skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We got rid of that page ;)
I didn't notice that it was restricted to Hawaii. That definitely invalidates the results, since Hawaii has more Asians than whites, and Asian-Americans are quite keen on K-pop in a way that Americans at large are not.
Agreed about the relevant content. I have no interest in joining a startup, but I spend more time on HN than any other site. Discussions on CSS, Rails, cryptography and dozens of other interesting subjects are always interesting and keep me learning something new.
Sure just turn it off

http://www.howtogeek.com/75356/how-to-turn-off-or-disable-th...
"Please describe by which metric do you mean impossibly high. Billboard rankings?"

What were the Billboard expectations for Kpop in 2011? If your expectations were "about the same as in 2010" then they were drastically exceeded.

Were the expectations that they would "dominate the charts"? Then I will say your expectations were impossibly high.

"Your google insights link points to graphs regarding Hawaii. How exactly is this region relevant to this conversation (or to your point)? "

You can repeat the thing in New York, New Jersey, California, many major metro areas, etc. The point is not that they are more popular then Snoop Dogg or that Snoop Dogg if the biggest artist in the US. The point was that if you go back more then say 18 months you don't really get much of anything for any Kpop artists ever.

By those standards being as popular as someone who is a household name in the US should be viewed as a huge success, not absolute failure.
What exactly did Samsung copy? The dimensions of an iPad? The API of the iOS touch framework? Either way, they didn't copy the implementation, and they didn't steal what wasn't already publicly known.

Get off your high horse Mr. Harrison. Smell the grass, it's growing everywhere underneath your feet, consuming you.
I sold my iphone 4s to get a galaxy nexus. I like it way better. It's not a knockoff at all.
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This snark doesn't apply to the Github release of the code, it is just politics. I guess one cannot publicly speak the phrase 'White House' without a hundred knees jerking into action.

Anyway, rejecting pull requests with patronizing responses is hardly uncommon on Github.
This is great to know. We need to get on that feature ASAP!
I suspect you're right, and it may well mean it doesn't make outright financial sense today.

The key is probably that the $12k replacement program is an investment in Tesla; they're cash starved, and are willing to sell the batteries at a loss in return for the cash advance. Also, they're betting on the batteries being ~half price in 10 years.

From further reading, they'd be $30k - 2.5 times the price - to buy upfront today.

But that doesn't mean that the subsidy doesn't exist - if 1% of consumers would buy a Model S due to its other advantages, maybe 2-3% would if that purchase returned $1500 a year back to them.

So while you're right that it's not outright going to pay for itself in 2012, it probably halves the gap between a Model S and a BMW in the same class, and it's only going to get better as battery/PV technology improves.
It sucks but the why is clear: because it's becoming the only way to get it (for some definition of "from scratch" ofc).
The Lance Armstrong I've followed and read about all these years wouldn't give up now, if he were innocent. He'd follow it up like he did investigating cancer. He'd consider it a challenge, which if won would make the world finally admit that he was right. Every hour riding in the snow and rain in training is worth a few months or a year of fighting, especially when he can afford the best resources money can buy.

He's still a hero of mine - he's the consummate professional, checking every tiny box that could possibly affect his performance, despite having some serious physiological advantages that might have left others feeling confident that they had it in the bag. He rode in the worst weather, just because he might compete in that weather. He lived for his life's work like most of us never will.

I believe he simply competed in a time where many really good racers were doping, and if you want to check all the boxes, that was one you had to seriously consider.

This is not he-said-she-said rumours. It includes 2009 and 2010 blood samples consistent with blood doping. Witnesses aren't enemies, they are some of his closest allies, people who he relied on for tens of thousands of kilometres. At some point the weight of evidence starts to mount up.

Keep in mind that the doctors (like Ferrari) who (allegedly) helped him, were experts in their field. They would have known every technique used to catch doping, and would have tested their methods against them. That's how you beat testing - you do your own testing, and if you can mask doping well enough, you use it on your top athletes.

Armstrong says he's willing to take people to court for this. If so, he's not only interested in moving on with his life. Moving on with his life would be ignoring it, and moving on.

So: still a hero and one of the most amazing athletes ever, but guilty.
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I assumed it was to be parsed as "(fake bus) stops" but it turns out they've merely gone to the lengths of "fake (bus stops)"!
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If it is possible to manage the partisan nature of discourse, it is also possible to exacerbate it and to frame it in a desired way. Since this project has no special protection and seems to be uniformly hated by citizens, we can expect it to be abolished in the next Presidency and possibly replaced with something more blatantly partisan.
I don't think they are preventing apps from being run, just showing a warning message.
We'd love to pick your brain. Please feel free to reach out to chase (at) watsi (dot) org.
The only real issue I have with them using this method is whether or not Microsoft will then have a legal obligation to report the downloading of any software which could in the future become illegal, I'm thinking packages like Tor whcih can be used to directly contravene law inforcement efforts regarding things like child pornography.

I'm not saying I support it, but what I am saying is I would feel very uncomfortable knowing that my computer company would instantly inform the police if I downloaded "suspicious software" regardless of my purpose, but that's just a glimpse of where I see their next move being after the idiocy of ACTA and all the recent changes to privacy laws.
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If they were independent, it would be impossible:
E(X + Y) = E(X) + E(Y) if X and Y are independent.
(where E(X) = E(x | X=x) is the expected value of a random variable). This is easily provable:
E(x | X = x) = \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} x f_X(x) dx, and by integration by parts:

\integral_{-\inf}^{inf} \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} (x + y) f_X(x)f_Y(y) dx dy = \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} f_Y(x) \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} x f_X(x) dx dy + \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} f_Y(y) \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} x f_X(x) dy dx = \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} f_Y(y) dy \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} x f_X(x) dx + \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} f_X(x) dx \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} y f_Y(y) dy

Since p.d.f.s f_X(x) integrate to 1 over their domain,

\integral_{-\inf}^{inf} f_Y(y) dy \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} x f_X(x) dx + \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} f_X(x) dx \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} y f_Y(y) dy = \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} x f_X(x) dx + \integral_{-\inf}^{inf} y f_Y(y) dy = E(X) + E(Y)

Therefore, if two games are independent, the expected loss is the sum of the expected losses. For real-valued expected losses, it is not possible to add two real numbers of the same sign and get a real number of the opposite sign, and so the 'paradox' is therefore impossible for independent games.

But you are right, for non-independent games, it doesn't seem that surprising, so it doesn't really meet the definition of a paradox.
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you are as confused as Apple legal. Apple's true problem when Samsung "crossed a line" isn't copying: it's brand confusion. The moment Samsung decided that they would sell units by being literally confused for an Apple device that one already knows closely is when they started accruing damages they should now pay Apple in order to make the situation equitable.

This is like Wendy's deciding: "Fuck being third. From now on our logo will be a minimalist W, but upside down, and yellow, and we will not be happy with its form until customers start streaming in at the same rate they do to a McDonald's."

Everyone who brings in prior art is missing an issue. When I first saw an iPad, I wasn't like: "Oh, a Star Trek pad!" But I did look at an iPad and say, oh, an iPad: it was a Samsung designed to confuse the customer into thinking that it was one, by infringing on iPad's design very closely.

Let's be honest. It would have been easy for Samsung to take all the design cues it wanted from Apple while adding enough of their own design so as not to cause confusion. But they chose not to do that. They chose to be confused for an iPad.

Even the lawyers on the case mistake one for the other. But they think that this "confusion" is just an effect of the infringement damage. It's not: it's the source of the infringement damage.
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Wouldn't this mean that the South Korean patent system is broken?

I hear life is swell in North Korea where they do not have patents.
FYI Google keeps a big list of every app you've ever installed through Android Market/Play Store; it stays in "My Apps" even if you uninstall it.
We have a pretty awesome team. Everyone is part-time, and we are all 100% volunteer. We know that's not sustainable, and we will need to raise money to scale, but it's pretty rad nonetheless! (And we all make way more at our day jobs than we would ever make working full-time for Watsi).
Please describe how the programmers on this project can solve or mitigate the problem that some people will post petitions demanding legalization of marijuana (not necessarily a majority opinion in the US) and then be incredibly angry when this does not singlehandedly reverse the administration's policy.

Otherwise it is pretty mindless to attack the programmers for that.
Haha. We're never going to get rich, but the optional "tip" idea is a great one.
Surely the "inconsistent" questions are the ones that initially seem to be possibly tricky or subtle questions. This is not the same as contradicting the intuitive answer. For example, if you ask whether two masses fall at the same speed in air, that would probably trigger a careful response in the same way that asking whether two objects fall at the same speed in a vacuum would, even though in the first case the correct answer ultimately matches natural intuition. That's my guess as to what's going on.
>> if companies are continuously innovative

Those companies that are continuously innovative have nothing to fear from copycats... because they are always one step ahead of the copycats. Companies which want to prevent everyone from "copying" (going as far as saying that you cannot apply to computers the minimalist style that they didn't even invent[1]) do so because they don't want to innovate -- they want to live large off their past achievements.

>> Not some cheap ripoff.

A cheap ripoff is not even close competition to a well executed product.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism
I want to live in a world where this is OK and expected.

I expect competitors to build upon my work and I would love to see them win.

Apple had already won my respect and loyalty with the iPhone and iOS.

They lost my respect when they went against Samsung.
> The way obscure artists break into the us market is by signing with a US label.

> This is flatly not an option for Kpop artists signed with a Korean label.

This is completely wrong. Korean artists who've made a play for the US market have signed with US labels. For example, the Wonder Girls are managed by JYP Entertainment in South Korea, DefStar Records in Japan, and by Jonas Records in the US.
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But the fact is that if they were so obvious, then how come Apple was (in many cases) the first to successfully implement them?

Take your pick:

1) Because somebody had to be first.

2) Because no other major consumer electronics executives had the Jedi-level reality distortion skills needed to negotiate with the cellular carriers.

3) Because bouncing menus need a convergence of two technologies in order to make sense: a very fast CPU or GPU, and a fast, responsive touchscreen that can detect swipes. Resistive touchscreens were never going to work well for the purpose; only Apple had the foresight to move aggressively the second that capacitive multitouch tech became feasible.

As the other poster mentioned, ideas are worth jack shit. Implementation is all that matters. If Apple hadn't done it, someone else would have. Their reward for acting quickly is self-evident, isn't it? They sold 100,000,000+ iOS devices before they ever set foot in a courtroom.

Artificial market distortion in the form of patents on trivial "innovations" is demonstrably unnecessary for Apple's success.
Wish I could upvote and draw a giant red arrow bringing attention to your comment. That URL is incredible. Would've posted this comment earlier but I've just got back from reading out the URL to the rest of the office.
The premise that accelerators exist to help people "take the leap" is flawed. No one quits a lucrative job for a few thousand dollars in stipend, and health insurance wouldn't change this. People quit their jobs because the opportunity is too great to resist, whether financially or spiritually (hopefully both). People -- teams, usually -- join accelerators once they have already committed to making this leap, generally.

If you're not ready to take that kind of plunge in terms of general salary, health insurance for 90 days probably isn't going to change that.

In such a case, a good alternative is to join a well- or reasonably well-funded startup.
I disagree. 2.5 billion dollars is worth a lot of lives. Consider how many people you could save from, say, malnutrition with that money. I don't know the answer, but I'm pretty sure it's a lot. And we as a society have decided that space exploration is actually more important than saving those people. Now, you can agree or disagree with society on that point, but either way, a lot is riding on this, even measured in units of human life. If the thing crashes into the ground, we wasted money we could have done something else with. A lot of something.
Yes. Every policy decision of the executive should be made by an online vote, weighted toward those who have their friends sign up under many different email addresses.

People who do not use the website should be totally ignored, regardless of their votes in the actual election.

Otherwise, the President is ignoring petitions and hates Democracy.
If I understand it right, the basis for the "novelty" is not the mutations, rather it is that they are testing cDNA (effectively, a gene with exons spliced out, but as DNA not RNA - so this never exists in nature as such, because splicing occurs on the RNA transcript).

My problem with it is that the so called "novel" molecule is a result of a process that is not inventive - it is a systematic process that is routinely done all the time, and which is entirely based on and constrained by the natural enzymes that perform it. So I don't see why a molecule that is merely a mechanical result of a non-novel process is novel.
> You can repeat the thing in New York, New Jersey, California, many major metro areas, etc.

And you will find that in areas without disproportionately large Asian-American populations, they are basically unheard of.

> The point is not that they are more popular then Snoop Dogg or that Snoop Dogg if the biggest artist in the US.

Then why did you even mention Snoop Dogg? How is his popularity relevant at all?
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Any hoax or spam you've seen in email is being tried or has been tried with SMS. Texts are read instantly, so the information can spread faster than email. Social media is pretty quick with things like this because it is a one-to-many broadcast medium.
I use Siri. I completely disagree with this article.
I like bullshit boilerplate too.

If you really want petitions, start a real petition. The website is for something much more informal and you shouldn't get depressed just because 4chan isn't setting policy now.
i feel its biased when people say all the information of apps that are being installed in our System will be known to Microsoft..is it ok to know Apple the information about Mac Apps???
I do not use Google products for this reason.
So wait...are you saying that Apple copied Samsung's "single prominent button beneath a large screen" phone design? The iPhone looks an awful lot like a refinement of the i700, i730 and i830 designs.
The problem is that Smartscreen is on by default. Most users are going to have trouble enough trying to forget about the missing Start Menu even after watching the Welcome Intro let alone fumble through looking for some way to disable this option.

Malware protection requiring surrendered privacy seems a pretty crappy "feature." Why can't Microsoft do better?
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It's funny because Ubisoft has made one of the most horrible online experience I have ever heard of in Heroes 6, basically you log in, your "offline" saves become inaccessible and sometimes they just vanish forever.

They clearly don't get it. They should watch and learn from Blizzard, Riot Games and the others. If you provide value in online play people will pay for the game solely for the online experience, see World Of Warcraft. I wonder how many people pirate Star Craft 2, Diablo 3 or World of Warcraft.
I work on a product for software developers and speaking to our customers there are two camps: those who like relative dates and those who like absolute dates. What does HN prefer?
Please define "copying."

I totally agree that consumers benefit most when companies innovate. I also think that companies like Samsung can innovate on bigger items if they make their pencil icon look similar to the iPhone's pencil icon. Would you agree?
Wikipedia indicates Jonas Records may be defunct, it certainly wasn't ever Warner Brothers. SNSD is with Interscope, 2NE1 is signed with Will I Am's label.

If you have to sign with a 2nd tier label because you are basically an indentured servant to the Korean label that's been training you for 6 years your odds of being a huge breakthrough success in the US are going to plummet.
Your concerns are valid. It costs nothing but a few minutes to start an open source project. Projects of this scope, however, do benefit from some amount of early design and planning. After reading PHK's recent rant [1], and reflecting on Brooks's idea of "surgical teams" [2], I wonder if some initial work in isolation is such a bad thing.

Or maybe the lines between a startup and an OSS project are just being blurred in some weird new way.

[1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_surg...
Oh I don't know, it isn't much different from a system which analyzes emails to see what motivated constituents with email are saying - it's just public. I think it's an interesting experiment and a starting point. I don't think it is ever wrong in a democracy to give people a way of publicizing a message or to give elected officials visibility into relevant things people are saying publicly.

I don't know where the high expectations came from. But I might speculate that many people are starting from dislike of the President's policies and then from there tarring the website, rather than actually responding directly to the idea of the website.
I have 2 computers here, both with very good monitors and both displaying the same effect:

1 x NEC MultiSync PA271W monitor

1 x Thinkpad X220 with IPS panel

Perhaps it is a result of the IPS panels in both? The NEC is a high-end monitor though and even with a cheaper IPS panel in the laptop I wouldn't expect to see any flaw that is the result of the monitor in the NEC.
Open source is awesome, I submit pull requests often. Apple did not open source. Thats the problem, we live in a world with open source tools and tools for stealing music, movies etc.. and our moral compasses have adjusted to just taking. Sharing is great, but a company doesn't make something and say here take all of my ideas and make money off of it. Unless you are google, then they say "here take," but look at my ads while you are taking.
Armstrong's claim of passing "hundreds of controls" obscures the actual issue in this case. It's true that Armstrong passed many drug tests over the course of his career, but the USADA charges that he was engaged in "blood doping" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_doping), a technique generally associated with a substance called EPO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythropoietin).

A new process made EPO widely available in the late 1980s. But because EPO is chemically similar to substances the body produces naturally, nobody was able to come up with a way to test athletes for EPO usage at all until the year 2000 (http://www.wada-ama.org/en/Resources/Q-and-A/EPO-Detection/), and it took a few more years after that for anti-doping agencies to have confidence in the accuracy of the test. So there was a 10 to 15 year window of time where athletes could use EPO with a degree of confidence that no contemporary test would be able to definitively prove they did so.

The result was that many of the results of cycling's top races during the 1990s and 2000s had to be re-examined when it finally became clear that many of the contenders had been blood doping during that period (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Tour_de_France#Do... for examples from the Tour de France).

So the "hundreds of controls" defense is a bit weasel-wordy. It doesn't mean so much to pass hundreds of tests if those tests were given at a time when the testers didn't know how to catch the thing you're accused of doing.
My point is that there isn't some kind of contractual obligation that prevents K-pop artists from signing with foreign labels for activities in those countries. If you look at Japan, you can see dozens of K-pop artists who've signed with local labels who have no connections with the Korean labels that those artists are signed with.

If K-pop artists have failed to sign with any major US labels, that's because those labels analyzed the artists and determined that they would not be successful enough to warrant signing them. Interscope is a major label, is it not? So why hasn't SNSD succeeded? See these posts for some clues:

http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/2...

http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/2...

And see this post on why Psy succeeded:

http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/2...