skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Streisand effect... bad move State, bad move.
I troll harder
I smell a turnover strategy here:

1) Buy talent in the form of companies while they are still cheap because of both the startup glut and the booming stock market (and thus yahoo stock price).

2) When the inevitable downturn/crash happens, seize the moment to clean house. Many other companies will doing the same so it won't be particularly newsworthy.

3) The alternatives for the remaining employees will be much more grim at this point, so they'll get to keep most of them for a good number of years in order to build something revolutionary.
How are those counter-examples?
Just deleted my account today.
I actually meant a message popping up on the ATM screen, sort of like a vacation-away responder but for people with bad spending habits.

The functionality you're talking about is obviously much more useful :) I'll have to check and see if my bank has this function, as I probably would not have set it when I opened my account and have yet to receive anything like it. My girlfriend's bank sends her a message when her account is under a certain amount and flat out denies withdrawals over that same amount (i.e. notifies when under $500, can't withdraw more than $500/mo regardless).
Maine School Engages Kids With Relevant Problem-Solving Challenges
For the very same reasons why a start up can do things so quickly, and a big company can't.

Most of the big companies you see out there car makers or otherwise are only at their best good maintaining status quo and doing the incremental revenue push. Reasons, everyone knows already: Layers and Layers of hopelessly useless middle management, Politics, Bureaucracy- Your usual large company BS.

There is total lack of urgency, there is no sense of higher purpose. No clear vision, goal or even a path many big companies want to take. Its all about fixing the most immediate short term things which prevent them dieing, and maintain the stock prices to a acceptable value. The management at all levels is simply designing most ingenious ways to take back big checks while sleeping on their jobs. And then blame the actual workers for all their company problems.

No wonder small unknown start ups with a few folks severely underfunded and under clocked for resources screw these companies left, right and center. And not just that, also in ways these large companies can't even defend themselves.
I agree with this in general, half the battle of wine is finding something that brings out or at least tries not to mask the flavor in whatever foods you're serving. The value in a good sommelier is not that he can sell you a $500 bottle, but that he can enhance your entire meal experience by bringing expertise, exposing diners to new wines they might have never tried or new tastes they might have not considered pairing.

And to be fair to wine reviewers, it seemed like the score was a 3-4 point variable. That's a lot if you're in competition but in general if you only think in terms of 90s, 80s, 70s and such, you'll generally get a higher quality wine. I think the lack of value comes in when you're trying to judge between say, a 90 and a 95. That's when it becomes arbitrary and subjective.

Some of the review mags now no longer give straight scores but give instead range scores because it's true that every batch can be slightly different. I've started to see wine mags rate a wine say, 92-95 instead of 93.3434234. Seems far more reasonable to give it multiple goes to deal with variable conditions.
Reddit's gradual decline has long ago tipped the scales. I was on reddit starting '08 I think, so I didn't see what the initial community was like, it was already fairly big by then, but nowhere near what it is today.

Just a few days ago, there was this trailer on the front page, for a movie with mecha robots fighting godzillas or something, and it was just... terrible. For whatever reason, maybe to get some reassurance, I read the comments. 3000 people falling over themselves wanking over it. In disbelief I loaded more and more comments just to try and find at least one negative comment. What are these people, 17 year-olds? And then it hit me. They ARE 17 year-olds.

I get it, subreddits blah blah blah, but there's no point. Sticking to subreddits destroys the sense of community which is so important for online forums. When the front page is dominated by teenagers, how long do you think others will stick to the site? Not to mention, having to log in to see your own specialized front page is a hassle when you're on many devices and don't really care enough to have an active account. Subreddit discovery is also too difficult, and then there's the whole filter bubble going on. I'd prefer a general purpose forum with higher quality people than hiding in some corner of a site dominated by teenagers.

More and more, HN is filling that purpose for me, with a healthy balance of tech and non-tech. I sort of wish there was a separation between "tech" and "general" though, so that the general discussions could expand without affecting the tech side of things.
I can't blame anyone for laughing at Star Wars Kid when the video first appeared, but I have to admit that my immediate reaction when I first saw it years ago was nothing but profound sadness.

All teenagers have insecurities, but nothing like the true outcasts (of which I was certainly one). We spent all our time wondering not only why we couldn't fit in, but what was wrong with us. Because there surely had to be something deeply wrong with us. Most of us assumed, deep down, that it was somehow our fault.

That video might as well have been produced by that kid's superego -- as if every self-inflicted wound of self-hatred was now confirmed. People were advising him to commit suicide, and only strength of character could have prevented him from doing it. People have killed themselves over far lesser shames, and I'm honestly not sure I would have survived it.

I'm glad he's creating a successful life for himself. And I'll admit it, though I'm not proud it: I hope the fucker who posted that video ends up pumping his gas.
OK, easy example. Top item right now on r/atheism (only sample taken, you couldn't pay me to visit that subreddit):

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/1e0vcv/if_there_is_...

A few comments down (above the fold on even a tiny monitor) we have this exchange:

Poster talking about his Holocaust-surviving grandfather (32 upvotes):

"My grandfather became a believer, but he didn't go all orthodox. He just believed. His reasoning was that if it weren't for god - he would have died many times during the war."

The reply, with 100 upvotes:

"Explanations like that are precisely what makes me hate religion. When people tell themselves these things, they betray an inner conviction that they are somehow better and more special than the countless men women and children who died at the hands of the Nazis. Makes me sick when people say things like that."

Link to comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/1e0vcv/if_there_is_...
I would like them to see the Streisand Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

By issuing a takedown notice to the maintainer of the blueprint, it's very unlikely that they're going to stop the flow of information. Additionally, it turns out it's probably not effective to stop them from distributing the blueprints now that they're already on the internet.

We're probably not going to see a massive number of these come into existence because the printers aren't exactly a commodity yet. I imagine the people who own these printers, and the printing services will notice what's being printed, and that's probably the best place to control these.
Have you earned the right to have this much attitude? Strikes me as odd that as someone building a startup about startups that you'd be so dismissive of others on HN - a startup heavy community.

Interesting PR strategy.
New Process Simplifies Biofuel Production
From what I have read of Cody, this is exactly the sort of reaction he was hoping to receive.

Perhaps he should have had the CAD file printed and bound as a book...

Edit: Nevermind, he's already ahead of me: "Wilson argues his activities are legit, because ITAR doesn’t apply to information sold in a library, and conveniently has his being sold in an undisclosed Austin, Texas, bookstore."
Don't care about exit size anymore, it's all about blowing shit up and changing the world. ;)
That naive wine-drinkers prefer cheap wines is not a result of wine-tasting being bullshit. It's a result of naive drinkers preferring sweetened wine, and industry players greedily obliging.

Most people, given exposure over years, will prefer more better wines. You can accelerate that process by tastings: 5-6 small glasses so you can properly compare wines, repeated over a few weeks. This works even if people don't know the prices, and without guidance from experts.
> The former is useful--read a review, see a bunch of adjectives you prefer in your wines attached to something, go out and buy it where you otherwise wouldn't have, enjoy yourself.

Is it? The article points to studies that correlate verbiage price. Additionally, it makes a case that reviewers generally can't identify more than six or so flavors in a wine. Combined with evidence that they often can't even tell red from white, what chance is there the review will be accurate about specifics within a category when they can't even be trusted to get the category right?
Mmmm, hellz yah, I love that area! Excellent for some of my favs - Zin's, Syrah's - yummy! My wife and I belong to a few vineyard's clubs in the SLO area. Beautiful scenery, beautiful wines. I always recommend this outside of Napa if you're in CA for a visit or just looking for a good weekend.
Any word on whether the Git plugin has started working? I'm waiting for it before making the switch.
Apple made it clear a few years back that any language that compiles to "normal" binaries is fine, after (at first) being completely restrictive about the tools you could use.

Their major remaining rule is that you can't build environments that download code from the internet and run it. (Except for Javascript, and you have to use JavaScriptCore (Apple-supplied) for that.)
I agree with other comments about the close association with a derogatory term. I'm black and when I was reading it (prior to seeing the comments) I found it a little off-putting. Recommend a change of some sort.
Show HN: Domain2IP.net - API to provide the IP address of any host/domain
It would be easy enough to set up a server to block non-US IPs.

Would that be sufficient to get around ITAR? I wonder what would happen then
The thing I got from the article is the idea that a wine is a set score like a 95 is arbitrary silliness and so much of the wine community is set up around things like that. I do think that savvy consumers and aficionados have realized this for ages and have grown out of simply looking at scores and more strongly consider pairings and preferences. I, for instance, only really pay attention to the first digit of the wine score. Most people that are well schooled can pretty easily tell the difference between a 70 and a 90, I think the bullshit factor comes in when you're trying to grade these out and say this bordeaux is a 95 but this one is a 91.
Who'da thunk it, the Pirate Bay now has a Physibles category! Can anyone guess which files are currently trending?

https://thepiratebay.sx/search/defcad/0/99/0
> Sticking to subreddits destroys the sense of community which is so important for online forums

There are plenty of subreddits that have communities of their own.
people will likely be able to cheaply manufacture guns on private property very soon.

is this a problem?
The DMCA Safe Harbor provision only protects a hosting provider who "responds expeditiously to
remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed
to be infringing". I don't think there's much leeway for the hosting provider to give you a chance to file counter-notice before they take it down. So you're left with trying to convince the hosting provider to forgo Safe Harbor protections, which means they would have to be really confident that you could win easily, quickly, and cheaply.

You can try to preempt things by hosting everything yourself, but they can always go after your ISP. Unless you own the whole internet[1], there's somebody who's not you who can be blackmailed into disabling access to your content.

([1] or otherwise render the rest of the internet ineligible for safe harbor, such as by making them financially benefit in a way directly attributable to whatever activity may be alleged to be infringing.)
I'm real. There are enough cheerleaders and I love many friends in the Midwest startup scene, but it doesn't help them to blow smoke up their asses. I'm from Seattle, another startup community in denial. It's time for an objective industry voice and it won't all be flattering.
Maybe I should have wrote the article. I have a 6 year badge on Reddit. In a few more months it'll roll over to be a 7 year badge.

Currently the various revenue streams:

1. Reddit Gold. Pay $3 for a month of pure margins for Reddit. In return the user gets account modifications, minor UX tweaks, ability to save links. Within the community it's often used to reward others for their posts or contributions. Often gets handed out in the larger more mainstream subreddits, especially AskReddit where the user generated content worthy of merit earn one or two or sometimes even ten little gold stars.

2. Ads. Self-service model, pay $20 and get crazy CPMs from a group of people that have adblock on.

3. Merchandise. T-shirts out the wazoo. Reddit makes $5 to $8 a shirt from official channels and various other knick knacks from redditgifts.com

4. Exchanges. You buy exchange credits to trade amongst each other in the community, things like socks, shirts, snacks. They keep exploring new verticals, now there are comics and a variety of other things.

Reddit has the same problem as Tumblr. They both essentially are feeds that's replaced Facebook for a big demographics that in turn has replaced television with said feeds.

Tumblr is embracing native ads, they opened an LA office to better interface with media buyers. They're shooting for the moon on closing 6 figure accounts to sell more native ads.

Reddit is going the less glamorous route.

We'll see who wins.
mint.com can send alerts for you and aggregate them from multiple accounts.
That doesn't seem to address what the article was about at all.

I hate to say this, because it always sounds like you're being an asshole, but I think it's warranted in some instances, in it's sincere form; Did you read the article before posting?
Thanks for the feedback.

Back to my previous post, the ipython clustering I mentioned was pushed to production tonight. There might be some rough edges around it, but we want to get it out so people can start using it.

Feel free to send feedback through our support channel or even chat through the integrated chat service. It's mostly developers fielding the chats. But mainly we'd love to hear about your perspective. We want to make sure the service is geared around data, people, and workflows and not just the latest or hippest technologies.
I think because most people suck at identifying flavours. Flavour is very difficult to pin down.

I am a coffee enthusiast. I've tasted a lot of coffees. Even with coffee tasting notes, I am quite convinced that the majority of tasters are simply making things up.

Anecdote time.

I had the opportunity to go to a coffee cupping with a well respected barista around here. You have 3 cups, 2 are identical. Your job is to try and find the odd one out. We had a little seminar on taste, and did a few taste recognising exercises before doing the cupping. There was a chef in attendance who did not do very well during the exercises or during the cupping (I did pretty well).

Pinning down a flavour is very hard without purposeful practise. Most people don't build flavour associations. I've been paying more attention to flavours since the cupping. I don't always remember flavours by what food they are in. For example, my recollection of the taste of cocoa powder is linked to the feeling of it going up my nose that time I opened the pack wrong. My recollection of apricot is linked to the time I couldn't quite recall the flavour, got mad, and went down to the supermarket and bought an apricot to eat.

Things do taste different and price is definitely a factor. But I think tasting notes are mostly garbage.
Threads like these show the ongoing decline of hacker news.
Is that supposed to be evidence of hate group? I don't see it.
Because a new build has just released. And not everyone does know that it's been in beta for months.
Actually, I admire your courage to pivot refer.ly and I wish you all the best. I do like reading your articles but, unfortunately, I'm cursed with extreme, clumsy bluntness. That's really not as sexy as it sounds. I myself have terrible blind spots to my own flaws and failings, and I sometimes wish others were as blunt with me as I am with them. Sometimes niceties don't do anyone any favors.
WikiPacks allows you to collect links into groups, called packs. Don't let your research go to waste after you find the answer, don't tell people to google it, collect the knowledge so others can benefit!

I'd love to get some feedback, thanks
When The Washington Post and the New Yorker and the BBC are sourcing their big stories from Reddit -- that is when I'd be alarmed.

Just because they aren't grabbing stuff straight from Reddit (or hell, maybe they are, who knows?) doesn't mean Reddit doesn't influence those outlets as well. Look at Ryan Holiday's book[1] where he talks about "trading up the chain" and how lower tier sources influence the ones just above them, who influence the ones above them, etc. It seems like it's fairly possible for something to go from reddit -> minor blog -> major blog -> small local tv station -> AP wire -> Washington Post, or something similar.

Throw something on Reddit, buy a few upvotes, selectively support it with some bogus Wikipedia edits (sure, they'll be reverted eventually, but probably not until the damage is done) and submit yourself to "help" some journalists on HARO or Pitchrate and you can wreak all sorts of havoc on the news media.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Me,_I%27m_Lying
So how do we get the beta code invite?
Maybe he means this[1]. BTW, It's from the article we're discussing...

[1]: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870368380457453...
This isn't a problem, and it isn't a new thing either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm
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"Wine tasting is bullshit" - what a load of link-baiting crap.

Wine tasting isn't just reviewers and their rankings. It's fun, it's poetic, it's analytical, it's exploration and so on. Ultimately, you will like what you like and no serious person in wine will tell you otherwise. Thinking more about what you're tasting or how what you're using works, or why an advertisement said something the way it said, and countless other examples are a joy in life: understanding our world.

If you can buy your wine through cellar door tastings, you are more able to pick things you like (adjusted for price) rather than be reliant on brands, labels, price and the opinions of others. What you taste and how many descriptors you feel you can assign is up to you and of course it will vary from one person to another. I can't remember having ever bought something based on the medals printed on the label; I have once or twice heard of a surprise winner (e.g., $15 bottle taking out a competition) and wanted to try it for myself. I think that's on par with hearing "critics are raving" and checking out a film.

The courses I have done don't teach good vs bad but teach you to identify what are considered to be faults - corked, brettanomyces, etc - but also note that in some cases these are regarded as complexities by some. e.g, if you like something, you like it. And ultimately help you identify regional differences, varieties and so on.

Some people are happy to drive their car. Others like knowing how it works and tinkering. Doesn't mean car knowledge is bullshit.

I really enjoy blind tastings and trying to guess years, regions and varieties. My wife's family are very involved in wine (vineyard owner, winemaker, wine sales, etc) and take blind tastings to ever more flowery levels. There's a lot of name-dropping of regions and exotic varieties but it's all in good fun as entertainment, and an excuse to try more.
I use it in a google docs macro to keep on eye on what IP addresses my cloud servers currently have.
So, this attracts the ire of the state department. Yet, something like this (http://aresarmor.com/store/Item/TACMHL15) is actually approved by the ATF as not being a firearm. You just need some basic machining skills (thanks MIT OpenCourseWare) and access to basic tools (thanks local hackerspace) to have a fully operational AR-15 which does not need to be registered.

Seriously?
There are ways of providing market makers without quite as much waste as the existing system of HFT. For example, instead of having the first trade order to arrive win, group them into generations of, say, one second, and execute them in a deterministic* order that does not depend on the time of submission (provided the trades arrived within the one-second window). You can still provide liquidity via automation, but you get rid of the latency arms race by providing a floor, below which improving reaction times doesn't win you anything.

* - For fairness, you could execute trades within a generation in a pseudorandom order determined by a random key, which is cryptographically committed to prior to the opening of trading, then reveal the key after the market closes to prove that you executed them in the correct order.
I seriously doubt that graduating college 3-4 years before your peer group results in an $18mm advantage very often.

Also anything above $2mm is gravy where happiness is concerned.
This. Bruce Schneier's extended version: http://www.schneier.com/essay-019.html
In the same way that being able to tell the difference between good and bad code takes time for a novice. Just because you have to learn to distinguish what makes some code more easily understood, easier to maintain, more robust, etc., doesn't make the notion of telling good from bad a bogus pursuit.
Because who cares of existing, running, legacy code, right?
They already can. It has been possible and within reach for anyone who ever took a real shop class for as long as you can imagine. Not only is it possible, but it is in fact done in practice. A particularly famous example (of many): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Pass_Copy

People are losing their marbles over this particular gun because it was put out there with the intention of being provocative. People fear what they are told to fear.