skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure exactly what you're attempting here, but you made a lot of changes to text involving neither adverbs nor passives, and you missed several adverbs. What was this trying to experimentally prove, exactly?
Well here's what they said about that when it happened:

https://www.ironkey.com/usb-flash-drive-flaw-exposed

Of course, like anything, they could have other unknown vulnerabilities. But like they say in the video on that link, they're a security company that makes a storage product, opposed to a storage company making a security product.
Monasteries and homesteads have never attracted a significant proportion of the population, and they're not all that solitary, either.

Humans are a social animal, and if you're not convinced of that, study the psychological effects of feral children and solitary confinement.
When I was doing C/C++ we didn't have valgrind, or at least it wasn't widespread enough for me to hear about it.
Recently I've noticed a ... crystallization of a meme about America's ruling class and this is the most trenchant essay on the subject ... and one that just happens to explain a whole lot of what's going on here at the broad level. Highly recommended: http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-cla...
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Thats not exploitation. That makes the network stronger. The currency isn't based in CPU power. The inflation method's reward is.
Probably MobileMe and iWork.com. The new version of iDisk on the iPhone streams music. I'm guessing second half of 2010 will be a big cloud push.
This currency suffers from the same major problem that all limited supply commodity-based currencies have (assuming someone doesn't figure out a way to counterfeit it) - deflation. Whether your fixed money supply is based upon gold or hard cryptographic problems, a fixed money supply encourages people to hoard money rather than invest it, because their money will be worth more later. This causes the amount of money in circulation to fall, which causes even more deflation, etc. (Google for "deflationary spiral").

Basically, you have 3 choices for currency. You can have debt-money (most modern economies). This has the advantage that money is effectively created by the market based upon the mutual agreement of a lender and a borrower, which means that money is created and destroyed by the invisible hand. This is a good thing. It is problematic, however, in that you get problems if large sections of the economy ever start paying off their debts through very large productivity gains because that destroys the money supply. Also, it tends to support a "banker class", who does nothing but loan money and gets paid for very little work (capital allocation isn't THAT hard compared to how much you make doing it).

You can have commodity money, which is great because you don't get runaway inflation. But because of deflationary spirals, you can get runaway deflation. Also, people tend to hoard whatever commodities you are using, which are typically useful for industrial or other uses.

You can have fiat money, but that only works if you have an incorruptible central bank. Otherwise you end up like Nigeria.

Personally, I think we should use the Joule as a basic unit of currency. Although energy supplies can fluctuate, they tend to grow and shrink with the economy, which prevents either inflation or deflation. Different banks could offer different baskets of energy types (wind farm or solar farm output futures, barrels of oil, coal, etc.), and you don't end up with a banker class living off of everyone else, but you don't end up with hyperinflation or deflation. 500 MJ today would tend to buy a similar amount of things 10 years from now as today (maybe a little more because of efficiency gains, but not a lot more).
The laws set their mandate. DSS or whomever is operating according to the laws that have been passed. If the law is reactionary, then it's their job to be reactionary. If the law is lax, it's their job to be lax.

As far as the people being the problem, well, I won't ever claim any organization is made up of entirely perfect people. But I'm not lining up to do that job, and you're clearly not, either. So in light of that, unless you're volunteering to do a better job, it might be worth considering that many of those in the job are doing what they can with what they have.
> If the answer really is "No," then they can leave it in.

Ah! That bothers me a lot less, then; I still wonder about some of the choices, and I think you underestimate the utility of adverbs and passives, but if you were stating style preferences rather than rules, that seems fine.

Unfortunately, the linked post as written still appears to propagate the dumb Elements of Style canards as if they were absolute rules. :P
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Ask HN - Good Colo Provider In Los Angeles For Startups?
Need to know where to colocate 2 4u boxes in LA. I don't need more than 5 megabits of bandwidth just good hosting.

I don't want to migrate the boxes to other hardware or the cloud, etc, simply want to power and bw and 8u's of space.

Any ideas on a decent provider and an approximate reasonable cost for something like that?
So... the story is basically that a local reporter was unable to set up an interview with an Apple exec who happened to be in the neighborhood? Shocking. Has the Pulitzer committee seen this yet?

What is the deal with HN and Apple/iPhone stories lately? I could submit a link to the word 'Apple' on dictionary.com and it would have ten upvotes within the hour.
These threads always seem to need the following debunking: The PCI compliance requirements are not reduced just because your servers don't store CC numbers. If they even see the numbers, the requirements are essentially the same. To avoid PCI hassles while maintaining control over the UI, you need to use something like Braintree's "transparent redirect".
> Usually the rule is "no -ly adverbs"

What?? That makes even less sense than the "no adverbs" rule. Nothing in the syntax or semantics distinguish -ly adverbs from any other. (I only included -ly adverbs in my count because I was lazy and they were easier to search for.)

> Certainly the passive voice makes for a boring read.

You don't read much that isn't boring, then, eh? Too bad. Good writers use the passive voice. Writing that avoids the passive voice is not good writing.
If apple puts that display on their macbooks, i will be first in line,
I think that includes app store numbers... but yeah, still impressive
I wonder if the various pundits predicting the end of the Mac line are taking note of this.
I find it more astounding how no one can do the same.

Is everyone else really that bad? Or is Apple just that good?
Please don't anyone use this method. Anyone sniffing the network will see your username/password in plaintext.

Twitter's example is very solid, incredibly secure, and still mostly just drop-n-go. You can see the PHP version at http://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth.
I don't know anything about the case, but based on looking at the document, it looks like Mark's signature and handwriting to me. I guess it could have been copied from something else, though.
I can't tell if you're being snarky or not. Keep in mind that expectations of future earnings are already priced into the stock, so the 3% gain you're seeing is for the earnings ABOVE expectations/estimates.

Other factors, including uncertainty over antennagate, will also keep the stock from making a huge jump.
And how does Apple's revenue apply to that exactly? Why does it need to be posted to HN every quarter and make top story? Everyone knows they're doing well. No one but the fanboys and shareholders care about their actual revenue/profits.
Fred Wilson wrote on this a year and a half ago. I find his response a lot more realistic: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/01/avoiding-the-bi.html
You sure? I thought work was shifting to ǐTéX (ring!).
This is true when you're just trying to have a preliminary discussion, but when someone is actually going to start working for you and get access to your code and internal documents, then it makes sense to have an NDA or an employment contract with an NDA clause. In this case I have seen extremely experienced entrepreneurs use them at this step. That kind of stuff, unlike an idea, can be extremely valuable.

Otherwise I agree that you should have your lawyer look at it and probably just pass altogether.
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Ah, very good point. I don't know if they differentiate... looking at it again with that in mind, I doubt it.
Just to add few links basically in the same field:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle#Speech_acts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_theory
HI, commun.it is the service who is in beta i use to manage my blog community, its far from being affiliate since its my project and i seek quality bloggers to help me in beta, but your point is taken and i will remove some links :)

Thank you for taking the time and point it to me...
Hi.

I'd never heard of Ceglia until a few days ago. Mark certainly didn't tell me about him, just like he didn't tell me about the Winklevosses. By the time Mark talked to me in person he was already a member of houseSYSTEM's facebook.

Here's the timeline of events from my company's trademark proceedings which were filed based in part on the claim (at the time, which has now been settled) that "facebook" is a generic term, as others have discussed here.

http://www.thinkpress.com/authoritas/timeline.pdf

If Mark was toying with this idea in April, 2003 (as I was), then he only started really taking it seriously once he saw my progress, which I'd started on independently. Three days after we had dinner he registered thefacebook.com without telling me.

I don't think Ceglia is arguing that he came up with the idea--he was just funding Mark's idea. So essentially Mark and I thought up a solution for the lack of a universal face book at Harvard at the same time, but I actually made mine before he did, and then I asked him for help running it. He turned down my request and instead asked me for help with an unspecified idea, which I declined to help with since he wouldn't tell me anything and had just been disciplined for ignoring privacy issues I considered important.
told you so. you fags negged me for calling it before it happened.
Q: Why does it need to be posted to HN every quarter and make top story?

A: Why does it need to be posted to HN [by HN users] every quarter and make top story [because HN users have voted it up]?

The community (which is why the site exists) hath spoken!
That's partly because Knuth's TeX is more the core of a piece of software than the software itself; actual distributions of TeX get much more frequent maintenance, and would bitrot without it. For example, the last commit to texlive (the TeX distribution most Linux users use) was 20 minutes ago: http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/
I hate to say this, but Nokia may be ultimately doomed in the smart phone market due to "not being in Silicon Valley" (well, it's not that bad and I'm not at all sure SV is a requirement, but Finland's talent pool, the one there and the one it can feasibly draw upon (e.g. people willing to move to Finland) might just not make it for this market.)
My money's on a Nano/Shuffle hybrid. The small form factor of the Shuffle with a tiny touch screen (~1.25") and ultra-simple UI @ ~$79.
You've never made a vidphone call?
I wonder whether Apples ability make the solutions they do and have the success that they have is based on the fact that they have more or less total vertical integration.

We know they have the best ecosystem out there, but there must be other things too.

It does show one thing though.

Google still have a lot to learn outside of advertising. In fact I believe google will fail building any serious kind of business around their mobile attempts.
He was still working on it (during his free time) as of an year ago.
Relative to the amount of opportunity it has, YC is very selective. According to Business Week, YC's acceptance rate is 4.4% (1). For comparison, Harvard's rate is 6.9% (2).

I'm just realizing that besides launching early, working hard, iterating rapidly, listening to your customers, persevering, etc, a big part of success in business seems to be selection: having the discipline and patience to pick the best deals. Deals can involve physical trades (as in the posted article), investments, customers, or even tasks to do. Whatever your process is, a good way to make your outputs above average is to select above-average inputs.

It seems obvious that the way to trade up from a phone to a Porsche is to carefully select your trades. It's not so obvious, at least to me, that the way to run a very profitable YCombinator is to carefully select your founders. Simple selection may be more important than locating in Silicon Valley, having regular dinners with great speakers, offering legal and technical help, and introducing investors. When you start off with great entrepreneurs it's not so hard to make them even better.

I'm naturally a believer in transformation.
* If the trade as advertised is not a good deal, let's negotiate and we'll make it work.
* If a person is not a good entrepreneur, that can be fixed with the right training program and environment.
* If the product is not right for this customer, we'll add features and cut the price until it is right.
* If a person has the wrong political beliefs, what is needed is some good logical argument.

This sometimes works, but it is often more efficient to simply look for a better deal: Find someone with a better trade; find someone who's more entrepreneurial, find a customer with more of a need, find a voter who already agrees with you.

1. http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/sep2007/sb20070....
2. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/3/31/financial-aid-pe...
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I do the same thing, but with one caveat. I have a subject prefix for different categories of ideas. Every idea email thread starts with "X idea:", where X is "Site", "Research", etc.
In all honesty, this title could have been re-written as "How to Run a Company that Everyone Actually Wants to Work For" since doing these things for just about any department would make people happier.
After spending 8 months wading through the MFI program myself, I concur that it's messy and poorly managed - I'm not surprised that this is part of the reason for the delay. Keep at it, I look forward to mine!
Crysis 2 is getting close to Toy Story (original) graphics. 233 MB/frame real-time vs 500 MB/frame (rendered in days on render farm)
This has worked out well for me as well but mine has grid ruled pages for sketching out UI ideas and diagrams.
Celebrating Six Months of Chromium Security Rewards
Weird eHow Web spam - DuckDuckGo blog
I don't really know much about physics engines, so I count on others to point out when something new or unique happens in that area. Its hard to know who to trust on such subjects, so sites with decent reputations act as a filter.
Why music is good for you
I'd be careful to compare the map/reduce in couch with the one in Riak.
A lot of the time, map/reduce in CouchDB is used to create something similar to a "view" in SQL. This is an incremental process and is automatically done for adding only changed documents to the result the next time it is called.
In Riak, map/reduce doesn't have this fancy feature.

A big plus for Riak is the fact that you can actually shard riak automatically. Couch has to be sharded manually which destroys map/reduce.
Always hard to predict the future - but the counter-example is Fark/Totalfark, which have stood for quite some time now.
Regardless of if you're a fanboy or shareholder, you should be interested in emerging and sustaining trends as an entrepreneur
Potential weekend project w/ 4SQ data: "Where should we go to dinner tonight"
Colorado and Florida do it too now. I'm surprised more states don't.

http://www.toinformfamiliesfirst.org/
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I was going to say that truecrypt has the advantage of windows support, which is why I switched from dm-crypt to truecrypt.

But I did some googling before hitting "reply", and apparently you can also mount dm-crypt volumes on windows with FreeOTFE. I guess I should have done some more research before switching.
Is there a copy of that document floating around?
I've tried to use the rules of implicature to understand your comment but I couldn't.

You seem to be implying that one of the Wikipedia articles is wrong since it's unlikely that a soccer player would do advanced linguistics research. But you should consider a more likely hypothesis, namely, Wikipedia is correct and Patrick McBride the scholar and Patrick McBride the soccer player are different persons.
Is there something similar that also runs on OS X? dm-crypt looks mountable on Windows, but something that I can use on all three would be very nice.
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I see no connection between Apple's revenue and emerging/sustaining trends.
Bitcoin, a Digital Currency
True. A broader definition is probably 'exploiting price differentials of correlated assets'.

Market is irrelevant, and both 'same item' and 'different but correlated items' are both subsets. And 'mispricing' presumes there's a true value, which may or may not be case.
Startup-created jobs hit record low
The LXD: In the Internet age, dance evolves ...
> implying implicature is not widely used
No. This conception of "the democracy makes the rules" is what turns sites into inane cat-picture/political-argument factories. Tiny democracies can work as closed systems, but when they're open to people entering/leaving them, every change will precipitate a change in membership to realign the community's interests with the change. This causes a positive feedback loop, where eventually, for example, nobody is left except Apple addicts.

Sites have purposes (otherwise, there would only need to be one website on the Internet, that served everyone's needs equally.) Letting the community decide both what, and who, the community is to be composed of, leads inevitably to every community being composed of "everyone," and having a purpose of "general interest." I, for one, would rather have a place that just has "Hacker News."
Yes! I'm interested in developing i* accesories too. There doesn't seem to be much out there about it. (I have seen the Microchip and Cypress dev kits; probably going to pick up a few.)
I was actually being serious :-)
It's just the fanboys voting it up. Nothing wrong with being a fanboy, I'm just saying. This news is of no interest to the general community here, except the people who love Apple more than themselves. And apparently, there are quite a few of these people here.

I come here to read news about startups, not to indulge in Apple lovefests. If I wanted to do that, I'd be over at TechCrunch.
They're just leasing it from Disney. Part of the Pixar deal was payment in magic options.
I guess that when I think of kids trading cards like Pokemon or Baseball cards, I envision kids from different social strata all religiously reading the Pokemon websites and having a similar idea of the value of the cards.

But having done no card trading of any kind myself, I wouldn't really know, that's just an assumption based on a few observations and anecdotal evidence.
A concept also known as Valve Time (http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time) ;).
Anecdotally, I was surprised, above all, by how natural it feels to start meditating. There's thousands of years of practices and traditions meant to improve/structure the act, but I never really thought of those as being aimed at someone like myself. As a result, most of my exposure, up until a few months ago, was either through articles like this one or occasionally at the end of martial arts workouts.

But I spent a part of this summer working on a farm in rural Wisconsin and I ended up with a period of downtime in the early evening - after the day's work and catching up with emails and whatnot. As it turns out, I was also struggling with a particular quandary (specifically, I was trying to define 'value') and one day, I just sat down cross-legged on the porch with my eyes closed, facing the setting sun.

What I did from there is hardly what any sort of zen master would consider 'meditation,' but I was amazed at what a difference it made to simply make a conscious decision to sit and think only of one topic. Consequently, I was reminded of a zen koan that I had encountered earlier in my investigation of the meaning of value, which was edifying enough for me to feel okay with calling what I had started doing 'meditation.'

I guess the bottom line is not to put too much stake in what everyone else says meditation is or isn't and focus on the practice of just taking time to be alone with your thoughts long enough to organize them in such a way that makes sense for you. Again, this is strictly anecdotal, but I think that's where you'll really see many of the benefits associated with meditation coming from. As someone who was diagnosed ADHD in college and has always had a problem with focus, I can say that having a disorganized mind can really be toxic to your life and work.
Apple TV with FaceTime would be neat.
I have an Excel spreadsheet with various columns: rank, title, description, has-been-done, scope, etc

The rank is a number that I enter manually based on my estimate of how good the idea is. When I change that value for a given idea, the spreadsheet is set up to auto-sort the ideas.

For example: an idea may have been ranked 4th, but I find out some info that makes me think the idea is not worth pursuing that much, so I change the rank value and the spreadsheet immediately puts it in its right place (e.g. 35th).

The benefit is that ideas still stick around, but the ones that I find the most likely to succeed/worth pursuing are always listed at the top for me to see.
I think YC is on a virtuous spiral. A YC investment increases a candidate's chances of success. This attracts a lot of candidates which enables YC to select the ones that have the greatest chance of succeeding. Which further improves YC's record.

Harvard is in a similar situation. A Harvard graduate is impressive because the students selected by Harvard are impressive because a lot of students want to be Harvard graduates. This is why elite schools can give away their curriculum on the Internet. If the content of the curriculum were critical, then top schools would guard it more closely. However, if the best students are already attending, then top schools don't have much to fear from the left-behinds who follow along for free on the Internet.

This is an example of something you can't copy. As long as the best high school graduates keep choosing Harvard, Harvard has little to fear from a competitor who meticulously copies its fine classrooms, libraries, and curriculum. Similarly, as long as the best entrepreneurs choose YC, YC would still do well even if all of its dinners were broadcast free on justin.tv.
People that blindly hate upon everything Apple is just as bad as people that blindly love Apple.
> I, for one, would rather have a place that just has "Hacker News."

Amen, brother.
Yeah, but he probably likes doing the ebay thing, and would probably hate any job he can get as a teenager.

He should probably be able to start a good career as a professional pawn shop or antiques dealer.
Great link, thanks pal. i also loved the review by Marc Andreessen http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/20/andreessen-on-charlie-rose-... who said we should stop the printed press and go digital...
They seem to be opening lots of Apple stores here (UK, South East).