skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as a developer, he probably first thought about quitting the moment after you suggested the page flip animation.

all things aside, I don't see how these is room for this product with kindle and ibooks already well established. I know you can't create your own "flip books" through these services, but not everyone is an author.

just my critical feedback — I find it's hard to come by.
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> I clearly stated that it's a hypothesis.

Yes, after someone explicitly asked you to back up your initial statement.

> The biggest assumption, that immigrants are less risk-averse, sounds very plausible to me.

And that's my point. All you need to talk about hereditary traits in these contexts is some vague notion of what seems plausible and believable, and not any actual data. And yet, people are probably going to find it more believable because genetics are involved than someone who explicitly bases it on some purely sociological theory, because genes sound more tangible than sociological theory and the statistics based on that.

It's not that there is anything wrong with making up theories. But by stating that it has to do with genes - without any initial disclaimer that it is just a theory - makes it sound like it is based on data and not just a theory.
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Cows have been an enslaved species for thousands of years. More cows die at the hands of humans in a week than all the humans that have been slain in human history. Sounds worse than Putin dicking around to me...
Founders aren't fungible.
Interesting, and kudos on the Guardian redesign if you were involved - the article pages are my favourite bit of the redesign. I would love to see this sort of bespoke treatment on the home page, which is still a bit incoherent and unfocussed. It'd be great to see a home page takeover for really important stories which gave space to one particularly important story or shot for a day, in the same way that paper newspapers sometimes used to allow the takeover of their first page for important events.

Can you go into a bit more detail for us about what the back-end which supports this is like, what sort of entities you use in your CMS (above just basic pages), what sort of techniques you use to separate out styles which are only used on one page/section etc? Are you just working on some stories for the Guardian team, or working full-time on Guardian stuff?
Or multiplication.
Which is worse: taking a job under false pretenses, or abusing animals?

The balance of the good seems clear to me.
There is no delicate or acceptable way of providing blatantly sexist feedback.
I am European. It's a stereotype.
Using Baysian type on data is very damaging on society, for those with strong maths:

We'll move from causality( we noticed you are stocking up on baking powder, lets chat) to inference (according to our data there is 85% chance you are not compliant - w/o a cause).

One outcome: The populace will be demotivated to do anything, just to be safe.
we should also have JSON comments
But off-duty officers are just civilians? They have no added powers to use force against citizens?
No, he's saying that you have to put your career on the back seat while you get your family off the ground. And that's a good thing; your kid will be young once, and you don't want to be one of those people who looks back and wishes you spent more time with your kid when they were young.

I haven't seen anything about what you will gain in your career from being an involved parent. You will gain perspective. You will want a better future for the world, for your own kid. That perspective can help you see things that others don't see in the tech industry.

Quick story: I am a teacher, and recently I've been inviting elders into my classroom to tell their life stories to students. I sit on the side of the room, and students drive the conversation. One question students have asked every elder: "What was the best day of your life?"

Every elder so far (n=3 and counting) has looked around at everyone in the room, smiled, and said with conviction, "The day my kid was born."

Congratulations, and enjoy this time in your life. :)
Best of LW quotes 2013
Discarding this communications channel and demanding my attention be monopolized by a voice following a script is somewhere between disrespectful and outright inhumane.

Why do you claim the OP would have the customer monopolized by a voice following a script? How much do you know about this particular company?

In my experience it is far easier for someone to follow a script in E-mail than on the phone. If a company wants to give users the runaround there are much better ways than a 3-hour hold on E-mail replies.

OP explained how E-mail was handled. It's not discarded, it's used in a way suitable for the medium.

Trying to have a real-time conversation in email is nowhere as good as an actual voice conversation. If that's what's needed then that's the better option and people should be encouraged in that direction.
I am awfully backwards in this; I still use the common dictionary definition of "feminism", meaning "advocating social and political equality of genders", which I understand has now fallen out of common use.

On the assumption that you mean something else when you say "feminism", what do you mean?
I’m not sure what are the other (short-term) options: Facebook encourages employees to participate in education efforts (STEMs, mostly, for obvious recruiting reasons) and Zuckerberg himself spends a lot there too — but that takes time. De-criminalising drug trade is far more controversial than what Facebook can do. I'm sure they offer well paid jobs to local people as non-technical subsidiaries but… Short of sponsoring a cash-for-gun program, what can they do? That’s a serious question: I’m sure any idea will be explored by Facebook decision-makers who read this.
> A worker might rat out his employer.

This is just naive. In the places where this happens, such 'ratting out' would incur social penalties from the (local) community. It's better to sweep possibly illegal acts under the rug when the livelihood of the community is (possibly) at stake.

Take Snowden as an example (since it's already on the table). How many people had access to the same information about what the NSA was doing for years, and said nothing? Do you really want the only recourse to be waiting for insiders to come forward?

That said, do we really need more laws here? If "lying on your resume to investigate wrong-doings" is such a generically bad thing, then why is this legislation limited to a specific industry?

> "people who don't want abortions happening"

This is a poor example. What could they possibly exposed to shock the public? That abortions are happening? The whole point of going undercover and releasing footage is to expose something to the public. I'm curious what crimes and/or reprehensible behavior is going on at abortion clinics? Doctors sexually abusing patients? Doctors taking aborted fetuses into a backroom and eating them? I'd argue that if said things were actually happening, it would still be in the public interested even if it was an anti-abortion group that was doing it.

> The FDA might investigate the farm as part of some food chain issue.

Many people believe the government is in the pocket of said industries. It takes a really severe issue (e.g. Mad Cow Disease) to have any significant impact. Just witness how the industry was able to get its own law passed to make it specifically illegal to try and exposed illegal acts behind (their) closed doors. Do you really think that government oversight will work correctly in such an environment?
Also, potentially render the video they capture inadmissible in some other case. I'm not 100% sure about that, though.
The victims in this case are cows.
A backlash against replication in science?
What Did Not Happen At Mt. Gox
Putin's War in Crimea Could Soon Spread to Eastern Ukraine
I think TorChat has nothing to do with the Tor project but I maybe wrong.
Chrome is the superior browser, easy to use, syncs nicely, great developer tools. I'd say that is probably why.
A remarkable testimony to the damage that can be done with just knives.
This risks being brutal, but you didn't have an email in your account details, and I left it a week so the forum would clear. I have tough but fond memories of being called out on things like this when I in my 20s. I think I'm well-intentioned.

Something that ribs me about the political culture in Australia: the intelligentsia will never miss an opportunity to claim their identity as being distinct, yet they judge themselves from a very American world-view. In this sense, the Australian identity is like a rebellious teenager - desperate to be making a break from mum and dad, but unaware how its rebellion is defined entirely by mum and dad's world-view.

You are welded to the (American) popular culture myth that American is an antonym for socialism. This is more important to you than the fact that it isn't. Even after we've discussed that there are better ways to express the idea, after you've gone through the pain of admitting you could have done this differently. You've then recanted, pulled back into your shell and defended your original expression. You won't grow if you do this.

It's not just you. But you can fix it. Turn off the television, blank your mind, read, travel, think, build your ideas on this foundation.
> JSON.parse("{\"date\":\"2014-03-02T16:08:43.444Z\"}")
Object {date: "2014-03-02T16:08:43.444Z"}
Putin’s Bluff? U.S. Spies Say Russia Won't Invade Ukraine [Feb 27]
Women in tech do need special treatment, or at least they can benefit from all-female spaces where the thing that defines them to those around them is not their gender, but their achievements.

Also, please don't stereotype all men & all women as being talented in one particular sector. If (and it's a big if - as there's no scientific consensus) there is some underlying nature-based difference, common sense tells us that it would be comparable to the height difference between genders (where lots of women are taller than men, despite women being shorter on average). It's not a "women are like x, men are like y" situation.
Secrecy at the Border
Anyone who can run IE9 can run IE10 or IE11 at this point. IE9 is only supported on Windows 7, which now supports 10 & 11.
If you're coming to HN for news about geopolitical world events, you're gonna have a bad time.
Is it HackerNews or Ukrainian news? Guys from Ukraine, please stop to post any non-relevant news here.
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Well, you could always audit software you don't use at all, right? ;) I'd guess that they decided to drop pidgin and use instantbird instead (or the other way around) and would also be interested in some more information about the reasons.
Well, a lot of people don't have a lot of faith in the institutional processes (cf. Deepwater Horizon, many other regulatory failures), and don't want to wait around for a serendipitous happenstance, that doesn't seem very reliable.

And yeah, there is a fine line between "exposing wrongdoing" and "interfering with legal business operations," and an activist might not always know which side they will fall on, but I would prefer to live in a country where they have some liberty to act on their beliefs.
It is true that if they have a tiny sample in a large country, their result could be very wrong for that country, and leaving it small and not size-corrected would at least leave that error small.

But, even 200 sites per country is enough for a proper random sample (that's about the same size as in election surveys). Even more so when you consider that a site is not a single observation, but reports data about all the users visiting it.
"As for the Constitution? That's been sidelined."

Mostly agree ... but in your native Illinois, they just mailed the first 5,000 shall issue concealed carry licenses: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-illino...

That's because the Supremes finally got past the post-Civil War keep guns from blacks and other official undesirables (like your non-Anglo-Saxon immigrant parents, although that burst of gun control was back around the turn of the previous century vs. none I know of post-WWII till the '60s), took the 2nd Amendment seriously (e.g. 9-0 an individual right), and then applied the 14th Amendment to it. And then a 7th Circuit Court panel led by a judge who dislikes the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, but who's honest, enforced shall issue on the whole state.

Same thing's happening right now in California (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruta_v._San_Diego), and San Diego and Orange Counties have surrendered. No doubt San Francisco and other counties will engage in Massive Resistance, but the Supremes seem to be supremely disinterested in the subject, or at least they've denied cert in 2 of the 4 possible Circuits that went the other way, with the New Jersey and Massachusetts cases still in progress. We'll see.

"There will be no meaningful change until collapse and/or insurrection break the current system. At best we might swerve at the brink."

I'm certainly hoping for the latter, but in the meanwhile, we're getting really well armed for the former two, as you note not mutually exclusive, options. Hard to see how things won't get ugly when the Feds can no longer borrow money at negative real interest rates or thereabouts or debase the dollar so much it doesn't matter.
Interesting that in 1954, Khrushchev moved the administration of Crimea to the Ukraine. Something that didn't really matter much since both were still part of the Soviet Union.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/4418/why-did-the...
> And if you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself.

Especially when you don't pay any taxes, and therefore can't expect the municipality to take the cost?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2012/12/27/facebook-m...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...
I think there may have been a practical issue, which is that Snowden had a very large number of documents and very limited time to go through them himself.
Stata is great as an excel replacement and has a decent library of pre-programmed statistical models. It's GUI based and targets applied researchers in economics etc. Unfortunately, extending any functions and defining your own models is quite a hassle unless you're familiar with mata (quirky matlab-esque syntax) and R's ecosystem is much more cutting edge.

Stata is great for drag and drop data manipulation from what I remember, an excellent excel replacement. Nothing beats dragging and dropping in variables and typing: reg y x1 x2 for immediate regression results.
There actually are studies showing women ask for raises less often, etc.. That could be what they are talking about re lack of aggression. Although I admit I haven't seen anything re if it is nature or nurture that causes it. Although, personally, even as a non-aggressive tech geek myself, as a male I had a couple fights back in school when people stuck me with needles, etc.. We might be able to find stats that males fight more often.
Which sit on a server somewhere and then have to send them on to your specific device when you sign in. Generally you need a MAC address to identify the NIC in order to loan an IP address.
I am aware of the prisoner's dilemma but it does not apply because it assumes no communication between the prisoners. And even though it is just some gut feeling, I believe most game theoretic problems and paradoxes are irrelevant in real world situations because they arise from artificial constraints and countries wanting to cooperate can just try to remove such constraints if they exists.

And I did not say that the decisions in Germany (or any other country) can not influence the situation of other countries, I said they can not influence them to a degree that justifies espionage. So how does you example apply? Germany and France are free to support or not support what ever they want. How would having known such decisions before they were publicly announced made any difference?
Yes, we do hire H1-B for the right candidate.
This: "Illegal looking" law could be expanded later on to require hardware shutters on a persons eyes. So when they step on a farm, a machine checks to make sure your eyes are completely covered.

Then later on, we may also have to make sure that the person visiting a farm also cannot hear, or smell, or touch, or taste. When you set foot on my property, any data you collect is not admissible in court.

This could be a good thing. I want to make it illegal for people to collect any kind of data of what I do on my property. If you want to come see, then you'll have to talk to my secretary and pay a million dollars for an exclusive interview.
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I didn't say it was restricted to a platform, but that it depends on certain platforms, one of which is PNaCl. asm.js does not depend on the existence of such a platform, since it is backwards compatible with JavaScript.
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War (possibly a world war) is breaking out in Eastern Europe, and the only means warineurope has to do anything about it is by creating a new hacker news account only to point that out on a completely unrelated topic.
Freescale provides an RTOS for free called MQX (http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?code=M...) that I have seen used on some projects. Otherwise, bare metal or one of the other standard RTOS options.
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This is similar to the tort of public disclosure of private facts. (Libel protects me against you lying about me, but this tort protects against you publicizing my strange hobbies or sexual practices or other private practices so long as, and this is huge, there's no public interest).

I know Idaho was a late adopter to the tort, while many other states committed the tort to statute. They may just be coming around.

The best argument for harmonizing it with first amendment law is in a Yale Law Journal note from 1973:

> [F]ree speech is protected not for some intrinsic value of speech but because it is a necessary condition for the making of informed decisions about matters of government, decisions which all citizens in a democracy are called on to make....He who performs his listening and deciding functions in a glass house is coerced by public opinion, whether anyone is actually looking in or not. If every magazine he reads, every rally he attends, every person he speaks to might somehow become a matter of public knowledge, he would feel inhibiting pressure.

David B. Roe, "Privacy in the First Amendment," 82 Yale L.J. 1462.

That said, some facts aren't merely private matters. If leading public figures are violating the law or lying to constituents or abusing their family, the public has a right to know.

Farmers abusing animals is at least slightly harder, because whether or not that's a matter of public concern hinges on the conclusions we've made about animal rights. If we live in a world where animals are robotic automatons deserving of no relevant moral consideration, then these are probably private, embarassing facts that don't bear any exposure. If we live in a world where the pain and suffering of animals is valued very near as to the pain and suffering of humans, ie, heeding Peter Singer's allegations of "speciesism," then these are absolutely 100% public facts.

We don't live in either of those worlds though. We live in this messy, complicated, in between world where we are still trying to figure out where animal rights rank between those two extremes.

Probably the best argument that these are public facts would note that outlining the actual practices under consideration (ie, literal animal rape and torture) help us determine which part of that spectrum we're in, because it helps animal rights activists note that their depictions are not absurd hypotheticals.

Probably the best argument on the other side is a claim that footage is cherry picked out of a much larger sample, that this activity happens exceedingly rarely, and the footage is closer to malicious slander or misrepresentation. (Not sure if that's true, but if it is, it would be a relevant consideration.)
This is how I proved Facebook Ads are not a waste of money
How about TOML? There was an implementation for most languages under the sun within a week of its release.[1]

(Certainly I acknowledge that it is not as ubiquitous as JSON or YAML, but I do like TOML better than both of those for configuration.)

[1] - https://github.com/mojombo/toml#implementations