skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me respond to your final paragraph first. I actually don't agree with the idea that people should "act more responsibly" and "choose" to get educated. Or rather, I think they are never given the choice. Children working are forced to do so by the poverty of the parent, who were in turn forced into their life path by poverty. Of course this is not always the case, but what I have seen indicates that economic poverty is primarily due to a poverty of choices. Economic poverty flows from that.

That said, I stand by my belief that the free market is an effective way (and perhaps the most effective way) to lift people out of poverty. It's cruel, slow, and painful, but it also produces long-term improvements at a scale that mere charity cannot match. I think targeted aid is great, and I expect that it would be far more effective on a per-dollar basis, but cheap labor has a greater impact simply because the world economy throws a lot of money at it.

I disagree with your assessment that "buying cheap clothes almost directly contributes to the continuation of poverty" (However, see my caveat below). I just had a chat about this with my flatmate, who is an economist and has a much better grasp of the topic than I. He pointed out that, historically, sweatshops are only the first stage of economic development. Sweatshops provide a better (but still bad) income to unskilled laborers, which gives them enough free income to invest in their own human capital. Greater human capital attracts other investors, and the country pulls itself up by the bootstraps. South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan have built developed economies by starting with sweatshops. China is in the process of doing this. In contrast, India has more restrictions against foreign investment and sweatshops, and their economic growth has lagged behind countries with less restrictive laws.

Or, to put it more simply: sweatshops are an important stage on the road to a developed economy, because initially cheap labor is the only thing that an undeveloped country can offer to investors. If you don't allow sweatshops, you don't get any investment, and the development process stops before it truly started. There's a lot of inefficiencies, and a lot of greedy people (including us as consumers) taking bites out of the pie, but it works better than anything else we've tried.

As I mentioned above, my position is tempered by an important caveat. You point out that some countries have an ethical supply chain. I initially discarded this based on the assumption that 'ethical' usually just means 'first world', but I realize now that you are correct. I haven't yet come across a garment manufacturer with a truly ethical supply chain, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. I will make it a priority to search out such a supplier, and provide them with my patronage. If you have any suggestions, I would be happy to hear them.
The Datacenter As A Computer: The Design Of Warehouse-Scale Machines
I am curious what her "Head of its retail efforts" job description reads like?
Wow, you are really setting the bar low! That was a disaster, and one foreseen by many immediately who had any familiarity with Dixons (I personally did not). At least Cook had the sense to fix his mistake quickly, to his credit. This choice makes a lot of sense, and I expect she will be a much better fit at Apple.
Argos MyTablet vs Tesco Hudl: What's the difference?
What's the difference between this effort and the countless Graphical Programming efforts that have come before (many with large teams as well as many other single-author efforts)?
..which Cook removed anyway. Does anyone know how the hiring is done for such a position,? http://allthingsd.com/20130107/apple-cant-afford-buyers-remo...
Well, sure you'd be surprised about your own product not being in some list 😛

P.S. I'm also a happy BazQux user.
How was it moving under skin without causing pain or inflamation?
Please don't take this as a slam, but I'm curious about the interaction between "routinely having the highest standardized test scores in my entire high school" and testing in the 95-99th percentile nationwide.

Some fuzzy intuitive probability suggests that for every 20 people in the high school, there should be one testing at or above the 95th percentile nationwide. The emphasis word "entire" suggests that your high school was large. Was it awful? What's the story there?
I'm in France right now and the usual legal notice here is a ... 3 month notice.
This is a double edged sword: unless common agreement, the employer have to pay the employee 3 month (and if asked, the employee has to stay at work), but it gives him the time to replace it properly.
I won't go in detail to the different legal issues for each case, but it avoids these kind of problem for startups (and create others).
> limiting factor is battery tech and aerodynamic drone design

... and regulation. :P
I recently began an app that might help with this. It's laughably primitive right now, but it does help me personally. You can download it and read a bit of the context at http://noisytyping.com/an-app-to-help-lose-weight-by-increas... (OS X only).
You know what I want? Just the opposite. I know my address, it just isn't in the autofill databases and doesn't fit your standard format (e.g. I don't have a state). Just give me a plain text area I can type my address into.

And there's a special place in hell for webdevs who force me to use their fancy javascript date picker rather than typing in a date.
My parents (in their 70s now) have the same sort of stories about US universities from their experience -- the one that stuck with me was "Look to your left. Look to your right. One of the three of you will not make it to graduation." But it definitely wasn't the case when I went to school circa 1990.
Personally, I don't view Supercell in the same way/league as Zynga at all. Firstly, Zynga went crazy releasing a massive number of titles really quickly and not focusing on core products. Supercell have 2 games out... yes, 2! They put a huge amount of focus into both those games and don't appear to be in any rush to dilute them whatsoever.

Also, Zynga were considered scummy for a variety of reasons - theft of others ideas (read blatantly stealing entire games from competitors) and their way over the top insistence on pollution of social networks. I don't see this behavior with Supercell at all.
"Hugs hand forehead kisses have always been a big part of my relationships with my co-workers. We were always a tight knit family. But now I felt it was all wrong."

Possibly because it was all wrong... Not that it excuses nor explains the assault, a drunkard could possibly assault anyone for any reason, but colleagues are not family nor friends...
The not so short introduction to EC2 instances in AWS SDK for .NET
I code Django sites and definitely recommend this for Django templates.
Nope, this is exactly what happened to Wordpress. As a senior Wordpress developer who deserted the platform after giving up, I can safely comment on your views:

#Supporting older versions is a pain. Supporting all features in older versions AND newer versions to work together is an even bigger pain. Example: Wordrpress.

#Compatibility for older version leads to bloated code, with too many legacy variables, too many points of failure. Example: Wordpress.

#Evolution of any software requires that it discards old ideologies and embraces the newer ones. The ones that don't do, tend to drift away from the main goals. Example: Wordpress.

Wordpress was started with the exact same intention as Ghost and yet, what you are left with now is a half-baked unstable CMS, and a half-baked blogging platform that breaks old plugins with each upgrade.

If you want to embrace progress, then you must embrace C.H.A.N.G.E. And this is not just for software.
Event Driven and Functional Reactive Programming, Step by Step. (bacon.js)
That article is very well written, thanks for the link!
No - I probably won't get approval for my corporate card to be used for such a purpose (at least not without jumping through several hoops, having your company accounts and credit rating checked* and requiring a zero value invoice etc.) and you're not having my personal one.

I've just had this debate elsewhere over an Atlassian 'free trial'.

*Edit: And if you're a startup or in an early growth phase with no track record your 'off the peg' credit rating is going to look underwhelming, plus it doesn't matter that there's no risk in a zero value credit transaction as corporate rules dictate all potential suppliers go through the Accounts Dept. approval process - and that's set in stone by our quality processes, which are externally audited for compliance with various certified standards.
Honestly, I wish more people would start setting reasonable expectations for students. While I will agree that walking on stage and saying "Look to your left, look to your right. One of you will not be here in a year" is not the right approach to take, someone needs to be realistic.

I'm 20, all of my friends are students. I live right next to the university in my city. I know, meet, or merely converse with lots of students, and one thing that kills me is this pervasiveness of expectation that after 4 years (and for some, more than that) of sliding by, they will walk away with a degree and a nice cushy job, regardless of the degree or the effort put forth.

By no means do they all think this, but I find the number who do a bit alarming. The number of CS students I've met that think they'll land a nice cushy developer job just like mine when they couldn't implement a linked list if their lives depended on it is almost farcical. Then again, with the amount of new developer jobs I see in the area, maybe they will. But what of the students going for a degree in something like Religious Studies where employers aren't exactly tripping over themselves to find folks with such a degree and no real work experience to speak of?

Given the costs associated with a bachelors degree in the US at an in-state university, more people need to start drilling realism into the students' heads. These students cannot afford to waste 4 years and something like 10.000 USD per year, not including living expenses. People need to be more realistic and they need to start doing it sooner than the freshman introductory speech because you are right, they won't listen at that point. It's too little too late.
whenever I see a request to provide credit card details upfront before trying a service, it subconsciously screams to me: "Scam! Stay away!"

I would never give you my cc details in order to try your product. In fact this would put you firmly on my blacklist of sites never to visit again (unless you are some big well-known vendor of something I need).
Personally, unless I really, really, really need whatever service you're offering, I close the window if any of the following are requested: 'phone number; credit card; "secure" password; social network logon.
>how/why humans are so much more intelligent than other animals

We're not dramatically smarter than other animals. The more biologists look, the more it turns out that some level of intelligence and some level of consciousness evolves in loads and loads of carnivores and omnivores.

What we apes managed to evolve that was special was hands and culture. Hands gave us much more general power to manipulate the physical world (compare to a dog, which can achieve the intelligence of a small human child but will never be able to put Legos together). Culture let us pass down adaptations by learning instead of evolving.

We're not actually that special.
[HN] Yapsody, Watch this [video]
Lessons from Santa Claus; If your house has a roof pickup mechanism for drones we may deliver there. Locking and securing capsules wouldn't be a big problem. QR Codes, cameras, cryptographic locks, Bluetooth maybe used.
Amazon introduces startup program
Cancer: The blame game
Are you looking for others to test/collaborate on what you have done so far?
It appears to be for a non profit group. So I can understand the lack of compensation. But they are hardly likely to attract anyone other than the kind that barely scraped through their PHD if their work isn't particularly fascinating to someone.
We're not special. We were just the first to conquer all the other species.
Latin for thousand M*M = one million
I doubt this is THE future, and I also hope it is not: still too limited. As far as I can predict, the future is a proper direct brain-machine interface. Controversial yes, avoidable: I seriously doubt it. (would I use it: maybe if it could be implemented using one way communication, ie similar to how it's done now by analyzing EEG). I guess it would also be by far the fastest way. At least I can think code (both concepts and actual implementation) way faster than I can output it in any way.
It was a downgrade during the Android life cycle. I don't want to be "that guy" but someone had to have a good reason to roll back to RC4-MD5 if they were using SHA before.

But hey, you can open an issue about it.
What I found curious was the difference in goals for successful and non-successful projects. It seemed that lower goals had a higher chance of succeeding (all things considered). Would that be a right conclusion to jump to?
Thousands of Sites Hacked Via vBulletin Hole
A mid range Apple laptop costs as much as a mid range Burberry leather jacket whilst the laptop takes way more effort to constuct.

I think someone is doing it smarter than the other here...
How do you measure motivation of your startup team?
[maybe to many question marks here... but I've been dealing with this questions for some time]

I believe my team is happy and motivated. But:
- Can I prove it?
- Can I improve it?
- Can I measure this improvement?

in a realistic and easy way?
Wait, what? Last I heard, another 50 years of global warming and we're the source of a full-blown mass extinction, one that will probably include us. So you're saying all we have to do is survive long enough... to die out?
Twitter now lets you receive direct messages from any follower
I have been thinking about this too recently and I'm thinking about writing a simple IDE to demostrate these ideas. If anyone would like to discuss this over mail (or here of course), let me know.
Coursera and massive online simulation on epidemics
Well, that was obviously a typo. There are generation of new knowledge and dissemination of old knowledge. I am not quailified to comment on the first, however his contribution to the second is substantial.
The "OpenSSL Cookbook" book you get when you sign up for notifications about the book at this site[1] is very good. Written by the guy behind SSLLabs, if I recall correctly.

[1] https://www.feistyduck.com/books/bulletproof-ssl-tls-and-pki...
Seeking info on website location
I have been trying to find who owns the website www.iupost.com.

Reason: I answered an ad to buy a cat, and found it was a scamster who asked me to send money to Cameroon via Western Union. A scam!

This one has hundreds of ads in a wide variety of email addresses and websites, some of whom have deleted his ads when I point them out.

One exception is the above iupost which gives no clues to its office address and is hosted by 'godaddy.com' which is likewise mysterious.

Another website is:
http://www.kiclassifieds.com/kbritt_19276/
which also gives no clues. The scamster has 209 ads on this site.

Is there a way to find out who is running it?

I thank anyone who can help.
AWS Activate - resources for startups
From the article:

The reason for the GPU performance change appears to be this Git commit:

http://anzwix.com/a/Linux%20Kernel/CpufreqOndemandChangeTheC...

Interesting that a non-Radeon specific change improves up to 90% the speed of the rendering of the open source driver..
Incremental Garbage Collector in PyPy
Using a heat gun to cause ECC memory errors (2005)
My way about time is:
Past and future is like reflections from current moment. Both are changed at will and alter everything at whim. Everything is altered so you don't have so much "Déjà vu", your perception of solidity is altered.

In a moment you have sister, in a moment you don't, but your whole past/future and recollections about that is altered and you have no way of preserving previous state.

Without alterations you would go mad realizing that everything is at the same time.

There must be sensible explanation of what I am trying to day, but I yet to find one.

Might be like looking at busy bazaar from every possible angle at the same time in same viewpoint, or focus down to small opening at one viewpoint how bread is sitting on shelf.
This is still at the "idea" or "vision" level and hasn't failed yet.

Sorry about the snark, but while I'd love someone to succeed in this type of quest, I believe this one is based more on ideology than rigor. Stuff like "WYSIWYG editors are basically evil" just doesn't give me confidence.
Snapchat's Been Handing Unopened Messages Over to the Police
> (we don't have gypsies and therefore the bottom 50% will not adopt gypsy cultural indicators,
Am I misreading this or are you throwing the "gypsies are like this because of culture making them lazy" argument?

> and our inequality seems to be merely differing rates of positive growth)

Then why has median purchasing power gone down for the past fifteen years? It doesn't matter if the dollar value goes up when prices go up faster.
My view of the college funding situation is colored by the fact that after taking the PSAT I received monthly mail from the university of Tulsa offering free tuition, free board, and a stipend if only I would agree to attend their school. (In retrospect, I think that would have been a good idea... ah, hindsight.) I'm pretty sure there are other scholarships around that require more than the absolutely zero effort that took.
Like it or not, "OMG NSA" is now part of the lexicon in a post-Snowden world. It's how every piece of technology developed Stateside is going to be perceived from here on out.
Ask HN: Why dont my upvotes work?
I've read about dead users on HN that but I thought being dead also meant you cant post comments at all. It seems like I can post comments, its just my upvotes dont count. Did I do something wrong or do I just not understand the system?
Tips: If you're cloning or creating Linux virtual machines, run virt-sysprep[1] on them. It will insert a new random seed into the cloned VM, ensuring it boots with different entropy from the clone source or other clones from the same source. Secondly, run your VMs with the new virtio-rng driver[2].

[1] http://libguestfs.org/virt-sysprep.1.html

[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virtio_RNG
Yahoo is still interesting for investors
There are a lot of investors who are bullish on Yahoo YHOO. Their expectations are positive and lot of them are buying YHOO right now.
The question is: are they right or not?
How is it propaganda?

Are any of the facts mentioned false? Is the author implying that all of Russia is like this?

As a journalist I find it very surprising when people react to specific articles (often "negative" to their own beliefs) by imagining a grand conspiracy.

There are numerous realities in every country and every company. A skilled journalist can tell any one of those in an interesting manner. But that doesn't imply there aren't other stories.

For instance, the USA is currently
(a) leading the "software disruption" war
(b) shut down and about to default because of partisan politics
(c) spying indiscriminately on almost everyone in the world
(d) incarcerating the largest proportion of its citizens
(e) meddling in the affairs of numerous countries
(f) reshoring manufacturing that had been outsourced
(g) saddled with a fighter jet program that is outrageously expensive and possibly average
(h) trying to reform one of the most convoluted & corrupt healthcare systems in the world

Which of these are reality? Which are propaganda?
I think the future is fully automated routing of parcels in a network. This is a way of solving the last mile problem for a particular kind of place, but it doesn't build an actual network. In that sense the transmission medium is less important than the standards that allow interchange.
This looks like more of a RIB on steroids than FBX replacement. FBX started out as Kaydara's "product" (more of an integration scheme for Filmbox/Motionbuilder), Autodesk brought it in - as all of their tech. Actually, if you think about it, Autodesk is actually managing their products really good considering how they are a soup of different companies, products, cultures, everything.
Or in other words, every universe we can possibly think of has to have some kind of internal logic, except maybe the Lovecraftian ones.
Given that my search yielded jobs in the same city, I was curious how that was happening given an earlier commenter noted your lack of location filter. Then I realised you are a Sydney company backed from USyd. Good luck with the site, Sydney needs more startup success stories. Most of my feedback has been covered by other commenters. Fix that and you are on the right track.
Variable-width if it doesn't need any formatting. When I need to put things in line tabs just might screw up, so in that case I like Monospaced fonts better.
One reason it might be one of the 10 most important questions in science is that dreaming helps solve problems. When you sleep on a problem the mind magically presents an answer to the problem the next day. Aside from it's metaphorical implication that it's important to dream big, dreaming could literally help answer the other 9 questions.

I find it intriguing HN readers don't consider it important, actually.
I think they need some big investors like this to keep going on. Hopefully they are allowed to work on projects they want in the future. We'll see
You aren't expected to read this and thing "omfg, Russia is so bad".

I think that's exactly what you're supposed to think, and you'd be quite justified in coming away with that impression when the strapline is 'A journey through a heartland on the slow road to ruin.' It's a beautifully executed and written article with a slanted premise. Reminds me of Newsweek or Time with better graphics/writers to be frank.

Imagine this as an NYT article about the US (which has examples of much of the same poverty, inequality and disillusion) - there's no way it would be published in this paper, without sympathetic asides/articles about other areas of the US which are developing well. The slant here is that the entire Russian nation is decaying and on a road to ruin.

I admire the quality of the writing in the NYT (it beats any other english language paper I'm aware of), but often the editorial slant is far too parochial for a truly global newspaper, and far too close to the official US government line on important topics (like surveillance or budgets for example) where the NYT should be standing up to government, not relaying its pronouncements without question.
Its perfectly possible to use Agile in those situations, and some do. You can't manage whole projects using agile, because it only works on small teams. For building a aircraft for example, you may have an agile team developing firmware for specific part of the plane.

You develop strict tests, implement it in an agile way, then only let it pass to next stage once those tests are okaying it. In fact that's how you should do agile.
It's not ad hominem, it's just that Hacker News is often so (quite rightly, in my view) focused on growth of private industry and tech start-ups. It seems bizarre a Marxist forum crops up, with seemingly swarms of support.
Individual conversion rate isn't the whole story, either. There are people like me (and I suspect many others here) who will play with just about anything that looks interesting, whether we have an actual long-term interest or not. Asking for a credit card up front will lose most of those people. No big deal, you think? Well, those people also tend to be the ones who tell their friends about your new site, and whose friends trust them to make such recommendations.
He's an American and he is not suing the oral surgeon for malpractice? Also that was really gross.