skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you're kidding. I found star wars kid entertaining.

I found this quite entertaining as well: http://cdn02.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/je...

I found this narration of an embarassing incident entertaining as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nliuibEp-xo

... and that's off the top of my head. In your world, does that make me a bad person?
I can't think of a worse place to seek validation than YouTube comments.
Have you considered just having a separate box that handles non-literal metadata queries? That way the user doesn't have to think about your typology --- they just type words in a box like they're used to from Google.

I like the idea of this a lot by the way. I hope to find use for it.
Free verse seems silly and pointless. So I wrote a trivial program to turn prose into free verse:

import random

def poem(text, p_break=0.5, seed=1234):
rand = random.Random(seed)
result = []
for w in text.split():
result.append(w)
if rand.uniform(0.0, 1.0) < p_break:
result.append('\n')
else:
result.append(' ')
return "".join(result)

print poem("This is a poem written by a program. It is not really a poem because it does not rhyme, it is some weird thing called free verse, which is a poem that does not rhyme.", p_break=0.1)

Here's the output:

This is a
poem written by a program.
It is not
really a poem because it does not rhyme,
it is some
weird thing called free
verse, which is a poem that does not rhyme.
Right - but there is a difference between the "Withdrawal limit" and the "Account Balance" - Just because you have a $50mm withdrawal limit, doesn't mean you have a $50mm account balance.
Both of Amy Chua's children are, in a sense, positive outcomes. One was "good enough" for her mother's standards, and another rebelled. But sometimes, different outcomes happen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/magazine/who-was-responsib...
It's intended as a somewhat humorous wording of "you MUST play an instrument; your choices are piano or violin, NOTHING ELSE."
Isn't this just like anything that is obviously subjective though? Wine, beer, food, fashion, cars, games, programming languages.

In fact, I'm struggling to think of a collection of things that people enjoy that can be objectively measured (with the arguable exception of sports teams and the like, but that's only if you're judging them by their ability to win games, not things like who gives the best game for spectators).

Targeting wine makes me think this is more of a "ha look at those elitist jerks sipping on their wine we are the 99%" whine than anything else.
It's not violins specifically, it's any western orchestral instrument that you can carry to and from school (or piano lessons).

My mother and I were frequently at odds about my violin lessons and practice habits but she was also a nurturing person and tried to explain the benefits of deliberate practice and musical training, which as an adult I now recognize.

Full-on "tiger" parents may be more fixated on western instruments because it's meant to be a status symbol not a means to enrich the child.
This is true for facebook, but false for 99% of other companies. At the end of the day, revenue - costs (profit) is what you're optimizing for.

I think dmor's point is that revenue can be a lagging indicator, and that some startups can suddenly turn on a revenue pump that makes watching revenue silly.

I agree with her - in 1% of cases. The problem is that for dmor, that 1% of cases is all that matters - because those cases are going to be the all or nothing billion dollar company cases, which is what she's aiming for. Facebook, AirBnB etc - all would have terrible numbers while starting up, then suddenly their numbers start to look great.
Wired readers' brain enhancing drug regimens (2008)
>Common law is popularly chosen law created by the people

No it's not. It's case law from England. It's created by judges.
This article showed up on HN not too long ago:
http://blog.brownplt.org/2013/02/19/teaching-gc.html

Maybe it will help.
Its an article about books about war.

Have you read any good books from 6,000 years ago lately?
It's not that preservation is bad, it's that it's rarely subject to any rational cost-benefit analysis. If the EPA promulgates a new regulation, the resulting flood of litigation forces intense scrutiny of the costs and benefits. But nobody has a concentrated interest to stand up to preservationists. An individual developer might oppose it, but existing land-owners as a whole benefit both from the slimmest of historical significance and from keeping down the total supply of office space, housing, etc. So you don't see cities buried in lawsuits over trying to promulgate those sorts of ordinances.
It tells you RakBank in the article and the wire service has the other bank

> Prosecutors said the scheme involved attacks on two banks, Rakbank, which is in the United Arab Emirates, and the Bank of Muscat in Oman.

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/massive-21stcentury...

edit: Oh, the NYTimes version of this story says it's a US based credit card processor name withheld http://newsdiffs.org/article-history/www.nytimes.com/2013/05... Other versions say the foreign banks themselves were the credit card processors http://mashable.com/2013/05/09/atm-hackers/
Am I missing something?

One thing that comes to mind; at least in the Bay Area, asian students often grow up in whole communities made up of other asians, so even if their parents are mucking things up a bit, they are still fully immersed in the culture of extreme focus on academics and achievement.
Very cool. The red and green suck for us color blind folks, though.
This is a humorous book that contains some actually useful information for the young male adolescent trying to make the shaky steps

http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Man-John-Birmingham/dp/18759892...

It's written tongue in cheek but beneath the humor lies some great messages : you're all grown up now, start looking after things.
I should hope to be as successful as Ron Popeil! Also, weak sauce argument on your part. Try again
Wine is a vivid reminder that we're not not just creating value, we're creating perceived value.

There are countless products that earn higher margins (and loyalty) because customers like the story, the design or some other aspect of the product or service that doesn't really help the customer. But these things matter.

At the end of the day, we're not perfectly rational robots. We're people.
Facebook Home is the new TV and TV is shit
Ecosystem wars are stupid. Facebook home is the latest attempt to coopt Android into a brand by basically i dunno...disabling it?

But if FB can prove they get x% more engagement they can raise ad prices.

Look Facebook, before you alienated the shit out of the world (pre 1 billion zombie users), your phone would have rocked.

Now you are TV. Fuck off and die.
This film at least seems to be well-researched, unlike Dan Brown.
> It also doesn't take long to learn the difference between a good and bad wine.

Have you done the sort of blindfold/label-free bottle tests described? If not, you're potentially falling for exactly the sort of thing the article is about.
Wow, that is incorrect. Just read the source Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/09/state-d...
> Take out the $70M from selling ZEV credits and Tesla's gross margin is only 6%--much less than other luxury manufacturers.

Meh. If they avoid the volatility of other luxury manufacturers that's an accomplishment in and of itself and something that makes them an interesting investment, even if their margins aren't phenomenal.

Who owns Jaguar or Lotus right now? Or Aston Martin, or whoever? These aren't stable companies we're talking about.
I feel the decrease in quality is because the increase in the number of users. This makes that only the mediocre stuff to get front page.

I prefer HN
Hardly. Not a new phenomenon in the least. Off the top of my head, we can look to 1897:

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

It is of course a poem, not a historical figure, but it was written all the same.
Perhaps 4chan's /b/?
Their revenue numbers maybe, but there were other signals. I am gonna find the next Airbnb with what I'm building mark my words
How does the government scrub anything from the internet once it has been distributed?

While I did not download the plans, I found them pretty easily on Pirate Bay.
Oh good, someone brought out their dictionary.
some older ATMs in pacific using only magnetic stripes (e.g. New Zealand). I am from europe and my bank calls me each time when i use ATM because they have to follow security rules - cash withdrawal in low-level security ATM in exotic location)
Much trickier subject. Unsuccessful and depressive go together quite easily. Successful and depressive is a stranger beast, probably requiring more than a rudimentary understanding of psychology to wrangle.
This is what I thought as well. I would have thought he could have leveraged it and brought some good out of it, but that sort of thing probably didn't occur to him or his parents at the time. It would have been very difficult to look for the roses amongst the thorns back then.

EDIT: reading the article intro, and the fact that he is now a law school graduate, I can't help thinking if perhaps this is step 1 in starting to leverage his worldwide fame. A law firm specialising in prosecuting bullying behavior in workplaces, or something similar? I hope it is the case and he manages to leverage the laughter into real success.
The truth about Reddit is that it's a clone of Digg, and Digg was a clone of Slashdot.

Hacker News is a clone of Slashdot too. Just giving credit where credit is due.
"Buying" "A-Players" is only part of the battle though, you also have to motivate them to do more than coast until the golden handcuffs are off. Hopefully Yahoo is already working towards some big things that these people being acquired are excited to be part of, otherwise this will just be a very costly temporary solution.
That's just the internet in general.
I wish that my bank would let me set a message to pop up whenever withdrawals over a certain amount (or percentage) are made. If we can't be secure, I'd at least like my would-be-account-ruiners to know "LOL STUDENT ACCT". What would be even better is if every time I accessed an ATM it would snap a photo (so many are all recording video anyway) and put it into my account mailbox to view the same way I view checks. That way I could track my facial expression over time as I watch my account go from $XXXX to $XX every time the rent is paid and chart it along with other personal metrics. On the off chance that someone does steal my card/pin/... at least I would be able to shame take a moment shaming them in Photoshop out of... grief?

---

This actually got me thinking about a relatively straight-forward way to make ATMs more secure. Many ATMs have cameras and are, presumably, recording each time someone makes a transaction. I don't know exactly how the system works, but here's what I think:

- People who use ATMs should pretty much expect to be recorded in some fashion for security purposes, even if it's just a camera in the corner of the room.

- By using an ATM most people, even the privacy-conscious, would agree to this amount of surveillance. If not, they are welcome to visit their bank during regular business hours, in a ski mask if they prefer, or better yet use the inside of their mattresses instead.

- Adding a camera to a device, particularly one like an ATM, is trivial to implement and should only make a slight difference in cost.

- This camera could also be sensitive to infrared or other bands in order to defeat the ski-mask (thieving) or eye-patch/bandage (handicapped or disfigured) crowds.

- The software could be made such that it only proceeds with certain actions IFF it recognizes that the camera is not being blocked, that it recognizes a face, and that the face is not being spoofed by a Polaroid or something silly.

- ATMs are networked and should be capable of uploading medium resolution photos. Assuming reasonable policies could be maintained, the photo could be sent over the wire directly to your card-issuing institution and then routed to you, perhaps with a 7-days-til-self-destruct mechanism. Obviously you could archive these if you wanted, but the point is that banks/credit companies would treat it the same as security footage, i.e. data glut that's only useful while it's fresh.

- As soon as you are made aware of some sort of fraud, you can simply report the transaction, with identifying snap, to the bank (who will hand it over to authorities).

I'll leave the potential problems of this system to your imaginations, but it seems to me like a fairly easy to adopt solution to small, regular ATM theft. Obviously a coordinated attack could perhaps find some sort of exploit, but maybe it could deter the small-timers enough to be worth it.

EDIT: I am aware that this doesn't solve any of the particulars in the article, but I still think it's "on topic" since we all like tech, and ATMs are tech :)
Ah. Ooops. Sorry! Will have to think a little about that one. I guess there's a reason it's team red vs team blue...

(I'm one of the devs)
Wow, a few of those guys are awesome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ash_(writer) who renounced because the US had a stance of neutrality vs. the Nazis for too long, so he renounced to become a Canadian military pilot. Awarded MBE.

Apparently they used to be a lot more "automatic" about revoking citizenship for acts (like joining a foreign military as an officer) where there wasn't clear intent to renounce citizenship. It now requires a seriously affirmative act; essentially showing up at a consulate and making a declaration, demonstrating that it's intentional and informed, etc.
We do not possess a media with any skeptical abilities, regurgitation of press releases and narratives is all we have.
Most of the default subreddits could be classified not only as mainstream but also much diluted from what they were a few years ago. The way I use the site nowadays I entirely unsubscribed from most of the default subreddits.

In the smaller subreddits, karma doesn't matter as much as the rest of the site, which is what makes them better IMO. YMMV though.
All the points regarding why this post is so ridiculous have been thoroughly covered. I'm just pulling back the curtain on your exploitative use of HN as part of your grand marketing plan (in case it wasn't obvious).
* seeking
I don't really think that's the case in this article since some of the harshest criticism of wine tasters comes from the wine magazine guy.
An article built upon fallacious arguments? On a Gawker site? I'm shocked, shocked.
I think the phrase is "ha ha only serious".
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If you can really do that, become a VC or full-time angel vs. starting some silly startup index SaaS platform.
Yup, I agree with you, but I wanted to introduce referencing a variable before introducing formatted strings and placeholders. We actually went back and forth on this a couple times.
This is guessing, but perhaps the withdrawal limit of a pre-paid card acts as the account balance.
> 3. If you regularly read Reddit, it makes the rest of the internet seem stale.

This is absolutely true; it's actually very interesting watching a new 'meme' make its way through the internet, and then the personal, pipeline. In the morning you'll see a reddit post, in the afternoon your friends will send you links to it, and your mom will mention it to you when you call her that night.

> it's not like Reddit is a major focus of corporate attention, either.

And thank $DEITY - the last thing we (it) need(s) is an owner trying to exploit it for another subsidiary's benefit.

On the other hand, it's been long speculated that Reddit is constantly being gamed, that corporate voting cabals are responsible for advertising content rising to the front page, and plenty of other news sources lift information without bothering to credit Reddit or its users.
Yeah, it actually works really well on vector art. If you're into that sort of thing, check out the sick bg color removal and alpha channel "recovery" by zooming way in on the boundaries.

(I'm one of the devs)
A whimsical yet austere post, heavy on the bombast but with hints of compassion and, for the discerning reader, notes of plaintive wishfulness, with a bitter yet wholesome finish.
That is really awesome, bookmarked
"Am I missing something?"

Class. All the "tiger moms" are of high economic condition. Lower-classed Asian immigrants do not follow the model.
Very true. We really leaned heavily on the new literals and ARC in this course.
Indeed. Nice little sleight of hand where the article reference "mainstream media" and then switches to "mainstream blog media" before citing any examples.
Just the internet?
I love that anyone thinks I have a grand marketing plan
He thinks we've only been fighting for 5000 years? Is he a Young Earth Creationist or something?
Yeah, we need to figure out a way to get people to do the first time what you did the second time...
At least you're still alive.

I am reminded of the tragic case of Mengyao "May" Zhou, an MIT grad and Stanford grad student, whose death in 2007 was ruled a suicide. (While there was no clear evidence of foul play, the evidence for suicide was not overwhelming either -- in particular, she left no note.) While she was clearly very successful in her studies and was thought to be happy, some of the details that came out at the time left me with the distinct impression that she killed herself to get out of a life she had not chosen and could see no other escape from. Her father in particular seemed to have a habit of stating flatly how she had felt, as if he didn't have to ask her. That struck me as a big red flag that suggested that he related to her as an extension of himself rather than as a separate person -- a common pattern in "tiger" parenting.

I emphasize that this is only my impression; I didn't know her and have no privileged information about her. But the father's subsequent behavior -- insisting she was murdered and making rather wild suggestions about who could have done it and why -- did nothing to change that impression (even making allowances for understandable grief). Instead of stopping to wonder whether he really knew her -- who wouldn't wonder that after an unexpected suicide? -- he dug himself into his position. I think that in his denial that she could have felt any other way than how he wanted her to feel, he is still refusing to hear the message of her suicide.

It is bad enough to be living a life designed by someone else, where you know it's not your choice but you feel compelled to do it anyway. But to have had your own desires and feelings so rigidly unacknowledged for your whole life that you can't even imagine living your own life for your own reasons -- that seems to me unbearably painful. I have a feeling that is the place May Zhou was in.
Today I learned: Fighting has only existed for 5000 years. Before that it was Haku Matata.
> How does the government scrub anything from the internet once it has been distributed?

They can't, but this article is from Fox News, so you know it's completely out of context. They're trying to maintain that illusion that Obama is somehow a both tyrannical dictator who has the wherewithal, power and ability to successfully censor information and control society while also being apparently a bumbling enough incapable leader of executing foreign policy.
I agree, definitely needs these buttons. Works amazingly well!
>You know what? Humans, especially during times of crisis and confusion, speculate. They do it offline and, in 2013, they increasingly do it online. The fact of the matter is that one of the Boston suspects (later revealed to be Dzhokhar Tsarnaev) seen in the early grainy surveillance-video stills released by the FBI did resemble Tripathi.

I dont really understand this section. Is the author trying to defend reddit's holier art thou attitude towards the world and their tendency to stick their nose in matters they shouldnt in the name of internet justice?

>And Reddit actually has much better checks and balances in place -- thanks to a combination of the upvote system and moderator intervention.

This is just plain false. Subreddits are not moderated by reddit employees, only by the people who founded the subreddit and whoever they choose to moderate the subreddit with them. This is why hate groups like /r/atheism and fox-news-tier biased news subreddits like /r/poltics can exist. Hell, the only visible admin-intervention I've ever heard of on reddit was when they took down the child porn reddits, and even that required -two- pieces by major news outlets on how reddit was hosting child porn.

The upvote/downvote system is literally only useful for propagating viral/interesting content. Far too many people are relying on reddit as a news source nowadays, and thanks to the upvote/downvote system, all it takes is 51% disapproval for an article to virtually disappear. Since everyone uses the downvote button to say "i dont like this content" rather than "this content isnt good/isnt relevant", you get lots of wonderful skews. This is why /r/poltics has such a intense liberal bias - all it takes is a 51% of the users to disapprove of an article that supports republicans in order for the submission to disappear from view of everyone else. Imagine how horrible the news would be if an entire political viewpoint is censored just because the majority believes differently. That's news on reddit.
One of the reasons I meditate is because I find that it allows me to explore certain parts of the world that I believe are not accessible otherwise. This has to do with my meditation style: focusing on the "zeroes." Let me give you an example, when you breathe, you inhale and exhale, but there is a moment when you are neither inhaling nor exhaling, being aware of that moment is what I mean by focusing on the "zeroes." Using language from Zen, it's when expansion and contraction cease. There are zeroes everywhere around us, but we seldom become actively aware of them. I recommend it highly.
And that's where http://solinkcorp.com/ comes into play.

Shameless plug: Brother's Canadian startup
I completely agree. Reddit, for me, would be useless without niche subreddits. There was a time when you could go to the front page and find links to some really interesting articles or videos, but these days its "guess which celebrity I met and look at the funny pose they made." Thats fine and all but just not for me. However, I can still subscribe to smaller subreddits and have good discussions with people.

I'm finding the same thing with friends as well. The popularity of that site has jumped so much in the last two years or so. I feel like an old man.
You might find http://www.chill.colostate.edu/w/Non-precipitation_echoes:_i... to be interesting. It shows some of the dual-pol stuff on insects.
Script can be improved by automatic parsing of IP address from 2-3 different providers : e.g. http://checkip.dyndns.com/ , http://myip.dk/ , http://ipchicken.com/ ...

I don`t feel safe to send AWS ID and SECRET KEY so VPN + 2-factor auth into admin console is even better way i guess.
Why Teaching a Robot to Fetch a Cup of Coffee Matters
Nah that path is too obvious, I'm making the new Dow Jone Industrial index. Way less plausible, way more fun.
State Department Demands 3-D Gun Blueprints Be Removed
> Yes, sometimes they turn to the military without exploring all avenues to peace. Whether or not those are good decisions can be long debated. But do not put the onus for peace on him.

What about all the military coups throughout history, where a general decided the politico commanding him wasn't a very good leader, and took his place?
Reddit is also a great tool for marketing and sourcing talent.