skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> pronounced correctly

If a word is so frequently "mispronounced" that you're likely to stumble frequently stumble upon a "mispronunciation" using this service, then it's not a mispronunciation at all.

Language is defined by how it is actually used.

Arguably, the fact that this service might give you "mispronunciations" is actually a point in its favour. This shows you real world examples of how a word is pronounced.

> A good example is "candidate" which many people pronounce wrongly as "cannidate"

Dropping the first /d/ in "candidate" is a common feature of colloquial American English. It might be proscribed by some, but it's not incorrect.
Slavery in America was much worse than you probablyimagined
We'll work on fixing that. I think it's safe to say that particular tab experiment hasn't worked out.
Black Hole Information Paradox
In an article all about how precision cooking is changing the world:

> That said, precision isn't really needed when searing, just high heat.
The second-to-last paragraph contains this summary: "If you look for provisions in the TPP that actually afford new benefits to users, rather than to large, rights-holding corporations, you will look in vain. The TPP is the archetype of an agreement that exists only for the benefit of the entitled, politically powerfully lobbyists who have pushed it through to completion over the last eight years."
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"a" is sort of orthogonal to rump kernels, but yes, you can run at least file system drivers transparently as userspace servers (just give -o rump to mount(8)). I've also run a USB modem driver as a userspace server, in the "the kernel I'm running doesn't contain support, but a future kernel revision has" fashion.

For "b", rump kernels don't support "compiling out". Rather, the idea is to "link in" only what you need, as in "don't need file systems in that particular application? well don't link in VFS then".

I'm not sure if you're right or wrong, but maybe the rump kernel FAQ at http://wiki.rumpkernel.org/Info:-FAQ will straighten your thoughts. In the regrettable case that it doesn't, you can always suggestion additional questions.
Answer from article: No
Makes me wonder if you could shove p53 into a viral transposon and give us thousands of copies...
> HFT is not about being faster than "slow expensive humans" it's about being microseconds faster than other HFTs.

Now, HFTs are competing with other HFTs, but initially, they were competing with "slow expensive humans". The current situation only tells you how far we've progressed.
/dev/payments i believe :)
Could you go into greater detail about what taxes does the company pays when an NSO is exercised in a year when a person is no longer employed? Is it just the employer's part of medicare and social security (7.5% up to 117000 as of 2014?) or is it something else?
>Colonizing Mars is a fantasy. The worst real estate on Earth can support life better than the best real estate on Mars.

it obviously didn't cross your mind that the worst life on Mars may be better than best life on Earth [at least for some people, like the ones who died or almost died 100 years ago on the way to North or South poles]
Searing is just one step in the process.

I have a pricey high tech anova sous-vide circulator which is great for getting steaks to the perfect done-ness, then I use a decidedly low-tech $15 lodge cast iron pan to get that perfect finish.

Right tool for the job, etc etc.
Speaking in Tongues: From Elvish to Dothraki, the rise of invented languages
As a Canadian, this terrifies me. I don't want US style copyright law here. Just because the US has it, doesn't mean the rest of the world wants it (or isn't a big deal if it's implemented)
Listen, I am terrible marketer so like Thomas Edison it will be probably take 10,000 iteration before I get it right.

Kindly have another look at it, and provide any feedback you may have because communication is my weakness.
> why not charge on day 1?

Some of the most successful companies, like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, didn't charge on day 1.
This is the most sane and sound explanation of Angel funding I have yet to read about. Kudos to the OP for sharing the thought process.

> I wouldn’t recommend anyone to put more than 5% of his or her investment assets into startups.

It's surprising how many people (for those who have the ability and access to do so) notoriously do not follow this advice (which is personal finance 101) and use angel investing as a status symbol.[0]

[0] - http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2015/07/07/how-many-angel...
Agreed, except that methylmercury and other similar organic compounds do occur in the world in places other than carnivorous fish, and sometimes people do get exposed to them in those other places.
Please, give them ideas. False flag takedowns will probably be an issue for years, as the MPAA and RIAA will realize the consequences of a dispute process (they will loose on occasion). Or maybe "rightsholders" will get special privileges to issue takedowns and all other takedowns will go through an administrative review. Anyway, the point is that getting a dispute process in place will take years, and lots of abuse, by most stakeholders.
Nice, DPDK has even a library for longest prefix matching [1] but sadly there are no published performance results.

[1] http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/lpm_lib.html#lpm-api-o...
Actually they did. It's just loading a Smalltalk image over the network into a VM. That's fundamentally what the Smalltalk systems of the '70s were designed to do.
They might be suffering from scrupulosity, even if they are neither incompetent nor spendthrift. In fact, I would think that scrupulosity would tend to promote competence, frugality, and donating heavily to charity.
I feel you, dude. I don't like many of our laws either.

I'm simply pointing out that from a U.S. perspective this seems similar to the status-quo. I agree that internationally these proposals may be much scarier.
TechStars hasn't had a problem. Boston cohorts have raised ~$400 million in VC so far: http://www.techstars.com/companies/
The article explains it's a product of fermentation, which is why it's also present in beer and wine.
From an NZ perspective this isn't great, but it could have been a lot worse. The EFF didn't mention that NZ isn't required to allow software and medical patents which was my greatest feared outcome.
They'll make fraudulent take-down notices a serious crime, and make a few high profile examples. That'll stop the vast majority of it (more sophisticated people will continue the trolling).

Studios might also choose to push for an authenticated scheme instead. Their account gets certified (eg on YouTube), and content on that certified account becomes exempted. There are relatively few hollywood houses that would need it, so it would be easy from a scale point of few to certify them.
We've seen a problem where certain cards stop working at Stripe. Sadly, and perhaps through no fault of their own, Stripe isn't going to be much help in getting this resolved. You're bound to get an email from Stripe saying that this is a "standard bank decline" and that they have no more information than that. Then you'll need to either tell your user to use a new card or ask them to ask their bank what's going on. Overall, you don't really have any play here.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Great opportunity for a startup potentially.
So? He's talking embedding a small scripting language into a JVM project. Groovy fits the bill, Scala doesn't.
I think you may have missed my point.
I was addressing your comment "I also don't get why everyone feels FB owes them a dislike button. It seems like that would be a bad feature."

I don't like the idea of a dislike button myself but was commenting that unfulfilled expectation was the thing that lead the peanut brigade to whining.
Don’t expect more Game Boy, SNES downloads on modern Nintendo systems
Well put. We tried to take a very privacy-protective stand when building Recent News (https://recent.io) because of the amount of personalization we do. This warrant canary is part of our privacy policy:

As of [date], we have not received any legal process or demand from any federal, state, or local government that includes a gag order. We have received no National Security Letters, civil subpoenas, search warrants, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act orders, grand jury subpoenas, or any other form of compulsory process accompanied by a gag order.

As of [date], we have received no legal orders requiring us to monitor users' future activities or to modify our service.

If we do receive any form of compulsory process from any government entity, we will do our best to ensure that our users' legal rights and privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution are protected. That includes challenging overly broad orders in court.

It is still valid, I'm happy to say, for [date] values of today.
The WHOIS-privacy thing is a little troubling. As a workaround, would it be possible to create a "domain purchasing group" as a front for private ownership?

(Primarily for stopping passive information leaks, not necessarily to prevent active / legal information requests.)
Yes but any damage that is caused by one party is also incurred by another party.

In the "no mandatory insurance" scenario, you're taking the risk that someone else may damage your car. So don't buy a car you can't afford to replace.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Sundaram

Very easy to implement and much faster than even sieve of Atkin with a complexity of O((n log n)/12)
Amazon's AWS IoT platform taps three Linux hacker SBCs
Yes, but once our laws become codified in an international treaty, it greatly reduces the possibility of liberalization in the future.
So, removing any rights management, even when no copyright infringement occurs.

Sound bite: TTP bans memes.
Maybe... should have seen what happened when wikipedia disappeared for a day: http://laughingsquid.com/herpderpedia-a-collection-of-tweets...
My understanding was that he was talking about the 'few ms' to parse out whether or not this is you
While the TPP "IP" provisions might be banal, mirroring current USA law, the problem with the TPP is that its for all intents and purposes, a treaty. The citizens of the USA can't up and decide that allowing DRM circumvention is a good idea and we should now allow it: that would break international law. The citizens of the USA can't decide to shorten copyright length for fast-moving areas (computer science) because that would break international law.

The TPP enshrines poorly chosen implementations, just as the Berne Convention has enshrined poorly chosen implementations.
You could use a blow torch for searing-- hell lot less hassle, and so much quicker.
I tried pg_shard a few months ago and after a few hours, I gave up. I somehow remember that partitioning MySQL was easier, and that's not a compliment.
Are you one of these Facebook douchebags?
Twitter layoffs coming next week
Ask HN: How come blogs/magazines never get accepted into YC?
I haven't seen a single successful blog company apply and get into YC. Why is that? I'm talking about startups like TechCrunch or Mashable.

Or maybe I'm mistaken and there have been a few.

Thanks for any input in advance!
I recommend reading the last waitbutwhy post. Also available in audio, which is nice to digest the material if you're doing a few hours of less inspirational work
Twitter plans to lay off employees next week
> They'll make fraudulent take-down notices a serious crime

IIRC this is already the case with the DMCA. I'm pretty sure you have to affirm under penalty of perjury that your claim is in good faith.
I'm actually wondering how much of the R&D effort stems from actual reverse engineering of the medicine and how much is simply done by reading the patent.
Chemistry is quite complicated if you break down the pill into it's basic components it won't tell you much. Even if you manage to isolate the active molecule you still will have to figure out the chemical process to make it and in a safe manner.
Chemical patents tend to be quite long because it's quite a complicated manner, and all of them have a full description of how the compound was identified, how it's made, and how it's delivered.

Now many drugs are also not as complicated as some people might think, the majority of the work that drug companies do it pretty much see what works for what, however for the complicated stuff that they actually R&D from the ground up the patents might be an actual liability when it comes to reverse engineering when they cannot use the law to enforce it.

As for the money, as long as rich people get sick drug companies will continue to do research, allot of the money for the research also comes from government grants and not from investments drug companies would rather produce drugs for illnesses that affect as many people as possible and drugs that combat the symptoms and not the cause where ever possible if we want to be completely cynical about it because that's what would yield them the most amount of money.

If government and private grants weren't available all we'll get in a cynical world would be common cold and cold sore medicine that doesn't really combat either viruses just prevents us from coughing and treats the sores.
And that is almost the world we are living in because drug companies and investors won't be dumping resources into some obscure syndrome that affects 800 people in the US, for that we have the sick billionaires son and the sick nephew of a senator's best friend to thank for.
Rethinkdb was seeded by ycombinator and Andreessen Horowitz.

There is no way these posts would ever get removed even if most people did feel it was "spam".
Inside China’s plan to give every citizen a character score
Searzall FTW
I agree that there might be a certification process, but on the issue of false takedowns leading to jail time I disagree with you. Think about it from the studio's perspective: If they do a single fraudulent take-down the fees wouldn't be worth the other 999 legitimate ones.

DCMA works because it is fast, but fast needs a safety valve. Without that it will get thrown out in court.
Twitter will have big layoffs next week
They are only stakeholders through imposition of laws such as those proposed.

A more likely future is that most content will be new and not controlled by MPAA or RIAA. These legacy content holders will fade from relevance as their content is duplicated beyond their control and, even more importantly, rarely ever accessed.
At the end of the article, the "About This Project" section explains that "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Raquel Rutledge investigated the hazards of diacetyl and other chemicals used in the flavoring industry during a nine-month O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism through the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University. This is part of an ongoing series of stories." Part 1 is here: http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/gasping-for-action-32298865...
If you search for "journey to mars pdf" it's the top result, with a breakout box and summary. Not sure how much easier that can be.
But the fact of the matter is that every person is a rights holder. I'm a rights holder of this comment. You are a rights holder of your family pictures. It is a tricky balancing act.
Not enough new tech involved! Consider getting a Searzall to solve that problem: http://www.bookeranddax.com/searzall/
Does this mean that there are less people competing for jobs every year and we should negotiate accordingly?

What are the implications on job hopping? In theory my market value should go up every year even if all other factors remain constant.
Shinichi Mochizuki’s anger over his unread 500-page math proof
Is it just me, or is every use of "grooming" seeming very creepy lately? I mean the similarity in this case to the pedophile's "grooming" of future victims is amazing.
The Epic of Gilgamesh, Old Babylonian Version [audio]
A reminder than Affinity Designer exists,

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/

And it's just swell.
What about SolidWorks, NX, CATIA, Solid Edge, Creo and other big players in the field? Autodesk hardly has monopoly on the CAD market.
Because these do not have the potential growth curve that would make them worthwhile investments of time and money, period.
Do you have African startups joining YC?
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Sure, technically anyone who creates something in tangible form is a "rightsholder". But the process for enforcing those rights is beyond most of us US citizens, rather like disputing a patent lawsuit is beyond most small companies. The costs of specialist attorneys put the enforcement beyond reach for all but the rich and large corporations. You called out the problem yourself with the "tricky balancing act". Balancing will require lawsuits, and almost nobody has the money for a lawsuit. So "rightsholders" becomes another word for "wealthy and large corporations".
Yea, wouldn't that be great.
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How about the impact of automation on jobs. Will this finally mean that we have robots perform more of the drudgery work? Maybe a return to artisans lovingly crafting luxury goods?
We should talk. mParticle covers off on full feature support for our integrations and works with some the largest apps in the world. Purpose built for mobile. Full feature support for integrations. Better controls around data.
I like your optimism, bully for you, and that's a great idea. But I fear that the ISP/"rightsholder" conglomerates, like Comcast/NBC, will only let very select, RIAA and MPAA owned content through.
This is an astoundingly bad idea. Any fixed rule system will be gamed and thus intrinsically favors cheaters.
Fun/rude anecdote: We (a VoIP provider) once got a number that was getting 250K calls every week. Not because telemarketers were calling it, but because that ID was being usd to make a lot of outbound calls. So people would call back, upset, trying to figure stuff out. We dumped the number (no sense paying for all that traffic), but not before shunting it into a conference call (and playing a message telling them so).

It was rather interesting to see how people reacted together. One person would call in, angry, another person would call in, soon there'd be 4 people all yelling at each other "Well you called me!" "No I didn't!" "Now listen here, I think maybe the wires are crossed" and on and on. Sometimes they'd gang up together and try to sort problems out, but often it'd just degenerate into name calling.

Anyways, it's sad that NoMoRobo exists. The FCC could trivially put an end to scam calls, robo-dialing, etc., with a couple days of drafting a new regulation, and then a few months to implement it. Source: I've handled billions of calls, much of which were dialer traffic. I've worked on both sides (trying to block traffic, trying to get upstreams to take traffic).
Not really, but close. That number includes PMs and design, I think just engineering is closer to 40%. Still big though.
I see no gap between what Sam suggests and you're saying. When he says "another option" he means an alternative for researchers, and possibly for whole lines of research. It does not mean that academia as a whole gets replaced.

But I am highly confused about how the OP's concern relates to types of research that are largely supported in academia alone. If you're in a field of research that YCR is not interested in supporting, then going with YCR is not an option for you. And therefore it won't matter whether or not it is a good option.
It's also a great source of saturated fat and cholesterol. Besides, fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes have all the protein and nutrients you need, so why filter them through an animal's body?
Yes, cynical. Just Coffee is a cooperative; they don't have a CEO. http://justcoffee.coop/about/
Clinton's 20% lead could evaporate overnight if Biden announces that he's running.
What are the chances that this will not be passed by congress? Is there enough animosity that might stop this? I'm really hoping for some serious partisan bickering and ridiculous Obama hate here or is this treaty so horrible (yes it is) that our representatives intend to push it through no matter what?
Greatest problem is copying data in and out kernel-space to user-space.

This causes huge traffic on RAM and trashes caches all along the way.
I agree that the average American consumes more than the recommended daily intake, but the recommended daily intake is complete bullshit. It's 50g, it should be more than double that. It's a class issue: protein is expensive.

The red meat stuff is controversial. From everything I've read, including the China Study, I've come to the conclusion that a lot of red meat in an otherwise healthy diet is probably fine. Who knows though. There definitely isn't clear science there.

I totally agree that in general vegetable intake needs to increase. Fruits are ok, but not great because of the fructose. I don't really think fruits are a necessary part of a healthy diet, but they certainly can be.
Searing is the easy part, it's getting the steak to medium rare thoroughly and consistently that's the precision part.
Yahoo Finance quotes currently broken
Just try searching for any stock symbols: YHOO, GOOG, AAPL and you'll get redirected to the finance.yahoo.com home page.

finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG
> This is not true. Color TV ownership, I'm pretty sure, was nearly universal in the late 1980s and I expect most households had more than one.

Not in the rest of the world (I didn't grow up in the US)

> Not everything is cheaper, for example health care and gasoline.

Healthcare medicines from the 80's did get cheaper, people always want the latest (or are made to buy the latest) which includes the latest tech and is therefor equally expensive or more so. Besides, healthcare is very heavily regulated in the US so if anything this is an example of regulations making things more expensive. Same goes for gasoline.

>
That seems like something that would be very hard to prove or to establish factually.

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-29/world-actually-becomin...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/22/world-less-violent-...
It's not about user base, it's about revenue. I think their revenue per employee is still ~$500k which is pretty good.
"our second paragraph is just saying "trickle down works" when we know it doesn't."

I was simply pointing out the fact that this story portrays the rich in some sort of bubble, where they don't interact economically with the rest.

Any who, "trickle down economics", most popular straw-man ever (I theorize). I don't subscribe to it, nor was I recommending it. Let's coin a new phrase: "free-trickle" and let everyone trickle to everyone else. In the economic sense.

>"Right now today this minute there are poor children in India living near garbage dumps picking through other people's litter."

Are you saying this is due to the rich hoarding their technological advances for exclusive use? Poverty in the third world is a hugely complicated problem. Not to mention the amount of money people, rich people, and government have been throwing at it because it's universally recognized as a "Bad Thing".

I'm not going to stand by idly while a small group of people get blamed for something we have all collectively tasked, and funded the government to do. Let's assign blame where it's really due.
Ask HN: ireadthetpp.com – Video archive of each Senator reading the TPP?
Anyone interested in building out something like this?

I think it could be a good awareness campaign, in addition to creating an (I think) interesting historical archive.

Of course, you'd need to get the Senators to participate...but that should be easy. :)
Anyone aware of well-regarded US-based computer science programs with similar co-op programs? They seem pretty sparse when I google...
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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