skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gerrymandering works both ways; you can't bring up the disenfranchised Democratic voters in Republican districts without recognizing the disenfranchised Republican voters in Democratic districts, or third party voters in every district. You could have simply stated that the goal of established political parties is to win government by hook or by crook, with preference to the latter since it requires less effort.
A Field Guide to Pointless Medical Research
Funny how he accuses Woz of supposedly being paid to promote some other film, while Kutcher himself was directly hired to star and promote his.
Yes Prime Minister – Salami Tactics, is Ukraine the Salami?
You mean someone like your barber.
Well, the main 100-pound competitors are Google and Microsoft. Google is cloud-only, Microsoft offers self-hosted and cloud solutions.

I would generally agree that the biggest market is probably for self-hosted solutions.

I'm sure there's a big market here, but companies have been reinventing the wheel here since the days of AOL. What the world really needs is for something like XMPP to gain traction and actually work in a federated way with email addresses.
(D)SIMONE – Lost Until We're Found [Alternative Rock/Pop]
A song about about letting go of life's daily complexity and remembering what it feels like to be carefree, even if it's just for a short while.
Later leaks including Snowden have further corroborated this foil hat nonsense.
My background, I am from Idaho, my father, brother, and brother-in-law are all dairymen, and I worked my dad's dairy for 15 years.

I also know the guy who owns the dairy the film was taken on, and I know quite a few of the people performing the most ageegious acts were fired soon after it was published.

But, as an issue, the film was just published, in the most sensational way they could, and NO effort was made to contact the dairyman ahead of time. The point of making the film was not help, but to hurt, permanently.

The film that was produced, is being used against all areas of the milk industry. The people using it add words to the effect of "this is how all dairies treat their cows". I've already seen it used in campaigns against yogurt and cheese producers.

Also, the debate continues over here about the law. Some dairymen are campaigning to reverse the law and open things up completely. But a big issue is education, too many people in America have never really touched a cow, and think people treat them like a cat.
FWIW, several DHS department level IT shops are moving to IE11 in a few months. I'm at one where after they've been at IE8 for so many years, they jumped to IE10 last fall and IE11 is around the corner. Love it. It's been so nice not having to support IE < 10 the last several months.

And IE11's dev tools, while still a little clunky to get around, are very comparable to Firefox/Chrome for most of the features.

We also still have some users that haven't upgraded (also smaller resolution monitors) but all less than 10%.
G Data discovers alleged intelligence agency software
You need to work on design a lot. May be you can use bootstrap for the start.
's funny; one of the screenshots is used to call out the Charms bar as an example of great UI. For me - as a user of Windows 8 on a desktop - it has become something of an icon of just how poor Windows 8's UI is.

On a tablet, you swipe it out from the left edge of the screen. Makes sense - so much sense that Apple copied the idea in iOS 7.

On a PC, you bring out the charms bar by frustratedly wiggling your mouse against the right edge of the screen for a few seconds before remembering that to make UI widgets appear out of the middle of the screen's edge, you inexplicably need to move the cursor all the way up or down to one of the corners.
Hexadecimal numbers and object keys without quotes would be useful to me. The rest of it ... meh.
What's the right example?
I found the gesture really natural, myself. I quick flick and swipe up, and you don't really need to do it precisely.
Have a look at their Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro series notebook/tablet combos. They are currently the overall most attractive Windows notebooks in my opinion. As a past ThinkPad (720C!) owner I would have expected Lenovo to do a much worse job than they actually did and I believe their surprising commercial success underlines this too. Sure, IBM's ThinkPads were much better (with some exceptions like the X21), but it's hard to say how they would look today if IBM had kept the brand (my guess is: not better than Lenovo's).
I wonder how much input Will.i.am has as the "director of creative innovation" at Intel.

In general, are these just extended marketing schemes or do they think bringing actors/musicians in will be of any benefit to the products?
"There are artists who draw on iPads, and musicians who make music on iPads, and writers who write novels on iPads, and movie makers who cut their movies on iPads. But the fact that you have to point to these people, the fact that there are articles about these people, shows that they’re unusual."

Unusual in a relative sense, the same way artists and musicians and movie makers are unusual in any segment of society. There are millions and millions of iPad users; of course most of them are going to use their iPads primarily for consumption.

Using a Microsoft Surface is in itself unusual. I remember clearly the one time I saw someone using a Surface. It was an usual event. But on my way to work I see tens (hundreds?) of iPads and an assortment of android tablets and kindles.

My point is, I don't believe there is a large difference between the use cases and potential offered from the many consumer tablets currently available (despite Microsoft's marketing that would lead one to believe that a Surface can truly replace both and iPad and a laptop). Maybe the Surface is better for productivity, but I suspect that for every tech blogger who tried the Surface and found it to be a better laptop replacement than their iPad, there are tons of Surface owners who's use case resembles the stereotypical iPad consumption use case.
If people are purely selfish, then everything is lost anyway - selfishness is not able to sustain a human society. And while people have to be selfish to some degree to sustain their lives, I see no reasons why they can not act altruistically after they secured basic human needs like food and shelter.

And I agree that most if not all decisions are based or should be based on the expected gain, but the question is then of course how you define or measure that gain. There may actually be a real gain for a country if you spy on other countries, but I argue that this is the wrong standard for gain in that situation, a selfish definition of gain. I would strongly prefer to consider the gain or loss for the whole world when evaluating decisions like whether or not to spy on other countries.
Shooting the mouse into a corner is actually one of those gestures that is hardest to get wrong, which is why we've placed the window's close button up there for decades. Your mistake is aiming for the side instead of the top right corner of the screen; you can't overshoot it, so it never takes more than one physical gesture.

You can also swipe from the right edge of your touchpad as if it were the screen.
I think the Surface2 Pro is really great and shows the strenghts of Windows 8, except for its battery life maybe. But the idea to carry around one device that is a good tablet, laptop and can even be used as a full desktop computer with keyboard/mouse and 2 huge screens if you like is pretty fantastic and the OS scales well to all those different usage patterns.
Now you might say, it does all that, but none of it really good and that might be true, but its already good enough for most people. Sadly Apple seems to want to unify everything into iOS down the road, which could go horribly wrong for professional users and Linux ? Well, the community was totally divided about where to go in desktop computing for the last decade and that will probably never change, so i don't except them to solve this as the current state of a dozen half-baked desktop environments is a disaster.
Curiously, charsets actually is less of an issue within EU - Latin1 should cover. (Not that anyone should use that in a modern app today)

But otherwise I agree with your sentiments - Language is just one of several problems. Most of which are external to the product.
Lenovo hired Ashton Kutcher as a human face for the brand.

This isn't news.
Yeah, that exact thing already exists, it's called XMPP/Jabber but hardly anyone uses it. It's a shame. There is a federated chat protocol just like federated email, but it's businesses trying to lock in customers that is causing all of these communication problems.

In a perfect world Google, Apple, Mozilla, etc would just contribute new features to the codebase, and everyone could have their own client interfaces and do unique team apps etc

*Bonus points: Jabber chat protocol addresses are the same as email addresses, they are interchangeable. One less thing to list on your business card. Socially, this mindset would potentially shift into just being called an 'address' instead of assuming it's only for email.

I have noticed we're running into this right now with iMessage, Facetime etc in giving out an 'email address' to do connect doing something other than emailing.
Dunno, it's never been an issue for me. I'm used to edge-activated features from OS X, and slamming the mouse into the corner to call up the menu always seemed like a simple, efficient user interface to me.

It's a bit weird when you use a computer via VNC, though, because you have to move the mouse more precisely.
Do you think astronauts (or people making decisions on the ground) have a tendency to make the wrong call when things go sideways? They train exhaustively for just about any possible emergency, and if they can't train the panic out of you, you do not go to space.

You can argue about the hubris involved in the Columbia or Challenger disasters, but in the heat of the moment, I would trust the person who has trained their entire life and was selected from a pool of thousands for their supreme skills, talent, and temperament. These are not nervous nelly academics we're talking about here.
Some people have too much free time and spend it looking for trouble.

People critique there are few women in politics, power, tech and the military... Maybe there is a reason for this.

It's not like all the special forces in the world have conspired to prevent women.

I don't have what it takes to be a model, will I write a vitriol piece about the fashion industry not letting me in ? Hell no. That industry needs a specific profile and I don't fit it.

The same way I can't get in elite military troops and I'm not going to be a crybaby about it.

Though people are yielding to please "rights movements" and "equal opportunity" movements and force people who can't hack it there.

Who's preventing women from starting a tech company ? Nobody. Why aren't there that many women in tech, programming, engineering, and all ? Maybe that's a good question to ask. If a certain demographic is absent from a certain field with no obstacles, it's useless to cry foul.

Screw the sensitive troll with a glass ego. Next time we'll see people who can't code crying because they didn't get a job at Google. People crying because they don't know how to shoot and weren't accepted as elite sniper. Whaaaaaa
On the other hand, snide remarks provide hardly any value to anyone.

Sure. Does the same apply to single-sentence "This is great!" comments?

Is a new business helped by people who cheer them on with vague support without also confirming that the product solves a real problem for them?

It brings to mind some of the ideas behind having an MVP. It's almost meaningless to have people say your business idea is great. What matters is will they part with their money for it.

Empty naysayers don't contribute much, but neither do empty cheerleaders. They're just less irksome.
I've found the least annoying way to bring up charms on my desktop computer is Win+C.
I am getting only {"message":"Not Found"} ... guess it doesn't anymore.
The weird thing is the NSA has never refuted the very specific allegation of Booz's access and the lack of supervision (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-...), merely just repeated that 'oversight exists'. Since we're all discussing a massive series of leaked documents, how do you logically think otherwise?

Let's see what the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has to say:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/23/4651448/nsa-report-reveals...
>Why does Dropbox have a Irish HQ?

There are two main reasons why companies set up European HQs in Dublin/Ireland:

1. Avoiding tax. Ireland has a low rate of corporation tax and some fairly large loopholes. See the Double Irish arrangement and the Dutch Sandwich[0] set-ups.

2. Avoiding privacy protection. The data protection authority in Ireland is tiny[1] and severely under-resourced, so finds it hard to enforce European data protection standards which are significantly higher than in the US (which has pretty much zero regulation when it comes to privacy)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

[1] http://i.imgur.com/IKHC2Ud.png - This is the office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland. A tiny office next to a supermarket. This is the authority responsible for policing privacy for dozens of huge multinations in Europe, including Facebook.
1. Trespassing is already a crime.

2. Trespassing here could uncover more serious crimes that are happening.

3. Somebody lobbied a bunch of politicians to make trespassing a very serious offense to deter people from uncovering a more serious crime.

Part 3 is the thuggery.
Great writeup, good points about the culture of those building on the platform, and lovely software gore[0] screenshot.

In terms of productivity, what kills my efficacy on iOS versus OS X (and even locked Android versus desktop) is the inability for platform devs to build things that reach outside of the app sandbox. TextExpander and LastPass on iOS are near useless compared to their desktop counterparts, but are even more powerful for getting work done with a slower typing speed.

[0]: http://reddit.com/r/softwaregore
Man, finally! I love this blog, but there hadn't been an update since December. Glad to see another post!
It could be that actors and musicians are creative and innovative people.

Or you could be right and it could all be schmarketing.
I would just add that being overly afraid of Fox News, the Tea Party, and/or the Koch brothers is part of the exact same phenomenon.
FYI, you can't put <em> tags in your title, although I assume your CMS did that.
I was seriously tempted by the Yoga (and ended up going the MBP route). My biggest concern, basically my only concern, was the hinges (were the hinges?). I kept thinking that they'd wear out quickly, and that you'd be left with a laptop with a screen that wouldn't stay up. That's sorta my biggest beef with high end Windows 8 hybrids-too many moving parts that can break.
And, despite that (if it were true), most do not. Crossing the line of using police in private sector situations is possible because the private company asked them to, such as in large shopping malls.

In any case, it still does not mean it's every camera system throughout the world which would, again, be a false statement.
A White Male Haircutter Faces Racism At Barbershop And This Is What Happened
I have a friend in Sevastopol. He states almost all people there are suppose Crimea independence & Russia(though he personally doesn't share that).
By deteriorating physically, mentally, and socially.
Mosh: The answer to ssh annoyances
Ask HN: How did you get your first consulting client?
Was it a friend who gave you a shot? Were you doing some freelance work that led to you starting consulting? Or was it something else altogether?
Unusual in a relative sense, the same way artists and musicians and movie makers are unusual in any segment of society. There are millions and millions of iPad users; of course most of them are going to use their iPads primarily for consumption.

What you are saying is correct, but does not address the author's point, which is that the subset of artists/musicians/etc. who mainly use iPads for their creative/productive output is still very small.

Using a Microsoft Surface is in itself unusual. I remember clearly the one time I saw someone using a Surface. It was an usual event. But on my way to work I see tens (hundreds?) of iPads and an assortment of android tablets and kindles.

Why was using the Surface unusual, beyond the fact that seeing one was unusual?
> 3-4 C people in AT&T laid the foundation for most of what we use today.

The security consultants on the 21st century know whom to thank for their jobs.
What iOS Should Learn from Android and Windows 8 (2012)
I thought he was hired as a PM, which basically means "dude you can bounce ideas off". To call this an engineering role is pretty charitable.
Here's the problem summarized by an old-time female hacker:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software

Whenever gender and software appears in a discussion, the same bs comes out every time. It's so predictable now you can just skip these sort of thread.
"The group has put up an online petition to Google on Change.org to 'to be more diverse in its representation of the world's historical figures and commit to partnering with us as they go forward with that effort.' As part of this initiative, Spark Movement has compiled a list of women who deserve doodles, so that 'Google has to do less research.'"

Commit to partnering? Why? Why not just publicize the list and be done with it?
DISCLAIMER/DISCLOSURE: i am not a lawyer. i am a near radical animal rights couchtavist.

Aren't there Federal statutes that lay out what animal abuse is? I know the Law views animals as property, but in regards to dogs,cats, etc. there are rules about how you treat them. Do bovine, equine, and poultry animals not fall under these protections?

Obviously i could be completely off base...
Ah, made me think of the good ol' days => http://rubyquiz.com/

Although this is definitely more tutorial-ish.
The typical way that chapter 11 bankruptcy works, in America at least, is to imagine a big wedding cake. The bottom layer in the shareholders, the next layer up is the bondholders. When the company goes bankrupt, you slice the bottom layer off the cake: the shareholders get 0, and all the bondholders become the new shareholders.

That's for chapter 11, when the business is trying to stay as an ongoing concern. Lots of businesses that are bankrupt on paper still have quite a bit going for them -- if they could escape their legacy debts, they have more money coming in than going out, and it's socially good to keep the company going. Many people keep their jobs and the creditors have the best chance of becoming as whole as possible.

Mt Gox is not going to reorganize. Like Arthur Andersen after they failed to properly audit Enron's books, whether it's their fault or not they have failed at their one primary mission and no one is going to trust them ever again in a business that makes trust paramount. They are gone, dust, over. It's hard to even imagine what pieces of their corpse would be useful to other businesses, besides gox.com which is a three-letter domain name.

IANAL, and I'm especially not a bankruptcy lawyer.
What does that prove? The post I replied to was an answer to the implication that all cameras everywhere I used by the police (NSA and any government org). I never said there are no cameras.
What's the equivalent of the right edge of the touchpad if you're using a mouse? Do I need to stand up and walk over to the side of my room so I can start from the wall?

On my monitor, the charms appear really far from the corner of the screen. It's true that it's an easy target to hit. That isn't the only way in which I find interacting with the charms bar to feel like throwing hatchets at the side of a barn. The arm motion's remarkably similar, too.
The psychology of hate: How we deny human beings their humanity
The design of the site looks strange to my eyes. Colors and fonts doesn't make sense. I'm no expert on design so I can't explain why.
I played the flute in elementary school. It seems nobody listened...
Just noticed this new website www.goxbux.com trying to form some kind of group action.
> 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

The Content API [1] is the heart of the beast - it takes input from our various content systems, including those involved in the production of the paper, and makes it available to frontends in a simple shared format. The CMS responsible for this piece treats content as an ordered list of entities of various types (text, video, quote, etc.). The article leverages a new (to us) pattern called layout hinting. Each entity is given a semantic value, like "narrative" or "auxilliary" which describes its relation to overall story. The rendered templates are then free to play with those however they choose.

> what sort of techniques you use to separate out styles which are only used on
> one page/section etc?

I couldn't answer that one confidently, but you can always go and have a look at the source [2].

> Are you just working on some stories for the Guardian team, or working full-time
> on Guardian stuff?

I'm the product guy for content pages on the site [3].

--

[1] http://guardian.github.io/content-api-docs/index.html

[2] https://github.com/guardian/frontend

[3] http://gu.com/humans.txt
Now that's a hyperbolic title. I guess, "Google does not include enough women, minorities in doodles, but is showing improvement recently" wouldn't get headlines.

This is an activist group using a popular target to gain press for systemic problems. And they don't just want more doodles, they want access.

From the petition:

"That’s why we’re asking Google to be more diverse in their representation of the world’s historical figures and commit to partnering with us as they go forward with that effort."

They want to partner with Google.

The sad part is no one is disagreeing here. Google already has had more women of color on their homepage this year that in the previous 3 years combined. But here we have a petition that boils down to Google, do what you're doing, but get our stamp of approval.
Thanks for providing your input!

> 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.

Is the "Public right to know" a high bar to pass? Would the footage be legal if for example, the farmer has said its meat was "100% without animal cruelty" or if animal cruelty was detrimental to the meat?
Not HN (edit: or specifically from Crimea), but there is a Reddit post by a self-reported Ukrainian protestor which I found interesting:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1z9pkm/iama_ukrainian_...

There is also another series of interesting posts here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1zad2p/ukraine_pu...

It's not HN, but it beats the worthless commentary that I've seen on TV while they show stock footage of tanks rolling around (which I haven't heard is the case).
The sentiment is for an independent Crimea or to become part of Russia?
If you use Sublime Text it looks pretty familiar in the context of ruby code.
I am sure it depends on the engineer. Plenty of crap ones there that's work needs rewritten once they have left.
If they graduated high school, they were exposed to the facts regardless of who they're around. Anyone who doesn't know evolution is reality is not a person of reason.