skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ah, the ideal of perfect labour mobility. Even if we did remove the legal and economic restrictions, we still can't achieve perfect labour mobility without breaking down a person's social ties to family, friends and community. Although some neoliberals have put a lot of effort into doing so.

I wasn't arguing for the ideal of labour mobility. I was pointing out that in its absence, the reality of almost unrestrained job mobility creates a huge disparity between employers and employees.

>In this regard at least, the globalisation of manufacturing is a force for good.

Is it? How? The jobs are still heading to the cheapest economies and they are the cheapest economies because they provide the least amount of workers rights/environmental protections etc.

They may run out of countries to move to eventually, but it's at least equally likely that those countries where wages/conditions had risen when demand was high will have those improved wages/conditions slashed again once the demand has moved elsewhere and the jobs will simply rotate between whichever of these economies is able to offer the least protected, worst paid and move malliable workforce at any give time.
Yeah 10,000 hours is not a lot of time. I got my first computer in 1982. If you ignore all the time I spent as a hobbyist learning BASIC, Assembly, C, etc and only count my professional work time then I am still way over 40,000 hours of focused and methodical practice in IT.
Isn't it sexist of you to suggest that:

- women are so fragile and anxious that they need someone to hold their hand through the exercises, or

- women don't have the guts to persist through studying a difficult subject?

I certainly don't believe this to be true.

If the same, fair, treatment produces different outcomes, why does that make the treatment wrong?
CoreOS images now on Brightbox Cloud. Build a CoreOS cluster in 5 minutes.
Been meaning to play with CoreOS as a next step on from just using docker. Hadn't yet gotten around to it, this will make giving it a test run so much easier when I get to it. Awesomesauce.
The backups stored on iCloud are encrypted with your Apple ID password.
Hi,
We are a team of experts which enabled 3 startups achieve seed round funding in last 3 years. All the products were introduced as ideas to begin with.

We were about to begin developing our own web app around online dating, and did invest quite lot of time into feature analysis and wireframing initial screens.

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Well, I live in Brazil, you never went astray after 9/11, you just became more obvious in your obviously oppressive ways against anyone that stands in the way of profit.

Everything that happened so far was very predictable...

By the way, when 9/11 happened, although obviously people were upset with the amount of life loss, many people here also became very happy because finally someone had the balls to drive the point home on US that they cannot keep screwing around and expect no punishment.

When the US started to irritate lots of countries because of Snowden, many people here were wishing the offended countries were strong enough to actually hit back (instead of just complaining on the UN assembly and whatnot)
That would be pretty sloppy.. which makes me think it is intentional. In the end, I guess there's no difference.
But they could update firmware. Must be more serious.
I also don't see speed issues in VS 2012, even with solutions that contain 100+ projects.
One Time Pad Contest
The point is that UAC will (hopefully) prevent installing untrusted code in the first place, there by preventing those types of attacks. Unfortunately, you have to either trust that the user knows what programs are good, or go down the dark road that leads to things like an app store.
If you encrypt a single character, you can also decrypt that single character. What would that gain you?

Also, what does the salt have to do with the encryption?
Does it flush the toxins if you take sleeping pills?
I think of it as the C of scripting languages. You have to roll a lot of your own stuff.
And where is it implying that you can stop backing up after the replacement? Are you so dense or literal-minded that you need everything spelling out for you? "do not dry your pets in this microwave".
Suggestions for a simple game design
Hello! I'm a 4th year grad student in IT-MIS and for my final year project I need to develop a simple game for disabled children that they could play using a smart board in their school. I am not a strong programmer and only know the basics of C#. I'd really appreciate help in terms of what software I could learn within a few months to develop a simple game without interactive graphics. Any other advice would do too. Thanks!
Am I the only one with a confused and blown mind why they refuse to offer a slot for MicroSD and insist on hard wired internal memory?
The connection I needed to found my software company (not a big company, but it's provided for me (and now my family) for 14 years) came from e-mailing with the author of a hybrid math / programming book about bugs in his published code.

And in the last five years I started working on the Perl 6 project in my spare time. I've made at least a dozen connections in the Perl community that way, and getting started with it didn't involve anything more than getting on the IRC channel and participating. That also found me a group of peers who have a lot to teach me about programming. Not to mention I get the chance to discuss language design and implementation issues with Larry Wall on a regular basis.

What I'm trying to say is the Internet and open source software make it easier to make connections with people doing interesting work than it has ever been in the history of mankind. If you're just looking to make connections in the physical area around where you live, you're really missing out.
Yep this is nicely done!

We also use a similar block (or widgets) approach for our editor, and it works really well for mixing all kinds of content in one editor.

Storing them as JSON objects with client-side classes that know how to render them also makes it really easy to add or extend the widgets later on.
The law.

Common carriers are required to to have "tappable" systems if the system is deemed to replace phone conversations.
Your password can be reset and you don't lose your backups so either Apple has your password in cleartext (so the encrypted backups can be viewed freely) or they have full access.
Google wants you to store your files (music, documents, pictures) online instead of in a local card.
Google wants to push the idea that local storage is just a cache for the cloud. There's no need for extra storage. Also see the chromebook example.
More or less...

Unless you make some sort of lucky viral, now what you need is massive resources for marketing... as I continue with my startup this become more and more obvious, there is no decent success in the game industry without massive marketing, from AAA (Activision expends on its main games around 250 million in marketing budget only), to Indie (many small successful indie games had big marketing budgets, or had others with those budgets doing the marketing for them, successful indies either are close friends of other successful ones or are rich or are close to the media industry, for example was journalist or worked for CMP Media)
Is it still news that Anderson Cooper was concurrently CIA/CNN. Is that any different?
How about the part where it says:

>> until you receive a replacement drive
> High-frequency trading replaced a whole profession in the financial sectors.

But it also created one. Someone has to both conceive and write each algo. This looks like the old profession, except with different people because Excel is being replaced by C++.
until you receive a replacement drive

Uh, there? Basic reading comprehension is not literal-mindedness.
Because the original intention for lua was as a simple extension language for non-professional programmers[1]

[1]: http://www.lua.org/history.html
In the "innovative resume" department, check out this one from a few years ago:

http://zef.so/employable/
Not the next section, but a standard browser behaviour of scroll-down-a-tad on any page, shift+space as well.
Wow this sounds like my college experience. A in ochem, F in HR
Yeah, you are of course right...

(I disapprove though)
"...in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war."
Unless the buggy firmware mismanaged writes and made the SSD bits worn out.
Ladies and gentlemen, Chairman of the Pedantic Society. 'Resume' is acceptable spelling [1], or 'CV' as it's correctly called.

[1] http://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=resume
2014 Audi A6 TDI Selected as Green Car of the Year Finalist
The 2014 Audi A6 TDI® clean diesel sedan has been selected as a finalist for the Green Car Journal 2014 Green Car of the Year® award. As a finalist, the Audi A6 TDI will be honored as Green Car Journal’s “Top 5 Green Cars for 2014” and earn the magazine’s “Green Car Product of Excellence”
The review of Amanda Ripley's new book Smartest Kids in the World by Annie Murphy Paul in the New York Times[1] is a good reality check on the review from The Economist kindly posted here. The book is in hot demand in my county library system, so my request for the book hasn't been filled yet. The other excerpts from the book I have seen online have been very good.

I have lived overseas and observed the effect of another school system, and indeed education reform is the issue that drew me to participate here on Hacker News,[2] so I am always interested in discussing education policy here. Based on the different country I have observed, I think the book's account is largely correct. Americans underestimate how much young people can learn. School programs in the United States, according to federal sample surveys, are so underchallenging that many school pupils, not just the "gifted" pupils, find school too easy and boring.[3] Mathematics lessons in the United States are especially notorious for emphasizing the mechanical aspects of calculation--thus expecting students to bring electronic calculators to class--and underemphasizing the thinking involved in mathematical problem-solving.[4]

Let's discuss what makes sense in education policy on the basis of facts from more than one place. It's significant that we are discussing education policy around the world here in English, as very few Americans could discuss education policy in Korean, Polish, or Finnish, the languages of the countries profiled in the new book. (I could discuss education policy in Chinese, the language I learned as a second language, but that is not the usual experience of Americans.) The new book's encouragement to do that is a good contribution to better education policy.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/books/review/amanda-ripley...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4728123

[3] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-07-...

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z_Personal/G...

[4] http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Resources/articles.php?pa...
Sell your ignorance, not your expertise
DVD encryption combined with anticircumvention laws mean DVD players that can skip no-skip content or play out-of-region DVDs aren't sold to mainstream consumers.

Without anticircumvention laws, there would be no incentive to use encryption. Such laws have nothing to do with piracy; they're about maximizing revenue from paying customers.
Are you into developing mobile games? You can win $100,000.
Not always -- my main use of RDP is to remotely access the primary session on my workstation. Microsoft also provides "Windows Remote Assistance" which is a mechanism for generating a code that you send to someone else, allowing them to connect to and view (and optionally control) your primary session while you're still using it.
I suppose it is naive to believe that scientific papers should not be published until they are peer reviewed and more importantly, their results duplicated.

If this is impractical there should be separate sections in journals for non-replicated and replicated results or perhaps there needs to be separate tiers, with something like the "Gold Tier" only containing papers that have had their results replicated multiple times in multiple countries.

Probably wishful thinking, but it seems clear, something needs to change.
It's a nice looking phone but the excitement about the Nexus range seems disproportionate with the sales figures for them. The total sales figures for the Nexus 4 were on a par with the monthly figures for the Galaxy S4.

Does anyone know if this is down to a lack of demand or is the supply constrained in some way? Curious as to the desire for vanilla Android that's often talked about but doesn't seem to be a big thing for the average consumer.
I'd hire you in a heartbeat.
...made you his bitch.
Rhombic dodecahedron exploding into its first stellation in pure CSS
Cute, and very impressive. But I cringe whenever I see a resumé where someone rates each of their skills on a scale. We're all familiar with the idea that true masters are generally the first to admit that they have a lot more to learn.
Amazing. I was only looking at character/animation ... and then read your resume backwards :P
RVM 2.0: Convert 20,000 lines of shell script into Ruby [Fundraiser]
Amazing quote:

"The barriers are self-imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don’t need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers."

So inspirational.
So long as LTE is included in the UK models this time, I can see that being a big selling point as 4G is starting to slowly be rolled out here.
Second Fiverr. Some of these guys/girls have impressive show reels!
Thanks for pointing that out, so I can specify more on the topic. It's exactly why I'm astounded as everything back in 1998 looked like going into worse and ever since, I only hear how the level of education goes lower and lower (exact science especially; math and physics).
I cannot give you specific sources as I find it from time to time while listening to podcasts about popular-science and technology where highly skilled and respected professors complain sometimes about current education level and the lack of plan for the future.
Why wouldn't I? If I need to refer to a particular work, I would have to use my arrow key scroll for 20 seconds to find that. So every time when I need a reference from his resume, I had to go through the trouble. It is pretty, but not a resume I want to read.

As a programmer how about me drawing a state diagram as an interactive resume? I have to follow a decision path and it's damn time consuming.

I think part of his resume is broken in Firefox too.
What's he like?
I keep two backups, one onsite through Time Machine, one offsite using BackBlaze. After initial set up the maintenance time on them is about 2 minutes a month to check they've been running properly, total cost is a cheap external drive and $5 a month.

Not backing up in 2013 is just irresponsible.
As someone who is in the process of trying to get my sitcom to air this was a fascinating read. Thanks for posting.
Seems like a pretty simple case of having a good product being necessary but not sufficient condition for success.

iPhones and Samsung phones are everywhere. Nexus phones are practically invisible. People have to actually know the phone exists to consider it.
Leakiest phone release in modern history :P
It's true. Most animals with good night vision have blurry day vision.

One way you test it is by having one card with stripes and another card that is grey, each over a different button, and training the animal to press the button with the striped card to get a reward.

Then you just keep making the stripes narrower and narrower, until it can't tell the difference between the grey card and the stripes, and starts guessing.
The future of the web and being cool: .CO’s CEO talks the power of domains
It seems this is a hardware problem so, there is a risk of you being affected, if you bought your MBA "between June 2012 through June 2013".

Do you have OS X available? It says there is a software upgrade that checks for broken SSD's.
No SD, no need for FAT so no patents
Bingo. I've regularly worked with 15+ project solutions, and never noticed much hanging. Read through this guy's entire comment wondering what he was talking about until I got to that part:

> Also, VS would block for me a lot, but that was probably due using too many plugins.

Yeah, that's where your problem is. I'd put good money on ReSharper being the problem, as it's slowed me down in the past. Uninstalled it and never had another problem. The only plugin I have now is VsVim (which I highly recommend for those who'd like vim bindings.)
E-commerce Booking and Reservation
Overpaid Syndrome
I'm told that Google asks employees to rate their technology skills on a scale of 1-10. Guido van Rossum puts his Python skills at a 7.
I used this block idea in a CMS I once wrote but basically none of our clients got it and therefore they didn't like it. In the end I rewrote it to the normal way.
Is it the case that Mac OS default security setting would prevent an unsigned app like this from running?
Maybe try: lspci -v
Hmmm... This kind of editing is great for trivial examples or when inputting text through tablet/phone and it beats WYSIWYG editors hands down, but for any serious work I still prefer WYMeditor: http://www.wymeditor.org/ (don't be fooled by apparent inactivity - they just don't update the page very often).
Yes, the book described in this Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Unive...

(which I read years ago) makes a case for a language-universal gradation of color terms in the spectrum of visible light, with some languages having few of the terms, and some languages having more, and some languages having quite a few. (In the languages I know best, English has more color terms than Chinese, but Russian has more than English.)
I would like to see all forms of transportation automated as long as it is proven safe. Trains have to be one of the easiest to automate since it runs on a track. If Google can automate a car which needs to avoid potholes, idiot drivers, construction, snow, rain, etc, I think we should be able to automate trains.
From China, with love.
Paste the URL into Google. It seems that if your referrer is Google, no paywall for you.
just release it already!!!
I was in a dev shop for the last 6 years -- we had everything from no degree to PhD's. Eurpoeans, Eurasians, Indians, Caribbean and Americans. 20-30% women, and from 23 to 45 years old.

I know a lot of places that look like this.

I have no doubt the "bro culture" exists, but I think its prevalence is

1. In older (employee age wise) shops where, in those age groups, women simply hadn't been studying CS.
2. in very young startup environments where a team is likely to be a group of friends, vs. an externally sourced, interviewed workforce.

I don't think that the demographics of SV / SF are necessarily demonstrative of the industry as a whole.
Smart Search
What post are you replying to?
It says the update will check to see if you're affected (need a replacement) and just update the firmware if not. Mine seemed to update the firmware without issue...

Good job I was planning on replacing it with a 3rd party bigger drive as soon as I can save up (turns out 128GB was never going to be enough...)
SSD's are not there yet, if you ask me. I've been running on a custom SSD on my Mac mini, with restarts required once daily after crashing (mostly due to chrome). A dozen friends of mine also had a buggy experience with SSDs. They are super fast, I mean. But not so reliable at this point in time.

Will I go back to a HDD? Probably not. HDD is really good for backing up stuff, but for speed, SSD's are unmatched. There's no icon-bouncing each time I click on an app in the bottom menu of my mac. Even a restart a day is totally worth it for me :D (Just kidding, don't fucking downvote me)
I use a language has no numbers every day (Bash).
It's hard to maintain a version of what he did with the distraction. A recruiter would have to put 3x more time into this. Scroll, stop, take time to read the font and try to make sense of the table.

That's a lot of mental activity. Whereas a quick traditional resume gives information in text and is easier to spot. Then if recruiter wants to see the profilo, say his github personal page, sure, a link.
How about physical trust creation protocol? Something like bumping phones to create key pairs and exchanging them via bluetooth. That might work fine in theory.
I think this may have happened to my MacBook Air 62 GB (Summer 2012). One day I booted up and nothing happened, just had a blank screen that never went away. I tried to use the internet restore and it couldn't find a drive. I then USB booted to Ubuntu and looked for the drive, but no drives were there.

Does this sound like the drive failure they're talking about? It happened a month ago and I haven't touched it since. I obviously can't run the firmware test they suggest, because my drive has already seemingly failed.
Android Engineer, 2011:

"There's no particular hardware reason a device can't have both. The problem is that there is no good UI for it.
One of the core Android principles is that you never need a file manager. Ever. We wanted to avoid the obnoxious "sneeze and a file picker appears" syndrome of basically every other OS. Local data that apps know how to handle should just be magically available within the apps, or stored in the cloud. You shouldn't have to go spelunking on your SD card to find data.
The problem with having both internal storage and SD cards is that suddenly that goal gets a whole lot harder to achieve. For a given shot, should the camera save to internal-16GB, or to SD card? Should an app from Market be installed to internal or SD? etc.
Yes, we can solve this by letting the user choose, or have it be in settings. But then, that's a file picker, or close enough to the file picker experience that we dislike it just as much.
And besides that, there are API consequences: if you stick in an SD card with photos on it, do you add those to the system media content provider? If you do, you will screw up apps because they aren't designed with the concept that photos can come and go.
What we will probably do eventually is add an import/export concept to removable storage. So the Camera will always save to internal-16GB, and when you pop in an SD card (or insert a thumb drive on USB host devices) you can start a migration or import/export dialog.
But until we have that, devices will generally either have an SD card, or a large internal storage, but not both. I totally get that a lot of people like SD cards, and I miss USB Mass Storage myself. But then, that's why it's great that there are so many devices to choose from. :)
tl;dr: it's a can of worms. We're thinking about compromises for future versions."

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/11/18/impromptu-qa-session...

Head of UX, 2012:

"Everybody likes the idea of having an SD card, but in reality it's just confusing for users.
If you’re saving photos, videos or music, where does it go? Is it on your phone? Or on your card? Should there be a setting? Prompt everytime? What happens to the experience when you swap out the card? It’s just too complicated.
We take a different approach. Your Nexus has a fixed amount of space and your apps just seamlessly use it for you without you ever having to worry about files or volumes or any of that techy nonsense left over from the paleolithic era of computing.
With a Nexus you know exactly how much storage you get upfront and you can decide what’s the right size for you. That’s simple and good for users"

https://plus.google.com/114892667463719782631/posts/JAAMUzx1...

tl;dr Technical/UX issues.