skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With respect to India, I thought I'd give you a little more insight.

A grossly generalised point of view:

* Low class group don't pay taxes

* Middle class group do pay taxes

* High class group might not pay taxes

The middle class group usually bear the burden of the development of the country. The taxes that does reach the government is cut by a large extent by high income corrupt politicians, who obviously, don't pay taxes.

Bottom line, the ROI for a middle class person in India to pay taxes is not high as you thought it would be. Hopefully, this changes.
You too! Sorry if my above absurdism comes off as offensive.
It's even easier. You can set your name arbitrarily using the public API, e.g. rename('whatever');. Names don't have to be unique.
It's not necessarily to gain notoriety. But there is such a thing as copycat. So reporting about people committing shootings is more likely to cause more shootings. I remember an episode of Newswipe, where a psychologist urged media to:

a) keep the news of violence to local community only
b) do not glorify the attacker by negatively praising him (like a ninja, moved quickly...) or showing him in positions of power (brandishing guns or wearing clothes that hide his face)
c) telling how many people he killed.

Each time one of those news is broadcast, he added, they see a spike in violence. And it seems consistent with how humans regularly behave.
This hits HN as another shooting covers front pages. A new dark twist for extra newsworthiness. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/nyregion/2-firefighters-ki...

Edit: it is unclear at this stage if this event would qualify for inclusion in the numbers according to the criteria in the article. Below are the used criteria.

The killings were carried out by a lone shooter. (Except in the case of the Columbine massacre and the Westside Middle School killings, both of which involved two shooters.)

The shootings happened during a single incident and in a public place. (Public, except in the case of a party in Crandon, Wisconsin, and another in Seattle.) Crimes primarily related to armed robbery or gang activity are not included.

The shooter took the lives of at least four people. An FBI crime classification report identifies an individual as a mass murderer—as opposed to a spree killer or a serial killer—if he kills four or more people in a single incident (not including himself), and typically in a single location.

If the shooter died or was hurt from injuries sustained during the incident, he is included in the total victim count. (But we have excluded cases in which there were three fatalities and the shooter also died, per the previous criterion.)

We included six so-called "spree killings"—prominent cases that fit closely with our above criteria for mass murder, but in which the killings occurred in multiple locations over a short period of time.
If you read the page source, you can see how easy it is to write your own chat bot for this app. Just paste the code back in to your JS console (which may not like newlines, FYI).

I won't tell you which chat bot was mine :)
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> The only thing we need to fear is crazy people who have guns. And that's a relatively easy problem to address: require thorough mental and background checks for anyone who wants to buy a gun.

This statement contains at least two problematic assumptions:
1) Only people who have committed violent crimes in the past will commit them in the future. (see: "background checks")
2) People who are mentally ill are inherently dangerous, or at the very least "could be" (see: "mental checks", "crazy people")

The problem with (1) is that a background check will not reveal very much for most folks. Sure, if you've got a lifetime of criminal mischief, a felony or two, that will show up. But that time you argued with someone and threw a brick through their window, but the judge let you off with a "public disturbance" - not gonna show up. For the vast majority of the country, a background report would not be a useful or helpful qualifier. For the worst of the worst, we can't pretend a black market on guns doesn't exist, so it would not help there, either.

The problem with (2) is that you have now decided to deny what is otherwise a fundamental right, guaranteed in (an amendment to) the Constitution to all citizens of legal age. Your logic for stripping a large number of citizens of this right is that some of them might do bad things with it. There is no clinical diagnosis for "is likely to go apeshit and shoot someone" - in fact even among schizophrenics there's no clear indicator of "violent tendencies", let alone an actual predictor.

Another problem with (2) is that you assume that mental health is constant throughout a lifetime. If I'm 18 and go in for a comprehensive mental status evaluation, I may come out just fine and start buying guns. But what happens if I present as Bipolar at 30? Schizophrenic at 40? Do you get to come and take away all my guns at that point? Should that be the duty of a psychiatrist - to determine who is allowed to own weapons? What if the psychiatrist gets it wrong, are they liable? Even if we assume somehow a psychiatrist was able to make that diagnosis and be right 99% of the time, you've now introduced a fairly major reason NOT to seek mental health care - they may take away your guns (or prevent you from getting one).

Sadly, throwing out "it's only crazy people with guns" is a somewhat disingenuous statement. Most gun homicides in the US are committed criminal-on-criminal, or criminal-on-victim. Very few are acts of "a crazy person", and even in those cases very few have ever been diagnosed with or presented psychotic symptoms prior to the commission of a gun-related homicide.

I therefore reject your guarantee that it would "actually make us safer". I also am pretty sure it would run afoul of ADA, and the 2nd Amendment, though that's a question for expensive lawyers.
Yes, I appreciate public services. But I don't enjoy paying my taxes to inefficient institutions, or institutions that spend my tax money primarily to benefit insiders rather than the needy. And I don't want to live in a high-tax society where private individuals don't have the means to independently experiment with their capital in ways that benefit us all.

If the United States had taxes as high as Denmark, then Elon Musk wouldn't have had the money left over from Paypal to start Space X. When you watch the rockets fly to Mars, thank whatever god you believe in for low American taxes.

I appreciate the sentiment behind some of these comments, but fuck all these straw men and apologists maintaining a smoke screen for poorly run institutions (cough Sacramento cough). And no, I'm not evil, selfish, greedy, or ignorant if I want lower taxes. I am making a rational judgment based on what I believe will make the best society to live in.
I like HN because of the intelligent off-topic articles (the largest retailers do not look healthy) or the unique perspective on current events (mass killings, randomness, statistics).
In my experience, business people are very common sensical which makes them a tad less interesting than the hacker types.(BTW I am probably classified as a business type ;( ).
Every time I've used a WP device I've walked away disappointed. Haven't done an extended test just 10-15 minutes on various devices. If I had to point to any one thing that leaves me disappointed it's probably the excessive amount of scrolling and swiping required. Even on the larger display devices the amount of information I can see without scrolling/swiping is a fraction of what I'm used to from iOS/Android. It leaves me with kind of a stuck-in-the-mud feeling that I'm just doing a lot of extra work to access the same amount of information. The same type of problem pops up with apps in a different way. They tend to be fairly basic and lacking features. I guess this is to be expected for a relatively young platform but it's really difficult to step away from these iOS/Android apps that just have so much more functionality. Between the apps and UI style it almost just feels to me more like a glorified feature phone. People said the same thing about the iPhone but it had some really killer features. To get a real web browser I was happy to give up the unified messages system on my BlackBerry. I can't really find the killer features in WP that would justify the trade-offs. Honestly every interaction I've had with WP so far makes me very happy to return to iOS/Android where all my apps pack tons of information on the screen and have just about every feature I need.
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The media coverage may play a role, but I don't know that it's the entirely the fame angle at work.

What if the goal in large part is to inflict the most possible suffering on the world? Out of anger or hurt or whatever the case may be.

Then cutting out coverage on the person isn't as important, it's the entirety of the coverage that matters.
Thanks! I'm happy to hear you like it.

I'm still working on the details, but I want to create an easy way for someone to sell their blog's content as an ebook subscription that works on any eReader and isn't locked into a single platform (I'm working on adding PDF output and some more formats soon!). There are two models that are possible: monthly fee, or percentage of sales. I think I can do both -- percentage of sales for people who are just starting out, and a monthly fee for heavy users who want a volume discount on their sales. I apologize if this is a bit vague, but I'm still trying to figure out what will be the most fair and sustainable way to do pricing.

I'm also working on the terms, right now I just prohibit using this for anything illegal, which would include redistributing content you don't own or isn't under the Creative Commons. This is a very nuanced issue: I think it is perfectly fine for someone to use my service for a feed like Ars Technica as long as they don't redistribute the ebooks that I generate for them. In other words, it's fine if you use my service as a "RSS Aggregator for eReaders" if that's your intended use case, but it's not fine if you post up a Mobi file of Ars Technica's content to The Pirate Bay or something like that.

Let me know if you have any questions :-)
Oops! The URL you entered doesn't look like a valid RSS or Atom feed.

Seriously, I'll look at it in a few days. Do I have to create a RSS for the blog. I haven't done that yet, but I am planning to do so soon, so after I have that, I'll attempt it again.
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With videos, how about putting the video URL through a shortener (maybe only if it's really long) and displaying it in plain text? You usually cannot sum up a video with an image anyway, and often enough the thumbnails are kinda useless to begin with. So I would consider a thumbnail a "nice to have" for sure, but title and link much more important. Maybe date and duration as well.
I'm Kenyan. The scene mostly revolves around the incubators in Nairobi, the iHub, Nailabs and the 88mph Garage being the most vibrant. The iHub is closer to a typical hackerspace than the others, which are more concerned with startups actively seeking investment than meetups and such. I'd wager that half of all Kenyan startups are building mobile apps of some sort. The stack is quite varied. SMS is king here, but J2ME, Symbian and Android are also fairly popular. Some of the more interesting startups I've interacted with:

http://wezatele.com - I interned there early this year.
http://mfarm.co.ke
http://kopokopo.com
http://frontlinesms.com - I did some work there last year.
http://ushahidi.com - nonprofit, so I'm not sure it qualifies, but one of our better known exports.
http://pesapal.com - I dislike the obvious play on PayPal, but they're an awesome team

There are many more, but those are the ones that immediately came to mind.

There's something of a running joke that every second startup is an M-something, presumably due to the runaway success of mpesa, a mobile money service by one of the telcos, Safaricom.

Some more established players, not startups in any sense, are Craft Silicon and Seven Seas technologies.
> I think we generally agree as a country that we don't want to make alcohol freely availible to minors

Hey kid; don't take the car out without my permission. And just in case you get any ideas while mom and I are out this weekend, I've rigged the brakes to fail 15 minutes after you start the car. Be good!

Man, I'm glad you ain't my daddy.

>Do you want to be carded to buy solvents? Should a teenager be prevented from buying solvents for painting?

Most places (in the sacramento area?.. I haven't bought spraypaint in a while.) card you when buying spraypaint. I have certainly been carded for buying solvents that one could potentially huff. It's certainly not as consistent or as well-enforced as alcohol, but it's done.
> They don't put acetaminophen in opiates to poison people, they put it in because it's an effective painkiller and the natural check for abuse makes the powerful opiate more easily available than it otherwise would be.

> They don't put acetaminophen in opiates to poison people

> natural check for abuse

The "natural check for abuse" is a threat of poisoning. If acetaminophen did not poison, it would provide no "check for abuse".

Seatbelts are not a deterrent to anything. Your analogy is terrible.
Ah yes. I probably should change the marketing language to reflect that an RSS or Atom feed is required. Sorry about the confusion :-)

EDIT: This is a "coming soon" feature, but I've spoken with the folks at Readability and I'm going to be implementing their content parsing for sites without RSS or Atom feeds. There isn't a definite timeline on this, but just want to send some love to the Readability guys for being awesome in general.
If the United States had taxes as high as Denmark, there
would be no Elon Musk.

Why do you believe this? Denmark also has multmillionaires that fund startups or start their own.
That's a good idea! I'll look into implementing it.

Thanks for the feedback.
>What if we gave Bill Gates more money to try and make the world a better place?

Is this sarcasm or do you truly believe this? I hope not but if so, perhaps you should read this[1], where the particular criticism I'm concerned with is the irresponsibly zealous research funding on a malaria cure with the consequence of alienating other important fields of research that are just as important. Ironically enough this is exactly the sort of thing government funding is so notorious of, namely, ignorance or ulterior motives that lead to a less efficient budget that could have been employed is so much better ways.

However, that is only one wealthy man, not enough data for a solid argument, but even on a purely rational basis, I would very much, rather the money was in a place where the general population had, at least in theory, some say on where it is to be spent. To me it seems that by going from public to private funding one is exchanging inefficiencies. The inevitable economic inefficiencies of bureaucracy for new inefficiencies in the way the money is allocated from the perspective of what benefits the citizens of the nation.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat...
Did you see that ridiculous display last night?
I've tried using it, but with limited success. First of all I had problem with logging in, probably because I block third party cookies in Firefox. Then I switched to Safari, and got a bit further. I did get logged out when I added a blog URL though, for some reason. Finally, the file generated contains only a small intro of each post, and no images. According to my Wordpress settings, the feed is supposed to contain the full posts.

https://www.ebookglue.com/share/ludvig-och-leija-eiman
Presumed effect is merely fortune-telling. Xentronium said nothing about the java and rspec arguments themselves, just that something was said with what they think is an undiplomatic tone.
TechCrunch!
Haha, just kidding.

In all seriousness, "business" is a very generic term, so you might need a little more in that; you could be looking for the Wall Street Journal or you could be looking for Paul Graham's Essays.

There aren't any other social news sites (to my knowledge) predicated on upvotes/downvotes, but here are some of my favorite sources for non-technical people the tech industry (which I assume you would be most interested in because you're on HN).

http://PandoDaily.com - covers the Silicon Valley scene in general, each writer has his or her own perspective and is usually very opinionated. The PandoMonthly videos are among the best content on the web. Period.

Fred Wilson's Blog - http://avc.com covers a lot of the venture capital world for tech startups. Some fascinating stuff in there.

Mark Suster's blog is usually pretty great http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/

Venture Beat has some good stuff at times http://venturebeat.com/

Obligatory TechCrunch (I'll assume you've heard of it, if not, it is definitely the place with the most traffic) http://techcrunch.com

There's Wired (http://wired.com)

All Things D (http://allthingsd.com)

The Verge (http://theverge.com)

Robert Scoble's Blog (http://http://scobleizer.com/)

And a ton more.
Or can it be that they never gathered as community, like hn?
> The disused portion has all of its aisles removed and its lights turned off, and so it stretches backwards seemingly forever, disappearing into the darkness.

And the thing of it is, it would likely be kind of expensive to shoot a zombie movie here.
Not all instance types are available in all zones, and some of the smaller ones are only available in this one.
They wouldn't need a private school if higher taxes paid for better public schools. Which they do in most of Europe.
That link isn't really credible at all. There are two obvious and major omissions that render their chart meaningless.

They don't say how they determine whether a technology is being used server side -- it could be only if they see ".php" URLs on the site, for example, which would mean there would be a strong bias against languages that make it easy to write sane URLs.

They also don't share what % of sites they're able to make a determination for at all, so these numbers could be based on a statistically insignificant sample.
Hey cut him some slack he had to go finish RAGE and do his day job.
Thanks for the feedback! I checked your feed, and it looks like your feed only contains the post summaries. Could you perhaps check your settings again? You can also try directly entering the URL for your feed if you're using a service like Feedburner.

Let me know how it goes, and I'm working on getting an in-house authentication system, but Mozilla Persona was the quickest way to get up and running. I've noticed that it's not as stable as I would have liked it to be.
Speaking of aspirin, a friend had a headache last week, took some, and headache went away. He felt good, so went to his paintball game. You should see him a week later. He is basically yellow and purple.
Elon invested all his money from the Paypal sale to make Tesla, Space X, and Solar City at the same time. He had to borrow money from friends to make rent. Take away an additional 30% from his Paypal money and either Tesla or Space X would have never been born.

And that's only one entrepreneur's story. That same scenario is repeated thousands of times around the country. Taxes are sand in the gears of an entrepreneurial economy.
There is absolutely an observed trend of copycat school shootings which flies in the face of randomness.

That said, I think this trend is hidden from this dataset because it relates specifically to mass shootings, including only those incidents in which the shooter took the lives of at least four people.

I would hypothesize that each major shooting is followed in the succeeding months by a number of slapdash copycat shootings, in many of which less than four people are killed by the shooter.
My national tax rate is ~35% an sales tax 21%. Then there's some stuff I'm missing. Altogether areound 60%. I'm not complaining; I live in the most awesome country in the world.
yes, there are lots of publications that write quality articles but don't have place to weight them based on community opinions. every article has comments, but those wouldn't be in order of priority of reading. also business news are big enough so that every publication eventually covers it, what remains is the community insights about the news.
that is why I like hn -- because of community opinions than content that is posted.
Yes, the back button is broken because it forces the user to think how things work.

In your example, if you left IE, instead of starting it again from the home screen you should hold the back button to enter task switcher and jump into running IE instance from there. After that the back button will work ok.

Which is counter-intuitive - tapping tile on the start screen should either give you the same experience like jumping in the app from task switcher, or start new application instance.
It's more important to focus on whether a company will be successful than its valuation. Nowhere did I say valuation did not have an impact. Focusing on valuation and ignoring whether a company will be successful is a mistake.

I, and any other investor, would have gladly bought Google stock at any valuation before its IPO, whether at $5MM, $15MM or $100MM. Whereas it doesn't matter how great your terms are if the startup you invest in fails.
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You can find PDC documentation at http://github.com/packfire/pdc
not a technology/business news is it?

and as 3825 said, it has been taken over by hooligans. the culprits were caught in 24 hours of the incident, there is eyewitnesses, concrete proof, and brutal nature of the case, on the victim's side. The protest is over the head now.

besides, calling it a lockdown is wrong, as their is no martial law imposed or complete shutdown anywhere, only transport towards the city center was shut, to control the crowd.
The United States spends more money per pupil than most European countries[1] in K-12 education, $11,000 per student compared to the EU average of $7,700 per student. Where are you getting your beliefs from?

At some point, the public bureaucracy needs to stop draining the blood out of the private economy and learn to do more with less. Or, in the case of US schools, do more with more.

[1] http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/education-at-a-glance...
May I ask how gun control is not a tool to deal with that? In other words, what are the differences between Americans and Europeans that prevent most of such violence happening in Europe (mostly at least), other than hard access to guns?
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In California you get to pay a lot of taxes but it goes to retired government union workers instead of public services. We have the highest marginal tax rate in the nation, but terrible services.

But Californians really enjoy paying taxes so they keep on going up. Maybe if we put enough money into the broken system some good will eventually come out of it.
I don't think it's complete. For example this: http://www.php2python.com/wiki/function.array-walk/ could be replaced with map() in Python.
I tried logging in -- persona sent me email of confirmation, when clicked it redirected to ebookglue which alerted 'login attempt failed'. you might want to look into that.
Fellow Chinese hackers should know the author, vgod, as he is pretty vocal in certain online Chinese communities.