skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I also recall that buyers leaving 4/5 instead of 5/5 carried more weight than it should've done, because then you didn't have 'perfect' feedback"

URK! Could you be a bit more specific? I rarely give out 5 stars, since in my mind "Excellent" requires something above and beyond "normal", "Good" service, which is the expected level.

Does this just matter for the rare bird who has a 100% rating or thereabouts?
Ask HN: What are you listening to right now?
If you listen to music while working, what are you listening to?
I grew up an (Indian) Army brat, and have enough friends in there to say this: never did I hear a single Army officer express any desire to harm Pakistan by itself. The prevailing view was always "I wish these people would get over Kashmir and leave us alone". Take it for what it's worth.

The Pakistani Army controls a huge sector of the Pakistani economy, and benefits disproportionately in the budget. The only way they can maintain so much power is to have a low-level conflict going with India.

Tomorrow, if Pakistan and India signed a peace accord, and froze the borders where they are, the Pakistani Army would be basically useless. They don't want that.
Awesome scrolling effect on the Pencil in the Crafted For Creativity section.
Could you back up that assertion with proof

Google "latino voting patterns us" and read.

illegal immigrants can't vote to begin with

1. Don't you think that's kind of a myopic view of reality? The children of illegal immigrants are able to vote.
2. You don't see how extreme pandering to illegal immigrants might play into voting patterns of second and third(+) generation descendants?
Yeah this looks like the typical American knee-jerk overreaction to everything these days. It reminded me of the story posted on HN a while back about the guy who got 3 enemas and more asshole searches after getting pulled over for skipping a stop sign and clinching his ass cheeks a bit funny on the car seat while the officer was speaking to him.

What the fuck guys, have the terrorists won? Are you really so shit scared to live normal lives with a slight risk that bad things might go wrong now and then, that you might miss a few bombs, that a few people might die?
Why states are the big winner in the $17 million Google-Safari settlement
Distributed Systems Archaeology, Part One
Deep dive into how SSDs work
Fantastic article, super in-depth, and well written. One of the most in-depth guides to anything lxc related I've ever seen. Thanks for demystifying a little bit of lxc
There should be an app for this: Is is OK to have a [Country X] stamp on my passport when going to [Country Y]?
Hate to break this to you, but the internals of most "premium" vehicles when it comes to things like engines are largely unchanged year to year. I test drove a lot of premium vehicles last year and found most of them were using engines/drivetrains that were still based on 15-20 year old designs with only cosmetic (and cabin electronics) changes over the years.

So in that sense, the Model S is a baby in terms of maturity of the vehicle platform.
Looks interesting. I must have missed the part where they explain with which tablets and apps this pencil is compatible.
Is this pressure sensitive?
Computer giant Lenovo plays down China roots
What I thought this was judging by the name (and what I want): Windows-style window 'snapping' at the edges. Pull window to the left to dock in the left 50% of the screen. To the right for the right 50% of the screen. Up to take up the whole screen.

One of the few things I miss about Windows.
Pencil looks really cool!! but that video made my stomach turn a bit. As someone who used to edit videos, I can't image working on that, I would have puked for sure.
We asked for Android support and this is what we get instead?

http://support.fiftythree.com/customer/portal/questions/8218...
Five of the most-liked Washington Post comments from the last 24 hours
you are not alone in this.
I work with major automotive manufacturers to develop software for their vehicles. Almost all of the major OEM's are planning to have OTA software updates for their vehicles within the next 2-3 years. Security is always considered and there are plenty of audits and limitations placed on it to keep it secure. Tesla is a bit ahead of the game here, but their software methodology will be the norm.
Thanks for sharing this link.

LXC has gotten me very excited about testing new linux services on a home box again. I always worry about exposing a server to the internet with any new services. The idea that a compromise on the box could leak everything that's on the box usually leads me to avoid exploring new services.

LXCs seem to give me hope that I could experience a compromise, but not lose everything.
Yahoo is extending encryption across its services
Why is he using disqus for primary content? If I want to see the discussion, I'll turn disqus on. When the primary content is hidden like this, I just go elsewhere.
Yeah, I thought this was a Web page advertising an actual pencil.
Legacy IE got few things right, this was one of them.
Gadgets of The Future - 10 Cool Concepts
You can achieve this using a mod like BetterTouchTool or BetterSnapTool, with customizable options.
No, it's clearly stated that this pencil is compatible with Paper. Paper is an iOS app, therefore this product is compatible with the iPad family.
I can't hear words while I'm working or I get really distracted, so although I grew up on metal most of my working music ends up being classical music. Right now it's Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto #3).

My main rotation includes Beethoven's 9th, 4th, 3rd, 5th, and 6th symphonies. I wish I could listen to new classical music, but I can't disappear into my work while listening to new music.

That said, there's nothing like a little Master of Puppets or Ride the Lightning once in a while as I'm working.
I've been using Screenfloat (http://www.screenfloatapp.com) for a long time, the one thing that I didn't like about it was the delay involved from screenshot execution to display. Sometimes this could take 4-5 sec which was a pain cause I needed it to be instantaneous. SnappyApp solves this problem so thank you, you've just become the replacement :)
Carriers Reject a ‘Kill Switch’ For Preventing Cellphone Theft
See the Frequently Asked Questions at http://shop.fiftythree.com/
It's compatible with Paper, the iOS app. I didn't get it at first either, but then it clicked.
JavaScript Arduino programming framework
I wonder how this performs on short text posts like tweets. At my last gig where we did social media text analysis we used a few different packages (chromium, guess-language, and our own ngram classifier) and still had pretty low accuracy for tweets.
Mapping Bitcoin
I took the survey, which got me thinking about my staging environments then I concluded that it wasn't that big of a pain. The main thing that came to mind was db schema synchronization.
Paper is the only "entertainment" app I actually installed on my iPad. (I don't have games, news or social media apps.) On its own, Paper is already a very interesting experience. The content is simple but provides tons of possibilities.

I also own a Wacom stylus that I never use. Pencil seems to solve the main issues of a stylus: being able to rest your palm, to erase easily, and to keep it close at hand (by snapping it to the iPad cover).

It's a perfect example of software / hardware synergy.
With that being the most common feedback you get, I would highly recommend adding some good use cases to your landing page to tell people why they should want to use it.
Pearl Jam's Lightning Bolt (CD)

Also on Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VJb5CFon1Y
Bitcoin could become predictable like that, or at least not matter so much if it wasn't compared to other currencies... People think in terms of I want to buy $100 worth of this in bitcoin.. -- but when vendors start having flat BTC prices tha t don't fluctuate against the dollar value, or ONLY accept bitcoin, etc... then it might stabilize a little more and become more of a true currency.
launch an android version
It's bizarre if expecting the Golden Rule to be followed...

It appears to be a system made to disadvantage newcomers. This is visible in the Baby Boomer's treatment of the younger class, immigration and in frat houses.

"You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl." -Bono Vox
You might like BetterSnapTool - https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/bettersnaptool/id417375580?m...
Sigh, and now it's one of select demo apps in every Apple store. It alone almost made me buy an iPad. Way to go Bill Gates shutting down Courier, well done.
After N.S.A. Disclosures, Yahoo Moves to Encrypt Internal Traffic
True, but the onerous nature of the experience has impacted the popularity of the US as a tourist destination.

"The United States' share of the total travel market is down, to 11.2 percent in 2010 from 17.3 percent in 2000"

"There were also big declines in the same period in travel from France (down 23.2 percent), Brazil (down 20.3 percent), Germany (down 19.2 percent) and Japan (down 5.8 percent)."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/business/with-brand-usa-us...
We use completely different scripts. And while the street language is the same, the moment you start getting formal, the languages start to differ widely. Non-colloquial Urdu is very influenced by Farsi, whereas non-colloquial Hindi is very influenced by Sanskrit.

It's kinda like Ubuntu vs Kubuntu. They're both Ubuntu, but with different Desktop Environments.
It's amazing how our hindsight is so clear, lets pat ourselves on the back!

I used to use dropbox, but after running in on a bunch of devices and having to learn the quirks of each implementation and its sync hassles I left it. SFTP is simple, free, ubiquitous, and the words 'conflict resolution' never come up when I use it.
We won't disappoint. :)
This is incredibly neat and I do not at all mean to discourage the development of more tools. However, is this really that much more capable than considering all of the other tooling that can help in writing a kernel module in C? That is, you have more than just the C compiler at your disposal nowdays. Valgrind and such.

Simply put, how much more capable is this? Certainly more concise and has some aesthetic appeal. Just curious if it brings a lot more to the table.
They did patent it, yeah.
Python (Monty) reunion?
Please level up on your reading comprehension and see if you care to reframe your criticism.

And Lloyd Blankfein grew up in a housing project in Brooklyn. In fact, the same housing project that Jay-Z did. It turns out that where hard work and preparation meet opportunity, there is luck to be won.

I was born here as the child of two lower-class immigrant parents from different parts of the globe. Now I'm a one percenter. My wife grew up in a single parent household from the age of three, moved to NYC with $300 20 years ago and is also a wildly successful person.

Rags to riches is not a fairy tale in the USA. It DOES happen but not without lots of hard work. Luck plays a part, but you'd be AMAZED at how many people with the good fortune to be US citizens can't manage to even get out of bed in the morning to take advantage of the amazing opportunities here.
> Well you'd have to have a significant percent of people invest in bitcoin instead of investing in something else.

Right. Bitcoin is mostly harmless so long as its not a significant currency.

> And even then I'm not certain how much an effect it would have as speculating on commodities is very common already and a necessary part of the economy.

Speculation on commodities that are outputs of production/extraction provides a useful function in terms of signal for resource allocation in a market economy.

> And from an individual perspective, having slightly more money in your pocket or bank account everyday is definitely a good thing.

If you have a net positive position in a currency, sure; if you're a debtor, having the value of the currency in which your debt is denominated being slightly more valuable each day is definitely a bad thing. Deflationary currency basically serves as an continuous upward transfer of wealth.
You're both right. He's suggesting to lie for survival.

Nonetheless, it is lying, and that has its own risks associated with it. Beyond honor, if people notice that you are lying on your resume, you start getting added to blacklists and those blacklists start spreading around.

You see, if you fail the typical interview, you are simply not hired. If you LIE in the typical interview, and the interviewer notices it, you may be banned for life from that company.

This is doubly-so for consultants. Consultants are sold based on their resume. IE: They may have found a Government Contract position that requires 3 years of experience, and naturally... they'll then look for people with 3 years of experience. They may be put in a very perilous legal position, and their Government Contract may be terminated. You aren't only putting yourself at risk here, but also the company that just hired you.

PS: its much much worse now that Mr. Snowden ruined it all for Contractors without a degree and little experience. Mr. Snowden has been cited explicitly as a case WHY you don't hire non-graduates.

http://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/15200/blacklist...

http://www.hazards.org/victimisation/bigliars.htm
Days to Come by Bonobo

http://www.last.fm/music/Bonobo/Days+to+Come
Why is this SEO bullshit on the front page?
I'm currently in the market for a new TV 50-55", preferably the least smart, the better.

Any suggestions? I can't seem to find any non-smart TVs that are reasonably current with at least 3 HDMI ports.
I'll confirm this. I am using three-finger-swipes for window snapping. Up maximises, left makes it take up 50% and is positioned to the left (vice versa for right swipe) and swipe down minimises the window.

It is great.
Yes, I read it. I'm just saying that even if it's Ghostery fault, I would rather use it than not for the privacy reasons.
Yes, you did.

But nobody saw it because it was killed.

Next time figure out why, maybe banned domain, and work around it or accept that the story will be lost.
Can I hide the icon from the top bar?
Kvelertak - Offernatt

http://open.spotify.com/track/0dmuLSApa5iIbuabYLq9T2
Absolutely! I am very interested by their approach in this area because integration with existing infrastructure is essential for practical work in this area, but reasoning about existing infrastructure is a lot harder than it needs to be.

This is a relatively old presentation of theirs, but it has a decent overview of what they have used Haskell for. http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/year/2010/course/TDA555/Mater...
I'm afraid so. While I still lived in the US (I'm American), my Malaysian wife lost her green card. As a result, she just had a stamp in her passport (this was the temporary green card) for ages, and each time we flew into NYC we were sent to the "back room" for further questioning.

The agents in front were often somewhat rude; in the back there was a sort of waiting room (with often 20 or so people in chairs) and a front desk where the agents would literary SHOUT at the people called up in front of them. It was not a private interview room (though presumably those were available as well). We were silently horrified during the 10 minutes or so they were shouting and badgering a cringing 60 year old Greek (I think?) man with poor English who apparently had something related to child support out of order in his documents.

There's something very hard to shake about the feeling you get when you are obliged to act polite & unconcerned to petty officials like these when you are inwardly seething with rage.

We left the US in 2006, and still go back on occasion (parents, friends, etc. are still there!), though the last time was now a few years ago. We still dread the immigration experience, though; it's likely to be fine (we don't make stupid mistakes about what we say, and we fake friendliness well), but it always feels like somehow, something will go wrong.

We've were once detained for 45 minutes or so at the English border as well, driving up from France -- we made the mistake of entering while pregnant without being prepared for their suspicion (NHS leeches!) -- but while it was frustrating to be stopped & questioned, they were impeccably polite and kind to us (though they did put a warning in my wife's passport without a word to us... we didn't notice until the next trip through the UK, when we were questioned about that).
Those desks from ergo depot he mentions in the article, look awesome, but quite pricey. Anyone know where to get a cheap one?
This is wonderful and beautiful. I don't want to knock it. I'll probably buy one and love it.

If you like this, also look at the demo video for Adobe's project Mighty/Napoleon, a pen and drafting tool combo that is pretty incredible: http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/17/adobe-xd-mighty-napoleon-...

What I think is sad about both of these products is that they are tied to specific apps. These closed ecosystems get to be more powerful instead of becoming tools on top of which larger things can be hacked together. I don't blame 53 or Adobe for that: making open hardware with open standard communication is probably incredibly hard, and getting it to interact with a tablet operating system through anything other than your one app is perhaps impossible.

But it's still sad.

With the growing popularity of hardware hacking, it's only natural that developers will start making our own physical tools the same way we write our own software tools. Unix makes this easy by providing abstractions like pipes, sockets, etc. for getting small programs to work together using common interfaces.

What are the OS-level abstractions that will make it easier to build, combine, and reuse our own hardware tools? The current methods for using device drivers, detecting wireless devices, or sharing them across a network are not very open to reuse and sharing.

What is the way forward where we can use something like this pencil with its smart palm rejection and erase, hack together our own physical drafting tool, and plug them both in to existing software by writing a little adapter?

It makes me wonder whether we need to go back and steal some of the bits of plan9/inferno: a single abstraction around sharing both data and devices, a natural way to multiplex input and output streams, and transparent network sharing of everything.
Using JavaScript as our "operating system"
"I'm not scared. But it's kind of exciting. It's like I'm in a movie. You're just doing your job. I get that."

Like in movies - yeah, "The Departed" police interview scenes comes to my mind. Stamp visas to some other foreign countries? This one was the hallmarks of visa policy in Gaddafi's Libya - the no Israeli ties tolerated (not even touristic visas). Or a raincoat? Really? Speaking about the human rights, how come this kind of behavior is still warranted?
The End of Retail as we know it
Home Automation Startup August Raises $8 Million From Maveron
Well, this works both ways. If you don't have a war chest, the rights holders aren't going to get much money from you (blood from a stone and all that).

The theory that this results in a side effect of Amazon destroying massive quantities of used merchandise, since that's the cheapest option for the target, is just about as plausible. A number of rights holders have been whining about used media, now that it's a LOT more durable than in the bad old, pre-polycarbonate, pre-digital era.
Rust is not fast
LinkedIn’s New Showcase Pages Allow Companies To Highlight Specific Products
I never saw anything plausible, let alone conclusive.
Acko.net
It took me until they started describing USB port when I realized that this is not a page making fun of shitty iPad accessories, but an actual shitty iPad accessory.
Tell me it's not Apple-only. Tell me it's not Apple-only...

crosses fingers

Oh, bugger. It's Apple-only.
No, it does not seem to be. But, I'm not sure why it's not pressure sensitive. It seems like that is something that they could have added using the bluetooth connection. I'm guessing that functionality would have made it too expensive or fragile.
Consider the incentives. What's the penalty for stamping the passport of a would-be terrorist? Fired, shamed, guilty conscience for life. What's the penalty for deporting a fun-loving Canadian? Angry blog post. Easy call for them.
Intel Bay Trail Competitive With Apple's A7
curl -XPOST -d 'hello' 'https://getlang.io/get?token=...'
{
"code": "fi",
"name": "suomi, suomen kieli",
"name_en": "Finnish"
}

O_O
a) They aren't? Why not?
b) You seem to be changing the nature of your objection. First you imply that they're under fire now because of privacy issues, then when GP points out they're always under fire for something you say that's no excuse to let them off the hook.

If you believe they're releasing this specifically because they're under fire, by that criteria it's never OK for them to release a "feelgood" ad.

As I recall, Google has been releasing feelgood ads for years - has it all been to nefarious purpose? They're a large consumer company. They're advertising - which includes tugging heartstrings if it gets them more customers.
Agreed; but I'd rather have the problem solved server-side, and allow a publication to own its comments. That said, comments in general appear to be falling out of favour.
Bookmarks are older than Opera 12 and they're gone as well
A Hash Function for Hash Table Lookup
this. And the absence of the mail client, of course.
Firefox 25 on OSX gives me:

The address wasn't understood

Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because
the protocol (site) isn't associated with any program.

You might need to install other software to open this
address.

Firefox 21 on Ubuntu was giving me the same thing, I don't think I've tried it on Firefox 25 on my Ubuntu install.
The other reason he will never, ever go back to the US is because he's likely on a watch list now and will be denied any attempt to enter.

It's a shame that happened. The traveler has had an unfortunate interest in traveling to multiple countries with which the US has hostile relationships. And then entered the US in a slightly unconventional way by train via Canada. I think that's a stupid reason to deny entry because an actual "terrorist" would surely have fake documents anyway.

Perhaps the moral if the story is to get a replacement passport without the stamps if you have travelled a lot and take a direct flight.
> Another propaganda. Hindi-Urdu (or Hindustani) was the most spoken and widely understood language in undivided India.

Disagreed, if by Hindi you mean khari boli, a language restricted to the "cow belt". You gave an explanation why Bengali was prevalent, OP's point was that Bengali was prominent. Why it was so was besides the point.

>To blame a newly formed government of an enslaved country, of 'exerting political influence'

It still does not change the fact that it was imposed. BTW I am by mo means Tamil.
Yes, absolutely. You can connect all of the servers to the same MimicDB instance as you would with Redis.
Rumor: Supplier now building 12.9-inch Apple iPad displays for early 2014 launch
Genius, in my opinion.

Naming their products on such a broad term effectively establishes them as the "category killer" -- a competitor will never be able to find a name that's more effective[1].

[1]: http://www.igorinternational.com/process/silk-naming-consume...
That's the point to fall asleep.
Don't ever lie. Lying to a cop is a crime. (and/or it could get you into worse trouble later on...) But, like the parent-poster said: tell a simple, boring story.

(You think that you're out to have fun on this exciting new adventure in life... your vacation!, your new business trip!, whatever. But they're looking for anything strange. They are bored, boring, unimaginative government bureaucrats. Give them the simple, bored, boring, short (but honest) summary of "the purpose of your visit". TFA said that getting searched is "just like in the movies!"... don't do that. Just... don't. Do not share any enthusiasm about anything with CBP.)