skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did I ever say nerdy schoolboys and white prisoners were particularly weak people?

Yes you did. Nerdy, unpopular with poor social skills, that's what I would call weak in exactly the social sense that's relevant here.

If you bothered to research this matter you would be surprised how much what you are saying is a cliche.

I'll concede, though, that the victims are probably not completely random in a formal statistical sense.

[Edit:] Sorry, our posts crossed. I didn't mean to change mine while you were replying
Well...here, courage is being scared of embarrassment but doing it anyways. nice try, G.
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Indeed -- something a little like StumbleUpon's model, where a declared percentage of displayed items are actually paid placement, could work.

Payment could even be in the form of "virtual favorite points" -- ranked score is real favorites + bought favorites, though with some cap to prevent the list from becoming all paid.

(OTOH, 'favoriting' isn't hard to fake, is it? So as soon as being atop your list is economically valuable, it may become dominated by spam.)
I am a bigger fan of the Windows 7 desktops, although, they never last long with me anyways. I have a habit, like a lot of people, to make/find my own.
Meta: How is the EXACT same link submitted twice? Work of the devil?

Tangent: Anyone else notice a steep rise in double submissions lately?
Situation calculus
Just coincidence. My apologies.
Twitter's request looks like business as usual. They are protecting their trademark like they are supposed to, and following up on their TOS. The letter wasn't threatening or full of legalese either. I don't see Twitter as the bad guy here
Very interesting. I am in Massachusetts. I worked in an auto body shop for several years growing up. Parts markup for auto body work is 0% in Massachusetts. The insurance companies have books that list cost of parts, and labor times to repair/replace. You don't get any more, and you might get less because of overlap. The labor rate paid by insurance companies is fixed here, too.

For mechanics or other non-insurance work, they can charge what they want, but their prices always end up below retail. If there is markup, it isn't much. It costs me less money to pay someone to change my oil than it would if I bought the oil and filter myself.
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How did it happen though? Dual submission are prevented, at least if you go through the standard submission process. I do not mean same story, I mean the same exact link. I have never seen this happen before.
Why Google's online encyclopedia will never be as good as Wikipedia

http://www.slate.com/id/2200401
Google Maps' name data is a strange beast. A while ago Google Maps showed Spanish names for many Finnish cities for several months.

If I've understood correctly, names do not actually come from Google, but from map data providers, so the culprit in this is case is a map data provider.
I know it's completely off-topic and I'll burn some karma here... Using only titles on the current front page:

"Steven Frank Gets [...] strangers to talk to [...] Google App Inventor [...] Phil Schiller [...] in Chinese Language [...] and why it's awesome"
This is a cease and desist notice not a lawsuit; and it's a rather nice C&D considering how MyTwitterButler is basically a spam-bot for Twitter.
Haha! :)) This is a good one
oh boy, shameless plug time! yelp is a great desktop experience, but if you've got an iphone give graffiti a shot: http://www.graffitigeo.com. it's a bit more fun to use than urbanspoon and goodrec with the mobs and badges. no registration or anything like that needed. you can see my profile here as an example: http://graffitigeo.com/jared

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Sponsored tweets are a good idea. But results are best when companies get to target the audience based on their interest. For example, a company would more likely to spend to show ads on specific search term than all the search term. So if you can find a way to categorize the people visiting your site based on retweets or fav patterns and have separate categories of favs then you can have targeted sponsored tweets.
Where is it stated that they asked him to turn over the domain? The only thing I see that he claims is that they asked him not to use it any more.
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"No, we have precisely 1 sample: earth. We have another sample (Venus) in a vastly different region of parameter space. Multiple measurements of a single sample is not a substitute for multiple samples."

The idea of large sample sizes is to make intelligent inferences about a large and diverse population. We have one planet--anything that tells us about how this planet, in particular, operates is useful, and "low sample size" is a bullshit criticism.

So is our chemical understanding of how light interacts with certain gas mixes, particularly CO2, in the realm of heat retention.

"We have accurate models of bombs and their effect on structures and vehicles."

We have accurate models of CO2 and its effect on heat retention as well.

We don't have to rule out the idea that fairies are sneaking into Berlin and destroying buildings with pixie dust when we know how many bombs we've dropped on the place, can survey the amount of destruction, and can make intelligent conclusions about whether the number of bombs dropped matches the amount of destruction.

"The accurate models make engineering (structural, in this case) possible, including the design of bomb-resistant buildings."

Yes, and your proposed solution is to relocate the entire population of Berlin into underground bunkers, whereas my proposed solution is to stop trying to conquer Europe, since we shouldn't have done it in the first place and now it's causing terrible consequences for us.
As a hacker, I feel for the guy. He worked on a product that solves a legit problem the Twitter platform proper doesn't handle and is trying to make some money off it. I can't fault him for that. Unfortunately, the most likely use case is for spammers. Which leads me to...

As a Twitter user, I'm totally in support of Twitter preventing people from autofollowing and auto-DMing. This type of behavior is toxic to the Twitter experience and I can't blame Twitter one bit for wanting to prevent it.
Not necessarily. Despite having pretty bad odds (in favor of the house) compared to other casino games, many people find roulette to be fun and addictive. The same goes for craps, and really applies to the slot machines.

[Thinking about slots, reminded me that in my previous comment I was talking about table games when I was talking about roulette being the worst odds. I don't know if that's true. I haven't crunched the numbers, but that's what I remember being told as an employee.]
You use their NAME. Not just a 'tw'. If I launched "ToyotaButler,com" tomorrow, do you think it'd be reasonable for them to gripe about the name? From a purely legal standpoint, they HAVE TO DO THIS to everyone who uses their trademark ("twitter") or it weakens the trademark for when they NEED to defend it.

You are on their platform. They don't like how you're using their platform and consider it spammy. Microsoft would have a right to ban a "Virus Construction Kit" or "Spam Generator" from Windows, right? While you aren't on that level, it's a subjective judgment and they are in charge. Just because people want to pay for it doesn't mean it's good for their ecosystem. I'm sure I could sell the hell out of a Virus Construction Kit, for example. :-)
"there is a much broader group of people who become victims than most people think"

True, but if that was your point why didn't you just say it in the first place? In any social context that has bullies, the bullies predominantly belong to some social subgroups, and predominately victimize other social subgroups. Don't make it sound like you're disputing that fact when you're saying something much more mundane and agreeable.

"that's what I would call weak in exactly the social sense that's relevant here"

Sorry, I thought you meant weak in the sense of "less able to put up a fight".
It's on page 2 of the PDF.
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It doesn't actually say he's being sued, no, but the scope of the open-ended threat does go somewhat beyond canceling his API access.
I wish I could install a multi-hundred-megabyte Zahdoo Client application instead.
Don't the 'high-roller' tables have a higher minimum bet? Most people don't start out at the $1 table, and then move up to the high-roller table as they keep losing though. Most people just plop down at a table that has a range/minimum that is right up their alley with regards to their average bet. Then they only really move if there is a reason to (like feeling that this table isn't 'lucky' anymore, or the dealer changes, etc).
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Twitter doesn't want to be associated with any third party site by name. Pretty standard stuff. You couldn't produce a product called Coke Gravy Flavored Soda and put a foot note that you're not associated with Coca-Cola. Everyone else seems to get by OK with "twit" Prohibiting auto following is surely an anti-SPAM teqnuqie and a good policy in general.
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Are you using that statement as just a factual observation, or are you attaching a value judgment to it?
I see that now. I didn't originally see that the big PDF icon was a link to the letter itself.
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Virtual goods. Go super edgy, forget flowers.gif and hugs.png: vices sell, introduce liquor, hookers and hard drugs. Maybe even go deep on the cultural references, even be a little harsh and xenophobic. Virtual gifts have a general positive connotation because they're usually given to friends, on facebook and other closed social networks. Twittering is a place for adversaries, a perfect play ground for irony and everything anti.

As a super premium: allow people to upload their own text and graphics for a dollar, and attach that to the tweet.

@squarejaw bought *victim* a pair of nads

@ironical sends you a touching violin solo on a miniature DVD

@citygirl sends you another pair of pink polo shirts to wear over all your others

etc.
Yeah, exactly. No offense, but I think this app provides no value to the Twitter community either. It just cheapens the reputation system and is a spam bot in disguise since we all know that following a bunch of people on Twitter is a backdoor way of sending them email adverts.
This is exactly what I was thinking, but I couldn't come up with a way to articulate it as well as you did. I wanted to add that as you gain experience and wisdom, you may see just how hard it is to change society to behave in the 'ideal' fashion. Meaning as you become older, you learn better how to adapt to what society is and lose the desire to make society what you want it to be, simply because you learn that the former will give you results much quicker.
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Ask HN: Becoming a programmer again
Hi HN

I started my career as a programmer and did quite well at that. I never wanted to get into management but in due course of time, I was forced to. Now I am out of touch with programming for almost 4 years. I wanted to get into hardcore development again - like I want to build frameworks and such stuff. I am faced with enormous inertia and dont know where to start. I am basically a Java programmer. Any tips and suggestions how to go about this ?
I actually appreciate that twitter is taking a hard line on spam.
I've become convinced that CSS is an elaborate trick played upon graphics designers; It's an impressively inappropriate tool for laying out text, but given a few hundred hours of trial and error, you can make anything almost work.
I think it's telling that no UI toolkit uses anything that remotely resembles the HTML box model.
Well, you could grab a book and work through it. Or, alternatively and even better, find a personal project to do and do it.
Frankly, I don't give a shit about playing that game- success for me isn't being Mark Zuckerberg, because I don't want to live in Silicon Valley.

1) There are tons of people who would kill to work for a company that lets them live in interesting places around the world. We actually have some pretty seriously cool stuff going on in this area, but we're not quite ready to talk about it yet- I'll get a post out in a few weeks talking about exactly this.

2) Fuck that, we're already profitable.

3) Already have a great accountant, already working with a phenomenal law firm. Office space? Seriously? I'm not going to stick around the Valley because it's easier to find an office on Twitter.

I'm not sure if your last sentence is sarcastic or not- life is too short to spend seven years (average time to exit) somewhere you don't like.
Ben didn't mention it. Knew about it from another dreamit company / it was on their about page. Removed it from the title.
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I should totally get a hat.
I did say it in the first place but "completely random" was a bit of an exaggeration (even though part of it is really chance). What I dispute is that popular, strong, successful, socializing people never become victims or that they can turn the situation around (short of joining a gang maybe).

They may have friends, but not, for instance, at that new workplace or at that new school. In many cases it's not the victims' character that makes them vulnerable.
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Nah, not on the public, peer-reviewed algorithms. Any breaks are likely to be with implementation details of the program.

Truecrypt et al are open source, and are considered pretty good if set up by someone who knows what they're doing.

There is of course the possibility that The Man puts considerable effort into finding and/or encouraging subtle holes in common encryption products; even if so, though, they would sit on that asset and only use it when seriously important. Ie, military/national security level use, not cops. When you spend millions developing a tiny, secret advantage you do not fritter it away so PC Plod and Sgt Sad Sack can power trip on getting into some pleb's porn folder, after which the hole used is discovered and patched the next day.

update: oh he was downvoted? That's harsh, it's not like there hasn't been any precedent for such things. Search for Crypto AG. And encryption systems as used by programs like Skype are absolutely not to be trusted; you can assume they are backdoored wide enough to drive 10 unmarked white vans and a black helicopter through.
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I've found that rotating all of the Windows 7 desktops that I like every 30 minutes has kept me satisfied since the beta has been out (which is a long time for my attention span).
Pick up clojure and scratch small itches with it. Clojure is still fairly obscure and it doesn't have that many libraries; this will force you to write your own. Tool-making is the most fun kind of programming, and fun will keep you going.
If they actually served the pages with the correct Content-Type, their pages would not render in any browser.

You mean it wouldn't render in IE. In any more reasonable browser, if there were any parsing errors in the XHTML then you would get a big fat error message but otherwise it would render just fine.

But who cares! it's all about HTML 5 now, baby!
Maybe deck network (http://decknetwork.net/) or fusion ads (http://fusionads.net/)?
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I really didnt see why some of the tweets were being favorited. Based on their content, i'd agree with vulpes above - it'd be pretty difficult to get ppl to pay $$. Sponsored placement sounds like a good idea.

Another suggestion, although not monetization related - provide a widget of say the top favorited / top favorited users - that bloggers could embed on their blog - increases distribution.
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I used to be really shy when talking to people.. I'm getting better at it though.

Usually all it takes to get things started is a "G'day, hows it going?"

:-)
That works too.

However, I was trying to say "everyone does the moving knife thing and anyone can call the cut on anyone's knife".
This is not true. You can use another company's trademark as part of your product's name or domain, so long as it is fair use.

See, for a quick summary, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_(U.S._trademark_law)
I think Twitter's model (following and followers) is appropriate for HN. The traditional friend model (friendster, myspace, facebook etc.) is ugh.
The "economic inefficiency" associated with a guaranteed minimum income, or wage subsidy, plus a basic level of government provided health insurance, has less distortionary consequences than the current system with a minimum wage and employer-provided insurance.

But really, this kind of reduction in inequality has generally quite positive effects on economic growth and productivity, and everyone in the society, including the rich, winds up better off after the improvements have compounded for a few decades.
I've seen several in the last day or so, exact same URL each time.
Yeah, but just because something is sold doesn't mean it has to die. In the case of FriendFeed, Facebook has all but said it's going to kill it; they bought FriendFeed because they wanted the people, not the product.

Not so in the case of Google with Writely (Docs) or Grand Central (Google Voice).
Many european countries have something like basic income implemented. It mostly realy basic income, but you can survive on that some time.
nice work, it's fun to get some of the best stuff out there that doesn't seem to be made up like tfln or fml

1) Add tipjoy functionality, encouraging users to tip the best/funniest/helpful tweets.

2) charge referral fee to users who you scrape. Each new follower they get from favstar.fm costs $0.10 (seems like many of the people you are featuring are self-employed or creative types who would probably like more followers)

3) sponsored favoriters... allow brands/users who want their profile pic to show up as if they had favorited a tweet. pay per impression or click basis (they could get creative with the profile pics to grab attention)

4) promotion of top favorites across the web. build plug and play modules that people can add to their own sites, my yahoo, igoogle, their facebook page, etc. (or maybe just an RSS feed). Anyone can post it to their own site for entertainment value, but the only tweets that are eligible for the module are ones from paid accounts. Trouble is, the best/funniest twitter users probably wont want to pay for that distribution, they don't need it.
What's your definition of popular? I can't find any stats on your site that show any reasonable levels of traffic that would allow it to be either ad or freemium supported.
I'd like to follow this up with the information that Hu has now been formally charged:

http://www.businessday.com.au/business/rio-spy-case-stern-hu...

As expected, the charges are commercial bribery and obtaining "commercial secrets of China's steel and iron industry through improper means" in violation of "the country's Criminal Law".

I am not trying to whitewash China here, but I doubt this case is all that unreasonable, and I for one am hardly less confident about business dealings in China because of it.
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There are two things stopping the iPhone from having an impact comparable to the original Macintosh: (1) The closed nature of the App Store and (2) being tied to a single carrier.

Remove those two restrictions, and the iPhone becomes a new geek toy, which will translate into apps which are much better than what we have on the AppStore right now. The barrier to entry into the AppStore is simply too high, which is keeping most developers from taking on more ambitious projects.
Why have google not open-sourced GFS?
Completely anecdotal, but kind of along similar lines: I have heard from female friends and and other less personal sources that often times women feel more comfortable around men they don't know who have an observable female partner because it indicates (if even only on a near unconscious level) that this man is most likely "safer" than a man they don't know who does not have a partner. That is, the man's female companion has "tested the water", he's likely not a serial killer, by having a partner he's demonstrating right there and then that he can commit to more than a one night stand etc.
Oh, yeah Knol.
Is that still around?
I want to high five you after reading that ...
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You are in the wrong, give up.
This app basically exists to automatically spam people. I haven't read the twitter API TOS, but surely it says somewhere that this isn't allowed. Every company with a public API is going to place limitations on it, it would be bad business not to.

What sets Apple apart is that they do silly things like block dictionaries for containing bad words.
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Just the name was bad enough to doom it, IMO.
Is "you think" part of the bait?
Interesting. Maybe there's a slight chance someone will be interested in my toy project at the moment, a distributed replacement for Twitter (as opposed to the other five hundred ones like it... But it's a fun exercise).

"Only" need to time the release with a particularly bad case of downtime for Twitter and have suitable connections to media. Did someone say that the better tech doesn't always win? ;)
Just updated the post. The message is gone. Jumped the gun?
The question is about how we distribute our wealth fairly.

The fairest method would be: Who creates the most wealth, gets the most wealth.
The current method is: Who negotiates the highest salary (founders and passive income excluded), gets the most wealth.
Basic income method: Everybody gets an equal little piece of the wealth, the rest is distributed like before.

It seems fairer to me, because for example moms are not compensated with the current system.
Interesting idea. Would anyone here actually pay for virtual goods? Examples? I can't say I ever have on facebook apps etc..
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Sponsored tweets sounds good to me too.