skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is more along the lines of correlation/causation. It's one thing to speculate, but it's another to report the matter as fact. Did anyone from TNW contact Apple for comment?

After re-reading the headline, I see that it's cleverly worded to avoid making a patently false claim. "After" is a statement of proximity.

Fact 1: there was backlash on Reddit and HN.

Fact 2: Apple has stopped hiding the policy on their UK site.

Fact 3: fact 2 happened "after" fact 1. Congrats on the weaselly headline.

However, the body of the article shows that they did intend to imply causation:

> The backlash has apparently led the company to remove the code sometime between Monday and Thursday, possibly in the hopes of avoiding yet another court order.

Yes, "apparently". So basically, this is speculation about which TNW has no actual facts.

Yes, this is yet another trite complaint about the sad state of journalism, but the fact that it's trite doesn't make it untrue.
Down to 10 minutes? Huh. Depending on things, I may consider the SIII after all then. Last I'd heard it still took an hour.
Good point. There was no chance I was being sarcastic. Good catch.
Agree with most, but I'm having trouble combining your points 2 + 3. If they're referring to the quarter before the iPhone 5 was even announced, then it would seem the iPhone 4S that's actually on shelves would be the fair point of comparison.

It's fair to say that Apple enthusiasts would be holding off on buying any iPhone that quarter since they knew the next version would soon be announced (which probably moots the overall article point just on its own). But that doesn't make the overall comparison for the quarter meaningless.
> It is racist by the fact that it is based on race.

Your definition is too simplistic. Racism isn't just prejudice based on race. Racism requires a power imbalance. Acting to counteract an institutional imbalance caused by racism is not "just anotehr kind of racism."
You have a point for #2 and #3, but you are thinking too hard.

The REAL story here is: A single Android device has outsold a single iPhone device in a single quarter.

All facts aside why this happened, it is still a major feat that, of all Android options, one reigned over a single iPhone device for the quarter.

FYI: You may want to check your Jimmies for signs of Rustling.

EDIT: What about SII/SI?? Also, there was a surge of 4S sales when the price dropped.

Too many ways to look at it, no reason to get so defensive. For single device sales, iPhone didn't reign champ for one quarter. Not spam, but not that big of a deal because iPhone will come back next quarter.
Same grip as Robby, but glad you're letting my crazy ideas be involved in it in at least some way!

The KickStarter looks great, really pumped to get that first hoodie. Congrats on launching it man!
"Rights are granted not by God, not by some internal edict. They come from the society you inhabit."

Individual sovereignty was granted to you by God. You were born with it. It's a self-evident fact. Any denial of such requires you to employ your own will over your body. Any denial of individual sovereignty proves it. Your comment is the result of the ownership of your own body.

"You were nearly correct: government is a natural monopoly on the use of force."

Government does not have a natural monopoly on force because they do not sell it. To have a monopoly you need a market. Government is not a group you hire to defend your rights, instead government forces you to be their subject and pay for their protection. Forcing someone to pay for your protection is a protection racket.

I've never read Ayn Rand and I am not an Objectivist. Espousing objectivism is not a prerequisite for defending the natural rights of life, liberty, and property.
Unfortunately, I haven't yet!
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Posted a copy at http://clay.cc/w53g2/
This just in. The name of the hijacked group is now "Hacker News - Deleting - Documented extreme libel by members" and the "Meredith" character has removed their profile image.

Keep calm and carry on.
I would argue that the "prevailing culture" in the workplace is very much to value data over intuition. I'm biased, however, as I do enterprise analytics consulting for a living.

That being said, companies like Visa, MasterCard, and most banks have been using automated fraud detection for decades. This stuff is old hat in the world of business. Three years ago, I built a system that helped predict for craft brewers what packaging they should put their beer into for a month (bottle, kegs, etc). They were eager to get it.

I've implemented systems which detect fraud, predict inventory levels, warn of stockouts, and bubble up data for business leaders to act upon. I've done it for years. This isn't a new phenomenon, nor is Silver's prediction a watershed moment. Polls have been used since Gallup showed they were viable, and campaigns almost entirely become slaves to them. How is politics not driven by data?

Hell, Competing on Analytics has been around for five years. Ralph Kimball has been touting data warehouses and analytics since the mid-80's. Obviously, our predictions will get better as processing power improves, but decision makers in businesses have been thinking in terms of data for quite awhile.
Why would you think that paedophiles, rapists etc should be allowed online anonymity? If you can't behave by the rules of civilised society, then I don't think it's that big a stretch that you lose some privileges.
Sigh... First: that's not a logical argument, it's a message directly to the poster (and anyone like-minded, probably including you) intended to provoke introspection. Read it again, I don't claim anything in those words says anything about AA.

Second: you seriously think it's inappropriate to point out that people tend to have opinions which advantage their own station? Really? You're not simply saying that this is incorrect, you're actually saying that I'm not allowed to make the argument that white people might not like AA because it disadvantages white people. That's insane, sorry.
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Paul Graham does not post his best writing directly on HN,
but he writes really insightful blog posts

which get submitted here (in my opinion some of the most insightful comments posted on HN are from his blog).
Contour map of travel time to Big Ben in HTML5
On the other hand, we could drastically improve the lives of farm animals if we engineered them more. For example, we could give them CIPA[1]. We could make their brains smaller. A vegetable chicken can't suffer. These modifications may sound perverse, but I doubt we're going to stop cooping these creatures up and killing them any time soon. We might as well do our best to reduce the amount of suffering we cause them.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_sensory_and_autonomi...
It's not about DE, it's about toolkit. Which used to be a common pond but now they like put a fence around it and dump toxic waste into it. The reasoning revolves around it being easier for them and allowing them to do useful things in other places.

Guess what, not a good recipe for love of community.
There's one simple step that doesn't mean losing your entertainment or spoiling your driving enjoyment, and makes driving safer rather than more dangerous as well as improving your mileage: check your tire pressure.
This has to be the most thoughtful comment I've read on the subject of affirmative action. It's definitively gonna be food for thoughts. Thanks!
I tried to avoid nitpicking by specifying that it's just a summary of the argument, but I failed. I should have used the term 'personhood' instead.
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Rather than a list of lifetime karma, I would rather see a list of users with the most karma within the last year.
Let's downvote those perfunctory mentions of Betteridge's Law (and similar). (I already do.)
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Thanks Patrick!

Clickable link: https://www.hostedgraphite.com

(I'm one of the cofounders)
Yes but then you aren't looking at the ad and from a marketing perspective that's not acceptable.
What has 12.04 got that 12.10 hasn't?

Not challenging, just interested. Both have fallback, both allow the installation of XFCE4 desktop, both have the Lubuntu-desktop packages?
>> Could you design a brainless chicken or one with just enough brains to eat, breathe and lay eggs?
>Yes, it's called a chicken.

Oh yea, that's right. I forgot that chickens exhibit no social interactions and are incapable of learning. Good thing they also are incapable of pain, distress, and enjoyment of anything.
Is log-in with Facebook/Google better than with normal passwords?
This quote from the article:

“Compare red nail polish to red ink: both are red, but the nail polish will be visible on black paper because it reflects light. The ink won’t be, because it absorbs light.”

doesn't seem right to me, but I'm not an expert. The ink doesn't reflect light? If you put a drop of red ink on a sheet of glass, it won't look red? Isn't the difference because the ink will soak in to the paper while the polish will sit on top of it?
I've experienced more startup failures due to over engineering and premature optimization (and thus late to market) than bad code.

You can fix the code after you launch, or you can just never launch.
Actually, chickens are pretty intelligent and social creatures[1].

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken#Social_behaviour
And it's gone. http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-Cologne/ == "The Meetup Group you're looking for doesn't exist."
Thanks so much guys! I really appreciate the support!

I definitely miss the whole crew / startup ecosystem in Boston, but not the snow! It's been in the 80's here the last week.
Was it the flight of money, mostly in the hands of white people, out of the cities and into the suburbs around the time institutional segregation started to crumble, or was it affirmative action? I'm not leaning toward the latter.
I find that hard to read, might be all the breathless adjectives? It does seem quite interesting though. They used some 80 year old paper on color blending/mixing. I wonder if they patented their derivative implementation.
Thank You Dreamit Teams
Well, sure, since affirmative action doesn't help those people nearly as much as it helps upper-middle class kids from the suburbs.

That's the problem with it - whatever its intentions, it just doesn't help the people it truly needs to.
Don't hide the password (by default)
Old People Versus Babies, In One Graph
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Nothing ever changed because of a big backlash on Reddit or Hacker News. Nope, no way, uh-uh. What an impossible leap of imagination this article is!
CMYK is an subtractive color model, it is not very understandable and definitely not intuitive for human color perception. HSL is much better for that. It all is not too revelant in the end result I think because those are just models and their software exposes certain aspects of colors.
Great idea with lots of applications. I see this type of device being purchased by therapists to help children with ADHD as an alternative to medication.
Great project ! I really like both the idea and how you implemented it.

After clicking on a found camera pin-point, I was a bit disappointed : I closed the left frame showing details of said camera and hoped for the map to show every other pin-points again. I tried zooming out, before understanding I had to either go back in my browser or to chose a top-menu item. IMO you should automatically go back to the "whole map" upon closing the specific left frame.
You think factory farms are disturbing now? Just wait until animals cannot feel pain. I'm envisioning far more fights to the death for starters.
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Have you been contacted by meetup.com till now? Why don't they react on this shit?
Lovely! Such simple integration with Twilio is simply excellent in combination with the push features. Keep those partnerships coming!
Few examples (many, many people got this "built and running"):

http://e17-stuff.org/CONTENT/content-pre2/95258-2.jpeg
http://e17-stuff.org/CONTENT/content-pre2/100923-2.jpeg
http://e17-stuff.org/CONTENT/content-pre2/110281-2.jpeg
http://e17-stuff.org/CONTENT/content-pre2/115796-2.jpeg

And I use heavily customized bohdi theme, which originally looked like this: http://e17-stuff.org/CONTENT/content-pre2/119928-2.jpeg

Unfortunately, I'm sick and not going to work this week, so no screenshots of my desktop today :(
How then, would you have the parties govern the country, if not by compromise? It's unpleasant, but unavoidable.
Make no mistake, this level of attention to detail is why this app has remained consistently in the top charts since its release.
Well, that's part of why it is the most talked about. There's just pages and pages and pages about the SD card here: https://plus.google.com/114892667463719782631/posts/JAAMUzx1...
> completely at odds with the facts

Asserted without evidence.

The argument makes perfect sense to me. What part of it do you think is false?
"Fandroids" - really? sigh...
The Essential Physics of Game Engines
Apple patents technology that could remotely disable protesters' smartphones
As long as developers continue to submit meekly to whatever Apple asks of them, why would Apple change anything?
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The Romney campaign’s equivalent was apparently some system called “Orca”, which involved volunteers on the ground sending information to a central location about the conditions that they saw. It wasn’t as extensive, and now we know that it gave misleading information to the campaign.

Two other things to keep in mind:

(1) The Republican leadership has been really really invested in the “fake it ’till you make it” school of persuasion: if you act like a winner, this will persuade the people who want to get behind a winner, and then you will win.

(2) Democratic operatives have known for decades that the demographic groups more likely to vote for them are also the groups that are less likely to vote at all. The Clinton-era solution to this problem was to pitch a message that was more likely to resonate with the population that was already voting; the Obama-era solution is to get more of those unlikely voters into the voting booths. Republicans don’t have as much headroom to improve their turnout.
Non-JavaScript? Like what?
Huge. I imagine it be long before they're in McDonald's.
I would like to see a scoring algorithm that dampens (if not totally eliminates) time-of-day effects. Essentially, clock time shouldn't be a factor at all: just some other synthetic 'tick'. That tick is probably 'sitewide votes' (but might be 'legitimate votes' or 'net upvotes' or 'homepage views').

Secondarily, I would like to see a decay function that gives an older story with a current surge as much credit as a new story with similar recent surging.

(For example, imagine story A submitted at hour 0 which receive no votes for 6 hours. At hour 6, story B is submitted. Between hour 6 and hour 7, story A gets 12 upvotes, and story B only 8. Over the current-comparable period, A is hotter... but I'm pretty sure the HN algorithm and most similar sites penalize A for the earlier-submission time. And yet due to things like headline corrections, the eventual arrival of a story's natural audience, etc. the A story may in fact now be 'better', in those attention-deserving qualities that the ranking/decay function is trying to detect.)
Sure, anything RC will be more complicated to use than a ball. But it's being marketed to professionals who will have been trained to use many tools.

The cost of RC helicopters is quite staggeringly low, and they are usually possible to repair. The blades can be painful if you fly into people, but I doubt people appreciate having balls land on them either. At least with an RC you could potentially see where you were heading and stop. If the use scenario is to send these in to places too dangerous to send people, I don't see much issue.

I don't think autonomous flying is necessary, but there has been research done to show it's possible (but as you say, not trivial).

I'm still unsure if a ball is going to work well, or whether it's just going to roll under a desk.
Instead we have a system that systematically disadvantages non black people. Just stop discriminating. Either way. No reason to have one or the other have an advantage.

We just had a black man elected to his second term as president, so I think that's a pretty good sign we aren't that racist. This wouldn't have happened a few decades ago.
In my experience, that's not always the case: sometimes interesting posts get drowned out.
MTV becomes the first company to hit 1 million Instagram followers
Well, if this were 2004 that would look cool.
Unfortunately you can't just 'fix' something like that by handing out grants to people with dark skin.

Baring some large redistribution of wealth the most effective thing we can do is to remove all the barriers that we can and encourage improvement.

There are many people who are direct descendants of slaves who don't qualify for affirmative action and there are people who's families moved here in the 70s who do qualify.

We need to stimulate the black belt, the effects of racism are highly geographical.
Google’s land grab extends to the ‘next billion’
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Say, <a href="foo" fullscreen="true">, I'd guess.
Good point, that's also a great way to improve it. Good thing improvements are cumulative.
Thanks, +1, but I was just replying to the parent comment, which was implying that Android fans are being unfair as they disliked 4S for the reasons mentioned but seem to be okay with those reasons now. I'm pointing out that it is about choice. I didn't know that iPhone 5 has LTE. If I did, I'd have used the past tense.
The real fuss about LTE is that the total bandwidth of your serving cell is much higher and more people get "fast enough" speeds and response times.

No doubt that very few of the reviewers actually understand that and complain about getting not getting 50Mbps now.
I'm not here to prove the negative. Your opinion that nurture does not exist hand-in-hand is false.

"everything is physical / material / biological."

I don't believe in ghosts/souls/the immaterial, but this is irrelevant to social conditioning having an objective effect on IQ tests. Yes, the brain that stores information is "physical", but the information is not stored in birth.
I believe it evolved over time and it involved multiple people's ideas. You could see bits and pieces of Metro forming over the years. Glimpses are in Windows Media Center, the old Zune (iPod competitor) interface (where most of the inspiration came from), etc.

Only after the first public showing of Windows Phone 7 and the subsequent critical praise was "Metro" solidified as a singular concept.
Update: Meetup.com support finally got back to me and is now working to restore the group, fully or in part depending on the damage done. Before we rush to conclusions, please consider that no decision has been made to continuing using meetup.com as the community platform. That's up to you to decide at the next meetup. As Apple says, "We like to have options". ;)
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It's quite measurable, and is in fact measured.

Marijuana is the one that is immeasurably harmful. The biggest benefit of legalization is that it will allow us to make good measurements of the effects.
"there were already many poverty-ridden black ghettoes in the 1950s."

There is poverty. And then there is

"gang violence, intense poverty, substance abuse, neglect, and trauma"

I am asserting that these became systematic problems after the introduction of affirmative action.
The focus seems to be on pricing, and understandably so considering the nature of people. The implied ethics behind the manufacturing is something I appreciate: I've bought clothing from only countries with better than not labor laws for the past several years. Recently, Burberry has retired their UK-made products in favor of more dubious manufacturing locations; so I've stopped buying Burberry.

I hope this becomes a mainstream designer brand. American Apparel had their own target audience. But I just couldn't understand why no one was able to develop aesthetically pleasing clothing made in the US on par with other designers you may find in Saks.
I hope they remove that Meredith Character completely from Meetup.com and change the policies to prevent hostile group takeovers in the future.
This makes a lot of sense. Not at all surprised to see Parse continuing to kill it.
Depending on your browser, that seems pretty doable with a plugin. I assumed ad block plugins would nuke video ads anyway -- is the issue that they are preroll and hard to filter?

At the risk of getting into an ethics debate, that's sort of the deal being offered by the publisher: you get the content in exchange for watching this ad.
Interesting to see what the site would have looked like, but why was it surprising that Romney would have a transition site already made? That's what we'd call "proper prior planning" where I work, nothing more.
Cato's Hike - A Little Programmer's Oddyssey (for iOS)
After a year of on-again, off-again programming I released my first game for iOS. It's a program to teach kids how to program graphically. I remember playing games like this is a child and they really influenced me. I hope you guys like and I know there's no free demo yet but it is still worth sharing in case anyone's interested :)

http://hwahba.com/catoshike

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/catos-hike/id574335479?ls=1&mt=8
Painless death at the hands of other chickens sounds more moral than the current situation: a life of suffering followed by painful death at the hands of a machine. Of course if all chickens are born into a persistent vegetative state (or something close to it), I don't see how fights could happen. Also, farms where chickens kill each other would probably be less profitable than farms that slaughtered their chickens at the optimal time.

Painless animals were discussed on Overcoming Bias a few years ago: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/09/painless-meat.html . Interestingly, vegetarians were more likely to oppose painless animals than meat-eaters.
"I'm not leaning toward the latter."

Are you basing this leaning on study and contemplation of the facts, or because it makes you feel better?
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Or use Mozilla Persona. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/
I like the "straight from the factory" idea. That said, I have two issues with this:

1. Comparing prices with designer brands such as Lacoste, Ralph Lauren, and Burberry is disingenuous. Consumers are paying for much more than the physical product when they buy goods from those brands.

Your real competitors are companies like Hanes, Gildan, Fruit of the Loom, perhaps even Uniqlo and American Apparel. All of these sell basic garments, of reasonable quality, at mostly reasonable prices.

2. There is no such thing as the "perfect" fit. Everyone has a different body shape. In fact, this is one of the reasons retail clothes shopping continues to thrive. People want to try things on, to check the fit, and assess the quality before buying.
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Isn't the person making a very strong causal claim the one in need of evidence? If someone's claiming that affirmative action caused black poverty, then I would expect some good data to back up that claim. Merely asserting it is not an "argument".
The focus on race in racism is, in part, due to people acknowledging race as a thing. There is nothing more significant about skin color than hair color but we don't have programs to help out blondes and we don't talk about 'the blonde vote'.
you can also use "prerender"[0] which will work in chrome but has a slightly different behaviour

https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender