skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole: "Publish the slides without the talk" trend is starting to piss me off.

I'd rather have a 30 minute long mp3 of the talk.
Remember when the banks fucked up, and you were forced to pay for it? Where were the cops then? Spraying pepper gas into the faces of young protesters, that's where.

And then there's the wars. Big, heavy duty crime hasn't "fallen" by any means, it's soaring from peak to peak more like.
You don't even need racial profiling to show that statistics harm individuals. Look at car insurance - in most countries you will have a massive premium to pay,just for committing the crime of being under 25. Even if you are 24, had your licence for 6 years, drove hundreds of thousands of miles without an accident, your insurance will still be higher than that of a 26 year old person who has just passed their drivers test and doesn't know anything about driving.
Why? Only because "statistically" you are more likely to be in an accident. Well, so are men, yet it is illegal to make their car insurance higher because of their gender in almost all EU countries.
You may not have done anything wrong, but are still "punished" for being part of the statistic. It makes me really upset sometimes.
You still need a remote shell open if you want to run make, use SCM plugins, etc, so I've never found tramp that useful. If there's a clever solution for that I'd love to hear it.
> (Don't know why, maybe it's actually illegal for police to enter your home, maybe it's just decency)

Because no one really cares about the noise?
Yeah, that 3 days could either be damning, or absolutely nothing. Until we can examine the data this is a non-story despite how juicy we may want it to be.
Here's what I'm getting at: if we were all more social about online dating, it'd suck a lot less. A majority of problems go away with online dating sites when you make it social.

Trying to make this sound cool by using the word "social" doesn't stop this from being the classic awkward kid's lament: "If only people were straightforward about mating and romance! If only there wasn't this forest of doublespeak and taboos surrounding sex! If only people stopped being petty and competitive and just openly admitted their desires and insecurities! We'd all be so much better off (me especially.)"
This lie is OK, so long as this startup takes off. Right?

The stigma of online dating is such rubbish. I am as much of a stranger as the guy on the barstool next to you.
Car insurance is the prime example of unfairness and being punished for the actions of others, purely because of statistics.
Stigma may exist for the young kids, but on-line dating stigma doesn't exist for older people.

I have several older divorced and single friends (mostly women) and they date on-line for one main reason: it's just too damn hard to have an active social life while you're raising kids.

I got married before the whole internet dating took off, but the 90s did have "date-lines." It was basically an voicemail system.

However, any dating-for-dating's sake does underplay the best way to meet compatible partners: meeting them while you're doing something you really enjoy. I met my spouse in a Jazz singing class.

I've always thought meeting people based on social skills (in person) or good photography (on-line) is fine, but I think it's inefficient because you're selecting the database on the least relevant criteria.
About 40% of single people in the US have tried online dating. I would be very surprised if a majority of those people didn't have friends.
You're still implicitly assuming a time-constraint, though: the amount of time the person is willing to put into the problem before giving up. Presume someone puts in years of thought to a single lateral-thinking problem, and yes, they'll get it. Anyone will get it, if just by raw brute force, testing over every possibly combination of properties of the system that might have an underlying correlation. Most people just aren't willing to do that.

Given a finite amount of patience (or, equivalently, a time-constraint, which sets "patience" to a known quantity instead of allowing it to vary per individual), we can give a person an infinite stream of unit-sized lateral-thinking problems, and then see how many will be solved correctly before they "hit the wall." This is then a measure of their ability, in general, to recognize patterns quickly enough to put these insights to use: IQ.
As someone who is recently married, my incentive is for them to get hitched and hopefully knocked-up so my wife and I aren't awkwardly the only married/baby-ed people in our friends' circle!
What is so surprising about this story is the responsiveness and efficiency of the police department. Maybe SF is different in this regard from my hometown (NYC), but I was trained not to expect must interest about the theft of a sub-$1000 item.
That's an interesting way of doing things, provided that there are no hidden back doors.
What happens in the long run? The parts of the developing world that don't have machines powerful enough to participate in the mining or the exchange are going to be locked out.
I can't help but comment on my experience here. While I do sense the stigma to online dating, I don't personally care. My best interpretation of it though is that it's hard work going out and meeting people. So online dating attempts to make it easier by pre-screening potential candidates. Hearing your friend met someone online makes them sound lazy I guess right?

I've tried online dating but it never works out for me. People put their best face forward online, but are quite different in real life.

Honestly, regardless of Hollywood, the best relationships I've been in have come from friends introducing us at events or just randomly meeting at a bar.
I do wonder if he's still married to her.
Not only does online dating have zero stigma for gay folks, it's one of the few viable routes for finding other gay people who don't appear flamboyant or effeminate. What I really wish existed was a way to find other nearby gay guys without the hookup overtones associated with Grindr.
Ask HN:I am worried that Gmail is increasingly becoming unreplaceable in life.
I regularly use Gmail for communication (both personal and business). Also, I use for logins on a number of websites. I am afraid that, if for some reason, google decides to block account access, I may be screwed big time..that I will loose inbound mail from all my friends and all my docs/online services will be blocked.

How do you counter this threat? How do you plan keep your communication going even if you are locked out from the ecosystem.
> How would you disallow them to use your name or identifying pictures ?

By making it against the TOS of the site, and banning profiles that do it.

> probably illegal ... not providing exact personal information.

Presumably it's a profile about you, but it's not a profile impersonating you. They don't sign up using your name/birthdate/et al; they have their own account, which they use to fill in the details of your profile.

To be clearer: the concept isn't really that you're filling out someone else's profile. Instead, it's more like (exactly like) a "review" site--friends giving "product reviews" of friends, talking about how you should "buy" this friend or that. They just appear without attribution, conglomerated into a "consensus profile" of "what others think about this person." I imagine it's very clear that the person themselves didn't make the profile, any more than hockeyfan3392 on Amazon made the Macbook his review is attached to.
> Police officers follow what is known as "force continuum". This basically outlines how much force they should be using in any situation...The first 'level' of all continuum protocols is simply 'presence'.

Wow. This set off a chain of fireworks in my brain. What kind of creature takes the role of someone big and strong, who keeps the peace through his presence and the implied possibility of force? What sort of being takes this role in primate behavioral biology? Police are basically the "alpha" primate proxies of the state.

However, if you examine how we deploy and present police officers, it's clear that society is still in denial about our primate origins and nature. What would happen if you took an alpha male chimpanzee, and by modifying various visual and other socially significant sensory markers, you made him seem to be a member of a different group? I'm sure the result wouldn't be harmonious. What's more, what if you did something analogous to sending a couple of policemen in a cruiser through some neighborhood? It would be analogous to a couple of strange young chimpanzee males invading another group's territory.

There is the concept of community policing, where officers are encouraged to be an integral part of the community they are policing. Still, it's clear that society is more interested in carrying forward traditions from the military origins of modern police forces than it is in acknowledging the primate origins of our psychology.
I can't find the previous submission but someone pointed out that one of the Atheist labelled packages was lost for almost 40 days: that alone dragged the Atheist package average down so much it can almost account for the entire difference.

edit: I misremembered about the difference it made, here's the submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5442728
LOL - people hated this comment, but I thought it was funny that Steve (a personal friend) came back to HN to talk about police abuse (a hot topic for him).
Check out the comments on their own web site: http://www.atheistberlin.com/study

Not sure it will completely sate you but it's a start.
I'm a user, and I disagree with him. He certainly doesn't define it for me!
I can't tell if that was a joke. You seem smart enough to not try to recruit someone while he is complaining about people trying to recruit him.

Maybe less subtlety in the future? For thick people like me.
Bullshit. At least 70% of the time I have a specific problem Google will come up with an article or a StackOverflow that solves that problem. And StackOverflow has the best answers sorted to the top.
> First of all if it bothers the neighbours why can't they just arrive on the spot and bust the thing?

Because these neighbors complained so loud that they passed a city-wide law on the matter.

> Also, all this planning ahead and resources, why instead don't they just create one or two halls per area that are soundproof etc and let people rock out?

You should itemize the budgets for both of these plans and compare them. I'm willing to bet that setting up "one or two halls per area" costs an order of magnitude more than what they're doing.
You forgot the web server :-) http://emacswiki.org/emacs/Elnode
Oh, I don't know. Yellow Pages seems like a far more pervasive problem, even if they do lack the severity in harm. Yellow Pages litters their unwanted obsolete crap everywhere. Those coupon startups are worse than littering, but lack the reach.
People break up with their cars for many idiosyncratic reasons as well. That just means there are good deals churning into the market; not that it's not a market for lemons. The requirement of a market for lemons is simply that it's very hard to discern the quality of a product, and that the people offering low-quality products are incentivized to hide the defects, so defective products "pile up" in the market, rather than being "flushed out" by some sort of spam-filtering process.

Also,

> a market where deals are hard to match up, transaction costs are high, and the repetition rate of testing compatibility to lead to a possible deal is low

This describes the housing market perfectly. It's also a market for lemons, or rather, it would be--homeowners are incentivized to hide defects in their homes--but we have house inspectors to remove this property from the system. There are no date inspectors.
This could be sabotage, but maybe somebody is just doing it for kicks. Either way, it's really too bad about all these lost soles.
The price of a 4 year old cryptocurrency is volatile?? Must be broken, let's throw it away.

Bitcoin will be more more stable than fiat currency on a long enough time line. In 100 years the US dollar won't be around, but bitcoin will be. Even if it's just us from /r/bitcoin.

Finally, fiat currency is a terrible store of value, unless you like loosing it. A quick glance at USD purchasing power will show what I mean.
Yes, This Week's DDoS Attack Was Huge, And Part Of An Ominous Trend
Ouya has no appeal to anyone but kids and shovelware authors who think they'll make a lot of money making crap games. It's obviously a trial run to knock out bugs and hacks in their distribution system and tighten up the security on their custom ARM hypervisior. Then they'll kill the Ouya, license the hypervisior as their product which they'll be able to sell to a large base of ARM Cortex based device manufacturers as a field tested DRM solution.
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5442728)

(http://www.atheistberlin.com/study)
Set up another email address, move communication o that, use Gmail to access it via IMAP for as long as you want to use the gmail interface.
Great experience by the way.

I'll break this down one by one.

$900/month is a lot for students. - I agree, had I been single I would have split a room like that with somebody else for $450. However, I wasn't and my "roommate" wasn't allowed to work the first two years we were married.

I decided to go to school in small city instead of a large one because I knew it would be cheaper to live there. - You don't always get a choice where to go to school, sometimes you have to go where both of you have been accepted. I've broken how tuition worked for us down elsewhere https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3753975

By sharing rooms with 4 other students, I only paid between $325/month to 375/month. This was including, heat, water, power etc. In theory, it doesn't sound like where you lived was all that much less expensive than where I lived per person.

Did you have cable TV or internet? Cut it. You spend minimum $40 on it. - Agreed, we had no cable, no internet, no phones of any kind for the first two years.

Did you ever eat out? Never do it. You can save $1000/month there. - Agreed, when we ate out it was unavoidable, and it was taco bell, the cheapest thing on the menu. Elsewhere in this thread I've given some sample "recipes" of what we ended up eating when times were a rougher than normal. I still don't really like ketchup to this day all that much.

You mentioned that you drove. - 100% paid for, unavoidable, public transport wasn't good, was expensive, and biking/walking would have eaten up hours per day that could have been used for working/studying.

Sell the car. Car costs much more money that you think. - We sold one of them the second February to make rent and buy groceries. When my wife got her work permit, we had to limit where she could work to sync with where I worked or we'd spend too much time driving around and eating up fuel.

We would have sold furniture too, but we didn't have any :( Other than a used mattress somebody donated to us, we had a couple frying pans, some old clothes and an old computer. When we got married we had about $150 in the bank.
I'm a sole founder with a non techincal background who is currently outsourcing the development of my site .I applied for the summer batch what do you guys think my chances are ???
Sample size is something that must be interpreted in the presence of power. You can make a solid conclusion with a very small sample size if the true difference in arrival times is very large, given that the assumptions of the hypothesis test hold (t-test can be a little ridiculous with some of its assumptions sometimes).

In the original article, one of the footnotes mentioned that they tested the data using Wilcoxon's Signed-Rank test, which mitigates a lot of the impact of single outliers.

I'd love to see the raw data though, to see an even less-sensitive method to outliers (sign test). If the difference between the groups is as large as the article would lead us to believe, the loss of power should not present any problem.
> well, the stigma is that it outright tells me you don't have friends.

That doesn't even make sense. Want to try again?
Well, they also help individuals. Think of the person who is 26 years old, has just passed their drivers' test, and then totals their car and kills the other driver. Insurance shells out a few million in liability claims. Their insurance will go up, obviously, but they're not going to be financially wrecked, and it's the rest of society that bears that burden.

The way to think of it is to think of your whole life statistically, as a series of events where you win some and you lose some. And then don't get upset over the ones you lost, because there are many others where you ended up with the winning end of the deal and you just don't remember it because humans are wired to dwell on losses more than gains.
Do you not count that as her cheating on you?
So when the client hires a full time developer who understands Ruby on Rails but doesn't understand Sinatra, then what happens?
I don't disagree. In theory she would have been able to work 90 days after we got married (the time it took to get a work permit). But 9/11 happened between the time we got married and that 90 days and it put her in a holding pattern for two years.

After she got her permit, she started working and things improved quite a bit.
Not meant to be blunt, but there's a really obvious way: make the game better. Make it stand out visually, gameplay-wise, make sure people share your app (you could ask them to rate it, you might give them something in return), make people want to get back to your app. Create promotional images and submit them with your app so that your app can be featured when the Windows Store team thinks it's good enough. Listen to your users and fix their problems.
> Since then, the punks have responded by moving all info to the sneakernet

1) This is a key part of the "local problem." Not all of the relevant legal context is written down or documented.

2) The power of real social connections in many ways dwarfs the power of online connection. Networks of people who know each other well and trust one another are a potent force that can even threaten the establishment. The British know this well, from the POV of the state. YC is also proof of this.
Getting started with AngularJS
I think the bourne shell if..then..else..fi syntax is derived from Algol.
So I do share my Amazon account with my partner, but only so we can have a single Kindle library. Other than that, it seems like a disaster... obviously it's personal preference, but it's a lot easier to deal with security and data models when you're using them the way they were built to be used (1 person to 1 account.)

From your description, it sounds like you really have two accounts, but you just do all your purchasing from one.

Sharing a free email account just seems like an exercise in frustration. The whole usage model for email - inbox, notifications, read/unread, filing, deleting - is designed on the presumption that the messages are being consumed by a single individual. I've always viewed sharing an email account as something that old folks do because it maps to their model of a physical mailbox, or because they're too feeble to maintain / login to multiple accounts.

Having worked for Amazon, I suspect you're not getting the benefit of a lot of their recommendation technology if you're sharing an account. It's not just about purchases - it's about every page in your clickstream and how that's used to find products you'll like. We actually had projects in some services dedicated to reducing sharing of accounts, partially for that reason.
I'm pretty sure most people would not be OK with any kind of editorial discrimination by the handlers of mail.
How long before there are browser add-ons to autoanswer the 2 questions randomly as fast as possible? I'm tempted to put up a bounty for it myself.
My all-time favorite link to share in Hacker News discussions about a preliminary research finding is the article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" by Peter Norvig, LISP hacker and director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

As other comments have already pointed out, it's not clear from such a small sample size that the observed results can be generalized as a description of reality. If people are worried about this issue (and it does seem like a legitimate concern), try running lots of replication studies, with variations in study methodology and variations in experimental conditions, and see what happens. If I randomly receive a package, I'm suspicious in general, but maybe other people are glad to get surprises in the mail.
Meeting on-line doesn't have to be just about photography, it can also be based on shared interest. My wife and I were on the same law forum and exchanged messages (not romantic, more like "you're so wrong about x, y, z") a few times before we met in real life in a related context (she was at my law school interviewing for admission). Several other marriages and engagements came out of the same batch of people on the same site, from city group meet-ups. Alcohol + a group of people comfortable with each other because they at least vaguely know each other online + a group of people with shared interests is a great way to spark relationships.

I don't think online dating is perfect as it's currently structured, but it has a lot of potential. I'd picture something like a dating site where you couldn't search for people ad-hoc, but which interest-specific discussion forums could link into. You'd create a profile, but only be found by people who reached out through some interest-specific site. This serves two purposes: it prevents women from getting spammed as easily, and it provides some context (posting history) for them to evaluate.
My answer would be: for many people, tinkering with old stuff is way more fun than posting on the internet.
How would you get people to invest in ZitCoins? Isn't that problem a major barrier to entry?
Classic survivorship bias scenario. Nevermind that all the other people in the course went in with equally inspiring slogans like Failure Is Not An Option tatooed across their buttocks. Some people fail, sometimes it's going to be you.
If you really want to apply without an idea just do it. No one is forcing you to fill out every single field of the application. Don't fall victim to being constrained by the limits of the system!
The answer is simple; use your own domain. You can even have
google host the email for your domain, so in essence, you still
have gmail. If anything bad happens, such as the highly unlikely
event of Google shutting down gmail, then you just move your domain
email handling to someplace else.
> The complete phrase is actually "A few bad apples will spoil the barrel".

They don't even have to actually spoil the barrel. Since dramatic events stand out in the human mind, it's possible for a few bad actors to completely change people's perception of groups or their place in society.

This is part of the reason why it's so hard for privileged groups to understand how minorities see things and vice-versa. What's a dramatic, salient event for one group is not so much for the other.
March 2, 2013. Earlier submission of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5312551
In what way would it be an iPhone competitor?
"Aging old men used to repair and beautify the cars of their youth."

Reminds me of that original old doctor who died recently and had no kids and left his belongings to nephew. He wrote a letter to them and at the end of it he added something like: "Oh and by the way there's an old Bugatti which I used to drive on sundays in the garage. It is worth about 6 million pounds" (that car then "only" sold for 3 million pounds but he wasn't an order of magnitude of).