skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could software and voting solve the problem rather than moderators?

Initial title as set by first submitter. If there are multiple submissions an "Other titles" link appears on the comments page otherwise there should be a "Suggest title" link. On the suggest/other titles page it should be possible to suggest titles, vote on them and possibly even discuss them. The highest voted title (possibly needing n more votes than the current one) would appear as the main title.

This would keep the title the property of the community and allow it to reflect the views of those who have read the article rather than requiring moderator time.
It says "to achieve success" (think Candy Crush et al), not "to create a masterpiece".
Yep. Among the US population as a whole, lifetime illicit drug use is something like 50%. So I wouldn't be too surprised if it was that high among SV engineers.
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Disappointed to read, among other exclusions:

- "No self-help material (books, videos, etc). This includes projects that offer (or produce materials that offer) business, emotional, financial, health, medical, sex/seduction, or other self-help advice."

- "Kickstarter cannot be used to fund websites or apps focused on e-commerce, business, and social networking."
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Wasn't there a post here last year entitled: "Let's Disrupt Waiting Rooms"? The average doctor's waiting room has plenty of room for improvement, but using "Disrupt" in that context is a little hyperbolic.
Somewhat strange that HN links don't have the rel="nofollow" attribute, or else this particular angle wouldn't work.
What if a bot uses user-agent to look like it came from an end-user browser?
It seems like there is some backstory behind the phone and the versioning (this is the only phone currently offered until the Moto X next month, which has 4.2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Defy#Manufacturer_crit...

Sorry you think it's a "giant waste of money." I need a phone and I'm now saving something like $40/month over my previous plan.
No, see that's the problem. Way too many resources. I LOVE the idea of one book that takes me from start to finish, with no flab or wasted time learning something that isn't 100% relevant to making an app.

Alex, you are on to something HUGE. Resist with all your might the urge to bury people in "resources" to follow up on. There's too much information out there. Reign it in, filter it down and focus only on the bare minimum that must be done to get the app finished.

Not everyone wants to be a programming guru. Myself included.
Bold conclusions are more interesting, hence they hit hacker news more often.
This seems logical, however what about the person who updates rarely (once or twice a month) but get a lot of notice when they do. Search engines wouldn't want to miss the opportunity to get that traffic.
I wonder if there is some sort of reverse process you could opt into - ie never crawl me until I ask to be crawled.
Disclaimer: I know little about this sort of thing.
> I think it was a smart move on their part from the shareholder perspective (disclosure I sold all my Google stock at $650 :-(). The second order effects though will be interesting. You see if Google becomes just a catalog, sort of like SkyMall "Magazine" in airplane seats, then it risks losing all of its unique utility.

I think the main thing is whether Google can monetize the relevant results, without letting in the irrelevant ones.

I work for an online retailer, and we pretty much show up in all the places we always have, except that now we are paying for more of those spots. Some of our organic search results have fallen off a bit as Google emphasizes larger brand names, but I imagine they'll pick up via their Trusted Stores initiative or whatever the next monetization scheme is.
And this is mine:

https://github.com/ademakov/MainMemory

Though it's not a library, but it can be converted into one if needed. And it's not so lightweight already and I'm still working on more features.
It can hurt to apologize just in case. Maybe not in the case of strangers, but if you do it repeatedly with acquaintances, they could hypothetically start hearing all of your apologies as fake, even the sincere ones.
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The main reason is that it would be prohibitively expensive. The article covers this at a high level but doesn't go into details. The reason you pay $80 for a bundle is because channels like ESPN, HBO etc are expensive. Other channels like CMT, DIY etc are cheap. Bundles lets cable companies hide these costs and pass along the costs to the user. Would you pay $40/month to just add ESPN. probably not, you'd rather get $60 and get 120 channels.
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There are words that show empathy for the other person, but without putting yourself at risk of accepting liability. They can sound a bit mechanical sometimes, and reading from a script isn't much good.

Just letting someone know that you understand that they're stressed and annoyed or frustrated, and that you'll try to help them makes a big difference. At least, it does when people do it with me.
Please read my comment more carefully.

> To achieve anything similar to what Quake and Doom were at their time...

Most of the games are by no means as important as Wolfenstein/Doom/Quake were when they first came out. id software laid the foundation for the modern FPS genre and defined the way the industry evolved for years to come.

Instagram is just a dumbed-down flickr with a mobile app.
What instead of apologising for the rain, the apologized for the annoyance, "I'm sorry for bothering you, Can I please borrow your phone?" They should have tried that instead. If a stranger comes up to me and just says, "Can I borrow your phone?" without a preceding Excuse Me or Please, they will not get it, except if they are completely in distress.
Right, my mistake. Not sure why I was thinking they didn't get to vote at all right now, but still, yes owning a share of Class A doesn't entitle you to very much right now.
Any trading platform will let you buy calls and puts. They are called options. Here's a few examples: scottrade, ameritrade, etrade. I personally use ameritrade.
[Leanpub cofounder here.]

One great thing about this is that with Leanpub, the money you earn while your book is in-progress and selling is not an advance (i.e. a loan), it's earnings. You own your work, and you can sell it with a traditional publisher at any time.

We've had traditional publishers pick up a few Leanpub books, and attempt to get more. If you look at our bestsellers list (https://leanpub.com/bestsellers_lifetime) you can see why.

Leanpub raises the BATNA to doing a deal with a traditional publisher. Since we pay 90% minus 50 cents per copy in royalties, you earn $17.50 from a $20 ebook. The types of books that HN readers would write would do well to be priced at this price point. Authors choose the minimum and suggested price. So, if you sell 1000 copies at that price, that's $17,500; if you sell 5000 copies at that price, that's $87,500.

Because of this, lots of "niche" books that would sell fewer than 5000 copies (and not be worth it for a traditional publisher) are totally worth it to be done on Leanpub, just for the direct revenue. Plus if you consult, a book is a great business card...
I think an approach like Clojure's reducers might work, since it's possible to compose several higher-order operations and end up with no extra allocations or loops.
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Yes, the act of making an apology will be perceived as implying that the speaker is more than willing to help improve the situation, regardless of how we got there, thus what you said.
I got their by reading the entire page.

First, they warn people to back up their data regularly because there is a high chance of failure. Then they tell you that if you come and get a new drive you have to restore it on your own.

Perhaps you've never had to support someone who isn't technologically savvy, but basically if I show this to her she will be very scared that her sacred pictures of her grandson will be gone forever. She won't understand this page beyond "my data will go away and Apple won't help me".

Whether that is their intention or not I don't know.

The only saving grace here is that I set up backups for her a long time ago, but she's probably forgotten.
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first episode of [modern] Battlestar Galactica.
Some of the smaller players who've been complaining to the EU really, really needed to be hurt. They were spamming up the search results with their crappy "vertical search" pages which couldn't actually find anything - they just relied on SEO to get them ranked above actual search results and then hoped people would get desperate enough to click them.
I can't help but wonder about their attire.

consider for a moment your reaction to a person in a suite and tie who asked to borrow your phone. I posit that you would be more likely to agree and hand over your phone if the person is in a suit and tie compared to someone who you thought didn't look as well off.
I have a personal wiki that's powered by Org mode. My wiki has more than 2,000 documents, including many lists of development tools. Before I created a wiki, I had notes in various file formats and more than 10,000 bookmarks in Firefox.

One of my greatest regrets in life is not using Org mode sooner for notetaking. (My life has been uneventful.)
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Unless it is GPL 3 with it's anti-tivoization clause, you get nothing.

Either that, or we'd need a GPL 4 with an anti-warship clause.
From my understanding, due to massive abuse of the rel="nofollow" linkout, for the last several years Google has 1) ignored them by either still passing link-juice and/or incoming weight on terms (SEO), and 2) penalizes sites that use those types of links exclusively.
> On my 26" display I have almost never seen ads taking up all the space

It depends what you search for. If you search for something Google can monetize, like this search for sofas

http://i.imgur.com/KAZ6zuq.jpg

then little room is left for "normal" results. But if you search for something non-monetizable, of course less ads will show up.
>Portal, or a Half Life, or a Quake, or a Halo

Portal might not be a good example to use here. It's essentially version 1.0 of Narbacular Drop, which was made by a small team of students at DigiPen. Valve picked up the team and the retail version of the game never had more than 10 people working on it at a time.
It took exactly 22 seconds for the 'loading...' message to disappear. After this, I had to read blinking instructions, then keep pressing the down arrow, which doesn't really qualify as "interactive."

As the information was scrolling through my screen, I found it difficult to read but I didn't want to release the down arrow key because I wanted to be done with it.

Just my experience. My 'UX' experience, unfortunately.
Privately built roads, railways and pipelines have often solved this problem in the past. One way to deal with the holdout problem is to just buy options on land along various alternative routes, then only exercise the options once they collectively add up to a viable path.
"jwt web toolkit" and "neutron spin echo" are your best examples of results that might contain ads?

How about "playstation 4" for example?
edited my comment

There just need to be enough watchdogs.

A very simple solution would be that titles can be flagged by the community. Example below:

submission X by kdzsb 22 minutes ago | flag title | flag discussion | 9 comments

Moderators would simply edit flagged bad titles. Rather than having them to watch all titles (old rules) or no titles at all (new rules).
Submitted this a bit earlier with a link to the actual press release, but it never made front page.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/introducing-nvidia...
I wrote up a little more detail about the sensitivity of the 3 "colors" of cones in your eye: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4169772
Glad to hear it tarr11, if you guys find anything that's busted or could be improved, please let us know, we're always looking for ways to improve!
I never understood the complaints about verbosity in Pascal languages and the escape to C, Perl and friends.

Why not use APL then?

Programs are to be read, not to be write-only.
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It's also worth noting that when the submitter-editor finds a title that is more significant than the original one, a title that allows some interesting content not to get drowned in the "new" page, does a service to the community.
Carmack had some interesting notes on this, a couple being:

- This would be perfect for games common in emulation where frame rates are capped but vertical sync isn't used. https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/391303034745401344

- This technology will come later to laptop and mobile devices and sadly, he tried to get Apple to do this years ago. https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/391303627278925824
and stop "hacking" everything
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From the article:
"...What makes disruptive innovations so deadly is they’re not better than your product. They’re worse. Anyone who needed a mainframe at the dawn of the personal computer era would find a PC to be an incredibly lame and underpowered alternative..."

I particularly like the statement above. I think the PC example is a good one, and then smartphones/tablets did the same thing to PCs.
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Is Musk buying these things like this submarine car and an actual submarine as just a patron or does he actually need them for research purposes?
Presentations from entrepreneurs, a showcase with VCs and the public, and most importantly, getting a product out there on the market? Sounds like one hell of an opportunity. I wish I'd had that when I was his age.
But that does not fix the stupid title problem the person wanted to fix in first place.
I don't know if tpacek meant this instead, but how about writing an article briefly explaining why your title is better and then provide a follow on link to the article.

This has the advantage of getting the right title, getting out a link to the article, and having a quick synopsis of why the title change was made in the first place.
True, if it's a knee-jerk action.

If you get in the habit of empathizing with the people around you, though, and you do it well, that will continue to be valuable.
> Unless it is GPL 3 with it's anti-tivoization clause, you get nothing.

Warships are pretty clearly in the non-consumer market that is expressly excepted from the GPL v3 anti-tivoization clause.
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This is pretty incredible. I am in awe of your skills.
Sure did. It's sort of bittersweet because I really wanted to work for Microsoft since I was a kid but to me my salary is part of my worth and I don't want to undermine the value of my career by taking a lower pay.
I don't think the work is as challenging as it would have been at a tech giant (I'm pretty much a glorified UI/front-end web developer) but I do get to work alongside the Hollywood crowd which IMO is as exciting as working at a "cool" Silicon Valley gig. Also, I don't think startups pay much anyhow, especially in LA (I've had to laugh off some offers from the Santa Monica startups, sorry but $80k for a Senior Engineer is just ludicrous) - those jobs are better suited for the college grads.
Anyways, the above average pay in my case has to do with the fact that the studio makes a ton of money and are willing to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to talent (IT or otherwise), and that the area we work at has a very high cost of living.
These days I find Google is good for finding things you already know but don't remember. e.g. Number to my favorite Thai restaurant. But has become worse for finding things you don't know. I encounter this a lot when Im trying to find information related to my work but am not knowledgeable enough to narrow my keywords. Mainly programming or server related info....
Absolutely true. A tablet isn't as capable as a PC is, yet. Trying to do my taxes on my Nexus 7 would be a nightmare. But it satisfies a very good use case: a cheap, portable device for casual computing and media consumption. The only fundamental thing standing in the way of tablets completely eclipsing PCs is the input method. If we can get a good replacement for the keyboard/mouse on a touchscreen device, the days of traditional PCs could be numbered.
Coupled with the many recent articles highlighting the unreliability of studies like this, I'd say this research is worth exactly squat. Example questions for practicing skeptics: The actor either (a) asked for a phone or (b) apologized for the rain, then asked for a phone. Could it be that the study simply demonstrates that saying some other pleasant thing before asking for something makes the request more effective? Must it be an apology? Must it be about something the person has no control over?
ChicagoBoss offers a pretty low barrier for entry as well.
Much of modern economics directly inspires libertarian objections to state action. (Krugman and his acolytes notwithstanding.) I tend to think of libertarians as "liberals who learned economics".
Is this supposed to be a novel idea? I don't understand why Github is showing how to do such basic stuff, or why it is being upvoted.
Commander Adama is spinning in his grave over that one.
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It's not the greatest hack in the world.

It's just a tribute.
How about you lose, you pay? The "small pennyless inventor" is a romantic fantasy.
I'll be interested to see how wholeheartedly they pursue those ventures, and how many turn into real markets, but yes there are definitely potential counter-examples, I'm sure you could think of some for Apple too, like the now seemingly inevitable smart watch. I don't expect something with the impact of the ipod/iphone/google search from either of them now though, and glass to me is completely underwhelming because I have no interest in walking around with a camera on my person linked to google. Ubiquitous networked computing is coming though, and you could say that's a forerunner of it even if it doesn't pan out.

However Google's search and advertising business (which funds all the rest) has definitely been more focussed on revenue for a while, and Apple has that same feel to me (as a customer and developer) of a company which has peaked and been taken over by those more interested in generating cash than ideas.

Completely understand why you might not agree though.
Hi Kronopath, the app isn't on the App Store just yet. It was sent for review, meaning it could take another week or so before I actually know whether it will be approved for sale or not.
> because it's a gesture that shows the speaker is thinking of the other's welfare.

To many, apologizing has become a automatic reaction and they now apologize for everything. They don't say the person is thinking of others, nonsensical apologies mean that the speaker isn't thinking anything about you and just wants to get on with their day.

You did it in the next paragraph. You're not sorry, you probably don't give a damn about them, you just need to move on to the next person.
That's really scary, man. What if the system tries to reboot and crashes on the way back up?

It's happened to me before.

Go reboot that damn thing!
Phone companies paid a hell of a lot of money for spectrum. Verizon alone paid $17bn.

Anyway, television broadcasters are becoming irrelevant.
> Googalytics

Interesting that GA retweeted you -- I'd expect there to be a cease and desist on the way regarding your naming choice.
It's okay only if you carefully explain to the candidate, before the interview, that you may be using his/her ideas (even if you do not hire him/her).

If you do so without consent, you make your company look like dirtbags:

"No, they didn't hire me, they just wasted four hours of my time, and stole all my product ideas. Why pay a consultant when you can interview a sucker..."
An easy solution to the title problem is to display the original title (if changed) in small text under the new title on the comment page.
I mean that Mir will not replace X until 14.10, so the 14.04 LTS release will still use X by default. A lot of people have been worried about Mir being launched as the default desktop display server in an LTS, and when I spoke about it with Rick, he said that he wasn't planning for Mir to be the default in 14.04, and the reason why was that it was changing rapidly still, and the Mir they could put in 14.04 would likely not have stopped changing rapidly yet, but would have to be supported in a bugfix-only fashion for years after 2014.
Is there just one normal result there on that entire screen? Ouch.
Same situation exists in tech shops today, I feel. In my mind, outsourcing jobs to india and other places is the equiv. of contests on 99designs. you have many options, if you take the time you might find good quality, but it will never be as good as having an in house team with direct communications.

some companies have people in india, and others don't.
Interesting book: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Humor-Study-Logic-ebook/dp...

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IMHO it's a matter of experience. When I was young I believed that programming is about writing a lot of code that "just work".

Now, after many private and commercial projects, I know that is about reading and understanding code. And about eliminating bugs. :)
what's flawed about the study?
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Why don't you just scrape the actual title, and force people to take a few steps to change it if they feel like it needs changing?
Man that is one game-changing article. It has convinced me to downsize my use of business cliches, going forward. It plucks the low hanging fruit. It has totally shifted my paradigm, acted as the tipping point for my disdain of faddish phrases.
Serious question: does anyone know of a similar command-line/vim alternative?
Words I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from common use: "Disrupt", "Hack", "Stakeholders"
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You really took an extreme here. Those queries are so far from the mainstream that the fact that you don't see ads for those keywords doesn't invalidate your parent. Think outside of those niche queries to realize what a more traditional user sees.

A query like "LA Car Rental" will give you an idea of what the parent post describes.

If you want to stick closer to the tech niche, try "build iphone app". Even the query "java profiler" gets me four ads on the page.
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I find I had more social relationships in my early 20s before I had a long term girlfriend and we moved to a new area. It's only through conscious effort that we maintain friendships with a few other couples. It would be easy to be lazy and just spend time with my partner.

As people have kids perhaps they create new relationships with other couples with kids but they often grow apart from those that don't.

Work commitments have varied through the years depending more on the company culture.