skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could make everyone happy by adding a comment field to the submission form so that the submitter could add their own sub-title.
Global Slavery Index 2013
$1000 is meaningful on its own but not for the reasons most of these comments think: it's an awkwardly large amount to pay for a single share, and an even more awkwardly large amount to pay for a standard option.

Standard options are contracts of 100 shares, so that's $100,000 covered by a single option, which at current prices are about $2,500 each. This puts it out of the realm of small time investors, which is why GOOG is one of the few options available as "mini": 10 share contracts. Even at mini it's damn expensive per option.

I wouldn't be surprised if they split the stock at some point soon.
I always said that I'd gladly pay for cable when they let me pick and choose what channels I get. I refuse to pay $50+ when all I really want is maybe 5-8 channels out of the 120 they offer.
Why it’s time to support only Android 4.0 and above
Why mathematicians make great comedy writers
Well, that brought back some memories. Shouting into sound powered phones over the din of the engine room of a submarine is one thing, but trying to actually hear what the other person is shouting back... it must be the audio equivalent of learning to read doctor's prescriptions.
Thank you for clearing this up.

Has it been considered having a subtitle showing [previously titled: xxx] or some such when a title is edited?

Or possibly relying on a flagging feature along the lines of "misleading or editorialized title"? Rather than just changing all/most titles?
At the time of the troubles, Romero was portrayed as the 'indispensable one' (protip, everyone can be replaced) and threw down a very public gauntlet with Daikatana. It was not well received. Which for many proved that Romero wasn't the secret sauce Carmack was. But like Jobs/Wozniak, Lennon/McCartney, Simon/Garfunkel and any of a doze pairs who often did things together that were often better than what either could do alone.
I agree. Therefore, the need for obscurity begets user frustration begets obscurity. A closed karmic circle.
This makes a lot of sense. Latency is the #1 enemy on mobile, but bandwidth tends to be relatively okay. That's why streaming a video to your phone feels surprisingly fast, while everyday browsing feels sluggish. The obvious conclusion is to use fewer but larger requests, which is why Oboe is so attractive.
Pandora for tv? It sounds like a solid idea.
Not a sign of a business opportunity until you have confirmed people will pay for it. You have a long way to go until you have reached that point.

Meanwhile, develop your idea, and grow and nurture the community of interested people by communicating with them. Start a blog. Email your beta-signups. Get started in implementing your idea, in a pre-alpha version.

Keep testing for, and discovering the audience that will actually pay for the service. The minimum viable product merely creates the opportunity to then test for an audience. Minimum means just barely enough to show what's possible to the user, to test on your audience.
If you're worried about title originality, why don't you write a scraper instead of asking for people to submit urls manually? Would be more efficient. But, If you care about real people posting stuff, then they should be allowed submit whatever they see appropriate. To mitigate the frustration, I think you could allow urls to be posted multiple times with a specific scientifically backed grace period of "n-hours" until no more duplicates are allowed. People can still up-vote the titles they like best and the winner takes all, making the other titles appear like collapsed sub-captions below the main-title. Hope you understand what I mean. This would solve two problems at once. A) Custom title's, no censorship. B) Valuable data about winning-titles, that can be used to train a stochastic model to predict the best titles. How you use the data from B) is up to you.

I mean people aren't stupid enough to change the Title of the "Higgs Boson" to "Bananas".
Sorry, if this comes over wrong. I respect you and this is just critics on your software's policies.
>> It doesn't give China any leverage over the American government

Own a million to the bank, and it will dictate your life.

Own a billion to the bank, and you will dictate their life.
BlackBerry finally outshines Apple
Happened to me a couple of months ago. MacBook Air Summer 2012. One day, it would no longer turn on. Took it to Apple Store and was unable to find the disk. They replaced the drive and put the OS on it for me.
I'm pretty amazed that Frank X. Shaw still has his job; being openly aggressive to people who review your products doesn't seem like a smart strategy, especially in the twittersphere.
Certainly true, but when you're just starting out, that kind of thinking may not be there yet. You need some time with Slick to understand this, and it is difficult to get into it because it lacks the simple facilities. I actually spend a lot of time searching for these simple facitilies until I realized that they're really not there yet.
Accepting bitcoin: Cheese Wizards, Seattle geeky grilled cheese truck
After thinking about this for more than 1 second I guess a large portion of RVM that works after you have Ruby installed, such as rvmsudo, could be based on Ruby. Leaving the setup code written in Bash.
The latest in Arizona's startups (Slideshow)
Interestingly, you may have just fucked yourself, because the sudo session is maintained whilst launching Firefox.

If we create a script 1:

#!/bin/sh
echo "I'm doing something secure"

And then script 2:

#!/bin/sh
echo "I'm doing something insecure".
sudo echo "I'm doing something malicious".

Then run:

$ sudo ./script1.sh; ./script2.sh

Looks like Firefox has access to your banking user :)
That means you are paying $8/month, or $96/year, for Netflix.
My argument is that it's shifting, and if this keeps up, it's going to continue to shift. And I think there's no sign that, unless we change our attitude toward government, that's its not.
Theoretically all of Europe has one. (Maasricht treaty. 60% of GDP)
The common perception is that YC is very big on pedigree (top schools, serial founders, worked at top companies). They are known for having a prototype (they liked to call it patterns) of what is the ideal founding team.

500startups for example are willing to take more risks on people and look more deeply at the product if it has traction and a business model, even the founding team is unknown / international.

There's a lot of different investment thesis, which all make sense for different reasons.
"> I am more infuriated by the idea that if women are underrepresented in technical fields, it must be the fault of the men in those technical fields.

Who's saying that?"

Well, the article itself:

Promoting equality in your organization

If you start actively working to attack inequality in your organization, I guarantee you’ll realize you were already a feminist.

When your heart’s in the right place and you’re constantly examining your own actions and your organization’s, you start to notice bias and prejudice in more and more places. Most disturbingly, you notice it in yourself.

The implication in all of this is that there is inequality in our field that is due to our behavior i.e. the behavior of adults in the workforce. It is simply assumed that if we promote equality in our profession, and make it a team effort, then we will get equality.

"What do you mean by "go to middle school" - who do you suggest should take what action in that particular venue?"

I did not claim to have a solution, I was just pointing out where the problem lies. At some point in a girl's life, long before she is even thinking about college, something happens to undermine her interest in science and math. Years down the road, she winds up majoring in something that is not engineering or computer science, and fails to acquire the technical skills needed for a career in such fields by any other means. Obviously this is not something that all girls experience, but to a large extent it is the reason that engineering schools have so few women and so many men.

Maybe it is something girls are seeing on TV. Maybe it is something they are reading on the Internet. It is pretty clear that a young teenager is not seeing whatever prejudice exists in the workplace (how often do middle schoolers wander into your office?).

"What's mysterious about it? What expectations do you have that this observation runs counter to?"

Absent some reason to think otherwise, why would anyone assume that girls who have a talent and interest in math before a certain age would suddenly abandon their interest upon reaching that age? If puberty is the answer, why does it not happen to boys? For that matter, why does it seem to happen to a different degree in our country than in others?
With a bombastic non-sequitur counter to my response you obviously take issue with what I said, however, you managed to do so without contributing anything of value to the discussion.

Trolling does nothing to advance an issue you claim to care about. As a C-level executive, perhaps you are a better example than you realize of why women are under represented in your ranks.
Ah sorry, I didn't mean to call you phony.

I guess the feeling I get is that to even bother applying, I need to present a phony picture of myself; to reflect certain values and use a certain language to increase my chances. Of course you can say that 'just be yourself', but no system works perfectly, or necessarily even well..
Berkshire Hathaway class A is current 175821/sh :) extreme example.

But my point was that, while market cap is all that matters, people still fixate on round numbers
I don't complain about changing titles, but now that we're here: I don't mind them all too much, except when the submission comments are tied to the title some way (e.g., a submission's title reflects a commentary on a small part of a larger article). If the submission title were to change to match the article's title, the context of the comments are lost.

Maybe keep the submission title as a title attribute on the href? I have no idea what that does to SEO (or if anyone cares).
Yeah but defacto they have none.
I wonder how similar these economics are to the folks paying $120 a month for cell phones so others can enjoy cheap coverage via MVNO's.
And an analysis from the Left that comes to many of the same conclusions: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/18/obamacare-train-wre...

(Tried to submit it independently, but evidently Huffington Post items are auto-killed.)
> Oh man, quite some room for disagreement.

Yeah, even the rather homogeneous group of HN readers seems to have very different opinions of what got better and what got worse :)

But with Android I was talking features. The UI is not bad but (without ever having used Win mobile) MS seems to have the better UI. And Apple the worst (again, without having used them).
The First Real Reason We Need To Sleep
Sigh. So much writing and yet his logic train goes off the rails right out of the station.

The crucial difference between what the U.S. is doing and a Ponzi scheme is that the U.S. is actually generating income, to the tune of 1/4 of the world's economy. That income stream is missing in a Ponzi scheme. Paying off maturing debt by refinancing it with new debt is nothing unusual--corporations do it all the time. It's fine because there is the underlying income stream.

Now, the fact that it's not running a Ponzi scheme doesn't mean the U.S. can continue borrowing forever. Creditors might get nervous if the debt levels get too big relative to the income stream. What the U.S. has to worry about is not how much debt it's taking out now. What the U.S. has to worry about is some other country becoming a more attractive place for the world to stash its cash.
Yes, end of argument.

It's exactly why I don't miss paying for cable or watch much live TV.

I have absolutely zero interest in any sports whatsoever.
Even trying to watch the news you have to put up with ridiculous sports related stories weaved throughout.

Thank god for PBS.
I understand what you're getting at, but how exactly does the book make Romero look bad? Sure he certainly made more mistakes than Carmack, but does that make him look bad? At worst the book makes Romero look a little arrogant. But the book is also filled with accounts of Romero doing great work and notes that when the two Johns met it was Carmack that admired Romero for having more impressive programming knowledge. Clearly things changed but implying that the book makes Romero look bad is a stretch.
Dear Mark Shuttleworth,

It's not too late to switch the name to Titillating Tit.
The author doesn't like live sports so the people who do like sports are suckers according to the article. Well I will take on that mantle because I cut the cord for five years while living in NYC and the sports situation is abysmal when you do that. Trying to find streams over the internet on Sunday is a horrible ordeal and during the NBA season is 10x worse.

I watch about 5 broadcast shows throughout the year. One is gone now since Breaking Bad is off the air. The only other thing I use my TV for is CNBC/Bloomberg and sports. Cutting the cord is just a horrible situation when that is the case.
If your cycle is 7 days (which it isn't, but which I initially understood it to be), you will want to make sure that, with an experiment running for 2N weeks, you take the LSD-spiked water exactly N times on Monday and N times on Thursday, rather than relying on luck to get close to that.

One way to do that is to make 2N packages containing a spiked and a non-spiked sample, with one sample marked 'take me first', and, in N cases, have the LSD-spiked sample be that sample. Of course, if you do that, it is even more important to not inform the subject about the history of he experiment before it is over.
Why aren't you building a product first? SF isn't magic.
"This money printing adds to the money supply. This excess money can ultimately lead to high inflation with excess money chasing the same amount of goods and services."

I'm in the process of writing a blog post on this. For now, the printing hasn't led to an increase in the money supply. Banks are holding record amounts in reserves and aren't lending the way that they were in 2008, so the money supply hasn't increased.
This might've been covered elsewhere, but - with regards to increasing meanness and stupidity on the site: have you considered just adding a line of text under the comment field that says something like "reminder: don't say things that you wouldn't say to a person's face in real life"?
Notice that I haven't mentioned precious metals once, it's only been imputed by others including yourself.

Nevertheless if that's the road you want to go down then the impact on Spain from it's South American conquest is an example from history that somewhat parallels your asteroid of gold.

And yet where Spain's experience serves as a warning we have to look to the modern central bank and revolutionary France in order to gain a true glimpse of what unfolds when a single entity has in it's possession an asteroid of money. Paper money imposed imposed by fiat.

Subjectively in the opinion of many, gold fails in one aspect that is essential to a functional money in that it lacks what would generally considered a wide demand for "useful" applications. The subject value bestowed on it for being yellow and shiny is hardly considered a virtue but perhaps that says more about the human condition than gold? It does however satisfy the remaining requirements of a money very well. It's detractors in favour of paper should perhaps ask the same questions of their beloved wood pulp and see if it doesn't come up short.

The Atlantic article, is in my opinion weak and childish. I don't blame you for opinions, they are inevitable conclusions reached my the majority of bright minds educated by the system. Having been a successful CFA candidate I'm readily familiar with all the received "wisdom".

If there is one reason I would hope might persuade someone to reconsider the validity of the economic consensus if it would be the fact that I can assure you that if you do a little digging you will discover that the architects of the fiat, paper, fractional, central banking system; certainly agreed with me rather than you.

The reason today's system is so fragile is the their progeny have by and large bought into the economic snake oil that poured through education system to justify their monopoly.
This is pretty simple to bypass, e.g. type this in the url:

javascript:d=document.createElement("div");d.innerHTML="<style>span:nth-child(odd) {display:none;}</style>";document.body.appendChild(d);
Thanks for your detailed post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466).
His interaction with the hn community (and vice versa) is actually one of the most interesting things I've seen on hn.
"don't we need to understand the /actual/ creation of space and matter in totality"

Well, there are some hypotheses on what caused the Big Bang in the first place (and as a result, all of space, time & matter) but they are currently relegated to thought experiments. We just don't have the technology yet to test them. There might be some things that could show up in more detailed observations of the cosmic microwave background, things which if found would be suggestive, but the evidence still wouldn't be conclusive.

You can google "what came before the big bang" to read up on those hypotheses. Keep in mind that they are thought experiments. Pop-scientists will often talk about those hypotheses like they're fact, but the truth is there's still a long way to go.
Many of the titles that I wish were re-phrased were titles from mainstream news outlets. Good original content tends to be headed with good titles.
Part of the reason the web traffic looks like that as well is people ignore iPod Touch and some figures ignore ipads.

Android is an ecosystem, just like iOS, and they extend beyond phones.
Yes, that was a popular theory around 1900 to 1914, when global trade as a part of global GDP reached a long term maxima that took a very long time to break (if it has been broken?).

Then came a set of World Wars.
Compare all of the world's constitutions
I worked on this project back in my graduate days at University of Illinois and it is amazing how much progress they have made
I wonder what they're doing that needs that much processing power?

Java EE?
That's true -- although it highlights just how ridiculous the decision-making around those wars was.

In World War 2 the United States was facing other world powers who were capable of converting their entire economies to war purposes; in 2001, the United States was facing a tiny pocket of wealthy and determined radicals who would occasionally try very hard to blow something up.
The opening weekend sales revenue was higher than the cost blackberry sold for (the entire company) the week after.
It's James "A." Kirk. Boo hiss.
Source: http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg1000/Pages/bio1.aspx#.U...
What do you mean? Homeland is only available as dvd/blu-ray on netflix? Showtime and HBO lock down all their streaming.

http://dvd.netflix.com/Search?v1=homeland&ac_abs_posn=-1&fcl...
It doesn't look very interactive to me: http://imgur.com/J5ym1W3
Ask HN: Should we change the name of our startup?
We are www.tesla.im - an encrypted messaging service for teams.
We are named after the brilliant scientist Nikola Tesla.
People confuse our name with the more famous Tesla Motors.

Should we change our name? Please tell us here.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uERhq0A9GIRMaIDh8AtAw8_ZHGtUSpNiZbXK6xt56rE/viewform
Also the dot-com implosion, skyrocketing healthcare costs (and medicare expansion), and a series of massive tax cuts.
If only we could all get in on this deal! Many of us are economically savvy enough to take advantage like the author does, but we can't. Why? Because our only available ISP is a cable company.

And no, I'm not in a rural, remote, or otherwise hard-to-serve area. For many years I've lived in affluent, dense, urban neighborhoods in some of America's most important cities. Yet I've never had any ISP available other than the cable company.

Those of you who are familiar with the ISP industry: By your estimate, when will most Americans have at least two options for Internet service?
China: Gadget users 'forgetting how to write'
I think there is a difference between what girls are being told (by entertainment, by teachers, by parents, etc.) happens in engineering schools and what actually happens. The real point is that we can bend over backwards to fix whatever prejudices women encounter in engineering schools or as professional engineers and still accomplish nothing in terms of the disproportionate representation of women in our field.

In other words, if the problem is the environment within an engineering school, we should expect the trend to be a sudden, sharp change in female representation at the end of the first semester of the first year of college. Instead, we see poor representation in applications to engineering programs. I think that suggests the problem is earlier, and my own experience in engineering schools has been exactly that (my undergrad EE class had no women at all; in grad school, the vast majority of women I met were foreign, which might suggest something about our own culture versus others).
Because they see it as an investment in their own industry.
Nothing in the web platform lets you use raw (or TCP/UDP/etc) sockets. At most you could do VPN-style networking and use a bridge to talk to the rest of the internet; that bridge needs someone to host it.
I pay well over this for AT&T U-verse.

I also have netflix and attempted to use Hulu for a while. I couldn't find enough content I wanted to watch. It was too difficult to switch back and forth between content.

Now I have hundreds of channels. There are 3D movies available to stream from U-verse.

I will get the UFC fight tomorrow on PPV through AT&T which by itself will be $60 for 3 hours of viewing.

"In short, my cushy life as a TV free rider is only feasible because there lots of people like you who aren’t switching to Internet-only video. So please, keep on subsidizing my high-quality, low-cost couch surfing experience by paying your big cable bills for as long as you can."

Your viewing experience is not as good as mine. It's cute you think so.
Dopplr is shutting down
> we're not about to read every article submitted to HN.

How many articles reach the front page per day? I'd imagine it is a small percentage of the total
An improvement in OS choice over http://gcn.com/articles/1998/07/13/software-glitches-leave-n...
I don't see him saying that people who like sports are suckers. Rather, they're just screwed, since they don't have the alternatives for the things they like that the author has for the things he likes. This situation is great for him, since the sports watchers help pay for the stuff he likes, but not good for them.
A key part of design is choosing the correct medium for the content/audience/users. While this demo displays a few raw technical skills, it's also a completely incorrect choice of medium. A well designed resume does not look like this. In fact, a well-designed game also does not look like this. Is there any well-designed thing that would look like this?

I was sorely disappointed also because I am excited by the idea of interactive display of content, but this isn't it. An interactive resume could, for example, summarize experience and skills briefly, and offer easy access to more detail and portfolio examples. And, of course, scrolling through non-interactive content (using up and down to go left and right, no less) isn't the greatest example of "interactive".
http://kippt.com might be a good site to look at. They store the website contents on the kippt site.