skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not Chinese, but I come from another South East Asian country with very similar culture.

When I was younger (18-19, not that young either), I remembered driving by two Westerners standing on the sidewalk who were (probably) looking for help. As I wasn't sure if I should stop to help and then couldn't turn back because the street was fairly crowded, I asked my dad later that day if I should have stopped and help. His response: "Let other people more experienced (as in older and has more life experience) than you to help". He didn't say it explicitly, but the subtext was that it was probably a scam of some sort. Adding to the fact that culturally speaking, young adult up to their 30s are still considered "inexperienced", it wouldn't be surprised that the problem isn't just merely bystander effect, but people consciously avoids helping.

I do not really know if statistically, there are more scams in those country comparing to with, say the US. But I believe we're way more into gossip of anecdote scams than the West, and that's probably why people do not trust each other.
Kanye has been pretty honest about his abilities as a producer. He was always a chopped-up samples producer and started bringing in musicians and other producers to layer original instrumentation over his samples on his first album. That style evolved with each subsequent album, with his albums prior to Yeezus being extremely orchestrated and huge.

There is absolutely no-doubt that Kanye is the ringleader in this. He puts a bunch of people in a room, and while he may not be the person pounding the keys, but he's putting it all together and making it cohesive.

I can listen to the Hudson Mohawke / TNGHT song that Kanye used in "Blood on the Leaves" and think it's an okay song. But the way it comes in on Blood on the Leaves with Kanye's rapping and the "Strange Fruit" sample left me floored the first few times I heard it. He made those TNGHT so much more powerful.

Kanye's influence over rap is enormous (the singing rap thing that Drake and others are using really didn't gain mainstream attention until 808's) and he's extremely successful commercially. It's not accident, nor is it the simple result of others' work. It's the work of someone who is meticulous in his craft, knows his limitations, and respects the work of others while pointing them in the direction he wants to move.
If your vehicle registration fee was in the several thousand dollar range, it would cripple a goodly number of poor and low income folks.
Great point. That does happen a lot.
It's really not too long ago during the Cultural Revolution where people are encouraged to sellout others for the greater good of the Party. If I grew up in that culture I would also be afraid to trust others. If my parents grew up under that culture, they may also teach me to just "mind my own business."

The bystander problem is very disheartening. But I'm afraid it'll take few generations to shed the mentality.
It wasn't that bad. I stopped and started an instance. Done.
Sorry about the downtime, unless you're Twitter or Facebook, you can't cope with the HN frontpage effect :)
Some people like larger notebooks. When you can get a full-sized notebook for .15 at Wal-mart, 20 bucks for an A4 Moleskin sets the expectations pretty high.

I'm not above spending 20 bucks on a notebook, I just think Moleskin's paper isn't very good, when compared to other notebooks.
Downloading 20 MB here and 20 MB there adds up pretty quickly if you're using a cellphone data connection like I am.
1984, Pittsburgh's Syria Mosque. I saw just about anybody worth seeing back then (including The Who the night before the Cincinnati tragedy) but Sweet Lou was the only show after which I had serious hearing loss. It lasted for days. I recall being quite concerned at the time.
I own the cminusminus.com domain. Was planning on using it for a blog, mainly to post horrible c/c++ code snippets I come across. If anyone wants it, let me know.
Exactly. I live in Illinois. I already pay $101/year for my license plate. Our federal + state gas tax comes out to be 57.5 cents per gallon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_States].

If I drive the average number of miles per year (13,476 miles; http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm), and assuming the vehicle gets a modest 25 mpg, I'm currently paying $309.948/year in fuel taxes.

So, between the $310 for fuel taxes and the $101 for the license plate/tag fee, we're at $411/year, or $34.25/month.

I pay more in car insurance that that. Flat rate it and lets be done with it.
Ah, so then you make lots of stock, but hold it in reserve. Wait for out of stock reporting, and add a waiting list, then start shipping the reserve after a week of out of stock.

Everyone wins: People get their item, and the media gets to report out of stock.
Show HN: Advanced Web Applications Using Symfony
Perhaps the rest of the world should take a cue from America -- direct diplomacy is dead. Cloak and dagger methods are now more consistent and accurate than engaging another nation directly through the departments of foreign affairs.

The American President and the American State Department are hopeless and useless now.
I like your idea, I was thinking about it other day. I am working on my private pilot license and in a month or so, I will be doing my first solo. I want to record it but then I don't want to spend too much buying a new goPro. It would be nice, if I could rent it for few days for fraction of cost. I am sure there is a market for it.
I don't buy it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/104...

Plus they have a frigging NSA base in Berlin:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cover-story-how-...

And if it were true, it may actually be worse. How can Obama still claim "relax people, no abuses have happened" with one corner of the mouth, and then with the other say "oh, well I didn't know about these!"

Same goes for their continuous claim that NSA is run like a very tight ship and it's audited thoroughly, yet they didn't know what Snowden took for months, and some of the internal abuses were found out years later, by the employees own confessions. Yeah, sounds like an air-tight auditing system to me, too.
If they styled it like a regular car, they might not sell as many, or for as much. See: conspicuous conservation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_conservation)
'Das Nest" - Embassy Espionage: The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin
They're already paying the taxes; its just streamlining the collection. If they're crippled by current fuel taxes, they'd still be crippled (or rather, unable to afford) taxes under the proposed scheme as well.

See my post where I outline the math: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=6623693
Yeah, and Prenzlauer Berg is actually quite gentrified (staying there for the second time now). It's full of middle-class professional families with children.
Indeed. I was in London with a group of people a few years back and saw a homeless man about to get beat up by another man in an alley. Everyone else ran away instead of calling the police. I'm no hero, but I just thought, if I were in that position surely I would want someone to give a damn.
Plans & pricing button disappears when I rollover. Moments later it shows back up. its because you lazy load an image. No need for an image, do it with pure CSS.
Agreed, don't run AV at all. It is always fun to take something from metasploit, see that is detected by most AVs - change one or two strings that are obvious choices for signatures and watch detection rates drop to close to 0. Even behavioral or heuristic detection is absurd sometimes (IE is writing into the process memory of notepad? Probably fine). It is a really tough problem to solve, to be fair to AV vendors.
Until someone goes to jail or loses a ton of money on a bogus DMCA takedown this tomfoolery will continue.
I saw him a couple of years ago in Memphis. Great show. He will be missed.
I do understand your point, but the prices will go up either way because the machines are owned by the ones that I was talking about.

My problem with machines is that sooner or later people cause changes while machines imprint status quo.
Offer a monthly payment option. We already subsidize license plate registration fees for the poor and senior citizens. This could be continued under a new program.
> they dont market themselves as open-source heroes

"We're going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard"

- Steve Jobs, 2010
Many people also complain loudly about the latest Windows or the newest MacOS but they're not exactly jumping ship. Why do you think the case is different for iPhone users?
I don't think you'd need to put in every ingredient. If you know you predict that you're going to be selling twice as many waffles this week, buy more ingredients for waffles. If sales for cheeseburgers are expected to be down, buy less cheese.
Market value [0] ≠ value.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_value
Not all fountain pen ink is the same. Yours probably dries faster. I'm a left-handed fountain pen user, and there's a lot of really nice ink that I can't use because it doesn't dry fast enough to keep from smearing it all over the place.
Screen size seems to pull many people from iPhone. I find larger displays uncomfortable though (heavily using one handed) but it seems that people want that.

Kinda off topic, but what's the email client situation on Android? I don't use Gmail and the last time I used Android (ICS I guess), mail clients were from stone age.
Mentioning that stereotypes exist isn't the same thing as reinforcing them.
Hmm, that link doesn't work for me (probably some kind of session id is needed). Can you post another url?
I have a three bedroom place (wich I share with two others) in New Jersey for $1600 and its only a $6 35 min commute to New York. Not bad if you ask me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

I know the author of the news article pooh-poohs the common depiction of the Kitty Genovese murder as not being true, but that has nothing to do with the veracity of the effect as a whole (or the other examples provided on that Wikipedia page).
I don't think you understood. There is something that we know makes sense from a military perspective. I.e. Osama is dangerous and must be dealt with at the spot. I understand what you saying. You didn't understand my response which is: this what you described is and must be a political decision and not military one. It was a political decision to shoot him like a dog at the spot. The excuse you give for that action could have been given regarding Himmler too. It wasn't because at that time it was important to us that even monsters like Himmler - personally responsible for overseeing Holocaust, and actually coming up with the idea itself - were given a chance of defense in a trial. Because that was the decision made by the USA President (among other leaders) at that time at the Yalta Conference. You expected me to come on real terms with your cheap excuse? First, stop your own cynism, and come to the terms with the fact that it was a political decision and then we can talk about the reasons for or against it. Don't give me this BS here as I'm some kind of a naive 6 year old.
Steve Jobs said it pretty well for corporate VPs, it probably should apply to the President:

One such lesson could be called the "Difference Between the Janitor and the Vice President," and it's a sermon Jobs delivers every time an executive reaches the VP level. Jobs imagines his garbage regularly not being emptied in his office, and when he asks the janitor why, he gets an excuse: The locks have been changed, and the janitor doesn't have a key. This is an acceptable excuse coming from someone who empties trash bins for a living. The janitor gets to explain why something went wrong. Senior people do not. "When you're the janitor," Jobs has repeatedly told incoming VPs, "reasons matter." He continues: "Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering." That "Rubicon," he has said, "is crossed when you become a VP."

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/08/25/how-apple-works-insid...
I'd say that a (sleight) majority of my friends have been unhappy with iOS7, and have expressed a willingness to explore Android now that the "big iOS upgrade" has already hit and they don't have much to look forward to.
If only the phone was smaller :(

I don't understand these screens so big I need two hands to use the device.
Ipython notebook for R: Quickstart for Ubuntu
> Chinese people do not trust each other as much as Westerners do

There is an interesting line of thought that high trust societies are caused by out-breeding. The medieval european church forbade cousin marriage for centuries out to something like third cousin. This broke up the clans and arguably made cohesive western nations possible. Today in much of the non-western world first cousin marriage is still normal. I believe most arab marriages are to first cousins. In the places where it's most prevalent you do tend to see clannish behavior and indifference/viciousness to the out-group.

Dunno if it's really true, but it does seem to fit various historical developments.

With China I think maybe you have to keep in mind what a scarring catastrophe Maoism was. Middle class people and values were systematically purged.
+1 on this. Thanks also for the book referral, seems like an interesting book.
From SICP [1]:

This book is dedicated, in respect and admiration, to the spirit that lives in the computer.

"I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries.
Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands.
What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more."

Alan J. Perlis (April 1, 1922-February 7, 1990)

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
No idea but I'm not too picky. As long as I can read it and search it I'm fine, so I just use the standard Gmail app. I like the larger screen because I want to have one device with all my music on it, with the ability to read on the commute.
This looks great, doesn't seem to need anything other than rsync installed.

You should also check out rsnapshot: http://www.rsnapshot.org/, it does a great job and has many of the features that this script does.
Are there any advantages over Déjà Dup?
For another take on this area, I recommend reading about Pillar from Intel. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1433063
Marie Curie: Why her papers are still radioactive
For one, phone upgrade cycles happen much more regularly than computer upgrade cycles, so there are more opportunities to switch.
"but he's putting it all together and making it cohesive"
No, that was Rick Rubin who did that.

So we know Kanye isn't a great rapper (he's had many songs Ghost written and I think its a pretty common belief among hip-hop heads) and you say he can't produce well? What can he do well?

I don't have the time to go through it all unless you really want me to, but your last post was riddled with fallacies and pretty biased opinion.

Lou Reed was something else, Kanye is what he made himself (a pop star). I doubt anyone's going to pick up a copy of Yeezus in 40 years and be amazed in the way people continue to pick up copies of The Velvet Underground & Nico.
> What's the threshold for considering the accompanying physical addiction a problem?

If something is addictive but not physically harmful the threshold is when it starts to affect your day to day life.

Gambling is fun. Some people have a problem with gambling. When you think that gambling is affecting your day to day life it's stopped being fun and turned into a problem.
He's probably considering the fact that there are other high-end notebooks that cost the same or less, filled with paper of a much higher quality. Keep in mind that a person's personal preference will play a large role in how that person judges a paper's quality.

There's Clairefontaine, Black and Red, Rhodia, Leuchttern, and probably a dozen or so others that I'm not aware of. Some might be a little more expensive than Moleskines, but some of them are much cheaper depending on the size and model you prefer.
Looks interesting, but I can't see who is behind this project (no company/developer info on the page), so I won't share my email address.

Also "Try NOW for free" is misleading, as there's no product behind it yet (so I can't try it).
Is there any hope it will be available on Verizon?

If it's available on Verizon, it's a no-brainer purchase for me. If it's not.... it's gonna have to be a super great phone to convince me not to get a different comparable phone on Verizon.
>Sure, that can be arranged.

I would very very much appreciate those then.
If I were Obama I would be concerned about the image and the title ("DAS NEST"") of the article in "Der Spiegel" - see image on linked site. "Das nest" is most likely chosen as a not so suttle reminder about another nest called "eagles nest".
As another article wrote, USA is loosing the moral standpoint - this is not war against terror, it's spying on what used to be allied friends.
It's simple supply and demand. Lots of people want to live in the popular districts of big popular cities, but the supply is strictly limited (you can't simply build a ton of extra houses in an old neighbourhood in a city center), so prices go through the roof.

You don't have to live there. You can commute. And if it gets too hard to find good people in London because both the rent and the commute are terrible, companies will eventually open offices in more fertile areas.
I'd say the real value is in the statement "Make smarter decisions and increase revenue".

I'd concentrate the focus of the page on walking them through a concrete example of what insight would lead to what actions which would lead to what increase in revenue.

If you make a compelling case for that, that'll give them the motivation to sign up and input the data. Motivation is the single biggest determinant of conversion.
Because big phones sell well. I think that the decrease in usability is partly compensated by usefulness (it's more pleasant to watch video on a bigger device) and partly compensated by status (my phone, and therefore my penis, is bigger than yours).
I think you may not understand this product.

53 makes the Paper app and these are not custom blank Moleskine's but they are printed inside and out with what you select from the Paper app.
So I suppose you wouldn't mind if a new coal plant opened up a couple blocks from your home?
Just as I am certain they do not think of anything we are certain that they do a crime, neither would they think of using available information to influence political support a crime, either.
a bit of topic

but I remember I read something for guido van rossum, i always wanted to find it again, and read it to remember the details

what i remember of it, is that guido was saying something in the line of ... that one can spend tremendous amount of time editing html, crafting html by hand, and make it perfect ... but that this would be a waste of time because most developers nowadays use template engines that generate html, or use WYSIWYG tool ...
and that we should focus on more interesting problems

again, it was something like that, i tried to find it, since for ever, to get a better read of this view ... but i just cant

maybe my memory is tricking me, maybe it was not guido

but anyway, this quote in the article reminded me of this statement ... the idea ... that we should find more interesting problems that we can use computers for
Pay with Amazon in the Wild: The Clymb
That's not true. A static site served by Nginx (or a non-static one but with proper cache implementation) can do miracles even on a relatively cheap VPS.
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/buckstop.htm
Startups: the innovation puzzle
Upvoted. (As if you needed more of those.)
Taking a super easy tax to pay and make it a monthly bill with late fees, tracking, and legal threats? Probably adding thousands of federal and state workers to oversee. Instead of tens of thousands of payers (the gas stations) we now have millions. It seems like a tax to add government cost and workers.

Up the existing tax and tax electric cars based on the amount of electricity they use. It is easy and simple.
If nicotine isn't harmful in itself, why does chewing tobacco cause cancers of the mouth?
> Ultimately, he's commander in chief

Wrong title. He's responsible as the chief executive, not as the commander-in-chief, which refers to his civilian authority over the military. And yes, Obama is responsible for this. He said as much during the 2012 debates.
As someone who had to use checklists many times in the air, I appreciate how much research have gone into making checklists legible.
Agreed. I've used rsnapshot for years and am not sure how this script really differs (better or worse). I can say that rsnapshot is a real workhorse that gives me a lot of peace of mind.
ENO: VOYAGES IN TIME & PERCEPTION from Musician Magazine, Oct 1982, by Kristine McKenna

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/musn...

I was talking to Lou Reed the other day and he said that the first Velvet Underground record sold 30,000 copies in the first five years. The sales have picked up in the past few years, but I mean, that record was such an important record for so many people. I think everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band!
Ditto. The only reason I have a Galaxy S3 now is that I can't get the Nexus on Verizon. And where I live it's kind of a necessity to have Verizon support.
Tell the audience why they want it. Not what it does.

And be specific. "Make smarter decisions and increase revenue!" does not mean anything. You could literally say that about anything. What does your product specifically help them with?

Also, the exclamation mark seems condescending, like it's a service for kids. But that's just my personal taste.
I like to get a balanced view of the news, for left-leaning stuff I like the NY Times and for right-leaning, I like The Times. The Graun is the counterpart to the Daily Mail, both of them are for dingbats.
I've wanted to play around with one for a while, but don't want to commit until I've had a chance to live with it for a month. So, what would it take? A low price. If they offer a model at Nexus 4 prices, maybe...

I'd also like stronger per-app privacy controls and sandboxing. I have this vague idea that installing the wrong package on an Android phone can mean doom, and that many apps request permissions that are far too broad and on install time (rather than when they need them). I'm unsure whether I'm just ill-informed on this or not.

That said, I'm not a disenchanted iPhone user so perhaps your question wasn't aimed at me. I recently upgraded to a 5s and am very happy.
I have Comcast, with one of their wireless routers, but I don't see any network named "xfinitywifi." Is it only certain router models? Or only certain areas?
Not exactly easy to find and probably still requires reinforcing the cover, but Clairefontaine notebooks can't be best for paper quality...