skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it were Western looks influencing double eyelids, are guys also going blonde/brunette or doing anything else?

Absolutely, dyed hair is almost universally present amongst celebrities. Usually brown or red, but sometimes blonde.

You'll also see other surgically obtained Western facial features, such as a more elongated face and larger noses, in Korean celebrities. I'm not a facial structure expert so I can't scientifically enunciate it, but they don't look anything like your average Korean. For example, I wouldn't be surprised if they're modifying their foreheads too, to look like Tom Cruise in that picture you linked.

> In fact I honestly think (with enough grooming and styling) you can get more fit Asian guys looking like those two examples you gave than you could get white guys to look like them.

Oh, of course. No matter what you do, you'll never truly bridge the gap between races.

A good recent example of this is Cloud Atlas, which has drawn a lot of controversy for one of its story arcs, which is set in a futuristic "Neo-Seoul". Whereas the female actresses are Asian (Bae Doona of Korea and Zhou Xun of China), they used "yellow-face" to make male white actors look Asian, instead of using Asian actors.[0] Predictably, it's not at all a convincing makeover and has drawn harsh criticism from Asian American advocacy groups for the continued discrimination against/marginalization of Asian men by Hollywood.

> So just because of that, it's probably benefitting Asian guys more that they're being flaunted as sexy.

Right, and that's definitely the case. If you look at the expat blogosphere for Korea, what was dominated by men a few years ago is now dominated by women who write about their fairytale romances in Korea (no idea how true a lot of it is, but there you go)[1]. Either way, that's still a very small percentage of a very small percentage (remember that women like to blog about dating a lot more than men). And I'm just saying that obtaining Western features played a big role in the hallyu spreading to the West.

> As for Japan, they didn't have a well-developed live-action film industry

This is not exactly true. A lot of foreigners think that Japanese adults all read manga and watch anime, and while it is common to see salarymen reading manga on the train, its certainly not a widespread pastime the way that TV is in the West.

Japan does have a live-action film industry, but it's pretty shitty. The production values aren't nearly as high as in Korea (the sets look grungy, the background music isn't as good), the actors/actresses don't use as much plastic surgery/makeup, and they're not going for international appeal. Not to mention the acting/writing is even worse than in K-dramas, if you can believe that.

0: http://nerdreactor.com/2012/10/26/cloud-atlas-gets-heat-for-...

1: http://imnopicasso.blogspot.com/2010/10/myth-part-iv-awakeni...
Seems like an issue many seem to have:

A critic that goes a little bit further:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4710366
Here is the data on a linear, rather than logarithmic scale[0]. Y axis is number of articles and X axis is "years since 2001". I copied the data as best I could from the chart given by the author of this article. Wikipedia has a page itself about its own size which shows a similar linear growth rate[1].

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+%7B20%2C15000%2C10...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
Okay. If that's just food for thought, fine, but if that's an argument for widespread adoption it falls pretty short. In 2011 35% of the world's population were internet users according to a quick wikipedia reference source [1]. That's 2.45 billion people. Taking the 500,000 Dvorak users into account yields 1 Dvorak user out of every 4900 internet users. I realize these are all kind of soft numbers we're throwing around, but I feel my point stands.

[1] FWIW, http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/facts/2011/material/ICTFactsFig...
The C64 6502 test suite is easy to bodge into an emulator. I used it to verify the 6502 emulation code in mine. Very worthwhile - I found a number of bugs because of it, particularly with BCD mode and a number of the illegal instructions. (Obviously no guarantee the 6510 illegal instructions are the same as the 6502's, but the few that BBC Micro games used seemed to be. I believe the BBC Micro 6502 is the same one as in the Apple II, but 2MHz.)

An explanation of how to fit it into a non-C64 emulator:

http://www.softwolves.com/arkiv/cbm-hackers/7/7114.html

Mirror of the actual file:

http://modelb.bbcmicro.com/tech.html
Oh the irony of distracting myself by reading this on Hacker News, then making a comment which I will flip back to and check reflexively for the next two hours.
And, btw, you should not provide animation to that browsers not supporting push state at all. You're going to have a bad time if you mix full solid urls and hastag ones. Ask twitter...
Not to mention the binary representation of every single copyrighted MP3, text, software, picture, etc. in every conceivable encoding and file format.
It is a tough one, I doubt a business like this could raise without some significant traction and I doubt it could get this without operating for some time. The answer I guess is to build up some savings and accept you will have to get by on not much for a year full time to give it a chance.

I don't think all startups/ online projects require full time effort to ever see a return. I think this one likely does though, lots of moving parts and you have to convince distributors.
China opens its ear to sounds of the universe
Watching Sandy in 'R'
99 red balloons was translated to english. My admittedly-unreliable-recollection is that's the one that received most radio play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IRDDnEPR4

Edit: I guess I'm wrong:

per wikipedia:

Having achieved widespread success in Europe and Japan, plans were made for the band to take the song international with an English version by Kevin McAlea, titled "99 Red Balloons". The English version is not a direct translation of the German and contains a somewhat different set of lyrics.[2] The later-released English translation, "99 Red Balloons," was the version that became popular outside of Germany and neighboring countries, with it topping the charts in Canada, the UK, Australia and Ireland. Interestingly, it was the original German version that American audiences preferred, becoming the highest Billboard charting German song in US History, when it peaked at #2 in the US. [3]
Soon, I think of this...

http://esellermedia.com/files/2012/08/hacking1.jpg
This is an honest take on things, and whilst it would be great to have the ability to dedicate ourselves to something full-time, it isn't always possible.

I'm currently in the process of running a startup, whilst maintaining a family and a full-time job. Is it ideal? Certainly not, but at this stage of my life it just isn't an option to quit my regular job. This doesn't represent a lack of dedication to what I am trying to achieve it simply diminishes the time that I have to work on it. That is fine with me though (and I suspect it was with the OP as he decided to take the journey in the first place). I'd rather try when my circumstances limit things, than not try at all.
Presumably because the patch introduces intermittent bugs that are not fully understood (disconnects iirc).
Wow,

The whole "rights renewal" celebration just reinforces to me how sinister the DMCA actually is - all these "rights" depend on Library of Congress administrative rulings and thus are inherently revocable, in contrast to how they ought to be; inalienable and all that.
Rewards and BLTs
Looks really interesting, but you seriously need $10,000 ?
Can I run this from a Terminal ? Without the UI but using some features from HappyEdit ?
"doctor"

"master computer hacker"

Do even most computer programmers know statistics and how to meaningfully evaluate data?
Discuss on HN: The State of Artifical Intelligence
Smart machines have been a promise of Computer Science for a while now. These days though I often find myself lost around what has actually been achieved.

Which problems have been solved, where has meaningful progress been made, and what do we desire but still seems far off?

Would someone care to start with an overview?
I didn't have a ton of time to search, but did they mention what kind of software they used? I'm curious what database(s) and schema(ish) techniques were used to hold all of that time series data?
I agree. I'm fortunate in that my wife understands that I'm sacrificing our personal life for a bigger future. I had a job and bootstrapped our company during this time, but had to work 12 hour days for 16 months. Winning often requires sacrifice. Not always, but often.
I found this response interesting from a person who works for Wikimedia (http://branch.com/b/surmounting-the-insurmountable-wikipedia...):

...at the Foundation, we tend to call this "the Gold Rush theory" - the idea that Wikipedia's gold rush days are over.

My personal view is that the problem isn't that everything is done, but that it's harder for willing new editors to find things to do. (For existing power contributors, they have no hard time finding topics, which is why overall article growth remains steady).

The answer here is that the Foundation needs to work on ways to surface interesting and useful stuff to write about. Wikipedia can't afford to hope people stumble on these topics.

He works on making Wikipedia's UI better in ways that encourage useful contributions, especially for new editors - see his blog posts at http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/24/giving-new-wikipedians-... and http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/24/fix-this-broken-workflo... for examples.
Then sometimes, maybe this...

http://www.serenadawn.com/GITS-InformationAge_clip_image003....
The discussion of Ms Jepsen's singing talent is well-supported. The description of single "Kiss" as "fantastic, living up to all its inspirations and more" comes out of the blue.
Awesome. I'm always on the lookout for a text editor with all the cool things from Vim, but without having to fiddle with the stupid plugin and config system.

The closest thing I've found so far is Vico (http://www.vicoapp.com/)
Imagine my surprise when going from "Pen Pal" on the Amiga at home to Wordperfect for DOS at school. :)
I am wondering in what way a "modern vim" isn't "vim". GVim exists, and plugin management is a problem frankly solved years ago.

I also wonder how he is going to support modern features that Vim currently has with a web-based editor. Can I script this in my choice of modern languages? Python? Ruby?

If I were going to change any single thing about Vim, it would be to make MzScheme scripting support a first class citizen, and slowly re-engineer the backend to be more Emacs styled. Core C (or whatever, but C out of momentum) functions with the rest of the system build up in Scheme. I think it would be foolish to call such an improvement "modernizing" though, since it is hardly a new idea. ;)
Agree with josephlord, you'll need to bring some proper business skills/experience to the table to be able to convince a developer to partner with you.
TLDR: The value of luxury goods is a result of marketing/design, not features. Pretty well-known principle.
There is another project called Scholarpedia, but that is restricted to Science/Math only, I think
How Adam Saltsman Sold More Than 300,000 Copies Of Canabalt On The App Store
This is a good point, as it the derivative notion: are my thoughts about illegal numbers, themselves, illegal. Evidentiary issues aside. etc.
The example Carl Sagan gives is Maxwell's equations. They seemed pretty abstract at the time, but well ... Radio. Television. Fibre optics. Satellite communications.

That said -- these didn't happen all at once. And every technological upheaval, no matter how large it has been in itself, has still appeared in the larger context to be only an incremental improvement.
Note the light green line under the blue growth rate line. The Size of Wikipedia article[0] says that this was the modeled growth rate as of 2010, which it only held to until 2011. This shows the danger of modeling existing data and extrapolating to the future.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
we don't 'dig' oil out of the ground, we drill for it.
Man, had to stop after the cigarette comment and ask -

What is it with people in SF smoking? When I visited I felt like I spent my entire day walking through a cloud of smoke. So odd for me to see programmers that smoke. Just can't reconcile it. (back to the article).
Do scrum. You have the vision and the budget. You are the product owner.

Hire a scrum master and a team. Pay them handsomely and treat them kindly.
Statistical Analysis of Election Manipulation in Republican Primaries
Can't speak for the OP, but it does happen with Chrome on OS X and Safari on OS X, though not with Firefox.
The Noka Chocolate scam: reselling a competitor's product after rebranding it
I don't think its a crises of attention or a culture of distraction. I think it's that literally everyone can publish grammatically incorrect rantings with terrible spelling and incoherent structure and we've gotten really good at wading through the chaff. There just isn't that much good stuff out there and yet every single person thinks they are Shakespeare. There never has been that much great stuff it's just we relied on other means to filter it for us (publishers, editors, etc.).
Ability to focus (or defocus) improves with practice, so for example reading a book for one hour every day will make wonders for you. And almost no cravings.
You're sort of grasping that no one agent is actually in charge of the whole shebang -- that it's an emergent phenomenon.

Any genuine attempt at degrowth will require some pretty unpopular policies. Folk like that their lives, on the whole, improve over time (modulo real estate in first world countries ... but that's another rant for another time).

So it's possible to degrowth at an individual level; but at a societal level, it would require force and cause more disruption than people realise.

And I'm agin' it.
They have long since shrunk the switches to less than a wavelength of light

Snort.
Pretend for a moment it's July 1, 2009, you're Lucas, and you must answer the following 3 questions correctly, else you might spend the next 3 years chasing your vision for $0:

1. What pain does my idea solve?
2. Does it solve it for a large number of people?
3. Just how painful is it for not being solved?

Do you know plenty of people who are in pain because they can't find a venue to watch an indie flick? Does not being able to find an indie flick at an appropriate venue eat at their thoughts 24/7? Are they going to go nuts finding a solution if you don't provide one? How much money would solving this problem be worth to them?

Admittedly I know diddly about Altsie, and I'm not one for indie flicks, but let's compare Altsie to Airbnb. Airbnb solves a basic human need: that of housing. How painful is it when you don't have a house? Immensely. How much money are you willing to pay for a roof over your head? Thousands per year. How many people are searching for your solution. A shitload. Now replace housing with "Indie Flick", and objectively recalculate.

After doing so, you might think three years is a long, loooong time investment, hugely out of proportion to the level of pain Altsie solves, not to mention the price of solving that pain.
I just moved to AeroFS, no regrets.
TwiThinks: Twitter Mentions of Obama and Romney
Interesting post. Seems like you were affected by the standard SV MO - worry about profitability later, only after you'd scaled your user base.

Sounds like you're still a believer. What is your plan now?
Https://t.co/RsqLU2pm- Szukaj w Google
A Linux User's Perspective Of Microsoft Windows 8
They have a pretty decent line up of Linux games already, and it's not a public release yet: http://marlamin.com/cdr/search.php?s=linux&searchby=os (~37 games so far)

There are also a lot of indie titles on Steam that have Linux versions available but aren't officially in that list yet.
Goodhart's Law comes to Entrepreneur's rescue Learn-Measure-Iterate Lean Cycle
Using Chrome packaged apps makes compilation problematic if not impossible as well as running command-line functions.

The file model for Chrome packaged apps is similar to the Mac App Store in that you can access files but you have to get explicit permission for each one you open. There's also an internal file system to the app that you can create.

I write HTML5 apps but also do quite a bit of Java moving between different projects during the course of the day and running some command-line functions too. Happy Edit as it appears today wouldn't give me parity to how I use vim.

If I were on a Chromebook, I would probably just use tmux/screen and a ssh session.
> While I sympathize with these arguments, this isn't how the legal system works. The law doesn't work on absolutely provable certainty. It works on reasonable doubt, intent and (hopefully) facts.

But is this how the legal system should work? The legal system has obvious flaws. At the very least it needs to move away from duelling expert witnesses to a more scientific method based approach.
Simple: remove the "must be noteworthy" rule. I remember many years ago I was heavily into the Diggnation podcast and a few others coming out of Revision3 and Leo Laporte's network. Anyway, somehow I did a search on Wikipedia and found that these podcasts were not on there at all (despite having many viewers).

So long story short, I created pages for these podcasts, filled them with content, and a few days later they were removed by mods for not being "noteworthy" enough. I attempted to plead with them that these podcasts were in fact the most popular tech podcasts on the web, but the mods didn't care.

I haven't edited Wikipedia since.
> [Erlang] doesn't scale.

http://basho.com/products/riak-overview/

I think you mean Erlang's strict CSP -- share nothing -- is not as efficient as shared memory systems such as Go. That is a fact and by design it is a feature and not a bug. Nine 9s: http://pragprog.com/articles/erlang

> Have you tried finding Erlang programmers?

Go looks easy but it is a subtle language. Brad F. writes a server and it performs. Mr. X writes one and it crawls. Go figure.
Ask HN: Suggested College courses outside of my major
I read an article on joelonsoftware.com a year ago. Unfortunately I can't find the link. In the article Joel suggested taking a few courses, among them astronomy, microeconomics and art history. I'm replacing art history with a music course. I'm wondering what other courses are good to take in college. A little background info; I'm a junior studying CS with a minor in math. All suggestions are appreciated.
Since Dropbox offered me 50 GB for using a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S3, I've stuck with them. I used Google Drive since I use the spreadsheets, and I absolutely hate it. So I'm sticking with Dropbox for now.
> Elon Musk said that running a startup was like eating glass and staring into the abyss. When I first heard those words they sounded brave and romantic.

I honestly don't think anyone understands what it really feels like to build a company until you do it. Before I started running my first startup, I thought that the hardship and mental anguish other people describe was somewhat like what I already experienced during hard times at other companies. It wasn't. You pour your heart and soul into a startup and push to the side your physical health, hobbies, family and basically everything else. Then after a year or more of doing everything possible to try and succeed, you potentially end up with nothing. Like Lucas says, you don't really end up with nothing, but it sure as hell feels like it at the time.
Chrome Packaged Apps are essentially a Chrome extension with some extra features that can run outside a browser instance.

As such, scripting would be limited to languages that can run in JS. So if he allows plugins, it would be JS, CoffeeScript, or possibly Emscripten.
Tropical Cyclone Climatology
Anybody who shares their opinion should consider these points:

1. The office on surface is not the final version of software. It has RTM'ed so it should get updated with the final version pretty soon.

2. The fact that you have an ability to run a program like office on a tablet class hardware and ARM architecture is in itself a feat of engineering and Microsoft should get some credit for that here. I was dying to put this louis CK piece in the comments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk
That is what I suspected. Kind of makes the idea of using that sort of system to create generic modern developer tools DOA I think. Definitely so if it means I lose Vim's ! command; I couldn't live without that.
> I have been editing and resubmitting my application as I find new information and better ways of explaining my project.

Same here, I've been cringing at some of the ways I've described my project in the past.
The more specific a topic is the few people that could actually write an accessible article on it. Paying specialized writers or even paying/ asking for donations of other works they have done could fill out these areas.
Science Left Behind
It wasn't obvious on the linked page but this is available to try on Github here https://github.com/pthulin/HappyEdit
True, but it's not so bad to be reminded of things like this every so often with a nice real world example.
Thanks for being nitpicky about that. I went ballistic when I read that quote, and I've added a comment to Ed's post to have him clarify that. I fell in the opposite of love with the software. The hardware's awesome though.
Avoiding operating at capacity
This is pretty basic, relevant math. Don't most degree programs in pre-med or biology require at least an introductory statistics class?
"A program like office" (office itself) ran on less capable hardware than the tablet in question for 15 years or so. I'm not really seeing the achievement here.
> Do you know plenty of people who are in pain because they can't find a venue to watch an indie flick?

Yes, watching an indie flick in any venue is a problem. Distribution of indie flicks in general is a problem. Shows are usually organized by people from the production crew traveling from college campus to college campus by van. Many well-made movies are only shown in a couple of theaters because coordinating a proper release is beyond the capabilities of a small producer.

Considering you can make a movie with great production value for a million dollars nowadays, the distribution problem is only going to get more severe.
Please do yourselves a favour and look up Neil Postman. I can recommend "Amusing Ourselves to Death" and "Technopoly", in particular.
Thanks, sir. I really appreciate this, and I'm about to frame it. I've been so frustrated after being vilified by folks for even suggesting that there's a problem. (sigh) Thanks for commenting here where the action is - that's really awesome.
I read the first half of the first item and closed the page. I was going to write more on this subject, but now I'm going to submit this comment as is and close the page.
>> and related Instrumentation
> Go has a CPU profiler, a memory allocation profiler. In tip, it has a data race detector. It can expose this data over an HTTP interface so you can profile a running server http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/pprof/.

It is canonically called "instrumentation" but that is not all that it is capable of doing. Have you actually ever used this feature of Java?

> Also, on an unrelated note, I find it a little sad and pathetic how both you and 0xABADC0DA have to resort to insults to get your point across.

?? When and where did I insult you? Pathetic, on the other hand, is an insult. I strongly take exception to that.