skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japanese food is way overpriced nowadays, and hardly "japanese". You have to pay a ridiculous amount for actual Japanese food; anything mid-priced or below is covered in fried breading, mayonnaise, and even jalapenos. I'm not against "fusion" cuisine, but it sucks when there's so much of that it makes it difficult to get the real thing.

Chinese food in America much cheaper because the ingredients are much less costly and far less difficult to make. I don't think the value of Chinese food really has to do much with the Western perception of the Chinese economy or its people. That "Chinese" food is, in America, is designed to be tasty and relatively inexpensive. Authentic Chinese food isn't as appealing or palatable to most Americans.
Looks like social media is going down: https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/754044391656914944
The American Who Accidentally Became a Chinese Movie Star
While not expert in Tinder specifically this seems to come up in most digital matchmaking scenarios in my experience in variety of areas. If you keep your ear to the ground long enough you can identify broad archetypes, the same way as if you watch how people write search queries. You can quickly identify who is new, who has been around for years, who just came back and is out of date, who only knows one trick that worked for them in the past, the desperate, the overdetailed, the ascetics, the repeaters, the copycats and so on.

It was a little more interesting when things were more anonymous, but nowadays since identity and digital identity are strongly coupled I assume less dupes, alternate accounts, and full-identity copycats. In my opinion it's just a characteristic of the medium of digital matchmaking. The goal outcome is a match, that's all you want. There is a temporal lingua franca of the moment with trends, and you are either following it or you are not. Because the other users are only able to see this particular payload of images/bio/whatever, all inferences towards this goal must be evaluated from only this input and so it does tend to be exhausting.

I think to answer your question more succinctly, I haven't seen a digital matchmaking service that doesn't act like this.
Honestly curious: Do you feel guilty for wasting the time of 4,000 men? To me, it feels selfish to value your own learning over the time of thousands of other strangers. Of course, you and others may feel differently than me. What's your approach for thinking about where to draw the line?

Edit: To those downvoting, could you explain why? I'd be happy to improve my comment, if I knew how. I am honestly interested in discussing the ethics of bots that pose as humans.
Robin Sharma's "The Monk who sold his Ferrari" is a good one. So is his "Who Will Cry When You Die?"
Press Kit: CRS-9 Dragon Mission
You people might enjoy http://www.genealogy.ams.org/ then.
Turkey’s Premier Reports ‘Attempted Coup’ After Military Activity in Cities
Int and Per +1
What a waste of effort. Identity politics infects signup forms.
Same feeling here. I stopped watching after the first complete-hallucinations episode. It simply doesn't make sense to include those. There are some movies where hallucinations are either important or the main part of the plot (fear and loathing, requiem for the dream, scanner darkly, ...), but if it's just a case of the main character tripping? Just show me them behaving like an idiot in real world. In most cases it literally does not make any difference what they're seeing.
>ESR is an embarrassment
I have actually read some of his material and found your statement somewhat confusing. Is it that you dislike him as a person or is there something that I missed completely? Is there any other material that would give a clearer and perhaps more authentic explanation of these ethos (cause, frankly, I though that ESR did a good job there)?
*Pardon my grammar, ESL bro.
As a person not on Tinder, I wonder: what is the endgame for bots or botmasters?
Wouldn't Google also be obligated (or at least highly self-interested) in reporting Cooper to the police? I wouldn't expect Google to publicly accuse him of anything... but if he published child pornography and Google had digital records of it, I think we could reasonably expect legal actions to be taken against Cooper, and swiftly. Have there been any? If there haven't been or won't be any, I'd suggest this is reasonable evidence he actually didn't publish anything criminal. But who knows, perhaps the authorities are building a case and this a wait-and-see thing.

If there is nothing criminal here- Google is absolutely within its rights to delete his blog. However given the power that Google has a gatekeeper to information, I think the public should be highly interested in how Google allows or disallows information to be published using its services. Especially if they are censoring materials they find offensive or in poor taste.
The prime minister’s horrific new letterhead
This is priceless!

I was able to create a single-page PDF of the entire article (cartoon and text) by using Safari Reader and setting the paper size to 8.5 x 100 inches.
Basically arguing that a single concern should be split up into smaller, less manageable pieces. This is cargo coding.
If I haven't seen these already...
> the alternative is having to sleep with someone I'm totally not attracted to.

I'm not sure how people can sleep with someone they're not attracted to. Isn't being attracted required you know for getting a physical response?
I don't think so. At one point, Tyrell meets with Elliot's boss.
Turkey coup: military attempt to seize power from Erdogan
More specifically, hs.window.focusedWindow() returns a userdata, with a metatable where the __index entry is the hs.window table. This means that looking up entries on the returned win object (e.g. looking up win.frame) will end up looking up the same key on the hs.window table. Or in other words, it's not literally a copy of the table, but it behaves like it. It's prototype-based inheritance, similar to JavaScript.
We only live under those terms and conditions if we voluntarily agree to them. :)
Coup attempt underway in Turkey
16 Google Wave Alternatives That Exist in 2016
Derive better insights from time series data
Or maybe it was always just saved as a draft on his blog (or on Google Docs/Drive/whatever). It's perfectly possible that he did all his work in a web browser and that it never touched his drive (aside from browser cache).

Maybe he wasn't even creating his own images, instead building the story through a meme generator, or something.
Turkish Military’s Influence Rises Again
Attempted Military Coup D'Etat Underway in Turkey, Prime Minister Says
Freshly, I had only read the page you linked and was turned off at its specificity. Views of hackers (even widely-shared ones) do not constitute a definition for what a hacker is.

The previous entry ("hacker") gets a bit more general, but is still quite computer-centric. It references non-computer activities to show that there is more to it, but does not really attempt to capture how these aspects fit together.

Specific quotes that I liked from the article:

>> Hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the systems – about the world – from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and even more interesting things.

> the archetype of ‘the hacker’ is essentially that of an individual attempting to live an empowered and unalienated life. It is outsider in spirit, seeking empowerment outside the terms set by the mainstream establishment.

> unlike the straightforward activist who defines himself in direct opposition to existing systems, hackers work obliquely. The hacker is ambiguous, specialising in deviance from established boundaries, including ideological battle lines. It’s a trickster spirit, subversive and hard to pin down. And, arguably, rather than aiming towards some specific reformist end, the hacker spirit is a ‘way of being’, an attitude towards the world.

Now gosh maybe this is really just overgeneralizing "hacker" into a fancy word for critical thinking by someone who sees through groupthink and happens to be at the right place at the right time to do something clever. But if there's an aspect to "hacker" that means something beyond just someone who plays with computers, I'd say the article did a pretty good job trying to describe that general concept.
If you're a man on Tinder, you play a numbers game and assume a relatively low response rate. It doesn't take to long to send that first message
This statement has no relevance to the conversation -- it doesn't magically produce any obligation for Google to act differently than it does.

It's true that no obligation is created under our current legal structure, but I think the statement still has relevance. Your stance reminds of me people that said, in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis, "well those loans were legal and the people who defaulted were free not to take them." Yes, that is true, and we definitely would all be better off if people took the accountability and personal responsibility to avoid getting into these situations.

But really, what does that argument achieve? It absolves the centralized powerful entity of any responsibility, shifting it to a decentralized collection of individuals that lack cohesive power to effect change. In terms of pure efficacy, I don't think that style of reasoning is going to move the needle on actually getting the desired result out of the system. In other words, would it be easier to educate all of those people on proper usage of online services, or to maybe change some legal language somewhere so that these services have some responsibility to their users?

I think we can try to encourage personal responsibility in people, and simultaneously acknowledge that it would also be good if the services that hold power and influence were more accountable to their users, because that's just going to be better for everyone collectively.
What were the results of your A/B tests??
Aging and Alone in Manhattan's Chinatown [video]
A really interesting theory that with relevance beyond cooking. The global discussion of programming, for example, is dominated by the high ranks of per capita GDP, music by the GDP rankings of a few centuries ago. I had assumed it was all path dependency, but perhaps that's putting the cart before the horse.

I found the discussion of Italian vs French food especially interesting since what we think of as "French" cuisine was brought from Italy to France in the early 17th century by Marie de Medici who considered France an uncultured place compared to her native Tuscany.
Something not really touched on here is how poor people's ethnic food can become fashionable and achieve high prices and desirability, often far outside its origins. Consider the recent bone broth craze, for example.

Here in Minneapolis, the current trend is Southern food, often made by hipsters who grew up in Minnesota and have no real cultural ties to the South. For me, with my half-southern roots, it's kind of bizarre to see stuff like bologna sandwiches and collard greens popping up everywhere and commanding high prices. That's the stuff you got at church luncheons and roadside shacks in Kentucky.

I don't expect them to start serving burgoo made from red squirrels anytime soon.
You would have destroyed information.
80:20 Rule for Software Development
If you are willing to co-opt the word "gentrification" so aggressively than it seems hypocritical to complain about "the man" co-opting the word hacker. Sure, hacker means something different than it used to, but language evolves. I'm sorry that you no longer have a special word that you can use to distinguish yourself from those who are inferior.
No, sorry, I don't know. I was quite happy moving from gnome 2 to gnome 3, I tried cinnamon once or twice but I am happy with gnome shell.
Scientific Education as a Cause of Political Stupidity
I had no idea there was such a market for Tinder bots. What are they all doing? Are there a variety of types?
The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
100 million reviews/year is only 3 reviews per second on average. Sure, they seem to do more then just that, like voting, comments, etc. But it still seems like something an old school stack could handle on a single large instance.

Reading between the lines it seems the problem wasn't scaling, but programmer productivity. Smaller code bases is often easier to work with so I guess they solved that by dividing it up into many small services. The blog could use a more detailed description of the problem they are actually solving.
Amazon Video now lets you download TV and movies to your SD card
rockaneties is how I said it in my head.
Researchers discover real reason why turtles have shells
But these aren't simply "multiple possible options" that differ only in the final country.

One option, getting asylum as soon as you can, is your right, and the other option - crossing the border with forged documents to get asylum elsewhere - is a crime.

Yes, you may prefer A to B - but if one of them is permitted and the other is not, then there is a big ethical difference, and simply choosing whatever benefits you most is not appropriate.
This is sarcasm!!!
Pokemon Go Is the Bitcoin for Every Business. Here's Why
Doesn't work when you like doing functional programming or similar activities ;)
"Chinese" food in America isn't even "Chinese" food most of the time. It's "Oriental-inspired" at best. If I go to a Chinese restaurant in the U.S, I expect none of my dishes to be anything that would exist in a "typical" Chinese restaurant. Hell, most of the food is considered American food by Chinese people because it is so dissimilar to actual Chinese cuisine.

If I go to a Japanese restaurant I can expect them to have udon or sushi and I know I can find those things at actual restaurants in Japan and Japanese people may criticize aspects of it, but will recognize the udon and sushi as a Japanese dish.

The few "authentic" Chinese places I've known to exist quickly shut down, often due to a lack of patrons. As you said - I don't think it is appealing or palatable for most Americans.
"Unclear to me what's happening in Turkey, but Facebook, Twitter & Youtube have all just become inaccessible there."

pic.twitter.com/LIzGAi2HuH

— Julia Carmel (@JuliaCarmel__) July 15, 2016
I dislike the term "ethnic food" and foodie cultural in general when it comes to foreign food.

There is a restaurant that I like to get my culture's home cooking. Nothing fancy, just home cooking. You do not even know it is a restaurant since there is no storefront except for a social club awning. I could never remember the exact street it is on, so when looking for the address one day, I came across reviews for the restaurant. First of all I was shocked that "outsiders" went to eat there. Good for them. But the reviews by these foodies went on into detail about every aspect of the food. It is home cooking! I felt like the food was an animal in a zoo and people were paying to see these strange creatures. They were there not for the environment, the culture, or even the food. They were there to see how these other people eat. I am sorry if American food is bland, but do not treat cultures like animals in a zoo.
Automation and anxiety: Will smarter machines cause mass unemployment?
> That's the crux of it isn't it. Ignorance. How can you type that with a straight face? By all means keep rolling around with an unpatched Windows machine, thinking this is 1999 where the biggest threat is internet worms spreading via open ports and hoping your cheap, exploit-infested router is going to help you.

If you router is infested you've got even a bigger problem - your system then can be trivially exploited because the attacker may inject whatever HTML code he wishes and render your system totally powned.

Also remind me when was the last time Windows had readily available exploits against its core open ports. I'm under the impression that you remember that circa 15 years ago there was an exploit for unpatched Windows 2000 which either infected your PC or rebooted it.

Again, all I hear is bla bla bla and no valid argumentation. Also, I'm ready to install Windows 7 SP1 64 (that's now a six years old system) without any patches applied and I can give you its IP to break in. I can bet $1000 you won't break in in any amount of time even with all network ports open.

So much for "windows updates must be installed in order to survive". Pathetic.
Basically, no. You'd be surprised what the imagination can do.
Facebook OpenCellular serve people living in remote areas
Turkish Military in Attempted Coup, Prime Minister Says
You sure? Because I can. http://i.imgur.com/3WnYw4H.png
Granted, a big problem with this approach is that IMDb ratings are skewed (for movies anyways) and follow a strict 4 point scale from 5-8 rating (http://minimaxir.com/img/movie-revenue-ratings/box-office-ra...) so it's hard to gauge the relative impact of the Ratings difference. Also IMDb is prone to brigading, which may indicate that the reviews are not necessarily neutral.

What would be interesting is comparing the differences in ratings between genders of the Rotten Tomatoes critics, although that data is not easy to obtain. (That data is not in the dataset I used for that chart)
I can't say I've measured it quantitatively, but it doesn't appear to have a huge effect, but I also don't need to be untethered all day long.

When I check the battery status on my Mac, only Chrome is listed in the "Apps that use significant energy" list.
New York Times reports.[1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/world/europe/military-atte...
I Have Joined the Board of Directors of the Tor Project
Cities Will Have to Be Redesigned to Confuse Invading Robots
As someone who lives and has traveled extensively in the south, I have to say that from a culinary standpoint the food is the best example of a true American cuisine. New England also has a cuisine with cultural heritage, but it isn't as quintessentially American as barbecue/southern food.
I know. You misunderstand:

“why the different treatment in HN ... of off-topic news?“.

Some are flagged, some are not.
Right, but the question is: Whose cloud and what kind of cloud? Are we talking private cloud, virtual private cloud? Who manages it? Even saying "as long as the compute is in the same data center" is a huge assumption. I think it's great that Algorithmia can go operate anywhere. How do you do that? What do you need to operate well on prem?
Most of the stream processing in the Data Pipeline happens inside of an internal project called PaaStorm, which is storm-like. It was built to take advantage of our platform as a service (http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2015/11/introducing-paasta-a...), which handles process scheduling really well. Architecturally, it's pretty similar to Samza, with distributed processes communicating using Kafka.

We do use Spark streaming, and are starting to use Kafka Streams and Data Flow, where they're a better fit. I'm personally most excited about Beam/Flink. We'll probably end up replacing the PaaStorm internals with some other tool, when one with good python support matures. Beam's event-time handling and windowing seem really promising at this point. https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-world-beyond-batch-streami... is a great overview of the different concerns for stream processing.
ROP Is Dying and Your Exploit Mitigations Are on Life Support
Apologies. Idiomatic sarcasm. Too late for me to edit for clarity.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/it-couldn-t-happen-to-a-nic...
WW3 RUSSIA PREPARES FOR WORLD WAR,FRANCE DEVOURED BY MAD MUSLIM
On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
Eclipse basically started out as a port of the VisualAge for Smalltalk environment to Java.
Interesting, but I feel this is missing the culture's impression of their own food. Not everyone values their cuisine to the same degree, or at least, not all of it. It's hard to get something pushed into "fine dining" menus when there is no one suggesting that it qualifies.
Also there is a node-wide kubelet flag `--rkt-stage1-image1` to set the default isolation environments, which can be overridden by the per pod annotation `rkt.alpha.kubernetes.io/stage1-name-override`
Related story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12101908
Samsung's Galaxy S7 Is Outselling Apple's iPhone 6S in the US
Most of the screenshots of the crap ones usually advertise some webcam sex show which requires a credit card for age verification (what they really mean is for scamming you out of money).
I work on a code base based on UE4. There's well over 3million LOC.
Show HN: Chrome extension that shows GitHub pull requests for commit
I really liked this line -
"Angular is Google's baseball cap. React is Facebook's."

Most people I meet, who want to learn Angular or React, just want to learn them so that they can say they know these things. They don't even want to know how to make a simple Ajax call in pure javascript. The only time they want to learn pure javascript is when they want to go for interviews! I find it really saddening.
The non-video version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12103471
Military Coup Turkey - Reddit live Feed
> I don't know of someone who actually had their enjoyment of the story modified by knowing the story, but many people who loudly proclaim that spoilers make them upset.

You don't know anyone? At all? Isn't that a bit... arrogant to presume?
I fail to see why their views are not as valid as anyone's.
The misleading war on GMO's: The food is safe. The rhetoric is dangerous
USA is the country with the highest illegal drug consumption by far, obviously it's not the will of its people.
It didn't, and doesn't, and this isn't about the names that gadflies choose for themselves.

And I'm not arguing that the end of everything is to enrich oneselves (or one's masters). I'm arguing that I've worked at far too many companies that went bust, because their business model was broken, in order to fund my own hacker activities outside of that.

There's just no avoiding the need to acquire resources, and organizations/movements/individuals that can do it better have a obvious and historically established survival advantage. The commoditization of technology is no exception.
State of LTE Advanced
Heh yes.

There was also a mozilla XUL based terminal many years ago - can't remember the name though.
Mobile Carriers Aren’t Doing Enough to Fight Robocalls, Senators Say
Quinoa is a great example of this trend and the positive and negative this can bring to poor regions.

Small overview: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/world/americas/20bolivia.h...
Trust me, there was very much a process involved here. You just don't know it. And there was no removal of evidence - you can be sure everything is very well documented - just not on the public internet.
Two European Countries Battle Each Other Musically
Are you being serious?
I'm watching Sky news live, and yeah... it's a Coup alright. Tanks in front of the airport, the PM saying one thing and the military another...
Wow, this is the big news we've been waiting for. For so long I had forgotten it was happening.
Yes, I'm in that tree.
Rumour had it that they tore down the federation due to an unmanageable spam wave. Something about friend requests from spam puppets. I've never heard details. Has anyone else here?
The cynic in me is starting to wonder if all these articles about Ethereum are nothing more than PR releases.