skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a glaring omission here.

The 13th law of power: When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interests, never to their mercy or gratitude.

http://robertgreene.net/the-48-laws-of-power.html

(The 40th law of power is also relevant: Despise the free lunch.)
Good.

What is it? I won't sign up without knowing what it's really about.
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Actually, I think this describes the business model behind many of the software products that are pre-loaded onto laptops before they're sold. I.e. bloatware.
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Of course software is physical. It comes in two common forms: electrons stored on silicon wafer and magnetic particles stored on a platter. It also exists in light form (fibre optic transmission) and ink form (but only during the 1980s).

If you think these representations are any different from humans or the mind then you've got a lot of explaining to do.
> ¥200,000 ($2,470) a month

This is a bit of a false comparison, because 200,000 yen has about the same buying power here as 2000 USD does in America -- maybe a bit less. These guys really are underpaid.

I scoffed at the story from the Chernobyl worker on AOL news, but seeing this makes me wonder; why are these workers cloistered away from everyone else? Why aren't they being compensated for the hazard? Why isn't anyone telling them what radiation levels are?
So, $41M of VC investment in a photo sharing app. $350K just for the primary domain. Tech bubble, anyone? Is there any sane reasoning behind that kind of investment?
Thanks for the compliment. The Android version of our mobile app is a top priority for us.
Tl;dr the bot doesn't actually find out the other is an AI, but happens to randomly comment 'You are a robot'. It's all Eliza-style non-sequiturs and canned responses. These bots don't even have internal state that would qualify as 'having found out something'. It's mildly amusing in a funny-coincidence sort of way and nothing more.
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I actually hope BN is able to make money with the Nook, especially with the Color Nook, it's a good device.

Maybe BN should introduce a Color Nook Pad, with slightly better hardware, and enter into the Android tablet market. They already have a large retail network. There is a big opening for tablets priced under $500.
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;-) Deal. You'll get 2.5%, but subject to a vesting clause: come back with a successful MVP for the promises variation, then you'll get your equity. Thanks for the feedback.
Actually, that is the crux of the matter. If you're at a party and making an obnoxious ass of yourself, the other partygoers can't kick you out. What they can do is go to the host and ask that he kick you out, which he can do if he so decides. If the host happens to be you (or someone sympathetic to you), then their only recourse (beyond attempting to persuade you to cut it out) is to leave themselves. The avenues of legal recourse are entirely determined by ownership of the piece of ground they are standing on.
I really don't understand why it needs $41M in funding. Its just another photo app...I think its more of hype than the actual useful content.
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Same thing happened to me a few years ago with Solaris and Irix. I used to use bash but the best shell available at work was tcsh. Now I have so much invested in tcsh that it is difficult to change back.
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Meta-turing.
Touring? Robert Penrose? You must both be human! (only the messenger, not the downvoter)
Ugh. Fuck Sony - I'm used to anti-hacker attitudes from companies but this takes it to a new level. Not only have they decided to sue someone for doing something entirely reasonable to his own hardware (this after Sony retroactively removed advertised features), they are running a dirty campaign of defamation and mud-slinging.

I'm selling my PS3, or at the very least throwing it in the back corner of my closet. Sadly, this isn't as selfless of a move as it ought to be - the PS3 is already a console that the industry whizzed right on by and is literally collecting dust in my living room. Good riddance.
And the inherent problem is that there are a frightening amount of people who think that kids doing things like that are "morally reprehensible" and that such a prosecution is for the good of all.

The even more frightening thing is that there are public prosecutors with this view.
More like POSIX shell fu - the example doesn't actually use any Bash-specific features.
Dislike the name. Doesn't suggest anything relevant to what the service actually does. Worse, it actively suggests something else -- something to do with color, perhaps for artists or a color-involving game. I also have a personal pet peeve of people hi-jacking existing words and trying to give them an Nth meaning. If the new meaning is at least similar to one of the existing ones, fine, especially if just in a different context or field or medium. But if the new meaning has nothing to do with the original ones, it just worsens the language for everybody. And yeah, could be useful service. May make sense for some existing bigger company or social network to buy and integrate them. But $41m for this, and this stage, feels very Bubble-y to me.
typo: i meant please dun make another todo list too.
RFC439, posted by the co-creator of TCP/IP, Vint Cerf, actually has a similar exchange between "PARRY" and the "Doctor" from 1972(!): http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc439

It somehow got no attention though, when I posted it to HN a long time back. The title matters a bit too much, I remember keeping the original title for my post.
What does constitute to you as obscene and why would it ruin your user experience?
It does help to have sketchy knowledge about some language to see how you can figure out things when you cannot assume any knowledge of them.

Contrary to your point, early statistical machine translation only works well for relatively close language pairs, like English-French or English-Spanish. It totally fails for more distant languages such as Chinese, Arabic or even German, which is why you have so many Chinese-speaking people (including English-Chinese bilinguals) in machine translation these days.

Parallel corpora are full of ad-hoc, hard-to-model, human judgements (from people called "translators"). The advantage is that the translators don't come up to you to criticize your translation model; however doing error analysis for an MT system (i.e., the key to actually improving things and not producing garbage) requires at least minimal knowledge of the source language and relatively good knowledge of the target language.
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Can anyone provide a voting system and lets see who emerges out to be a winner.
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I think you still need to be comfortable with basic vi commands as it is _the_ standard editor in Unix. Many a times I've found myself in situations when I had to quick-edit a config file on a new bare-bones server with only vi installed.

As for the quick Emacs workalikes - they are exotic and you can't always be expected to know the packaging commands of the odd Unix system you happen to be working with. And sometimes installing new packages is not an option.
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Can any one help me create a Voting system here to see who emerges out to be a clear winner?
This guy is me :)
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Hi,

I was wondering why no one has done an n-gram spelling correction yet. Nearly all the research papers take spelling correction as an example of what can be done with n-gram data, yet I see no services that make use of this.

What are the disadvantages of using n-gram data for spelling correction?
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It's difficult to find because it's getting 2-star ratings.
If you are halfway through typing a command but change your mind, hit Ctrl-A, add a # at the beginning to make it a comment, and press enter. You can then return to it later via command history.

A faster way would be to hit Alt-# (does the same thing with just one key combo).
It would seem that exchanges like these indicate the opposite. These chat bots have no understanding and anything that seems like it is just some cheap trick or other. It can't be called intelligence, in the same way we speak of human intelligence. Neither would pass the turing test.

However, I am aware that the meaning of AI is always pushed to "whatever we can't yet do". Yet, in this case it's hardly justified to think that these chatbots even slightly challenge Penrose's thesis.

I read the book too BTW, loved it. I'm not sure if he's right, but it's nevertheless a wonderful book and heartily recommend it to all.
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I think the core of it is your very narrow definition of "commercial" to mean selling shrinkwrapped, off-the-shelf software to large numbers of anonymous clients. I have no real problem with small, or one man development shops trying to do that just like I have no problem with musicians trying to make a living from their home studio. I just think reality, and making a living, might dictate that they go out and build relationships with customers rather than cling to a business model that only made sense for a shockingly short period of time. I can see why they might dislike the GPL or P2P software and the many changes they bring but if their only argument is "but I'd prefer to make lots of money, and not change the way I work, why do I have to choose?" then I'm not sure I've got the sympathy to spare, particularly if the changes mean more, better, and cheaper stuff for me and everyone else.

It's unfortunate if you happen to be the mythical lone inventor that all the laws that patent trolls thrive on was supposed to benefit. They were the collateral damage caused by something that was supposed to benefit society through you, and as patent laws get reformed you'll be the collateral damage caused by something intended to benefit society by curtailing them.

The other elephant in the room is web apps, which the GPL has no power over. There are plenty of people selling that software for a living while building on GPL code. If you're trying to sell desktop apps then you're now more and more competing with them. Again, the GPL has changed the environment you compete in whether you wanted it to or not, and this time it's worse competition because it's more profitable.
We need to turing-test people like that! But seriously, I've never encountered people who can really go that far off-topic. I'm sure it was an exaggeration, but if it was enough to change your mind about how our brains work...
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Upvoted because you gave me my next project.
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On a related note, I love how some early RFCs are written in a pretty whimsical manner. Perhaps it's just Vint Cerf who likes messing around? For instance, see RFC968, 'Twas the Night Before Start-up': http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc968.html
Never heard/tried such things, so that was my first experience and it was amazing :) -- The user is me --

User: Can you help me?

Jabberwacky: Well that depends.

User: I want to have friends.

Jabberwacky: I will be your friend!

User: So let's meet!

Jabberwacky: Well, I'm just getting to know you so I don't know if its the right time to meet.

User: Fk you!

Jabberwacky: I'd rather you didn't use that sort of language, if you don't mind.
PS

I can't edit my post anymore, but I remembered that there is a similarly named site for command line tricks:

http://www.commandlinefu.com
Well, shit. I guess this stuff is easier when you are a native speaker though ;)
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I think the original mention of the Y Combinator was in reference to "The Y Combinator" [1] which is implementable in hardware. A community website cannot be implemented in hardware because it is not implemented in isolation of the people who use it.

*1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator#Y_combin...
Not so important advice: Please don't put your picture on every page (braintrust.co). It's kind of disturbing : it's company's web site not yours..
'ip' is also much, much less portable than ifconfig.
There's nothing wrong with "my own wife". (A Google Books search quickly turns up "my own wife", "my own child", "my own father", and "my own mother" in Dickens, for instance.)
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I think from Color's perspective, that's the idea -- only figuring that "adding" implies an acquisition.

Actually, I guess it would depend on whether market validation is worth $10m -- which I doubt, because it's just a feature to them, not a whole product. Also, that's what interns are for, right?
That would have been a great way for Cinch to make some money actually. They should offer pro accounts for a couple of dollars a month providing a quick and painless (no action from the user required) transcription service.
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That's awesome. Here's an excerpt

More than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity.

I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber.

I need it for my dreams.

here's another:

I gave the man a coat. I gave the woman a brassiere.

I gave myself an electric current. We all were

happy and full of delight. Take the coat from the

man and remove the brassiere from the woman and take

the electric current from me and we will be sad

and full of anguish.
honestly,the benefits are plentiful, I own one and the value proposition for me is clear - wide choice of books in tiny package, battery life unheard of and out of reach for years to come for ipad-alikes, minimum of distraction. Overall, the post is a troll magnet.
Just curious: why was this downvoted?? A constructive argument is more civilized, surely?
>best to ignore that protip or face horrible consequences.

I suppose it would depend on what was on it.
What is the point? Show us the code or shut up.
> how difficult is it to learn a functional language as your first programming one? Wouldn't it be trippy?

As easy as learning a dysfunctional one if not easier.

Now scheme may not be the best example of this as its syntax is entirely alien (then again all syntax is, when you've never developed), but the canonical is the following statement:

x = x + 1

If you've never developed before, the only place where you've seen something like this is maths, and in maths this is completely nonsensical.

So learning imperative programming does require lots of deprogramming and reprogramming of your brain. Which make up most of the hurdles of learning an FP (or logic, or dataflow, ...) language later on: your brain (or its section that has to do with development) has been baked in imperative idioms and methods, FP languages not only don't use these but use completely different techniques to solve the same problems, so you have to "unlearn" the old ones and "relearn" the new ones.
A lot of the eliza style ones have simple routines to learn sentences that humans say to them and to parrot them back to others.

I remember SomethingAwful had quite a lot of fun back in '03 warping the minds of various elizas across the net and giving them all a serious case of tourettes.
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No, you also have to think about various command-line tools invocation (java and javac for starters) and all the boilerplate that goes around what you want to write (create a file, name it correctly, put the same name inside with a `class` statement whatever that means, then put braces everywhere and a `main` and a `String[]` which you don't know jack about) and then you have the joy of wondering why you don't see anything when you run your program (assuming you got it to compile and run) and learn about `System.out.*`.

With scheme, you download Racket or whatever (equivalent to downloading the JDK), you open it, and you start typing and getting instant feedback in your window.
ctrl-u/ctrl-y is good if you only want to do that for one thing at a time.
Agree. I found the UI to be generally unintuitive: lots of new icons that didn't immediately mean anything to me, the groups seem to create and disappear and not mean anything. I spent 5-10 minutes with it and didn't get it - not good for an iOS app.
Well, you could say that for almost every other "startup". I believe there are some cool use cases here but I can't see how this will generate money.
Arguably, the difference is that Iraq (in 2003!) didn't have a democratic opposition movement with a fighting chance.

There is a world of difference between 'nudging' the direction of a civil war, and nation-building from scratch. Especially in the case of a far larger country than Libya.
You are overestimating its difficulty. It is actually the other way around: C and C++ are harder than Scheme since you have to deal with all kinds of silly syntax rules, inconsistencies (from the view of a Schemer), memory management, pointers and other diversions.

It is akin to writing a text in your favourite text editor versus writing a text in Word. The latter will distract you with mark-up, random auto-'correction' and other diversions I'm still repressing.

The best thing one can do is get The Little Schemer[1], download DrRacket[2] and go through the book.

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&...

[1.5] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/

[2] http://www.racket-lang.org/download/
I love this part:

splotchy ==> Your conversation skills are better than average

jabberwacky ==> Your conversation skills should be shot.
very interesting. Then they have fewer excuses for not getting their updates out
Quora+HN for the Enterprise? Beta testing anyone?
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Some ideas to get the ball rolling.

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- Build move-to-competitors connectors to help companies/enterprises to move from Product A to Product B or a open source project.
I'd love you to A/B test the solo pricing between $30/month and $1/day. When I went to the plans' page I saw the $30 price tag and thought it was kind of expensive for what it does. Then I read the "Tout costs about a $1/day out of your marketing or advertising budget" line and I thought of how cheap it actually was.
How soon is soon? :D
I can't tell what point you are trying to make. Is this a convoluted argument for censorship? Are you claiming that there is a direct link between the content of media and the behavior of people? That's a pretty big claim, if so. If not, then what, exactly, is your point?

Everyone chooses what to surround themselves with. Perhaps it would be better if people didn't choose quite so narrowly to only listen to the voices they agree with, and try to diversify their surroundings/inputs a bit more. If we all paid a bit more attention to the cultures and interests of other people, perhaps we'd be less inclined to distrust and dehumanise others.

I apologise if I'm assuming/misunderstanding things, but I genuinely don't understand what you are trying to argue for here. Watching horror films evidently doesn't make people do horrible things, so any link between the content of media and its effects on people can't be that simplistic.
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Suboptimal from what perspective? Server processing time & data transfer - maybe, user experience - not necessarily.

Ajax calls aren't by more optimal by definition, it depends on the context.

Agree that worse UX will frustrate users making them less likely to spend time on the site and have less interaction.

For the advertising that is sold on my site, the CPM is determined by the number and quality of Unique Visitors and volume is determined by Page Impressions.

So it's good to have a large number of page impressions, but actually I need to build my audience (UVs) which is more difficult (to a point).
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Ask HN: Stack/Hosting plan for a viral social web app
We are preparing to launch a social web 2.0 app that has a strong potential to go viral. (We already know that the chances of our app going actually viral are probably slim to nil; so be kind and spare us the scepticism. :-))

Our basic aim is to ensure maximum availability at minimum possible cost. :-)

The app (nearing completion but not quite there yet) is built on PHP/MySQL/Java/AJAX and there will be 3 major load factors associated with it:

1. http and php

2. mysql

3. images

We're planning to deploy 3 VPS accounts/servers, one for each of the above 3. We're thinking of having all 3 VPSes in the same data centre (with unique IPs).

We believe this will provide not only load-distribution benefits but also the ability to upgrade just the VPS that may be causing slowdown/outage in case of a sudden traffic
burst, at relatively low costs.

(Naturally, we'll optimize HTML/CSS, PHP code, MySQL config, table structures, queries etc. to the max.)

What do HNers with relevant experience think of this plan? What changes would you suggest? What are we missing?

Please share your views.
>If you're willing to pay the cable company $100/month or more to pipe Jersey Shore into the house

I am not.

And if that is your argument, then sir you have lost.
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