US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe • Hacker News Board

Re: US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe

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Post by dang » Sun, May 25, 2014, 6:05 PM UTC

deadslow wrote: post #4

Yes, HN is the appropriate place for this type of posts.

Please re-read the site guidelines. This story is appropriate for HN. It's not a close call. Let's not fall for a superficial definition of "intellectually interesting".

The story is also brutal, dismaying, and provocative. Hopefully that won't render substantive discussion impossible, but if it does, we'll do what we usually do and weight the thread.

Re: US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe

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Post by sixQuarks » Sun, May 25, 2014, 6:05 PM UTC

If the facts of this article are correct, the father seems to be clinically psychotic

Re: US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe

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Post by peterkelly » Sun, May 25, 2014, 6:06 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #3

We changed the url from http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/son-finds-his-los... , which was copied from this.

You should add a regex for that your submission page. Everything on news.com.au that isn't about Australian politics or sport is "syndicated" from US media.

Re: US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe

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Post by dang » Sun, May 25, 2014, 6:06 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #9

vyrotek wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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What disparity? The threshold for upvoting stories is very small.

Re: US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe

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Post by phpnode » Sun, May 25, 2014, 6:11 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #9

vyrotek wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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no one can downvote submissions, regardless of karma. The reason this is on the front page is that at time of writing, 32 people found it interesting enough to vote up. If you don't like the article, don't read it. Your post is not useful to anyone.

Re: US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe

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Post by jameswburke » Sun, May 25, 2014, 6:13 PM UTC

If anyone has any questions, I'm close friends (roommates actually) with David and serve on the board of directors for The Good Project.

He just left for Costa Rica on a service learning trip, but I'm happy to answer what I can.

Re: US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe

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Post by Natsu » Sun, May 25, 2014, 6:14 PM UTC

mherkender wrote: post #10

Wow, his father sounds like a piece of work. He decides that culture is the only real reason he shouldn't marry someone who was "about 9 to 12" when he's 36. Then his long absences put her at risk of being brutally gang-raped, which happens. She ends up in the US, and eventually goes back without her kids. He tells his kids nothing about her, why she left, who she is, but still has his son beg her to come back in fro…

I thought that the US had laws against "sex tourism" so I wonder if it's possible, at least in theory, that he could get prosecuted for this?

Re: US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe

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Post by phpnode » Sun, May 25, 2014, 6:15 PM UTC

jameswburke wrote: post #16

If anyone has any questions, I'm close friends (roommates actually) with David and serve on the board of directors for The Good Project. He just left for Costa Rica on a service learning trip, but I'm happy to answer what I can.

Is the article factually correct? And if so, does he have a strong relationship with his father?

Re: US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe

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Post by bhaumik » Sun, May 25, 2014, 6:15 PM UTC

jameswburke wrote: post #16

If anyone has any questions, I'm close friends (roommates actually) with David and serve on the board of directors for The Good Project. He just left for Costa Rica on a service learning trip, but I'm happy to answer what I can.

>>His siblings don’t quite understand yet and still want nothing to do with their mother.

Has this changed?

Re: US man finds lost mother in an isolated Amazon tribe

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Post by dang » Sun, May 25, 2014, 6:15 PM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #5

dang wrote: post #3

We changed the url from http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/son-finds-his-los... , which was copied from this.

I think this was copied from something too. I read this story 1-2 years ago. Even the writing seems familiar.

The Yanomami get written about extensively in Western media because there are sensational academic debates about them and because Napoleon Chagnon is a polarizing figure. But naive Googling, at least, doesn't yield a previous version of this article.