skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Berkeley has been a hotbed of political protest for a long, long time. While I lived there, the Oak Grove protests, (protesting the cutting down of some trees to build a stadium) were going on. Most of the fellow Berkeley residents I talked to were not in favor of the tree protesters, simply because the university was planting more trees in other places, so that there would actually be a net gain of trees due to the construction. Prior to Oak Grove, there were the protests surrounding the army recruitment offices. And prior to that, I'm sure there was another cause, all the way back to Vietnam, where Berkeley was also a famous center of protest.

The protests in San Francisco are very different from the ones in Berkeley. The San Francisco ones are basically concerned about the effect the Google buses are having on the composition of the neighborhood. The idea is that SF is perfect as-is and must not change. There were similar worries when gays started moving into SF in the 70s and 80s.

I think the reason why you're "talking past" me and the other people here is that you haven't really visited most of the neighborhoods outside SF, and you think they're all the same. Hence the apparent non-sequiturs like bringing up Oak Brook, Illinois, or trying to decide whether something is a "city" or a "town." The reality is that different places are different. Berkeley is not SF. San Mateo is not downtown San Jose. And downtown San Jose is not east San Jose.

An "us versus them" mentality, coupled with lack of knowledge of "them," lies behind a lot of ugly things in human nature. Do we really need to have more of it here? Maybe there are places outside of SF that are (gasp) as good as parts of SF. Maybe there are places in SF that kind of suck. Is it possible?
Even in extremely competitive market, there's room for bloatware if many customers don't mind it in exchange for lower pricing. However, what a competitive market WILL ensure is discovery of an 'acceptable level & implementation' of bloatware that 'some' customers will tolerate given the choice of lower pricing vs no bloatware.

Think two versions of Amazon Kindle with and without ads. There's market for both. The problem with carriers is that their monopolistic positions enable them to engage in abusive practices. (like installing bloatware to the point of annoyance, prevent user-removal, and not passing on savings)
Just updated my question; moving shouldn't be an issue.
> a few weird french ones I dont remember the name.

French guy here- I'm not sure why (well I have a few ideas, but they aren't very developed), but pen and paper role playing games were (relatively) super popular in France, and are still to this day. When I was a teenager in the early 2000s, there were several PNP RPG magazines distributed nationwide (Casus Belli, Backstab, Graal, etc.). I may be wrong, but it seems that only the US surpassed France on that point.

I was hooked from the age of 10 or so. I had been reading Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books for a few years, and one day I learned about Dungeons and Dragons. Sadly my local library didn't have a copy of the books, and I didn't have any allowance at the time, so I invented universes and rules on my own and played the games with my brothers. I later played some D&D, L5R, WoD in middle/high school, and read ton of custom rulesets/settings I found on the internet.

Good times :)

(and I did nostalgia quite a bit the other day by buying a bunch of used RPG books on Amazon that I had wanted as a kid but could never buy. They're going away for dirt cheap now!)
I made GoalCalendar, a website that tracks your goals on a calendar visually, and I use it every day. http://goalcalendar.com

I also created the Min CSS framework, an extremely tiny (995 bytes) CSS framework, which I use in all the websites I make. http://minfwk.com
a couple weeks ago, my wife received an order from Banana Republic that was intended for a recipient in Newfoundland. the correct recipient's name was on the packlist inside the box but they showed it to the wrong person. likewise, my wife's actual offer took a few days longer to arrive, too. I suspect it was simple mistake inn the warehouse where an operator had two boxes, printed waybill stickers for both, and then slapped them on the wrong - already sealed - packages. I bet similar things happen regularly.
Katy Perry's Teenage Dream album was largely written by MM, I'd say it's both one of the most important pop records of the last decade and MM's best work. It smashed all sorts of chart records, in total it had 8 top-three singles on the Billboard Hot 100, and 5 number one singles.

It's absolutely destined to be a classic album in every sense of the word, and I find it funny that most music heads I know can't see that because (imho) they are too afraid of being seen as someone who enjoys Katy Perry. Oh well, the kids who were 12 at the time will grow up appreciating it. I suppose it's for them anyway.
I clearly don't share the musical taste of most developers - I love most of the music he has written. I'm probably not the target demographic (more like the target's dad) but I still love pop music as much as I did when I was a teenager in love with Agnetha Faltskog.
Brazilian here: A local tax expert pointed out that Sony is adding a huge profit margin on top of the taxes [1]. Sony has disclosed the tax figures to the media but not their profit margin, and trying to blame it only on taxes because they know the Brazilian consumer will believe.

Some suspect that Sony is importing at an even higher price than the retail US price. No one knows for sure, but clever US sellers were buying PS4 at full retail price, shipping to Brazil, paying all taxes, and still they were able to sell cheaper than the retail price of the Brazilian PS4.

If Sony produced PS4 in Brazil they would pay 6% taxes instead of the 40% protection tariff. Microsoft (actually Foxconn) is doing exactly that in Brazil and that's why the XBox One is actually cheaper than a PS4.

Sony simply did not want to incur the labor costs and risks associated with investing in the local tech industry. Nothing wrong with that (it's their decision), but they are not being truthful to the local consumer.

[1] (in portuguese) http://info.abril.com.br/games/noticias/2013/10/sony-divulga...
Their iOS version is quite expensive if I recall correctly. It also isn't quite up-to-date in its design. Neither are any of the Anki apps, in my opinion.

Anki does have a huge advantage from its excellent spacing algorithm. The prototype I have working so far uses the Leitner system, which is very basic, but an advantage of keeping all the data on the web is the huge potential for A/B testing to figure out the actual best spacing algorithm.

Lastly, I'm not too interested in generating revenue from this project. I don't even have any ideas for monetizing it. This is mainly to scratch my own itch. If I can make enough to cover the cost of running the project (which is currently zero; it's being hosted on a free heroku dyno), I'll be happy.
And since Alexandria isn't 30 miles wide, we can conclude that NSA HQ is not "in Alexandria".
http://rapgenius.com/Jay-z-ride-or-die-lyrics#note-1097040
Apparently not. Same for the Tea Party fools who discredit the whole US and make the world think that the entire US is ruled by a band of ridiculous backwards-oriented religious extremists.
It's hard to use those as a firm ranking system. For example, it looks like it doesn't include health care, child care, family leave, and other things which are covered by taxes/employer social fees in Denmark but are out-of-pocket in the US. About $3,000 of that difference is health insurance.

Better might be to ask Danes and Americans "are you happy with your life?"

On one happiness scale, Danes are the happiest people in the world. http://unsdsn.org/files/2013/09/WorldHappinessReport2013_onl... . The US is #17.
Most of the singers MM writes with contribute the lyrics. Hip Hop works almost the same way with their producers essentially writing the "song" structure (beats and loops).
"fabulously overbuilt"... not quite, think about this: you have one chance to launch it into space, send it millions of miles away, reenter atmosphere safely and then survive a hostile environment for only (?!?!?) 90 days! There is no overbuilding, by the nature of the mission itself your Factors of Safety [1] are through the roof!!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_of_safety
Fair enough, and thanks for the thoughtful reply. I didn't mean to misrepresent your position -- I took "The obvious explanation here is that the USPS fucked up" to mean you belived it couldn't be otherwise, rather than when weighing the evidence the more obvious [simpler] explanation is that USPS screwed up.

Like you, I'm also a big proponent of Occam's razor. (Having been a med student, you don't know how many times I heard that "think horses not zebras" analogy from attendings.) I guess it just comes down to the degree of faith each of us has in the NSA and their corporate partners. Some of us are more willing to doubt their actions and/or believe it's possible they could screw up this way. But at this point we can only wait and see if we learn anything more in the coming days -- though probably not. One would hope the NSA is competent enough to cover this up, even if it was their screw up.

Added: BTW, there is another explanation that no one has mentioned. Leaving the Alexandria issue aside, the NSA interception program obviously relies on participation from one or more corporate partners. And just as we've seen at the telcos, it's reasonable to assume that there are staff at those partners who aren't particularly enthusiastic about the program. So it's possible someone decided to "accidentally" bypass/skip an important step that would have obscured this. It's not a huge leap to imagine a motivated techie realizing that this particular delivery would be an ideal opportunity to direct a lot of attention to the interception program -- if they felt compelled to take the risk. I'm definitely not saying this is the (or even a) likely possibility, but it's probably the only way we'll ever know if it was in fact the NSA.
fyi: abril uno (April 1st) appears to be a spoof news website like the onion
Why would the NSA fuck with a TOR developer, when the federal government contributes a great deal of TOR code and actually runs exit nodes as a matter of research?
Thanks, that's great info. You have my admiration for that kind of setup!
Does any Lisp code actually run in the OS itself, or is it just involved in building the OS image?
I never ever listen to pop-music, but every summer I used to drive my parents car for 1-2 weeks. So I always got a fresh set of songs every summer, and every year there were between 0 and 2 songs that I found genuinely good (and I knew little or nothing about the artists). The last time was in 2011 (I think) and Rolling in the deep was the only song I liked. I'll go back and look through the producers, would be cool if one turned out to be Max Martin, but I somehow doubt it.
"Demand" can be a bit of a fuzzy thing. For instance, all those people who were now had "enough" clothes and were saving money from the lower prices were instead buying other things, creating increased demand for some other sector of the economy. Which, presumably, would eventually lead to more jobs elsewhere.

I think a better moral for the story is to expect technology to have significant local effects on employment in particular industries (either up or down), but the evidence for the economy as a whole seems to be much more neutral.
I build Review Board (http://www.reviewboard.org), a code review tool, and its SaaS counterpart, RBCommons (https://rbcommons.com/). We use our public Review Board server for every change going into Review Board itself, and RBCommons for every change going into RBCommons.

While "eating your own dogfood" doesn't work in every industry or product (as some of the top comments are discussing), I'm a firm believer that if you're developing something intended for a typical person (developer, casual user, what have you) to use every day, you really should be using it every day as well. I've used too many products that were "mature" yet felt so poorly designed and developed that you'd have to wonder if anyone at the company ever touched them beyond basic testing.
Except they're not really "fundamentalists" (in the sense of being fringes), but actually quite deeply ingrained into academics.

There's different schools of feminism and they're all valid within the context of feminism, because feminism is not a clear and cohesive ideology. Nonetheless, most feminist journalism and "activism" in the West today overlaps with postmodern social ideas and radicalism.
I was referring to this survey on international intergenerational mobility, not the U.S. specific one:

http://cee.lse.ac.uk/ceedps/ceedp111.pdf
This isn't even built yet? I feel cheated, I wish I didn't give my email address.
If you had to break the last 20 years into three time periods: (!) "post Snowden", (2) "post-9/11", and (3) "post PGP", sensitivity to government surveillance would rank 1-3-2. The NSA was a bigger deal in the 1990s than it was in the 2000s, even after the AT&T "Room 101" disclosure.
That's what I thought, but there are actually a bunch of Google apps that can't be uninstalled too.

My old Galaxy Nexus became unusable as Google services got more aggressive (eating all the RAM if background service calls failed due to poor connection). The phone would literally restart in the middle of every third phone call, but the option to uninstall the main culprits like Google Currents was (is?) disabled. Sure I can install cyanogen, but I specifically bought the nexus to save having to do that.
What I dislike about Dr Luke is that his artists are autotuned to the extent that they all sound exactly the same.

Katy Perry's voice could be swapped for Avril Lavigne's and many people would barely notice.

This accusation is not new in pop music, and I do like his work, but it seems no more skillful by now than finding the right formula and milking it to death with marketing machinery.

It find it negative for creativity in music, and even a number of Ke$ha fans agree with that: http://www.idolator.com/7485711/kesha-fan-petition-free-dr-l...
Thanks. The IE dev tools have come a long way. (I still prefer the updated built in Firefox tools, but using the dev tools in previous versions of IE was painful.)
The choice is often between a dull, bloating thing, and a shiny bloated thing, sadly.
Spent some time this week to move deployment of venvs to use wheels (we install numpy and matplotlib). Now, instead of close to 10 minutes deployment time, it's done in about 30 seconds. I can live with the fact, that I'll need to make changes to the deployment process now and then, while wheel traveling towards 1.0, but I'm happy to go that route. And you should to.
I also really like Clojure (we use it exclusively at work) especially thanks to its referential transparency. But I don't think I'll ever want to exclusively write in a Clojure style. Sometimes I prefer imperative stateful algorithms.
$400M for a company I've never heard before is quite surprising. Could someone who participates in the machine learning community share any insights or facts they have on the company? Other than the founders' histories, the article doesn't do much justice to the pricetag.
That Adele album was brilliantly written, you should go listen to it in its entirety if you haven't already.

Great username, great band.
it's dead in the north too. I just marched through New Hampshire with both liberals and conservatives that are fed up with big money in politics. there's still time to renew our democracy, but it's running out fast. http://nhrebellion.org
I would speculate that they might be interested in submitting a patch that compromises the Tor network in some subtle way that only they can exploit, and doing it in her name. Maybe added on to some other big change she submitted, in the hope that nobody will notice it.

Seems the Tor project is using Git for all of their projects, so doing something like that would probably require pwning whatever system she's creating commits on. I will say that putting a bug or something in her keyboard doesn't seem like a terribly efficient way of doing this.
Let's not forget promoters and ~~payola~~ playola.
Dang. $400million sounds like a lot for landing page. Only kidding. Best of luck to those guys. They sound very talented.
Similar experience with http://www.exponential.io (Exponential.io).

We needed to develop both prototypes and production apps faster, so we built tooling...which turned into Exponential.io (tooling as a service).

> seeing the pain our sales teams actually had while doing sales.

This is a great way to find a product. At a minimum, you know you're solving one company's problems (your own). As it's likely there are similar companies, then it's a good indicator that there is potential for the product.
I've tried just about every web/mobile/desktop todo list out there, and always end up back at pen and paper.

Every night, I list out the things I want to get done the next day. I strike these tasks out throughout the day as I do them. At night, I destroy the list (burn it if we have a fire going) and make a new list. After writing out "Setup split test experiment on blog CTA" a few nights in row, it becomes painfully obvious that it either needs to get done ASAP or it's not worth it.

With software-based todo apps, it's too easy to overload your list, which leads to starting each day depressed over how much you have to do that day.
Dear HN: please use "flag" more often
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html says "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." I'd like you to extend that to "If they'd cover it on Reddit". I'm not saying Reddit's not interesting or worthwhile, I'm saying Reddit already has all this stuff -- there's no point in these two sites being clones of each other.

Examples currently on the front page that are not by any stretch "hacker news": "one man has written virtually every pop song in the last 20 years", "why is the american dream dead in the south". Also suspect: D&D's 40th birthday (sure, nerds care, but does this make me smarter?) and a Roman glass gaming die that's for sale at Christie's (are we Craigslist?).

I know why these articles get submitted: they are interesting, so they get up-voted, and HN has karma points, so people try to get more of them. Merely refraining from up-voting these things isn't enough -- HN has a lot of general audience traffic these days who will up-vote without considering relevance.

And yes, I know crying "this isn't news for hackers!" is basically the same as old fogies who used to cry "this isn't news for nerds!" on Slashdot. But look what happened to Slashdot. You have the power to preserve the relevance of HN to hackers, by flagging stuff that is off-topic, even if it's really interesting.
Ask yourself this (and answer truthfully): A year ago - did you believe that the NSA is actively sabotaging standards, intercepting shipments in order to modify the software to be under their control, etc? If you didn't (and I'm sure you've had the conspiracies mentioned), then why on earth would you believe "the official word" on anything like remote control of a car?

I am fucking sick of people being surprised by the NSA revelations.

NSA malpractice has been documented all the way back to 1975 by the Church Committee's papers: http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/contents/church/contents_c...

Then later on we had Clipper chips, ECHELON, Presidential Surveillance Program, TEMPEST, Total Information Awareness, DCSNet, Room 641A and plenty of other surveillance disclosures.

This whole stigmatization of conspiracy theorists as loons is wholly unfair, misguided and shows the speaker's ignorance of how intelligence agencies operate. Conspiracy theories aren't just idiotic pop culture ravings about Illuminati, reptilian men and ZOG.
So does anyone know what they actually do in more detail?
Oh! Duh! Mystery solved. How could I have been so obtuse?
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Pitch correction is unable to change the timbre of a voice. If you can't easily recognize different people's (auto-tuned) voices, you would be in the vast minority of humans who lack this basic skill.
How Motown slipped my mind completely I don't understand but yes you're right, but I wasn't under the impression that at Tin Pan Alley the songwriters did the production themselves. That said, I hadn't done much research into that era of recording.
What Is a Million “Likes” Worth?
You need to be endorsed by an active user in order to submit papers: https://arxiv.org/help/endorsement
Trolling aside, I love the concept but the name is terrible. How about exam pages for example pages as man is for manual pages.
You have to install some things, poke around the system, do some general management, etc... I'm not claiming to be an expert but I really liked what I saw especially in the documentation (it looks outdated but the content is absolutely on point)
And how is value determined (hint: it's not subjective)?
Anki unfortunately jumped the AGPL shark recently, making the code dangerous to have around. I've personally been thinking about forking the pre-AGPL version, or just writing my own. I'll probably just write my own.

(I'm looking to extract audio clips from video files by using the subtitles and timing information, to create listening flashcards. Since Anki doesn't really do this, not reusing their code isn't really a big deal.)
Rolling in the deep is been produced by Paul Epworth, and he is is no less impressive
As far as I can tell, quite a few ML people can vouch for someone at the company (I know someone there second-hand myself), but the details of what precisely they're doing have been kept fairly well under wraps. The broad parameters are "something to do with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)", which is a field that tries to straddle the fine line between contemporary AI and sci-fi AI, without erring too far in the direction of either too incrementalist to too pie-in-the-sky. More specifically on the "methods" side, they have people who are known in both statistical ML, and in the recent resurgence of neural-networks known as "deep learning".

You can discern some more about their general direction by looking at courses they've been involved with, talks they've given or sponsored, etc., but as far as I know (and I tried to probe a few months ago through a friend who knew someone there) their actual product / business / etc. hasn't really been leaked, or at least not leaked widely enough that I could find out about it.
Interesting. Maybe I'll give it a spin. I can only think of a couple of singles but they were very catchy (Last Friday Night and California Girls).

I tend to view rock and pop and most other mainstream genres as simply one super-genre: modern song. It amuses me slightly when rock fans look down on pop music when really the difference is very small.
I think everyone involved with Julia agrees that this is something that eventually needs to work, although it is not as big of a deal if you are loading code from disk, as opposed to writing functions at the REPL. See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/265.
>One of the reasons for the very high amount of single parents in the South is the VERY harsh sentences for non-violent drug crime, especially among African Americans. Sometimes 10 years for first offenses

Outkast (from GA) mentions this in their song Gasoline Dreams (from 2000)

http://rapgenius.com/Outkast-gasoline-dreams-lyrics#note-788...
I have a lot of respect for someone who can earn that much money with honest work. And those were mostly good songs, well written and arranged, and very suited to the singer, except for 22 which sucks.
Somewhat related, the vpri work on a os (for among other things the oltp) -- written in a cascade of DSLs:

http://vpri.org/fonc_wiki/index.php/XO_Hacking