skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the intuition behind the OP seems valid, but i wonder if it would succeed given the American concept of 'vacation.'

Americans (compared with Europeans, for instance) view vacation quite differently--in the quantity available (2-3 weeks versus 4-5 weeks); in the amount they can afford to spend on a vacation (in Europe, disposable incomes are generally lower and must be spread over a longer vacation period); and perhaps most of all in the general perception of taking vacation (ie, in the US, i have noticed many people don't even take all of their vacation and brag about that fact). w/r/t the latter point, it almost seems to me as if vacation is viewed as a sort of convalescence--ie, well it's available if you need it, but if you are strong enough then of course there will be no need.

The fact is that our jobs are not physically demanding; we do need a 'rest' from physical activity, but rather we need to rest our minds. But how do you do that when you take your vacation consists of a few four-day weekends each year in which you fly to an oceanside resort, sit by the pool with your iphone, checking your email. You are still thinking about work because there the vacation consists of nothing to replace the work thoughts. What's worse, is that you are more stressed than ever because you are thinking about work, following email but you are not there in the office to personally ensure everyone is doing exactly what they should be.

When i lived and worked in Spain, i took two multi-week vacations, always of the active kind. I enjoy alpine climbing but hiking/trekking or cycling vacations embody the same idea. The level of mental and physical engagement required means that i'm not thinking about work even if i wanted to (and i don't).
No, it's the future of maps, not Google Maps.
Here's another map I use to gauge the quality of a country:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat...
Hover Board - the future has arrived
That's not the theory of Democratic Peace. The theory of Democratic Peace is that democracies don't go to war with other democracies -- not that they can't be manipulated into war with autocracies.
With regard to 2, it would be cool if something like votecoin could be used to build a viable online voting system.
> the relationship between mass, volume and length is trivially easy to understand.

Imperial units also have a simple relationship between mass and volume. In the US, a pint's a pound the world around, and in the world around the US, a pint of water is a pound and a quarter, and in some of those places that rhymes.

(One fluid ounce — either kind — of water weights approximately one ounce.)
>>> Create page where said asset can be verifiably claimed by Gox customers.

Given claims that Mt. Gox has been hacked, and user verification and passports have been stolen, is this step still possible?
> Bitcoin would help because it is a fixed-supply currency. If the world switches to it, no government anywhere will be able to practise inflation anymore.

Correct, no government could, but inflation is innate to the cryptocurrency environment as a whole, even if the current popular coins have capped supplies (dogecoin being a notable exception [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin#Currency_supply
I don't like the denial either. I had a girlfriend who got
baked everyday. She always wondered why I didn't take her
seriously. I wonder though if smoking a little weed might
make programming more enjoyable? Right now I find programming tedious(just following directions--exact directions). I'm a very novice programmer, and that is
probably the reason?
India and Nigeria seem to be winning in terms of high populace countries with low incarceration rates.
Great comment.

I would add that to some extent the current crop of strongmen have figured out some ways of suppressing democracy more quietly than strongmen of old; Putin, for example, cloaks repression in bureaucracy.
Roaring Penguin's remind is a great piece of software, it's been a standard for me since around 2000. Don't forget their include files for stuff like holidays and seasons.
The word confuses me. I looked it up and it seems to basically mean a politician who actually knows about things outside of politics. Yet the word is almost exclusively used in a pejorative sense.
Uh, I found the ad integrated with the article a bit TOO well, to the point that kind of sneaks on you.

In a magazine I can usually tell where an ad is, and it does not take me away from the article.

In this case I had actually read the ad before realizing it wasn't part of the article, even the color scheme matches the rest of the page.

BTW, it's a minor complaint and it might be just me, again, great article.
...how was the code?
"Democracy is worst form of government except for all the others" - Churchill.

I think one of the issues with modern democracy is the fact that it is rooted in the American past. Founding fathers set up an amazing system for 18th century. After globalization and rise of political advertising in mass media... well not so much. As a matter of fact politicians spend close to majority of their time just raising money [0][1]. Is it really a wonder Congress can't get anything done? Is it really a surprise that people who end up staying in politics for a long time are people who 'worked out' an understanding with special interests. System is setup to attract people who have friends which stand to gain from access to political power.

I think current political system of United States is flawed and we are leading other democracies by example, while making suboptimal decisions.

Interestingly enough I believe founding fathers foreseen this and provided us with an out - amendments. However with current gridlock it would be almost impossible to do anything about it without overwhelming popular support. Said gridlock also greatly benefits anyone who has enough spending money to 'help' politicians out with their campaigns.

So here is potential solution (I thought it up myself in relatively short amount of time, so there are probably issues with it):

1. Ban all monetary donations to politicians. All of them, no more advertisements.

2. Set up crowd sourced infrastructure to keep track of what politicians claim they would do and what they actually do. Kind of like wikipedia of politics.

3. Set up a public TV channel for debates and require all the major carriers to have it, live stream said channel on internet. Goal of this is to basically kill all political advertising elsewhere. On that channel televise debates on most up voted questions on infrastructure set up. Require candidates to provide clear answers and keep track of the answers on said infrastructure, so that people can view key issues and see how candidates responded to them.

There are a range of technological, societal, and organizational issues to accomplish something like this. It is easy to get wrong, and very hard to get right, so I am not sure if it would be worth trying in the first place.

0 - listen to the first three minutes to realize just how bad it is: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/t... .

1 - or here is a shorter text version: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/03/26/149390968/take-the...
Facets: Scan Gemfile.lock for vulnerabilities.
This looks really nice. The demo seems slick so far, though I've never had any experience with font-design. I've always wanted to mess around with it a little more, but it hasn't been very convenient.

Interested to see what folks have to say who have used professional tooling.

Also glad they have the sandboxed online try-out to mess with: http://glyphrstudio.com/sandbox/
You don't separate the headers from the body

Looks like it does to me. The content-type is printed with a \n and then Python implicitly adds a second newline. Or did you mean something else?
that men and women are actually different and that it implies different behaviour?

Individual variation within gender is almost always far, far greater than demographic variation between genders.

Here's an easy example: most men are not in STEM and aren't all that interested in STEM. In these debates people throw around 'man' as a term, assuming the archetype of the engineer, when actually the 'average' man (if there is such a thing) is not particularly interested in STEM. So painting STEM as 'what men do' is inaccurate, because most men do not do it.
I think this is the reason all kids should learn basic html. Ask yourself is knowing HTML more important as a life skill than learning cursive writing?
Mark was the CEO, the lead developer, the lead business guy, the lead operations guy, and nearly everything else you can think of. He likely had unlimited power to doctor anything he liked, and probably in a way that would not make it easy for other employees to notice. Even if they did use source control, he could probably mask those commits.

Honestly I'm not even sure how many other technical employees they had. I would assume only a few.
Since you asked for it: https://github.com/jamestomasino/read_plugin

Direct link to plugin: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read/aiijjeoekhpdp...
Free and open source too: https://github.com/mattlag/GLYPHR

Nice work!
What’s Behind the Free PDF of “It’s Complicated” (no, no, not malware…)
It's a huge mistake to distill the institutions and traditions which give rise to the kind of life we are able to live in "the west" as "democracy". Democracy can easily devolve into mob rule, and it often does. Moreover, democracy alone is often extremely unstable as it takes only one democratic vote to end democracy for the future. Rather, the foundation of the "free world" is a combination of strong individual liberty as well as representative/consensual governance. Especially in regards to limitations on the powers of the government and the powers of the collective.

It's that balance which keeps things functional. Without it, without limits to power, without strong protections of individual liberty, without strong protections for the mechanisms of democracy it's almost as unstable as unrestrained anarchy or unrestrained communism.

We should be spending more time and effort talking about liberty, because that's closer to the crux of the problem.

Here's a quote from the article: "More fundamentally, democracy lets people speak their minds and shape their own and their children’s futures." No, they don't, democracies just allow people to vote, but that doesn't mean that minorities can't be oppressed or that individual liberty can be almost completely absent.
A Physics Anomaly: Fountains of Chain
Looks to me like they chose based on profitabity.

First, they have the growing low-regulation cities of the south which have plenty of customers. Second, they have the high-tech centers of Portland and San Jose which have so many tech customers that Google wants to serve them even though it is not low-regulation.

Poorer regions, non-tech regions, and high-regulation regions are all less interesting. Detroit, for example, hits the trifecta of all three disadvantages.
I think in the real world, there is a large mix of both. Hard to know the true percentages of either category, though.
i'm always mildly flabbergasted this isn't common sense --- we have all met men and women right?

If science were just "common sense", we'd still believe in the impetus theory [1]. Plus, personal experience tends to suffer from all kinds of confirmation bias.

we can also point at the related psychological issues of transgender people...

Looking at transgender people is indeed interesting, if not the way you think it is. In particular, how the same person gets treated completely differently based on which gender he or she is perceived as [2]. E.g.:

"After he underwent a sex change nine years ago at the age of 42, Barres recalled, another scientist who was unaware of it was heard to say, 'Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but then his work is much better than his sister's.'" (Ben and his "sister" are one and the same person, of course.)

sure this might not apply to precisely this, but afaik medical professionals believe that there are gender differences beyond naive physiology and treat their patients accordingly - when they assumed the differences were merely cultural they caused well documented suffering.

And how do you conclude that any such difference reflects a higher aptitude of men for STEM subjects instead of a higher aptitude of women for STEM subjects?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_impetus

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07...
These types of stats about Americans are a bit misleading. It almost implies that American's are dumb or something. The fact is that 90% of American's know what HTML is. I bet that's higher than most countries if not nearly most.

Does this mean that 1/1000 people on Earth know what HTML is?

Do 1/10 people on Earth even know what an STD is?
If you haven't read it, you should check out Hallucinations, by the neurologist Oliver Sacks. His books in general are super fascinating, but there's a really interesting section on drugs in that one, and specifically mentions psychedelics a number of times (which isn't a shock considering it's a book on hallucinations).

http://www.amazon.com/Hallucinations-Oliver-Sacks/dp/0307957...
I've worked on this problem quite a bit.
The hard thing to accept is that there can be large areas in an image where there isn't a significant difference between the foreground and background. In other words, the raw data doesn't contain enough information to detect an edge there and no segmentation algorithm will find what is not there in the data.
Humans see edges "semantically". We know there should be one there and so we "imagine" one.
I work on image segmentation and recognition and my code cycles between those two goals. I segment and look for noisy and smooth edges, then I postulate where there should be a smooth edge (for example, if you recognize a smooth edge "parallel" to a noisy edge, check if the noisy one could be smoothed "similar" to the other one). The end result is that I can separate the foreground from the background but I don't try or hope to recover the edge that a human would find. My segmented images have the uncanny valley problem. The edges are correct in some areas and slightly off in other areas. The image looks real and fake :)
Knockout is so, so good.

I just wish it had proper API documentation. There are no real docs, only examples/tutorials, this can be quite frustrating.

If you've never used data bindings in HTML/JS, you HAVE to give this a try.

If you're still using jQuery & other manual event handlers to change the state of your UI, you GOTTA try it!
Well it's not really idiomatic in C either. And it's not about fucking it up but about performance. Even if you do tail recursion, it will still be slower.
The white header/light grey body text is very hard to read against that background image.
Isn't that scheme similar to the one Aaron Swartz proposed, and Lawrence Lessig is campaigning for?

EDIT: I think it was called [Change Congress](http://change-congress.org/), but that URL now redirects to [Rootstrikers](http://www.rootstrikers.org/).
Yeah, let's try "a representative republic with separation of powers and a federated system of control" instead of just "democracy" I'd add in something along the lines of a bicameral legislature with half of it representing the aristocracy.

Nothing went wrong with democracy. It was always broken. That's why it has to be qualified so much to work right.

Put differently, people are broken. But they are broken in predictable ways. Systems of governance and control need to accept the ways people are broken and make them work for the security of the system, instead of just trusting that whoever is elected is somehow going to run things. That's whacked. You need a system of government, not a democracy.

What the more complex systems of democratic representation are finding is that the more they move towards a "pure" democracy, the more dysfunctional their systems are becoming as well. Democracy is not an answer. Never was. Unless you like mobs.
I've been working hard to keep my sodium intake low. It is really hard. Your palate becomes very used to it and some things taste very off without it. Whenever I make a veggie stew it is this battle in my mind of how I want it to taste and how long I want to live.
thanks. i am not exactly trying to be an ass.

it may be surprising but the lack of tact is intentional (and more muted than i feel i should feel free to use without lashback).

> I think it's better to assume that two groups of people are less different than one would initially think, because of the natural tendency to create in and out groups.

this is a very valid point and one i've never really considered before. i've never really fallen into that kind of behaviour but have observed it plenty (with some mystification tbh). thanks. you are probably right that the problems caused by discrimination against women in e.g. strongly patriarchal society in recent times (Saudi Arabia or something) massively outweighs the trouble caused by the reverse situation - botched gender reassignments and dubious equality policies, but nothing on a large scale directed against the whole of a portion of society. :)
and yet you managed to break through the sheer layers and volume of redundancy, bugs and resource spunking to make this post using your browser, using the same technologies you decry.
i felt i should give you an answer after you took the time to reply with interesting examples :)
And stars, dust. And we are all star-stuff, each of us.
>>> it is likely that private insurers wouldn't have fared much better.

Why is it likely? There are many private companies controlling amounts of money comparable with amounts of money controlled by some governments. I'm not talking US government of course but there are many smaller ones. Such companies are usually multinational corporations carrying much less local political risks and less prone to engaging in stupid things like trying to build communism or invade neighboring country to steal their supply of goats.

>>> If the government doesn't collapse, everyone gets made (more or less) whole again.

That is certainly not so, since unless you are controlling world reserve currency (read: US government) your resources are limited unless your deposits are nominated in your local currency. If you have monetary crisis, local currency quickly becomes worthless. Thus, you have very limited resources for making your citizens whole. On the contrary, big multinational corp would usually have balanced deposits in many major currencies - and usually good political ties with US and EU governments - which would ensure any local currency risk would be survivable for it. Thus, for a private corporation it would be much easier to make everyone whole - unless we're talking about US government.

So, for most governments out there which are smaller than US government, it is not true that their form of insurance is preferable for those reasons. The only reason it may be preferable is that the government has monopoly on violence (at least until overthrown) and thus can extract money by coercion, which private corporation usually can't. But if your government has to resort to robbery, are you sure it's a good insurance?
I'm guessing these microwave links are short enough to blast through poor atmospheric conditions that are very common in a place like Seattle. At greater distances from the provider packet loss (resulting latency problems) could be a legitimate concern.
It's time to end the war on salt

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:L5W2saZ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/we-only-thi...
Think a Metro map is easy? Try Mini Metro
Another thing that really bugs me is that with icon fonts, there's only one file to download. In this case, the user has to download each SVG file separately.
However, these can be on different devices. Transactions can be signed on an offline machine. Also, you need just the unspent transactions to sign a new transaction, not the whole blockchain. Bitcoin Trezor works this way, http://www.bitcointrezor.com/
Start out with Heroku, so you don't have to waste time configuring and managing servers. You can learn all that stuff once you start to scale. Then move to something like Linode or Digital Ocean or cloud66.com
I just started building in knockout again after casual off and on use for the past couple years. At least those tutorials are very good!
How is this related to STEM workers? Illegal immigrants are not STEM workers.
Thanks. Is the point that it's chicken-and-egg? You need users to get ad revenue, but you need ad revenue to improve search quality and thereby attract users?
I shamefully admit that I did not do any research, this is just an idea that popped in my head after listening to the radio show linked in [0]. If somebody already doing this, it would be pretty awesome.
I know nothing about her diagnostic, but I have had severe migraine like that in the past. Manifests as a strong pain behind one eye and sometimes the neck. It's so strong you can't even think right, you just crawl to a dark room and wait it go away. You know it's coming when you start seeing visual artifacts and/or develop tunnel vision. If her symptoms are like that, read along.

In my case it was simply stress. Sleep deprivation, a lot of caffeine and stiff neck, jaw muscles all the time. It stopped overnight once I quit a stressful job, changed my lifestyle and cut back on caffeine. I didn't consulted with a doctor, because I knew I would be prescribed some heavy stuff. While I had the crisis, the only thing that worked to subdue the pain were muscle relaxants and a hot shower, headache/migraine drugs I've had already been prescribed did nothing, so I knew it was psychosomatic.

Take that with a huge grain of salt, as it's just one anecdote... but in the face of taking psychotropics at own risk, she might want to try that first.
If you classify incorrect formats by what they get wrong, you should be able to limit the number. For example, in terms of C strings one invalid format is 'embedded null'. It doesn't matter if that null comes from jpg data or mp3 data because those distinctions don't exist at the 'C string' level.
I like the idea (kinda like a no-frills Glassdoor), but the moment I went to plug in my company, the first thing that pops up is a LinkedIn permissions page.

No prior explanation of what the data will be used for, no assurance that my information will be anonymous, nothing. Closed the tab.

Please consider supporting alternate signup methods for those of us that don't want personal information tied to reviews. I know you very well may not do this, but if you don't tell people that up front, the mind goes places...
I had no idea it cost this much to host rubygems.org.

The website says that hosting is provided by BlueBox?
Where I worked in Europe I don't think it's considered a "fireable offense", but it's definitely something you tend not to share with coworkers, and it would be frowned upon by your boss/HR.

On the other hand, it's not uncommon to share it between friends or ex-coworkers.

Salaries also tend to vary wildly, and are not necessarily linked to seniority. The best way for a junior to rapidly increase his salary is to change jobs, or threatening to change jobs and receiving a counter-offer.
Don't know if I should be embarrassed or proud that I manually scrolled all the way past Uranus before giving up!

My favourite quote: "... once nothingness becomes tangible, it ceases to exist"
A functional democracy is related to the respect for reason - the ability to reason why things should be a certain way, and have one's arguments be respected even if they are counterintuitive. If the media markets are advanced enough to trump reason, or if the culture is such that they are still driven too much by superstitions and religion, then functional democracy will have a really tough time taking hold.