skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There certainly seems to a popular opinion/belief that tallness is inherently good; describing a person as tall seems to often be a compliment (at least for men). But I'm not sure that is the case for this article. It seems to be saying that overall tallness in a general population might indicate that the people of the population have had a good childhood, on average, with regards to nutrition and such. But, if you have two people from the same population (in this case, countries), one being tall and the other one short, their stature is probably more attributable to their genes. You can't really say that one has had a healthier upbringing; they might have had an equally healthy upbringing, but they have different genes, which is (according to them) the biggest deciding factor for adult stature. If one of them is 5% taller, how can you know, without any more information, that that 5% isn't all because of genes? In fact, maybe the shorter person has had a healthy upbringing and, so to speak, achieved his full stature potential, while the taller person has had a relatively bad childhood and not really met his tallness potential with regards to his genetic make-up.
Interesting~

That? That sounds a lot more likely to be true than anything else I've yet heard attributed to him.
Don't forget:
10. Wal-Mart and Friends: Paying your employees an extremely low wage with unpredictable shifts (so they can't get a second job). The end result being that your employees need food stamps to survive, so your profits are ultimately subsidized by tax payers.
> If you do a bit of research, you might be surprised to learn that welfare queens don't exist in the vast numbers you think they do. Not anymore and not for a while.

I was under the impression that they never really existed in any meaningful way. The example that Reagan used, which is when most people think the idea entered the popular lexicon (although there's no record of him actually using the term) was of someone who was essentially committing identity theft on a large scale in order to collect welfare for something like 30 different people.... which just makes an argument for good oversight and unified systems to prevent that kind of fraud, which the kind of large scale networked computer systems we have now could make much more difficult.
I work from home.
This looks very interesting indeed. There is a definite need for good cross-platform, open-source information management software. It's all too easy to get stuck in one manufacturer's information silo.
Actually I have started using Quora for the stuff that gets pedantically closed on Stack Overflow, for exactly that reason.

It is useful to get an opinion on which library / language / framework is better for a particular task, or what the pros and cons are. Stack Overflow has a real attitude problem, closing these questions as "not constructive" despite the fact the question has hundreds of upvotes.

Quora is not tech focused, and still feels a bit more like facebook (questions feel more like they are based on how recently they were asked as opposed to outright relevance - though that may the way I view the site, and the way it markets itself to me). But there is a huge opportunity to pick up where Stack Overflow is failing its users.
> A great benefit to this system will be that people can do important work that might not necessarily reward them financially. The downside is that, well, those who do financially well will have to share their earnings. And we'll have to detach the notion of financial success with the notion of power, which will be difficult.

You've basically restated Marx' view on what communism should be. His most famous quote on the subject is probably this from German Ideology:

"in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wished, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd, or critic."

A large part of Marx' point is that for socialism to become possible - and necessary - capitalism must first drive technological advances and production to a point where nothing near the full production capacity of humanity is needed for redistribution to be possible while eliminating poverty entirely, and in the process freeing society up to be extremely flexible about how people contributes.
Is this some kind of RHEL marketing thing? Help me out here, I'm rather lost.
This is also a great article about HOW spaced repetition systems should be used in language acquisition:

http://www.hackingchinese.com/if-you-think-spaced-repetition...
Show HN: Web UI for a Raspberry Pi thermometer
B doesn't make sense. Being an entrepreneur does not mean you don't need goods and services from others.
Or, we will just reward those that do the dirty jobs MORE. I keep seeing this argument that if we didn't have to work we'd have no one to do the dirty jobs... Something tells me we'd be better off if we were in a system where those doing the dirty jobs weren't in poverty and they were doing them because they paid really well.
As a colorblind I find it a little bit offensive that it in the aricle says that "colorblind react significantly slower to red signals". Red is the topmost light, green is the bottom one. I just follow the light that is turned on, why would it make me significantly slower? Would a not colorblind driver drive if the uppermost light turns green and not red?
It finds it ok searching for it, but when you put it as a destination from San Francisco, in the little box, it chokes.
To me Quora excels at the areas where Stack Exchange fails miserably. Intelligent discussion over a subject (rather than "closed as not constructive").
That seems completely backwards. You are being paid salary but treated as if you were hourly. If your managers think it's important for you to be in the office 9-5 every day, why don't they just set up an hourly rate and make you punch a timecard? To me, the reason to have salary is that you are paying a worker to do a job. Highly paying jobs usually require highly skilled workers, and those workers should be judged on their results. Completion of the job and all of its duties is worth $XXX,000 per year, and it is up to the employee to determine how best to allocate their time and resources. The fundamental mistake of the approach you describe is that software development is not a profession in which merely showing up and putting in labor is of great value. I can pay Jim the Janitor $10/hour to show up and sit in front of a computer. He is never going to write me a distributed map-reduce powered vectorized graph search in Erlang (or whatever).

Let's say my boss tells me to write a TPS report collector. So I come in for 10 hours every day for a month and slave away on a bunch of crufty repetitive boilerplate code which is low on creativity and high on required hours. I eventually manage to hack together a custom report finder and parser, and generate the necessary solution as described by his email. What if my coworker wakes up after a good night's sleep, comes into the office and talks to everyone involved about the project, then realizes that what the VP of MarketResources really wants is some nice graphs of the TPS trends? He finds an open source TPS report analysis framework, spends a couple days integrating it into the workflow, learns a great solution for dynamically generating graphs while out for drinks after a local dev meetup, submits it all to the boss after two weeks and then takes a vacation. Who has really provided more value to the company here? My point isn't about frameworks vs custom software, it's about good solutions to hard problems. Salary employees, especially software developers, should be evaluated on their ability to come up with great solutions to hard problems and provide value to the team and company. Not whether they showed up at 7am or 10am.

Programming is not like digging a ditch, where 17 man hours are required to dig a ditch of length 14 and width 5. It is quite possible and even common to spend a lot of time working on widgets, features, and implementations which are completely unnecessary, non-optimal, or completely wrong. It is well understood that one great programmer can be worth many, many novice programmers because even 20 novice programmers given twice the time will not come up with the brilliantly simple and elegant solution of the veteran expert. So the more you can do to make the programmers you do have happy and as effective as possible, the better.
i download them directly from snapchat. check this out, if you have chrome:

http://snap-wall.asmallgrin.com/send.html
The quality of the answers is way higher. I don't know what to attribute that to.
At some point they switched to a slightly different model where you would see the normal obfuscated answers with a request to log in at the top of the page, but if you scrolled down far enough, the answers would be there in clear text.

They were certainly walking a very fine line, but Google seemed to give them a pass with this system for quite some time.
Some lights are sideways where I live and one is just a single light that changes colors.

Personally I hate the flashing yellow single light vs flashing red. Side by side I could probably tell a difference,but alone I'm never sure.
You have to be pretty smart guy to become a judge and pass the whole confirmation grilling.

And from what I have seen recently a some of the judiciary have picked up enough tech know how to not be fooled into rubber stamping.

But you need wide programs to change the culture of the police departments and prosecutors. If I was doing my job/followed orders is not acceptable excuse at trial it cannot justify put the criminal behind bars by any means necessary.
Ask HN: What setup do you use to get stuff done?
What software and hardware setup do you use to get stuff done?
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There has been free competition for ages. Google just has all the mind share.
If you aren't cheating on your finals, you aren't trying.
I have the same issue, but a thermometer is safer in either case.
Url changed from http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/10/5703444/deka-mind-controll... since this one appears to be a more original source.
I read the above-linked article. I saw a lot of assumption based upon weak links and correlation with assumed causation.

For example, height decreased post agriculture. Did that mean that agriculture didn't allow people to grow as tall, or did agriculture decrease selective pressure on being big?

Anthropology is not as rigorous as math, physics, chemistry, or even economics. Anyone talking condescendingly about things that are "well accepted within anthropology" from 10k or 100k years ago are way overselling the discipline.
if butt.ly didnt require user sign ups how would they measure growth and make Borthwick rich?
The link to the PDF of the original book is broken on the site linked (washington.edu). I found it here: http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
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> You don't have to get a crappy job and work for someone you hate for the rest of your life.

Indeed. I think you and Bucky are more in agreement than you realize. Bucky isn't suggesting that people go home and drink beer and watch TV for the rest of their lives. He is urging them to think, to be creative, to find themselves. Starting a business, for those so inclined, would be an outcome I think he would celebrate. Others might invent, or compose music, or write, or paint, etc.

I think we are moving toward an economy like what Bucky envisioned, where there may be fewer jobs, but many more people find their true work.
The color of the light is much more visually distinctive than the position of the light. If you can't see the colors, you might be able to tell which light it is, but this will take longer for your brain to process, and thus slow you down.
Similarly, I think these would work much better with incandescent lighting vs flourescent or LED.
Office Space (1999) is a great and rather funny movie about this topic: [7,9 stars on IMDb]

* IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/

* Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IwzZYRejZQ
@Pacabel Absolutely true. The "design" folks are usually pressured to follow fashions. Current fashion in designs in the valley are unfortunately driven by people (ie "hipsters") with "minimal", "negative space", "beautiful" as their main values with usability, discoverability etc. being very low on the list of priorities.

Also, I can assert with some confidence, that the number of people choosing the Classic view (from the small question mark at the bottom), is being tracked as a metric of success or failure of the new UI high up on the chain of decision-making inside google.
Also http://developer.here.com/web-experiences
In mobile, putting 'Terrain' in the search bar gets me "no results for Terrain".
Video of Bullying Allegations in Fosston Goes Viral, Sparks Debate
A Minnesota girl's reaction to bullying on her school bus has gone viral on social media.

Eight-year-old Anna Cymbaluk's mom posted video of her daughter and son describing the bullying Anna experienced on the way to and from school. They live in Fosston, Minn., which is west of Bemidji.

Anna’s mom put the video on Facebook because she said the school wasn't doing enough to stop the bullies.

They say the video was shared more than 36,000 times before Facebook removed the post. Since then, they say there's been an outpouring of support for Anna online.

Before the video was removed, the school asked the mother to take it down. Fosston Superintendent Mark Nohner says they take bullying very seriously and they're addressing the situation.

The mother says she wants a formal written apology to her daughter and son for the "lack of care and concern."
It's dead. Start again.
Does anyone know where one could get good data on bee populations, migrations, etc? or pointers to good bee keeping resources which might refer me on to data sources?
Where are you based? Email me manav@me.com.
That's a JS probelem. The majority of dynamic languages would handle this "properly".
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"do you not feel that Amazon's patent in this case is a little odd?

Here's the abstract..."

Yes the abstract makes it sound very vanilla. OTOH that's the whole point of an abstract, to give the most cursory and non-detailed summary of the thing possible. Here's a slightly more detailed summary of what's being patented:

"More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure can allow images and/or video of an item placed in a studio arrangement as described herein to be captured with a background that appears, when captured with an image capture device, as a near perfect white without the need for post-processing, retouching, or other image manipulation. In other words, images and video of items captured in the studio arrangement appear against a background that is equivalent to a white background when converted into a web color hexadecimal triplet corresponding to a true white."

As far as inventions go that isn't the wheel or light bulb but it's still a legitimate invention. This patent is fine under the rules of the game today. I would be happy if 95% of current patents, including this one, weren't issued but the impetus for that change needs to come from legislation.
He was referring to "Town Centre".
I don't know how many people remember this, but this kind of "weird atomic replaces of the read-only data file" was very common on unix-systems for a long time.

Take sendmail: people would have their email-aliases in a /etc/aliases file, with a simple ascii-format, lines formatted according to: "<key>: <values...>". The "newaliases" command then would convert the content of the ASCII file /etc/aliases into the binary (originally: Berkeley db) /etc/aliases.db.

As far as I know, CDB was developed initially for qmail, DJBs email-daemon, for exactly that purpose.

Another example for this is the "Yellow-Pages" (yp) / NIS directory services to distribute usernames/userids/groups/... in a UNIX cluster or network. ASCII files were converted into e.g. /var/yp/DOMAIN/passwd.byname, a .db-file where keys are the usernames from /etc/passwd and values were the full ASCII lines from /etc/passwd, same goes for passwd.byuid, group.byname, and so on. All for fast indicing, so that the network server didn't have to repeatedly parse /etc/passwd.
For the sake of completeness, here's the same location on OpenStreetMap. It's similar to Bing, if not even better.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=-39.277500%2C-71.9...
"public domain... but can [only] be accessed in small pieces"

Sounds like the wonderful world of "APIs" on the www.

This sort of data should be on an FTP server.

I can build my own "apps". Give me the option of raw data.

Just my opinion, nothing more.
Very nice, but a stopper for me is that if you have a pdf with the name "foobar.pdf" on your disk and tag it with TagSpaces with the tags Sciences, Thermodynamics you end up with a file "foobar[Sciences Thermodynamics].pdf". The tags are directly encoded into the file names.
The last sentence on that page reads: "The full data can be downloaded at www.cgdev.org/povcalnet."
Url changed from http://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2014/05/06/mozill.... HN prefers original sources.
This is a program named after a feature. Doesn't really do a good job of conveying what it's for IMO.

Also since it uses the AGPL it's a no-go for me.
You're forgetting the capital which was used to educate Rowling thus enabling her to read and write.
The submitted link doesn't tell me much about this.
On the practical side:

Does this mean that in the us legally speaking putting lights and camera like on the picture requires consent from amazon?
Anyone who isn't an idiot would have seen how idiotic this patent is.
Dead or not, it's all we've got to serve some of the biggest US residential real estate corporations.

We are starting again, the mobile site for 1 of our 33,000 domains is in testing, but it will be over a year before we have most of our customers using it.
This article is a fantastic example of un-science presented as narrative. Conflicting hypotheses about what causes height increase are presented as fact with no citations and little attention paid to the paradox. This reminds me of virtually every article I've read on population trends for obesity, diabetes, heart disease, gun violence ... and what frustrates me is I think the authors and editors don't realize what complete nonsense this is.
>The problem is one in ten thousand still leaves a very disgruntled & disenfranchised 30,000 people in America slaving away so everyone else can do as they wish.

Presumably those who were enabling the leisure of others would be reasonably economically rewarded. I think the idea is that you should ensure that everyone has their basic needs met, so that they can use their time solely on things that increase their quality of life in some way, not that you should force 1 in 10,000 people to work. If that means that some "necessary" jobs don't get done because they're so unpleasant that only people who need the money from them to survive would do them? Then that just puts even more pressure on automating them away, which is a net win for everyone, because those are /exactly/ the jobs that we should be automating away first.

I think that 1 in 10,000 might be a bit unrealistic at this point in time, but I think the level of automation in our society could easily be increased greatly... and probably will be. We've already started doing just that: a super easy example that comes to mind is automated checkout, which replaces 6-10 workers with one person making sure the checkout line is running and checking identification and the like. Even if the economy still more or less needs 1 in 10 people contributing, that enables 9 people to learn, make art, or just sleep all day. If whatever they're doing instead of the unnecessary job improves society? Then that's a net win, and presumably they would then receive economic benefits because of that. If it wasn't? Then they would still have a place to sleep, access to healthcare, enough food, etc.
Why would such important public data be only available to internal researchers? Cost? Politics? Fear?
Interesting theory. The Chinese are fully aware of the "north-south" differences themselves, although they often attribute it to other reasons, such as legacy effects of numerous mongol/manchu/other "barbarian" invasions from the north through out China's history, which often times were stopped around the Yangtze River. This resulted in the north under "barbarian rule" for long period of time, while the south held refugees of original ethnic Han chinese from the north.
It's not "just because he has a major medical condition". It's "because he has a major medical condition that interferes with his ability to assess the relevant choice".

The man literally cannot form new memories. How could we say that he could change his mind about something in a meaningful way? All the life experiences, reasoned arguments, etc. that are supposed to lead to people rationally changing their minds do not work on H.M.

Look, people end up mentally crippled in all sorts of ways, and we are forced all the time to ask the question "Is he so crippled that we cannot trust this new version? Or is the impairment minor enough that this new version is better representation than a third party mental model?" This question is unavoidable because there are extremes that make it clearly "yes" in some circumstances and clearly "no" in others. We have the "real, actual, living patient" in front of us all the time, and often they are profoundly disabled.
> Inversely proportional to your odds is success, though.

I seriously doubt that is true.

> For many people the stakes are a bit too high:

Starting a business with little capital has little downside risk, especially if you are already unemployed.

BTW, I started my business with nothing more than an ordinary computer. A friend of mine started his own businesses tuning up peoples' cars in their driveways so they didn't have to go to a shop. His investment and risk was essentially zero, he already had the hand tools needed.

Etsy.com and Ebay.com are packed full of people who started their own businesses with nothing.

Heck, the other day I was at the local public library when they had a book sale. There were people in there scarfing up boxes of books, and checking the value of them with an iphone app. They were clearly intending to resell those books online and make money.
What would seem to be the danger is that it's not a good look for Apple to buy/own/be associated with something that is quite so obviously "all style, no substance" - basically the exact same thing that many haters already accuse Apple of, unfairly in my view. Same if Apple bought Monster Cables. It's the kind of link that would actually hurt one, other, or both brands.

That's even assuming a word of this nonsense is true. I just can't see how Beats would have one single thing that Apple would want.
Can this be used together with Camlistore (http://camlistore.org/) ?
Is it possible to order this soda online?

A quick look on Amazon and Google Shopping turned up nothing.
Have you ever seen cost plus government dev projects? They make more money the more pointlessly complex and slow to develop your solution it. If only the world was a sensible meritocracy.