skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at corporate employment (the situation of the lower classes is a different matter) people are doing about 5-10 hours of real work per week. Real work is so rare that it's a political token allocated as a favor. If you pay your dues and make your bosses happy, you might get a real project after a couple of years.

The rest of that time is spent acquiring and maintaining social status.

Under corporatism, you don't get a leisure society. You get total disenfranchisement of those who lose in (increasingly noisy and degenerate, over time) political tussles and end up with "the wrong kind" of resume, and a frenetic but wasteful contest in which those who are still in contention beat the piss out of each other to make themselves eligible for the (dwindling) supply of real projects.

When you have such a large number of people with nothing better to do but jockey for social status, you have a lot of cheap labor and it's easy to assign pointless grunt work that doesn't need to be done, and that does little for a person's career or general employability-- and people will do it.

That, above, is what happened. Also, read nlawalker's post, because (s?)he nailed it.
MS gives you sources to audit if you pay enough, and the builds may be deterministic.
I once changed facts on wikipedia.

We worked for a smartphone maker back when they were new, and we had smartphones and GPRS.

So when we did a treasure hunt for team building, where there was multiple-choice questions hidden in a forest, every team thought themselves clever by searching for the answers on the still-young wikipedia.

But my team was cleverer: we were editing wikipedia.

There were a lot of confused low-scoring teams after us... :)
The State of MarkDown Editors
Tracking Mobile Data in a Multiscreen World
that's totally unintended: I just looked for some interesting unicode characters and chose these 2 for the video game references ;)
JESUS WAS Not CRUCIFIED BUT LAIN DUNCAN SCMITH WILL BE
UX could be the death of UX
@lazylizard - we do time tracking and staffing. Here's a link to time tracking and the homepage - https://hubstaff.com
There could be a wide range of reasons for this, but I'm pretty sure a large part of it is protectionism. The Chinese government is pretty hostile towards foreign software in China, and they are probably displeased with China's dependence on Windows.

When I lived was in China, I contemplated starting a business there. Burgeoning market, and all. But I came to understand that it's a terrible idea. If you're a foreign national that manages to successfully launch a business in China, you are either morally corrupt, have given substantial bribes or have connections within the government. And if you were to become too successful, the Chinese government will make sure that you either cooperate or become insignificant.

I can't help but think that this strategy will damage their economy in the long run, but for now they are doing pretty well. Kudos to them for being one of few countries that actually manage to resist the massive influence of the US. If the PRC hadn't been protectionist, the Chinese would be using Google and Facebook just like the rest of us.
http://getdpd.com is the best option I've found. The interface makes sense, the pricing is super fair, and they allow you to send unlimited updates for free to your users (most other services charge more or, even worse, per update!).
Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world
Ask HN: Current state of Geo-IP?
Hey, all,

I'm trying to weigh the cost/benefit of adding some geo-targeting to a client's ecommerce site. In my very limited testing (6 regionally diverse tests) I'm only getting useful regional information 50% of the time. (National info isn't useful for this client).

I was wondering if there was good data out there, or at least some better informed opinion on what results can be expected.

Thanks!
The Most Transformative Invention Since the iPad
Is eJunkie is still flash based? SendOwl or GetDPD have been our two favourites the last few years
I don't think your final link justifies your claim - those 8,800 results compare to 441,000 for "wildebeests", 25,700 for "wildebeasts" (a simple typo), or 9,090 for the totally niche joke wildebeets. (Wild beets)

And the 8,800 results aren't people using them in sentences (search "wildebai are" or "wildebai have" or "several wildebai" or any other search with quote marks and a good candidate for being a real sentence.)

I could personally find only a single page from 2009 that uses that - which is far fewer pages than just about any misspelling however absurd.
I think you just needed one of these http://imgur.com/soLoTRs
Ha only saw it in the readme now :-) Thanks!
I originally discovered this through the "fortune" program that's still available in many Linux package managers.
CLAUDE – The Common Lisp Library Audience Expansion Toolkit
Yes, the doctor was very patient and made sure I understood what was going on. He has advised me to avoid heavy barbell exercises and use dumbbells instead while not doing things like 'cheater curls'. I am contemplating going to a chiropractor, but I'm unsure of the authenticity of chiropractic therapy.
Interesting. Can't find any info about in on http://360safe.com/ though...
In this case it requires a 400W transmitter and an extremely large parabolic antenna. Probably not something they'll have at the local hackerspace.

Satellites in LEO/MEO might be reachable with more readily obtainable equipment though.
Good luck with that... ;-)
There is none. This spacecraft doesn't even have an onboard computer. The only reason people don't routinely hack spacecrafts like this is because you need a worldwide network of huge dish antennas to communicate with it. Right now, outside of the Deep Space Network, only the Aricebo dish is capable of transmitting to it. Once it gets closer to earth (within a few million miles), the 20 meter dish at Moorehead in Kentucky will be used.
This might explain the high CPM I get with WordAds [1] and its brand-focused ads.

[1] http://wordads.co/
WooCommerce on Wordpress for an ebook/digital package. Free, barring Paypal fees (grmmble - I could use a different gateway, or even BTC, but in the real world PP is my best bet), and user-friendly enough. Has been very reliable over the years.
This one sounds fun. Going yo try it. Thanks!
Wladimir Palant(ABP dev) gives a short response here:

https://adblockplus.org/blog/on-the-adblock-plus-memory-cons...
And yet I couldn't get the moderators to acknowledge the existence of New Mexican/South Western Chili.
Pretty harsh for a first comment.

Please read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, I've seen cats, dogs, shoes, streets, articles of clothing and abstracts concepts being called a "kajigger", but I'm not going to update the Wikipedia entry on felis catus to say "also known as kajigger". That would just be kajigger.
like xip.io
Post-commit review

It sounds like this means post-merge code review too? After getting used to a pre-merge code review tool that does hard-gating (gerrit), I have trouble with other tools.
Are you referring to the drive to use more of a languages' built in operators to build queries, instead of my approach? I think the Mozilla library uses an approach like that.

http://elasticutils.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
No PayPal payments accepted though, which is a showstopper for a lot of users.

From their website (http://getdpd.com/plans-and-pricing/):
"What types of payment do you accept?

We accept Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. At this time we only accept payments online so we will not be able to accept a P.O., invoice you, or take an order over the phone."
I've been involved with Linux since 1993 and it is a great server os but I am skeptical of the linux desktop since over time there has not beeen a trajectory of improvement but rather things have gotten worse.
@unicornporn, Agree, I wanted to use it as a solution and I was not able to find it.
That's why I have manufacturer logo on the back of my laptop covered by a innocent "no free advertising" sticker all the time, not only when presenting.

Even for the clothes, the only logo I occasionally have printed on my clothes is the logo of my employer on a clothes provided by them for free. That much advertising is acceptable for me.
Slightly related and because it has intrigued me since I read the paper I thought people may find IBMs "History Flow" project interesting?

The Project no longer appears to be documented on IBM site but the Wikipedia article has everything you need - including that lovely daily slice of (soft) irony. I prefer my irony hard, but what are you going to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_Flow
my first try gave me a HTTP status 500!
and so on..
This doesn't really make sense in this case.

Facebook & Google have chinese alternatives. The alternative to Windows 8 is presumably some older Windows.
Thanks for the tips mate. Everyday when I hit the gym, I hang on to the pullup bar. Feels like heaven. Also, when I do back exercises like seated rows and pulldowns, the pain vanishes for a fair amount of time. I'll try your tips.
http://sellfy.com accepts PayPal
The biggest threat to China's IT security isn't Windows (as bad as it is), but rather the rampant software piracy. Anyone who thinks that the NSA, and any other state actor, can't sneak malicious code into software which is distributed in a black market is kidding themselves.
Though I do not agree with th author, the author might be suggesting a situation which warrents the presence of the manager, may be meeting with a prospective client etc.
Then there is a high probability someone else picked up the prospect and he lost millions.

Yes, it is all conjecture.
How many objects orbit at L1? Is there a risk of collision if we put many objects there?
I was visiting Ocean Quigley at Maxis, the lead artist on SimCity (and many other Maxis games), and he gave me a demo of a video filter feature in SimCity that would adjust the colors so you could play the game with various sorts of color blindness.

Not only that, but it also had an "empathy filter" that would adjust the colors so people with normal color vision could see what it looked like to people with various forms of color blindness.

I think that's an excellent accessibility feature, which should be built into the operating system or video driver, so you can apply it to all games and applications.

Not only are the filters to adjust the colors for color blind people useful, but also the empathy filters are useful for developers and designers who want to test their applications and designs to make sure they're usable by color blind people.

http://www.oceanquigley.com/

http://oceanquigley.blogspot.nl/
Good choice, archives have been down for a month anyway.
Codebrag is about completely different (lighweight, non-blocking review) philosophy than Gerrit. And yeah, it's nicer look :)

Technologies under the hood: AngularJS+Scala(tra)+H2 database.
Parent uses "Mutt", an email program using a UI so old it's probably endorsed by the Society For Creative Anachronism; the notion of "fonts" or "colors" in email, however garish, is incomprehensible to him. For that email client, content is ASCII text, nothing more.
I'd say that's correct - XP is all over the place in China.
SendOwl does, too.
I don't get the reference. Please elaborate for us newbs.
Linux is really not an easy thing for people working in Chinese government.
Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?
How do you securely share passwords and secrets in a startup or organization? We're currently using Meldium but looking at other alternatives.
Damn last minute changes! Fixed.

Edit: although for some countries you still need to manually try a few different proxies before it works. I have a solution to this in the works, but couldn't wait to show off.
AppCode 3.0 final release – learn what's new
I'm still colorblind.
We use Gerrit at work, and having tried numerous tools in the past, we've settled on Gerrit because it's efficient with our time and is focused on doing CRs well. Things that I enjoy:

* Keyboard shortcuts.
* Inline or side-by-side comparisons
* Patchsets from changes
* Makes it easy to check the change locally
* Easy inbox/dashboard for CRs
* Provides structure to passing code reviews (not everyone should be able to +2 a CR)
* It actually has an interface that is useful
It's really hard to find laptops of similar quality to the MacBook (Pro/Air). Of cause you could install an alternative OS on the hardware, but you'd get worse performance.

I really like Mac OS X, it does what I need and looks okay. Pretty much all the tools I use are available cross platform. If I where to replace it, it would be with one of the BSDs. I don't like Linux as much as I once did, I think it has become rather messy.
Red Flag Linux is, I think, defunct; but they can copy Red Star OS from North Korea?
Personally, I git pull and I just have all the important repos [e.g. things with Dockerfiles that people want to be notified if they should rebuild] dump to chatroom notifications so people know they might want to rebuild.
To do less work in a capitalist economy, own capital. Buy two houses, rent one live in the other, retire forever if so inclined.
What Conspiracy Theory Research Gets Wrong About the Paranoid
More often per unit of bug, maybe (... maybe.). No more often per unit of time or unit of code, please!
Its just that, he wants his son to have a better life than him. Thats why the toil. He wants to provide him better means, hence the 80 hr weeks.

Yes it'd depend on what you want from your life. Priorities are different for all.
> That assumes that schooling is relevant to a kids future.

Yes, that was one of the assumptions: "But this viewpoint presupposes that kids' education is not productive, ".

That whole premise was beyond the scope of my post, though I strayed a little bit into it.
I would think nation states already work under the assumption that the NSA and other agencies are actively trying to infiltrate their systems. The recent NSA revelations can't be news to them. So why stop using it now I wonder?
That's extremely interesting. The frequency band is well within what you could do with fairly simple gear. Assuming it is still alive just reaching it would already be quite something, getting some useful readings from it would be absolutely awesome.

This may be something where talking to the HAM community will be more productive than talking to the hacker community, the first step would be to reliably track it using an antenna suitable for the frequency range and checking if it is emitting anything at all before attempts to contact it would make much sense (once you have a signal to home in on it is a lot easier to prod it rather than to prod blindly until something responds).

Keep in mind that this frequency band is not exactly unlicensed territory, you're smack in the mobile aeronautical band according to ofcom. So listening is likely ok but you may need a permit to transmit at that frequency and it is not necessarily the same frequency at which the satellite will receive it's input (typically it is some other frequency to enable full-duplex).
The obligatory xkcd - http://xkcd.com/1337/
There are several similar apps. Does anyone happen have experience with them (Couple/Pair, Avocado, Between, ...)? This is one of those kinds of things that's annoying to cross-test because it requires someone who oftens doesn't care nearly as much, to help test.
It's literally the best feeling in the world when Eric Lippert answers your c# question.

It's like if you cried out "dear God, why?" about your troubles but actually got a response.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper
I clicked in the text box to enter a URL and my cursor appeared in the middle of the example URL. Pressing left... nothing, right... nothing, delete... nothing. Typing some more text - the example URL disappeared and I could enter one from scratch!

Does this just happen from the UK? ;)
Using a Capt. Crunch whistle, you could recreate the tones telcoms used to initiate long distance calling. Meaning you could blow the whistle and get free long distance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper
but this money mustache was working to retire ealry right ?Though,he most probably will live the same way even after retirement.
This has likely been discussed on Wikipedia already, but I wouldn't mind having a note on the page stating that an expert has verified a specific revision of a wikipedia article. It looks like there's a process for reviewing articles (see the talk page for today's featured article, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thomas_Ellison), but these don't seem like first-class citizens in the main article page.
Researchers crack unassailable encryption algorithm in two hours
Paid MaxMind has more accurate data than free one so I buy that when needed. Or you can use browser location via JS which is pretty good
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> The only way money is generated is by debt

Huh? There are loads of other ways to make money. Write some software for example. Or if you are the government then print some.
Sounds like I'd be building your thing?
It's a reference back to John Draper's work on the blue box. You could trick AT&T pay phones into thinking you had deposited money by playing tones which were reproducible on toys that came out of Captain Crunch boxes.
It's a plastic whistle, like the ones that were found in some cereal boxes forty years ago.

It emits a note at 2600Hz, which coincidentally was the frequency for carrier control on the Bell phone network at the time.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper#Phreaking
In the early early days of telephone hacking (phone phreaking) a guy named John Draper discovered that the toy whistle found in a box of Cap'n Crunch cereal would emit a tone at precisely 2600 Hz. This frequency was used by The Bell System to issue call routing instructions. With it, you could make free long-distance calls around the world. Some via satellite.
So, is India really a software development powerhouse?
On it, thanks for the input :)

Edit: fixed
This is the future of "Wearables"! Combining them with implants to provide truly valuable data about your body and allowing them to deliver targeted medical treatment. So very exciting.
Assuming you're serious, what kind of equipment and knowledge would be needed?

According to the wiki page a team at UCL was planning to try, but the link to Roger Duthie's blog is dead. Any idea if they achieved anything?

Update:

Missing blog post content is at [1], courtesy of archive.org. Looks like they built some comms hardware. The full series of posts relating to Prospero is at [2]. Interesting read.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20121026003633/http://blogs.ucl.a...

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20121026003618/http://blogs.ucl.a...
China would be very useful. Seem to be getting 500's though
Ok... so - this is a web proxy service. Am I missing something here or is this all there is to it?
Password safe in a smb share. I don't really like the idea but it's imposed.
This is so interesting! Your parent said "unrivaled hardware" and went on to give some examples of the types of things meant by that: frequent component updates, nice high-res displays, battery life, support, and form factor. (Left out the trackpad, which really is a huge differentiator.) You replied by questioning things like failure rates, lifespan, side by side component images, and resistance to heat, cold, dust, and impacts. There is a big difference between your lists, his are things users care about day to day, and yours are things engineers or IT managers care about. Well, I'm a user, and while I have very little affection for Apple, as far as I can tell they're the only ones making very nice user-focused laptop hardware at reasonable prices ($1000-$1200 vs. more like $2000 for a similarly nice (but, irrelevantly, more powerful!) non-Mac in my experience).

I find the logo and "sameness" rather embarrassing, but it seems to be the only game in town. Please do link me to a $1200 non-Mac laptop with a high-res 15" screen, thin form factor, and nice trackpad.
The 400W transmitter is doable, the large parabolic antenna would be a bit harder to hide. Though, as you up the power you can use a smaller antenna. The giveaway then becomes fried birds falling out of the sky.
In the German Wikipedia in 2009 one joker added "Wilhelm" inside of the name of the politician Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg.

He did it exactly at the time it became newsworthy to introduce him to the readers, so the media took it and the wikipeida entry feedback loop (the citation was there, it was written in the news!) was extremely fast. Some writers even claimed that the name that includes "Wilhelm" the politician told them directly. They lied, of course. Practically nobody fact checked.

http://www.bildblog.de/5704/wie-ich-freiherr-von-guttenberg-...
CERN's Higgs Boson Machine Learning Challenge
"As of April 2014, PaidCodeReview is no longer operational"
There are also simulators for low visual acuity that can help with web design work, such as this one for Chrome: http://accessgarage.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/458/
What Pot Pricing can tell you about Pricing Strategy
IBM Watson Acquires Artificial Intelligence Startup Cognea
The article claims this is an example of a falsehood starting on Wikipedia, percolating to external sources, then perpetuating on Wikipedia because it's in those external sources. That's interesting.

But what's more interesting is that this may be an entirely different case: a falsehood starts on Wikipedia, percolates to external sources, and then becomes true because it is pervasive. Then it remains on Wikipedia because it is true. And that's only possible because informal names can be adopted, and hey, that thing does look like an aardvark. Nick names are sticky like that.

Of course, I don't know if this is the case. But I don't think this article acknowledges it as a possibility - and nor do I know enough about the informal names of this kind of raccoon.
I like the look of it - unfortunately I'm not a Java developer, and gave up after 30 minutes trying to get the 1.7 JDK running on Ubuntu 12.04.
I installed 14.04 yesterday and was unable to get retina support. How do you enable it?
Even things as simple as identity can be tricky.
http://www.hulu.com.prx.us.teleport.to/ fails, I have a blank page.
At first I balked because I positively hate frivolous use of javascript and in fact browse with noscript and only a few sites allowed, but then I realised something.

This is actually really good for people like me. If I visit with javascript disabled, I get a nice, readable markdown. If I visit with lynx, I get markdown. I can actually read your blog with curl, if I want to. This is pretty much the holy grail of graceful degradation right here.
Heh, when you hover over Uruguay it says Uganda! :)
I've been using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for almost three years.

It's improved fairly steadily in that time (as measured by how often I end up falling back to appending "!g" to my search), but this is the single biggest improvement I can remember in my time as a user.

Aside from the auto-complete (which is nice), it feels significantly faster, and it's also easier to parse visually.

I'm really excited about seeing DuckDuckGo evolve, and it seems more and more people are as well: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
I'm not sure 'make scrolling (a feature the browser does natively) work on desktop' = "perfect everything"... I can perfect scrolling by creating a blank html page.