skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul Krugman has commented about this phenomenon as well. Based on the literature he says it is due to lack of regional specialization. Interstate goods shipping has also declined. This is mentioned in the article but dismissed.

Personally, having recently conducted an interstate move, I think it is a combination of the lack of specialization (My career as a programmer was going fine elsewhere) and cost of living as mentioned in the article. Moving is expensive, especially when you have an underwater house, and it's hard to leave your social network behind. If you're moving for a raise from $18/hour in Ohio to $25/hour in San Francisco, that's not worth it.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/america-is-flat/

"[W]ithin the United States, at least, people are moving less — a lot less. Greg Kaplan and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl (pdf) say that interstate mobility has been cut in half over the past 20 years. And interestingly, they suggest that this is in part because regions have become more similar: increasingly, different parts of the country are producing the same kinds of things and employing the same kind of people, so that there’s less reason to move.

This story actually matches up with what the new economic geography literature says, which is that regional specialization peaked around a century ago and has been declining since."
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tl;dr

We wanted to please the trendy Mac users, hence switched to Qt, which providers a more authentic interface on Mac OS X.
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Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency
Stanford-Berkeley Robotics Symposium 2013
8.1 has been out for devs for a while I think.
Lossy Compressed Image Formats Study
Do we know that dogs are not smiling? Anecdotally, my dogs seem to smile when they are happy (when I pet them, give them treats, play with them, etc.) I'm genuinely curious about this.
Faking Touch Events on iOS for Fun and Profit
Many EU countries are excluded from the VWP, not just Poland.
How to Get Ahead at the NSA
I disagree with this assumption. The problems with military research, law firms, advertisements are of degree not of its existence. Sure, they have their own problems. But we need military research: which is arisen out of insecurities of nation states, to given protection to their states. Law firms, too have a place so too medical clinics and advertisement firms.

In case of HFT, the argument is not of degree but existence. Military solves security problems of nation states, law firms communal issues of individual citizens, advertisements to help the product reach the intended audience. But what problem does HFT solve other than making a few people very rich.
Let's define "revision" to be "what the entire codebase looked like at some particular point in time" and "changeset" to be "a list of changes between one specific revision and the next specific revision".

Now, if we look at Subversion, we see that given a particular revision there's no way to reliably determine its' "parent", because the fact that r6 is followed by r7 doesn't mean that changes in r7 were based off of r6.

If we look at any DVCS, each commit would have an explicit reference to its' parent(s), so there's always a non-ambiguous way to reconstruct the entire "chain" of relationships between commits.
I don't have a reply button anymore to sho_hn's comment. Take this as a reply to the adjacent comment :)

What I am saying is: if you have a new _native_ widget in a new OS release (layout spacing, new views, new controls, new features - there are so many), it won't be implemented in the Widget code base. The Qt project will tell you to use QML. How are you going to make your C++ Widget based app look modern now when all your code is QML based?

Answer: there is no answer. The Qt project has made it extremely difficult to decide for their existing users. For new users, it's a trivial task to choose QML but how many new desktop apps are being developed from scratch these days.
Yeah, you're right. This company decided to write a blog post 100% related to the business they're in that has a good chance of being read by their target audience because the post is relevant to that audience. This will probably drive traffic to their site, and maybe help them sell more of their software.

Crazy idea.
Because the point of the article is that we have a system in which ideologues vote. In order to get average people to vote, either the system has to change to reward non-ideologues for voting (e.g., previous system with party bosses) or people have to become ideologues. He rightly concludes that these are both unlikely and he doesn't have another answer.
That repo needs a bit of tweaking though:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt/FAQ#I_am_using_a_non-LT...
> Even George Washington saw political parties as a great threat to the nation.

It's important to note that, while the Farewell Address is all too often cited as a warning against the future emergence of parties or party-like factions in some general sense, it is, in fact, Washington's view of the threats from the then-present two-party system, which began forming almost immediately after the Constitution went into effect, and crystalized around the end of Washington's first term.

> I'm not exactly sure, but the list includes term limits

Term limits do nothing to reduce the power of factions; indeed, by limiting the individual influence of politicians acheived through long tenure in position, they increase the power of organized factions that are not directly accountable and which provide support for politicians between offices, and offer new cookie cutter candidates for offices.

> changing gerrymandering

Gerrymandering is a distraction; while its one failure mode of single-member districts with FPTP elections, its not the problem, just a symptom. Single-member districts with FPTP elections is the problem.

> reducing the influence of money in politics

Economic power is inherently the ability to get people to do what you want, and money is simply a symptom of economic power. Its arguable whether economic power and political power are even meaningfully different concepts.

You may want to consider whether the root problem is really the influence of money on politics, or the degree of economic inequality in the society.

> making politics less of a "contact sport" than its being presented as by the media

What does this even mean in concrete terms?
Nobody is arguing for boilerplate. The idea that less is more, holding quality equal, is nonsensical. Of course, as documentation isn't free, you can't hold quality equal, so it's immaterial -- nobody is ever going to be presented with that choice in real life.
Most of their technology is incredibly secret (for obvious reasons). They won't even tell you they're using your open source project (they can give you money though).

They're (on average) worse than your average tech shop. But then again, people like google or facebook will never buy software from anyone, so if we're left with just them, you can never create a business writing software that caters for other software companies, not sure what is worse.
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The Birth and life of my 2 year old
This would be a nice way to collect bank security questions.
An interesting analysis with a fantastic level of detail. Much of the gwern's stuff is similarly well researched - I'm a big fan! However, I can't help feeling that it's fundamentally flawed.

I understand that much of the statistical analysis done is to provide as rigorous a study as is practical, however I think in some cases it misses the point slightly. The biggest issue is that the variables that drive all the analysis are ultimately almost all perception based. I'd imagine that gwern is far more in tune with his perception of things than the average person will be (a by product of doing so many double blind tests), but ultimately he's still just a human. For me, many of the variables in the study - how well I slept, my mood, my willingness to work - vary considerably day to day anyway.

Ultimately, the study found no difference. Given that we know that LSD is very active at the right doses, the only thing that you can really take away from this is that the dose wasn't high enough. Until a study has been done which yields perceptable differences, positive or negative, you can't really draw any conclusions. It's probably also fair to assume that the dose used was likely to be smaller than stated (a by product of the black market), and so the microdoses used were correspondingly reduced.
If someone has trouble compiling coffeescript in a build sequence, then they have bigger troubles afoot. CS is well worth the switch.
Any passed law would be appealed to the Supreme Court. If the courts strike the law down, there would have to be a Constitutional amendment. The U.S. has not seen that substantial of an amendment since alcohol was legalized.
>> was just liking to look at it reason enough.

This made me think about pandas. I'm not an expert in this at all, so please correct me if I am wrong about any of this, but it seems like the panda bear's evolutionary adaptation is that humans think they are cute. They rarely reproduce, sometimes roll over and kill their own young, and eat bamboo, which I believe they struggle to digest. But, humans love them, so they get lots of protection.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1863/theories-sur...
Brit spelling is not the world's spelling. Do you think people learn English because of England's influence? Guess again.
What if none of the CDMs work on Linux?
The Android KitKat teaser countdown...
Same thing happened on /r/ubuntu as well. It's just plain annoying. This way the real discussion about the new Ubuntu version goes down in the noise of users stating that Saucy hasn't been released yet or doesn't even get started.
Gwern always delivers something interesting (and dense!)
Do all things regress towards the mean - even politics?
Even with shutdown politics, my hypothesis is this shutdown is a blip and means little. All things regress towards the mean - even politics.
Demo page is broken in Firefox.
You can't add API into Qt 4, there are new additions only in Qt 5 and as someone already explained, a lot of stuff from KDE widgets is being upstreamed to Qt 5. New widgets and API are being added. There are no or just little changes simply for one reason: why change something that works? To change stuff just for the sake of change is not a justification and it would only make it more difficult for devs to port their apps from Qt 4 to Qt 5.
You confuse decisions by government with those of the American people.

I can assure you, as an American, I have qualms about blowing up people with anything, including drones... and I hold due process to be one of the most fundamental human rights.
That is a great example of anthropomorphizing. It assigns a human emotion or behavior to an immutable physical characteristic--the shape of a mouth.

But calling an animal's behavior intelligent or playful is only anthropomorphizing if we know that playing and intelligence are unique to humans. Which we don't.
Why does anybody expect that only Hollywood movies would be DRM protected?

Wouldn't DRM be also "about Youtube" and any other web video streaming site (including Facebook?) as soon as it standardized -- practically preventing you to do anything you can do now except watching?

(Now you can actually capture the videos and play them offline).

If you believe DRM wouldn't be used, please present your arguments why it wouldn't.
I didn't miss the start button when jumping to Windows 8, because I use the Windows 8 start screen in exactly the same way as I use the Windows 7 start menu: I hit the Windows key and start typing the name of the program I want and select the program as soon as it appears.

Really, search is the only way to work application choosing now. There are just too many programs on a system now to make scrolling through a list of them an efficient use of time. It was fine back on Windows 95 when I only had an 8gb hard drive, it's awful today when I have two 500gb hard drives.

The other OS' (or rather, their window managers) have the basic implementation of this feature, but the Windows 7/8 version seems to be better about context. It seems to know that, if I type in "cursor", I might want to "change how the mouse pointer looks."
That's not quite what I was after, but it's a good observation. I don't mind outsiders so long as they're energetic and interesting.
Android Staged Rollouts
In other news, The United States has launched a "Freedom Campaign" against itself to locate and seize weapons of mass destruction.
Exactly. Even within a single sheet, the dose per "tab" can vary. Outside of that, even from the same vendor, the dose might vary by a factor of 5. The only remotely reliable method is to take enough to be psychoactive, then wait a week and take it again, trying to hit the point where you have threshold effects (a binary search over dosing strength). Even then you might be off on your dose guessing be 30% or more.

He may have gotten far less LSD than he believes.
There's a discworld book where some inventor manages to build a machine where all the cogs and gears were cut with π = 3. This resulted in unwanted time travel IIRC.
Git was built to replace a proprietary branch-centric (or merge-centric) versioning system that the kernel devs had used previously, because none of the other available systems were suitable (including several DVCSs, which must be branch/merge centric due to the nature of distributedness).

Also try looking into the history of the DaggyFixes idea (that a bug fix should be committed against the earliest revision to contain the bug and then merge into the active branches, rather than committed against current head).
Oops, sorry if the title was misleading! I was trying to point out that there are things that are not related to the algorithms being used that can make learning fail, namely the way that data is collected and noise in the observations.
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We can't have anything involving PHP without:

* complaints about features it has or has not

* a reference to that "a fractal of bad design" article

* how language x is better

* sarcastic notes about the above

* one guy pointing out we can't have anything involving PHP without the above
Actually I prefer SWT or Swing with Java for a mature looking, cross-platform application. I thought Qt went away until I read Ubuntu will use something new for Qt called QML. If I were to consider something for Linux Desktop GUI's other than SWT/Swing/Java I would probably use Gtk+Python.
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Washington was certainly against the idea of parties, but I'm not sure the rest of the framers' had a specific desire to avoid parties. The two party system developed very quickly with the federalists and anti-federalists.
You are assuming that as your age increases you eventually become more and more debilitated. Although this has been true for all of human history, it's not unreasonable to think that this might change during our lifetime. See SENS:

http://www.sens.org/

People associate frailty with age, but it doesn't have to be that way. If we can fix or clean up the underlying processes that cause aging, being 90 years old will be a very different experience.
Yes I felt the same way once I read the price. For $300 dlls you can basically buy this: http://bit.ly/1fFIAlI

Honestly just for the added form factory and the water proof feature I would buy the laptop.

I think the biggest feature of the Raspberry pi is that it is cheap enough that you can give it away to show your software. Additionally you can scale your apps horizontally and basically create a grid without going bankrupt.
Some may, perhaps learned from humans, but in general a dog will signal happiness by e.g. wagging the tail, and "smiling" as in baring teeth signals something like aggression or fear.

Which, of course, is why you should never smile at an angry dog.
The test addresses the presence of the molecule. It doesn't address the quantities present. If the doses he gave himself were smaller than he believed, even by 50%, then the fact that there's no perceptible effects isn't surprising. Given the tiny quantities that he's dealing with anyway, any slight variation of the input conditions (which he didn't account for) would make a huge difference to the output.
You should probably let people know up front that it's a $49/yr paid service after 30 days.
We bought my junior high-aged son a laptop for Christmas last year, and it came with Windows 8. He hates it. I promise you I didn't say anything bad about it (because who wants to convince someone not to like the gift you just gave them?), but he came to me a few days later asking if I could "upgrade it to Mac OS". His words, not mine.

I think the reason he doesn't like it is that it's different from any computer he'd ever used at home or school before, and without any real benefit. He loves the Windows 7 gaming desktop we have in the living room but sees 8 as "weird" without a good reason for being so.

I personally didn't have an opinion on it until I tried to install a network printer and ended up bouncing between the Win 7-style control panel and the Win 8-style wizard thingy because neither one held all of the settings required to make it work. After a few minutes of that, I was about ready to pitch it out the living room window.

TL;DR it radically changed the UI without offering any noticeable advantages for having done so. That's why we came to not like it.
Wow, this Lu guy is going to be the world's first trillionaire, at only 21 years old. Kudos to him for inventing the Internet.
First of all, Qt 5.2 is seeing plenty of new APIs and improvement for authors of QWidget-based applications. Here's a random smattering of concrete, technological examples:

* KDE upstreamed tons and tons of little widget features from its kdeui library into Qt, e.g. more complete keyboard navigation and title support for QMenu, tab bar hiding for QTabBar, default vs. active shortcuts in QAction, clear buttons in QLineEdit, URL drops in QComboBox, place holder texts in QTextEdit, ... there are several dozen improvements to widgets, I don't know where to stop. KPrintDialog features in QPrintDialog is pretty big. QColorDialog, QInputDialog, ...

* KDE upstreamed lots of things it used to do via KGlobalSettings and KStyle into QStyle and Qt's platform plugin system, which means pure-Qt QWidget apps now integrate a lot better with KDE and potentially other target platforms.

* KDE upstreamed its KStandardDirs APIs by adding and extending QStandardPaths, which allows applications authors to more easily deal in standard locations on various desktop platforms.

* KDE upstreamed lots of work on Qt's MIME type system.

* KDE upstreamed its X11 session management handling.

* Lots of stuff in QDesktopServices, QCommandLineParser, QLocale ...

So ok, that should put the "no improvements" spiel to rest; you're not really aware of what's been going on. But even if this wasn't so - why would QWidget be bad to use just because it's not making huge changes?

Let's be clear: Qt 5 swapped out the entire backend underneath QWidget by porting everything to QPA, and it just keeps working. That didn't take no effort. That's called commitment.

Edit: Good and pertinent comment by someone else: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6566635
Some easy way to capture a written reply would be good too. Voice is personal; email not as much. Handwriting is personal for me. Maybe it's a smart phone app that makes it simple to take a picture of a letter or note card. Maybe it makes sense to suggest replying on a 3x5 card or something (instead of a a full sheet of paper) and maybe that simplifies the photo issue. The digital record is captured and then a physical one can be kept. It can also be extended to have your parents take a picture of a picture of their favorite memory
y not write about chaos theory and try od'ing
That is the most common one I've heard of.

Obviously if they are building fpgas into the switch itself then well of course they'd already tried running customized ethernet driver firmware and all.
I second this. I have a paypal account. Recently My account balance went negative. They did sent me emails. but because of the busy schedule, I didn't notice them.

I emailed them, all I got was a computer generated reply. Now I am stuck with it, cause I cant login. And I cant transfer funds from another Paypal account because it says India to India paypal transfers are not allowed.
Quantum computing: a revolution in bits
Please hack my Rails
Notice that "Windows 7 File Recovery" hiding down in the corner? That's the backup feature from Windows 7, working just as it always did.
Anything not specific to wordpress?
1) It can have new features - the are some upstreamed from KDE, and it's just about users coming with new proposals - nobody cames, no new features. Easy.
2) Why would you change something that needs no changing?
3) Lot of efort goes to QML, yes. Why not?
4) Maybe. Nothing prevents you from writing QWidget equivalent of the "cool" QML widget and upstreaming it.

Obsolete stuff is unmaintained. You can rest assured that QWidgets will be maintained and bugs will be fixed.
Which changes shortcuts and removes some keyboard layout customisations, sigh.
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Missed that comment, and very well expressed. Thanks.
It looks like the rim is normal: they say you can specify which rim you want. Therefore I'd say the spokes are attached to the rim by normal nipples. Therefore the wheel can be trued just like any other, unless one's truing stand has some weird limitations.
Forgot Engelbart in mother of all demos (1968)??
Looks just like http://rubular.com/ to me but I guess it covers some different languages
Congress was as unpopular and as full of bad incumbents before the tea party organized.

Also, the tea party republicans have all been reelected recently, so they can't possibly be caused by the high reelection rate. In fact, you would probably see more of them if the advantages of incumbency were diminished.
Chinese scientists achieve Internet access through lightbulbs
Great site, small issue:

After signing up for the mailing list, there is a typo in the link to "continue to our website".
Sometimes you have to be an asshole to yourself
It really depends on what asset class you are trading, like the author mentioned. For equities the performance demands are out of control (< 50 micros). For FX, it's still pretty tight but much more manageable.
New York City has no fewer than 12 congressional districts. Everything is just fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_congressional_dist...
I was going to give you an upvote based on your first sentence. But your second sentence's blind partisanship, combined with the obvious (yet overlooked) conclusion from the numbers you cited, make me back off.

So there's a 10% approval rate, and assume that congress is roughly 50/50 by party. Even if we assume that the GOP's approval rate is 0%, then that leaves the Democrats with only a 20% approval.

Clearly the problem is across the board. While you're throwing stones at the other guy, I think you ought to get your own house in order.

We're trying here not to make this a partisan issue, but to look at systemic solutions.