skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. And I think those are rather orthogonal concepts.

One can be permissive and cold. Permissive and warm. Authoritative and cold and authoritative and warm.

Authoritative and warm sounds odd, but it think I kind of describes my parents. Some issues like respecting elders, saying thank you, making sure to help friends in needs, sharing were non-negotiable, others like what major to choose, or how late early and when to do homework or what extra curricular activities to take or not take was up to me. Otherwise I never lacked loved, attention or time spent with any of my parents. One of them even quit a much better paying job just to make spend more time with me after school and in the evening.
You realize all of Microsoft's patents are public, right? That's the deal with patents: you publish them in order to get a temporary monopoly. There is little significant data that B&N could threaten to "disclose" that you couldn't find by doing an assignee search on the USPTO website. They may have patents assigned to shell companies, IV-style, but their negotiation power comes from having a very visible humongous portfolio, and using shell companies would just make it less visible.

Maybe B&N could "disclose" what patents MS is licensing related to Android, but you could make a good guess of those too by filtering the previous list of patents for keywords related to mobile and operating systems.

B&N had jack squat on MS in this lawsuit, which is why they made a big noise about antitrust, which of course went nowhere. I suspect you've been getting your info from Groklaw, which could explain a lot of misconceptions around here.

> Something that makes very little sense.

How does a content deal not make sense in today's world? It is exactly to prevent the "erosion" of their ecosystem. The ecosystem today is so much more than PCs. They don't want people to go somewhere else (like, say, iTunes or Amazon) to get their content, because that's a very strong lure to join another ecosystem. Every major player is out there making content deals to tie into their ecosystem, and MS is right up there with them... Except ebooks was the glaring hole in their content story. And it's not going to be attached to just Windows, but to their phone, tablet and cloud offerings too.

As to the strength of their patents, you just gotta look at who is getting injunctions and who is getting paid in the "smartphone wars". Nobody's getting any lasting injunctions, but MS has been getting paid all over. (OK, Apple got that one big win over Samsung, but it's still up in the air.)

Just for some disclosure, I've been tangentially involved in patent licensing efforts for a small firm. It is very, very difficult to get any licensing from big firms, who would prefer to role the dice in court if there's the slightest chance they can win or out-lawyer you. Given that, I find it impressive how many royalty-bearing licenses MS has managed to get in the past few years. Including, of all things, Foxconn.
Hey Jason, thank you for your feedback.

You're completely right, of course, the current landing page doesn't do much to explain what the service does or how it does it. I'll try to add a video or carousel showing exactly how it works, with a more standard workflow. I agree that asking the user to log in is kind of abrupt there, now that you mention it I realize it's not very well thought-out.

This will be my first priority, thank you very much for the feedback and the improvements you proposed.
> You've never lived in Syria - you're a fake.

Not only have I lived in Syria, I was also born there. It's precisely because I previously lived in Syria that I care deeply about the issue and care for the country. It's precisely because I still have relatives there (who most are now refugees in Turkey) that I care about this issue. I clearly can't help you if you want to think I'm lying.

I'll take on your offer and contact you directly. You haven't left your contact info though. Do provide it and we'll get in touch.

> 275 * 20.82 million citizens = 5500 million intelligence officers? You're an idiot.

Sure, I'm an idiot. Given how smarter you are and how much you know about Syria, you should have corrected my statement and indicated that I mistakenly reversed the ratio. My originally intended statement of 1 intelligence officer to every 275 citizen still holds.

> All of which you seem quite happy with.

It's interesting that most of your sources are ones that match the exact message of the Syrian regime, about the entire world conspiring against them. Your sources also happen to be the same ones that speak about other conspiracy theories, like 9/11 being an inside job, the Boston marathon bombing being staged, etc.

> It is obvious you have no empathy for the suffering of the Syrian people & fully support the killing of civilians by NATO death squads.

Who said I like NATO being involved? Given how much you're singling out NATO, are you ok with the Syrian regime involving Iran and Hizboullah with the conflict and stirring sectarian strife?

Using your logic, I can say the same thing about you. You have no empathy for the suffering of the people there, given how much you support the current Syrian regime, which is ranked among the most repressive regimes on earth.

However, I'm not going to use your flawed logic here. I'm pretty sure you care for the Syrian people and the hundreds that are dying every single day. You just happen to believe the Syrian regime and the conspiracy theories. This is what the Syrian regime is good at: misinformation. Unfortunately, being on the Syrian regime's side is a dark future for Syria. It led the country no where for over 40 years; what makes you think it will suddenly change now?

As for me, I'm on the side of the people advocating for peace, freedom, dignity, and liberty. The Syrian regime does not have the best interest of the country in mind. It's run like a mafia, ruled by one family for over 40 years. At the same time, I'm also against foreign intervention. Unfortunately, the conflict right now is at a point where a lot of evil people are going to take advantage of, including governments, extremists, and others. Those sides need to be stopped as well. But who gave them the opportunity to get involved? That's right, the Syrian regime and its actions.
Wow, a tremendous step towards transparency. Wish my country did this, but one can dream...

The site is just gorgeous (http://project-open-data.github.io/). And most important of all, editing the content is really easy (although you need a GitHub account for that). I'll have to check out the GitHub editor they are using.

Published law as a living, collaborative document. This is the future!

Edit: Hmm, why is it that in my RSS feed the submission link goes to https://github.com/blog/1499-the-revolution-will-be-forked and here it goes to a random page on the open-data site?
While your student may be headed for success, be aware of the the implications of using anecdotal evidence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence
Old stuff is fine with me. I once considered taking a job as a mainframe programmer (RPG). There is always my free time to tinker with new stuff ( which is what I always do).
* ctrl+l

* ctrl+c

* ctrl+1 (gmail tab)

* c (compose)

* type recipients

* tab, tab to compose

* ctrl+v

* ctrl+enter (send)

8 steps, but I'd argue keys are at least twice as fast as clicks.
It's not total bullshit. For the record I am not a wine buff (more interested in beer personally) but it doesn't take long for the average drinker to learn to recognize the difference in taste between grape varieties in new world wines and regions in old. It also doesn't take long to learn the difference between a good and bad wine.

That said do I think you can score a wine though? No. You can certainly pick between a selection of wines and rank them in order of what you prefer. You can certainly have a preference for style/type food combo icewine and botrytis for dessert or Riesling with seafood. This is the benefit in wine tasting in my opinion. Not impressing your friends with a 98 score wine but matching food appropriately.
Revenue is a vanity metric. That's a new one.

This seems like an interesting way to justify shortcomings of dmor's momentum index. So:

- Mentions in TechCrunch > Revenue
- Conference presentations by CEO > Revenue
- Klout score > Revenue

This is some combination of naive, farcical or dumb.

Of course, you can throw out Facebook as an example of what over-optimizing for revenue would have done to them but this is survivor bias at its best. You could also look at Pets.com, Webvan and Kozmo from a bygone era to see what a poor monetization plan does. Note: it's not just revenue that is important but revenue > COGs.

(Note: Yes I know. This time is different. I'm an idiot.)
Wow, I'm going to go try this! Portal runs "surprisinly well" (eg. great performance but it has occasional graphical glitches) on my machine (Arch x64, Intel HD 4000), so I'm curious to see how HL2 runs.

I understand Valve hasn't gotten the bugs out quite yet, but this is an excellent start.

Edit: Oh man, "Half-Life 2 (Beta)", "Half-Life 2: Episode One (Beta)", "Half-Life 2: Episode Two (Beta)", and "Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (Beta)" are all in my steam library. It's like Christmas all over again.
Not sure why delackner is getting downvoted. Clearly these debit cards did not have $45M on them, so this certainly sounds like they managed to overdraw the accounts (by a massive factor).
Why not just call it a bookmarklet, and explain what a bookmarklet is?

"Browser button" is really vague, and most users, including those who know what bookmarklets are, won't know what it is either.
are you asking if latinos experience more racism in nyc on average when compared to other parts of the country?

i'm not sure.

i can say that you will likely experience racism directly when hailing a cab. i am guessing that cab drivers assume black and latino folks live far away from the bar scene, in neighborhoods where not many people are looking to take cabs. these cab drivers reason that picking up a black or latino person will result in a long drive to drop off the passenger, and a long drive back to a neighborhood that will have enough bar traffic to find another passenger. if you try to hail them, they will simply drive by and look for another passenger. i am basing this off several encounters i've had with friends who are black and latino, but no hard evidence otherwise.

there is likely some racism you will experience in predominantly rich, white neighborhoods as well, but mostly things on the level of being mistaken for a waiter or something.

i can't really say for sure though, don't have a lot of data for latinos.
The point is that it isn't suppose to be the news to report it. Your bank should let you know, and let you know what they are doing it to prevent it in the future, etc. Otherwise everyone would be up in arms over something that may have been out of their banks control.
A scientific writer should state this result as 6 of 53, not 11%.
Open a port for your ip to a Amazon EC2 security group (OSX)
I always go with advisor over adviser because, I believe that advisor looks "right" as you look at it whereas, adviser looks strange.

The statistics back this up as well specifically, the exact global searches in Google which are as follows:

Advisor - 74,000

Adviser - 33,100
a few years ago Reddit was a totally differant community. I think word got out and more and more people got into it and it evolved into what it has become...i still head over there once in a while, but most of the posts are not any good anyhow...reminds me of the old DIGG
"In order to rule out the role of personality, we first identified Openness as the most consistent correlate. This trait was then statistically controlled for, along with two other important individual differences: the tendency to be drawn into stories and gender. Even after accounting
for these variables, fiction exposure still predicted performance on an empathy task."

This methodology is fundamentally flawed. There is no technical fix to get around the fact that you cannot distinguish between reading causing more empathy, or greater empathy causing more reading.

They are trying to measure the relationship between personality traits and reading, and then claiming to control for personality!
There's a simpler reason, essentially the "follow the money" argument: It would have been A LOT cheaper (literally $trillions) and A LOT easier to quietly carry on supporting Saddam's regime in exchange for cheap oil. Hell, he could probably even have been convinced to hand over some inconvenient Shia "terrorists" and be applauded as a responsible ally in the war against terror.
Strange article. I've spent a lot of time in one of the finest winelands in the world (Stellenbosch) and I used to be a supertaster (with blindfolded tests to prove it to sceptical friends) and I've blended some of my own.

It's definitely all very personal, subjective and prone to loads of outside influences. Are the limitations of language partially at fault? Probably. Are wine reviewers pompous? Mostly. But is there really an incredible variety of flavors and textures in red wine alone? Yes there is. And don't get me started on cognac and whiskey.
I was about to ask about this. RubyMotion seems amazing, but sometimes objective-c is about just opening that auto-complete and seeing what methods are at your disposal.
You haven't noticed it in the past because it wasn't there.

That isn't a pane in jsfiddle, it's the result of the 'firebug-lite-dev.js' external script being included in the jsfiddle.
Great video.

Exactly how you should compare a product to the competition. Especially if you're the underdog.
I am very keen to know what Apple thinks about RubyMotion.
It seems like a fine tool; but it's not typical Apple to allow external commercial vendor to influence it's core development environment.

Anyone from Apple, or anyone that gained the sense in events like WWDC, care to share?
I lived a stone's throw from the Singapore GP for several years. The racket was godawful and basically made the neighborhood unlivable for the three days the circus lasted.
Because they're associated with high status, culture and sophistication. It's a way to signal that you are part of the affluent, upper class.

And no, I don't agree with the value/emphasis placed on it either.
I think this is a straw man. Astronomers, astrophysicists, etc. go to enormous lengths to address these issues over time and are well aware of the shortcomings of their work. When black holes were predicted, none had been observed. I'd suggest that astronomy is a terrible place to make claims about irreproducibility.

Cosmology on the other hand...
If the variable's value contains any format args, e.g. %s, then NSLog (or printf, or whatever string formatting function you're using) will look for another argument, which you didn't actually pass, so it starts looking at garbage stack values.

Besides causing incorrect output, this may crash your program, or potentially be a vector for an exploit.
Hear me out. I fully understand your statement but I feel you may have failed to judge my comment in it's full context.

The person who made that calculator wasn't inexperienced. He knew that building a calculator with CSS is objectively a bad idea. He built it anyway just to see how ludicrous it would end up being, for laughs. That's truly the real hacker spirit.

In this context my comment stood for "Well done, but you know that was a complete waste of time". Or as one of his friends said on his Google Plus page: "What a crazy hack!" https://plus.google.com/115030581977322198102/posts/Qo6T85W8...
That's not a putdown. It's in a way a compliment.

I would also argue that most users on HN want to get negative feedback but that's a separate issue.

I'm really sorry that you criticized me publicly without allowing me to defend myself so I had to create this other account. Sorry about that.
You know, unless Junior wants to go pro.

Are you talking about the video games? I have local friends who have more children than I have, and two of the boys in that family traveled overseas to try out the professional gaming circuit in one of the countries with serious gaming pros. (That family is very supportive of children trying out their interests, to its credit.) After the boys made the trip, they came back here, and if the last report I heard about their activities is still current information, they are buckling down in their studies and pursuing other careers.
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This seems like an awesome example of Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.
We've also been fighting for much longer than 5,000 years. It sounds like the General is a young-Earth creationist which, if true, doesn't give me much faith in his intellectual capacity.
It's totally conscious, unsustainable revenue was our vanity metric for Referly. If you followed to Ecomom saga it was quite similar, we just pulled the plug sooner (and had no physical inventory).

As to SxSW, lol I can't deny I did enjoy taking that dig at all the attendees who should be at home working on their startups.

P.S. I've figured out you don't like me by now codex, but somehow I'm gonna win you over
I'm so very surprised that the media didn't put as much energy into her retractions that people heard about this.
Alright someone cover me: I'm going in...

Why on earth would you say that?
untog didn't say that being successful and going to an Ivy League school are mutually inclusive. Untog said that attending an Ivy League school suggests the individual will be successful. This says nothing positive or negative about other schools.
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The difference between median market rate rents and median stabilized rents are quite small outside of Manhattan south of 96th Street.[1] Many neighborhoods have large number of nominally rent stabilized being offered for preferential rates (i.e. below the legally allowed maximum rent.)

Also, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx have plenty of nice, and dense, housing. You should try leaving Downtown Manhattan by Disney World (tm) every once and a while.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/realestate/rent-stabilized...
> The other party trick that night was trying to distinguish between red and white wine whilst blindfolded and holding one's nose. Apart from one person, the results were more or less random

Not surprising, given that the sense of smell is a significant part of our experience of taste.
Alternative bookmarklet that does basically the same thing (only tested in latest Chrome):

javascript:(function(){ var a = document.createElement("a"); a.href="mailto:?body="+encodeURIComponent(window.location); a.click();})()

Unminified:

var a = document.createElement("a");
a.href = "mailto:?body=" + encodeURIComponent(window.location);
a.click();
Do you think that perhaps the humiliation, shame, and complete social rejection by friends, peers, and strangers alike could make you lose your sense of humor about a stupid video you recorded when you were 14?

When a teenager who is barely out of adolescence and is already picked on for his weight and nerdy interests gets hit by something like this it's basically a hydrogen bomb on whatever meager social acceptance he had accumulated up to that point.

In other words, give the guy a break.
Well-moderated subreddits can often rival HN for more niche topics.
3D-printed gun files pulled offline at State Department's request
This is an advertisement for an eventual product. We may as well be discussing the merits of Ron Popeil's latest blender infomercial. So let's stop voting up every ridiculous article submitted by this blog already and get back to real content.
This article leans rather heavily on fallacious arguments.
Taste is a weak sense -> Wine tasting is bullshit.
On a subjective measure people varied within a range ( of only 8 points ) -> Wine tasting is bullshit.
People are subject to anchoring effects -> Wine tasting is bullshit
Other senses play a powerful role in perception -> Wine tasting is bullshit

Worrying argumentation. The studies themselves could be interesting though.
When is a short story a short story?
I wrote this in my blog, but what I would really like is for people here at hacker news to give me their answers to the questions posted in it. Thanks Everyone!!!
Eh. I absolutely agree with this analysis for the major subreddits. The ecosystem and quality of content has definitely decreased.

However, I still find plenty of very high quality content in smaller subreddits. I wasn't a Digg user myself, but I suspect the subreddit aspect of reddit is the difference maker: folks seeking HQ content can stick around in the smaller corners while the more popular corners of reddit become mainstream.

And here's an anecdote: over the years, I've noticed more and more of my non-technical friends becoming reddit users. But most of them seem almost oblivious to the fact that there are subreddits outside of the ones you're subscribed to by default.

[EDIT] - spelling, thanks sliverstorm
Can a legitimate copyright holder file a preemptive counter-claim, such that any attempt to remove their work _must_ be forced through a court order to restrain infringement? It would seem that such a tactic would be less than tenable for illegitimate uploaders, while allowing legitimate holders to avoid the onerous downtimes that can be brought on by a false claim.
I thought this would be able the misogyny, racism and paedophilia.
Actually, small players like startups and independent developers are the least likely to get hit with patent problems. It's only because the few trolls that sued a lot of small guys got a huge amount of publicity that it seems like a big problem. These trolls are abusing the cost asymmetry of patent litigation, and something needs to be done about this, but they are still relatively rare. Unfortunately, this problem shows signs of growing fast.
Digg V4 and the instant and immediately death of Digg is what brought reddit's eternal September. It isn't reminiscent of Digg, it is Digg in every way except layout.
I agree. No child should ever be allowed to be anything less than the best student in their class.
Required reading : Paul Graham; why nerds are unpopular

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

This is an incredibly insightful piece, one of the best. It talks about how, as a society, we shunt kids into a lord of the flies situation, and we force them to build skills that have little use outside the schoolyard. The problem is a lack of mentoring and not treating adolescents as people entering adulthood, but rather as a problem to be managed.

Lots of cultures have initiations and rites of passage, and into this modern void hazing, bullying and downright weird stuff has popped up amongst peers rather than elders.

I don't have the answer but it does cause a lot of problems.
The local subreddits for your city or sports team are great.
I came here to post this exact point - but you beat me to it. No idea who downvoted you or why - this is a really good point.
Nah, too risky at this point. If Clarium was still putting up numbers, maybe. But I doubt Calpers or any big institution is going to throw more money at a struggling outfit hiring high school kids to head the fund.