skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be useful for confirming that you have the right file over the phone or other crude applications - but you're checking such a small subset of the digest that crafting a fake payload with the same humanhash becomes down right trivial.

With that in mind, the code could be much simpler: Each possible pair of hex digits gets assigned to one of 256 words, and the humanhash is the words for the first n pair of the digest.

Or am I missing something big?
That's an amusing taxonomy, but don't fool yourself into thinking this stuff can be so precisely and unambiguously delineated. There's a continuum between a province with some autonomy to fully-fledged independent nation state, and the application of various English words to refer to particular entities that lie in different places on the continuum is governed primarily by history and culture, not by legal and political specifics. For any set of properties you care to define for nationhood or statehood, you can usually find entities that are not evenly cut into one or the other.

The Commonwealth shares a head of state; for example, Canada would be a sovereign state (small s) within the terminology of the Commonwealth. The Common Travel Area has passport-free travel; Irish and UK citizens can vote in one another's national parliaments, while EU citizens generally can only vote in local and EU elections. British crown dependencies are distinct from its overseas territories. There aren't enough shades of meaning in the miserly handful of terms you defined above (and seems rather German-centric) to adequately cover all the dependent and independent relationships involved.
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That words matter. That people attach meaning to words. And symbols too.

And that saying it ain't so is bullshitting yourself. Which is what macuenca is doing. You helped.
I think it's possible to motivate people by providing positive feedback. Suppose you work on a web app, and have 1k signups on the day you go live, and 2k on the next day. Wouldn't that increase motivitation?
I surely enjoy watching the visitor stats of a new website, and feel more motivated when they are rising quickly.

Yes, you can't motivatve everybody for everything, but I do think it's possible to achieve something with positive feedback.
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Marketing companies tend to specialise, think of the big labels as music marketing companies if you like, they have expertise and relationships (radio, physical and digital distributors) that a generic advertising firm doesn't.

The smarter people in the music industry know that their future is dependant on staying close to the artists. The tables are turning, in the past the artists served the labels, in the future the labels will serve the artists.
I always thought that either means "one or the other".
The games industry needs more product builders
Very interesting. Surprising to see Lithuania as the second most popular language. Oddly enough, I was having a conversation with someone this weekend when they mentioned that Lithuania had the highest fiber-to-the-home penetration in Europe and one of the fastest average internet connections in the world. Does anyone know why this is?
Who says you cant bring your child to work?

False dichtomy "careerist" "or" "family". Modern family can evolve to just as other relationships. It is very frightening for a child to be left at a day-care center, it would be much better if the parents could bring their children to work and have an "office" only for kids. Hire a baby-sitter and you are all set. Work and family.

Don't tell me this and that as reasons why it cant work. It works for me and my coworkers just fine.
This is an appropriate argument basically any time somebody claims that [insert group here] [insert behavior of an individual here]. Groups of people do not behave uniformly; when they behave in statistically significant ways, it is not for uniform reasons.

It's difficult to reason abstractly about groups as they actually are, so we abstract that group into a uniform body - that way we can make abstract claims about their behavior without the benefit of an education in applied statistics and research methodology. It's a useful tool for intuiting behavior, but try to avoid making non-statistical claims about the members of a group of people; you will almost never be correct.
A simple way to get a multilingual blog
Banshee's monthly profits until August 2011: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlEOoO4Ozn9IdFR...

It's sad that things worked out like this. Ubuntu is dropping Banshee in 12.04, supposedly to remove the Mono dependency from ubuntu-desktop.
why would you move your family to an area with less opportunity for them? Is their partner going to be able to find a "propper" job will their kids get a good education and have a wide choice of "propper" carrears (or will they join the army as thats the best choice on offer)
I didn't understand most of this article, but it was fascinating nonetheless. It, combined with the comments (which also seem written by well informed people), would make a great corpus from which to generate markov chains.
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Not to mention the fact that, as far as I am aware, the term used for the constituents parts of the UK is "country":

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

I don't think many people answer "British" to the question "What country are you from?".
Pro tip: after you paste code, it might not be indented correctly in the new context. You can select just pasted lines and autoindent them with V`]=. This should fix the indentation in most cases.

A better alternative: issue the ":set paste" command just before pasting text. That way you keep the original indentation.
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I'd guess that on average, men work more hours per year than women with the same jobs, because women tend to give birth and take care of children more than men.

I can't help but wonder if this is significantly influenced by an imbalance in compensation.

When my daughter was born, my wife and I decided that one of us would stay home, and income was certainly a large factor in determining that she would be the one to stay home. If our incomes had been reversed, then I would have become a stay-at-home dad.
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What is "weighted"? In which way was the percentage weighted? Why look at (weighted) percentage of turnout rather than at raw counts?
I wanted the humanhash to depend on the whole of the input, so I use a compression function (similar to a checksum) rather than simply selecting the first `n` bytes of input.

The humanhash is not intended to guarantee any level of collision protection, it's simply supposed to be a human-memorable representation of a much longer underlying digest. When computers exchange representations, they should certainly use the full digest.

However, even with only four bytes, you're looking at a 1 in 4.3 billion chance of collision. So for user interfaces, where a user merely has to distinguish between different values, or even a situation where two people want to check that they're talking about (probably) the same thing, it remains useful.
This is how the 1% do their LAN parties.
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Sharing is not, and was never restricted to things between two people. To give a biblical example, was Jesus not sharing the loaves and fish because he gave it to five thousand people?

If you think sharing copies of ripped files with many people is wrong, it's your prerogative, but it's still sharing as long as they aren't getting paid for it.

No one is entitled to free content no matter how evil we think the studios/labels/software giants are.

You seem caught up in this belief that file sharers believe it's inherently wrong but justify it with excuses. It's a shame you can't actually put yourself in other's shoes.

Again, file sharers don't think they're entitled to free content. People are voluntarily sharing it with them. Person A bought a CD, ripped it and voluntarily shared with other people.

The question is, are copyright holders entitled to use the state as their personal weapon to prevent people from voluntarily sharing copies of their property?
Perhaps more fascinating than the article itself, was the appearance of particles that started moving across the graphs and text. At this early hour of the morning I thought I was having some type of hallucinatory episode.
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Those ads are usually not allowed on the networks they run on. They're often posed by affiliate's as the original companies have long since been blocked. Unfortunately finding the article on this is harder then finding a real teeth whitening product...
And "Accept-Language:" wept.
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I think the modified versions look worse in every case, and I question the author's sanity.

You can only appreciate Van Gogh if you can make his color choices more "normal"? So you'd only appreciate Picasso if you could use photoshop to reconstruct his paintings?

Take the work as it is. Attempt to understand it on its own terms. That is how you grow as a person.
I wouldn't mind using a list of 65,536 words, but I came up with the existing list by hand, and it took me a good half-hour. I guess it would be possible to generate a wordlist, or even combine phonemes to make fake but valid-sounding words (similar to a password generator), but for a proof-of-concept I feel it has value.

Note that I never intended this to have all the uniqueness of the original digest. It's merely supposed to be 'good enough' for UI purposes.
They don't control the rest of Europe (though right now with the Euro situation they probably just about do), however there are provisions for legal precedent in one Member State to apply in every. I have no idea how it works and when it applies, though. It's definitely not so direct as in the U.S.
Good thing too. 'Country' is a loaded word with various populations both claiming and denying their geographic locale as a separate country from the legal entity (or 'Member State') they're a part of.
I wrote large bunch of software in shell, so I have habit to use strict mode ("set -ue"), so shell scripts are much safer.

I write scripts like large programs from scratch: decomposition, error handling, proper logging, unit testing, packaging, etc.

I wrote my own library with few useful modules, which is designed for strict mode (bash-modules on assembla), which I recommend to use even for trivial programs.

I have no problems with bash.
dbgCmd() suggests it was originally there for debugging. It runs as root because the UI runs as root, AIUI.
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Amazon is paying VAT in the EU, but the last time I checked, the tax wasn't quite in the hundreds of percents. This is just Amazon taking extra profit because they can, and the author is only getting paid based on the $0.99 and $2.99 price points.
I agree in part.

The distinction to me is one's work on open source is generally considered charity, pro bono, representing a fraction of one's total work.

Louis C.K. on the other hand, and digitally replicable artists generally, are not producing their work for free as a charitable gift to mankind, nor is this free work being produced within a small fraction of their total working time.

We here on HN, as producers and consumers, hope for the success of efforts like Spotify because it makes our lives better. Our own business plans become more likely to be realized, our own entertainment consumption becomes easier and fuller.

And yet efforts like Spotify require artists to accept that they must ask for voluntary donations.
Isaac is an OS built with dynamically interconnected prototype objects
Its probably worth saying that there is a big difference between moving from SV/SF to Seattle, Portland, or Austin, and moving to a small town of 1000 people in the middle of nowhere.

Opportunity for career growth isn't the only factor in where a family moves - there are a number of other concerns like safety, values, closeness to family, and fresh air and water.
I consider mail a critical tool and thus I have no qualms paying money for it. I'm using Exchange Online from Microsoft. I use Outlook so that obviously affects my choice.

DISCLAIMER: I have family working at Microsoft.
There are many that compile to JS:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
On the other hand, if the American way of life continues to attract immigrants, there must be something worth preserving about it...
Exclusive control of your own work is one thing. Using that exclusive control for the detriment of everyone else is entirely another. That's what the article is talking about.

First, let me say up front that I don't believe in "Intellectual Property". Things get independently invented far too often for the mere invention of an idea to be raised to some holy status. There is no moral basis for "Intellectual Property". "IP" has no "P", either. without an intrusive, all-monitoring system, nobody can tell if I've copied or not. Suppose I, as a pirate, see another ship with a better system of rigging the sails in the port of Cherbourg. I sail off to the Caribbean and re-rig the first sloop I take with this new system, as I can sail a point closer to windward with it. Can the "IP" "owner" back in Cherbourg tell that I have "stolen" his precious "IP"? No. "IP" is NOT PROPERTY in any sense other than by definition.

So, control your own work, control your own property, and accept that anyone who sees it, can copy it. Do a better job of manufacturing or supporting your "IP" and all imitators will be just that, imitators.

Down with Intellectual Monopoly! The consequences are bad for everyone!
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The same can be done with Python lambdas:

>>> ZERO = lambda f: lambda x: x
>>> FIVE = lambda f: lambda x: f(f(f(f(f(x)))))
>>> to_int = lambda f: f(lambda x: x+1)(0)
... etc.
Oh my god, this is amazing. Congratulations!
PGP presents something readable like this for key fingerprint confirmation over the phone. I think it uses the entire thing though.
The only thing I miss here is pointing out that you can use function application (\map -> ...)(definition_of_map) instead of defines/assignments.

But then the final piece of code would not look as awesome so whatever :)
The camel's back has been broken. Because of the label's stupidity, this trial will un-do a lot of the stuff the labels have been pushing for over the years. It will not only stop the trend of more restrictions dead in its tracks, but also reverse it. Megaupload will bring the necessary attention to the labels' abuses of DMCA and their other proposed bills, and we'll probably going to end up with laws that strengthen our online liberties.
I have a product I have been working on off and on for 2 years, and have been working full time on for the last few months. I have asked myself many of these same questions. beta launch day has been delayed 3 times. Why? Mainly because I know that as many things as there are right with it, the clever people of HN will no doubt point out a dozen important things I should of done before launching but after reading all this you know what? Screw it, I am launching. I'll figure out all the stuff I missed when people point fingers. Expect to see a HN post sometime in the next week or so linking to a new type of search platform. ^_^
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@kls: Looks like the solution you've been proposing, now packed up.
Ask HN: Anyone Using Mozart/Oz For Development?
I'm curious if anyone is using Mozart/oz for anything other than academics.

http://www.mozart-oz.org/
I assume postgres gets this treatment because HN considers it realitively under utilised.
Apple’s Mac App Store passes 100 million downloads
like tripphases? http://worrydream.com/tripphrase/
You could use nltk's wordnet to generate a bunch of words of certain kinds. As a proof of concept, UNIX should have a list of words, probably in /usr/share/dict/words (OSX) or maybe /usr/dict/words.

/usr/share/dict/words is likely to be pretty big, over 200k words, but it's still human readable. You could prune it by removing proper words (i.e. anything capitalized).
My view is that if someone takes your idea and makes it better, it's called progress, and it should be encouraged, not banned.
I was merely trying to disambiguate the notion of state (as in United States of America) and the notion of State (as in Member State of the European Union), but you're right in putting a big warning sign on my taxonomy, since it's easily the kind of things that could (and actually has) lead to wars.

Oh and good thing my terms are German-centric, since I'm French. We don't even have the notion of state here in our civic system (but we do have tons of others of course).
I read that as "Make a contractual agreement with us or be blocked".
That's exactly the kind of "useful content" that I think most users would be happy to see killed off by ad-blocking - companies that buy up domains which used to have actual content on them because their owners let them lapse and then stuff them full of ads.
Agreed.
This will turn out to be just about money, not principle or, you know, what the consumer wants.
Could air-traffic control become computerised?
The lack of critical thinking about music copyright never ceases to boggle my mind. In this discussion Spotify is the intermediary. The labels and the artists do the heavy lifting here. Do you guys believe in the concept of intellectual property or what? It is vital for our whole economy (including FOSS).

The labels put up the money for the projects, and the risk is terrible. If you are a label almost every one of your products loses a lot of money. In fact all of the money you invest! You hope to make it back on a handful of hit acts. In some sense acts that fail commercially come out on the long end of the stick, in that they burn throughs hundreds of thousands in cash and are not on the hook to pay it back. This is why the classic case of hit acts not making any money exists, the deal is structured way in the labels favor. Without this the labels can't make money.

How you all feel about a company that agregated other companies software products and started giving them away for free? Any objections to that? Would you look down on efforts of developers to get as much as they can for their products?

A vital music culture cant exist without some kind of viable business model. Many attempts have been made to build a business on indie bands (my space , mp3.com) it can't work because indie artists don't have near the resources to create a true modern music product. Not to mention most indie music is not that good, and nobody wants to hear it.
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Cut it with the crazy US exceptionalism. You might be surprised how many technically sophisticated projects are worked on outside the US. It's not as if the rest of the world still lives in the stone age.
I do like it. It compares well with my Ruby code which is saying a lot. :-)

A lot of years ago when I started with Ruby, one of the first things I cared about was how easy it was to write OO in Ruby. I like it perhaps even better in Dart. Ruby has features that Dart will never have, not to mention that once Dart is released it may stop evolving, whereas Ruby that has evolved so much will continue to do so.
Moreover, I was a tech journalist for 15 years and we didn't do it. We would argue very hard about them, but an agreement was an agreement.
Shell is Lingua Franca for system administrators.
this is the definition of a turing tarpit.
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Phoenix, Arizona, achieves #4 in the list of top 10 cities with the highest vehicle theft! (2004 National Insurance Crime Bureau [NICB])

In 2002, Arizona had the highest car theft rate in the United States, with the vast majority occurring in Maricopa and Pima Counties. According to the Arizona Automobile Theft Authority (AATA), a vehicle theft occurs every nine minutes and 16 seconds. This causes an estimated economic loss of $3.7M to residents of Arizona in 2002 alone!
Shapley Value to the rescue! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley_value
Reminds me of the Benjamin Franklin quote:

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
IOS5 Twitter integration caused a huge jump in sharing from Discovr
I wonder how many bits of information could be packed into a single (nonsensical) syllable, without being too prone to misinterpretation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology#Phonotactics

I think this is getting a little beyond my linguistics skills...

Edit: I suppose which syllables are easily corruptable depends on the medium: written hashes would require a different set of graphemes than spoken hashes would phonemes, for example, while memorised hashes would likely be different again. I wonder if there's been any research or anything into this.
This is brilliant - but not because I hate Apple or have anything against someone choosing to use Apple, even tho I don't myself.

But hopefully a ban on such a popular product (right before Christmas to) will bring software patents and all the issues around them fully into the public attention and debate.

In the past it's been really hard to explain to non-geeks why they should care about such issues ...

Or am I being optimistic in hoping it would be reasonable debate and not just an "Evil Motorola/Google!" hate fest?
That still happens with Super Bowl ads, and occasionally with clever billboard campaigns.
chrome store, not android
Is there a way to explain the Higgs mechanism to a lay computer scientist?
I had the same WTF. White particles on a white background, making parts of the text disappear. Site owners, please don't pull these kind of tacky javascript tricks, especially not if we're meant to read the (difficult) text.
I once tried to identify the language in (supposedly) English-language Facebook posts. The second-most frequent language was Estonian. Looking at actual posts classified as Estonian, it turned out they contained text like "Soooooo nice". Because the language identifier looks at character sequences, and Estonian tends to have unusually common double vowels, such posts were classified as Estonian. Dutch and Norwegian were other two languages for which English was mistaken - apparently some character sequencies there have frequency distributions that are similar to English.
It's thinking like yours that makes it harder to get into fields where women are "under" represented.

I battled sexual harassment and derogatory comments about my ability to work in tech (specifically about being female) to stay in the industry.

If I'd have bowed out years ago, it wouldn't have been because I "don't want programming badly enough" - it was because I had better things to do than prove my vagina makes absolutely no difference to my ability to code.
Ugh, the mobile version of that site is awful to use on an iPad.
Being on the frontpage here... shouldn't there be an extra section "Recursion, briefly"... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_combinator)
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Me too. I instantly stopped reading to return here and see if anyone else complained. Now I have to start over. -.-
Sounds like a great idea. I'd love to allow ads like The Deck and Fusion ads, but my Ad Muncher (on Windows) practices a scorched earth policy where everything is hidden. If I had my own site, I would probably not even be able to see them.

This sounds perfect, and it's more in line with a cogent policy of rewarding good ads and punishing bad ones.