jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No True Scotsman!

Instead of taking a quick glance at the article... actually read it.
Last decade's supercomputer(!) in today's pocket. Really, the sheer speed at which computing technology evolves is mind-blowing. I don't even want to guess where we are in ten years...
I was thinking what could be a major missing feature to actually use lory in modern web projects?
And after giving away massive tax breaks, is now pleading that the budget can't be balanced.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/02/18/sc...

> To help close the state’s $283 million budget shortfall this year, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) plans to skip a $108 million debt payment scheduled for May.

> By missing the May payment, Walker will incur about $1.1 million in additional interest fees between 2015 and 2017. The $108 million debt will continue to live on the books; Walker’s budget proposal for 2015-2017 will pay down no more than about $18 million of the principal.

> In March last year, Walker signed a $541 million tax cut for both families and businesses. At that point, Wisconsin was facing a $1 billion budget surplus through June 2015, the Journal Sentinel reported.
Reminds me of @hsivonen's wonderful "HOWTO Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate": https://hsivonen.fi/wannabe/

Edit: Curious why this is being downvoted. Is humor (intelligent humor in this case IMO) really that frowned upon at HN? Or did someone think I was calling the parent commenter a "Wannabe Web Standards Advocate"? (I certainly wasn't. Quite the opposite.)
YC is telling us that there may be a lot of value in batching and accelerating these types of products/companies. Maybe we should start a biotech focused accelerator (as opposed to software) that turns post-doc chemists/biologists (as opposed to software engineers) into rockstar founders.
http://www.amtrak.com/passenger-identification

Nope. And why would it be illegal? AFAIK there is no law requiring business to provide services anonymously.
I choose to believe in God; I don't have proof, but I like to believe. It makes life easier and in my case doesn't seem to have any ill effects. Even with everything we have learned through science, there still seems to be room for God. We don't seem to have any way to know what caused the universe to form, and I'd just as soon postulate an eternal God as an eternal universe even if it doesn't follow Occam's razor.
You might want to check http://24pullrequests.com/ but it’s not only for PHP.
Labour is too expensive to build the NYC subway again, and the dynamite would make OHSA throw a fit. Look how much a single new line costs these days.
First of all: great work! Even though I think OpenNLP should also be mentioned, since it's released under the commercially-friendly Apache 2 license, it's great that you provide this. Also, I think it is a shame that science lost you (I assume) ;).

I think the other interesting problem to tackle currently is training data. The situation for English is ok, if you have a couple of thousand of dollars to spare for a commercial license (which may be problematic for bootstrapping). But for many other languages there aren't even treebanks available that can be used for commercial purposes.

It would be great if some annotation project started that aimed to provide annotations under a liberal license.

(Ps. I have a statistical dependency parser written in Go, which I will probably release soon in case anyone is interested ;).)
I am pretty sure that in the Stanford CS curriculum, CS193P has pre-requisites that include introductory programming clases.
I must have misread the article. I thought a positive offset was different from all the other ones. In that case, it's still a new manual version, but much less unusual.
I like C++, STL, and parts of Boost. Surprisingly, this is controversial these days. :)
Not sure what you quite mean here.

The platform, is the web. Which is completely open - you can install and run any webapp you wish.

I think you're still thinking in the 'old' terms, where computers have local filesystems and native applications. Forget about those, they're just firmware like the BIOS.
Those are pretty much the same point - privacy. Which most people aren't too worried about.
I was more referring to this definition from Wikipedia[1]:

> Big data are datasets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools. Difficulties include capture, storage, search, sharing, analytics, and visualizing.

Some other interesting resources:

What is data science?: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/what-is-data-science.html

How to turn data into money: http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/10/how-to-t....

O'Reilly Radar: http://radar.oreilly.com/data/

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data
Money is not everything. A successful career as an indie developer can be a lot more rewarding than one in academia.
>We never imagined we'd win the internets!!!

Oh please, I mean, it's only one of a kind app that millions could make use of :)
This is a great way to take a product from concept to production.

But why do people want a watch they need 2 hands to read the time with, must be charged, and offers less functionality than most normal watches?

I guess I know the answer, watches are not really for telling time anymore, are they.
A lot of the issues raised in this article (low or zero stipend, poor job prospects after graduation) are more appropriate if you're talking only about the social or life sciences.

In science and engineering (engineering in particular), PhD students rarely have to pay their own way, with stipends around $25000 or even up to around $30000 with a fellowship. The job prospects are certainly a lot better as well- since research funding in the US is very much focused on science and engineering.
So much in our industry is about iterative improvement rather than radical new invention.
The reasonable salary is what the market can bear. If you receive an offer for X, then you need to evaluate if you can make more money elsewhere or if your time is worth more. Make your decision accordingly.
Masks may be both somewhat effective at reducing spread while simultaneously increasing spread for other reasons.

Suppose there was a virus that you're terrified of and there was no way to protect yourself. You would be reducing human contact to the absolute bare minimum.

Now suppose people were told they could go about their business if they just put on masks. Simple cloth masks. Not proper KN95 masks, because those are rationed. People would go about their business as usual, with their cloth masks somewhat covering their faces.

The stronger the message that "masks work", the more human contact there is, there more infections there are. Humans have trouble processing mixed messages, they want to think in binaries, they want to believe things are going to be fine if they follow the rules.

I think the WHO had it right all along. They considered the all implications of mask usage, not just the physics of viral particles.
Is gold a pyramid scheme?
How do you use iMessage if you got android phone? I hate this thing, would rather give my data to facebook then use it because it creates class separation between poor and rich. I have seen it with my kids who wanted iphone because they couldn't communicate with all the iphone kids who used iMessage. That's in itself much worst to me than some privacy which i already gave up on.
> I don't think there is mastery in this work.

I think there is mastery, but only in knowing that there is no mastery.

"I seem, then, in just this little thing to be wiser than this man at any rate, that what I do not know I do not think I know either."
[Apology of Socrates, Henry Cary literal translation]
The biggest problem to me is twofold:
- there were very very few law enforcement there beforehand. Compare to BLM where there were thousands of storm troopers, tanks, etc camped out before the similarly obviously publicized protests occurred. Here is a comparison photo of what they had in front of the monument before the LEGAL BLM protest this summer [1]

- the 'resistance' was very weak at least at first. The videos of the 'storming' didn't show much resistance, no gas, no rubber bullets, no attempt to hold the line. here is a 'selfie' [2] which to be fair doesn't show cop actively participating, but does show him just standing there. There are some photos of guns drawn trying to protect the floor, obviously out numbered once they secured Members I understand completely retreating. But the main uniformed officers at the entrances didn't act.

It's a stark difference.
My story is that here in Denver I was gassed, before curfew, before an unlawful assembly was declared, during a peaceful protest this summer. They shot more than a few eyes out of their sockets with rubber bullets. A judge had to restrain the Denver police for their violence.

Compare to today it took a LONG time for them to deploy these same weapons, and it doesn't even look like they used tear gas/irritants at least in the first videos, just smoke; unlike what they gassed us with and those in Lafayette Park and across the country.

1 https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/national-guard-lincoln-memor...
2 https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419520
Riscv is also fixed-width, at least to the same level as aarc64.
I agree so much.

Of course in this particular situation FB are siding with the existing laws of a well-established Deomcracy, though in a nearby future they could easily side with the laws of a Dictator in some other country, or even just side with whoever happens to be in charge of some country right now otherwise they'll be shut down in said country.

It seems pretty risky to allow a private company that controls as much "global voice" as FB does to censor people with no oversight.

Surely this will end badly.
Facebook is a private company. Freedom of speech doesn't mean they are obligated to give you a megaphone for asking your mom how she is doing. They can and do ban people for any and no reason, cutting you off from your social network at a moments notice.
Hah this article. Was this even wikipedia? So it concludes that we need to take down the Patriarchy and the Sexism in India.

So I was right. We need to intervene in their society, and change it to liberate their women. Because we know best. And whoever doesn't align with that, must be supportive of violence against women. Shame on them too.
Be careful with this kind of thing. You're inadvertently making the FP community look bad. A more constructive and less pushy approach would have been to recommend an enjoyable FP language and explain why you think it suits the parent.
And that's what the TOR browser bundle does. And that's why it is locked down and disables all plugins etc.

The point of hosting in docker in docker is to firewall the browser so it can't talk to anyone else, and to add extra layers of protection - however flimsy - against any eventual targeted compromise.
No, this isn't an issue for fixed length types, although you're still better off using unnest instead of explicitly indexing into them.
Send any URL in subject line to read@snipek.com.
I've had similar experiences, though, not with FBI, with DHS at DEFCON, to the point where I've been handed DHS business cards prior to hopping on flights out of Las Vegas on my way home, and them calling me on my personal (non-work-published) cell phone a few days later.
Not an HQ by any means. Just an office.
Marriage at 12 doesn't mean sex at 12. California has a law against "any lewd or lascivious act" with a child under 14 for example. Spouses aren't exempt.[1] And age of consent means without judicial or parental approval.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
But does he own any shares or options in MobileCoin Inc?
It was $6 two weeks ago. Still a big jump but hardly “zero”.
What are you interested in?

I founded a company. I somewhat haphazardly drifted into the product role over the first 6 months, and from then on embraced it. I was the first pm, first pm manager, first pm director, etc...
It's a build framework like gradle but with python instead of groovy. It's extremely powerful, just like gradle is, so it requires considerable time to get comfortable with it. I never regretted spending the time with gradle as my builds get more and more flexible and good in time. I don't think i will ever push to bazel though, as to me it looks like gradle with a python dsl.
None of my aging relatives have a smart phone, my parents struggle with a dumb mobile phone.
Edit and continue still aren't as good as those IDEs are capable of.

Then there is the whole stack REPL development experience, which probably Powershell + .NET + COM/UWP on Windows is the closest we get today.
Longtime lurker posting this anywhere I leave an internet footprint in hopes that someone will chip in. Any little bit helps. They’ve raised part of the money but this link is for the remaining balance. Thanks for reading.
Even if the electoral system is rational, its still possible to make bad choices. But bad choices are a lot more likely with our system, more bad than we'd have in a rational system.

I don't particularly care how much government you have in Austria, but that's really none of my business. If people are unhappy with it, they can change it.

The things our government does badly do much more damage to us and to the world and we have little ability to change it.
I uninstalled Flash on my Mac about a week ago. Wanted to see if I could reduce the fan noise and heat. The one thing that might make me reinstall is that YouTube only supports 1 in 10 videos in html5, if that.
Oh, and apparently, it's on Instructables: http://www.instructables.com/id/Kinetic-Marble-Track-Around-...
why do so many posts addressing Facebook's approach to China neglect the fact that FB is blocked by the great firewall and the vast majority of Chinese netizens won't bother with a vpn to use it regularly? am I missing something?
While these phrases are used to lie and to say two different things that are in conflict with each other, it's possible to believe something even though you have reservations about it.

Maybe if you're absolutely certain about everything you can recoil in horror at ever using a qualifier, but some people aren't opposed to admitting that they're not really sure about things, even if those things are the way they feel about something.
Ultimate Virtual Goods & Ad-Serving for iPhone/Android
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/10/28/has-tapjoy-solved-monetization-of-free-apps-on-the-iphone-and-android/
Hi everyone -- please let us know if you have any feedback, questions, or thoughts: partners -- at -- tapjoy.com

If you're an iPhone/Android publisher, we'd love to work with you!

-Lee (YC '07)
Web Design
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We are web design and Development Company specialized in professional & innovative website design, web development, e-commerce solutions, SEO, graphic designing & other expert IT solutions. Get started with affordable packages of web design and development from india.
Linux Magazine hacked or just DOS'd itself with latest email?
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1662
picture here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3368/3247416097_0596eef189.jpg
Is the New Google Interface Flat? Announced on Google I/O 2013
http://designmodo.com/google-interface-flat/
Just in time for Google’s annual I/O developers conference, the web giant launched a pretty dramatic redesign to its Google+ social networking arm and Google Maps.

It is Flat?
Free For All Deals - Save 100% (Yes Really)
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No money or payment of any kind is needed. You simple sign up your email and we send you a daily deal with no additional sign up needed. If you like the coupon you download it for free. If not check for tomorrow's coupons.
When negativity doesn’t pull the news through
http://sciencenordic.com/when-negativity-doesn%E2%80%99t-pull-news-through
A news journalist has devoted her master’s thesis in psychology to bringing positivity back to journalism, replacing the negativity that is driving readers away.
Minio Unveils Minimalistic Object Storage Compatible with Amazon S3
http://minio.io/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2015/06/23/minio-unveils-minimalistic-object-storage-compatible-with-amazon-s3/
Micro Podcasting 
http://audiolip.com/
audiolip.com is a micro podcasting platform.
Share your ideas, comments. Share your voice!
Take o tour!!
Is Implementing the ‘Repository’ Pattern Redundant When Using ORMs?
http://theminimalistdeveloper.com/2011/02/28/do-we-need-to-implement-repository-pattern-when-using-orms/
It seems to me that when we are using ORMs - such as Nhibernate or Entity Framework - creating these repository implementation are redundant. Furthermore since these pattern implementations does no more than what is already there in the ORMS, these act more as noise than helpful OO abstractions. It seems using the repository pattern in the situation mentioned above is nothing more than developer self aggrandizement and more pomp and ceremony without any realizable techical benefits. What are your thoughts ??
Kibin Founder's Insights on Quora
http://www.quora.com/Travis-Biziorek-1/answers
His experience with 500Startups is particularly interesting.
#ywahusty: you will always have users smarter than you
http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/ywahusty
you will always have users smarter than you are. respect it and engineer products accordingly.
Ask HN: Which merchant banks will allow travel sites?
I've spent the last two hours reading through HN posts and also researching merchant banks and payment processors like Paypal, Google Checkout, and Amazon Payments. Because of the risk associated with chargebacks of large purchases, no one seems to approve businesses that focus on the travel industry. This is odd, because the internet is chock-full of travel sites, so which merchant banks/payment processors are they using? Does anyone have any recommendations for a startup in the travel space?
World's cleverest man turns down $1million prize 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1259863/Worlds-cleverest-man-turns-1million-prize-solving-mathematics-greatest-puzzles.html
World's cleverest man turns down $1million prize after solving one of mathematics' greatest puzzles
Idea:  PG voting days - a few days when only PG votes on HN.
I think this would be a fascinating experiment to see what PG likes in terms of both submissions and comments.
~55% of people already invited a friend to join an app
https://voicepolls.com/question/1082923
Do you what's working best as an invitation system? Twitter, FB, SMS, other?
Reply to an Old Friend
http://erichstauffer.com/business-development/reply-to-an-old-friend
My first post to HN after reading for several months and learning a lot.
Verizon Math Fail
http://www.viralvideochart.com/youtube/verizon_math_fail?id=lCJ3Oz5JVKs
$0.002 = 0.002 cents
You Know You're a Startup Founder When...
http://youknowyoureastartupfounderwhen.com
Some of the best:

...You stopped watching f*ing Lost!

...Watching Mixergy isn't watching someone mix experimental cocktails.

...A Ping Pong Table is an essential form of office equipment.

...You check your Analytics every few minutes to see if there’s been any activity since you last checked 2 minutes ago… did anyone new sign-up yet!?
Ahref.ws link shorter
http://ahref.ws/
New beautiful link shorter. Shortened link will look like the third level domain ahref.ws (example: s.ahref.ws)
Salesforce.com is experiencing a global outage
http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status/
Even their status page is down, at least for me. The funny thing is that they keep directing people to this page via their twitter account, even though it seems to be inaccessible to most.

For a company of this size, a global outage is a big deal.
HTML5/CSS3 Christmas card
http://lab.martineau.tv/card/christmas2010/
Last Christmas I created an online, animated Christmas card entirely in HTML & CSS. It was a fun experiment & I thought that some may find it useful.

In terms of browser support, it works perfectly in Safari & very nearly in Chrome. I think I disabled it in Firefox but may need to revisit due to recent updates from that particular browser.

Enjoy & let me know what you think :)
Rethinking how students collaborate and share online with Studemia
http://www.studemia.com
Startup from Stockholm. Rethinking the way student organize and plan their work in school.
NoSQL should mean "Not Only SQL"
http://www.sdtimes.com/JUST_SAY_NOSQL/By_Alex_Handy/About_DATABASES_and_NOSQL/34483
An extensive dive into the NoSQL landscape, with a focus on where these new databases fit in the application stack.
Why-i-love-sharepoint
http://blog.redweb.com/2011/12/16/why-i-love-sharepoint/
Our in-house @Sharepoint specialist, Howard Bayliss has written a blog post explaining why he loves it so much. @Redweb
Building a Better Hackathon: Four Core Principles from LiveOps Hack Day
http://blogs.liveops.com/2012/07/18/building-a-better-hackathon-four-core-principles-from-liveops-hack-day/
We recently held our eleventh LiveOps Hack Day event, and it was something special; a number of really interesting ideas came to life in a mere 24 hours thanks to the efforts of some very passionate and dedicated teams and individuals.
Organize and iterate on javascript templates faster using jstfuel.js
https://github.com/jimrubenstein/jstfuel
I wrote this library out of the desire to use external javascript templates instead of defining them inline. I wanted to make the response loop on making changes, compiling, and viewing the changes in browser smaller, so jstfuel can reload templates as well compile them client side if need be.

I'd like to get y'alls feedback. Is this something you find useful? For you hardcore javascript hackers I'd like to hear some feedback on the quality of the actual code in the library, where are the funky smells coming from? I want to get stronger with writing clean/sensible javascript.

Let me know what you think. Thanks!
Will Outbrain rule the recommendations apace with its new $35 in funding?
http://www.vccafe.com/israel/israeli-startup-outbrain-raises-35-million-to-rule-the-recommendations-space/
See the implications of this round on VC Cafe.
What Google Android Could Mean to Businesses, Corporate IT
http://www.cio.com/article/156250/Google_s_Android_Mobile_Platform_and_the_Enterprise
A news analysis piece on what Google's effort to revolutionize the consumer mobile space could mean to business and corporate IT
Ask HN: How come Snapchat and Facebook receive so much funding
Snapchat recently received 500 million $ in funding... Facebook a lot more.

Still, none of them can ask for any subscription billing for usage of the application... (or people step over to the competition).

I don't know any people who use something like Facebook credits... ( no one talks about it definatly)

So why do they receive so much in funding? Do investors really believe you can have so much influence on people's lives, if you know a lot about them?

I don't think i ever willingly clicked on an ad, i don't "like" much on fb (just personal connections) (note: technical savy person).

Are there any other "opportunities" people see? I just realize that there will be another Facebook/Snapchat arround the corner, just as MySpace had...

Already Facebook is trying hard to get the next "popular" social network app... Probably it won't be from inside, but it will be bought (cfr. Instagram).
Ask HN: Multisite or plugins for a multi-lang WP setup?
The site will be small, only 4-7 pages. Three languages so 21 pages at most if you count the different versions.

What's the state of the multi-lang solutions for Wordpres as of now? I found some extensive plugins for this but some seemed to recommend making the whole setup a multisite WP installation.

What's the best approach, and why? Or do you know any pros or cons for this or that?

The URL structure will be

.com/en/
.com/ee/
.com/fi/

Thank you.