skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, I don't think a study like that is likely to happen. How many families are willing to have someone hang around in their house 24/7 in order to monitor their child's viewing habits? How many research institutions can afford such a thing?

As far as drawing conclusions, I'm not sure it's necessary to throw the baby out with the bathwater here. Self-reporting does tend to be inaccurate in terms of absolute numbers. But as long as it tends to be accurate in relative terms - that is, that if people who say their child watches more TV tend to have children who actually do watch more TV - then we can draw relative conclusions. And the key takeaway points from this paper are still useful information even when you take the absolute numbers involved with a grain of salt. Simply knowing that TV viewing time is positively correlated with behavioral problems may not be a crystal-clear picture of the situation, but it's still useful knowledge for a parent.
Does "Hacker News" in the title apply a hefty anti-meta penalty? Or is it just people flagging anything about moderation, fearing the typical empty speculation? (That doesn't apply to your post, it's interesting and has lots of supporting data.)
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Was that the official reason?

Because it certainly wasn't titillating, regardless of the cinematography. The entire film was meant to unnerve the viewer with the shaking camera, infrasound and unsettling music (the scene where Pierre and Marcus traverse the nightclub is one of the most atmospherically nauseous that I've watched), reverse chronology and absolute nihilism. And of course, the seizure-inducing strobe lights.

There was much more going on for it than just the rape scene. It was in no way meant to be erotic.
"Then the people who acquired you (and your users) regret it."
This is awesome and just what I've been wanting. One request would be to show the repos I contribute to the most instead of just the ones on my account.

I went and looked up the open source report card which used to work the same way. Looks like they've recently changed it though to pull from your most contributed repos, so for me is much more accurate of my activity on Github. http://osrc.dfm.io/
Have you really looked at nothing besides America in order to draw this conclusion? America is easily one of the worst of the functioning democracies in the world. (Russia would be an example of a non-functioning democracy.) It's great to talk about how the US was a noble experiment and how it's all tyrannical and how it has a political elite, but keep in mind that the world learned from the US and then moved on.

Poke through this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661282

It's not democracy that's broken; it's the US.
Suicide prevention /app/?
You don't stop suicide with an app. You're 15 and you have a grant for a gimmick. I'm 22 and I'm unemployed. I'm already depressed but this makes me angry, too, so I just made an account to let you know that this disgusts me.
Empty words. At least your resume looks better with this.
I meant loaded because it could technically be considered true (the broadcasters certainly haven't 'authorized' Aereo's behaviour), but the term is obviously chosen to sway public opinion before the legal battle.
This kind of comments I would really like to see more often on HN.
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(a) it really is trivially easy to work around the notification so it doesn't get sent.

(b) yep, as you said, even with the notification it is trivially easy for someone to take any picture that you send and post it to the forever webs.

So, I reiterate, do not send anything via snap chat that you do not wish to one day become public.
This is actually what I was trying to say, I just think my sentence came out a bit convoluted. If you can manually process something that doesn't degrade the end-user's experience, then do so for now and focus on more important features until it's either necessary or has been validated as a valuable feature you'll be keeping around.
We use Usenet? (although I'm sure that there are good GUIs now)
Well, no, when they say that Aereo cuts into their retransmission fees they mean that Aereo is retransmitting their signal without paying fees.

I don't support their fight against Aereo but I do get where they're coming from. If Aereo do it for free, why can't the cable networks turn around and say "we're not paying you retransmission fees any more, we're just going to do what Aereo does"? That would mean the networks lose a lot of money, and they're not exactly profit machines as it is. Get ready for a lot more ads.
At first I thought this would be talking about kibits, now collaborate: http://www.collaborate.com/
Yeah, English is full of weird idioms that don't mean what they mean.
The greatness of Reddit is indeed in the subreddits.

Just curious, which subreddits did you try to have reasonable discussions in? The ones I find myself in are moderated efficiently and there's not a trace of memes or rage comics.
I didn't believe you until the 5th exclamation mark.
Factorio - a game about building factories.
as someone who has high cholesterol and at the same time gets side effects from statins (body attacks itself via lichen planus when on statins for several months) it sucks to hear this.
That would mean less sports on OTA TV. For people like me, that is a win/win situation.
To be clear, that wasn't my term (it was the title of a link that I reposted), but I agree with you -- I'd have personally chosen something with less of the weight of history and atrocity behind it.
The SCOTUS generally doesn't comment on cases they don't accept. At best it's a comment on issues with the challenge's standing. This isn't a nefarious scheme. This is judicial normalcy.
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He talks quite a bit about how he did the appeal and talked to his "Amazon contacts" about the appeal. His resulted in a lawsuit and I'm assuming none of yours has had that outcome. I can't imagine Amazon would've re-stated the above account if Warner Bros, for example, had sued your company as a result.
There is a ton of regulation involved with both intra- and inter-country chemical shipping and purchasing. There are some chemicals that are perfectly legal for normal people to own but not to purchase if you aren't an institution. There are chemicals that require specific handling and packaging, which when shipped internationally become "potential chemical weapons" and thus can carry life prison sentences if not done properly.

We ship both live and dead cell cultures (both extremely pathogenic and relatively benign) that can pose severe risk even when dead. The few times I've had to do international shipments have been a pain in the ass with all the paperwork, special packaging, customs bullshit and then there's the agony of waiting for the shipment to clear US customs, then destination customs, then destination culture screening -- and we have lawyers of who deal with the paperwork for us!
I know the explanation : NSA to judges : Here's all the dirt we have on you, bring us down, we bring you down.
The opposite can be true, too. Imagine you build something like a paid 4chan in AngularJS (e.g. not really new business idea combined with rather new technology). You might get false positives because some people just subscribe because of the new technology. They are not really interested in the product but just to watch the execution/implementation to learn for themselves. This is not sustainable because those customers will quit as soon as they got their findings out of your experiment.
Then add:

Public finally gets involved when the threat
of losing football games is announced.
Less dependencies make for happy users.

Python has already simplified programming so much coming from languages like C, so I guess I view it as a tolerance matter.

I'm willing to put up with the longer way of using corelibs in some cases, to keep my dependencies low. And I'm willing to tolerate this longer way because I feel that Python in it self is such a shortcut from other languages that I'm already reaping huge benefits.

I know there's usually a huge community testing and supporting all dependencies but having installed some Ruby and Node apps I've seen massive lists of dependencies and I've had situations where it breaks down on some obscure library used to do some really mundane task.

I could not have solved many of those cases without the years of Linux experience I already have. I don't think users should have to go through that.
You're paying for a lot more than just the hardware your instance runs on with EC2. You're also indirectly paying for the other systems they make available to you within EC2 (auto-scaling, ELB, EBS, CloudWatch, etc).

If you don't need these additional services, AWS is indeed a bad value. If you use a good chunk of them like we do, it's money well spent, though it won't fit neatly into graphs like the previously mentioned one.
Look at Minecraft - the regular /r/minecraft has active moderation, but threads are full of up-voted low quality comments. /r/trueminecraft should be better, and the submissions are great but there's very little discussion there.
Snowden effect: young people now care about privacy
Cool stuff.

Thanks for open sourcing.

One small comment, the scroll bar on the left appears unusually thin/it looks cut off.
Lots of people have given you very specific advice about what frameworks to use, how to approach the problem, etc...

Take it all with a grain of salt. What I'd suggest to get started is create a public github project for it, put together some wireframes and sequence diagrams (publish them in the github project) so that people can see what it's meant to look like and how it's mean to work. Then just start coding.

Post the github project here on HN and ask for contributors. Keep a curated list of features, tasks and bugs in the github project and let people pick them up and help you build it.

Rule #1 though, don't let people get you down. Everyone has an opinion and we software people can be pretty harsh, especially when, frankly, we're just arguing our opinion rather than fact.

Rule #2, done is better than perfect. What's your Minimum Viable Product? Build that, maintain tunnel vision on completing that, then worry about everything else it could do.
I don't believe it. Sorry. They are a for-profit corporation, and they are about making money for investors by providing value to their customers. We are not their customers. Advertisers are their customers.
In the phrase "profit and benefit" it is implicit that the benefit is per customer. In your addendum it is profit and customer base that is correlated. As you imply, increased benefit (per customer) is also likely to lead to more customers, but not necessarily.
Are there any theoretical results on this type of algorithm saying, i.e., amortized over some number of iterations, there is some probability of satisfying detailed balance?
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It's way frictionless compared to any of the other current methods of accepting payment electronically[1] . For many cases, where things have to go through a provisioning process that can be halted before the client has any benefit, you can confirm the order and let things progress and only check that there was no double-spend later (at which point you of course halt provisioning).

I have no doubt that governments will find ways of taxing it that are at least as effective as those used to tax cash businesses presently.

edited to add footnote:
[1] ... as a relatively small player. My understanding is that payments between huge, well established institutions can approximate bitcoin in lack-of-friction.
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if you aren't embarrassed about your first release to any potential user (beta or v1.0), you are not doing it right. the reasoning: if you have the most basic function that someone would use your product for, and any amount of people using your product, it will always be painfully obvious what to build next.
Can they really get sports off TV? That would be awesome!
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Great. So if US does cyberattacks, that's an act of war, too, right? Or is it one just when others do it against US?
at least they use mnemonic table names and that's a good sign.
Healthcare data essentially cannot be anonymised, if you can correlate it with other, non-healthcare, data such as search queries and purchases.
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To be fair, the cable company transmits 1 signal to everyone, with Aereo each person has their own attenna. It's not much different from a service like slingbox except that slingbox uses your actual home signal whereas w/ Aereo you are effectively renting an antenna.
You're fixating on one use case, in this instance the current favor listed. What are your thoughts about the website as a whole?

And why wouldn't this particular favor cheer up a wife? It's not the number of cards she receives that will make her happy, but the thoughtfulness of a husband to do something for her that will put a smile on her face.
I thought Sunday Ticket was a DirecTV-only thing?
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> For now, they seem to actively make their product impossible to consume for fans of non-local teams.

What about NFL Sunday Ticket?
Would you buy 20 out-of-market non-national games per season? That's about what they'd need to make up the revenue from the current Sunday Ticket package, if DirectTV's pricing (around $300/season) is any guide.

Maybe more consumers would buy access to games if they could buy them individually, so you'd end up with 4x the number of current Sunday Ticket subscribers buying at least 5 games a year. But that seems like a lot. Eventually you run out of sufficiently motivated out-of-market fans. Remember that the teams with big out-of-market fan bases are just the teams that get picked routinely for national coverage. I could easily see 6-8 Dallas Cowboys or Green Bay Packers games/year for free already.
I thought Sunday Ticket was more like $299.
Mesos Hackathon at OpenTable
This half-day hackathon will bring together developers interested in developing with Mesos. Mesos core committers will be present to help mentor folks.

We're suggesting three topics to focus on:
* Porting frameworks and executors to Mesos
* Creating new language bindings
* Working on starter tickets (tickets indicated on JIRA)
What's funny, is Aereo has almost exactly the same business model as the first cable companies: in order to service valley communities that did not have line-of-sight with broadcasting towers, they would set up a large antenna on a mountain and pipe the signal to homes.

The main difference with Aereo seems to be that every subscriber has their own antenna.
no kidding, I'm finding Angular / JS a pill compared to Laravel/Rails backends.
Try to do it yourself. Don't be afraid of "failure" because there is none here, you are not getting paid to realize something, people saw someone ambitious and willing to try so they "gave" you the money.

Now whatever happens next, it will only be valuable. You will only learn things from that point, outsourcing is not an option when you're willing to learn. Because this is an opportunity to learn, it is not an opportunity to succeed.
Sorry, but /r/minecraft targets tweens and kids. Yes, a subreddit primarily frequented by 8-15 year olds is going to appear "non-academic".

Even subreddits like /r/feedthebeast, which has become the de-facto modded minecraft subreddit (for Forge flavors, at least) host much higher quality discussions and content and have almost no memes/jokes upvoted.

But again, that's probably because the FTB subreddit has less overall subscribers (less incentive to post for karma, as there are less potential viewers to reward you) as well as an average higher age of the users.
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Co-mingling is a nightmare, even if you aren't an FBA seller.

Amazon was a reseller for a product we launched on Kickstarter. Our product was a precision optic, made in the USA. A few months in, a counterfeit knock-off of our product was manufactured in China and distributed in great quantity. The counterfeit items had the same bar code and nearly identical packaging (except it said "Made in China"). The knock-off wasn't optical quality and took lousy pictures.

Third party FBA sellers were buying the counterfeit unit and stocking them at Amazon. These would appear as "Other Sellers" on our product page, and would usually be selected by default because of crazy low pricing. Amazon co-mingled the counterfeits with their own inventory of genuine goods that we sent them. They began to draw from the counterfeit stock for their own sales instead of the real deal. Customer reviews tanked.

We figured out what was happening since we knew these other sellers weren't legitimate, and we received counterfeit returns. We were able to ask Amazon to shut down the sellers, but the tainted goods remained in inventory. Amazon was either unwilling or unable to screen their inventory to eradicate the counterfeit goods. Since they were useless in fixing the problem we just stopped selling to Amazon and labeled the product page as counterfeit.
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Right, but that's just technical semantics, really. Aereo installs an individual antenna for every person to skirt around existing rules. By any objective analysis it's a total waste of time and money.
I've lost people to suicide and I've felt suicidal myself so I'm very interested to know what the app does. What will it do to reduce suicides?
reminds me of this: open source report card http://osrc.dfm.io/
This looks more like people trying random crap in the search box and the autocompleter is just caching the last known matching queries.

Type ' and you'll see 'drop all' in the autocomplete list.
To everyone interested in helping- I would definitely love to get all the help possible from you guys, so I'll make this an open-source project. I'm figuring out th logistics of everything right now, I'll try to contact you guys with more details as soon as possible. Thanks guys, I'm really looking forward to this :)
> That's rarely how wifes work.

Sigh...sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't change my username to "tokenwoman", a la "tokenadult". :P

This should go without saying, but not all "wifes" (sp) work the same. I had surgery recently and I would have loved this. Plus, I think it's awesome that the OP managed to score ask.io--a great, short domain name--and is using it for charitable purposes. Cool!

Also, I think I'd have enough trust and faith in OP that either:

1) His wife is aware of this and is supportive of it
and/or
2) He knows his wife well enough to know that she'll get a kick out of it.
They are populating the autocomplete with recent searches with high volume, so it just reflects what people are typing.
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>How many families are willing to have someone hang around in their house 24/7 in order to monitor their child's viewing habits? //

That's hardly required. An app installed on tablets or face recognition on a kinect-type device or webcam can monitor screen usage and be automated. Initially it's enough to show whether any sub-category of screen-bearing device is being reported correctly. TV is probably the easiest to monitor and could well be done using a relatively inexpensive "bug" stuck on the wall.
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My biggest piece of advice: Don't consider the money an investment in you App. Consider it a form of encouragement to keep you thinking and working in general.

Whoever gave you this money isn't expecting you to build a suicide prevention app directly. They are saying that they like your idea, they like you, and they want you to keep at it. It's a grant, not a loan so don't worry about treating it as a loan.

Use it to get some training you might want, use it to set up a business and learn about business, use it to buy a piece of hardware you might otherwise not be able to afford. Use it to further your chances of eventually being able to make a difference, don't put pressure on yourself to make the absolute most of it.

Lastly, put it on your resume.
Yes exactly. I mentioned that true democracy includes the ability to secede down to the level of the individual. What happens at our local knitting club? We take a vote on whatever and if I don't like it I can leave. I don't have to uproot my family and really leave because the knitting club has influence over only a very limited sphere.

The "democracy" option besides moving to an authoritarian country is what I actually call "democratic majoritarian rule", so yes this contradicts what I really believe democracy is. There's no options besides this except taking another step backwards to some dictatorship or whatever.
“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Okay, so did anyone else see the title and assume the "frozen head" was Walt Disney?

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Walt_Disney_Fr...
As a single page: http://crosscut.com/2013/11/18/business/117499/brewing-city-...
I was looking for the point at which Max did anything to deserve this kind of bullshit response from Zed but I can't seem to find it. Yes, he asked for free "content" which is definitely deserving of scorn and a firm "No and Buzz Off", but "Fuck you", "moron", "piss off asshole" are a smidge over the top (and yes, I know who Zed is so possibly I shouldn't be surprised). There are plenty of people who deserve this kind of response but if this is how he responds to everybody who wants something from him I'm afraid for his blood pressure. Just say No and move on.
I too am 15 years old. I'm currently working on a secure chat alternative to things like kik, what's app and skype. I've been coding the backend in node.js and the frontend in jQuery.

I suggest you check out node.JS, it's easy to learn since you have a JS background and it should handle well with what you're doing.

Also if you're intrested, I'm willing to help out for free, you can contact me at: c1d@mypin.im.
Minecraft can definitely be a 'gateway drug' to real electrical engineering.

I wonder how tough it would be to anondize the copper red...
It is, but DTV has an online streaming version of it. If you bought the anniversary edition of Madden 25 you got access to the streaming (and actual channel if you have DTV) for the season. It's pretty much the only reason I bought Madden -- it was ~$100 for the game + DTV combo.
I'm sorry, but I feel like you've got some major problems, here.

1) There's no context on your wife. Hospitalized recently? For what? Cancer? Stubbed toe? And birthday cards... Help how? If I were in the hospital for something serious, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't care one whit about receiving cards from people who knew nothing about me.

2) You say below "the current favor is for my wife." Really? You made a site to solicit birthday cards for your wife and plastered a Mother Theresa quote on it to give it the veneer of a charity? This feels weird.

3) I'm all for using the power of social media to help people. If this is really your goal, then you need to work on your execution. Having the internet send a bunch of anonymous birthday cards to someone they don't know is cute, but it's a very low-level form of helping. Think of ways to leverage social media to really put into action the Mother Theresa quote you're using. What you're asking people to do is not "love." "Love" is not sending a card to someone you don't know. Love is something deeper.