skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A challenge!

First of all, [1] is ridiculous. Second of all, you just do it recursively. I would describe the first example roughly as follows:

Walking radical (162); cave top (116); to the left a left-right combination with "moon" on the left (74) and a thread radical (52) above "long" (168) on the right; in the middle "speech" (149) above "horse" (187); to the right, a left-right combination with thread above "long" on the left, and a knife radical (18) on the right; under all of that, a heart radical (61).

Numbers refer to the chart here

http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/radicals.php

In practice, it is very common for two Chinese people to meet for the first time and explain to each other which characters their name are. This normally does not involve pulling out pencil and paper.
oh your irony...
Boutique startup accelerators: Natural progression, or impending danger?
I was about to to link to previous discussions of the same claim/question

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592522

But then I read the article... Very nice!
No link or cite or anything in there to explain what is happening. Just a self-post by a 1 month old Reddit account. This doesn't seem worthy of HN (or of any other forum). If something is actually happening, a real link should be submitted.
Thanks, iamelgringo, for the kind words.

Yes, I do disagree with the core thesis of this article and am disappointed to see my quote out of context, but I believe Claire's intentions are good.

In response, here are 3 reasons Silicon Valley is NOT imploding and a bit of context around the Founder Showcase:
http://wp.me/p7Wfu-8f
Why not? I understand you do not have infinite time but if you get the chance I would enjoy hearing your thoughts.
Innovation is recession-resistant
Software is Eating All the Jobs Too
It's like they told Skype just pay us 1% of whatever MSFT paid you ...
So my website is banned in Argentina? Cool!
Frequently mentioned in these comments is what we really do "need". While necessities are food/clothing/shelter, I think the author of the post is looking at a different definition of need. He mentions video editors and how they need a Thunderbolt RAID array. His argument is whether a technology contributes substantially to ones profession. A Thunderbolt RAID array does contribute substantially, making it a justifiable purchase. He mentions ultraportables. He also mentions gamers (questionable "need" here... I think). But basically he is putting forth a rhetorical challenge. How straightforward is your justification for buying an iPad?

As others had said, a tablet is not an essential. There may be use cases where it is very justifiable, but for most of us, it's not.
I'm happy to see him using Paint.NET to edit the graphics. I've yet to see a free image editor that remotely compares in usability and power; I just wish it were available for Mac and/or Linux.

Not affiliated with it or anything.
Just tested it for the hell of it, started with "FireFighter", thought it was random... and 30 clicks later landed on Philosophy! Fun stuff.
Huh. I'll have to run this by some other libertarian pals. Interesting.
[OT] Ask HN: Death Penalty
I'm curious, where do you stand hackers stand on death penalty?
Concepts without context are merely jargon. It's not apparent from your words that you are referencing the pre-exisiting idea of top-down/bottom-up, and thus read as your own personal slang.

People probably gloss right over it while reading unless they're personally familiar with the practice, but still have to post to HN for clarification (hint hint).
Are you new? Flagged.
>Well, how much software have you paid for lately to help view your files and directories in a graphical tree, defragment your disks, compress the data on them, or scan that data for viruses?

As me how much Microsoft software I've used in last say an year. I know. Zero. Microsoft isn't a behemoth it used to be.

>In any case, your comment is a cheap shot. Microsoft have a relatively strong track record when it comes to establishing footholds in new markets, even if they've been slow to see the opportunity at first, by committing vast resources and running loss leaders for a while if necessary to establish their product

I wouldn't be so sure of a strong track. I think the only thing they have to show for themselves in last decade is Xbox. I can't think of any other new market where they have been as successful. I do understand where you are coming from, MS does have a reputation of going into new domains and becoming a NUMBER TWO player. But that's hardly what a company of the caliber of MS aspires to do. I do have respect for MS and its research facilities, but that doesn't mean I believe that it has what it takes to kill off start-ups with good momentum, like Dropbox. At best it can be the Bing to Google.
The September 2011 issue is free online: http://www.linuxjournaldigital.com/linuxjournal/201109#pg1

Interestingly enough, the cover story is "Programming"
So, one is legal and one is not. Is that really the extent of it? This sounds like a pretty clear example of something that should probably be closed to all parties, gov included.
delusional feedback OSNEWS like you guys had me worried FAT32 required a license. At the time I checked the microsoft site, $.25 to format a flash stick with FAT32... just factory formats! I removed support for FAT32 and made my own filesystem with the only design goal of unsuable. I got rid of FAT tables and made only whole-file saves allowed. Works great for compression. You must allocate ahead of time and do block writes if you really want to do that.

God says, "that's_for_me_to_know look_buddy high_five if_anything_can_go_wrong
population praise I_veto_that can_you_hear_me_now what_do_you_expect
what_luck here_now after_a_break no_you_cant how_goes_it
skills smart "
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That's a pretty sad statement. Life is life.
The little-known secret of how to actually choose a web designer
Translation: It's OK to present yourself as an Idea Guy if you're a professor.
Help me improve my resume.
Is Randal L Schwartz notable enough for Wikipedia?
I know plenty of bay-area startups hire undergraduate interns from the University of Waterloo (where I am).

I don't see it being a problem, though it's a little costly. You should contact a company like Cultural Vistas (http://www.culturalvistas.org/) who can get you the J-1 visa.
Second place after merging the service with the service in the second place (Yahoo search). Google wasn't the most successful, lucrative and well-capitalized technology when it started. Google was the case of one company completely dominating a market which they helped create. Dropbox is example of another such market (I am not comparing dropbox with google just giving an analogy).
You mean a lot of "positive" fake reviews, in which case people tend to fake positive opinions much more than negative ones. Definitely better than the opposite...
Related, National Lampoon's Deteriorata: http://www.mendosa.com/fluke.html
Japan isn't completely devoid of fertile women. If you convinced them all to want six kids the population would rebound pretty impressively. Hell, my great grandmother had twelve children, and it wasn't that uncommon at the time.

Personally I think the Japanese population will rebound without any meddling. Every large population has sub-populations of people who have lots of kids. Think Mormons in the US. Eventually one or more of these sub-populations will have enough critical mass to affect the overall fertility rate.

In terms of militarization, well, the Japanese navy is still the most powerful navy in Asia. It would make pretty short work of the Chinese navy in any conflict out of range of Chinese land-based aircraft. Just calling a navy a "naval self defense force" doesn't mean it can't hold its own in a fight. This will still be true even when the Shi Lang is fully operational, though I agree the trends are in China's favor.
Tried the word Stupid... Just got stuck in a loop.

EDIT: Tried it again... Stupid - Philosophy = 11
That is the problem Paul Romer is trying to solve with charter cities.
I've paid once and then just copied/pasted/modified ever since.

There should be a corresponding survey for where lawyers got their TOS/Privacy page text from. In my experience there are only 3 or 4 boilerplate pages and then some light customization (which I strongly suspect is done largely by interns and secretaries). That'll be a few hundred dollars, thank you.
3500 unpublished [Wiki]leaks destroyed forever
They are not inversely related.
That was an impressive explanation. Thanks.
I find these sorts of editorials fascinating, basically they are "I don't see a need for this, my friend/spouse/other also doesn't see a need for it, therefore there is no good reason for these things to exist." As if the entire world was defined by the standard of the author.

A really good example is this comment in the article:
"Pixel-for-pixel, I can see almost as much information in the palm of my hand as I can with an unwieldy screen that requires two hands to use with any precision whatsoever."

Here the author has no trouble at all reading the same text on a their iPhone that they have on their iPad. They are in for a rude surprise when they hit their mid-40s and their eyes start losing their current flexibility :-). Unless you want to look really dorky holding your iPhone three inches from your eyes, you will really appreciate that the larger screen makes things 'bigger' without having to zoom and give up those pixels.

That being said, the author misses that it is easier to read with a tablet than it is with a laptop because the keyboard is in the way and not essential to the task. And yes, when you want a keyboard, not having one sucks, but there are many applications where having a keyboard is actually broken.

For example, sign-in/sign-off sheets. You've got a bunch of people who are coming to your conference/meeting/facility and you have them on a list. Looking them up on a list, checking them off, and even entering the time/date when the arrived it hugely more productive with a tablet than it is either with a laptop or a pad of names. Many sort of form processes get similar benefits (inventory, quality sorting, Etc.) It can be an awesome calculator/adding machine (much better than a PC) because you can customize the key layout to your particular needs. Consuming information can be easier, and its a huge win if you want to show snapshots to your friends from your camera.

If the author had any sense of history they would look up the sage advice about how useless it was to put all of these 'smart' features on a phone, all you needed was for it to call numbers, and ring when called. The rest was just fluff.

Now, not so much.
There is a typo on the "FOR DUMMIES" section, "This is a key-value date store"
Someone did that a while ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2587352

Seems the actual script is gone but there may be a new version in the comments.
This was posted a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2899916
I don't think it's ever about 0% taxes. It's about making governments compete for customers who have a choice of where to spend their tax dollars, and would prefer more bang for the buck.
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Someone previously created a "steps to philosophy" site (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2587352), but it seems to have vanished.
At the risk of being downvoted, ultimately all links on Wikipedia lead to God.
I agree, but I also think that to a certain extent no matter where you work in the software industry there is always a certain amount of this going on.

People just tend to get screwed over more often in the games industry because people think it's the holy grail of jobs, so you have 10 more poor saps lining up to replace every 1 who gets fired over something like this.
My first theory was to edit a few articles including one point of the post-Science chain before Philosophy so that it got into a loop and it looked like all of Wikipedia led to Trilateral Commission.
Could Google Huddle have influenced Skype to make this move? Google is clearly trying to enter the group messaging space and has the infrastructure to support both text and voice group communication.
- I deleted that part of my comment to avoid a stoning lol...

But yeah I was thinking something like an excel read out of the words, and just a fun little engine that would let you test any word on the fly. Maybe even live stat tracking for popular words that updates daily, I just love the idea of these word relationships. But there is soo much room for deliberate tampering.
I paid a local law firm for a TOS once. It was not cheap, and after I received it, I had to manually edit out the remnants of an unfinished search/replace of another company's name.

One more anecdote: When my service went live, I put a free t-shirt offer deep in the TOS. Only had 1 person ever try to redeem the offer.
I respectfully disagree.

The last company I was at completely turned around when we stopped begging people to let us do their proposals and instead started charging them for the privilege to have us analyze their business, create actionable guidelines (that they could conceivably have anyone implement) and provide a quote for what our services would cost to implement them ourselves. They were welcome to take that strategy plan elsewhere, but when we started charging people for it, we had more clients than we knew what to do with.

People start to see you differently when you value your time, ideas and strategy and don't just give them away. Yes, there are some cases where it's worth doing one gratis, but the vast majority of time, we got more business by refusing to work with people who didn't run through our proposal process.
I did look it up, even before posting the first time.

I see that Google does list the definition you suggest. But it does so without attribution, as far as I can see. Dictionary.com (the place I had been looking), which takes definitions from several dictionaries, with attribution, does not offer the meaning in question.

You said "many dictionaries" would list this meaning. I think your claim remains unsubstantiated.
Ask HN: What are the most useful bookmarklets you use?
heh. i think this is a generational thing. he was pretty damn central to the early perl culture, but i'm not surprised most people these days haven't heard of him. i guess the question is - to what extent should wikipedia cull entries for people who are no longer as famous as they one were?

to give some idea of relative fame, i'd say he was no less famous in his community that, say, paul buchheit is these days.

[and i'd like to know more details about how the prosecution ended up being expunged - whatever that means. he did time, right?]
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I'd find such a service very interesting, particularly if you could produce minimally-offensive common-sense terms that still serve the appropriate function of avoiding liability.
WTF? Why so many Ask HNs? Spam?
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Notability is not temporary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#Notability...
I don't think people who have a problem with high taxes list US as their dream destination.
Not a lot of drag on that one though
Every time I think Wikipedia couldn't slide any further into craziness, I see something like this. Nobody ever seems to step back and ask "what exactly are we accomplishing by campaigning to get content deleted?".

Somewhere between "preventing spam, vandalism, and vanity pages" and "delete everything" there's a line; the exact placement of that line seems non-obvious, but individual cases like this seem incredibly obvious (and spam, vandalism, and vanity pages seem rather obvious as well, so it works in both directions).
interesting, thanks. so he should stay.
It's hard to know the exact situation the author was in, but it certainly seems like there would have been a quicker fix than what he proposed. He never says the game wasn't fixed before it was shipped (and he probably wouldn't know if it was), he just states that it still shipped.

Because you only get his side of the story, you don't know if the reason he was fired was because the other devs knew it wouldn't take that long to fix, or because he had some negative history with the company.

I'm not writing the guy off here. It just pays to be wary with stories like this that end with "and then i was fired", because the outcome and tone of the story automatically makes the reader feel that there is some sort of residual bitterness that has shaped the author's view negatively.

But I suppose if you get fired you have every right to be bitter about it too.
wordpress.com's TOS is "available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use".

http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
We didn't invent the term 'anti-Semitic' - I believe it was coined by a rather anti-Semitic German. We're all very aware Arabs are also Semites, but the word as it's actually used is solely about Jews, and everybody knows this.

If you can get everyone to switch to something like 'Judaeophobia', I'd personally have no objections - but sometimes you've got to work with the vocabulary that already exists.
I'm writing a TOS at the moment.

Here's a question: has anyone ever heard of someone being sued for copyright violation for reusing parts of someone else's TOS or other posted legal document?
Yes. No reasonable person could even contest this. Randal Schwartz has been written about in reliable sources extensively, owing to an incident in which he was convicted for a felony involving breaking into Intel servers.

•••• PEOPLE OF HN: ANYBODY CAN PROPOSE ANY ARTICLE ON WP FOR DELETION. THERE IS NO BAR FOR IT. ••••

If you make comically stupid proposals, like "[Barack Obama] isn't notable and should be deleted", an admin will shut you down. But otherwise, if even an iota of thought is required to make the decision, it will go to AfD and get shouted down.

This AfD is not going close "deleted"; by WP's own rules, it basically can't be deleted. This isn't newsworthy. If we had an HN story any time anyone made a misguided AfD posting, that's all we'd ever talk about here.

Meanwhile, before anyone suggests that they've done the world a favor by directing attention to the AfD: canvassing support for a "keep" vote actually makes the admin's job harder. It muddies the issue. It means that every well-reasoned comment will carry a subtext of "maybe this is a sockpuppeted comment". Not a win.

And: before anyone complains about the damage done to the encyclopedia by the big ugly "this page might get deleted" tag: this article actually is poorly sourced and needs improvement. WP's immune response to non-notable articles is going to end up improving this particular article by inciting WP nerds to dredge up the (numerous) news stories that reference him.

PS: Not for nothing, but WP's coverage of Randal Schartz is wanting, in that it drastically pares back what is notable about him (his felony hacking conviction) in favor of what he is "locally famous" for (his Perl advocacy). This is a consequence of a very vocal FORS contingent that watches that page.
Respectfully, you don't know what you're talking about. Nothing crazy has happened here. The whole point of Wikipedia is that anyone can do stuff like "propose that WP delete a page". Note that the page hasn't been deleted yet.

When Randal Schwartz is actually deleted from Wikipedia, then you have an argument.
Bill on value not costs.

Whether you're billing hourly or a flat fee, you're still probably billing hourly (factoring all the hours that you can plus the amount of risk you think you can handle).

Figure out how much value added this project with add to their bottom line in the next 3/6/9/12/36 months. Bill them accordingly.

As long as it's not obscenely out of the market range and you can PROVE the value of what you're doing, people are happy to pay.
We're really coming full circle here, eh? Next thing you now people will start advocating the waterfall method again.

More seriously though, it all depends on what you're writing. Sometimes TDD works best, README-driven development (http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-devel...) is really nice for certain projects, sometimes top-down is a good thing and sometimes just hacking away without having a clue about what you're doing turns out surprisingly well.

There's way too much discussion about methodologies and way too little about when they shine.
I sometimes like to write the documentation for the module, to varying degrees of completeness, before I write any code. I find that for infrastructure modules it really helps to make sure that you're writing an API that serves the API user, instead of serving the API designer, because you discover right away if you're writing an idiotic API.

If you want to smear a thin patina of faddishness over it, you could declare the documentation is a form of TDD, except that we're testing something that automated testing simply can't, which is the effective usability of the API from a human point of view. But then, I'm not too worried about yon thin patina of faddishness. Sometimes it's the right tool for the job, often it isn't.
In practical terms there are only two restrictions on the Japanese military: No nuclear weapons and no aircraft carriers. Even the prohibition on aircraft carriers is a bit leaky.

Have a look at the Hyuga class "helicopter carrying destroyer": http://www.jeffhead.com/worldwideaircraftcarriers/16ddh.htm. On thing you notice is that unlike almost every other amphibious assault ship in the world the Hyuga class has an offset island, meaning you can land fixed-wing aircraft. Officially it carries 18 helicopters, but it has everything you need to carry an air wing (range, fuel, ammo, maintenance, and communications). So all they really need to to is fly off the helicopters and fly on some sort of STOL aircraft (like the F-35C) and presto! An aircraft carrier about on par with the British Invincible class.

Recently the Maritime SDF (you know, Navy) got the go-ahead for a "helicopter carrying cruiser", which would be the same thing only bigger, although still officially not an aircraft carrier.
Ask HN: Is something broken with HN scoring?
Normally I assume if something's dropped of front page it's because it got flagged or because HN's vote rigging algo got triggered, but I noticed this Ask HN of mine seems to have vanished:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2909069

It's not visible anywhere on the "Ask" page where it should logically fall. It's had too few votes for it to have been hit by any vote rigging mechanism and it seems unlikely a question about SaaS payments would get flagged.

So has something buggy got into HN's rating system or is there some other aspect of scoring that I'm missing ?
does anyone know if they had telemetry to the thing (which is difficult because of the plasma, but used to be possible at least at shuttle speeds from the tail)? or are they hoping some kind of black box survived? and if they had no telemetry is this report inferred from observations of the flight (only)?

[related - does the telemetry problem mean that if something like this ever went into production, it would be largely autonomous?]
Although notability is not temporary in theory, Wikipedia has always (and probably always will) suffer from presentism. Things that are important today get a disproportionate amount of attention. It is maybe easier to evaluate something's historical notability with the benefit of hindsight.

That said, I never really understood the effort to purge Wikipedia of vanity pages and the like.