skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. I am not denying (or if we can cool back down to a friendlier tone^, disputing) the effect of policies on outcomes. But, they are one factor which can be substantial or not. I am disputing that (apart from some relatively uncommon cases) they are predictive or determining, especially if the thing we are trying to determine is what kind of effects on employment future innovations will have.

The implication that one could take the best of an economy and expecting that this is achievable elsewhere by copying policies or a policy approach is nonsensical. Germany's industrial engineering is superb (as is California's software) and that is the result of a lot of history and organic development. Policy played a role, but probably a small one. Even if the role is bigger than I think, it is still a complicated role that was played by interacting with time and place sensitive uncopiable factors. California's software is part of an ecology (Universities, VCs, Angels) and it is part of a culture. You can't copy RMS & a history of hippies in Berkley.

The extent to which 'innovation' they can be encouraged at all and how is fairly disputed. It's certainly harder than encouraging (for example) investment. Innovation is inherently unpredictable. Trying to direct the eventual impact of innovation "innovates in order to empower workers" is snake oil. And, I don't think it's even true that Germany's innovation has these characteristics.

The whole article is layered nonsense from a Professor. grrrr

^My apologies. Reading back, I don't like the tone I wrote in.
when I tried to view using firefox, the cpu bar kept high eating all the memory and unresponsive. I saw in firebug net tab that every slide was being fetch from slideshare in a loop. Does not happen in chrome.
The world as 100 people
I love Pure. If you are looking for a lightweight less-intrusive alternative to Bootstrap you should try it, or even to replace part of it.
Why they were not the best team as they won the Euro just after that ?
Hyperbolic title considering that David Sanders is giving two Presentations at the upcoming SciPy 2014:

The wonderful world of scientific computing with Python
Sunday 8 a.m.–noon in Room 101

Introduction to Julia
Monday 1 p.m.–5 p.m. in Room 101
It's an Ask HN, they decay faster.
My dad worked in the Ohio State Reformatory for a year or two before they closed it, and moved everyone a mile up the road. He was an extra in Shawshank. I wasn't there during the filming (because I was 5), nor do I remember the time.

There are still tours through the old reformatory. I've been there a few times during Halloween.

http://www.mrps.org/
Is there a link to this non-politician clause? Are all public figures covered? Only the unwashed masses should have a right to privacy.
Without manual controls, what mechanism do they use to drive it into and out of the trailer as seen at the beginning of the video?
Thanks. That is a useful resource.
That doesn't help much when only a handful of smaller publishers sell their books in DRM-free formats. I read a lot, and really like e-books. I don't buy very many e-books though, because the condition in which they're sold is so hostile to the consumer.
Another similar case of using stats and science to find something (in this case German U-boats) in the middle of ocean.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blacketts-War-Defeated-U-Boats-Broug...

UK/America/other allies were suffering horrendous shipping losses caused by German U-boats. What really helped turn the tide was scientists using 'science' to predict where to find the German U-boats.
I agree; I haven't even bothered to tinker around with the free trial. The minimum price is too high to just buy to play around with and free version is too restricted to get a feel for the platform. What I would want is the ability to do everything but distribute/publish an application (even the 24 hour binary restriction is fine).

I also don't understand why Visual Studio support isn't included in the Indie price or the free trial since I suspect the vast majority of developers who want to code mobile apps in C# use Visual Studio. So for $300 I get a sub-par product and for free I don't know anything about it.

If you aren't a mobile developer today then there's really no reason to consider Xamarin. They aren't marketing to developers who currently aren't doing mobile development but are interested in it. They should be trying to woo developers who are on that ground level so we'll buy in once we're committed.
Seconded. I looked into it for games and specifically MonoGame and got blocked before I even wrote any code. Stupidest thing I've ever seen. Except for their shitty setup process with all the downloads that don't resume or retry, instead they just abort the installation for you if a single file fails.
The article ends up endorsing the solution proposed by Coye Cheshire, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information, as an alternative to Larry Page's "Privacy is dead, deal with it" attitude.

Apparently Mr. Cheshire believes the way for people to control sharing of their information is to share more information about themselves and participate in more social networks so they can know what others are sharing about them.

It Mr. Cheshire bankrolled by google? Because it seems he is saying the same thing as Larry Page, only in more diplomatic language.

I do think there is definately a need to discuss how exactly we want the right to be forgotten to work and where it should apply, but this whole article smells like propaganda, not an attempt to start that discussion.
Or Germany's apprentice programs, like the one they have for developers.
This has happened to me before many times, we were working on a large app recently that used in app purchases and the sandbox was down for two whole weeks. Try explaining that someone who is paying you by the hour..

The only reply I ever really had was on an forum with "We're looking into it" and that was a few days before a fix was made
How does downvoting even happen, I don't have a button for it
Since you asked: http://lifehacker.com/5693309/how-to-install-android-on-an-i...
> they enabled entire new genres of game

Such as? There have been great enjoyable DOS-based 3D games for a number of years ever since Wolfenstein so I'm curious what 'new genres' you're thinking of that the introduction of a 3D graphics processor enabled.. ;)
They're one of the largest, most secretive data brokers out there. That's why. A lot of data passes through them and out to many other parties.
Why is it so difficult to store energy?
Stop the Chaos in your Company Inbox
The NYTimes reported that they'll be built in Detroit;

"Google is having 100 cars built by a manufacturer in the Detroit area, which it declined to name. Nor would it say how much the prototype vehicles cost. They will have a range of about 100 miles, powered by an electric motor that is roughly equivalent to the one used by Fiat's 500e, Dr. Urmson said. They should be road-ready by early next year, Google said."

They could have used Tesla's facilities for the first prototypes though. My money for the first production run is on a niche house like Roush, or potentially Chrysler since these little cars share components with the Fiat 500e.
Oops, I deleted my comment b/c I used the wrong example, but you already replied before I caught it. Your answer makes sense.

Here's a corrected comment:

Something weird has happened to how things are ordered on the front page too.
Right now, this post has 87 points, was posted 4 hours ago, but it's below "Google Search/Web History..." which has 80 points and was posted 7 hours ago.

It used to be just # of points with a time-decay function, but now there's some other variable. Anyone know?
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It's probably still true, but the #1 and #2 largest shipyards in the world are right down the road from each other on the Koje-Do island - Samsung and Daewoo within just a few ships from each other in terms of overall size.

There are 3 very large shipbuilders in South Korea as it turns out.

I got a chance to get a tour of the Daewoo Shipyard back about 6 years ago now. And they had all manner of ships under construction, including ships as advanced as submarines -- all for external countries. The submarines were all for Germany IIR. It was very impressive.
That is also the way I'm reading it, with a dash more "these things are terrifyingly complex, so unless your article shows some real thoughtful work, it isn't worth much."
In all fairness, they do specifically refer to consumer graphics in a few spots but yours was my initial reaction as well. It's very PC-centric with a side of game consoles.
There is a more nuanced view in the full Wikipedia page on the topic [0]. The CIA World Factbook number quoted is only for those who have had over 5 years of education (which is hopefully almost everybody) and they probably have a fairly low bar for determining literacy (I would bet nothing more than a questionnaire response).

Other studies have indicated a much lower literacy rate, right about the 75% level, depending on how strict you want to be about things like vocabulary and comprehension.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
Can't endorse this enough. Downloaded demo sample app, got my C# T-Shirt and Monkey, trial ran out, will probably never buy.
You completely misread what I wrote. You sound like a melodramatic child.

If your job is making you miserable then by all means, find another job.

But every job has tasks you don't want to do, has projects that you don't 100% agree with the direction of, etc. Every job.
Philosopher’s Mail: Actual News Vs. Guiltless Gossip
I pretty much agree with this article.

Anyone who complains about updating their code hasn't done it: upgrading code from Python 2 to Python 3 is dead simple. I've migrated a few large projects manually (not using 2to3 because I wanted to be sure relevant areas of the code were tested). None of these took more than a few hours. Writing code that is compatible with both Python 2 and 3 is a little bit harder, but it's still not prohibitively difficult.

The fact that difficulty of migration is still cited as the main reason for not migrating shows that people simply aren't trying it. So we really have to look at why people aren't trying to migrate. It seems pretty clear to me that people don't see incentives for the change. There's just not enough different about Python 3.

And the author is spot on talking about improving the standard libraries, although I think where they could really get a big win is not necessarily by improving the existing libraries, but by adding new libraries. The thing that got me excited about Python in the first place was the "batteries included" nature of the standard library: so much of what I wanted to do was just an import away. And I'm not the only one who felt that way[1]. But there are tons of holes in the standard library that could be filled with simple wrappers around existing open-source tools or by implementing public standards. Just ones I've run into recently: BSON, AES, RSA. Python supporst SQLite, but what about baking in support for PostgreSQL or MySQL? What about building in a templating engine?

[1] http://xkcd.com/353/
Same in the Netherlands. However, if the bankruptcy of the company is found to be the result of blatant mismanagement, the creditors can go after the owners personal possessions.

There is no stigma attached to an entrepreneur who's company goes bankrupt, but the personal bankruptcy is a sign of failure.
Let me be clear about where I'm coming from by stating my (extremely unpopular) opinion of Apple here: My view is that Apple is a hybrid marketing/hardware company that sells a kind of tech faux haut couture. I'm not a fan of Apple.

That being said, I absolutely will deploy to iOS before Android, because that is where the market and money is. Android markets to a broad swath of people, a huge of segment of which consists of lower socioeconomic classes, and the conversion rate for purchases is lower (my experience) for the same effort (I actually find developing for Android to be slightly easier than iOS, in spite of the unfortunate choice of Java as the language, but the fragmentation issues others might throw at you by way of countering your argument are largely irrelevant for the kinds of apps I'm interested in producing). Apple product users are generally in a higher socioeconomic class and generally are more willing to part with their dollar. It just makes business sense to target that first to get revenue, then target Android to extract value.
From my answer:

> Remember kids, when you fill your car up with 10 gallons of gas in 5 minutes, you are transferring energy at a rate of 4.5 MW (36 MJ/L * 38 L / 300 sec).
Technically, our current cab drivers could do the same thing.
don't your deltoids get tired?
'flagging as downvoting' has been going on for a very long time, and this is logical because they have the exact same effect, in fact, a flag counts for roughly 10 downvotes by my estimates.

If a flag was unjust the flagger should get penalized, or alternatively a flag should simply cost you 10 points. That way it might be used sparingly and for its intended purpose.
I wonder if there's a PHP library?
It was a red flag. One day he is lulzsec doing lulzy mischief, disappears and comes back inciting terrorism and giving big ups to reactionary militant islam.
Joke: To prevent the other internal Apple app teams from cheating!
Thanks. We had another report of that too, unfortunately we do not have much control over the slideshare embed, but we are working with them on it.
Because it's technically possible to create an app with a com.apple bundleID.
"Global" is a matter of perspective. You can pass your objects a service registry to initialize themselves from, if you like. You can have as many service registries as you like.

The difference, then, from passing them their pre-initialized collaborators directly, is that if they need to create new collaborators on their own, they can ask the service registry what the current implementation they should be instantiating is. (It's basically a change in perspective from having objects that spawn specialized, short-lived objects, to having long-lived objects that can deal with changing conditions around them. Think about, say, Docker containers using links vs. etcd discovery. It's nice to not have to bring down your webserver just because your DB moved to a new IP address.)

Also, if you were thinking about my Erlang example specifically when you said "global singleton object" -- Erlang, despite the name, doesn't have one global registry, either. Instead, Erlang's process registry is per-node -- and nodes are the boundary where you deploy a release. In fact, ignoring the pragmatic OS-threading and networking implications, an Erlang node is almost exactly a "switchboard" on which services are plugged into one another, and an Erlang release is almost exactly a declaration of the current connections on such a switchboard. Need a place where your service is registered to X instead of Y? Bring up a node where that's true.)
It's turning into MetaFilter?

EDIT: By which I mean, it's really operating through manual interventions.
The Web Is A Flat Circle
Other posts have as factors:

- age

- number of upvotes

- number of flags (roughly 10x an upvote per flag)

- number of comments

And possibly other factors.
One thing is the formalities of a bankruptcy, which like most business formalities in Denmark are pretty simple to deal with - another is the social stigma. It's anecdotal, but I'd say that such a stigma definitely exists in Denmark.
The idea is that if you end up with code like this, it shows you have too many collaborators and should refactor them away.
I think it would work best based on relative price. So the cheapest jeans on the market are $10. Jeans that cost 50% more than that are taxed.
I imagine this working a lot like car2go, which I've used to commute in Austin. The cars are rarely at a central depot except for maintenance. They're left wherever you last used them until someone else gets in. This could only be better than that, as users won't have to walk to find one.

There's no reason for the cars to drive back into the city every evening. They could charge themselves while you're at work if they had to charge daily.
Radxa: $100 Quad-Core ARM Raspberry Pi Alternative
How are you "not convinced"? There is nothing to convince.

College teaches you to write better (critical thinking skills in practice), interpret better (more critical thinking), implement better (yet more critical thinking), etc. Even your major courses teach you critical thinking.

Of course you can teach yourself all the material you would learn during major courses. That stuff is largely irrelevant outside of college. If the argument is then "college teaches nothing", well then, I can't argue with you because this is nonsense. Get a degree from a reputable 4 year university and then come tell me it was a total absolute waste of 4 years. You may think that while attending college, but it's wasted effort.

The true value of a college education is intangible.
Ricoh kind of attempted this (albeit mirrorless, not SLR) with the GXR series: http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/gxr/features.html

If I understand correctly, the body has the grip, LCD, and processor, and you can swap out individual APS-C/lens combo cartridges.
You're picking a strange point. Relative decline, in %GDP, does mean a decline in importance in manufacturing. It's well known that US manufacturing is down for the last few decades and Germany is indeed an outlier among western countries in that manufacturing has retained relative economical importance.
> The question shouldn't be "Are the people who go to college making more money than the people who don't?" The question should be "Are highly motivated and educated people better off if they go to college instead of doing something else?"

> And the answer to that is often "No, they aren't."

It's certainly possible to get a job in some fields (notably tech) without a degree. And if you work long enough, you'll probably get to the same point you would have with one. On the other hand, I'm quite willing to bet that the average salary of a 22 year old with a 4-year CS degree vastly exceeds the average salary of a 22 year old with 4 years of work experience.

The same goes for graduate degrees, especially for tech companies that have a technical job ladder (those where you can get promoted without becoming a manager): take a look at the starting point for new hires with various degrees, then take a look at the average work experience of people who worked up to those starting points.

When I first started considering graduate school, I actually ran the numbers for whether it made economic sense to pursue a graduate degree, and it most definitely did, by a huge margin.

I do, however, agree with the concept of selection bias here: college is as much a signal of who you already were when you entered as what you learned.
I am absolutely certain than they are. Some have even admitted it in discussions - they use it to mark articles that they think aren't quite right for HN or are likely to result in worthless discussion. Tptacek explained that that was why he flagged posts.

I am of the camp that flagging should only be used to mark "this is really inappropriate/terrible content that should be taken off the site immediately", not "this doesn't fit my opinion of what should belong on HN".

Flags are basically super-powered downvotes. A couple of flags can demolish the ranking of a post with 40 upvotes in 40 minutes.

If you're gonna allow that, might as well just have downvotes and be transparent.
Yeah it's basically a holodeck. Exciting stuff. It's funny how on the shows the holo-deck was always something that took a whole lot of electricity so they could only have one or two on the ship, and you'd have to book time on it. It looks like in real life holodecks are much less power hungry than faster than light starship engines, and that more people desire their own holo-deck than want to go to space. Makes sense. Entertainment has historically been much more popular than exploration.
Choosing indentation as a life style of programming
Let me get this clear in my head - you want "Full Stack Developer" to be someone well versed in everything that is happening from the assembly running on your machine to the browser, to the network stack and routers, down to the server, and back down to the assembly running on that server?

It would be a good interview question; it would filter out a lot of bullshit because, frankly, anybody who says they understand that for all permutations of those components is a liar.

There are very few people who would be able to even give you a 10,000 foot view of all the components that make up the delivery of a web page from end to end, let alone truly understanding all of them.

To borrow from the article - there's too many abstractions.
The Windows system control, Explorer UI, Internet Explorer UI, Office UI all use undocumented APIs since Win98/2k and Office 95.

It's called Windows "DirectUser" UI and it's in violation of the antitrust settlement.

sources:

* http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/02/10/52952...

* http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US...

Internet Explorer's use of DUSER.DLL is only temporary.
The final version of Internet Explorer will not use it.
-- Raymond Chen [author of "The Old New Thing"]

* yet, IE 7+ uses DirectUser UI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2006/02/01/a-new-look-for...
flagging as downvoting' has been going on for a very long time, and this is logical because they have the exact same effect, in fact, a flag counts for roughly 10 downvotes by my estimates.

I wonder exactly how common this behavior is? It's basically data for a "douchebag census."
A monopoly is not always a negative, it is the behaviour of the monopolyquality determines whether it is good or bad.

I remember being taught about YKK, a monopoly producer of zips, they kept their monopoly by producing good quality cheap zips. The profit made was enough that they could stay in business but not enough that it was worth other companies expending capital to get into the market.

Monopoly is one state of the market on a spectrum in a capitalist economy, it is neither good or bad it just is.
According to the Library of Congress, on becoming a poet laureate:

1. How does one acquire the title of state poet laureate?
State poets laureate can acquire their title unofficially or officially. Unofficially, a laureate may be so named through a literary club ceremony, widespread popularity or publicity, or through nicknaming. This allows many poets to claim laureate status, however. Official designation of state poet laureate is by governor's act or proclamation, by legislative action, or by both governor and legislature.
--- http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/faq.html

Dr. Maya Angelou is a world renowned poet, human & civil rights champion, and American hero (amongst many of her other magnanimous attributes and works). It is safe to say, through general consensus, that we can call her a poet laureate as well.

Regardless of titles, through her works, she belongs to all because she has impacted, inspired, and influenced many not of her gender or race.

And she is San Francisco's own as well. Salute to a phenomenal woman who truly lived a full life. May we continue to keep learning from her, and continue to hit the high standard of grace she has set.
Perhaps Thomas would descend from his stratospheric karma then, since my understanding is he flags very liberally.
Microsoft Flight Simulator on same wasn't half bad either...
In this case "worst" depends on whether you're a developer or an employer.
I think it boils down to honesty.

I think it's fine to put money into fundamental R&D, NASA and the like. But, that's an expense. Treating it as such, lets us ask the right questions.

I didn't invest €3,000 last year in lunch, I ate €3,000 worth of lunch. The right question is "was it tasty?" In the kind of discourse that gets put around policy, I would be asking "what productivity gains did I make be eating lunch?"