skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been traveling in Asia, and was in Korea this last week when Gangnam style really took off, at least on my Facebook feed.

I asked one of my tour guides about this, not knowing anything about the relevance of the video, and she basically echoed a lot of the comments about how it was poking fun at Korean materialism and superficialism. She said that Korean culture has really shifted in the last few decades. Her grandparents' and her parents' generation, she said, were very hard-working, and transformed their country from a post-war, 3rd world country into one of the powerhouse economies in the world. But her generation (she said she was 27) wasn't nearly as hardworking, and is enjoying the fruits of her parents labor without putting as much in.

She said that the Korean culture had turned very materialistic and superficial as well. Korean males have started to use a lot of the same makeup that females traditionally wear, like foundation, etc. Many girls will have cosmetic surgery done right after high school so that their college graduation pictures will look good, which she said was very important to females. She said her sister practices smiling in the mirror for 15 mins every day, in order to get a certain crease in her mouth, which apparently is the sign of wealth and good luck. She said "double-eyelid surgery" (I guess a type of surgery to add a crease in the eyelids which many Koreans do not have) is so common, that girls don't even consider it surgery anymore. Most eyelid surgeries come with a 2-for-1 deal where they throw in a nosejob as well, and new techniques are constantly being developed, like a form of injection that will lift the nose up temporarily, like a nose job.

I found this absolutely incredible, and I said to the tour guide that it must be very hard growing up as a female, with all this pressure. She said that it was only 30% of the female population that engaged in all this materialism/superficialism, and that left 70% of the females that didn't care about it. It was a good attitude, but still 30% seemed awful high to me.

My guess is that this is just a phase that developed (or developing) nations go through, and social commentary like this Gangnam style are the first steps in seeing a "reversion to the mean", where things become a lot less extreme.
Solving the Flaws in Education
I see. So where do your very strong assertions about the folly of money-back guarantees come from? Data? Experience? Do you have friends who've done it?

I ask because I have lots of experience with it -- with 4 products offering total money-back guarantees -- and have insight into more than 10 friends' businesses with similar guarantees, and not a single one of us have had experience with refund abuse like you describe. Nor is it ever mentioned as an issue among the larger communities which offer that type of product for sale.

As patio11 said, your statements are testable, and if you test them, you will find them false.
I think we all know what Print on Demand is, but that Wikipedia page doesn't list any proof for your assertion that it is "the coming thing." The only publishers it lists as offering POD are specialty POD publishers.

That's hardly the sweeping industry change you described.
TL;DR; Ipad Mini is not ready.
“profit is a better metric to compare rather than revenue since it takes moving hardware out of the picture. Anyone have those details?”

For the quarter that ended March 31:

Microsoft, $5.11 billion [1]

Apple, $11.6 billion [2]

For the quarter that ended June 30:

Microsoft, $0.19 billion [3]

Apple, $8.8 billion [4]

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2012/apr12/04-19fy...

[2] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/04/24Apple-Reports-Seco...

[3] http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...

[4] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/07/24Apple-Reports-Thir...
Power plants aren't free, people pay for the service they provide. If you can replace them with less expensive batteries (especially since people will be ready to buy electric cars for their main benefit, which is transportation -- getting paid to lease you battery is a side benefit) to store cheap solar power, that's a good deal, not a subsidy.
Thaumaturgy's point was simple: rental costs have increased relative to wages and housing prices have increased relative to wages. It is no mystery why fewer young people are able to purchase real estate now than in the past. Or cars.

At worst your argument and sources conflate wages and income and standard of living in order to make insinuations that are statistically wrong. At best they can be interpreted as making the fairly non-controversial claim that the AGGREGATE standard of living in America has improved over the last 30 years, despite the fact that there has been a clear reduction in the relative purchasing power and affluence of younger Americans over the last 10 years.
You can pick the licensing terms you prefer. Did you even look at the submitted URL? Each picture on the site shows its licensing terms underneath using icons.
Most people who take this offer is american. Why would we leave the richest most technologically advance country on the planet. We have plenty of investor and a huge middle class you would be crazy to leave.
I also found it genuinely disturbing for the same reason. The 'you decide' aspect of the site seems very sick to me.

I think the moral dilemma could be solved easily by just having a single fund that you pay into. The money is then distributed among the people who need treatment. No input from the giver.
High-signatory-count means a high level of engagement, among people who were exposed to the message. number of signatures / number of users on the site, or some other measure along those lines.

And the response largely ignored the thrust of the petition. I.e. that the side effects of prohibition are worse than the effects of the substance.
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Interesting.... a screen scrape of posts. Interesting manner to do some market research as well.

Think the webinar will be valuable for us and our client base. This stuff just keeps on growing! Maybe someday we'll be able to just think of what we want done and shazam... done! Yes one day......
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Yeah, a few weeks ago I felt particularly stressed and depressed. I stopped reading TechCrunch and HackerNews for several days, and found myself feeling significantly better.

Then I got back to doing both but noticed something interesting. It wasn't usually the articles making me stressed and depressed, it was the comments. The comments on technology news these days generally sounds like they're coming from people I would never have a second conversation with. They're rude, negative, spiteful, discouraging, and depressing.

It's a very hard habit to break, reading the comments, and it's unfortunate because I used to find great tidbits of information in the comments that made them very useful and worthwhile. However, skimming past dozens of people talking shit and criticizing the do-ers just to get to the possible good information has proven not worthwhile.

I need to be more disciplined about avoiding this negativity.
Why I am tired of writing pull requests
8/1/2012 suffers from the dd/mm vs mm/dd problem.
The "Hacking Instagram" headline caught my eye. Not exactly related, but I also "Hacked Instagram" to add a whole bunch of new photo sharing options to the official Android Instagram App. There's no official way to add plugins, so I did it the hard way by having my app spawn Instagram and then monitor user-interactions within the app. When I detect a photo is ready, I bring up my sharing option menu so the user can send the photo via email, SMS, dropbox, Google+ etc, etc. It's a hack for sure, but was interesting to write:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.houseblend...
The gentleman from missori would would disagree with you.
Strategies for finding an internship at a SF startup?
I moved to SF not long ago from a backwater, soul sucking town in search for, at the very least, some livability. Though I don't hold a college degree, I have some acumen with programming and a decent knowledge of web development. I would like to consolidate and master these skills as an intern at some small startup (and earn some form of livable wage). I've haven't received any real responses to my emails that explain my situation and don't really know too much about startup culture in SF. As veterans (or neophytes), I'm hoping to gleam some advice on strategies from you on acquiring an internship.
> "President Obama is committed to creating the most open and participatory government in our nation’s history"

I'll believe that when his administration stops being one of the most secretive and most aggressive prosecutors of whistleblowers in recent history.

Sources:

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/09/obamas_unprecedented_war_on_...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/obamas-whistlebl...
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/expert_con...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/us/politics/new-rules-to-c...
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/30/the_most_transparent_adminis...
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/us/government-documents-i...
That's a pretty cynical way of viewing things. Take a look at the big picture: the highest office in the land (world?) is doing what we here on HN do: push public code, accept feedback, leverage open source etc. It's a fantastic start towards a new paradigm of open source code in public places. This should be celebrated; a new generation of people are running things now. It can only get better.
I don't see how petitions are at all relevant.

What is relevant is programs like this: http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows
Just want to point out that this is not the first code contributed to open source from the WhiteHouse.gov project. Several of the Drupal modules developed for the site were made available to the community on Drupal.org not long after the new site launched. Some examples (may not be all of them):

http://drupal.org/project/govdelivery
http://drupal.org/project/akamai
http://drupal.org/project/context_http_headers
http://drupal.org/project/node_embed

Actually it strikes me as a little strange that this code is on Github since Drupal.org has an entire section devoted to Drupal "distributions", which is what this appears to be. I mean, is the White House tech office moving to a full open source development model? Are they planning to appoint volunteer maintainers and accept pull requests? I sort of doubt it.
My proposal was not that people would sacrifice 80% of their battery. The first half was exploring the limits of the idea. I was suggesting 20-40%.
That's just stupid. As if the developers involved, who are likely proud of their work and the go-ahead to release it to the community, have anything to do with the petition outcomes.

People need to think things through sometimes.
You're right, not needed.
One of the main reasons I changed to DDG was because I was having some problems with google:

- Some times the instant search simply doesn't work until I press enter (and sometimes, even when I do, the results just don't appear)
- I noticed that google doesn't take you directly to the page. It takes you first to an intermediate page (probably for tracking purposes) and then redirects you to your result. I would be fine with that, but sometimes my browser just got stuck in the intermediate page (no idea why).

I sometimes need to use !g too and I agree that google sometimes is faster than DDG (at least when it works). What I really miss from google is the autocomplete
And cacheable too.
We just built an app that saves asses
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This is the first time I've ever heard someone accuse Horace Dediu "taking a very slanted look at numbers and other things."

If anything - I think Horace is keenly awaiting someone (Microsoft, Samsung, Nokia, RIM) who can disrupt Apple - so he can commentate on how it happened.

I'll agree that Siegler/Gruber pander to their audience though.
That's a good point, though I'm afraid it might be one of those things where diminishing returns mean that it becomes very very expensive to catch up, and I don't know if DDG has the resources. Moore's Law should help, though, but personally I haven't really felt (subjectively) like DDG has become much faster since I've been using it.
Suddenly, Startups Have Gotten Very Boring
Six basic things to attend to right now:

1. Be confident. You don't need a college degree here.

2. Do you have a Github account? If not, get one and post some of your work there.

3. Set up a profile on AngelList's talent page: https://angel.co/talent

4. Enable serendipity: put your e-mail and website in your Hacker News profile. :)

5. Cruise Meetup.com and join some local groups that are for enthusiasts who do what you do (or want to do).

6. Try to find some hackathons you can attend for fun, networking, free food, and quick access to recruiters for local startups.

This guy sends out a weekly e-mail about Bay Area hackathons: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12767983-latest-up...
Whenever I use relative dates, I usually draw the line at either one week or one month, after which I go to absolute dates. It can be cognitively challenging to see a date from two days ago and work out whether it was two days or one day, hey, today's Thursday right so that was Tuesday etc., whereas from 2012 a timestamp from 2009 isn't cognitively challenging to read as "years ago", and if you want the precision, it's there.

Personally when I've done it I often also simply always have the absolute time: "Wednesday, August 22nd at 8:22PM (a day ago)", with the order of the two elements chosen depending on which makes more sense.
It raises awareness of the issue. Why should any self-respecting developer want to contribute to a code base that does nothing but facilitate the government ignoring peoples' grievances, while at the same time making them feel like they are participating?
I think we're just going to end up disagreeing on that one :) From the experiences I've had in TM lawsuits I think the MB/Lego examples is more misleading that TB/MB. My lawyer friends say the point of trademarks are to "Prevent confusion in the marketplace".

"MakerBot Clone" is "arguably descriptive" and seems unlikely to cause confusion in the market because it's so descriptive. It's like generic pharma companies that say they use the same active ingredient that the name brands use. They even copy the packaging styles of the national brands and say "Compare to ________ brand". Big drug companies have had to deal with this for decades, but have still been able to thrive.

Contrast that with MB. Even though MB has never said the words "Lego Clone" A person unfamiliar with the technology could be misled, thinking that this $2,000 machine can product parts on par with Lego's finest, which is not even close to true.

That said, I'm a MakerBot owner and hope they continue to push the state of the art!
The best part: Twitter actually already does something very similar what he suggests, with their relative dates having a data-time attribute containing the Unix timestamp for each tweet. If he wants to throw away source information and store pixels representing how a particular browser rendered it, well, that's not Twitter's problem.

His microdata example is also only write if you having upgraded to HTML5, in which case <time> is obviously better.
The more influential the channel gets, the harder people will try to game the system to push their own agenda. I.e. fake or hacked registrations, buying signatures, or trying to promote comments favorable to your point of view while burying opposing ones.

Right now the influence of this app is zero, so we don't have these problems. It's just a marketing dog-and-pony show where they can say "Look we're actually responding to people's questions" but the answers are extremely vague nothings and you have no idea if the President / Cabinet / anyone with real authority even reads the petitions that have 6- or 7-digit signature counts, let alone acting on them.
What would you propose when, as translations have to be done manually, the available content for different pages is out of sync?

For example, maybe that latest product announcement hasn't been translated to French yet. If I send a product list URL to my french-speaking buddy, should the product disappear from the product list?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THOMAS

So who developed THOMAS?
Why big companies buy, sell your data
We (Kiva) are also adding monthly donation subscriptions as well, or at least I'm trying to this week for my innovation iteration project.
Agreed. Autocomplete would be awesome. I think it's pretty much expected from any search engine nowadays. I like how Chrome and iCab will sometimes use google's autocomplete even if I'm doing a DDG search, but I wish it was also available straight from the site's search field.
Agreed on the portable gaming world, but I don't think it's difficult to see how Nintendo's position in the console gaming market is not nearly as strong as strong as it was during its NES/SNES days.
You know, I rather doubt the developers are the ones who set policy. More likely, they're the ones fighting a thankless internal campaign to get permission to release anything and would like something more to show for it than a bunch of predictable snark.
Me too! CT to Boston, admittedly not as big a move but where I lived was practically Nowhere, USA. There's so much energy here and Boston has exceeded all my expectations. I'm now working at my third startup here.

Since January. Laid off from the first along with most people there, and the second one shut down literally the week I started working. But hey, technology moves fast and so do startups. They have to. I'm actually grateful since it's given me three entirely different viewpoints into how startups work.
> Also, you're going to eventually need to take a very small cut of the donations to pay living expenses for your volunteers. 100% to the patient sounds great, but for my donation, I'd prefer to know that there is someone dedicated full-time to the cause and overseeing the process, and receiving a reasonable salary for it. Of course, be 100% transparent about those salaries as well.

This might also be accomplished with a "tipping" model. Always advertise the full 100%, but when they go to "checkout", give them the option of tipping the organization. Make a default recommendation of, say, 10%, but let them pick their own tip amount as well.

It would be interesting to see what the average tip amount would be here.
It is not like that pull request really creates any undue burden on those developers. Seems like a perfectly legitimate, no matter how ineffective, form of peaceful protest.
I would imagine there would be a few problems with that which might be insurmountable.

The first being speed. People complain about DDG's speed already. Relying on a host of external searches would only cause more issues. Especially if as Google reports that a huge amount of queries are unique.

Another would be ranking. Who determines what is the most relevant result to a query? While you have multiple sources knowing which one to go to has to be determined somewhere. If you hand it over to the peers, they can game the system by insisting they are the most relevant. If you leave it to the server what incentive do the peers have to participate? If you use an open algorithm which people use whats to stop people from gaming the system?

I don't think there is an easy answer to the search game. You either need to build on others systems to have something compelling, or have millions (if not billions) of cash to have enough runway to build/improve your own system, improve it to the point its worth using and then turn a profit.

I don't even think its the complexity of the problem that stops the second. It's bandwidth and disk storage. My personal prediction is once we get disk's up-to a size where you can store a sizable chunk of the web, coupled with enough bandwidth to crawl it in a reasonable time you will see more innovation in the search space as the barrier to entry will be lowered.
Your post comes across as very cynical, and I disagree with it completely. The type of environment someone is in always has an effect on their productivity. In my case this effect is huge. For example, I build software demos for a living (Sales Engineer at a software company), which requires big chunks of uninterrupted time. I cannot find that at work, even with noise-canceling headphones. If I'm at home though, or even a coffee shop, I get in "The Zone" very easily and can stay in it for quite a while before needing a break. This way, I've built demos in one day that would otherwise have taken me over a week.
Anyone know how much of Apple's profit is from the iPhone(the original point of comparison in the article)?
>If you can replace them with less expensive batteries

Agreed. And when that is the case, then this behaviour will appear at large and be taken up enthusiastically.

At the moment this manifestly isn't the case (stored solar by batter cheaper than large-scale power), so any calls for it to happen is usually a disguised call to force it to happen by producing regulatory benefits to a small subset by driving up the cost for others.

I have zero problem with people electing to spend their own money on solar + battery storage. I find the tech interesting. I am simply determined to point out whenever I see this type of call that usually this means taxing poorer people to pay for richer peoples desires.
Dear Apple,

Please spend part of your enormous amount of cash reserves building a crack team to fix this.

Regards,

Users.
Where do you think the majority of scientific and engineering progress has been derived from? I don't like war but this explanation is far from comprehensive in regards to the economics of war.
Seemed like a joke or an effort to raise awareness. I took as devs poking fun at the White House and found it hilarious :)
If someone tell me "April 3, 2007", I immediately know that was about 4 or 5 years ago by quickly subtracting in my head 2007 from 2012.

If someone told me "What were you doing 5 Years, 3 months ago", I'd have to pause, add up the months, then eventually come up with "What were you doing on June 23, 2007". In June of 2007 I had just graduated from college, was living in Central California, etc. I index time in my head by date, not timedelta.

On the other hand, "What were you doing 3 hours ago" is much better than "What were you doing on August 23rd, 2012 at 6:05 PM". It would take me a while to realize the question was asking about today. I'm not one of those people who seem to always know what date today is...
> I guess to each their own, but I like the default behavior of when a split buffers is closed that the other buffers resize to fill the void. I'd prefer to see the space available used rather than trying to find something to fill the empty buffer with.

Yeah, but the point is I closed it accidentally. So now I reopen NERDTree or whatever and have to spend a bunch of time micromanaging my splits back into the arrangement I just had them in.

Wasted space sucks, but so does having things wreck my layout in an over-eager attempt to avoid it.
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How is this a "death panel"? These people are currently not receiving treatment they need, and this site helps give it to them. Nothing is being denied to anyone here.