skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One component in humor is taking an idea out of context. This is in some ways related to "lateral thinking" where you try and brainstorm by randomly changing marketing bits (price, place, promotion, product) to come up with a new way of seeing things. I think some people with a creative/entrepreneurial mindset automate this process in their heads. So you could see humor as a similar creative process to that of some innovators: being able to see the world in a slightly different/skewed way. In one case, it makes you laugh because of the incongruity, in another, it may help you see ideas for businesses where others do not see them.
Hehe, awesome :P Thanks for the post.
Sorry, when I saw you describe taking the insurance as "hubris", that looked to me like a value judgment.
I don't have a specific recommendation outside of checking out usual places like Craigslist and asking your friends/family if they know anybody who is looking for work. However, you will be able to increase your potential options if you weren't limiting yourself to people who can work in your office every day. There's advantages and disadvantages to that of course.
Based on Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, I would suggest that it is a case of substitution: We (often unconsciously) substitute a hard question for an easier question. In your examples, that might be: Did you have good experiences with immigrants? How do you feel about war more generally?

Those judgments aren't necessarily bad in themselves. For example, as a pacifist, I might be happy to err on the side of non-interventionism as long as the situation is sufficiently unclear.

These substitutions only really become problematic when we close ourselves to new data that might change our mind.
A real response would be "we blocked this app because $reason". This is just corporate BS. Great experience my ass.
How do you know what kind of attack vector was used?
Care to elaborate? I thought the Cookie Law was dead.
Not sure if my homeland Northern Ireland is good example for defining ethnicity. I've rarely heard anyone talk about our "two communities" as ethnic groups, and even your own descriptions are political (Unionist/Nationalist) and religious (Protestant/Catholic). Ethnicity is not a clearly defined term and in a "post-conflict" place like Northern Ireland, I think we intentionally avoid terminology which can encourage a sense of division. It also suffers from the same deficiency as the word "race" when it comes to mixing. Even if we can say that this community predominantly came from English and Scottish settlers and this community predominantly came from "native" Irish, how many people today can say that they only have ancestors from one of those two?
A wise man once said there is no such thing as a bootable system, only systems that have booted. Many OS updates will change something in the boot process (maybe the kernel, maybe some init scripts, etc.) and you need to reboot to be sure that stuff is still working. Likewise any change that would require the user session to logout/login might as well force a full reboot.
Are you speculating or can you point to some evidence? My understanding is that the numbers report "registrations", not "sales", which would be contrary to your assertion.
VW probably also doesn't want their product lines necessarily linked together in people's minds. I mean, if you're looking to buy a Porsche or Lambo, do you want people thinking VW Beetle?

Same reason why Lexus doesn't play up their Toyota lineage.

So, VW group (and all large manufacturers) necessarily have to limit their press to the individual product lines as opposed to the whole auto group.
More like national service as per Israel, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland then?
Linux doesn't appear in the English version of that page, but it does in the German one that they are serving me (ignoring accept-lang, geolocating my IP, I guess)
The difference in cost of benefits such as health, eye, dental, life and disability insurance, particularly if dependents are included can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars a year more for one employee than for another.

Do you want to haphazardly compensate your employees like that, without it even being bargained for during the hiring process? Wouldn't it be better to negotiate a total compensation number instead? You could potentially be looking at a whole different class of employees for the same total money.

Though maybe the (irrational) bad will generated would wipe out the gains.
MIT Students use shock therapy to stop their Facebook addiction
Gluten Free Scanner for Android
Not really, Tesla makes a sports car comparable to the Porsche.
Linus is actually a darned nice guy.

Until you push shitty code into his kernel.
I was going to suggest that the article submitter copy the article title directly from the source in order to avoid misspelled words, until I realized the original article also misspells "resistance" as "resistence".

And finally, I noticed that the article's author submitted the link -- he's not a fan of the author, he is the author.
"Provided that" as a condition does not imply any temporal order (in English at least).
There was no fair warning: the title doesn't make it clear whether the event is over.
Bureaucrats and the growth of bureaucracy.
Reflections on Authoring a Minimum Viable Book
It's a good thing Node.js doesn't have to worry about synchronization between threads... :)
I agree with all of those, to me is just seems like transformation into stack-based language should be made as part of the compilation process, not written down by the programmer. Maybe it's just me, I totally admit that I'm not used to thinking in concatenative languages as I've never used one, but mathematics, with named variables and control- and data-flow denoted by functions or sequential lines of operations, seems the most natural notation to read, write and think in.
The page also tries to load a mp3 file using Real Player. Sounds bad... Is that some known exploit?

Real Player is so rear this days, so at list it wouldn't be my first choice if you only wanted to play a song.
I'm up in Westlake Village and it's almost daily. My first grade daughter points them out to me ( I talk to her about cool logos and over such things ).

She will say, "Daddy theres a Tesla logo. "
I'll say, "Where and what color." Immediately followed by, " Oh yeah, right you are. Good eye."
That stuff is being built by CoreOS which is technically a different project but I suspect many people will end up using CoreOS and Docker together for maximum DevOps. Since Chrome/CoreOS and OSTree have different philosophies it might be worth exploring both ways to do it.
What I find interesting is that the racial breakdown is still so racist.... White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, Other/Multi-racial ??? It's shameful! It's racist because only the White cohort shares any measurable uniformity. Blacks are African-Americans of slave decent, North, East, South, West, and several other groups in between Africans, Asians are even more differentiated. Really??? Tadjiks, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Malaysians are all just Asian?

It's such a degenerate, lazy, white-centric breakdown. It's a disgrace.

Nice map though!
Except you are implicitly assuming that if you get into a severe car accident and are unconscious and can't prove you can afford surgery, you will still get treatment. This only happens because we mandate treatment and the rest of us bear the costs of it. Congrats on 'contributing "
Securely Citing Datasets
Not really. If Tesla were trying to be profitable (which it is not) it might be. Tesla is in growth mode, trying to sell cars and continue building the infrastructure to support the rollout of the Model X SUV and lower priced sedan.
I avoid travel to the US where possible. But when I do I opt out of their scanners.

I figure that if my privacy is going to be violated anyway to enter the States, at least I want to look the person in the eye while they do it.
This is every car makers strategy too... most (all?) of the gadgets and safety gear that are available in modern lower-end cars were developed in higher priced product lines (or even racing models). Power locks/windows, Satnav, power steering, anti-lock brakes, etc...

The higher margins help pay for the development of what will be standard features 5-10 years down the road.
The other thing to remember was Windows was still 16 bit at the time. Linux started off as 32bit. Being free was great, but I would have also (and did) payed for a 32 bit operating system at the time. I actually used OS/2 in the mid-90s before moving to Linux.

I can't stress enough how basic it was. Getting the kernel up and running was only 1/2 the battle. Getting X to run was a significant undertaking, and probably more difficult.
OR... you go and live in a country that makes sure everybody can go to a dentist for little money
You normally only hear jokes propagated if they're funny. You have a selection bias.
I see the NSA as filling the traditional role of god in the human psyche. In the same way that people have subscribed to atheism, I think there will be people who just decide to live without fear of the NSA and ignore the surveillance or embrace it in a rebellious way (such as innovating in ways to combat surveillance or trolling agents who are presumed to be watching). I'd like to see more research into that.
Show HN: Easy to use Wikipedia API for Python
Jobrupt
IANAL but I think you could argue it's a violation of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act
Funny though that they didn't flush the incorrect cache on their (Google's) own DNS service.
If it's Android-only, why do you show in iPhone on the landing page?

edit: just saw your About page, it's full of attempted SEO keywords. http://glu10freeapp.com/about.html
Your demands to be left alone would be much more convincing if you would sign a forfeiture of your right to participate in the US medical care system above a certain price point, per year. (Assuming we could enforce it)

If, when the care required to save your life cost above, say, $10k in one year, you agreed to die -- then I would consider you to be taking the notion of individual responsibility seriously. As it stands, you are proudly forcing the rest of us to bear your risks.
Reading this, it doesn't sound all that different from Serfdom in Europe. Essentially, people were tied to the land, and in return the noble provided protection.

The main difference seems to be the centrality of supply distribution. With serfdom, the serfs were basically required to work for the lord/noble and then had to also do their own food growing/production to survive. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom)

Having a central authority ensuring no-one starves and everyone had all the essentials allowed for much better specialization and efficiency. Other cultures evolved into similar specialization via trade and offered distributed societies. The Inca-style state would have similar limitations to Soviet Union, where all goods that were not produced within its boundaries were virtually unattainable by the common people.

This also stifled innovation in areas that the state was not focusing on. Just look at the Soviet consumer car manufacturing sector - an automatic transmission was virtually unheard of until 90s imports started pouring in.
Not a proper answer - but h.264 has one clear goal, good compression ratios at good quality. Performance is secondary and as such h.264 is pretty expensive. This makes it a little silly for small assets where filesize is not a concern.

Little emoticon stuff makes more sense with GIF which are very inefficient with filesize but with very very little performance overhead.

This is just 'my gut' like you have said. A proper analysis of the performance of h.264/GIF vs resolution would be nice though.
Porsche and Jaguar both sell very direct competitors to Tesla. Which makes it even more impressive that Tesla's one model is outselling those brand's in their entirety.
> There is a secular trend going on, in which launching a start-up is a more common thing to do. It used to be there were two things you could do after college: go to grad school or get a job. Soon, I think there will be three things: go to grad school, get a job, or start your own company. I suspect this will be one of these economic transformations on the scale of the industrial revolution.

That's a very interesting topic, and is something I wonder about too. Historically speaking, the amount of capital required to start an internet company these days is amazingly low. Will this last? Maybe in the future, to even get started, people will need more horsepower in terms of servers, or storage, or something like that, and this low-capital period will be seen as an anomaly. Or maybe the trend will continue and spread to other fields. Are there others that are ripe for a similar transformation, where it gets super easy to start something new?

Also, I like this quote/thinking:

> The way you'll get big ideas in, say, health care is by starting out with small ideas. If you try to do some big thing, you don't just need it to be big; you need it to be good. And it's really hard to do big and good simultaneously. So, what that means is you can either do something small and good and then gradually make it bigger, or do something big and bad and gradually make it better. And you know what? Empirically, starting big just does not work.
I would like to point out that nobody really sees liberty in the abstract as a winning interest in the abortion debate. Pro-choicers clearly do not care about the "liberty" of the fetus, while pro-lifers clearly do not care about the "liberty" of the woman.

The whole issue arises because liberty in the abstract cannot have a full victory, because different kinds of liberty collide.

So then you have those who think society's interest in population growth trumps the woman's interest in self-control, and those who think the opposite.

Something similar is true in gun control. If the liberty of gun ownership ends up severely restricting certain people's liberties - after all, you can't really exercise any form of liberty when you're dead - then gun control debate isn't really about liberty in the abstract.

Of course, that doesn't prevent people from phrasing it as such as a matter of rhetorics.
Got to Tofino. Stay on Cox Bay. http://www.pacificsands.com/ I live in Vancouver and when I need to leave the concrete beast this is my favourite place.
Sometimes they randomly open and close security lines between scanners and metal detectors. To avoid the hassle, I pick the lines that are obviously headed to a metal detector. When I opt out, I do it firmly but politely, and never had anyone say something except one time a TSA man said "You know this isn't dangerous radiation, right?" I just said "It doesn't matter. I'm opting out." I always take the pat-down in public and they vary a lot in quality.
Let's name a company that loosely sounds like "orgasm", that we cannot pronounce. Genius.
The article's lead photo shows a frame from a movie version of 1984. The actor depicting the freedom-seeking protagonist, standing in front of an image of Big Brother, later depicted a near-identical Big Brother character in the 1984-ish V for Vendetta.

All too often those young idealists morph into the power structure they seek to topple. They may not start out with the objective of dictatorship per se, but they know no other path than to impose their own.
Except it's not only informationless hyperbole, it's also just a tired catchphrase at this point. Witness the thread from yesterday on the verge story covering the same post that is this submission[1]. You'll notice a "Don't be evil" and an "Open always wins" comment there too. Mix in some beowulf clusters and netcraft confirmations and we can be well on our way to generating these threads via markov chains. No humans needed!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6273292
Porsche was the most profitable auto company prior to the merger, so not sure this is relavant.

Porsche is profitable because (1) they are cost effective to produce; and (2) the effectively sell at well above sticker value, as the options are significantly marked up.

So, their model is very effective in terms of pulling dollars out of the pockets of those in clined already to buy a porsche.

While still leaving a base model within reach for some as well.
I apologize if my previous reply came across as too curt. But I think a sharp distinction needs to be drawn between two work systems that are quite different:

A. Market based, in which a certain reward is provided for performing a certain amount of work. Workers are generally free to come and leave, and respond accordingly to variations in wages.

B. Command based, into which workers are essentially corralled by threats of force (explicit or implicit), and often provided with nourishment so they can keep laboring until their obligation is fulfilled.

It's possible to talk of "payment" under scenario B [1], but it cheapens the term and it definitely doesn't indicate market-based relations. Transfers of food and drink (which make for poor currency, especially in places that are already minting coins [2]) are on the contrary a good indication of the corvée system at work.

[1] See e.g. this Wikipedia entry: "Corvée [...] was unpaid labour imposed [...] by the state [...] The corvée was the earliest and most widespread form of taxation [... The] Medieval agricultural corvée was not entirely unpaid: by custom the workers could expect small payments, often in the form of food and drink consumed on the spot." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvee

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_daric
I think i understand what you are saying. Let me rephase...

That the likes of Gregory and Toobin are acting as they are is disheartening. Suppose David Gregory had been put in the position of Greenwald. I realize he was probably given his position as a "readjustment" from his predecessor, and perhaps he feels the need to play that role, but what kind of self respecting journalist would sit on the story that every american was having every communication recorded and saved. It seems a bit shocking, and frankly, unbelievable that one would pass up an almost certain pulitzer because... not even sure why.
Though surprised by the proof, I'm not surprised by the gist.
I would as much be wont to read the New York Post for any worthwhile commentary on rich people as, say, read The Atlantic for sports coverage.
> Once you play at top competitive tier in SC2, every other game is honestly a joke (videogames, not boardgames). What other games REQUIRE you to have 300APM? None, that's how many.

There are plenty of other highly competitive games that are just as difficult as Starcraft, but in different ways.

Dota 2 and Counter-strike are highly team-focused games. You need a crazy amount of teamwork and strategy to compete at high levels.

Quake is a game that requires a godly amount of spatial awareness and ultra-precise twitch precision. Most shots made in the game are faster than the limits of human reaction time to visual stimulus. They are possible because they are responding not only to visual stimulus, but to intuition. Cues like footstep sounds, knowledge of the map, thinking in the mind of your opponent, are all enough information to deduce where exactly to shoot your gun.

Imagine being given 50 milliseconds to click exactly on a single flashing pixel on your screen. People make those type of shots all the time in top-level Quake matches.

Here is a video of a compilation of clips of the two best Bulgarian Quake CPMA players fighting other players, and each other, in 1vs1 matches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q76UNcuKSVY

Most of the shots are made before the enemy is even visible on the screen! And the railgun shots at 1:10 and 3:12 are examples of those one-pixel hits. Not to mention their mastery of the difficult movement system gives them added speed and agility.
"In the plex" and "I'm feeling lucky" - both are very good and offer very different angles. As you can guess by the name first is more formal history whereas second are memoirs of a their marketing guy who has got a very good sense of humour :)
How do I get people to read my announcements?
Hi all. I work at a mid-sized public university and employ roughly 40 student employees that troubleshoot tier 1 style technology issues. I regularly need to notify them of new initiatives, and ask for their feedback, among other things. In the past I have emailed them, but find that very few actually read the emails. Immediately at my disposal I have email, a group discussion board, and walkie talkies they all have access to.

So my question is, how do I best ensure that people read/get my announcements? I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks!
Turns out I was trying to get a hardcover. It worked just fine with a paperback.
Do good looks correlate with higher salaries?
Daniel Hamermesh, a professor of economics at UT-Austin, has done extensive work on the economics of beauty [1]. His most famous finding is that better looking people make more money than their less attractive counterparts. This effect holds true even after controlling for factors like gender, intelligence, and industry [2]. Furthermore, it isn't only observed in jobs like entertainment or customer service where it makes sense for beauty to be an advantage. Studies have shown that good looks lead to better outcomes in professions ranging from lawyer to NFL quarterback [3][4].

Hamermesh's research has found that there is both a beauty premium (i.e. above average looks earn more than average looks) and an ugliness penalty (i.e. below average looks earn less than average looks). On average, the best looking Americans can expect lifetime earnings $230,000 greater than the least attractive. And while It might seem intuitive that looks carry more importance for women, evidence suggests the opposite might be true. Attractive women make 12% more than unattractive women while attractive men get a 17% boost over unattractive men [5].

Labor markets aren't the only place where beauty plays a role. Studies have found that attractive people have wealthier spouses, get more and better loans, and receive less harsh prison sentences [6]. In fact, new research suggests that the better looking not only make more money but are also happier and have higher life satisfaction [7].

For your amusement, here is a picture of Dr. Hamermesh, the face of beauty economics.

[1] I had the good fortune to take Principles of Microeconomics with Dr. Hamermesh. He was an outstanding teacher who made theories clear and applications relevant. If you're a current or future UT student, I highly recommend his class.

[2] Beauty And The Labour Market

[3] Beauty, Productivity, and Discrimination: Lawyers' Looks and Lucre

[4] Good looking quarterbacks make an estimated $300,000 more than unattractive QBs after adjusting for productivity. Do Pretty-Boy Quarterbacks Make More Money?

[5] The Economics of Beauty - Are Attractive People More Successful?

[6] The line of beauty

[7] This effect is relatively weak. A one standard deviation increase in attractiveness predicts an additional 0.08 standard deviations of both happiness and satisfaction. Roughly half of this increase is accounted for by the economic gains associated with beauty. Beauty Is The Promise of Happiness?

[8] Here is Dr. Hamermesh in a hilarious Daily Show segment. Daily Show: Ugly People Prejudice.