skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons unemployment is not higher in the United States is because we have effectively outsourced much of our manufacturing needs to China. When manufacturing needs dropped dramatically, Chinese factories were impacted directly.

At one point, China considered a 9 percent annual growth rate the bare minimum it needed to maintain to accomodate the migrants going from country to city and/or to prevent social unrest (if those migrants could not find jobs). I don't know what their revised minimum growth rate is now - but it is clear China was dependent on its biggest customer, the American consumer.
They're competing over how much they can get away with.
Dan Weinreb: Programming with concurrency, clojure excitement
Tech savvy people should already know how to prevent viruses. Use Firefox. Don't download random crap.
That may have been an early release. I stand by our article and my own personal experiences. Evernote is a fantastic note taking app. The latest version I just installed is lightening fast. The Mac client is solid. If you are in the market for a note taking app, I highly recommend it.

Editor-in-Chief
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sorry they are non-tech-savvy.. of course!
a lot of the stuff they cant sell commerically because of the limitations placed on the BBC. They do have a commercial arm (which is what runs dave) but it's confusing quite what that owns (right's wise).
Almost all Windows users vulnerable to Flash zero-day attacks
Akismet + post-moderation is definitely the way to go. If you're using pre-moderation (ie. it doesn't show until the blog owner clicks "OK"), please say so in the comment form so I can leave before wasting my time.
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It actually has been nibbledish for a while now (February, 2009) see: http://thenextweb.com/2009/02/05/tsavo-acquires-recipe-shari...
not only is this irrelevant but this news is pretty old too..
Not to take away from the discussion, but is anyone else attending eRubyCon (http://erubycon.com/) that Charles mentions in this article. Would be nice to meet and put faces on a few fellow HN'ers.
You have to be over 50 to have run in the era before heavily cushioned running shoes; they came in about the time that the running boom took off. Comparing injury rates before 1975 and after requires that one take many factors into account, including body types and running surfaces. Most of us are running along asphalt and concrete, not east African savannah.
Seriously, tho' this is what's wrong with the IT industry. Meta their job descriptions up one level and their roles are all "Ruby implementor". Just one's flavour of the month and one isn't. Imagine your company was switching from Linux distro A to distro B and simply sacked all the sysadmins and hired ones with a different "certification".

Engine Yard would get eaten alive for this anywhere in Europe.
They ditched floppy drives years before anyone in the PC world too, and it did us a lot of good. There were far more useful replacements at the time (Zip drive, CD-R etc.) and the floppy really was something that needed to be abandoned.
TFS MVP Deleted Comments on His Blog
Wordsworth responds to Amazon in 2000; bankrupt in 2004
Hayden Panettiere in Cute Summer Suite 
Nicole Richie in cute poses she is superb is acting all kind of wallpapers are there....
Damnit I'm on Atkins ramidarigaz but between yours and Paul's seductive suggested meals I'm terribly tempted to snap.
There's so much wasted space on the side of a widescreen. I've never understood why people want them for their computers, as opposed to tall screens. After all, we read across a short way, and downwards a long way.
"Our website does fairly well, in spite of us. We have put very little in terms of monetary resources in it and we are every marketer's nightmare."

4 years later: http://news.bookweb.org/news/2982.html

Wordsworth still feels like it's missing from Harvard Square. Back in the day, 10% off cover was a pretty good deal.
Another delicious sounding recipe. Perhaps there should be a HN foodie guide?
Agreed. Merging stop and the spinner makes sense, but merging with reload none at all.
Useful kernel and driver performance tweaks for your Linux server
http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(09)00027-0/abstr...

Physical attractiveness and reproductive success in humans: evidence from the late 20th century United States☆

Markus Jokela

Received 9 February 2009; accepted 23 March 2009. published online 12 May 2009.

Abstract

Physical attractiveness has been associated with mating behavior, but its role in reproductive success of contemporary humans has received surprisingly little attention. In the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (1244 women, 997 men born between 1937 and 1940), we examined whether attractiveness assessed from photographs taken at age ∼18 years predicted the number of biological children at age 53–56 years. In women, attractiveness predicted higher reproductive success in a nonlinear fashion, so that attractive (second highest quartile) women had 16% and very attractive (highest quartile) women 6% more children than their less attractive counterparts. In men, there was a threshold effect so that men in the lowest attractiveness quartile had 13% fewer children than others who did not differ from each other in the average number of children. These associations were partly but not completely accounted for by attractive participants' increased marriage probability. A linear regression analysis indicated relatively weak directional selection gradient for attractiveness (β=0.06 in women, β=0.07 in men). These findings indicate that physical attractiveness may be associated with reproductive success in humans living in industrialized settings.

See also:

Kanazawa, Satoshi and Miller, Alan (2007) Why beautiful people have more daughters: from dating, shopping, and praying to going to war and becoming a billionaire: two evolutionary psychologists explain why we do what we do. Perigee Book, New York. ISBN 0399533656
At the moment it doesn't look like you show -how- the solver solves the problem. Showing how your solver works, by visualizing backtracking / guesses it makes, would be really cool.
See
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726544
'360 video camera played with flash
sourced from http://www.yellowbirdsdonthavewingsbuttheyflytomakeyouexperiencea3dreality.com/
I agree. Plus, Apple's walled garden approach makes the more open android market a lot more appealing.
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Related to, but a different slant on,
http://www.mikeash.com/getting_answers.html

Discussion of that here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=682864
I suppose it's to avoid the conflict between short-term personal gain (X is making a good product) and the more general long-term global loss (X actions go against my personal principles; X makes the world a worse place to live).
I quibble with one small part of this article:

[Evolutionary psychology] has had the field to itself, especially in the media, for almost two decades. In large part that was because early critics, led by the late evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, attacked it with arguments that went over the heads of everyone but about 19 experts in evolutionary theory.

Philip Kitcher's Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature (MIT Press, 1987) is a thorough devastating takedown of sociobiology, especially what Kitcher calls "pop sociobiology". Except for bits of the first and last chapters, it is entirely based on empirical arguments rather than "OMG the political implications of this are awful"; and you don't need a biology degree to understand it.

All the arguments I have seen for the controversial claims in popularized evolutionary psychology (e.g., "this behavior exists and therefore it must be adaptive") were answered by Kitcher twenty years ago. (I don't follow the field, so if there are people doing good work in evo-psych that is too boring for the mainstream press, well, good for them.)

(Kitcher also wrote Abusing Science, a takedown of "creation science", back when it was called "creation science" rather than "intelligent design".)
On One Laptop per Child
I can understand that. I know many people who decided to go a step down in prestige (quality of university education can be tricky, but I think most people will agree on the level of prestige of an institution at least roughly), my wife and I both included.

But not being able to afford an elite private school is very different from not being able to afford a university education.
By my little experience, both of you are right. I´m facing both problems right now, today, this morning. I got a lot of friends with a lot of skills and desire to win building theirs own business, but they are not going to do that ... For example, i have two friends that with me invest on Forex Market. We used to work like slaves, to get our objective, build a profitable forex system (odds of win here are even worse than in the startups world, it´s about 5%). Two straight years of work ... but ... one of my friends get a girlfriend. Now he have to take more responsability because she lives in another city and if he wants to stick with her, he must get a job (some girlfriends are expensive!). Indeed he get one ... but ... he had to quite our little venture, he made a choice of take responsability for his new life (a job and a girlfriend), he could not hold on with the responsability of running behind this "fancy" dream ...

In another way, my parents wants me to quit from my dreams (build an forex system and a web based software startup) until my 18. They want me working for the government. Here at Brazil, work for Microsoft and Google are similar to work for the Government. Their point is that i have to be like everybody from my age, get a safe job, be independent, earn my own money and leave home (22 years old now). This kind of responsability is far more hard for me to take than the other. I can quite a (expensive)girlfriend and the status quo of having a job, but i cant ignore what my parents say and stay focused ! I wake up and sleep with this in my mind every day ! It´s like if a man must take a job to be a man, if not, you are just a kiddo. And being a kiddo on your 22 is being a loser. Being a loser is very hard to take.

Thanks both of you for pointing this types of responsability. And sorry for my bad english.
Aurgh. Mockups!
Apple has taken Microsoft's place as the biggest bully on the block.

Microsoft seems closed and bullying next to the FS/OSS communities, but its success among proprietary vendors has traditionally been a result of its relative openness - to hardware platforms and devices, to third party developers, to add-ons and plugins and even competing products.

Sure, they threw their monopoly power around by bundling applications with their OS, but it's not like they actively prevented third party developers from making competing products available.

(Obligatory aside: I'm no Microsoft apologist. I had been replacing proprietary software with open software on XP for several years, and when it came time to replace my PC, Vista was so bad that I finally made the jump to Linux. Likewise, I'm holding out for Android before investing in a handheld device.)

Apple, by contrast, has always been fanatically controlling about their products. They ship slick, highly refined products, but the flipside of that obsessive attention to detail is an obsessive need to control how you use those products.

The App Store is just business as usual: Apple exercising its customary full-spectrum vertical dominance of the entire hardware/software stack.
The worst part about the polygraph (besides the fact that it is pseudo-science, they migth as well be using voodoo dolls), is that it punishes those who are honest and rewards good liars. Over the years, they eventually they end up with a bunch of lying sociopaths.
It's his blog. He can do what he wants. Personally, I would no longer visit.
SpecWatch: The Dark Side of Crowdsourcing Design
Diätplan - Shed All Those Extra Kilos with the Most Effective Diet Plan
I am an American in Australia, couldn't they use something other than my IP to verify my identity?
If I eat soup with a spoon rather than a fork, does that prove that I have an eating-soup-with-a-spoon gene that was passed down to me by my Pleistocene ancestors, while carriers of the competing eating-soup-with-a-fork gene died of thirst?

Obviously there are some aspects of human behavior that were probably selected for in a Darwinian fashion; it's probably no accident that most humans prefer not to live a celibate life, for example. But that doesn't mean you can trace the link from every behavior back to some genetic root.
Good point and good idea :)
Prison consultants help inmates get good digs
Just a thought, but when did rape appear and when did we become aware that sex and birth were related?

I mean a fellow seeds and flees and 9 months later, who is the wiser?
I use Tab mix plus

http://tmp.garyr.net/
Sounds like a "recipe" for disaster (excuse the pun).

Part of success is learning to strike a balance that allows you to spend a lot of time on your product but also leave time for maintaining your personal health and sanity. You can't go full force, full time for very long without burning out. The pitfalls have been discussed here a lot.

Cooking can be excellent opportunity to take a break from your work to refresh and nourish your mind, and also learn a new and valuable skill in the process.
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IBM buys SPSS for $1.2 Billion
I'm using the shoe industry as an illustration of creating solutions to problems created by the previous solution.

In the case of shoes it seems silly that MBT shoes claim to allow you to walk "barefoot", my point is "what's wrong with your actual bare foot"?

In addition to your point I, recording of sports injuries was probably unheard of before the sports industry got going.
IBM acquires SPSS
"Saddled with DRM", how exactly?

Amazon reserves the right to delete files from your device if it decides they violate Amazon's terms of service. That in itself is enough DRM to keep me away.
For the non-MSFT crowd, "TFS" = Team Foundation Server, a Visual Studio suite of testing and development tools (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Foundation_Server). "MVP"
is MSFT's voted position that is a recognized person who contributes to the community. MVPs are for a particular piece of software so to be an "TFS MVP" means the original blogger supposedly contributes to the TFS community.
An update: The original blogger, Ben Day, posted a mea culpa here: http://blog.benday.com/archive/2009/07/27/23233.aspx
FTA:

The point is, as much as I like Apple's attention to detail, its outstanding industrial design, I can't justify buying a product that's not really mine. Call me spoiled, but using stuff like Linux made me feel I am really in control. The netbook is mine, and nobody will make my computer do something I don't approve. If it ceases to work, it will be my fault.

This is exactly why I switched from XP to Linux rather than to OSX. I'd rather tinker with my own system than be passively impressed with the feature set of Apple's system.
"In the Army study of I.E.D. detection, researchers found that troops who were good at spotting bombs in simulations tended to think of themselves as predators, not prey. That frame of mind by itself may work to reduce anxiety, experts say."

This was interesting -- I wonder if it's translatable to complex workplaces, rife with politics & unpredictable threats to the success of one's project.

The article also brings to mind this New Yorker article on trackers: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/11/29/041129fa_fact_ti...
Hide and Seek with jQuery
I'm actually working on an automatic grader for captured puzzles right now - this will use the same logic techniques that a human solver would use so should give a real indication of how tough a puzzle actually is.
How much control do you have over the computers? Just the power to suggest whatever best practices they can understand?

If you can, get them to stop using internet explorer, and stop logging in as root. Using a separate drive or partition for data, and making a practice of reinstalling the OS from the CD whenever they're infected can be good, too, especially if you can make a known-good image with all their applications and the latest patches.

Successful security involves a certain mindset, though; and if the owner of the system isn't willing to adopt that mindset, your efforts will only go so far.
Well... Maybe it's old. But Food hacking counts in I guess :).
Transparent aluminium is 'new state of matter'
found via @monkchips on twitter
Another elitist attempting to impose her values on the world. Her assumption is that consumers aren't able to make tradeoffs on their own but by her own admission, people who buy the cheap DVD player recognizes that it might not last - and it's not like there isn't choice in the market and the option for the consumer to buy a more expensive DVD player but they chose not to.

Further, this assumption that made in the USA naturally means higher quality is bunk. As someone who does a lot of buying of machined parts, Asian sourcing is often cheaper and better in quality if you do your research. Finally, this assumption that buying cheap naturally means buying from sweatshops is simply protectionist and untrue. Nor does offshoring low end production mean that the US is losing jobs as Apple shows repeatedly - http://reason.tv/video/show/834.html.
So is this HN because they had "OpenSource" in the name, or is there another secret that differentiates this from the other recipe sites?
Because capitalism is built on a series of MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL transactions.

It's not only that: capitalism is also built extensively on explicit or implied social norms that cultivate customer loyalty to a company that makes and keeps ethical as well as contractual promises.

Market norms and values are what they are, but people live in social and ethical worlds, and most people expect their business transactions to be ethically as well as economically acceptable.
Lightweight augmented reality like this is going to be much more of a game changer than most people think. Today its just a toy that figures out whats missing in your sudoku, soon it will help you figure out whats wrong with your car, or where that bus is going, or whats in that hamburger.

I'd kill for an app thats linked to octopart so I can point my iphone at a circuit board and little bubbles appear telling me what all of the parts are and how to order replacements... pls make, kthnx.
Anyvite: Get Your Party Started (useful tools review)
Page works fine for me now from the UK. Probably just a standard issue technical glitch :)
the various full stack rubies are cute, but if i don't have grown up concurrency then i'm not interested.

A place for everything. Ruby's weak threading is a shame, but doesn't keep Ruby/Rails from being an exceptionally productive way to build and deploy small/medium web applications, and to bootstrap large web applications.

Don't call Ruby "bad" because it's worse than Scala at Scala's strongest points.

you had better get serious about staking out your turf on the jvm

Also, isn't that the whole point of this article? A lot of Rubyists are doing this right now.
Very Cool... I want to make a movie with it.
Barcodes for the rest of us
Google Voice iPhone app rejected
I like this idea, but honestly, the one thing I've always hated about QT vr and now this is how janky the controls feel.

They need to bring in a video game control designer to tweak the mouselook.
True. I remember reading about the pressure being put on BBC's commercial arm by the British press due to the vast sums of money it can rake in. The problem being that license payers have paid for this, and so should be considered shareholders(?), and yet we get no choice in how BBC media is used commercially or how the fortunes are reinvested. Seems a shame that the BBC cowers in the background, perpetually outputting a standard quality product when in truth it has the opportunity to truly innovate. Dunno, maybe I'm just expecting too much from them, but I can't help but think that somewhere along the line, they missed a trick.
That's a shame. I wonder if we could find other natural processes like this? I wonder if electricity seeming to instantly know the path of least resistance could be wired up to solve traveling salesman somehow?
It's the Pirate Bay for food.
Why won't Obama talk to Israel?
God damn. They used two little kids as bait. Fucking monsters.
I want to make an app where you can take a picture of a resistor and it tells you the value by reading the colored bands. It would be really cool, but I'm not sure where to start. I really need a book on computer vision.
Yet another reason to avoid success at all costs.
The explanation of why usability matters that Joel links to

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000806.html

is still important today.
A New Space Program (w/ insight into Constellation, space fuel depots)
Most researchers make their work as publicly available as possible. It's in their benefit to do so: the onus is on them to convince their peers their work is good and significant. In order to do so, they want to make it as easy to find as possible.

Also, your time breakdown of a professor's week is absurd. They're required to be in class for 6-12 hours per week, but every (good) hour of lecture requires about three hours of prep time. Grading work takes time. And their greatest time sink is research. A young professor trying to attain tenure is putting in 60-70 hour weeks, 12 months of the year. Research continues when classes aren't in session.

You're getting upset over the actions of a person who doesn't exist.
From my Amazon review of "More Joel on Software":

Anyone even considering working on shrink-wrap software, especially in a small company, should read this book. (Anyone considering consultingware should especially read the last chapter; it will convince you not to, unless you are a masochist.)

The chapter mentioned is available at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/SetYourPriorities.htm...
Any money to be made with Android? And does it have an accelerometer? if so I'm close to being sold.
The iPhone in China -- and what it means for the U.S.
Yeah, a good friend of mine used to whip out his Tux card to make me jealous in 1999. I then would whip out the Yoda card in my wallet, and a duel would ensue. Of course since Tux doesn't have opposable thumbs, Yoda won every time.
Pretty much. Popularized descriptions already strain the edges of what could be considered correct under general relativity, and then when we throw string theory into the mix, things get even messier.

To give you a sense how bad it gets there, string theory results and arguments have to be "popularized" to an almost meaningless level just so that theoretical physicists that don't work in string theory can understand them, just because the whole field is so young and complex; filter that once more through a journalist, and you can end up with some pretty wacky claims, even if they're completely true.

I'd make no specific claims as to whether this research means anything or not, though; it's a famously speculative field, with only the barest of observable evidence to go on, and effects from pretty much every length and energy scale factor crucially into any cosmological evolution, making it all but impossible to say with any certainty that one proposed solution is better than another. This is where you start to get people arguing in terms of symmetry and beauty rather than observation, which brings physics awfully close for comfort to philosophy...