skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been making a list of how PayPal and other companies are "regulated" by the states. eg. Transfer of money regulations.

I think credit checks are overrated, as far as fraud mitigation. The relative risk profile would need to be determined. That said, OpenCamp represents a relatively low risk to PayPal in real terms. They have the event booked with the Hotel, They have real organizer profiles.
For the life of me I can't figure out why this is a big deal. Every marketing department uses doctored images in their promotions. It's a fact of consumerism. But it doesn't matter — really. That single image, no matter how embellished, didn't sell any iPads. The iPad sold itself.
That's because Google established its brand via sheer quality. "Google" was not a generic layman's term for "search engine" until Google made it so. Hence, proving my point.
> Closures in particular are a very powerful tool in async/multi-threaded environments, but in the stateless/sync environment of a web application environment, they collapse down to syntactical sugar, and solve nothing that cannot be solved in other ways.

Every feature in every language is syntactic sugar for ASM instructions and solves nothing that cannot be solved with raw machine code. It's precisely the expressiveness of the higher-level features that gives them their power.
While I have sympathy with this comment, it's not the same thing. Knowing the names for bits of a sentence is different from being able to comprehend a sentence. You might know what an adverbal phrase is, without knowing the name for it. To say otherwise suggests the strong form of Sapir-Worf, which is generally discredited (while still actually being contentious).

This article isn't even talking about the ability to name the different grammatical components, though. It seems to be talking about comprehension of sentence forms. There is a hint that using "every" can sometimes be misinterpreted.

But we see that linguistic shift anyway. Things like "I could care less" are regarded as conveying the speaker's meaning, while the linguistic analysis of the form suggests a meaning opposite to that normally inferred, or implied.

"Every" is frequently misplaced, and people seem to assume they know what the speaker means. Following logical analyses we often find that the speaker didn't actually say what they meant, and the listener understood something different again.
I enjoy GeeTasksPro from a HN contributor. It's synced with your Google Tasks, including GAFYD accounts.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geetaskspro-google-tasks-app/...
Flawless victory.
Amiando does offer the payment gateway.
Flurry modifies data collection after being called out by Steve Jobs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin.tv#Lifecasting_origins
I'd be surprised if there was sufficient liquidity for shorts so soon after the IPO.
Great idea. However, the site does not render properly in IE8.
I use OmniFocus for iPhone and I also have OmniFocus on my laptop. Both are syncing over the air to a database in LDAP dir on my own server.

Setup is definitely geeky, but at the time I decided to go for Omnifocus, none of the competitors could do it in a such way that I would have non-network access from my iPhone and laptop + over-the-internet sync between laptop and iPhone.

OmniFocus has all the stuff that you need to do for GTD style task (task, context, project). UI would benefit from a simplification, but I think it's good enough as it is.
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My initial thought was that this was going to talk about default settings, like for computer applications.

I was disappointed. (And I don't like the situation the markets are in now anyways, but this article and plenty others have already voiced all I can think of.)
Adaptive Semantics and JuLiA aquired by huffington Post
does anyone know any commentary monitoring systems and semantic technology such as http://adaptivesemantics.com/home/index and julia

they were acquired by huffington post and I would like to find something similar to incorporate into my website

Thanks
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Safety. You can do anything in C, but the language/compiler can't help you at all. So languages with support for a feature can help you perform that task more easily and catch some errors for you. That applies to GC, concurrency, distribution, failure handling, and on and on.
Pretty interesting. I wonder if this'll cut down on the griefing... Online gaming has such a plague of profanity-spewing 12 year olds, maybe this will help curb those tendencies.

That's one of the reasons I use my real name everywhere online: it helps keep my comments in check. Not that I'm 12, or spew (excessive) profanity. But I've become much more polite, and make significantly less 'me too' or memetic kinds of posts.
There’s a very good book by Steve Krug about usability: "Don’t make me think".

I have a strong feeling that you haven’t read that book, because your make me think so much that I will suggest you work on presentation and colors.

Edit: I figure it could be an IE thing --
IMHO, the Internet revolution only began with the web around 1995. The web (http) is the marvel we see today (Facebook, Gmail, Hacker News, etc). By the end of 1994, the total number of websites was still minute compared to present standards and Netscape was only founded in 1994. If the web didn't take off, the author probably would have been right!
Last I heard the model S was going to start at 49k. That definitely is in the luxury car price range, and not competition with toyota/nissan/etc.
Luxury and exotic cars is a terrible business to be in. Small-volume supercar manufacturers pop in and out of existence every few years, leaving behind tiny production runs of awesome-looking machines and no spare parts.

The only luxury/exotic car manufacturers which have survived are the ones which managed to pick up enough of a history to be bought out by a much larger mass-market brand as a halo. afaik they mostly operate at a loss. Bentley, Lamborghini and Bugatti belong to VW. Ferrari is Fiat. Lotus is Proton, and Rolls-Royce gets passed around like a cheap hooker. Only Aston Martin is currently owned by someone other than another car company, but that may not last.
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100701/the-way-i-work-justin-k...

Printer friendly version. All the text on one page with no ads.
F5 Week in Review, June 28th – July 2nd, 2010
I know, sorry about that, IE doesn't support custom tags and HackerBlogs use them everywhere.

It is just a personal attempt at my own version of HTML6. Take a look at the source code.

In the future I'll change all custom tags to ugly divs again.
Perhaps, but I would expect that when the real names are shown people will start posting higher quality message and treat their fellow posters with more respect.

I have been making my real name accessible on a lot of websites and I have never had a problem with people harassing me. In fact, I think it increases the quality of my interactions on average.
For years advertisers have known that active sentences and imperatives work better: "Buy Now", "Visit us at ..." and so on. This article suggests that passive forms might simply not be understood as well.

"Our results show that a proportion of people
with low educational attainment make errors
with understanding the passive, ..."

Perhaps the active forms are more effective in advertising (and elsewhere) simply because more people understand them.
Not surprising. The market's collective thinking is normally pretty short-term, and shares of a company that's forecast involves a best case scenario of generating real revenues 2 years from now wouldn't be expected to be in-demand.
I already thought of that last point. Blizzard doesn't let you edit your name in your Battle.net contact details, apparently.
#7 is accurate so far, but might change.

#6 I believe is just a truth of human nature. OpenCourseWare has no insight into your mistakes or personal leanings. A CD will never teach you kung-fu, or how to correct your poetry failings. General advice is all a book or CD can provide, they can't be personalized for you without the intervention of a human.

The rest have been pretty much disproven.
It's a doctored image about ... image quality. That goes a bit deeper.
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You will be working on seriously exciting technologies including crawling, natural language processing, distributed systems.

Series A funded. Lots of perks including health, food, et al.

Email me - venu@foodily.com - if this sounds interesting.
> Pretty much exactly what that guy from Mad Money predicted would happen.

How so? Mad Money was bearish on Tesla as a company and so far since its IPO it is beating the market as a whole (the Nasdaq Comp and the S&P 500).
I think more sites should end anonymity. If you're too afraid own up to what you say online maybe you shouldn't be saying it in the first place. It'd be like an entire town full of people wearing ski masks- nobody would be held accountable for anything.
I disagree. I'd prefer to keep my identify secret everywhere I post. I work very hard to make it impossible to trace my posts. I mean, it would be easy for people to find things I said long ago (or not so long ago) I now regret.

No. I have no desire for people to know my real name or real identity.
We’ve already printed money, the fifth option, and in my opinion may well print a whole lot more.

This is said so matter-of-fact yet not given much more weight in the argument presented for default. As I see it, default and inflation are the only two ways out of this (and I'm not sure they are binary and mutually exclusive). Both seems to penalize the affluent with assets and benefit those with debt.

Why people not talking more about inflating our way out of this? Wouldn't a devalued currency also increase jobs as things are brought back on-shore?
I wouldn't want to work for any company that would discriminate against me for my gaming habits in my own time.
So, rushed is what you're saying.
I don't think gaming company employees get that gaming is stigmatized by non-gamers, especially time consuming forms like MMOs. It isn't stigmatized by them.

Friends of mine who play one of the Blizzard games (World of Warcraft) and work at a (non-MMO, console based) game company don't understand that everyone else views gaming, especially PC gaming, as a non-legitimate hobby and a questionable mark against you on a job search, funding search, or anything of the sort really.

It's not like religion, race, political affiliation. It's a very legitimate concern, as there is a tendency for people who play these games to stay up much of the night instead of getting a proper nights rest. They don't understand how much they're giving up people's privacy; lots of users will stop playing these games for professional reasons. The bank vice president: Gone. The guy running a business: Gone. The advertising exec: Gone. None of them can afford to have this come out professionally.
How BuzzFeed plans to turn viral content into cash
Friends don't point friends to horrible aggregation news sites.
Why are there no stock options (calls/puts) offered for TSLA? Will that change in the future?
Justin wears a suit now?
That's not a valid comparison. Approaching everything under the sun with the same copyright approach is untenable, even the greedy music industry and others (e.g., see Hulu) are no longer totally following this approach. A lot of these companies have found that the strong "I won't give you a single bit of my digital goods if you don't pay" idea, is unpractical and not good for business. In fact, new web apps do distribute shared logins, on reddit or elsewhere, to get traction, e.g. see this story from just a couple of days ago http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ckcbr/mizage_a_....

That point aside, your comparison is still invalid. Money earned from a webapp goes directly to the developer. However, authors, especially of academic books, which is the kind that is mostly on this site, make very little money from each book sold, just ask a professor who wrote such a book. The books are mostly for academic prestige. Publishers, who still live in a world of their own, try to sell these books for unbelievable amounts, generally $50-$75 a pop. My company buys me (almost) any book I want, but when I was a student in a different country I suffered a lot because of this; we used to Xerox books for almost all our courses.

This is not an endorsement to steal any intellectual work. Just a thought that things are not so simple.

P.S. For an additional exercise to see why the simplistic approach fails, look into the intellectual battle between poor countries like Brazil and US pharma companies on AIDS IP. Would you say it's stealing in that case, too? Now, work backwards.
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this doesn't make sense. the loss of privacy isn't worth a potential gain in the quality of discussion. look at any public group or announcement on facebook: lack of anonymity does not prevent people from being ignorant jackasses
Creating a beautiful 1-page product site: go vertical.
I think the study to which the article refers can be found here http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/staff/profiles/ewadabrows... (http://www.cogling.group.shef.ac.uk/publications/Ind_diffs_r... and http://www.cogling.group.shef.ac.uk/publications/More%20indi...)

I find these results fascinating. Are they any linguistic folks reading this discussion? I'd love to hear from them in more detail about what this implies for Chomsky's work.
I have to be honest, Hacker News: this is cheeky and funny, but I am hopping mad that it made it to the front page at 3 points when articles that I fervently wanted to share with the community fell unappreciated to the wayside, despite near-equivalent voting patterns!
Easy iGoogle dashboard for monitoring competitors using
No.

This is one of the best things they can do. Have you ever browsed the WoW forums? They are horrible. A new player can get destroyed. Their innocence ruined.

Their is only so much policing and banning that can go on.

The key part to their announcement is this:
> All posts in the future on the new forum systems will be an opt-in choice and ample warning will be given that you're posting with your real first and last name.

Old posts won't change. This will only occur on the new forums.

I don't play WoW anymore, and I admit I got involved in my share of epic flame wars. I never hid who I was in real life, but still, this is fine. And no, you can't be associated as being a WoW player unless you opt-in.

So no, this is a good thing that solves a real problem.
Well, he predicted a first-day bump followed by a long slide. There's still room for him to be proven wrong, though.
> I don't know if it's changed in the last couple of years, but Wal-Mart used to help its employees apply for food stamps, Medicaid, and other aid programs because they didn't pay them enough.

If they can get people to work for them at those wages, and they are happy with the employees they get, why not?

I am glad that we don't have a minimum wage in Germany (in most sectors anyway).

> They performed an experiment that showed that having a single security guard patrol the parking lot at night completely eliminated crime (mugging, car break-ins, etc. that occur with regularity in Wal-Mart parking lots), but they did not put it into effect to save what? $75,000 per year?

Why don't the people who benefit from no crime pool their money and hire a security guard?

> [...] and often tend to kill the local economy in small towns.

Sources please. I know of one study about good effects.

> The way that corporations are designed precludes them from being moral. Society would be much better off if we could restructure the incentives of corporate America to make morality part of their make-up.

I agree wholeheartedly. Internalize externalities. And this isn't confined to America, where I do not live.
This comment would be more helpful if you gave him some specific criticisms. What did you have to think about? How could he fix it?

Kilimanjaro, it seemed pretty straightforward to me.
The number of wives will probably be dwarfed by the number of nights out.
Things gets my vote. The syncing gets to be a pain, but I have the Mac, iPhone (ipod touch actually), and iPad versions so I just leave a Mac on. I also have 2 macs synchronized through dropbox (which is also a pain when you get conflicts).

I've tried RTM, TeuxDeux, among others, and they just aren't as amazingly intuitive as Things. There's something about the interface and the way it's set up that just completely gets out of your way so you spend less time tinkering with your task manager, and more time doing the stuff on it.

If they could get cloud sync, it would be perfect
This was created by Paul who presented on "the release mindset" at RailsConf 2010. http://www.pabcas.com/feeling/presenting-ketchup-a-simple-me...
I really like the transformation. Changing from the outside most definitely affects you internally.
I think this is crazy over the top. They are not releasing game time played for every person. They are getting rid of anonymous commenting on their forums. I think it is a change for the better. If someone is a troll and/or exhibits anti-social behavior online should it effect their profession careers? I'm cool with it. If people have to think twice about being obnoxious, life just might be better.

Don't forget that your prism account is not anonymous.
Reia is currently my wet dream language, similar to Ruby, and does concurrency(buit on top of BEAM for Christs sakes). And then you read the small print and learn that it's not available as a download. :<

Can't wait until it's ready though.
A doctored image about any aspect is still a doctored image — the same principles apply.

But still: it doesn't matter. Consumers aren't buying products based upon a photo. With the iPad, they've either already decided they want one or went into the store and saw it for themselves and then decided. This one picture really doesn't matter.

Why is Apple the only company being called out? If anyone — besides Apple-haters — really cared about this, image doctoring wouldn't be such a pervasive technique used in all forms of marketing. Other companies would be the focus, too — Apple isn't alone here.

This has nothing to do with image doctoring and everything to do with Apple.
This will only be an issue if you elect to link your account to various social networking sites. By default, everything is kept confidential.

Also, not be able to change your name is pretty key to elements of their security.
> "Finally I can stalk that pretty Draenei even more so."

She's probably a guy.
Are you talking about the geeks at Tesla or the geeks who bought stock after the price jumped?

If the former, companies often IPO at prices below what they're worth--if the IPO is issued at a fair price, then it's Tesla that benefits, not the speculators. If the latter, buying stock because it's going up is an act of speculation, not necessarily geekishness.
While the advantage of referencing the google api files is that your browser can take advantage of cached copies, Google Webmaster Tools recommends reducing the number of DNS lookups if you do so. I recently worked through all the PageSpeed and YSlow flags and saw a decent bump in traffic afterward. It could be coincidence, but I had a long history of stable traffic, so the timing seemed too coincidental.
Yes, it's English dialects - he's a theatre professor, so his work focused on representing dialects in English productions.

No, I'm not exaggerating re: his range and ability - Rocco really is that good.
Unless we take as given that the purpose of life is to become a household name, I don't see why that's a useful thing to measure. Jeff Bezos is not a household name, but I don't many people would turn down a career like his.
Then a library is a warez building?
What is "basic" grammar? The only details provided in this article discuss active v. passive constructions. An excellent question then is: does "basic" English grammar include passive constructions?

Certainly we all expect that children speak in the active, pass through a period of school where they heavily adopt the passive as part of a larger attempt to "sound smart" while writing, and then eventually make it to the goal of writing fluently with the simplest language possible.

Is it possible that the passive is in some sense less basic to the brain's language processing than the active?

The research seems to have shown we should simply change the definition of "basic" rather than conclude that the Chomsky model is wrong.
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Probably not, they're not based on any form of logic.
I bet if you transcribed normal, everyday speech you wouldn't find too many instances of passive voice, even by well-educated people who can understand it (i.e, not the group they're talking about). It's just not something you encounter most of the time as an English speaker.

Everyone finds passive voice harder to understand. I wouldn't be surprised if people learn to parse the passive voice by first transforming it into its equivalent in the active voice.
This would basically close the WoW forums, which actually serve an important gameplay purpose. Hilariously bad idea. Blizzard doesn't always figure things out the first time, but you can probably trust that this will be worked out.

Sure, anonymity plus audience, I know. There are a lot of forums where anonymity is pointless, but when we're talking about a ROLE PLAYING game, things are a lot different.
Sure, but facebook is a very different model. Even if you'd like to be friends with people from your past you can ignore their future activity in a click or two.

When the quality of discussion tends to be so low, you don't risk much by trying to mix things up.
Actually, the reason for the insane run-up on it's inital day and second day of trading had very little to do with speculation, but more to do with TSLA being an "extremely hard to borrow" stock on those days. When a stock is hard to borrow, it means it is nearly impossible to short sale the stock. Think AIG when they were melting down. That was a stock that no one wanted loan out for short sales because at the time, their demise was imminent. Not necessarily the same thing with TSLA, but that's what hard to borrow equates to...

So all theories and ideas of why the run up and why the subsequent sell off are essentially wrong. When a stock can only go in one direction, then it can only go in that direction.
Then you'd be flabbergasted. :-)

Can't find any recording of him online, unfortunately - he's the kind of guy who teaches actors because he's one of the few who really knows how to do it.

You're right, though - accents from South Africa are notoriously difficult.
Yes, I don't really get why any company would IPO below their fair price. Every time I see a company's stock go up massively on the first day, I ask me "Why did they not charge a higher price for their stock in the first place?".
Exactly necessary was it to implement this site in Flash? It's quite a bit of overkill for such a simple app.
http://twitter.com/jackflips/status/17370679933 :)
I found going through "Introduction to Algorithms" and porting the algorithms in the book to <new language> a great way to get used to a new language.
Yes. Not enough historical volatility currently to price options contracts accurately.
What I should have said is that the car industry, unlike the software industry, has huge advantages for big players (due to the enormous capital cost of... well, nearly everything), and small advantages for first movers (due to the near-nonexistent network effects).