skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your situation sounds awful and I'm very sorry you're going through that.

But, what's the alternative from the universities' point of view? If they gave extra financial aid to students disowned by their parents, every parent would claim to hate their child to save on tuition.
The whole notion of desert or lack thereof seems pretty iffy to me. Nobody accomplishes anything without some degree of luck and help from others, which at minimum includes having been born with a brain and having been fed as a baby, and if you believe in biological and economical determinism beyond that it becomes very hard to say who deserves what. In practice most people seem to evaluate how deserving someone is of his or her accomplishments based on whether or not that person meets an arbitrary cutoff for hardship (as indicated by external signs) and where the exact cutoff level lies depends on the evaluator's own experience with hardship and the local baseline for it. This is more of a tool for establishing social status than for moral judgement per se.

Actual accomplishments and the lack of pride (in the sense examined by C. S. Lewis and delightfully summarized at http://squid314.livejournal.com/339814.html) seem to me to be a better measure of a person no matter how lucky that person's birth was.
good. i wanna something somday
> Again with the patently absurd assertions.

If you understood science, you would try to locate evidence for your claims. Science doesn't revolve around rhetoric as you seem to believe -- it hinges on repeatable, objective evidence.

> And finally, that cartoon is one of Randall's (rare) stupid cartoons.

That would explain why it's one of his best-known ones, posted everywhere. https://www.google.com/#q=purity+xkcd yields over 30,000 hits.

> Sociology lives only on evidence.

Absurd and false. Shall I tell you the Margaret Mead story, or can I rely on you to educate yourself? Mead's career hinged on a ridiculous study that, in the form of "Coming of Age in Samoa", became gospel among sociologists, even after those she originally interviewed confessed that they invented what they told her. It was a complete fabrication, yet it made Mead's name in the field.

The Mead story is completely typical of the field. There's a reason sociology ranks below psychology in the spectrum of pseudosciences.

> Sociology requires entirely different methods from physical sciences because of the subject matter.

There is one scientific method, not two or six. People who claim they're doing a different kind of science, aren't doing any kind of science.

> Purity? Purity of what? There's no definition to that variable, which is meaningless except by nee-naah.

You obviously don't understand the fatal flaw at the heart of post-modernism. But you know what? I'm not going to try to correct all the defects in your education. That would be an unrequited charity.

Science is clearly defined, and for good reason -- everyone wants the stature of science without the discipline. Science is even defined in the law now, to prevent Creationists from using post-modern (i.e. "it's all opinion, there are no shared truths") arguments in order to get religious teaching into public schools.
not correct. flexible touch screens are available since forever. and the first oled prototypes shown some 7years ago were already extremely bendable. nothing new on all that. Someone already pointed out that the nexus S(?) already had a curvature on the screen.
The Danger of Scientism
not saying it is the same rules as university, but it is the same game. ironically university is easier.
When did you go to school? Nowadays, every elite school gives grants rather than loans, and (for example) Stanford pays for all tuition for families making under 100k (and throws in room and board for < 60k).
Burberry chief Angela Ahrendts to join Apple
Many years ago when X-Window was in its youth there was a smart little program that made it possible to do that to the screen of anyone else that was connected by network. Try to imagine the first time your working screen simply falls to pieces and melts. :-)
Reminds me of a situation I had around a decade back. I get into a bus, slowly the bus gets crowdy and then it was totally packed. I was busy reading my Physics text book, to notice how many people gotten into the bus.

Then I saw a man, may be in 50's was standing right next to my seat. Realizing he was a little aged and might be tired after the day's work, I just got up and offered the man my seat. What happens next? This guy doesn't even offer a 'Thank you', he just goes on and on about bashing the younger generation in general and me about values and stuff for not offering him the seat a little early.

After a while I had it enough, and asked the man to give me my seat back. He put up a puzzled look, I told him he didn't deserve any courtesy from anyone.

Some people just can't stop showing their 'holier than thou' attitude.
> a main highway between Russia's two largest cities

It is not.

Moscow and St. Petersburg are 900 km apart and they never had a highway between them. Instead it's a patchwork of provincial roads most of the way. He could've chosen any city 900 km away from Moscow and his cherry-picked story would've stayed absolutely the same.
exactly, it's a journalism as it is: concentrating on the worst distorting the reader's view and the truth.

PS I live here, moreover between Moscow and Spb. In the nice and largest city on this path (Tver'), but they skipped it accidentally. Why you should know something good about Russia? Look, they're savages.
As a current Stanford student I agree that Stanford has great financial aid, but "bar none" isn't true. The same paperwork got me substantially better (need-based) financial aid offers from a few Ivies than I got from Stanford.
>There are a lot of things wrong with Android, and the sooner the community talks about them, the greater the chance Android has of becoming what you all want it to be

That could take a while. Just remember back a few years when Android 1.x was out against the iPhone. Oh how the fandroids were gushing just how awesome their android is compared to the iPhone and when met with the clearly shortcomings of Android, they acted just like the fandroid you replied to.

You know, back then, iPhone has always had a smooth UI. There were no lacks or jitters. Nothing. Can't say the same thing about Android. Oh what a laggy mess that was but cue the fandroid boasting "Mine doesn't lack. It is pretty much smooth". Complete reality distortion. But how would they even know? How would they know what a smooth UI looks like? They wouldn't dare touch an iPhone so they just like to set their user experience with Android as the nonplusultra and it just doesn't get better than this. Who could make a better functioning UI? Certainly not Apple is what they'd say.

Seeing as how long it took Android to finally start with hardware acceleration to help with the UI responsiveness and how that didn't even out all the kinks, it is clear that Android always had disadvantages that other OSs don't have. But far be it from the fandroids to admit to that. That would be weakness.
It does not look like Russia tries really hard to do something positive recently. There are many smart and interesting people in Russia or from Russia (I speak about culture and science) but they are only small part of Russia (I don't even speak about culture and science people who work for evil side). Putin, FSB and oligarchs is Russia.

IMHO Western media could be even more negative but that's most probably because I'm from one of Baltic states and we really have got (and still are getting) a lot of injustice from Russia.
I like the burberry site, it's both cosmopolitan (pick your country before anything else) and elegant:

http://www.burberry.com/
Good for them. Flipkart might have its problems (negative press coverage on work culture, still not close to profitability etc), but one think can't be denied - these are the people who raised the bar for what people would come to expect from online shopping. And that at a time when certain players (including, ironically, the site you have linked to) seemed hell bent to destroy the landscape before it had even started.

More than half a billion in funding. A fund manager in charge of this much money would be taking home much more.
Ada Lovelace Day, 15 October 2013
Change your lavabit password (and download an archive later)
Wikipedia's Terminal Event Management Policy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Terminal_Event_Manage...
Most likely. But it's trivial to see whether or not someone is running an SMTP server whereas it's more difficult to determine if they're running an open relay.
There is way too much skepticism in this thread. The sky is huge. If you've ever flown an aircraft in VFR conditions, you've seen that there is plenty of space and you would not need a very complex system to ensure separation. Drone flights could be reserved to areas close to the ground (where manned flight is prohibited) and all drones could be equipped with dually-redundant parachutes to bring them down safely in the event of a failure. This is just a quick-and-dirty suggestion; put in some effort and you'll get even better results.

This is the future, the limiting factory is battery tech and aerodynamic drone design (which is a key problem with quadcopters - they are incredibly inefficient; you need wings during level flight for efficient operation).
Not to mention, the poop.
This comment has nothing to do with India, ISRO, politics or Mars, but I am curious if anyone with expertise can comment on the clean room practices seen applied in this video. Is it odd that the workers don't have on full 'bunny' suits and have (what seems to be) a relatively large amount of skin/hair unprotected? I don't know if it matters that much, it just seems a little lax given the cost of failure.
Remote Developer Tools and Firefox for Android
It started as a contractual distinction. Home DSL is cheaper because it is not guaranteed to be up so you can't sue your ISP for lost business, etc...

Then the big telcos got the game, and started to elaborate among themselves how to remove service and add fees.

Someone saw the non-commercial vanilla clause, and had the great idea of using that premise to shut down inbound connections by the most insanely idiotic assumption that a listening port is a server which is foolproof indication that you have a business.

Then everyone move to the telco that didn't do that, free market at its best. for about 6 months. until all of them did. nobody had any option. and here we are today.
Found it! It was an April fools joke for 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Terminal_Event_Manag...
У меня кореш живет в Десногорске (за сотню километров от Смоленска, маленький городок, градообразующее предприятие - атомная станция). Его невеста из Москвы, есть там квартира и возможность жить. Так вот, они почему-то предпочли жить там. Хотя ничто не мешает жить в Москве. Он, кстати, пилит там свои стартапы для US рынка в том числе.

Более того, наблюдается обратная тенденция -- люди бегут из Москвы в свои родные города и живут там. Почему? Все просто: ты зарабатываешь в Москве 50 тысяч рублей и снимаешь квартиру за 30. Так зачем там жить, когда в родном городе ты сможешь зарабатывать столько же, только жизнь будет спокойнее?

Моя мама, кстати, жила под Москвой (Солнечногорск). Переехала с мужем в поселок рядом с Ульяновском. Продали квартиру и купили там дом. Очень им там нравится, много ягод, грибов и т.д. Спокойная жизнь.

Так что это палка о двух концах, не все так однозначно ИМХО.
Actual article: http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/14/zookal-starts-world-first-d...
I see many user have some hard time setting up the Node.js / npm environment before being able to get Ghost up and running.

I would expect the editor of Logdown much better to use. It reads Github Flavored Markdown, has code highlighting, drag & drop image upload. And it's an online service, so you don't need to deal with the server stuffs. Much easier to use.

http://logdown.com/demo
Other : Just mine... a special software developped with Python/Django/Celery and that works fine. The architectures is not proper for a huge loading but for me it is sufficient.

I have implemented a Google-Reader like appearence (navigation in the left, list of posts in the right) but have added some UI that was missing to me in GR (tags and subscription are not in the same place, hierarchical tags, not just one star but five to a better evaluation, a right panel that appears to show the post,...).

My purpose wasn't only to follow posts but to organize them so that I can't find them quickly and logicaly later when needed. Several things could be improved but the critical path and emergency to import my GR data before the 1st july are passed and worked fine.

Now I just know that if something very important needs to be improved I can work on it as I want :-)
The True Value Of Digitising Business Critical Documents - Video
If you want to bomb... sorry I meant "democratize" something in 10 years, you better start pouring it with dirt right now.
> Discover companies and roles you've never considered

Can't resist saying that linkedin already does that. The kind of jobs they keep suggesting to me are just hilarious.

Your site looks good. Just checked a familiar company's listing. It looked nice.

And I agree, if you are targeting recent graduates, then search by degree is a good starting point. Ideally you should be able to read my mind and my dreams :-), but as a startup going by something that you can feed straight into a simple algorithm is the way to go.
There's only one question in science: "How?"
SSLLabs is great already, I use it constantly.

The one thing that could be improved is showing the detail of the score calculation. It's rather confusing at the moment, and I have no idea what criteria contributes to a better score.

DH and EC parameters are also hard to see at first.
It is a travesty that his comment is at the top, rather than discuss merits/demerits of this initiative, we (atleast 7 of us commentators) are fixing this downright moron's narrow vision. I am immensely peeved that his comment is not adding anything of value, and is outright banal as they come on Indian topics.

I do not think GSLV is ready, and won't be ready any time sooner although they are testing it in December. Also, I think GSLV should achieve workhorse capability like PSLV before it can be tasked with major workloads. I think NASA is helping with the payloads on MOM. I would be curious to know which ones are contributions by NASA though [1].
Also, the landing gear is designed with the help of ROSCOSMOS [2].
Some more detailed information in these links [3, 4, 5].

[1] - http://www.isro.org/pslv-c25/pdf/mom-payloads.pdf

[2] - http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/pdf/2760.pdf

[3] - http://isp.justthe80.com/planetary-exploration/mars-obiter

[4] - http://antariksh-space.blogspot.ca/2013/01/isro-mars-mission...

[5] - http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3zXg2UZ2J7w/UOej3qTPVvI/AAAAAAAAAO...

[6] - http://www.iafastro.net/iac/archive/browse/IAC-12/A3/3A/1469...

[7] - http://www.ias.ac.in/jess/aug2009/d8je-91.pdf
Many of the best and the brightest leave smaller cities in the US for NYC or California today.
Presumably the post-WW1 era of collapse in Germany, which is usually credited as a major cause of WW2.
finance create more distributed wealth than real state, that is for sure.

And finance when done right is to generate business. That tech company wouldn't exist if it weren't for a loan, that weren't be if there was no money for the bank to invest...

What you are trying to describe the closed network banks use to scam everyone bypassing regulation and what not. such as dark liquidity and such. or microtrading.

anyway, illegal actions exist on all markets. not just finance. as mentioned above, finance is just the market the big criminals (0.0001%) are chosing at this time. Or do you think they dealt land, oil, etc under all the regulations as well in the past?
I would imagine it is to create a cost of dying, so you try to avoid it, just as in real life.
Who do you think pays for those services? Where does the trillion-dollar debt come from?
Of course not.

I contribute with some time and money to a local maker movement, and we guide young people to make things.

What this article does not say is that in the past manufacturing was a pain in the ass. Drills or rivets had to be done by hand only 60 years ago, with automatic machines extremely expensive and inconvenient (big, noisy and poisonous to you).

Metal workers will have health problems with the fumes, and lose one or two fingers over their life when they put their hand when they should not.

Artisans were also very secretive about their knowledge.

Now, the 507 movements book is online, and animated so it is way easier to understand, we have computers that let us simulate or do the most complex operation.

You can get any book, ever written, in the world, online!! (Impossible just 10 years ago!!)

Not only that but you can see videos showing you actually how they do what they do.

We have 3d design on computers, we have 3d printing on plastic, metal or ceramic(with EDM, FMD, STA, sintering incredible machines). We have cartesian, delta robots, we have powerful and cheap automatic tools like dremel or drills, or lathes. We have laser and plasma cutters that cut 20mm steel like butter.

We have $100 webcam microscopes and spectrometers.

We have the Internet and we could collaborate designs over the world just sending a file.

Sorry but the "any past was better" makes me sick.
If you want to lose weight think about your eating, not about your movements. Excericse is very ineffcient way to lose weight (but very good for other reasons).
> There's still demand and still a market for this stuff even among younger people (I'm fascinated by it and I'm in my 30s) and it's not going to be digital any time soon.

I'm convinced the internet is a huge boon to traditional arts and crafts - the more "niche" a topic becomes, the bigger the risk of the communities fragmenting and dying off in isolation. The internet fixes that, because it's easier to maintain a core of enthusiasts, even if they are spread out over long distances.

It's not unlike how the internet has done amazing things for programming. Maybe you need a bit of extra help for other crafts, like adding video tutorials for the things that require a more "monkey see, monkey do" than a written approach. However, I'd say that in general it's easier than ever to keep a core community of masters of a craft alive, or revive it for that matter.
Facebook, Google, Microsoft... What would Birch say?
That's not what I mean. Congress is refusing to finance a government whose actions it doesn't support. Which is exactly what it's supposed to do, and is in fact one of it's core functions.

The power of the purse is allocated to the house.
The article points out that the drones don't have onboard cameras.
Well, why not? It's such a hassle to change your email address once you've used it for a few years, and you have so many accounts tied to it that you've forgotten them all.

I'm very glad I've got my own domain which I use for email, and have done for 14 years now.
I think it is a Class 100,000 cleanroom (where not much precautions are taken) rather than Class 1 or 10 wherein typical lytho processes happen. The inner assembly must be done in Class 10 cleanroom, and I do not think so they will show a video of it publicly. Btw gloves, shoe covers, face mask, hair protection, safety glasses are also "missing".
Exactly. The rail is a state monopoly, with prices and turnaround times worse than truckers.
Because it let's them provide better service (as defined as what most people care about) to the majority of people. Better, in the context is cheaper and faster. Do you think they can provide the same speed for the same price without any limitations? I don't believe so, but feel free to make your case.

Note that by previous internet usage patterns the sustained usage of an shared upstream connection wouldn't necessarily result in less than maximum speed if provisioned correctly based on usage levels. That may be different now with more video streaming, but only in scale, not in principle.
woah! i didnt realize it was a FAMILY of dinosaurs and not just a particular one
Are you sure that old skills becoming irrelevant isn't just uncomfortable because it reminds us of our own mortality?
disagree

the db is sqlite by default, and its stored in content/ with your themes and other stuff (?)

so you just backup your content directory ;d
Bootstrap Flat UI Pro 1.2.2 Released
This works almost everywhere, except Microsoft Exchange.
Justin Beiber Linux - Beibian
You mean like self-driving motorcycle? Why won't people just get on a bike, and pick up small items themselves (+health benefits, sustainability)?
That's enough internet for today. I am going to rest in my coffin.
We're not special? We're not better? Are we really being politically correct for the sake of animals?
I don't think the commentor implied that people without money couldn't be wise, but just that people who are both wise and posess money will be able to make it grow.
In other words, the NSA is no different from private Internet companies like Facebook and LinkedIn who think its perfectly fine to furtively copy their user's email address books in order to mine them.

Remember Facebook's "Shadow Profiles" created using data harvested from user's address books? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5926275

Remember LinkedIn's non-apology when faced with a lawsuit from users who felt it was inappropriately accessing their email accounts? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6425444
I respect the MVP philosophy, but a location filter better be coming soon. Otherwise it's an MVP that helps people find a better career and move city/country.
Go ask your mom.
Yeah, it's the same here in Norway too.

The US gets a lot of bad press here. Obesity, corruption, disfunctional government, inequality, surveillance, religion, puritanism, gay hate, gun violence etc are much more in the focus in the news about the US than the positive sides of the US are.

Most Norwegians thinks of the US as this slightly weird, ignorant country that believes it's still the best at everything and doesn't bother with the rest of the world.
A good alternative is tabata [1] sessions on the rower. 20 seconds as hard as you can 10 seconds very gentle (just to keep the timer going). Do it 8 times for a total of 4 minutes - it starts to get pretty grim around the 4th sprint. It's a great finisher or warm up :-)

[1] http://tabatatraining.org/
Have you tried http://logdown.com/demo ?
Guess why it's called an estimate?
What is it with web pages / blogs and their wild tendencies with using 18px+ fonts for the body text? I can read something like a third of the text off the screen as compared to for an example HN?! Ridiculous that I have to be habituated to using the zoom feature in Firefox to simply read a page instead of looking at one and a half paragraph like is the case on Ghost.org
What's with the banner "Stop being gay..."?

Someone is really lacking a little maturity.
I wouldn't say it doesn't depend on the physics. Of course it does. As for my original question, i realize the flying mechanism of an eagle is completely different from that of a Quetzalcoatlus (thank you @sejje). Modern day birds use their feathers to trap air (or somthing like that), no? Where as the Quetzalcoatlus would simply use the surface-area of their leathery wings to glide, like human-made gliders.