skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Informal writing rarely features narration to any significant degree, which is where the so-called American Style is most "logical" to the extent that we're even really talking about logic. In forums and email and texting, quotes are usually either blocked-off text, or the quotes are used to specifically emphasize an exact character string (often a single word).

Wikipedia is also generally not about narration, and quotes are usually meant to be exact.

With narration, the goal is not to convey exactness rather to tell a story. Interrupting a character's quote to insert ", he said," influences the original meaning (if there even is such a thing) no matter where the punctuation lies. But that's not important because specifying precisely what a character said usually isn't the point of a story.

Furthermore, if you write your own sentence, and finish with quote of an entire sentence, why isn't there a period for both sentences? Brian said, "let's go.".

Looked at this way, it's easy to see why, given the choice, narrators would choose the more aesthetically pleasing placement inside the quotation marks.
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The data is not inaccessible because it is a private company. It is because they do not believe it to be in their business interest to make it accessible.

Why that is the case is the real question.

Surely the (presumably small amount of) money they raise from api subscriptions and app sales (minus the development cost) would be hugely outweighed by the increase in ticket sales + reduced dev cost from making the data accessible.
When I am reading, I first look for signs that the author has been trained to know the rules. Later, I look for him or her to break them.

There's something about knowing that you are breaking a rule that makes it feel more legitimate to me. You are using your license instead of your ignorance. I enjoy seeing that in what I am reading.

Edit: I wrote this in part to encourage you to relax your style and care a little less. Tell me what you think :)
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Nico Perez + Founders Institute talk: Revenue, Costs & profits
I think, general (tech-savvy) audience would more enjoy encrypted logging (message archiving), using some variant of XEP-0136, but storing messages encrypted to user's public PGP/GPG key.

So the messages are kept (in case you want to refresh your memory, but don't have locally-stored history), but are unaccessible by third parties.
Look at me and my Ethnocentricity! How true that there are other cultures where these services are still trying to get traction and expose's like this one can have an actual impact.

Thanks for pointing that out :)
Mechanical engineering has also made us lazy though. People didn't have to work out 200 years ago. They just worked. If you want to be in shape today, you almost have to do it on the side.
You're able to edit comments for an hour after they're originally submitted.
I guess we have to make the most of the resources that are available to us; ecosystem or no ecosystem. We are ages behind what the valley or some other places may offer and to expect it to happen by itself is naive at best. We are part of the ecosystem and we have to build it to a level where it counts.
I think PhDs are an end in themselves, not a means to an end

I agree completely. I advise people to only do a PhD if they'll be doing what they love. It's the one chance you get to do exactly what you want, so make it good.

EDIT: one chance (apart from doing a startup).
Quack?
I notice that the STM32 line is actually priced on-par (or cheaper) with the ATmega chipsets, yet offers considerably more functionality (and speed).

As compared to Atmel's 8-bit MCUs, what are the downsides to the STM32 for most applications, if any? Obviously there's the packaging ...

Thanks!
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Actually, I see it at the end. Example:

I totally love what you did there.

/sarcasm

At the beginning, I'd definitely agree with you.
There has been a similar debate in Norway. According to law the public should have free access to databases that is founded in companies that are own by the public.

Companies with a monopoly or companies that have a political purpose and is founded by the public would also be covered by the law of free access to databases.

The company responsible for departure information in Oslo was very early with open APIs and giving access to developers. Only clausal was that you couldn't use it for commercial work. A couple of months ago they also removed this clausal so now it's free, even for commercial usage. More info here: http://bit.ly/iq1pbT (google translate)
150000 iPhone and iPad downloads in 3 days
This is unbelievable. Do you think, if I decided to catch coaches/buses everywhere, I could get back some of the money they get from me?

The fact that a publicly-funded organisation refuse to allow access to data because they have been criticised is absolutely scandalous. They get our money for free then dare to get shirty about the people who are funding them?!!

The railway service in the UK is appallingly bad, the majority of the rest of Europe appear to have worked out how to actually make trains work, and yet they have the cheek to do this. Unbelievable.

I'd like to write an app that tracks lateness round the UK and name + shame operators who are doing poorly. I strongly suspect official results are somewhat skewed by averaging/etc., and by focusing on hotspots/representing the data differently you could get a more accurate picture. Doing so would be critical of the rail operators - would they refuse me a license? Would I have to pay for the privilege of determining how effectively my (+ the rest of the people of the UK's) money was being spent?

It's like handing over £50 to somebody and them charging you for the privilege.

£5bn a year and we still have to pay for tickets - must be nice to be in a business where you get money for free THEN GET TO CHARGE FOR YOUR SERVICE ON TOP OF IT.

Sorry, angry, but legitimately so I think.
I'm not sure about that. People who want chat logs can simply generate them on the client side. That way, even if they're using OTR they still get the chat logs.
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Thanks! I have been interested in transit information for quite some time. This look very interesting.
Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress
and at around $400 for a Chromebook, you would certainly expect some better hardware than what Samsung and Acer are offering.

I think the low-ball hardware is very deliberate. If Google can prove this level of hardware can work just fine for it's purpose, it disrupts the market further. For $700+ you could definitely get better hardware than what is available on the iPad or iPad 2, but you certainly pay more for that device, don't you?
Probably privacy concerns.
For reference, the wavelength of an 8 KiHz electromagnetic wave (the Nyquist frequency at their sampling rate) is over 36 km. (Edit: at the speed of light in vacuum, that is.)

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something, but this would seem to limit the spatial resolution that could be achieved by sampling a single stream of passive voltages at that rate, and I would expect differences between materials to mostly be on the microscale. But they don't say what other constraints might be in effect or what the materials or environment are, either, so…
Installing Python, Django, and DB2 on Ubuntu 11.04
Hackernews should add a "follow" concept
If I like someone submissions, It would be great if I would be able to follow his submissions.
Five kinds of Internet users and how they interact, make and spend money
Here are some concrete things:
Identify companies you want to talk to
Get someone cheap on odesk to do the research to get you names and contact info for the people
Send out an intro email and start calling (use a message re advice)
call at least 6 times

Alternately, have them use your linked in to find contacts
It's deflection
Can someone play with the data and report where the HN links are coming from?
TL;DR

I was born in the wrong country because my country doesn't have:

a. VCs / angels

b. Right kind of people (whatever that meant)
> Intellectual property is just as much property as physical property is

That is wrong. And it is easy to see there must be a problem with it. If you copy my stuff, you benefit and I am unaffected. If I in return copy your stuff, we both lose nothing and end up with twice as much as we started with. That does not sound like taking property at all, in fact it sounds good!

That really ought to be enough to seriously undermine the illusion of IP . . .

First ask: why do we have property? which is as much as to ask: why is it moral? Property is not an axiom of morality, it must be justified. Even more clearly so with IP, since it invents a kind of restriction where there is none in physical fact.

Property is moral because it gives a group/community as a whole a good way of managing things. Property is good not because it gives to someone what is 'theirs', but because as a whole system, in aggregate, it is good for all.

(If we want a rational principal of morality, it is universalisation. Morals are codes of cooperation. They are justified as to how they affect some group. That is what is distinctive in moral rules: they are not rules for individual purpose, they are rules for all (if they do not suit all, why should all consent to them?).)

The Lockean proposition of copyright really only establishes attribution: it 'attaches' a particular thing to a particular creator/author.

But attribution alone does not justify anything much. I may have made a shovel, but that does not then give me a right to dig anyone and everyone's garden with it. Attribution of authorship is merely the 'location' of some possible rights; it is insufficient to set the limits of those rights on its own.

Locke understood this, which is why, when we look at the source of this argument, we find he clearly included the condition of "at least where there is enough, and as good, left in common for others". For a rule to be moral it must make sense more widely than for its primary participant. It must work overall for everyone. That is what sets the limits to rights.

'Abstract goods' (i.e. the subjects of copyright) are nonrival. They behave fundamentally differently to material things. Use by one person does not deny another. It means the tacit assumption that some restriction similar to normal property is implied immediately falters. And that puts an end to the Lockean 'argument'.

And if even that is not enough, reconsider from your own view: those proposed 'axioms' of morality. Either personal sovereignty and property rights are equal or, more likely, personal sovereignty has precedence. Well, IP imposes a direct physical restriction on others' personal freedom: telling someone they cannot copy something is telling them they cannot do as they please with themselves and their own property (and even though the IP 'owner' may be completely unaffected). Now either you have a deep conflict in those axioms or, more reasonably, IP must be overruled.

The only reasonable argument for IP is the orthodox economic one of supporting and sustaining a market. This is a pragmatic moral argument: one that is a matter of evidence and practicality, not of any kind of 'natural right'.
If they're currently getting 79% accuracy, there must be some significant signal there. No idea if 95% is achievable, but unless they're already using the absolute optimal approach, something at least into the 80s should be possible.
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Yes, but how they're going to access logs when connecting to XMPP service from multiple machines?
Indie iOS Devs Under Legal Fire For Offering In-App Purchases
If there isn't, there should be.
"Please don't water down my PhD ... by teaching me management skills - I'm not in business school.""

Most faculty manage groups of 5 - 20 people (their lab), a budget (their startup and other research funds) and have to deal with all the problems of running a team of people with varied skills, interest and motivation. Some faculty go on to be department heads or directors of institutes. In all these cases, management skills would be useful. Sure, you're still doing research, but you'll spend a good chunk of your time managing the lab.

"These are the people we can trust with tenure, because they would do research even if we didn't pay them at all"

It's this attitude that keeps the postdoc (and in some cases the junior faculty) salaries so low. Just because you love what you do, you shouldn't have to raise a family on $40,000/year
Sure. Congress never underestimates how far they can take it.
> unless you're the CIO, you'll be the last to know.

Maybe I've been unfortunate, but I haven't found people at the CIO level to be particularly forward-looking.
Were you at ETL? The prop group I was in at Morgan used q/kdb+, which was great for a lot of things but did cause some trip-ups that static typing would have prevented. My group eventually shut down and I left the firm, but I had heard Morgan was looking into F# to use company-wide. (I used Ada in a previous life, so I know full-well the benefits of strong typing.)
how is this anything like express?

See klein (https://github.com/chriso/klein.php) for a real PHP express port..
Instant On really benefits from the fast sequential times and random cache hits from the low latency/high IOPS. I would imagine there is a lot of paging on a low memory machine.

The first generation macbook air users said that the SSD made up for the weak CPU in day to day use.
this is good to know, but why would it be annoying for my user if I do NPAPI?
This is very true, most people fail to notice this.
boomerang[1] is a whole programming language for writing bidirectional trasformations (for text formats) using combinators and bidirectional primitives. It seems quite alien but also really interesting.

[1] http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/
Maximise the value for whom? The data is being monopolistically exploited by a private entity, for private profit. Where is the value for the taxpayer there?

I think most people would agree that taxpayer value for public expenditure should be maximised, and were the money from the licences going directly into the public coffers then we could certainly have a discussion about whether taxpayer value is maximised by selling the data or giving it away for free.

That, however, is not what is happening here. As so frequently happens in the UK, the data is publically funded, and the profits are privately realised.
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Another approach would be to understand the ecosystem you are in and work to improve it. The US has many things that cater to entrepreneurship, but that should not preclude people from attempting their desires within their community.
By checking the logs on the machine the logs are on.

Besides, anyone who is tech savvy enough to mess with public key encryption is going to be using OTR anyway, making server side logs useless.
Hiring a designer, or reading a bunch of design books (as stating in another comment on this link), can be a significant investment.

When reading these blog pieces, it never hurts to look at the perspective of the author (this is especially true for blogs like 37signals). In this case, the author had just written two articles on building a webapp that could produce a couple hundred dollars a month in revenue. He had also written about how he was having difficulty generating sales (meaning that little money was coming in). At that point, does it make more sense to throw additional money at the site to get a better design that might be a B+ design, or does it make more sense to spend a relatively low amount of money and get a B- design?

You can go to D for B- for $20 bucks, or go from D to B+ for several hundred (we'll assume D to A+ is several thousand+). I think it's a perfectly acceptable choice to close most of the gap fro $20 than to spend the couple hundred. If sales improve, you can always reinvest the profits.
For context, you can check out his demo of Radbox at New York Tech Meetup in March:
http://www.livestream.com/nytechmeetup/video?clipId=pla_4957...

Aditya seems like really amicable guy and I wish him the best of luck.
But do you produce original research? Or like the airprint article do you scour the big blogs for information and distill that on your blog? Do you give the complete picture? Do you often link out to your sources?

You say you wrote 100 articles a month for over a year. Were these all quality posts? Even a site like smashingmagazine with a very general subject and a team of writers can't output 3 articles a day. If you were to put the time and effort of 3 articles into 1 article, does that help in the number of links the piece attract and the times it is shared?

I understand that you spend time each day to update your blog, but if that is not original research, do you believe to be rewarded more than "amateur" status? How many people do you think write about Justin Bieber? How many of those blogs should rank in the top 100 for Justin Bieber terms?

Next up: Could you become an affiliate of Apple for your Apple product site? Really unlikely as your domain name violates their TOS and trademark. Why should Google allow a site to advertise for Apple products, when Apple wouldn't allow that same site to do the same? Apple doesn't consider you an expert, they consider you a legal hassle. And are you really an Apple expert? Or do you just own some Apple products and keep up-to-date?

Also your shareasale footerlink should disqualify you for Adsense, as dofollowing an non-editorial affiliate link is against the Quality Guidelines.
yyyymmdd is the only safe format on MSSQL.
I don't hate it as such, but it did make me do a double-take to figure it out.

THAT part of it I hate; we, as programmers, often rely far too heavily and broadly on mapping what we see to what it means. Call stuff what it is.
This might be related to the fact that some broken web applications blindly remove angle brackets instead of properly escaping them.
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I agree with the other posters Sphinx is the way to go, or you can go the route of pulling the data you need to search on out to a specific MyISAM table and leave everything else in INNODB but of course there is an overhead to that...
Ivy League Solicits Students to Boost Selectivity
The real problem I have with everyone using UTC is that the day of the week would change at a time other than midnight.
Google, Paypal, World of Warcraft, Mailchimp, etc. have all implemented user-facing two-factor auth also. It's the easiest way for them to protect against endpoint insecurity when attackers are going after user credentials en masse.

For any other site looking to implement this, check out our open-source web SDKs and service at Duo Security:

http://www.duosecurity.com
https://github.com/duosecurity

At the very least, we highly recommend folks use it to protect their own cloud/datacenter infrastructure, and have made it free to do so (assuming you have 10 or less admins):

http://blog.duosecurity.com/2011/04/ssh-keys-that-call-you-b...

We support callback, SMS, mobile apps for 7 platforms, as well as traditional hardware tokens for online and offline use...
Shouldn't it be: "Brian said, "[l]et's go.".?"?
It's very simple, when you nationalize something, it magically becomes cheaper. Because it doesn't have to pay out "profits" to "shareholder". The way this works is that you can always get a politicians to promise whatever to whomever, as long as it will get him reelected. Then it's up the the public company to constantly pursue quick successes (usually in the form of various prestige projects which includes hiring huge swaths of overpaid and unfireable employees) while neglecting long term planning and maintenance. When called out on it, they demand a larger operating budget, which if allocated, goes mostly towards making the allocating politician look good, and which if not, results in cuts to front line services to make the responsible politician look bad. This is called "rent seeking". Because the service is lousy, and the public, while not liking that, also isn't going to deliver the required landslide in an election, nothing happens. This is known as "the reason large public companies too often become bloated ungovernable unreformable monsters".
I recently finished Bill Simmons The Book of Basketball. He frequently breaks a grammatical rule, then includes a footnote saying something like "Yes, that really did deserve a double negative."
Or if you're following PEP 8.
'AllowGroups ssh-users' locks out anyone not in the group ssh-users (notably, including any test accounts you may have misconfigured). You'll have to do something with the account anyway, so...

There are various ways of central access control (modern SSH has certificates; Kerberos works too), which may also help here. But that's probably overkill for your issue.
we do have the monthly who's hiring posts which are quite popular.
Should you pivot your startup?
The arbitrariness of grammar rules you mention is nothing compared with the standardization of spelling. I see a connexion between the motivations behind both - pedantry.
Yeah, github is a great way for developers to see what other developers are like, but it doesn't tell you which developers are looking for freelance work, nor does it help nontechnical people figure out who is good (unless it has some recommendation system that I don't know about)
I think he could run for president!
Anyone heard which company is actually suing them?
How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet"
I use in-app purchases as well. My first thought was "being in Europe, am I safe from this?".

AFAIK Europe does not have software patents, so I should be safe. But IANAL and my understanding of this subject is quite poor.

Does anybody have a good answer?
Just looking at this make me physically uncomfortable.
The video is on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h_pp8CHEQ0 I think it's a little more meaningful for this kind of content, and the jokes are funnier :)
Ok, that's one part of property - it cant be copied. Been covered to death.

The other part is, people descended from apes have territorial instincts. This drives them to all sorts of behaviors. Some are very useful behaviors. Like creating things to be useful, yes, but also to impress others, create a reputation, gain value in the eyes of society.

If I create something like software, I still want it to be mine. Because that, in part, motivates the creation. Never mind abstract political arguments, you take my software for yourself without any acknowledgment to me, I get pissed. And probably stop creating it, go back to making shovels. Or at least stop showing it to you, since that just gets it appropriated for whatever you want, instead of what I want.

I don't work in the movie industry, which is its own can of worms since that product is Designed to be shared. I write software for particular purposes. And as it stands, I won't share it with anyone unless they properly pay for/acknowledge my contribution. Certainly not with folks with goofy arguments like "since you can't keep me from taking it, its mine!" Certainly not them.
Interesting. I would have guessed that they can potentially get more money out of Apple by suing them for providing the feature. On the other hand, the patent is probably on shaky ground so that it's more lucrative to extort the small developers: You would get less money, but they wouldn't fight you either.

Yeah. The patent system clearly fosters innovation and clearly doesn't need an overhaul.
I've got to +1 Hyperbole and a Half, very funny.
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2542370