skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Twitter is very popular with young people, according to reports about young people by middle-aged people" - Onion.

I have Twitter, but never use it, for the same reason I didn't have a Facebook account for a long time; very few people I know use it. I reckon it'll have taken off amongst UK university students by the end of the year, though.

I understand the comment about "self-branding", though I think that applies to younger teenagers. When I was in high school, I cared about making my MySpace profile a perfect expression of myself (without looking like I was trying to do so) - now I'm older, not so much. The comment about posting status updates to show how cool and exciting your life is rings true, but I don't think Gen Y is the only one guilty of narcissism, and we're not all that narcissistic.

In fact, I don't think the concept of "Generation Y" is a very useful one. It seems like the Boomers were very united as a generation against their parents values (at least how history seems to portray it) - us kids today, not so much. Very few people I know would define themselves as part of "Gen Y".
According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_Traveler the TSA allows these companies to collect and submit user information. The TSA then does the screening, and returns approval or condemnation.

It sounds like there were around 165,000 members. At $200 per person per year, that's $33M in revenue.

Apparently they raised somewhere near $100M in funding.

I wonder what their costs looked like.
They're not standardized, it's just course numbers like you said.
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I have no idea what the frig "generation" I'm supposed to be in.

I don't use Twitter because very little I find worth saying fits into the character limit. Twitter precludes any explanation or citation, so one can really only state a thesis or a single out-of-context fact. The sound-bite nature is just rather off-putting to me.

That said, I'm glad the thing exists. It seems like it probably gives people an outlet for the impulses that would otherwise lead to (for example) randomly shouting things in the streets.
One of the biggest advantages of Twitter in my experience has been using it as a conduit for customer service. When I had an issue with checking in at a Candlewood Suites, I tweeted about it and got a response from parent company IHG. Result? My night was free (and I didn't even ask for it). Now I go out of my way to recommend IHG hotels (Holiday Inns, etc.)

That's the coolest such experience I've had thus far, but advantages like that just add a whole extra layer on top of the social networking part of Twitter for me.
In hindsight, it's obvious that a country famous for internet scammers would have enough savvy people with access to the internet to have its own startups as well. Nice to see the positive side of Nigerian internet access for once.
exactly. It matters little anyways because it seems that Ahmadinejad and Yazdi were just going to prepare a coup anyways -- http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-279948

Choice words from this Yazdi figure: "Islam cannot accept that a group of people congregate and decide to initiate laws for themselves" (Ettela'at, 1 Oct. 1993) (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Taghi_Mesbah_Yazdi#Quo... )
We've nee collecting top rated news from Yahoo News, NYT, Washington Post, etc for the last 3 years. Almost all major sources have sections "Most viewed", "most read", "most email" etc. So as we have been collecting the top ranked news we also kept track of topics that have been top ranked at multiple sources. For instance, if a news article on Iran's riot gets to the top ranked in both NYT and Yahoo News it gets more points in our training set.

As far as your other point, Misleading is really a less legally loaded word than "deceptive". You are right, it's not very clear why the articles are misleading but the bottom line is that the language used in the article has high "deception markers" that other articles from the day. So when you sort by Misleading, it's not really that the article is beyond a doubt deceptive, it's just the ones with higher rate of deception markers (i.e. content and structural indicators associated with deception). The science behind is pretty solid and comes from forensic psychiatry - i.e. interviews/interrogations with criminals and analyzing their statements for deception hints. So for alack of a better term Euraeka essentially implements a linguistic polygraph.
Thanks for the other comments, we'll work on fixing the issues.
Most of them look like Nigerian versions of existing sites. Nothing particularly new.
Because of the digital divide, people with easy access to the internet and the proper education to use it are also unequally represented in an e-democracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-democracy
I usually despise concept work, but this is fantastic. They appear to have worried about all of the real issues: manufacturing, assembly, the fuse.

The sad reality is that I don't think it is enough better than an existing plug to warrant the effort.
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Are you conflating/clustering articles? ie what constitutes the "same story" in your system?

Those "most viewed", etc boxes are often placed by editors, not by impartial algorithms. How do you control for that?
why not just get another godaddy account and transfer the domains between them?
You realize that by stating "You haven't seen this before", you are just challenging readers here to find and name products and projects that are similar to yours, don't you?

Although I have to say, the editor that pops up for "Rewrite selection" looks extremely nice, although you might get in trouble for basically aping the look and feel of Word.
Pretty cool! I can see this being used in the classroom a lot.
I would be interested in a similar study on how the mind perceives software. The mouse pretty much seems like an extension of the body, but what about the keyboard? I'm typing this message right now without even glancing down once at my keyboard. How does that happen?

What about software that, over time, becomes "muscle memory"? Vim or Emacs, for example. Or UNIX shell tools (grep, awk etc.). What about programming languages? Sometimes I start thinking about problems in terms of whatever programming language I happen to be using at the moment. When I work on a project, I have a feeling of structure. I sometimes visualize OO code as various compartments. How does that work?
This is not all that surprising to me given the huge difference in performance and capabilities between the iPhone 3GS and the original EDGE-based iPhone. Upgrading after one year is a bit soon for all but the true Apple fans to upgrade. However, there are a lot of people who are accustomed to upgrading cell phones every two years or so, (at least in the US).
Great You should submit it to http://AppUseful.com
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Yeah, it's a smart move; motivating the HN community to research your competitors for you is very resourceful
I remember finding the whole generations concept fascinating when I first heard about it, but I think this quote from the Wikipedia article sums up my misgivings about the concept :

"Britney Spears is seen publicly as the female pop icon of Generation Y[19][20][21][22], due to her enormous music career success and pop culture impact during the late 1990s to early 2000s.
Eminem is also a huge voice for the Generation Y. His album "The Marshall Mathers LP" has affected many of the youths in that generation."

This is about as useful as saying "the average human has one testicle". I imagine the intersection of "people who like Britney Spears" and "people who like Eminem" is fairly small, yet you hear a lot of this kind of thing, where it's assumed that most Gen Y-ers were involved in all the trends of the 90s and 00s.

I can understand that there's certain cases where saying "x% of people born in the 1980s like y, compared to only z% born in the 1970s" can be informative. What doesn't work is when the media starts trying to amalgamate all the trends into a narcissistic, apathetic, social-network-using, ritalin-popping, blogging, twittering, hyperactive, Pokemon-playing, tech-savvy, lazy, childish, ADHD-suffering hip-hop listening, emo self-centred archetype.
I like it. Only negative for me was that it didn't seem to recognize my open ID (@gmail). But I did find it fast and intuitive. Too bad I'll never be able to sell my technophobic boss on it (who tends to sit at his desk and dictate micro-edits to marketing copy but also insists on receiving everything as email attachments).

I have some textual suggestions, but I'll add them directly on your home page when I get to the office later :) On a more general level, perhaps you could aim the community version at the wiki-using market, which might speed your adoption.
Nice app. BUT:

1, It looks a lot like the ( now defunct? ) ycombinator startup http://www.writewith.com/, which didn't gain any real traction.

2, For general purpose editing task, I find the realtime editor etherpad a lot more useful.
This is really quite cool. A few thoughts:

- When I click "claim your identity," it should take me to the create an account tab. At this stage, why not make that the default tab?

- I'm no designer, but the tan / pink / fleshtone color isn't working for me. If it's dear to you, ignore me. I just redid my site's color scheme because people told me it looked like a developer's hobby project, not a business tool. I used http://kuler.adobe.com/ and was pretty happy with results. On a similar note, anti-alias your logo and save as a png (with a background if you don't want to alienate the ie6 crowd).

- The killer use of this, IMHO, would be the ability to integrate your technology into an already existing block of text hosted elsewhere just by dropping a line of js into the page (like http://www.apture.com/). I know that's not a tiny feature, but I imagine a lot of bloggers would love to offer this sort of "live editing feedback" on their blogs (and might be a paying audience). Either that, or provide tools to "publish version to blog" and have integrations for popular blog software.

- More on screen help. This is really hard, particularly for an interface that requires users change their behavior. We're so used to looking at text and assuming it's static that we need some tooltips or something that says "here's how to use _this_ text." Maybe something that can be dismissed once a user has seen it (that's what we're doing), but don't rely on your document creator to add directions on how to use revizr in the document directions. They're already advocating for you by using your tool; don't make their job any harder by making them explain it to people they want to use it with.

- "Tag the new version" -- tags are cool and useful and keep things organized, but why do I get prompted to tag my version when I advance to a version? I'm trying to do one thing and the software is asking me to do another.

Overall, it's a really neat app; a mix of google docs, wiki, and document publishing, with better change documentation and integration control tools.

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Hope that helps, and good luck!
While the skills he are looking for are not something I think need to be taught, my experiences with classmates showed me that most don't have any idea what they are doing. In a class where we were supposed to be learning assembly language, I had to explain to more then a few people what the System.out.println() function did and java, and how to concatenate two strings. I'm unsure of how they couldn't figure this out by a 300 level course.
Barely on topic, I know, but the slate statue of Turing at Bletchley Park is really cool: http://www.stephenkettle.co.uk/turing.html
I can see Apple jumping on something like this - this solves more of a real problem than the magnetic connector does. (Albeit for a smaller market.)
I think you want to distance yourself from Word as much as possible. Look at Google docs even. The interface could use a sleeker look. But I like the idea and the execution a lot.
Umm, everybody's ancestors were slaves. I hope everyone on this board is really not that soft in the head.
I don't think it's limited to just developers. A lot of people are just plain rude.
Ha, good to see my friend Oo linked to on there (he's a Nigerian who studies at the University of Warwick, where he's been trying to build a startup community). According to him, in Nigeria, everyone knows that internet fraud (and politics) is the way to get rich, but there aren't the same role-models for entrepeneurs as there are in Western countries. Interesting stuff.
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Both are happening. However, basic employment protections are near impossible to gain in some states, such as the deep south.

On hate crimes, however, I disagree. A hate crime is not about targeting one particular individual; it is a terrorist act designed to instill fear in a community. A burning cross, a lynching is to create fear in black people, for example. "Don't date white women" was one in the 60s south. Attacking someone in front of a gay establishment is a clear message to invoke fear of congregation in the gay community.
My impression was that the "idea" he presented was not a piece of software per se, but what you can do using widely available tools. He said at least 3 times that the important part is that you can do this using a browser and adobe flash. That you also need a couple of libraries is pretty much obvious.

This being said, I'd expect that somewhere around the video to find links to the software he used. Otherwise the whole presentation doesn't really make sense.
I usually hate these tempest-in-a-teapot flame wars, but I'll actually have to disagree here. He gave a whole demo on stage claiming credit a bunch of times. I went to the FLAR toolkit page and downloaded the demo apps. This is exactly identical to the demo, just with the logos swapped. There is not one bit of original work that I can see. I'd like to believe it's an accident, but it seems like if I demoed Google with my logo slapped on it and accidentally forgot to mention that someone else wrote the search engine.

Download the toolkit and check--I'd love to be wrong, but I don't see how. And it would be unfair to pretend this is a slip a steal credit from the people who clearly spent years actually building it.
Debating the validity of Iran's election results at this juncture is kind of like worrying about whether Caesar is too ambitious after he's already crossed the Rubicon. Shooting peaceful people to death in the streets and cutting off any means for the outside world to learn about these atrocities tells us all we need to know about the Khamenei/Ahmadi regime.
The thought entered my mind to short $BA after reading this when you posted it. Today, Boeing made the delay official and the stock dropped 7% right at opening.

http://money.aol.com/rtn/pr/boeing-postpones-787-first-fligh...
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Ever think of that? Jerk.

What? People are targeted for reasons A, B, C, D all the way up through triple Z. The problem, so obvious that I'm ashamed to even bother typing it, is that A is not morally superior to B, even if the media frames it that way. Group membership should never suddenly allow one's self unequal protection under the law.

But it does, of course. With great, brain-dead righteousness it does.
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His complaint is with the company and he wishes to move to a new one.
Congratulations to these projects. Definitely a win for the open source community.
For average people, relentless promotional self-branding is basically absurd - it is like the twit who would rush to school to see the grades the moment they were posted - yah, you can do this, but most people would say, "get a life."

Speaking as a boomer, I would say most people like Facebook just because it provides for nice social interaction - it lets you keep up with people you want to keep up with in a non-intrusive way.

Twitter is good for specialized uses. If you have an expertise, or a strongly-typed business niche, your followers can keep up with your periodic announcements relating to your area. Since nothing meaningful can normally be communicated in 140-character chunks, tweets often are just pointers to more meaningful content. This is a non-intrusive way of pinging people for such business ends and works better than Facebook for this purpose.

I would guess Gen-Y doesn't yet have as much need for the specialized-use forum as it does for the social aspects of Facebook. Just a guess, though, since I am too far removed in age to know.
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That's very helpful, thank you.

This is what I love about HN: a few minutes after posting, someone has clearly used the app more and thought about it more carefully than some of the tech bloggers who actually covered us.
I think the functionality is great, however I think you should reevaluate your color pallet. Choosing bolder colors would be a great first step in my opinion.
That certainly strikes a chord with me. So how does one go about becoming a better satisficer? Or.. perhaps more importantly, how does one go about becoming the best possible satisficer?
This is very very cool.

Unfortunately, the UI sucks in Safari and basically doesn't work.

I would try to cut to the "this is an editable document" chase in the second paragraph. Maybe even the first. Probably the first. Definitely the first.

Awesome idea!
I was in fact referring to the United Kingdom.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2003/ukpga_20030044_en_14#pt...

The US does have constitutional measures against unequal protection, and so the situation is not so insane here (yet).
In case anyone else is as completely lost without context as I was, the NoSQL meetup was apparently a group of people interested in key-value stores, and Dynomite is the author's clone of Dynamo, a key-value store from Amazon.
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Yes, we definitely have clustering. In fact, it's more extensive than simple word distances like cosine b/c we also take into account synonyms and word relationships (set membership, etc). For instance, in our system sentences like "Tiger chases antilope down the river" is very closely "related" to the sentence "Lion is pursuing a buffalo by the lake" b/c both sentences essentially say that a large cat is pursuing a prey of bovine origin near a water source.
In terms of the "most viewed" and how we control for that - like I said we cross-track news on multiple news sites and weight the cross posted one more often. We also cross-validated the most important tags for an article by using Google Trends data. Basically we tracked topics on multiple sites and then performed some statistical analysis to see how those topics did over time based on their presence on the web (topic momentum and longevity). We also run a partial search engine in house that crawls a subset of the web so we can ensure that the numbers we get from Google/Yahoo are legit. Finally, there is linguistic theory of topic popularity and how memes propagate over time. We use some of that theory to control for the crowd effect - i.e. sometimes people pick up and spread topics that are of no real importance to the world. Example: Paris Hilton's latest escapades may be widely discussed online and appear important news but the latest report on the recession estimates and projections is of much higher "impact" to society. So we try to account/estimate some of that "impact". Combining all factors gives an article a composite score. No two article really have the same score but a lot of articles cluster close to each other in terms of their "importance" cores. We fed the articles in a machine learning algorithm that is a combination of Support Vector Machine, Neural Network, and Naive Bayes and when a new article is fetched by our crawler the model "preditc" its various scores (controversial, engaging, popular) based on the data set that it has already learned. Deception detection is much trickier and is almost entirely analysis based - i.e. no machine learning there. There is quite a bit of research on deception detection published online. Just search google for "deception detection ext:pdf" and it will come back with a lot of results.
I cant agree more.
Why I say I cant trust Facebook? Would you trust a company that spams you, with the intent of you signing up?
I receive at least once a month a mail from a facebook.com address. The mail contains some people names (mostly female, coincidence?) saying that this persons have profiles at facebook and that they are friends of mine (I know no one).
Perhaps theres some guy with my same name.
Either case this an annoying marketing technique!

pd1. I can post the mails if you want.
pd2. These are not the standard direct invitations that I also receive from them via some friend of me.
Sorry, PC manufacturers: netbooks are notebooks. Get used to it.
I'd like to believe it's an accident, but it seems like if I demoed Google with my logo slapped on it and accidentally forgot to mention that someone else wrote the search engine.

Perhaps I'm blind, but I didn't see his logo on there.

What I did see was a TED video being streamed over that square.

So, a more apt analogy would be: it's as if I took a laptop with a wireless connection to a part of the world that doesn't know about Google (let's call it Grahamia), and I said, "Look what we can do with this! We just type 'Grahamia' in there, and within seconds we get all these awesome bits of information about Grahamia. That's great, isn't it? Oh, my 2 minutes are over. Thanks everyone, hope this helped!"

If you have 2 minutes to get a cool piece of tech across and you decide to spend it talking about what technologies it relies on, I don't want to see your demos..
I'd rather pay for ringtones, knowing part of the part of the proceeds go towards mercilessly countersuing litigious scumbags like this :).
There's a good chance that if Apple considers it a big enough problem they'll redesign it from scratch. But some less-original laptop company may want to try it just for having an edge. Especially for smaller ~10" laptops.
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So in other words it's starting to work like every other smartphone and this will somehow destroy text messaging. Actually a large percentage of phones have IM built-in which is much nicer in use (you just browse your contacts and choose how to contact them, instead of having to decide how to contact first and then go to that app). Presence is often built in too, so when you view a contact you can see where they are logged in.
Very cool. One problem I have is that the edit menu feels a bit laggy to me - it takes a short while for it to open. Also, when you're clicking around the document, I would want more instantaneous feedback on what's going on, if anything. I have the sense that it is just slow.
If you're gonna be that pedantic, how did he create this piece of software after reading the tutorial?

Oh yeah, he wrote it.
Good point, I completely forgot that not everyone is as knee deep in distributed datastores as I am. Thanks.
It also reduces battery life to about 4 hours.