skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is not going to be abused? Every service on the internet gets abused to send spam.

Also, where's your incentive to not spam? I don't know how many emails I've gotten FALSELY claiming that I've "opted in" to this email. I do know how many have actually taken me OFF their email list when I requested: ZERO.

Before no-call-lists, phone spammers were required to send you copies of their own no-call-policy if you asked in the right manner. I asked each and every phone call spammer for some months. Most of them hung up on me when I said the magic words, "Put me on your no-call list." Of the dozens I said this to, I got exactly ONE written copy of their no-call policy.

I fully expect this service, due to lack of incentives not to spam, to end up spamming. Bad luck for you.
I remember going through some old computing magazines reading an article about how AOL was doomed to fail because it was still lacking internet access, whereas compuserve and prodigy were already including it.
agreed, "don't do the shotgun method" is easier said when companies actually explain what they are looking for, instead of that what you get are increasingly generic job posts and don't even get me started on the headhunters scum. The hiring market process is broken and this article pretends to help you with basic sales advice.
Well, it's no exact science to measure whether there's another bubble or not. There's plenty of arguments for both sides.

But if someone as insightful as Michael Arrignton himself is willing to make this bet. Shouldn't this give you hint that maybe we're actually not in a bubble? Or at the very least, that a bubble bust is likely not imminent for the near future?

Imho, reading this news makes me a bit more hopeful.
Where in the article does it back the question that is asked in the title?

Google is always tweaking their services and if they decided that the data wasn't as accurate or good as they had hoped I am more than happy for the feature to disappear and re-appear at a later time.

What is going on with all of the Google hate that seems to be growing across the Internet? It is almost like someone is systematically attempting to get bad articles about Google out in front of the public.
You clearly did not read the posting you're commenting on. Nowhere does he say he made a game. Nowhere does he say he's never tried to find his own solutions. Nowhere does he say he hasn't done well. In fact he stated the opposite. He is no longer doing well because Google broke their own shit and don't seem to be in any particular hurry to address it. In case you missed it: Out of Milk went from doing extremely well to dead in the water almost overnight. We are working as hard we can to try and figure out solutions from our own end, but Google is the guy driving this bus and we can only do so much on our own.

Google's market problems aren't app developers responsibility to overcome just because they are 'sort of known'.
I'm quite certain Felix Salmon understands everything you mentioned, but apparently since he didn't dress the issue in the way you simplify it, it means he doesn't understand the situation. Maybe do a search on his blog for ratings and try glancing through some of the (hundreds) of posts he's written in the past few years before making your judgment?

Specifically, you're misinterpreting what is meant by "an excess of overcaution". Felix is referring to how investor demand being too cautious (i.e. only interested in or able to invest in AAA) lead to a scenario where all sorts of tricks were developed to get an AAA rating on securities [1].

1. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/08/26/shrinking-b...
Indeed, accessibility labels are the only way to reference views. Granted, your tests are running within your process, so they sky is pretty much the limit.

We're still considering the best way to implement gestures. There's some rudimentary support, but it's incomplete right now. Your input is welcome!
Your point makes no sense. How is the fact that Google has horrible support his fault? How is the fact that Google isn't updating the stats his fault? How is the fact that Google changed the search algorithm his fault?

> "A lot of these issues have been known issues and if he did any sort of diligence would be fully aware of these by now"

Oh, so these are known issues now and not "his fault." Becoming "aware" of these issues doesn't make them magically go away. This issues are still on-going despite what Google's Known Issues page says. Whatever argument you are trying to make here you're doing a horrible job at it.
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You may also like this then:

http://web.mit.edu/adorai/www/seuss-technical-writing.html
From 1869 to 1918, the per-capita GDP increases from $4600 to $12000 -- a time constant of 1.95% per year. From 1918 to 2011, the per-capita GDP increases from $12000 to $47300 -- a time constant of 1.47% per year. That is, the pre-Fed period experienced 32% faster growth over-all, or at least that's what it looks like, to me. Feel free to contest my analysis.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=log%2812000+%2F+4600%29... -- first time period. Per-capita GDP starts at $4600 and ends at $12000 over 49 years.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=log%2847300+%2F+12000%2... -- second time period. Per-capita GDP starts at $12000 and end at $47300 over 93 years.
And make good use of the commenting period.
If what you are saying is that every Page on Facebook should clearly specify the name and address of the person who created it, then "maybe" (there are still a ton of reasons why it should be in Facebook's interest to protect their users from scams); as it stands, Pages on Facebook don't even link to the profiles (which themselves could be fake) of the people who administrate it unless it opts in to that; so, the idea that I should start lawsuits with the four ass-hats who were impersonating me on Facebook last week (one of which had well over a thousand fans and was answering questions as if he was me and trying to lead people through his content farms for ad revenue) is somewhat silly.
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When I had a day job, it was after the kid went to sleep (9-midnight(ish)). Now that I work on my startup full time, I usually code in the mornings till noon and also from 9-midnight(ish)
Saying "AAA bonds will cause a crisis" is like saying "Homeowners' mortgages caused the mortgage crisis". They're an essential part of the situation, but the actual cause was the misrepresentation of the riskiness of the securities, due to capture of the rating agencies by their customers, the securities issuers.

Is there a term analogous to "regulatory capture", for capture of non-government organizations like rating agencies by the subjects of their ratings?
You can fill in the holes with Spotify, Grooveshark, and Rhapsody.
Feminism arose because women did not like the way they were being treated. Society did actually stop valuing motherhood. It was an indirect result of society valuing doctors, physicists, CEOs, etc, yet restricting women from those same things. Only women can be mothers, and when women are restricted from those things society values, they become more defined only by being a parent, and when the value of women falls, so does the value of a woman being a parent.

To answer your question, of course a woman should be allowed to become a doctor, a physicist, or an athlete. Yes, she should be valued less if she chooses not to be a mother, just the same as a man should be valued less if he chooses not to be a father. She should not sacrifice her motherhood in pursuit of a career, just as a man should not sacrifice his fatherhood in pursuit of a career.

Because of the biological difference between a woman and a man, a woman must take much more time and effort away from other things in life to be a mother, whereas a man barely has to do any effort to have children. And so a natural division of labor occurs where the father takes on the role of a provider and the mother takes on the role of a nurturer. Since the father has more of a burden for providing, it is more important for him to become a doctor or such, but this is because that is how he fulfills his duties as a father.

You might say, why should a person be valued less if they choose not to be a parent? Well, all normal people have a sex, male or female. Why are we male or female if not to procreate with the opposite sex? Furthermore, any culture that values people not having children over people having children would have gone extinct.
I disagree with tat someone's statement.

I think MA has more connections that could be beneficial to startups that most angels. I for one would give him ownership in exchange for introductions to people he knows.

I do not see what makes MA less qualified than most angel investors. He spent 5 years interviewing founders, being the first to learn about their ideas, seeing the ones he wasn't fond of (Twitter. Mike used to talk shit about Twitter, granted in a friendly way, all day long). I think he is very well placed to start his own angel fund.

If you can start the platform where companies like Mint launched, and have Marissa Mayer show up for your conference, I think you can launch a startup fund.
The ratings agencies DO factor inflation risk into their ratings, and are on record multiple times publicly citing inflation risk as a reason. The ratings agencies know that default risk is not the only type of bond investment risk and they rate accordingly -- their track record might be questionable but they're not stupid. You are absolutely right with this comment.

For those who don't understand what's the problem with inflation so long as the bond is repaid, imagine you buy a 10-year, $1,000,000 dollar bond paying 10% interest from the Weimar Republic in 1918. You get $100,000 per year. By 1923 the Mark is worth a trillion times less than it was when you bought your bond, so the resale value is now the 1918 equivalent of $.000001 and the annual interest income is $.0000001. You complain about this to your friend, and he points out that Weimar is still rated AAA because they obviously can print an infinite amount of money to meet their obligations. Do you feel consoled? What kind of interest rate would you require to consider buying another bond?

The United States most likely won't see this kind of inflation because it doesn't have the problems Germany had, but it could certainly see enough to drop the rating to a low A if things really got out of hand.
We're figuring out the best way to distribute, but with git-scribe and our workflow, we can cut frequent releases to all the git-scribe output formats that will be available through the repo - we definitely don't require you to install git-scribe or the publication toolchain.

Sound like it'll work out?
The question this article raises for me is whether the strategy of out-breeding every other culture is going to continue to be a successful one at cultural level in the near future. The article suggests that it was, at least in the distant past.

It seems like the most successful cultures today (measured by standard of living, anyway) are no longer those with the fastest-growing populations. China (strictly speaking a nation and not a culture) explicitly embraced a policy of slowing population growth, but I'm not knowledgable enough to have an opinion on how complete a success it has been.

The interesting thing about culture in the modern age is that it is increasingly divorced from the genetic makeup of its members. If someone who is genetically foreign (to the extent that such a thing is possible) moves to the US and assimilates, their "home culture" has lost a member and "American culture" has gained one (leaving aside the plausibility of this scenario the current insanity of the US immigration system). If this "cultural switcher" phenomenon is large enough to overwhelm birthrate effects we could see culture shaped by some very different forces than in the past.
This.

See spotylist.com, discovery through non-friends playlists beats algorithms as you can understand why songs are grouped together and get a feel for a persons music tastes.
I'm sure it's different for different people, so not trying to suggest your view is wrong, but: I really don't see how that can help. People I know, I don't need a reminder of what they look like. People I don't, I don't see how seeing their face is useful. As to their latest updates and information from LinkedIn/Twitter/etc, if I care, I'm already connected with them and in-the-know, if not... then I don't want to see it in my email.
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I love it when they start yelling "Opt-out" into their radio's to let some supervisor know and then they give you the scowling look while asking you why you'd want to opt-out.
If that's true then come out and say it's true. Don't be coy. No, really, don't: You can't have it both ways, implying the original author is somehow dumb without being willing to stick your neck out enough to say it yourself. Pointing to a random anonymous internet comment is weasely.
A very powerful and in depth argument, not sure I agree though. A little bit hate filledttp://beststand-mixer.com/kitchenaid-600/kitchenaid-60
Link-bait. Sigh.
You seem to be under the impression that the only reason people consume open source projects is because they want the source code. For many use cases, they are simply consumers of applications, not developers. Google Code tries to satisfy both user groups (this is why all the project homepages are in a consistent format, downloads are easily accessible, developers don't have to learn markup to host docs, etc).

While Google Code has some work to do on DVCS features, I still find it far more generally usable and thoughtfully designed than GitHub.
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Do you know OTR (Off the record messaging). It uses some nice stuff, like the Socialist millionaire protocol which exactly does this. Comparing values (for example passwords) without sending them. I still use salted hashes, which in this case also have to be implemented on client side. I don't think it makes a lot of sense for passwords anyway, because there is SSL. Again, this is just a personal project where I just played with this stuff. However it can still be useful in authentication. See OTR for example. I suggest to read this.
http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/Protocol-v2-3.1.0.html

There are also related protocols which might be very handy. Wikipedia is a very good source for finding such stuff. Follow interwiki links and external ones. There are many great protocols allowing you to do amazing things, that seem impossible in first place. I also like it because it shows how great math can be.

Like most people school mostly made me afraid of math and it took a while until I started enjoying it. I guess math (like programming) isn't something you should learn in a school, but something you should learn on your own. It's something you won't learn or enjoy when someone else explains it. You have to get things on your own, especially in your own pace, because people simply have different brains. I guess I'm very off topic now. It just makes me sad when people hate to learn.
Now I'm curious about the Good Will Hunting email.
Speaking to just Spotify (and Rhapsody if I remember correctly), only in some scenarios. On your local machine it is easy to fill in the holes. On your phone you have to sync everything over wifi, this is slow and limited by your phones memory.

Comparatively these limits don't exist on Amazon Cloud Player where I can have much more music the my phones memory and after syncing it to their servers I don't have to sync it with each device I have.
> but we're not there yet.

The problem comes when you read between the lines. ISPs like Comcast aren't giving a massive push to strengthen and expand their networks, instead they are punishing the (according to Comcast and other's) %1 of users that do hit that cap.

I've had a 250 GB softcap on my ISP's account for 7 years. 7 years ago, it wasn't all that possible to actually hit the 250GB cap unless I tried _really_ hard, but right now with 720p or higher quality movies available instantly, and without hours and hours of buffering required, it is easy for a heavy use family to hit those limits, possibly in a single day. I've actually hit 300GB in a single weekend before.

Comcast and others are cutting the consumers off that are the ones that they should be aiming to please, as those are the ones that dictate how everyone else is going to use the service the day after tomorrow, whether they like it or not.
Really? I'm not real enthusiastic about dragging politics into this, but i think the US Treasury is one elected religious fanatic away from declaring intrest usurious and declining to pay. "Fiscal Responsibility" seems to last until about 5 minutes after any given election.

I'm not saying the probability is big, but is 1% an unbelievable number? Just for reference, back in 2000 what odds would you have put on the US electing a black president before 2050? Back then, I thought that number was very close to zero.

I'm (obviously) not an analyst. I'm baffled at how they can predict return with much confidence 10 years out.
Compare the difference between 1000 and 2000, vs 4000 and 8000. In both cases it's double, but in the second case the difference appears to be 4 times as large.

This graph is linear, so it makes it look like the jump from 4000 to 8000 is more significant than the jump from 1000 to 2000, but actually it's not. It's identical.
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Zero threat to US allies too?
That doesn't explain the sudden strong spike in Google's own earnings, it only explains the decline in network earnings. How is Google harvesting some of the Panda changes for itself? As it happens the FTC is probing whether it is unfairly intercepting too many queries itself http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230333990457640...
Yes, they intend to make the screening as unpleasant as they can get away with to encourage use of the nakie-scanners.
This shouldn't have been downvoted; news of an FTC antitrust probe for /precisely this behavior/ was reported just last month: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230333990457640...
This is actually an interesting point - Shaw's VOIP service similarly doesn't count towards cap. As mentioned in the update to the ArsTechnica article, the movie service not counting is apparently because it is delivered via different infrastructure -

"Shaw's existing video-on-demand QAM cable infrastructure. When users access Movie Club through a computer, they will access an IP-based version of it delivered over the Internet—and this will affect monthly data caps."

but surely the VOIP phone data is delievered over the internet...
OT: JunkDNA, do you have a blog/twitter/something? I'm a biochemist-turned-programmer and I want to keep my biology knowledge sharp.
For the first 18 months of my daughter's life, I worked on an iMac in the corner of my living room primarily after she'd gone to sleep. The deal was that I'd be the night owl (though I always have been) and would work right through to 6am or so when she woke up. Then I'd get her up and my wife would take over. I'd then sleep till 1pm or so. It worked well and my wife pretty much got 8 hours a night all the way through.

Now, though, I got an office a few miles away from home. It costs more than my mortgage but it has paid dividends. I still work at night but my daughter is now a solid sleeper (tempting fate there..!) and my wife is OK to get up with her in the morning. Having an office without any worries of childcare is working out marvellously and it's more than paying for itself.
I think the idea is simply that, since inflation is a compounding process, given a constant rate of inflation prices will form an exponential graph.

A log scale would let you see more detail in the 90s, but in this case I think I actually prefer the linear, 0-anchored version.
Your point is quite valid. If you treat Netflix like cable TV, and you watch TV the way many consumers do you'll likely get close to the current cap Comcast has. However most people that are Netflix customers that use their streaming service don't use Netflix in this way.

Today most people that are going to watch that much TV already have cable or satellite tv service, or are happy with over the air tv. If this changes either Comcast will need to increase the cap, or make a deal with Netflix and other video providers to get part of the subscription fee and not count the data against people's data caps.

The most important thing to recognize here is that most consumers don't want to think about bandwidth, setting up a box, anything particularly geeky (even watching something in a browser is too much). We're likely to have the most hours viewed (and dollars paid) in front of TVs that take care of everything automagically; all you have to do is keep paying your bill every month.

The long tail of content will likely be cheap (around what you pay for Netflix streaming today), but the cost of Netflix is likely to balloon once people start watching mass market content en masse, leaving their "TV"s on all day, etc. These people will pay for service. They already do. They aren't cutting the cord because they can get somewhat obscure documentaries on Netflix while the local cable provider sticks with reality TV and sports.

The end game that I see here is that most consumers are going to pay around $30-$50 a month for "TV" that covers the costs of bandwidth and a lot of popular content, while movies in theaters and sporting events are "on-demand" or something similar. The only question is who controls it.
I think you're mistaken about the model of family that "most of the rest of humans" have. There is way more variation than arguments like this tend to give credit to. Traditional Hawaii, everyone your age is a sibling and everyone your parents' age is a parent. Other parts of traditional China, the family group you belong to depends on your father entirely. Your biological mother is not related to you, since her father was part of a different family. Parts of Native America, your mother's sisters are also your mothers, and your father's brothers are your fathers, but your father's sisters and mother's brothers are aunts and uncles. These are just basic systems of reckoning, it gets quite a bit more complicated once you look at the actual living arrangements that go with them (where do couples go to live, where do the children live, how do marriages or whatever other sexual arrangements work). By population, nowadays there are fewer that vary from the western norm, but if you count up what was going on pre-globalization, we are not in the majority. These different family systems are fading away because of modern-day western influence only, and I think that might have a lot more to do with the military (and more recently, economic power) than the custody arrangements. You can't simply point to everything western and say, "this is why we won".

I don't believe it is consistent. Based on the Masuo you can see that women will have less sex if they start being treated like western women. You can't look at how women behave in western culture and use them as proof that women have a lower sex drive, because we know that evidence has been tainted.
I have been working on a Backbone KVO API using a basic observer pattern. It is very early stages and the API is not yet sound (I think it is still a bit obscure for declaring custom behaviors) but I have a few examples of the direction it is going http://bruth.github.com/backbone-kvo/examples/