skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, it's the "except after 'c'" bit (which I left out) that's mostly incorrect:

# cat /usr/share/dict/british-english-insane | grep -c cie
1375
# cat /usr/share/dict/british-english-insane | grep -c cei
352

So that works only ~20% of the time.

With the general "i before e"... Is being more often true than false enough to make it a valid "rule"? Using your numbers it's correct ~60% of the time, with my dictionary it's correct ~76% of the time:

# cat /usr/share/dict/british-english-insane | grep -c ie
25961
# cat /usr/share/dict/british-english-insane | grep -c ei
8255

But even at 3/4, not sure you can call that a good "rule", if it's wrong that often. But of course, that could be swung subjectively if the most used words follow the rule and the least used words break it... which I imagine is the case, since people do still use this rule, but I'm not sure of an easy way to argue the point.

Edit:

I suppose one way would be to assume that british-english-small (with 50083 words compared to insane's 638286) is comprised of the five thousand most used words (which I assume is roughly the logic?)...

Small shows that "i before e" is correct 88% of the time, and "cei not cie" is correct ~27%.

So in fact, limiting to most common words does make both percentages go up, the "except after c" is still much more often wrong than right, and the general "i before e" is... perhaps now high enough to call a good rule? Not sure.
Passwords are Security through obscurity. That does not make them useless, just vulnerable.
We are not selling it for money. We are selling it so we can see our idea taken to the next level. Ofcourse, in the process we would like to make our invest back. We are thinking to let it go for the money we have put in it (which is not a whole lot) and not seek any additional profits.
I've had the reverse experience. My exposure to programming language libraries and American media has resulted in me accidentally saying "math" sometimes.
Part of the problem with continuous partial attention, like the problem with alcohol, is that the practitioner/victim loses the ability to judge his/her own performance accurately.
In my opinion, it’s going to boil down to what you accomplish – not where you go to school.
A good school will, however, provide you with a good network and make you more attractive applicant.
Once you decide whether you want to study CS or Biz (a decision you need to make for yourself), I would suggest selecting the top program you are admitted to.

When you get to school, capitalize on the opportunity. Learn as much as you can.
Don’t map out your next four years. Be agile. Test, try, learn and make moves accordingly.
Act like a ‘Start-Up’, don’t just build – test and then build.

Most importantly, make sure that you take some time to smell the roses. You only get an Undergraduate University experience, and access to University women once in your life!
(to clarify for future reference - there was a glitch in WP system that showed pictures of iPads instead of SimCity concept art. It is corrected now.)
Interesting. Does that mean that the companies like Placebase (which Apple acquired) weren't generating their own map data? I guess I just assumed that they were, but the small amount of info I can find on them now makes it seem unclear.
This is an excellent post. I'd like to add "the mentor" - someone who's had real world experience making successful businesses. I've found this role to be pivotal in making my latest startup successful. This person can be part of the founding team, an investor, on the board, or just a friend willing to give free advice.
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This is very cool.
Great tool for Somalian pirates too?

edit. Ahh never mind they don't seem to have any data on the east coast of Africa
Interesting post.

Could someone explain, for a non-hardware guy, why the magnetics are necessary?

If they are necessary, why do jacks without them exist?
This is great, I live near one of the biggest ports in Australia. Great to be able to identify the ships I can see from my house.
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Somehow in spite of all the risk and PR campaigns, one third of drivers still choose to text and drive[1]. We're happy to play a small part in reducing the number of accidents by providing a safer alternative.

[1] http://www.aaafoundation.org/pdf/2011HUDWRelease.pdf
It's MS Exchange's web-frontend (OWA), which doesn't play nice with most browsers (last I checked it degraded into some "basic functionality" mode when using anything but IE, although that was a while ago). FourTen Technologies is his company and seems to be mainly a Microsoft shop based on their staff's skill set (ASP, .NET, COM, MSSQL, AD) and portfolio: http://www.fourtentech.com/about/whoswho/

Amusingly their portfolio includes a major project for the NYPD building a automated surveillance network designed for (amongst other functions) "detecting unauthorized individuals in secure areas of the financial district" -- http://www.fourtentech.com/mcs-nypd.html
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Sounds like a fantastic idea. I hope it works.
Fair point. I edited the original post to be less accusatory. It was just disappointing to end up visiting a web developer's personal site when the title seemed to promise cool PSD hackery.
Let's assume they have some kind of master plan that will eventually result in them being profitable.

The question coming to mind is how exactly are they going to spend $40m. I mean it's a simple image taking app - not exactly nuclear physics.
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Actually, your attitude is exactly the one that advice is trying to foster. Keep in mind that some pieces of advice are not meant to stand alone; they're reactive and meant to act as pushback against worse things.

There are religious wars between various languages, as I'm sure you're aware, and the driving force between a lot of the arguments is that the tool of choice is more important than solving the problem. If only they focused more on problem solutions rather than saying that Perl has too many sigils or Java is full of silly factory patterns, they'd be able to agree that Perl is useful for many things and Java is useful in many situations.
For C++, that's actually not too bad. Now try creating 100,000 threads with synchronized communication. In Go it's trivial:

$ cat goroutines.go
package main

import (
"flag"
"fmt"
)

var n *int = flag.Int("n", 100000, "thread count")

func thread(x int, result chan int) {
result <- x
}

func main() {
flag.Parse()

results := make(chan int)
for i := 0; i < *n; i++ {
go thread(i, results)
}
for i := 0; i < *n; i++ {
fmt.Println(<-results)
}
}
$ time ./goroutines | tail
99990
99991
99992
99993
99994
99995
99996
99997
99998
99999

real	0m0.723s
user	0m0.396s
sys	0m0.840s

http://weekly.golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#concurrency
Was just thinking this, the new tool for pirates has got to be a laptop with this site open.
True. I apologize for coming off like a jerk. I should have provided more context, i was trying to highlight that contrary to what the OP wrote that is was irrelevant "they never show that the text was copyrighted."
I think this is a go at creating a startup. I don't believe it's a personal/portfolio site. I re-edited my comment as well to make it sound less like I was trying to call out a ninja edit. :)
Not going to buy from WP. The content of the attached document clearly shows how ignorant they are. I hate ignorance. It's the lazy way out.
Intuitively I would expect composing a text via voice to be more distraction than holding a conversation: for me, the very act of composing necessitates visualizing the composition.
After all the bickering, he ends the article with

> The new iPad is a Dual-Core tablet with a graphics engine that is 2X the speed of the iPad 2

out of nowhere. 2X? He just provided evidence that the iPad 2 is 2x faster than Tegra 3 - it's obvious the new one must be at least 4x faster since it's driving four times more pixels (they wouldn't launch a new iPad that performs worse), and that would make it even more than 4X faster than nvidia.
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> Those are incredibly easy to solder and unsolder.

For sure. It gently depends on how many layers the boards are; if any of the pins is on a large ground plane (heatsinking) or if the solder side pads are flimsy.

But I'm grateful for the correction! I have some horror stories about rework, so maybe they've tinged everything since.
No scanner on that market can detect things that are within a person other than a metal detector, a swab followed by spectographic analysis or an X-ray machine.

The igniter in his mouth wasn't found, and it's not outside the realm of imagination that a more committed person, like a terrorist, would carry the other stuff not in the lower back area but somewhere somewhat different and harder to find.

How about we take it for granted that 99.999999% of people aren't terrorists and to consider a short interview with a passenger or a metal detector sweep or random swabs for spectographic analysis good enough?
I think it's a question of balance, at the other end of the spectrum you can get growing startups where the initial "everyone's on a level and talks about everything" approach no longer works and has given way to a combination of multiple people competing over the same territory and the old guard finding ways to remind the noobs what the pecking order is. In that kind of situation, a little hierarchy and a few harmless ways of recognising past achievement/tenure would make for a much more harmonious work place.
If it's a mistake, or a rogue team member, the onus is on WP to correct the letter. Aside from verifying that the letter did indeed come from someone authorized to speak on behalf of WP, it's fair for the recipient to assume that the letter is "as authorized" by the sender.

If someone like WP or another company is going to send a letter like this, they should operate on the assumption that it will be made public (especially if it might later end up in litigation.) That would seem to just be good practice with any document you're issuing outside of your company, especially when you're basically initiating a disagreement.
You are not familiar with Sovereign Immunity. No lawyer in the world salivates at the thought of suing the federal government.
"faux-intellectual, salt-and-pepper haired douchebag"

The name of course is also a little to invented.

Nothing wrong with that but it reminds me of the way people used to name investment firms trying to sound all distinguished and "we've been around for 100 years". There are actually examples of companies that have scammed people using a particular type of made up name.

Here is how they made up the name:

http://www.theparadigmcase.com/2011/07/the-case-on-style-war...
It kind of does rebut the poll data. I bet a majority of Americans would rather be smacked in the face with a brick than shot in the face with a rifle, but it would be a pretty big distortion to rephrase that as "A clear majority of Americans favor getting hit in the face with bricks."
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Vlingo's interaction is mostly hands-free, but there are a lot of points where it really wants you to push a button or read the text on-screen. We've also found it's confusing for first time users who want to send text messages, while we've tried to make it almost impossible to mess up while using our app.

Small anecdote: I knew we were onto something when I got my mom a new Android phone for Christmas and she managed to send a text without a hiccup on her first try- she had never used voice tech or even a smartphone up to that point.
On mobile devices, it may still be prohibitive to continually convert from vector art to pixels. I guess they could do it at build time.
I can probably help you draft a license. email me: kevinhand01@gmail.com
He might not know C, but the creators of Go certainly do, so don't let this post discourage you.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5072/nvidias-tegra-3-launched-...

Graphics comparison:

Tegra 3 (Kal-El) @ 300 Mhz: 7.2 Gflops

A5X (2 x Power VR SGX MP2): 2 x 19.2 Gflops = 38.4 Gflops

Actual GPU clock on Tegra 3 unknown (in this article) but if it was 400 Mhz that would be 9.6 Gflops which would be exactly 1/4 of the A5X.
It's part of an increasing awareness and importance of habits in a business context. The surge in popularity for game mechanics was largely directed at creating habits for consumers, creating an entertaining and engaging use case where they didn't have to think too much. Thinking is hard.

A business, at its core, is made up of a people. Well defined processes are the equivalent of habits for a business - common practices where the expected behavior is straightforward enough that the company doesn't have to think very much. This, as you say, frees you up to be an active thinker on many other topics.
What's a Facebook like worth?
All my life I have been known as the cold asshole because I am very critical and non-accommodating. So I just want to say something from a person that has always and still does believe that most people are weak. People don't do __, and are not good at ___ because they are weak etc. What that implies is that you can condition yourself to be stronger.

Anyway, now that you know who I am, I just want to say, I wouldn't word it so much as

And if you really want it, when someone beats you down,
you're not going to stay down. You're gonna learn how to hit back.

There is no need to hit back. Hitting back is a waste of effort on your part because it validates the hitter's position ; it gives him power.

I know this sounds all philosophical but this is important to me because I have always been that guy (unknowingly) putting people down (to me I think I'm making them stronger).

You can only control yourself and there will be a lot of assholes in life. The best thing you can do is to discipline yourself, over time, to see negative input and influence for what it is - negative. "Hitting back" (I know you mean this metaphorically) is also negative though, so that's why I say it's better to just focus on goodness. The goodness of yourself, and the fact that no matter how relatively terrible you may be, if you are better at it than yesterday, well that is a GOOD thing.

Ok that's it.
Don't think of yourself as junior, think of yourself concretely as a test/QA engineer in training or maintenance programmer (yeah it's not glamorous, but people are grateful to have them around), and as a specialist in something, Jquery/node, Firebug, selenium, Solr/lucene, hadoop, Postgres.

Get a book on ruby and learn to read/edit other people's ruby, python and javascript. And then you can clone django and rails repo's off github and modify them to do other stuff.. in les than 5 months.

(the only reason i recommend ruby over python is that Jruby is actively developed, where Jython just doesn't get mentioned much, and it's good to get familiar with JVM: everybody uses hadoop and SOLR, and they're tuning heap, GC, maxInlineSize, all that. It's worthwhile to learn PHP eventually, but that's a lot of backend languages (and I'm probably forgetting what it's like to learn your first language
That's not important to the argument. If we made $300/month directly from HN, it still wouldn't be worth it financially.
Have the backgroundpattern made of alternating pieces of absorbent and transparent material, then. (I assume the machines work by measuring obstruction of rays. If they work by reflection of rays, then replace "absorbent and transparent" with "absorbent and reflective".)
partly for impedance matching, partly for noise filtering.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching)

You can use a component on the PCB, or a component built into the socket.
What are you guys using for voice recognition? Seems to be having some trouble with my Australian/German/Eastern European accent :)
If Apple is really looking to buy a big company, I would guess they wouldn't buy anyone that killed agreements with other media or network companies (Sprint at $7.3b market cap(1) for example).

AMD/ATI might be nice at $5b would be good for the chip tech, but would probably have serious problems with Intel and a lot of PC industry. NVIDIA at $9 would be interesting.

Adobe at $16b has been a rumor favorite. It would probably be a buy-it and then spin off / sell a lot of the enterprise facing parts to someone else.

1) expect to pay a premium over cap
According to Crunchbase[1], they have 12 employees. I applaud their team for their user and product growth on such a small team, but come on, have they sold anything? Ever? Let's assume they now have 20 employees, that's $2.5M/ employee.

Do these investors know something that I don't? Is the Fed opening up a program for app developers that make no money? Because if they are investing at half a billion dollar valuation, they are looking for an exit north of a billion dollars. I mean, come on, Pandora generated $75M last quarter and as of today their market cap is 1.7B[2] and that's after their stock tanked yesterday.

I wish the best for the instagram team, but a round like this cannot be good for them, the product or the users in the long run.

[1]- http://www.crunchbase.com/company/instagram
[2]- https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:P
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Maybe everyone's too scared to take a boat of the coast of Somalia?

Also notice the ridiculous amount of ships of of Iran's coast!
Steps 13, 14, 15, and 16 are all unnecessary in the electronic world. Perhaps most of step 8 too, since the ARCs will be sent out electronically.

The actual materials are only part of the cost advantage ebooks have over print. Among the other advantages are:

- Real estate for book stores.
- Salaries for bookstore employees.
- Shipping, packaging.
- Inventory management.
- Bookstore profit margins.
- MUCH simpler typesetting, since pagination is mostly handled by the device.

So by saying it should only be ten percent of savings you are really understating the advantage by quite a bit.
I'm wondering what you mean here when you say "on the local device". Are you implying that it is guaranteed that the local device is not exposed? I don't see why you would have to explicitly expose something. The entire instance is exposed by default.
The guy actually committed crimes. Why is the focus on his heresy rather than the thefts he's committed?
Haha, well they get that a lot. You can monitor network traffic if you like, they don't track your individual in-order keys.
I can only imagine how much useless spam will be submitted to authorities through this App. It is a terrible concept in oh so many ways.
Is the term "shuttered" to describe closing a business unique to the US? Or UK too, thehodge?

I hadn't encountered it used in this way prior to the last year or so, and then only through tech writing. Origin is the closing of window shutters, I presume?
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Every time I see a quantified self visualization like this or the Feltron reports, I can't help but feel that these are incredibly interesting exercises with very little real value. The knowledge of how many key strokes you have in a day or the number of sodas you've drank in a year is little more than mental masturbation without figuring out what real, actionable insights you can act on.
Wow. Notice the complete lack of anything around North Korea.
I agree, I went to their main page, immediately had a hipster overload that made me close the page.

As for the open letter, thanks for sharing the dirty laundry, that's awesome! Just kidding, I don't really see the point of sharing that publicly except for gathering some pity buys.
I think if the contract term "cannot sell for a lower price through another vendor" was made illegal, it might make this problem a little easier to solve.
This kills the crab.
He did not provide evidence that the iPad 2 is 2x faster than Tegra 3--rather, he showed that on one benchmark that isn't entirely relevant it performs twice as well. His theory is that the new model is 4x faster on that benchmark. But the real point is that the particular benchmark is of limited utility.
Aside from the PS2, I don't think so. N64 came out in '96, Dreamcast came out in '98 and PS2 came out in early 2000. In '99, we were only two years away from Xbox and GameCube. I know that at least N64 games were written in C.
Indeed. This is what I was expecting to see when I visited the site. Maybe actually building that is a better approach.
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> Who buys a monocle?

Someone with only one eye?

EDIT TO ADD: [. . .] and with facial disfigurement / prosthesis that makes wearing glasses uncomfortable or difficult.
> this kind of comment trivializes actual, no-kidding rape by comparing it to a low battery

"Rape" originally meant and still means "plunder":

> Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) Middle English rapen < Anglo-French raper < Latin rapere to seize, carry off by force, plunder;

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rape

Using it in this context is perhaps strong but definitely appropriate. Also, as kdommeyer noted, "kill" is commonly used in similar contexts (to kill an engine fe).
A password is a best-effort attempt at implementing the theoretical construct of a 'cryptographic shared secret'.

Passwords are from perfect at that of course, but it's not correct to call them 'obscurity' either.

The distinction between security and obscurity derives from Kerckhoffs's principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_Principle
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I hesitate to give specific advice from so far away, but my experience of music promoters is that they are some of the most entrepreneurial people out there (to the point that they will exploit you if allowed, of course). Offhand, I would look for ways to get income from the venues, whose economics are simple: book bands with fans, sell booze to fans, profit. They're much more likely to spend, and to understand their own economics than bands themselves. Start your research by calling around local and regional papers as if you had a pub or something and wanted to take out your own advertising - get the rate card of old-media publications and try to guess how much it costs a venue owner to bring the public inside the door and spending money. Or again, simply ask them.

The more I think about it, the more I think venues are your revenue stream. Bands come and go, whereas stages tend to stay in one place :-)
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I wouldn't call it a startup. It's a service from a freelancer - it has a portfolio and it's personal. Is it any more appropriate here than me plugging that my business could help YC-hopefuls with their design?

Hate slamming a fellow Australian and a uni student showing initiative, and I hope they succeed otherwise, but I don't think HN is the place for this link.
They don't have any data for the east coast of Africa because there probably aren't any receivers setup to receive AIS signals in that area.