skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the fact that the same people upvote them

Evidence for that is what?
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It's no doubt a VERY political process. They will likely not be interested in working with you unless you have a ton of users or will pay for the time they need to integrate with whatever system you build and even then I'm sure it'd be hard to convince them.

I'm pretty convinced that the only way to have a phone that will work in EVERY country, for now, is to get a satellite phone which has a moderate up front cost and a comparatively significant marginal cost (per minute).

Good luck though!
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Heh. Clearly the investors didn't do their due diligence, otherwise they would have known that Scala isn't type safe.
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"Sometimes science must give way to religion"
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I definitely go by the 4.5 stars == very good, <4 stars == crap heuristic, but to argue this is no good is ridiculous. It's actually very, very helpful.

E.g. when I go to Amazon I don't buy some random product with a 4.5 star review -- I search for a specific product or a specific kind of product and then reject candidates which are lousy. How is that not INCREDIBLY useful? Similarly, who goes to a movie simply based on whether it's good or not.

In general, if you create any point rating system people who like a thing will tend to rate it towards the top of the scale, e.g. 4/5 or 9/10.

I actually did an informal experiment -- I used to run role-playing tournaments, and do exit surveys on participants. For the first few years we asked players to rate us on a 5-point scale and scored slightly over 4/5 on average. Then we switched to a 10-point scale and scored slightly over 9/10. Not scientific -- but I don't think we suddenly got better.

This finding is backed up by serious research (which is why when a psychologist creates a scale, the numerical ranges need to stay constant in follow-up studies or the results are not statistically comparable).

Netflix, which tries to give users customized ratings, actually subtracts value (in my opinion) from its scores because it tries to make ratings mean "how much will you enjoy this?" BZZZT. I pick stuff for me, my wife, my au pair, and my kids. We don't all like the same stuff, and we don't want to track ratings individually. My kids want good kid stuff. I want good me stuff. Don't try to guess what I like based on our collective tastes.
Better that then sending non-violent criminals into for-profit prison systems, destroying lives of the families impacted, and generally making the wrong people rich(er) for the wrong reasons.

Hemp is illegal in America for christ sake. Not because "its related to weed" either. Its because we can make anything out of hemp and that doesn't generate profit.

How anything naturally made by earth (weed, hemp, opium) can be labeled "illegal" is arrogant of the human race. What makes us think we know better than nature?

There are plenty of natural poisons out there that could kill us instantly. Why dont we make poison dart frogs illegal? Why aren't venomous snakes illegal?
It's a nice idea, and the readership of HN would probably prefer the recommended way in this article, but I'm not sure that mass market consumers will find it that valuable.
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Sorry, T-Mobile,
Is it still truly unlimited if you have to pay extra to tether?

Worse, is it truly good to your 2+ year customers if you suddenly cut them off from tethering while they're traveling?
As someone who works every day at a Japanese startup that has a Japanese/English bilingual UI, can generate documents in different languages than the user, multi-currency, Japanese address formatting aware, etc.. I can say that these problems are actually quite hard to get right for most use cases. For most companies it's not worth it.

However, once the user has logged into your site as is the common case with google properties, there is no excuse for serving the page in the wrong language. For months google calendar on my iPhone here in Tokyo would be in Japanese. All of the other tabs on the mobile google site would be English but just google calendar would be Japanese locale. As far as I could tell there was no way to fix it. Then one day it was fixed. I still see this mistake all over the place with other sites.

I actually blame the rise of geo-ip and location databases for enabling the ability to geo-locate users. Something about giving developers the rope to hang themselves with…
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I wonder how they do it. I was looking at how many changes were necessary to make CPython run on WinRT and it looked like quite a large undertaking. Did they patch mono by hand or is there some open source work available for that?

//EDIT: apparently monogame already supports Windows 8. Interesting. Probably not something that required changes in Mono.
You are 100% correct.

When you give developers a new set of tools they are inevitably going to use them. Some will understand and use them well. The overwhelming majority won't. And in an enterprise environment where you have a higher turnover of developers and tight deadlines it will be the equivalent of a ticking time bomb.

And because the framework is centered around Play which has/had a good reputation it won't invoke that suspicious, foreign language feeling in developers that it probably should.

I very much suspect that the future of Scala is going to rest in the hands of Guillaume Bort's ability to wrap any of the nastiness.
1. This is part of a much wider survey, the survey itself not specifically about TSA, so people will have survey fatigue by question 38.

1.a. The results are 54% score 4 or 5 in "doing good job at screening airports", and 41% score 4 or 5 "screening at airports prevents airplane-related terrorism"

TO me that 10% drop is very significant - it says that when prompted a lot of people think that the real underlying aim of TSA is not being handled well. And that a different survey designed to uncover those attitudes would a) be fruitful, b) probably tell Bruce what he wants to hear

2. The TSA is doing the job it was setup to do (look busy at the airports) very well. It is also true that the job it is notionally supposed to do (keep terrorists off US planes) is also working well (three incidents IIRR).

3. If that last comment worries you, then the TSA is fantastic at keeping alien's named Paul off the US airways.

4. The survey is not asking if the TSA should exist, if there are better alternatives to TSA current practises, or if security at airports reduces terrorist activity. All of which, if asked before asking the killer question, would garner different results.
And notably all of which are the sub-questions Bruce is asking / implying. Unless you are familiar with Bruce's views on TSA these questions will not occur to you when asked about the TSA.

5. Its just a survey.
Do you intend to eventually open-source it?
Sixteen disgustingly ugly minified lines don't count.
So I get downvoted for pointing out the hubris of naming your company TypeSafe when your language isn't?
5th search result for Closure in Google:

http://freegeek.in/blog/2011/06/10-clojure-one-liners/

Tell me that is not Perl all over again.
No, the fake parking ticket part. I've never seen anyone do that, so it qualifies as "original".
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Putting SSH on the open internet with port 22 means it'll be readily identified when people scan. Then they might well try to use dictionary attacks etc. - I'd advise against it simply to stop the log files filling up.
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The old Latin proverb "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3...

might in this context be paraphrased to "Who is rating the raters?" The hope in any online rating system is that enough people will come forward to rate something that you care about so that the people who have crazy opinions will be mere outliers among the majority of raters who share your well informed opinions. But how do you ever know that when you see an online rating of something that you haven't personally experienced?

Amazon has had star ratings for a long time. I largely ignore them. I read the reviews. For mathematics books (the thing I shop for the most on Amazon), I look for people writing reviews who have read other good mathematics books and who compare the book I don't know to books I do know. If an undergraduate student whines, "This book is really hard, and does a poor job of explaining the subject" while a mathematics professor says, "This book is more rigorous than most other treatments of the subject," I am likely to conclude that the book is a good book, ESPECIALLY if I can find comments about it being a good treatment of the subject on websites that review several titles at once, as for example websites that advise self-learners on how to study mathematics.

The problem with any commercial website with ratings (Amazon, Yelp, etc., etc.) is that there is HUGE incentive to game the ratings. Authors post bad ratings for books by other authors. The mother and sister and cousins of a restaurant owner post great ratings for their relative's restaurant, and lousy ratings for competing restaurants. I usually have no idea what bias enters into an online rating. So I try to look for the written descriptions of the good or service being sold, and I try to look for signals that the rater isn't just making things up and really knows what the competing offerings are like. When I am shopping for something, I ask my friends (via Facebook, often enough) for their personal recommendations of whatever I am shopping for. Online ratings are hopelessly broken, because of lack of authentication of the basis of knowledge of the raters, so minor details of dimensions of rating or of data display are of little consequence for improving online ratings.
I've used a Lenovo Ideapad 10" touch screen netbook. After using it, I keep trying to touch my Thinkpad's screen. Using the trackpad is awful in comparison to just touching exactly what you want to manipulate. On a small laptop, it doesn't seem too bad. It's not hard to move the entire laptop to a position that's comfortable to touch the screen, then resume typing. After switching back to the Thinkpad, using a mouse just seems like a layer of unnecessary abstraction.

Just my experience.
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My point exactly. And why would you care about rewatchability if you didn't see the movie once?
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I think it's a problem of brevity. You write something, you refine, you cut out the pet witty comment. You cut your message to the bone. Now you're done.

Read the text of the article describing each movie. The correlations are absolutely meaningless. He doesn't hit on them at all. In fact, with comments like "almost nobody" he's specifically looking at averages. Then coming to a conclusion effectively based on the average of Score 1 and the average of Score 2 to determine what type of movie it is.

So on this Quality/Rewatchability grading system:

Starship Troopers: 3:4
The Fifth Element: 4:4
Blade Runner: 4.5:3.8

Drop that in place of the graphs and the conclusions would sound as seemingly valid.
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So this is causing a bit of a storm. When I read it though, I thought this is sociology of science 101. To the layman, and to all non-specialists, science is a belief system. We take certain things on trust - like the discovery of the Higgs. It doesn't mean that science is not based on empirical evidence.
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Terrible comment. I found the article interesting. As someone who has played around with many different types of rating systems, I applaud their effort at trying something different. Sounds like you area little too emotionally invested in histograms. I'm not even going to ask why.
I fear the problem is distributions can't agree on how to do it. If there were a common "virtual repository" standard then the npm/rubygems/etc. maintainers probably wouldn't mind implementing it - but actually they'd have to expose an apt endpoint, and also a yum one, and a portage one, and...

Debian seems uninterested in working with standards it doesn't like (see their "support" for installing LSB RPMs), and other distributions won't want to introduce the complexity of APT, so I unfortunately see little way forward for this.
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I too find it incredibly strange and most importantly dangerous.

1) You are intertwining your MARRIAGE with work. Rule #1 is don't shit where you eat.

2) You make matters worse because your husband is your boss. This will screw up the relationship dynamic, and that's not necessarily a guess, Im 99% certain it will be hard to separate, especially with longer start-up hours. Good luck, you'll need it.

3) You are putting all of your eggs in one basket. Sure its convienent, but if the start up fails, you are BOTH out of work.

4) Putting all of this on the company blog, with screenshots of e-mail correspondence and even prices is very strange, and either you don't know what you're compromising by doing this or it is a veiled attempt at advertising compensation packages on HN.

Generally, I don't think you or your husband's strategy will play well for either one of you in the long run. Others have said your finances will be joint, so why does it even matter what you get?

Seriously, this is really weird. I'm sure you're confident it will work, but I know first hand that mixing friendship (and in your case MARRIAGE, jesus) with work is dangerous and rarely ends well.

Good luck. My opinion is you both have made a very big mistake.
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It's just minified. There are some half-decent ideas in there, it appears to be a half-hearted, lame joke.
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I hate when people are using it in the unit tests. It just makes testing very convenient, so they start using it everywhere. In the end, the test suite gets very slow. Unit tests should not hit the database.

First example there: test_new_customer_defaults. Really, it needs 3 saved models to test this? FactoryGirl isn't solution here. It's just hiding the problem.
Possibly to know whether you should rent it or buy it.
As a developer we still cannot use them until we can drop support for IE8. So it really does not matter at all if other browsers support them or not.
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This is both a good and bad turn of events.

Good, because we want to send anyone in the financial field to jail and this will satisfy our blood lust. Oh sorry I meant this will send more criminals to jail.

But, it always pays to be the first one to rat out your friends - you can make a deal. The second one to rat out, generally has nothing left to make a deal with.

However, being able to rat out your friends means you were in on it in the first place. And the de facto requirement that the tip must be high-quality (read actionable evidence) means you needed to be recording everything you were doing. So, continue with the frauds, but keep really good records and know the number of the SEC.
You still have to consider the muscle strain involved in the round trip from your eyes to your fingers.

When typing, you don't really wait for the text to show up on screen before going on to the next letter, and chances are you're hitting backspace before you recognize the letters because you already know you screwed up.

With this interface, you'll have no such luck. You'll type slower, have more errors, and also have muscle strain from not having a more immediate response.
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Hmm. "rewatchability" to me is loaded with multiple meanings. That's a problem.

I take rewatchability as possibly meaning complex or rich, in that there is something to be gained by watching it again. For example, Prometheus is rewatchable for me. I can also see it as meaning "a vacuous thrill ride I want to try again". Transformers is rewatchable, but only because it appeals to my childhood daydreams of bads, giant robots. It is certainly not deep.

Second, are there movies in the database high in rewatchability but low in quality? If not, then the variable are essentially dependent and the scatter plot useless.
I'd like to see a system where your vote is simply part of an estimate as the ultimate quality of a comment. If things Bob votes on tend to also gather other votes, Bob's vote should be seen as an indicator that other people will be voting for that item soon. So his vote basically counts for more early on, but as others join his vote effectively counts less as the actually tally reaches the estimated target.

You could take this to the level where if Bob and Mary both vote for something, it's a sure hit, but either one on their own means little. Some kind of Bayes implementation.
Come on, most users outside the US are perfectly used to a plethora of international TLD's. It's something they are quite familiar with.

Also, they either use the English version of the OS and browser, or the one in their language, and both come with the default correct preferred language settings.

The same goes for company systems. You don't give someone who can't handle English an English language system, and the idea of setting up a system in language X but pre-configuring that in some what that English becomes the preferred browser language is a really odd edge case.

Even if such scenarios are more common, it still doesn't excuse telling people that make explicit choices to go fuck themselves, especially in multi-lingual countries where such explicit choices are common.

Japan may be relatively homogenous, but most countries in Europe are either formally multilingual or have large immigrant populations. Many thousands of people are regularly being confronted with misplaced assumptions about their preferred language.

You can't assume language from geo-IP databases, it is the most unreliable and inappropriate method imaginable, and you are 100% sure to regularly piss people off.
YC S12 batch is one of the strongest YC batches of all time. This time the startups not only have a good product; but developed business models, customers and revenue.

Moreover, a lot of startups launched far before demo day. I guess majority of the startups had a product ready when they got into YC.
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I didn't downvote but it's probably because details are needed for the assertion.
rewatchability should indicate a light-weight movie.
If you want that, you look at rewatchability, if you want something more complex, you use quality.
I think this is the underlying assumption.
From a young age my father taught me how to be patient in public: he always a had a paperback in his back pocket to read. So they have always been pocketbooks to me.
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Or worse yet, reviews bitching about the price.

Edited to add: "If you're going to get any useful info, you have to read the reviews," is so incredibly true. I'm surprised it's not getting more mentions in these comments. The scatter plot is kind of cool, but I'd so much rather have a histogram and actual reviews to check so I can find out why the product got those ratings.
> Was their really "anger" and "furore" about it?

Yes, even on Hacker news. It went as far as Chuck Schumer said he was going to introduce a bill that would not let Saverin set foot in the US ever again. A quick google filtered to (until a couple of month ago) would show you just how much.

> And assuming his intention was about dodging taxes

He did not disclose his intention. Everyone is speculating.

> Anger isn't misdirected at someone who tries to "do wrong" and fails.

He was making a life change (becomine a singapore citizen, renouncing US citizenship) for whatever reason. It also implicitly included a bet that FB value will rise, or alternatively, he didn't care about that aspect. At the IPO, everyone in the media and congress was furious as it seemed to same him some $200M in taxes. Now that it seemed to have cost him $200M more in taxes, everyone's forgotten about it.
I don't think this is right. People watch movies like Blade Runner and Citizen Kane repeatedly.
I use it all the time - 3G coverage is patchy where I live, and Opera Mini is far quicker and more reliable over a slow mobile connection than trying to load a bloated 300k+ page over a 12kbps GPRS link.
No. The article is relevant now, because his lock-up period ended last week, so now is a relevant time to evaluate.
If BufferBox makes out, they will be YCs golden child.
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It's not Perl all over again. Have you even _read_ those one-liners?

Those are neither line-noise, nor fickle one-line imperative solutions.

On the contrary, they are elegant and easy to read --you just have to understand the basics of functional programming, map, reduce, filter and the like (which, in themselves are trivial concepts).

Stuff like those in the article:

(pmap process-line lines)

(dotimes [n 4] (println "Happy Birthday " (if (= n 2) "dear Rich" "to You")))

(reduce max [14 35 -7 46 98])

(def file-text (slurp "data.txt"))

(partition-by #(> % 60) [49 58 76 82 88 90])

(clojure.xml/parse "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?&q=clojure)

are so easy and clutter-free that what I cannot even begin to comprehend how someone would accuse them of the bad readability that characterises the "Perl one-liner".
Not yet. I've been focusing on dev focused meetups for now, but will be expanding soon.
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Even though it can't compete with the marketing of Chrome and Firefox, Opera is still the best browser.
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Hmmm. Whatever the scientific or theoretical improvement such an approach may offer having to educate users on how your ratings system works is going to add a huge amount of friction to user engagement.

And frankly who has ever mentally rated a film in terms of "re-watchableness".? People just think in terms of of "good" or "bad" and current ratings systems a la Amazon leverage that. It's simple, fast and given the histogram presentation tells me everything I need to know about the number and distribution of votes in a flash. Plus whether I want to rewatch a film or re-read a book is largely down to my mood at the time. But my opinion on whether it's "good" or "bad" is pretty static.

Maybe Amazon's system is not statistically bullet-proof, but who cares? We're talking movies here: a cheap, casual and discretionary purcahse.
Wait, how's this different from Express?

The whole "in X lines" makes a lot more sense in the browser context (as it needs to download the script), not so much on the server side.
This has come up plenty of times on Hacker News with plenty of examples. modersky generally just writes it off as being "harmful" to the community and other nonsense to avoid the issue. Harmful to his valuation is more like it.
>it won't invoke that suspicious, foreign language feeling in developers that it probably should.

The "foreign language feeling" is a good thing in a developer? Who would have thought...

Talk about narrow horizons...

Reminds me of the Blues Brothers joke: "We play both kinds of music at this bar, country AND western".