skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the response and links to the articles.
Votes are based on a timestamp, so a vote 1 minute ago has 120 seconds (or in this case, points) less than a vote of the same rating one minute from now.
It's a rating scale of 1 to 5, and instead of multiplying an entire timestamp amount by 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5- which would make it almost impossible for articles to be ranked dynamically, if not fairly, each rating is separated by 12 hours (or 43200 seconds), so a 'four star rating' 2 hours ago equals a 'three star rating' 60 minutes ago, which is equal a 'two star rating' right now.
I chose not to add negative votes, similarly to hacker news where there is only one upvote option. If a user doesn't like something, he can simply skip it and move on to another article or link he or she likes. It cuts down on trolls who downvote everything with a "Ron Paul" topic, for example.

I appreciate the feedback about the appearance or lack thereof of rating features. I'll look into it.

Alan. (webmaster@ioncurr3nt.com)
I wouldn't buy openmoko, as I saw it and it's not a cell phone I'd like to use. While the hardware is nice, hearing "sorry, I couldn't call you because I have flashed my moko and something is broken now" from my friends wasn't exactly the right marketing.

On the other hand, this thing is very simple, should be complete (much less and simpler software then in moko), and it's actually something I'd buy. $99 is quite a lot for this, but I guess they can drive the price much lower, eventually. I believe that this can be much more life-changing than openmoko, as it's something working, simple, open, and worth having, even if I want to do something else then hacking a cellphone.
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Looked through the requirements and yeah, it still looks like GA or whatever it is called, is for the sick, injured, or infirm. Here are the requirements:

"To qualify for GA Transitional Assistance (GA-TA)

DHS must decide that you are not employable. To be considered not employable, you must meet one of the following criteria:

* Are 55 or older and have had little or no income during the past year.
* Have a serious disability and an application or appeal pending with SSI.
* Have to take care of another person in your home because of that person's physical condition.
* Are homeless because of a court-ordered eviction or domestic violence, or because of a fire or a natural disaster that happened in the last 6 months.
* Are under age 20 and you attend high school or an equivalent vocational or training school full-time.
* Regularly take prescription medicine to control seizures, high blood pressure, or diabetes.
* Are temporarily unable to work because of illness or incapacity."

So black guys 15 - 24 still don't qualify. This system, to me, seems appropriate as well, if you are old or physically incapable of working, the government gives you some sum of money. Not a lot, but something. That sounds reasonable to me.

At any rate, it is a little misleading to imply that welfare is available to people without families. Yes, it is available to the elderly and the infirm if they do not have a family. But it is not available to the individuals we are discussing. Black men aged 15 - 24 without high school diplomas.
Or the reverse may be true: that black men won't take those jobs because they perceive them as being "no better than slavery".
74 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782236

2 months ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/9djgs/a_radicall...

4 months ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/8uvbh/1cm_thi...

etc etc.
You might want to add an 'About' page. Also your site seems to be designed for a 17 inch monitor, so the sidebar gets cut off on my 15 inch monitor.
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Do they count those on maternity leave or who work fulltime homemaking as being either not unemployed or employed at home? Sacking women at the lower end of this age range could lead to sexual discrimination suits - "she heard I was trying for a baby then I was sacked, ..." to avoid maternity payments?
Thats a hard one. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance talks about the concept of a gumption trap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumption_trap and how we might get out of one.

With me, its usually normal to feel "down" for some amount of time from time to time. I usually use this down time to sleep and relax, im probably not gonna get any real work don, so i might as well rest.

I have a lot of non coding "projects" for times like this. Usually its a book im reading a few pages at a time, or a list of tasks i might as well do NOW, since i have noting better to do. Maybe a list of bands i should check out. Basically anything that goes in the "check out later when you have more time" category, this is the time. So you do that stuff and relax and wait for it. It usually lasts a between a few hours to a whole week in my case. I don't mind it, im in school, so i can actually afford not to write code, i just show up for lectures and try to think of cool stuff to work on, eventually it comes to me.

Actually im in such a moment WRIGHT NOW, which is unfortunate, because the little free time for coding i have is on weekends.
I had a similar issue sometime back. Here's what people on HN said: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876674
In the UK you can request the company (for a payment of costs) to provide details of all personal information they hold on you.
>>The punctuation and my’s make this harder to read than it should be.

Huh, declaration of variables should remove a typical error at least I do:

foo = X
if ...
foi = Y
..
if foo == X ..

I really don't understand why the strict functionality isn't default in Perl and all other languages.

Also, only total newbies initialize arrays like this:

my @records = ();

Most every time Perl is mentioned, we get an insane amount of trolling. It is quite boring. Now I'm out of jeans, into a good shirt and off for a party, so you have to work on someone else... :-)
A link for Facebook users on the subject tells how-tos, but doesn't verify what happens technologically when one asks for a full account deletion.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16929680703

From the ToS:

http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

"You may also delete your account or disable your application at any time." But that's in a section that only applies to advertisers.
I have trouble viewing this as landscapes. I have to really focus to make them anything more than abstract textures. And for some reason all the craters look like they're convex, not concave. Great images, really makes me nostalgic for a future of planetary exploration that will, alas, probably not happen till I'm either senile or dead. The Big Picture strikes again! Thanks, tdedecko.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2oEP3RWppA
Google for example makes it pretty clear that, given the complexity of their backups system, they'll never be able nor try to delete your data completely. I'm guessing most companies are the same, backups are essentially read-only.
Uhh . . . dude. That's what you want.

I'm not trying to keep Americans out of jobs here, but isn't it good to require that foreign born people have jobs before they come here? I mean, I assume you are talking about immigrants. Why would you not want them to have some sort of employment related Visa before they get on the plane to come here and live?

This statistic, to me, says that the government is doing something right. Again, not trying to open up an immigration discussion, just saying that this statistic is a good thing. In general you want native unemployment to be higher than foreign born unemployment or you have a problem with your immigration program. In America Native unemployment is higher across every demographic, which is excellent in my opinion.

Just my two cents. I'm not an immigration expert or anything, but I am smart enough to know that I want the employable immigrants.
Yes, but I would propose breaking it down by their level of median annual income over the last 5-10 years. This would give a number, for any given individual, would tend to change gradually over a lifetime and would not be significantly affected by a year or two of unemployment.

This would show how much of the unemployment was affecting only those who were already losing in the employment game.
Go for a bicycle ride (or some other exercise).
The 'about' page is a great idea.
The site's 'body' has a width 1200 pixels. I'll rezise that.
Thanks for the input.
Alan (webmaster@ioncurr3nt.com)
Ask HN: How can a startup create its own board of advisors?
I know big companies pay an annual fee to their board of advisors. And they also vest stock options.

But how can a startup that can't afford to pay anyone create a board of advisors? Any tips?

If you had to approach someone and ask them to join your startup's board of advisors - what would you tell them to persuade them to join?
Ask HN: Automated Money Transfer, how?
Hey, guys sorry for my dumb question, but I never heard about a method to transfer funds from one account to another using programming.

I mean, I want to automated all parts of my web site, and there is a part where I have to transfer funds to some accounts(persons) is there a way to do that? Like mail the person with something to print or online transfer or things like that?

If there is more than one can you tell me? Thanks
Open Source free energy technologies.
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Blogging Vs Journalism: The concept of online media and Journalism
There are lots of difference between print media and Blogging. There are lots of complicity involved in both the process. I am not telling anything about which is better. Both the sources have their own importance. But there are few points which distinguish online and offline media.
Good point. Motivation/evaluation to benifits only applies to things the person can change.

Sure, you might be better off if you were white or a woman, but it is cheaper to get an education (well, here in the UK it would be cheaper, I hear education can be expensive in the US...)
Yeah, I can't speak to how much of this is going on.

You make a good point there.

I only have the data to show that able bodied black guys 15 - 24 do not receive welfare directly. So that is all I can say. You are right though, how many of those guys live with grandma, or mom, who does collect some sort of welfare. I can't say. My suspicion, yes . . . my prejudice, is that it probably happens a lot. That said, again, I have no data.
that was a very good game back in the day.
few other tricks helpfull for bootstrapping :
1. outsourcing. if done right can be a great money saver.
2. crowdsourcing: you can get cheap and high quality work for most services a business needs using crowdsourcing. see :http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/enterprise/2009/09/crowdsourcing_...
3. design you processes for outsourcing: for example: customer support given using web chat can be cheaply outsourced, prevent accent and company image problem when outsourcing support , more efficent than phone based outsroucting because the support person could answer people in parallel , and you get an archive of questions and answers , that might appropriate for service automation.
And if you use the extra time to learn some programming, so much the better, perhaps.
I see your point. But let's not take in reddit submissions in this case.
So no black guys aged 15-24 are "under age 20 and ...attend high school or an equivalent vocational or training school full-time"?
1. The fonts and colors probably need to be changed. Right now its not easy to read

2. Maybe you can make the logo a bit smaller, move to left corner, it will save you some space and you can bring the Popular Links section bit higher

3. The search box should be probably somewhere on top.

Hope it helps. All the best with your venture
In my experience, it's not so much about being black as the environment you grow up in. There was an interesting study done by a professor of anthropology from University of California at Berkeley.

Shaker heights was full of affluent African Americans, and yet there was still a large acheivment gap between the black students and white students. The study concluded that the parents didn't involve themselves in their children's education as they figured living in an upper middle class society did the work for them. Meanwhile the kids held themselves back so they wouldn't be "acting white".

You can read about the study here, it's quite facinating:

http://www.racematters.org/whyareblackstudentslagging.htm

For what it's worth, I'm black and grew up an upper-middle-class household in a mostly white middle-class area. At 27 I've had no trouble finding a good job and in fact just recently turned down a high-paying job offer at a fortune 500 last month. Race has never been an issue for me, one way or the other.
While this is a very large and complex issue, one of the major forces in that "big push" was veterans taking advantage of the GI Bill. Black veterans had a much harder time using its benefits, though - most universities were still segregated, for example.
Fuses in the plugs serve a secondary purpose, one that people don't realise. The conventional wisdom today is that the circuit breaker is the safety measure, however people infrequently jam their circuit breakers open instead of paying $50 for a higher amperage (it's uncommon, but it happens way too much). This causes 2 main problems, the first is that it allows potentially unlimited current to flow until either A) the breaker fails, or B) the wiring fails, and either can easily burn you house down. The second problem is that breakers usually flip because of a ground fault (hence the breakers being ground fault interrupters), not high current draw, and jamming the breaker open allows electricity to flow to ground, which either A) allows you to be electrocuted, or B) the Earth wiring fails and your house burns down.

The fuse still serves a great purpose in that if your equipment fails and you was stupid enough to jam the G.F.I. open, then the fuse will near instantly fail as the amperage drawn will go through the roof. The second function they serve, is that many plugs are equipped with a 3A fuse, but they're on a 15-30A G.F.I., which means if the equipment fails in a spectacularly bad way you can have up to 10 times the amperage flowing through wires that can't handle it... unless you have a fuse.

I was always dubious of how unlikely it must be to damage the neutral+earth but not the live. However, when working as an electrician I managed to slice just those two whilst working, which is the important reason to turn mains power off while doing electrical or construction work in a house, either by running off a generator or by running a dedicated extension line from the breaker box. You can always know where your extension is, you can't always know where a live electrical cable is inside a wall (even with a detector).
You're talking to a bunch of idiots that even when you made privacy settings that you don't want other apps to know your name, it still shows through.

Expect nothing from these goofs.
Man I loved that game on my Amiga! At first I thought it was just a demo, but no, you can actually play it! Major props to the dev!
How are the reddit links relevant? Not everyone on HN follows reddit, in fact I personally stopped following reddit after I discovered HN because HN has more mature and tech-orientated posts and discussions.

However you're right, and there was a link to the youtube video up on HN over four months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=670856
This thread (with my two cents thrown in about "window dressing" advisory boards versus others) addresses some of the compensation issues in a helpful way:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876691

In general, the public company model does not fit early-stage startups and all compensation at the early stage comes in the form of very small equity pieces, typically tied to annual service (in VC-funded companies there is often a small stipend for attending meetings as well).
I'm learning this the hard way as my daughter was born just a few weeks ago. Even the happiest baby is as hard to manage as the grumpiest server ;-)
Is this post is a response to Y-Combinator rejections? :) It's a bit pity we've been rejected. But it did not made us angry or less intelligent. (As far as I know :))
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The core part of the article:

"To live in society, people have to have an inner mechanism that regulates their behaviour. Rejection defeats the purpose of this, and people become impulsive and self-destructive. [..]"

I'm going to go along with this. I'd say it's part of the reason teen crime is sky high in the UK right now. We've failed to interact as local communities in the last 10-15 years and we're paying the price in people being selfish and aggressive seeking only their own ends (teenagers don't beat up 2 year old kids in healthy communities - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8348130.stm)
We dumped DirecTV last spring and haven't looked back. The $80/month ended up costing us $2-$3/hour watched and we still had to sit through commercials or fast forward.

We watch most of our tv through Hulu and buy the rest through iTunes. The big networks I have to get through iTunes are Discovery (Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs) and A&E (Mad Men).

Our setup is a Mac Mini with Bluetooth keyboard and mouse + DLP projector. I've enjoyed having the full computer because it's easy to watch videos on websites. Don't have time to watch that 20 minute Vimeo or TED video you read about on a blog? Drag the link to a Dropbox folder and watch it that night.
Since they don't have diplomas at age 24, I'm going to guess not in the demographic we are talking about.
This is NOT hacker news.
Just picking on one section. The Python:

contactRecords = filter(lambda r: r[1] == "1", contactRecords)

Versus the Ruby:

contactRecords.reject! {|a| a[1] != "1"}

Yet the author points out that not everyone will appreciate the blocks.. even though the Python variant is using much the same thing, just as an explicit lambda.

In what universe is the Python variant make readable? The variable name is repeated (not very OO like) and there's more syntactic salt and verbosity.
Are you asking for method tips? I'd probably look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_mosaic and then track down a couple of the pertinent patents or the OSS photomosaic programs and see how they've done it (successfully).
That's been discussed before, and the general consensus seems to be that "interesting stuff" goes.

I'm pretty sure this qualifies.
Best advice ever! Unplug from the 'Internets' for a year while you follow this advice or, if you must, only connect with a dial-up modem.

I went with OpenBSD and C++ and that has taught me more about bits and bytes than the college degrees ever did.

Ditch these self-pleasuring technology forums too. They are full of people masturbating their own egos, nothing more.
I like you. I wish more blacks had your attitude. Actually, I wish I could hug you.
SICP changed the way I thought about programming.
I remember really appreciating this game for its minimalist feel.
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You have to either ask them for a complete account deletion (I've never heard of this working - although it may) OR you have to manually delete everything you've ever done.
Obviously this takes awhile but it is doable. I cleaned out my account a few years ago this way.
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Even if it does, whatever was public may well be cached in innumerable places all over the internet.

You pretty much have to assume that whatever you post on sites like that will be "out there" forever.
Nice writeup. I also spent a few hours kicking the tires of RDS the first day it was released.

I use Amazon AWS a lot for both customer work and my own projects. The two things I most want to see are continued improvements to cloud watch and better proxy support for failover.
If there is, by all means take it. In case there isn't, though, here are some books I've found particularly helpful teaching myself the same material. (This is a lot of reading, and they'll take time to work through. Alternating between studying theoretical stuff and working on real projects will help keep you grounded.)

First off, absolutely get a copy of _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_ (SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/) - this is one of the best books on programming I've ever seen, and while it uses a subset of Scheme, it's really more about major concepts in CS. It's excellent. Do the exercises. It will take a while, but do the exercises.

For C, get _The ANSI C Programming Language_ by Kernighan and Ritchie ("K&R"). Harbison's _C: A Reference Manual_ is a good reference.

If you do real work in C, you might find Lua helpful - it's a C library that provides a drop-in scripting language for C projects. It's a also nice language in its own right, simple but very expressive, and stylistically somewhere between Python and Javascript. (_Programming in Lua_ by Ierusalimschy is the only book you need, though having a printed copy of the reference manual wouldn't hurt.)

Prolog is a fun language. You'll probably need to stick with it a while before it switches from being weird and novel to actually useful, though, and be prepared to be a little disappointed upfront - some of the early AI hype oversold it. It's actually pretty lousy as a theorem prover, but it has a unique programming model that is very powerful for some problems. (It will also help if you want to learn Erlang later.)

For Prolog, I like _The Art of Prolog_ by Sterling and Shapiro. It's on logic & declarative programming as a paradigm, and how well Prolog lives up to it. It's deep, and uses Prolog to teach about programming in general, much like SICP does with Scheme. Highly recommended, whether or not you use Prolog in the long run. (The newest edition is kind of expensive, but you could get by with the first edition. They fleshed out the latter 'project' chapters a lot in the second, though.)

As a reference, _Programming in Prolog_ by Clocksin & Mellish is good. I also liked _Clause & Effect_ by Clocksin; it's sort of like _The Little Schemer_, but for Prolog. _The Craft of Prolog_ by O'Keefe is great, once you're comfortable with the ideas in _The Art of Prolog_.

The thing that made data structures really make sense to me was learning OCaml. (_Developing Applications with Objective Caml_ is free online: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/) Having a garbage collector helps, and the ML family has powerful tools built-in for working with types and data structures. Doing the exercises for the first three or four chapters of that book is enough, if you're only going to use it to study data structures. (It's a great language, too, though.)

Edit: Added Lua subsection to C.
People seem to be missing what's interesting about this post... it has a single, continuous comment thread that spans 7 years.
I will say that the only reason I have cable right now is because it is football season and i have 3 other roommates that i split the cost with.

with the major networks and hulu available through boxee, seems more and more like the apple tv will be a great solution when im living on my own and only watch a few shows.
IIRC, the framework is largely based on dojo, so if you're familiar with that you'll have an easier time getting used to it.

Don't remember many specifics, I just remember liking it. Good luck!
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