inverted U or bike rack this isn't a major problem because it is usually possible to find a good way to still lock your bike up. When an abandoned bike is left on one of these racks it will consume even more room, and people will be forced to lock their bikes up in an even more annoying way.

I really don't like this product. (yes, I am a semi-fanatical bike person)
The importance of stupidity
It's the latter. A comment with 30 points, say, a year ago would have been very unusual, but now that's a pretty typical score for the highest-rated comment of any link in the current top 10.

Unfortunately, this seems to coincide with HN following the same trajectory as early Reddit, and that makes me sad.
You're silly. I love you.
The Bay Area is hands down the worst place I have ever lived for dating.
'My favorite line is "Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers"'

Wow. That's inane. Yes, 'exceptional' is a fine goal, but there are many people doing pretty good by being pretty good.

Godin's books have struck me as little more than collections of pithy but ill-supported aphorisms, where the reader brings more to the book than is actually there. People find what they want to find, to "prove" what they want to believe.

(I'm sure there's some value in that, though by no means exceptional.)
I personally disklike him because in his speeches (like the TED one) he seemed to make a lot of strawman arguments - like dwelling on "heat deaths being a non-issue" when really I don't think it ever was an issue.
Surely any half-decent government should be able to find some scientists it can trust? I don't think this issue should be decided by "number of believers" vs "number of non-believers".
Well said; I work at Wacom, and I don't think I could have explained it better. :)

Powering the pen does consume some energy, but I believe the panels used for TabletPCs can actually be classified as "Low-Power" USB devices, so the drain isn't nearly as much as, say, the hard drive. I'm not sure how efficient the Windows Ink code is, but our driver, which hasn't taken extreme pains to be performant, peaks at about 3% of a 1GHz CPU when the pen is in range.
Thanks for the great Norvig link
Ask HN: How to deal with hagglers w/ future opportunities?
I've noticed almost every potential client, when they are considering buying our product or paying for some services, they always say things like, "This is our entry point." or "I see lots of potential later." "I know lots of people in this industry." They are trying to build excitement, but I've learned these claims almost never pan out.

Have you noticed this in your business? Is this something all customers do -- like a negotiating strategy? Is it a warning sign that I should walk away? Any suggestions on how to deal with this type of haggling?
Something like 95% of TabletPC's use a Wacom panel for the pen input, and those panels have similar characteristics to the Wacom consumer tablets and Cintiqs.
What if the same person has posted HN comments about Obama the Magic Negro? I really don't want to know what they think and why in the context of hiring them.

Although this hasn't come up when I've been on hiring committees, I would want to avoid hiring people who are unusually racist; it's likely to make it hard for them to work with their co-workers down the line, and if they end up making hiring decisions, it might result in racist hiring decisions.

(I say "unusually racist" because people who are completely non-racist are pretty rare, at least in the US. I wouldn't want to be Diogenes the Hiring Manager.)
Silly fashionable people. They're so fashionable. The kid was cool tho.
That did it, thanks a lot!

This is going to be really useful, especially being able to see the stored data right in the DOM tree.
> In this sense the "veil of ignorance" is also useful as we should select those things that we would wish existed in society if we did not know our position (i.e. we would probably tend to maximise the overall quality of society, and raise the minimum level).

I've noticed that folks who make that argument actually don't care about raising the minimum level but about minimizing the range. For example, they think that being poor in the US is bad because of the rich, but look at what the poor in the US have.
ignore it, unless you have a special relationship of some sort or are trying to (and can afford to) build one. the bottom line is what is on the table, in the contract today.

knowing someone who knows people won't buy you ramen.
From their perspective, hiding stuff like this in large appropriation bills is a feature, not a bug. Sadly.
How do you get users' tweets? If you're using the normal API, you're going to run into rate limits soon and even if you're using the streaming API, there could be some troubles.
> The pension funds were, essentially, raided.

Not at all. They were unsatisfiable promises.

> If that were prevented (that dreaded word, regulation)

I'll believe in regulation when public employee pensions are less of a disaster than private ones.

> But it does not of itself discredit the concept of pensions.

In theory there's no difference between theory and practice....

> But, with regard to the topic of risk, this is a lot of individual risk.

You can't eliminate risk. You can merely move it around.
no, i've had some comments in the past that "should" be on that list that aren't.

in fact, i see some comments in my thread history that should be on this list that aren't.

edit: i don't see anything older than 9 days. maybe a 10 day or 2 week maximum?
Ask HN:  Honesty vs simplicity:  how honest should you be to your users?
There is often a tradeoff between honesty and simplicity.

For example, in an iPhone puzzle app, you might tell the user that you are sending their score to the server.

But maybe you are doing more: the server may not trust the app and require a solution -- not just the score.

Telling the user that you are sending the solution to the server is also misleading, as the server may not store the solution (other than temporarily in a log perhaps) -- but use it only to check the score.

Explaining all this to the user is probably too much.

So what would you do in a situation like this?

Just say something that is close to the truth that is easy to understand?
"Insanely great" is something that Steve Jobs used to say. It became a Mac ad campaign [1] and a book was written with that title [2]; I haven't read it.

[1] http://robert.accettura.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/20090...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Insanely-Great-Macintosh-Computer-Ever...
and a book

I think this phrase is a little piece of computing history. I, for one, would like to see it make a return. I think it implies a product with a powerful emotional connection to its users. Shooting for insanely great is something that everyone should do with their products.
I've had mostly the same experience. I can type much faster than I can write, so notetaking isn't much of a killer app.

However, the ability to add diagrams and sketches to my notes is REALLY nice. Things like this are really compelling: http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/archives/cat_sketchnotes.htm... But the form factor and responsiveness aren't anywhere near a Moleskine.