skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Respectfully, if your startup wants to be recognized as a thought leader, YOU should write and manage your own blog. Your brand is one of the only assets you have in the early days; don't water it down with a steady flow of mediocre blog posts by strangers. Your personal brand, expertise, and storytelling as a founder is the most compelling part of your company. This is why Jake wrote this blog post rather than having an automated writer from their network do it.

IMO content and automation never belong in the same sentence together, unless your only goal is to fill in SEO content of which you aren't particularly concerned about the quality. If you're a startup concerned with your image, I don't think you want to be in that game.

You can't automate quality. It's impossible develop high-quality media without constant, transparent communication and editorial oversight. Especially if you're trying to do it cheaply.

If you're a big-budget brand with that wants to trade out banner ads for thoughtful content marketing, hire an editor with real journalism experience, then hire (or contract) the best journalists you can afford, with the biggest social media followings. This is why Red Bull, American Express, and Gilt Groupe kill it with content marketing, meanwhile you and I have never clicked "Like" on an auto-generated blog post from a random startup. The only way you'll compete with media companies for content-share is by beating them at their game.

That can't happen "automatically."
I don't consider this a "political" purpose. It's not done for other people, it's done for his daughter.
Hear Sean Ellis talking about this and expanding it more in our interview: http://www.escapevelocity.is/2012/10/sean-ellis-surveys-user...
modern Rails requires lots of configuration, convention and prerequisites.
kayak.com/explore solves this problem for ya.
I'm working on a travel (many)weekend(s) project myself yet to launch, so I won't be too harsh, but... :P I put Warsaw in, and the suggested airports were Okecie (correct) and Babice (it's in Krakow), Modlin was missing. And all the result were in the USA. I like the design theme with all the backgrounds etc. and the logo, cool idea. You should leave some way to contact you with feedback on the page. Keep on, good luck.
Hotel Tonight and Uber both advertise a LOT-- I assume they have the LTV to support the cost of buying a user via ads. I've spoken to a lot of mobile ad experts and, because the targeting power isn't yet there, they say it's cheaper to buy a user with plain ol' web ads than mobile ads (unless your a game).
I am curious what their contracts with all these parties looked like... Booking providers seem to like exclusivity.

Btw, anyone from Travelocity here? Would love to share some feedback about your platform.
Classic treatment of this, and other ways in which Hamlet doesn't "translate" to another culture, is Bohannan's "Shakespeare in the Bush" (http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/picks-from-the-past/12476/s...).
To compare prices between three airports in the same metro, couldn't you use the "include nearby airports" function and just look at the filter list and see the lowest price from each? Just wondering if you've tried that vs. running 3 different searches.
True, but the Kinect is poorly implemented. I find the Kinect incredibly frustrating and usually have it unplugged. When you're watching a show that has a lot of dialogue it will interpret the talking from the show as commands. These commands include things like "Fast forward 40x" or "Rewind 20x".
Actually the image at that link shows the sun-earth L2.

The article and mission is concerned with the earth-moon L2.

Here's a nice diagram of all earth-moon lagranges: http://www.orbitalvector.com/Space%20Structures/Lagrange%20S...

Here's a pdf describing missions related to earth-moon lagrangians: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/604657main_4-%20GER%20Stakeholders%2...
There is no dearth of male heroes. Your concern about her not encountering male role models is completely bonkers.

I’m also not sure what your exact reason for opposing changing a work of art is as long as the original is not destroyed. And what is this political purpose you are talking about? I don’t see any connection to politics.
Facebook amps up Friendship Pages to highlight your online relationships
But registering a domain and setting up LAMP servers are not programming tasks. I think there can be a name for that (maybe "product builder"?), but it doesn't make sense to co-opt "programmer" for it.
Kids Ruby - haven't used it (yet) - http://kidsruby.com/
Why Apple Keeps Falling
True of everyone, it's called white coat hypertension:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_coat_hypertension

After my doctor noticed high-ish blood pressure, I bought a meter and started measuring at home. Always below 120/80, sometimes below 110/75. I brought the same meter to the doctor's office and measured 135/85.

Strange, isn't it?
> 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.

Sir, I say this with as much respect as I can muster: Absent significant study, it is absolutely not the place of someone who is a member of the racial majority to declare the extent or impact of racism. You simply have no idea what you're talking about.

A mixed race man was, indeed, elected to high office. He was elected over the objections of people who claimed him to be, among other things:

- A Kenyan

- A secret muslim

- A liar inelegible for the presidency under the terms of Section I, Article II of the United States constitution

These claims have been made and repeated for over four years. They are made, in part, because Barack Obama looks different from the men who have previously run the country. They are repeated because that fact scares the absolute shit out of a certain subset of the country.

Racism – far from vanquished – has proven to be a politically expedient tool. (Though, thankfully, one with toxic side effects.)

Have we made progress since the civil war and the civil rights movement? Yeah.

But racism is an ugly, nasty force that persists in both overt and subtle ways. It's not over. And for the people who must still grapple with its effects, it's a big problem.
Ask HN: Is there any cloud software that runs on Hetzner?
cloudstack, openstack, openNebula, ganeti....

Is there someone out there who runs a cloud service on standard (no rack, or special config) hetzner servers?
That would be a good reason.

If so then I am sure that they thought through the liability issues (if any). I'm curious if there are any interesting ones.

The only thing that comes to mind would be a case where the ownership of a piece of IP is disputed. ContentID lead to Youtube recognizing that it was copyrighted, and paying money to the person that they thought was the copyright holder. The copyright holder now sues Youtube for infringing on copyright, and Youtube has deep pockets and no safe harbor.

I am not sure how realistic this case would be.
Get Ready To Load Different Versions Of jQuery
Pretty cool stuff! Jump here to listen to the demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-nlQqFCKg&t=7m55s
Students pick up on the enthusiasm of their teachers; motivation can be catching. Assume she's highly motivated and work from there. In general, I don't think that people who are "slightly" motivated learn much in any area.

A friend of mine who is highly motivated is having fantastic success with Zed's "Learn Python the Hard Way" (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/). I can't say I'm teaching him, though, I'm just in text and email contact if he hits a sticking point.
Cybercriminals make $394K/month with malware that demands ransom from victims
15% of the animal biomass on earth is ants, but I can look in the ocean and find thousands of fish yet very few ants.

There are women-only universities, historically black universities, universities that focus on arts and universities that focus on music. Why should the employee demographics of a coal mine be the same as the demographics of a hospice?
I think America will soon be having a Holocaust problem.

http://www.infowars.com/poll-nearly-one-third-of-americans-w...
Related: Expedia has an API... http://developer.ean.com/. Haven't checked it in a while - looks like only hotels are available now (no flights, cars, cruises, etc.)

Of course, not saying that Kayak went through this route - this is just something available to the hoi polloi.
What is Google's Niantic Labs Up To?
no longer.
I don't see why an objective ordering of programmers by competence would have to be a total ordering.
Thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore
Couldn't this be easily hacked together using google translate and a text to voice program?
Show HN: Introducing The New ShopStyle
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Hayao Miyazaki uses female protagonist not because it is more "PC" but for the advancement of the story.

'Miyazaki: I don't logically plan it that way. When we compare a man in action and a girl in action, I feel girls are more gallant. If a boy is walking with a long stride, I don't think anything particular, but if a girl is walking gallantly, I feel "that's cool." '
That adds something, and might clue one in earlier, but "every empirical study ever conducted has shown that males have a statistically significant advantage in slaying Octoroks and Peahats" is unlikely to be anything but a joke.
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Interesting. That also seems to back up my point that languages just make words sound masculine or feminine, even if not explicitly defined like in the Romantic languages (French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, others of similar origin). The fact that they are in a footrace seems to suggest they were lifted from their original myths though.
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It is pretty well established that exercise can have a huge effect on brain function, specifically through increasing blood flow. Diet will as well, although the mechanisms by which this happens are probably not as well understood.

Actually, now that I think about it, there are a bunch of articles on this. I'm not familiar with the field as much, but I can point you to a free review paper that goes over the topic.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22141190
Canonical has the larger userbase, but their development work is pretty limited- basically, they do the Unity shell and their app-store. Most desktop related development (hardware support, DBus, core desktop libraries like PolicyKit, GTK+) happens inside Red Hat.

If they want to offer better binary compatibility between releases... well they can't, because they don't employ those guys.

If they want to support a new OpenGL release... well they can't, they don't employ those guys.

Ubuntu is crazy popular, but people really underestimate the extent to which they are an epiphenomenon.
Set up your own Ruby-powered Certificate Authority
What exactly does that have to do with math or intolerance?
Style over substance.

Mixing colors would be a neat addition if the rest of the app was geared toward actual creative work. Drawing is laggy, there's no zoom, the UI enforces landscape mode, you can't select your own drawing order or see more than one drawing at a time with their fancy pants book page flip animation.
zalew: airports - the UI lets you add your own. But I will look into Warsaw... I am currently looking at airports within a 50 mile circle, is Modlin farther than that?

About the results: if there's no snow, a ski resort will most likely not be shown to you.

The destinations were hand-picked, e.g. 2012 Best All-terrain, or best night life, or... But the list is growing, we just started to add European locations.
How to avoid horrible startup advice & choose an amazing advisor
For those who want the TLDR:

> You can play ChesSMS by texting "PLAY" to +1 (415) 494-8454.

Working with SMS is a very interesting space because of the limitations of the protocol.
NASA has its uses in R&D and pure science but pleeeaaazzz, we need the money going to the SpaceX, Blue Origin and ReactionEngines of this world NOT the $10 million for a toilet contractors they currently have.
I looked at Expedia for somewherenice.net, and didn't choose them for that reason. Needed to be able to package the whole trip, from airfare to lift tickets, so ended up working with Travelocity.
Follow-up articles seem to be indicating the Romney team was indeed wrong about turnout in each direction. Dems turned out more than they expected, Republicans less.

Not unreasonably. Most public polls supported that belief. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10...
You are completely ridiculous. It’s pointless even talking to people like you. Bye.
The harms and benefits you are talking about are not quantifiable in a commonly-agreed-upon way. I think that's a prerequisite for the kind of analysis you want to do.
The title looks like it reads $1.88. I thought they had pulled some legal gimmick to screw them over.
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Both Wonderwoman and Kusanagi are modeled with apparent sex appeal by male authors. Could they really still be good role models? I ask this as someone who don't know much about either comics.
They do, but I'd say they'd lost their privileges to anonymous online political speech, though, in the same way a persistent drink driver can permanently lose their driving license.
jngreenlee: I was actually thinking about the map yesterday, but couldn't think about a good way to visualize so it doesn't look like another google maps mashup with pins. Your idea with air routes is interesting, hope you don't mind if I just go ahead and borrow them? :)
> That guy had none of the supposed white male advantages.

Merely looking like those who hold power is, in fact, a huge advantage.
Samsung Galaxy S III dethrones iPhone as world's top seller
Foxconn reportedly plans to set up plants in US
>human bean
I have to disagree sorry.

If a piece of software is needed by the date of a major launch, and a programmer doesn't ship, all because he wants to reduce the amount of code involved, then he's an awful programmer as far as the business is concerned.

Running over time can cost millions of $ of investment in other areas of the business:

- Press organised

- Advertising purchased

- 1000s of hours of staff training underway

- Suppliers informed of increased demand / new supplies purchased

- Customers told to expect delivery by date

Any one of these areas can cost 10x or more of the cost of developing the code.

If you're not writing code which would be affected by that kind of criteria then cool, go for whatever metric you want to define.

Time taken is almost always the number one criteria of any business requirement, or to put it another way, small size of code means almost nothing to anyone except the original developers.
I don't follow your logic... Without those different languages, you wouldn't have anything to translate in the first place. If anything, this type of technology promotes independent and different languages, as it makes it so much easier to communicate with others regardless of your native tongue.

Also, bravo to Microsoft; I'll remove my jaw from the floor after I watch your video a second time.
Hopefully Priceline will learn some improvements from Kayak and not try to force changes the other direction. Kayak has a great UI overall, but the explore interface is pure awesome: http://www.kayak.com/explore/
Oh, I thought he was talking about energy dropping off with distance the way a bullet loses speed with distance.
15-year-old offender can’t lose right to use social media, court rules
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Risk aversion seems to be the killer in terms of timeframe. Burt Rutan famously remarked a few years ago that if we're not killing people, we're not pushing hard enough; the test pilots that made up the early core of NASA astronauts knew it was high-risk and were okay with it, which is why we got to the moon in less than a decade (and yes, people died along the way). Modern-era NASA is just so terrified of bad PR that they won't decide on a strategy for tying their own shoes without spending a decade ensuring that nobody will inadvertently strangle themselves with the laces.
Mushrooming ransomware now extorts $5 million a year
Actually, nothing. I just posted it because I am in shock after reading it. Feel free to downvote, or, I'll just delete it. Are you one of the "nearly one third"?

EDIT: To be fair though, it does have a Jewish connection - cattle trains?
Ask HN: internsip in valley - (hidden) added value
Hello!
I am CS student from university in Europe, just received an offer of 4-months internship at Google in Mountain View. I am trying to become a succesful entrepreneur on the local market, having one failure startup behind me, working on the second one in spare time.
I am hacker and passionate about technology as well.

Taking the opportunity to live in Sillicon Valley for 4 months I want to maximize advantages of such a step.

The question is:
What in your opinion added value (not visible at the first sight) can I take?
What can I learn/experience apart from a great internship and resume boost in the most influential company?

My ideas are:

* meeting startups founders to exchange the experience;

* do some networking;

* visit Yellowstone and other national parks;

* take a photo with Larry, Sergei and Zuckeberg;

* land a next internship, this time in startup (to see the difference);

* ...

whats more?
Going out on a limb and guessing he means unquestioningly bending over—in this case, rather literally—for authority figures in the face of unreasonable demands.

IMO, Philip Zombardo's studies (most famously, the Stanford prison experiment[0]) suggest this is nothing new.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
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LTS is the way to go for stability, especially with 5 years support on stock Ubuntu.

Regarding the Amazon search stuff in 12.10, there is a kill switch in system settings, it was added in an update after all the hooha.
I'd recommend www.skyscanner.net, at least for the European users.
Sure, they lack simplistic interfaces of Hipmunk or Kayak but when it comes to actually finding the cheapest tickets and best connections on the old contintent low fare airlines market they're, IMHO, the most reliable.
Yea, it sounds a bit mechanical. With that said, based on the priming he's given with the talk on waveform, I'm guess they are simply breaking the English speech into the waveform with corresponding frequency and simply mapping that over to the Chinese counterpart.

It would be even cooler if they created a distribution of possible sound frequency for each syllables in both English and Chinese, and determined where in the distribution his speech pattern lies, and transfer the "ranking" in the distribution. Hence you get a subjective transformation instead of a objective one. :)
I've read several times about github's use of branches in deployment/production. How are DB schema/data migrations handled (and kept safe/sane)? Presumably hubot and friends prevent Bad Things from happening by deploying a branch that doesn't match the current DB state?
Many Raspberry Pi projects - How can you not love a tiny computer?
Everyone who plays the series today know she's a girl, though. The "reveal" gimmick of the first game is long forgotten and probably says more about this issue in the 80s than it says about it today.
Thanks, CaptainR.
I wonder if there would be a market out there for some kind of host-your-own system like this. Run an app on your family's central machine and register YourFamily.examplehostedapp.com. The app does the work of keeping that domain name pointed at your machine and keeping a upnp tunnel open.

One interesting question is backups. Encrypted snapshots to S3, maybe?
It's a habit I have of bean cute.
I liked the email reply from Guiness world records: http://www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthens...

"This record is currently rested, which means that no one can attempt this record and become a new record holder. It has been rested because there is no merit whatsoever in this. It takes little to no effort and is similar to taking the largest number in the world and then adding 1 to it."
How is that a paradox? There's a lot of things you can consume but not produce.
Thank you: That means a lot.
> and in many cases the content can be obtained in different languages

I wonder if there's some feedback loop caused by websites that used google translate itself to offer the alternative versions :)
Republicans at Electoral College Disadvantage As Nation and Parties Change
... hmm Modlin to Warsaw is 22.6 miles. You may have found a bug, thank you.
Universities basically function to stamp kids as "qualified for the middle class".

-- This is questionable. This is what the middle class may <use Uni degree's for>. But that's a different thing.
I'm not concerned about her not encountering male role models. I wrote "girls can learn leadership and toughness from male protagonists and heroes." That's what I would try to do with Link, not make him into a female.

I'm speaking very generally when I say "political purpose". I don't mean that he is advancing an ideology, but rather he is addressing a gripe he has with society, specifically the lack of female heroes. He is addressing this issue by changing a text. I don't agree with this, though I assume the father's intent was purely to help his daughter and not to push his politics on anyone.
For example spotify already forces you to listen ads, if you decrease sound during an ad they pause it.
Translation is as much of an art as it is a science, so I wonder where this project is headed. Le Ton beau de Marot is a great book for illustrating this point.

In college I had studied Japanese and a friend introduced me to the anime cartoon Initial D. His copy had the original Japanese with English subtitles, and so I could assess the translation to some degree -- it was very good. On Netflix you can watch Initial D, but after 2 minutes I had to turn it off because the English dubbing really failed to capture the characters.

As someone noted in this thread, the presenter's synthesized voice in the linked video doesn't seem to reflect his own. If he could have said something like "Wo hui shua putonghua" and had the machine output say the same, it might have been more convincing.
http://goo.gl/maps/hWc9q Modlin is a recently opened low cost airport, a few months ago. maybe your data source is not current.

oh, hand picked, I get it. I thought they were scrapped but maybe capped for US-only.
growing crops with .0075 cents per gallon water would be

Only because everybody else is growing with 0.0015 cents a gallon. If everybody was growing with 0.0075 cents per gallon, food would be more expensive, but we wouldn't suddenly be unable to feed ourselves.
Oh the irony, if the US turned out to be the dominant power in space because of a head-start from hordes of lag tolerant gamers.
Let's not turn this into reddit, please.
I've been wanting people to post their eigenvector/value on facial recognition training for a while. Imagine a crowdsource trained facial recognition database!