skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a Korean.

I don't think describing one as risk-averse is fair when risk is different. When A and B are given the same risk, and A takes the risk and B doesn't, it is fair to describe B as more risk-averse than A. When A and B are given the different risk, and A takes the risk and B doesn't, it doesn't tell much about B's risk-averseness.

I think it is not that Japanese culture is risk-averse, but that doing startup in Japan is actually more risky. These two are not the same statement.

I also call bullshit on "lack of disruptive ideas". How can one even imagine such thing is true is beyond me.
I had a completely different reaction (I related to this article very well. http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-devel...). My family didn't just have a lack of money we also had regularity problems with it. Short cycles (6 months on and off) of being employed or unemployed and it causes me issues with relating to money to this day.

I learned that when you get money you spend it as quickly as you can on the nice-to-haves or mostly-nessicary stuff because money will literally disappear from under your fingers on paying bills and buying food.

My favorite holidays growing up were Christmas and Tax-refund day. That's how my family got our first, second and third computers.

When my dad was employed he used to give me a generous (for the 80's) allowance of $20/week, but it rarely lasted more than a couple weeks.

I'm only now getting my finances straight because I can afford to and I'm spending countless hours reading personal finance books and articles and I've had a friend that grew up learning the value of money and he showed me it's power.
This is awkward, but I disagree.

HN pages are very well structured and are probably an ideal case for an automatic scraper.

If your automatic scraper doesn't work on HN, it is unlikely to work generally.
Interesting question.

Just my belief here, but I would think that a violent paranoid state with multiple grave human rights violations has likely a few enemies in the world. As such, several countries would likely feel much safer without the current government in NK.
Funny how I had just disabled RC4 and DES in my browser...
I wonder how can that be your only supported crypto in 2014!
Keep believing that, then. I don't even consider myself a feminist and I'm very critical of postmodern feminism, but it's true that the far-right conservatives in the USA are keen on undermining women's achievements and the history of the struggle for their rights. Largely for religious reasons.
I've been reading this site regularly for almost 7 years. 6-Jan-2014 is the only downtime I remember, and it was really a very minor inconvenience. Sucks about the data loss though, always hard to own that when doing system administration. Thanks for the explanation.
The most heavily propagandized people on Earth?

How about North Koreans? How about Germans post-WW1? How about Europeans with their incredibly lax immigration policies and superiority complex? How about the Chinese? How about the various Arab peoples with their autocrats and dictators?
My heart sunk when Obama won the election the first time; not because I wanted McCain to win, or that I had any actual hope that one of the third-parties could win; but because everyone was so happy.

I was in Burlington, VT; about as liberal a town as you will find in the USA; and there was a strong anti-war movement. That anti-war movement bought Obama's promises hook-line-and-sinker and the same people that were out holding signs and going to rallies were canvasing for Obama. There was a march through the streets when the counting was done; people cheered as if we were finally turning a new leaf.

I hope, so deeply, that people will have learned their lesson; that, if some politician you have never heard of suddenly starts getting a ton of press and magically enters your consciousness; he is being tapped by big players to do so. Obama, more than any other public figure in the last twenty years is proof positive that there does indeed exist a shadowy cartel that are fucking with us for power.

If you believe Obama started out pure-at-heart and was 'corrupted' after becoming president; you are naive beyond all comprehension. Remember early, early when Obama was asked about marijuana? One of the easiest, most obvious blatantly fucked up policies our government carries out.. something that every single non-political marginally liberal person is absolutely crystal clear on should be legal for adults: he laughs derisively like it's a terrible idea.

Why? What is it about Obama being so full of hope and change and feel-goody liberalness that makes him laugh at marijuana? Talk to 50 non politician democrats and you will find 49 think it's obvious to legalize marijuana. But talk to 50 politician democrats, and you will find maybe half of them. The higher up you go, the less likely they are to be pro legalization. Why? Because their interests aren't yours.

If you think that there will be ever be a 'main stream' candidate that will represent your interests over the 'shadowy cartel' of government interest and lobbyists, you are sorely mistaken; and we all pay the price.
Looks interesting. Echonest have done some amazing stuff in the past.

Can anyone find a flat list of all the genres?
Net neutrality isn't dead because the people asked for it
Yes, it's very much like Optimizely. Here's a good (but old) comparison: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-main-differences-benefits-...
It appears you are looking for Deep Insight into field x where x = "applications of Bayesian filtering". This is not a reliable way to do this (random posts on non specialist forums). A more reliable path is to study the topic exhaustively over n years where n > 1. Take classes, or do a ph.d, or find a good academic library and read the related textbooks and journals. Thus developing expertise, apply imagination => profit!
I was homeschooled along with my three brothers in the state of Texas. We all did dual-courses at a community college during the highschool years, and all graduated from college with various MIS/CS/EE degrees.

We were not homeschooled for religious reasons. It was purely a choice made by the family during a time when we were traveling after both parents retired. We each had the option at anytime to jump back into the public education system after we moved to Austin, but we opted to continue homeschooling instead.

Would I recommend it for everyone? No. Homeschooling should be dealt with on a case by case basis.
So maybe you want to live in a society where public policy has nothing to do with the age of the universe. Let's do that. That sounds good.
Gene therapy 'could be used to treat blindness'
things like crazyegg are good too. you can just use the 30 day trial to test it out.
Apparently the R people realize Python over R already..

http://www.r-bloggers.com/the-homogenization-of-scientific-c...
The population of my congressional district, as of 2010, was about six hundred and sixty thousand. I grant this is three orders of magnitude smaller than the voting population of the United States as a whole; I don't grant that 1/660,000 of a say, in who represents my district in the House, is worth much more, in practical terms, than 1/125,000,000.

The population of my state is about six million. I'm not seeing much value in 1/6,000,000 of a say in who represents my state in the Senate, either.

"Get involved!" you say, as though it were that simple. I've known people who were, and my observation has been that what might start as a hobby soon enough grows to absorb their entire lives, while providing no obvious benefit either to their own well-being, or in the cause to which they so completely give themselves. Having also known people who fell foul of heroin, I'd have to say that, while a political habit isn't quite as damaging overall, the difference is a lot narrower than one might expect, and the similarity certainly doesn't militate in favor of either.
I know a lot of successful people who don't know anything about the current state of evolutionary biology. I'm guessing you do too. It's totally superfluous to most occupations.
I was homeschooled, I can tell you It's not all like that. The Canadian government checked up on us twice a year. We followed the Alberta curriculum (using ADLC), well known for being strong in the maths and sciences. I wrote the same provincials that the other Alberta students did (in a supervised setting at the same time as everyone else.) I found it better prepared me for self motivation and learning on my own. At university I was on the deans list and scored better than 95% of students (exactly what percentile I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it was the highest of all students in the same year of computer science.) I scored 100% in calculus and published three peer reviewed math papers in conjunction with my professor as a first year student. So you can't discriminate across the board like that, even if in general you're probably correct.
This occurred to me after the editing window for my other reply passed, but...

The tangent function has discontinuities at x = pi/2 and every interval of pi from it. When taking the derivative, is it more fruitful to say "you can't just brush away those discontinuities", or "sec^2 x"? And this is a derivative all calculus students are required to know!
So, if your analysis is correct... what do we do about it?
Like the mood option - very helpful. I personally also like it when a recommendation engine tells me why it thinks I will like the movie/restaurant/whatever. That way i can decide whether the recommendation makes sense for me instead of just trusting the "secret sauce". Thoughts on this?
H265 has a smaller adoption base than even WebM. If we're talking about that league anyway, then maybe Daala is competitive. They claim that it is better than H265.
But the underlying assumptions of creationism hold true as well. If I have a RepRap that's making imperfect copies of itself and evolving, who created the RepRap in the first place? It certainly didn't spawn from nothing.

Sure it's a devil's advocate argument, but that's the issue. Saying something that sounds reasonable to an uneducated person will leave that person believing it's true, because it certainly sounds plausible. If you don't also teach the scientific method and critical thinking, you're not teaching.
all I want to say on this (to me, tiresome) topic is: if you or your company (especially if that is one and the same!!!!1) have ever used OpenSSH you should at the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM buy a damn CD. you really ought to donate a solid hundred in your local currency but if you can't, skip a couple pints this month and buy a CD.

if you use CARP or OpenBGPd and have never bought a CD, you need to buy two ;p
Wikipedia Commons has overriding concerns, such as spread and availability (including licensing) of codecs. H.265 isn't meeting those bars yet.
Rust has the beginnings of emscripten targeting[1], so in the near future?

[1] https://github.com/Yoric/Mozilla-Student-Projects/issues/33
> the American people are and have been the most heavily propagandized people on Earth

You have heard of North Korea, I hope?
Why Garbage Collection Paranoia is Still (sometimes) Justified [2008]
I believe it's high time to repeal the 17th Amendment and return a fair bit of power to the states. This would ease the democracy crisis and decentralize some of the power from D.C.
An example: webkitgtk requires (IIRC) 16GB of memory for the final link step if you turn on debugging.
yet it will take quite a massive amount of time for implementation. For the next 4 years h264 will stay the dominant force in video, simply because of the backlog of only-h264-capable devices.

What 'd be cool is if mobile/laptop/desktop vendors would start sticking FPGAs on the boards to allow for dynamic updates of video decode cores.
Indeed, that's why I said "where you make sure all windows are repaired".
I am curious to know the server configuration, architecture and the number of hits it is getting.

If someone does offer a new software architecture, and hosting, would people be open to move hackernews there?
Right now I'm just using an ansible playbook to provision the box, create the AMI, and destroy the box within a playbook.

In the near future I plan on moving to Packer since it's the perfect tool for the job.
http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/genre/list?api_key=YOUR...
Hey Luke, that's awesome :-) how were the social aspects? How did you guys make friends along the way? Via sports/activities?
" Of course the way the world works today; instead of taking me up on the help they would probably just contact the police."

Ok so try it this way.

Contact the company [1] [2] and tell them you believe there might be security holes in their app (and make reference to cases like starbucks while pointing out that even if they are ok on that there could be other issues) and offer to tell them the results of your testing (a written report) in exchange for your fee.

You haven't said you found anything in particular (and you haven't), haven't specifically said you've intruded and you can get paid for a security review which if written and done correctly will give the executive hiring you cover.

[1] Suggest postal letter rather than email but you could start by email I just think it will be ignored and that it's worth the stamp to get more attention.

[2] I've done similar things (not with security) and it's worked pretty well.
Tcl is certainly not a toy language. I was introduced to it when running an eggdrop bot in the irc days, and I suspect for many of us was one of the first more feature complete languages we had no choice but to learn because we wanted to add custom functionality to our bots.

I haven't kept up with it and enjoyed seeing there's still those who find it productive
http://yayhooray.net

Some top people hanging out there and you'll find good advice and resources as well.
You point about abuse is incorrect. Abuse (physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, or neglect) is more likely to happen in the home, perpetrated by a family member.

I'm not sure why it's a reason to avoid home schooling. Schools are not great at spotting and reporting abuse.
Well, yeah to both points. I'm just disagreeing with your claim that in general his stated goals are "optimistic" for roughly half the nation, and that's just perception....
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Well, to be sure, the job always seems to turn their hair white.

On the other hand, I'm easily cynical enough to wonder whether a modern president's staff hairdresser is expected to have an unusual degree of skill with dyes and bleaches.
I don't think that board's decisions are directly affecting this charter school though. The decisions they make effect the curriculum used by public schools.

While this school receives public funding, it operates largely as a private school, with curriculum chosen by its own board. There are certain mandates that they must fulfill, and a general plan which must be approved by the state education board in their initial charter. In order to rescind their charter, the board would need to determine that their curriculum does not meet the plan outlined in their charter or that the students are not be prepared adequately for college. It appears from the information in the article that the science of evolution is taught and the students would, presumably, be able to answer test questions regarding it. They just aren't asked to believe it is fact.
> I hate python with a passion

Genuine curiosity as to why. I've heard arguments against using it because of speed and type-issues, but you're using a derived language that doesn't change either of those things. I've never heard anyone just blatantly dislike the language itself.
right but youre probably a christian and anti vaxxer and probably dont even believe in evolution

you voted for bush didnt you
These genres come from people talking about music using whatever organic / natural words they use to describe music. We've done the work to map those into single-term "genres," as it's been shown many listeners appreciate the flat categorization. There are similarities between genres in the API, so you can quickly see which genres sound like others.
Indeed! We must ensure that our harmonious society has no tolerance for falsehoods, only for the Truth. For the truth is... North Korea is best Korea.
Not really.

It goes like something like this:

1. Starbucks' server has the private key, the iPhone app
has the public key.

2. The app locks the plaintext up in AES with the public
key, local to the phone, and keeps the locked data,
and sends a copy to the server. The server has the
private key, and can unlock the data locked up with
the public key anytime, even though the app (in
possession of the public key only) cannot unlock the
data by itself.

3. The app needs network access to operate properly,
because honestly, why is Starbucks attempting to
transact without a network connection, so if there's
no network access and the protected data can't be
accessed, oh well. Oh, and by the way, if the app
really needs the plaintext, why not just ask the user?
Oh right, thinking is hard. Don't ask a lazy user to
do anything.

4. Each time the app needs to unlock the protected data
and use it locally, it sends a GET request to the
server via HTTPS. Maybe it sends XML, maybe it sends
JSON. Who cares, as long as it's not keeping and using
the plaintext.

5. Based on the nature of the request, the server decides
whether it needs to send the plain text back over
HTTPS, or whether the app is just asking the server to
do something server-side involving sensitive data. If
the app *REALLY* needs the locked data sent back in
plaintext, the server sends it back for one time use
via HTTPS (still protected from interception, even
though it's being sent over network), to be nulled out
after the process or function returns complete.

6. The server is a fortress, and has the private key
(...somewhere). It does not store the sensitive data
in plain text. It too only stores the locked data, but
is capable of unlocking the data on the fly, per
request, each request, every time. The server should
actively garbage collect the plaintext data, and not
leave stale copies lying around.

7. The server *NEVER* give an app a copy of the private
key. NEVER, EVER. The iPhone app can rot in hell if it
can't get the data unlocked. If it has to wait, it
waits. Find something else to do. Mine bitcoins,
unfold some proteins, whatever.

Yes. This demands a server infrastructure with high performance and high availability, according to the popularity of the app (many millions of concurrent users). It will be expensive and complicated to execute something like this. One would not JUST AES it.

But hey, lazy users can't be bothered to type passwords and such. Gee whiz! Isn't this Starbucks app easy to use? How did they do that?
Indeed there are. Bad habits like drinking, smoking, drugs, teenage pregnancy, and how to assault teachers in the parking lot.

These were all extremely common things in the school district where I grew up, which is why my parents, (and the parents of many others in the area) chose to homeschool their children. I never learned those things by "just being among other people" and I think I'm better for it. (My state-required yearly standardized testing scores growing up, that I started college at 16, and the leadership positions in social organizations I’ve held most of my life seem to bear this out.)

Being "around people" is not exclusive to public school kids, nor is it some sort of magical indicator for life success. In addition, homeschooling isn’t exclusively the domain of religious zealotry and terrible people. There are plenty of us who you've met who are perefectly "normal", and may even lack some of the usual bad habits. Please update your stereotype database. :-)
I had real issues with NPM when trying to work on a spotty network connection and offline. It really really wanted to go and hit the network over and over to check versions.
Seems odd that they'd totally miss out Pip for Python.
> Facebook is not going to gain much penetration there.

There is little to no customer loyalty on `social networking' sites. We used to have a deeply-entrenched website in Poland (`nasza-klasa.pl'), apparently everyone was on it... until the Facebook took over, seemingly overnight.
3-D printed Hershey chocolate is coming
As I commented when this appeared here the other day as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7059581

The fact this was submitted here and disappeared is kind of indicative of their problems.
Andreessen Horowitz Invests $20M In Custom Apparel Platform Teespring
This has been debunked to death. The issue isn't "houses, papers, and effects" not encompassing e-mail, but the "belonging to that person" aspect. Phone metadata doesn't "belong" to you. It belongs to your phone company. They generated it, they store it--you never even see it. It's also quite questionable how much of say your Facebook data "belongs" to you. Or your GPS location data. It's about you, but much or all of it is generated by some company and stored by that company, and you are often even not aware of it nor do you have access to it. You have little to no recourse if they lose it, destroy it, or misuse it. You can't even make them let you see it.

Indeed, I strongly agree with your use of the word "belong" because I think the use of "houses" and "persons" purposefully puts the 4th amendment on a strong property rights foundation.[1] But viewing the 4th amendment through the lens of property rights (i.e. "everything I can think of belonging to that person") makes most of what the NSA is doing quite legal! Things that are about you do not necessarily belong to you. If I write down every time my neighbor enters and leaves his house, that's mine, not his. Is Facebook tracks what you click on and your cellular company tracks your GPS location or your phone company tracks who you call, that's their data, not yours.

[1] The prevailing Supreme Court view of the 4th amendment is broader than this property rights view, but still embraces third party doctrine which makes much of what the NSA is doing legal. And certain Justices seem partial to the property rights formulation.
The actual disclosure linked in the article is a little bit different than what the article is implying.

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jan/64

The file in question is a log generated by the application. They are NSLog'ing stuff to the console, and Crashlytics must be capturing it up and putting it in this file. Along with debug tracing messages like this below, they're logging server interactions and JSON responses that contain personal information (I see my home address, telephone number, etc coming back from the server and being logged).

2539 $ -[CardDetailViewController refreshCardDetails:] line 798 $
2548 $ -[CardDetailImageViewController viewDidLoad] line 28 $ view did load
2551 $ -[CardDetailImageViewController viewWillAppear:] line 48 $ view will appear
2551 $ -[CardDetailImageViewController viewDidAppear:] line 53 $ view did appear
2588 $ -[CardDetailViewController refreshCardDetails:] line 798 $
2607 $ -[CardDetailViewController doPageChange:] line 684 $ :
2652 $ -[CardDetailViewController viewDidAppear:] line 301 $ I APPEARED!!
2652 $ -[StarbucksAppDelegate trackView:] line 1084 $ 2014-01-14 18:50:37 +0000 /Card/MyCard
2791 $ -[CardDetailViewController viewDidAppear:] line 301 $ I APPEARED!!

So the situation here isn't one of tokens vs passwords vs encryption or otherwise how they're being stored for interacting with the server. The user is going to have to enter a password at some point in the workflow, regardless of whether it's encrypted at rest or exchanged for an OAuth token or whatever. You shouldn't be logging that password back to the console when the user enters it!

edit: This also means that all that personal information of mine is presumably on some Crashlytics host as a side effect of all this having been logged and sucked up by Crashlytics.