skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that many of them are bad rules ... easy to memorize, but bad rules. As a simple example, "However. In the meaning nevertheless, not to come first in its sentence or clause." That's not how English was used 100 years ago, nor how it's used now, so it's pointless rule to learn. And famously, three of Strunk and White's four examples of how to rewrite the passive into better form don't actually involve a passive. Only in retrospect do I understand why I was so confused about "avoiding the passive" during school - my teachers didn't know what a passive was!

Etiquette rules are often the same. Why stand for the "Hallelujah" chorus? Because that's the done thing. Why do people in the US eat with the fork inverted from the way used in the UK? Why is port always passed to the left in the UK, and how is the Bishop of Norwich involved?

The real answer is two-fold. Knowing these practices indicate the you are a member of a certain group. By not knowing them you can feel like an outsider. If there really are a set of easily-learned rules to follow, then you can make the transition to that group. (Jumping back to Element of Style; follow these rules to become a better writer.)

But only rarely is there a simple set of rules to follow - like if you were to meet the Queen of England. It takes years to learn the little rules that a given subgroup acquired over decades, not the few weeks these classes usually do. Plus, etiquette classes usually promote etiquette rules specific to a certain style of upper-class culture, and direct their marketing to people of lower social/economic class. The end result is that they encourage a feeling of vague anxiety and nervousness in their target audience, and perhaps also a sense of superiority in those in the upper-class who learned these rules growing up.

The other fold is that there are some bad things which are easily avoided with preparation. Don't wear orange at a big, rowdy St. Patrick's Day party in Boston unless you're itching for a fight. Those especially occur when mixing very different cultures; eg, in part of the world "Chopsticks should not be left standing vertically in a bowl of rice or other food" because they have a funeral connotation. Cultural awareness training for this case, especially for people moving overseas to a radically different culture, can be very fruitful.

However, as the original poster said "carry themselves properly", I presume the courses are of the first fold - promotion of certain economically upper-class practices - and not the second - avoiding culture clashes.

In any case, it isn't a matter of learning rules before you can break them. It's a matter of learning specific rules in order to appeal to those who believe that those rules are meaningful, whether it be an editor who rejects ".. or less" as valid English, or a person who thinks only buffoons wear white after Labor Day. With that in mind, "carry themselves properly" is not longer absolute but only meaningful if you want to get something from that subgroup of people.
It is a branch of PyPy (a fast and compliant Python 2.7 interpreter) that behaves as if the GIL was still there — statements are always run atomically, so are the new with atomic blocks — but will actually run multithreaded programs on multiple cores (as long as contention is low). It will also provide a transaction module (implemented with threads and atomic blocks) so that existing reactors can be ported, allowing coroutine-based programs to run on multiple cores too. This isn't faster at the moment, that will become the focus once this is stable.

Current documentation: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/raw/stm-thread/pypy/doc/stm....

The plan: http://pypy.org/tmdonate.html
I'll add to this with a link discussing Romer's blatant ripoff of colonialism, and what the state of the evidence is about whether colonialism produces good results: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-cr...
Well my point was that if you can't raise money and you aren't making profits, then your business sucks. That was poorly worded, but Amazon and Twitter never had a problem raising capital when they needed it because there was a huge amount of competition to get into them.

The companies that aren't profitable in their early years and simultaneously can't raise cash are screwed and probably shouldn't be funded in the first place.
Are they ranked by order of effectiveness?
DVDs and Blu-rays will now carry two unskippable government warnings
BS 101: Getting started with Twitter Bootstrap (work in progress)
The workings of the HN site, its "community", and the individuals here continue to baffle me. This was submitted by llambda at 15:38 BST, 14:38 UTC, but subsequently deleted. It's not marked [dead] so it wasn't flagged dead, either he or the moderators must have deleted it without trace.

I wonder why.
This isn't a hypothetical situation. Google was actively banning accounts for using fake names during the early days of Google+. It was in their terms of service, but that didn't matter. People were outraged. The HackerNews community in particular was outraged. Sure they have the right to do it, but that's no way to treat your customers.
Nope, you don't have a box at all (at least on this webpage). Nor the left-side box.

It looks awful on IE7 actually, the footer also degrades un-gracefully.
awesome work. but it actually lacks of support for vapor.js
https://github.com/madrobby/vapor.js
Starting new projects
I'm curious. Why do you install Mercurial without Homebrew?
JQuery knobs
It's not regulation that causes there to be few choices among telecoms. It's the extremely high barrier to entry which is created by numerous factors, many natural.

Personally I sorta agree with you though, that I would rather have regulations that seek to break down the barriers to entry. For instance, require telcom companies to connect homes to a fiber network for a flat connection/service fee, and then allow any ISP to sell those customers internet access.

This is functionally like the network we had during the dial-up days. And the result was thousands of ISPs giving the typical customer dozens of choices. There was no need for government or anyone else to protect network neutrality because the market was functional, as is demonstrated by AOL finding it increasingly necessary to dismantle their walled-garden service to compete with the independent guys.

There were some halfhearted attempts to give ISPs access to the COs to offer DSL service beside the local telcom, but telcoms have been successful in sabotaging it.
Pebble's E-Paper Watch Exceeds $10 Million Raised On Kickstarter
VC money is not a curse. Go raise, if you can, for your startup
The difference between desktop and mobile is arbitrary. A cell phone is a very small computer that also has specialized hardware for making phone calls (which my laptop also has). Yes there may be some considerations for space and workflow on different devices but RFC 1867 has been around for almost 20 years. Its not something new and revolutionary, its something that most people expect to do from within a browser.
I will get excited when it actually works out to be faster than interpreters with the GIL.

I'm a bit disappointed that Python seems to have no interest in standardizing a lightweight-thread (greenlet, coroutine) interface that isn't an awful mess. yield is powerful but coroutine implementations with it are baroque and opaque. Java-style threading has a million gotchas and the interface is just a dog. I want to be able to teach people with a week of experience to write concurrent programs. (What about writing turtle programs with multiple turtles running at the same time?)

If Python doesn't do it, then I want someone else to eat their lunch.
Given the general sentiment towards gay marriage in purple states, this is actually something of a surprise[1]. Obama's views on the matter, although not exactly telegraphed, have been pretty clearly in favor of it for a while.

[1] Take North Carolina, for instance. Obama won it in 2008 by about 14,000 votes out of 4.3 million cast (margin of victory: 0.3%). Yesterday, they voted in a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage by 23%. How does this help him win in North Carolina in November?
I'm sure the consumer will love this. I wonder when(if) these will be added to non-physical media (i.e., Netflix).
hooray! i have been hoping for this for a while.
Yes, its comparable, about the same.
XML literals in JavaScript for the browser and nodejs
TEDxNashville - Jack Kruse - Brain Surgery Without a Scalpel
Ask HN: Where Should a Young Hacker Live in the Bay Area?
Some details:

I'm 21, about to graduate college, and starting work in Cupertino in June. I'll be living with my girlfriend, who will be looking for a job in publishing or journalism.

Everyone who likes NYC or SF says that SF is the place to be, and I don't think I'd mind the commute to Cupertino that much, but my girlfriend and I have never lived in a city and we both much prefer an apartment in a suburban environment. We're not much of partiers, and I won't be living alone, so I don't think we'd find a suburb that boring. But I've heard tales about people who moved out to the bay area and signed a 1-year lease in the suburbs and desperately waited for that lease to end before moving into the city. As far as I know, living in a suburb will probably necessitate buying/leasing a car, and given how uncertain I am about living in suburb/city, I'd rather not get a car and then want to get rid of it within a year if I decide to move into the city. My work provides comfortable shuttles, so I'd prefer to not have a ~1 hr commute, but it's not the end of the world, and, if one of us needs to commute for ~1 hr, it makes more sense for that to be me in a shuttle than my girlfriend driving. It seems very likely that any publishing or journalism jobs for my girlfriend will be in SF or San Jose (which would make suburbs attractive, since we don't know which of the two cities, and it'd really suck to commute from SF to San Jose).

Last summer, I worked in Mountain View, and lived within a 15 minute walk of work, laundry, groceries, Caltrain, and a wide variety of dining options (including Palo Alto via Caltrain in ~30 min if timed right). That was really the ideal situation, but housing was provided to me, and I worry that it will be impossible to find such an ideal location within a reasonable price.
Not in the UK it's not. Perhaps it's a cultural difference.
I was thinking about doing that, but it really depends on what kind of company you are building and what stage you are at.

One thing Sam Altman has said which is interesting is about the order at which you pitch things. I'm not sure I totally agree but here's a paraphrase below:

Pitching revenue is best. If you can't pitch revenue, pitch users. If you can't pitch users, pitch product. If you can't pitch product, pitch market. If you can't pitch market, pitch team.
I have difficulty imagining how this would work. Etiquette is very context specific and rooted in having substantial background knowledge to employ it properly. Since you seem to think there is some nice, neat little set of rules to follow, I have difficulty believing you are even qualified to teach such a thing. Feel free to try to enlighten me. This is simply not computing for me.
Programming Principles Entrepreneurs Should Adopt
What it has to do with Hacker News? Do you consider it a Hacking of human genes?
This speaks to an overall bigger problem with browsers, the need for a universal vector graphics format. The fact that designers are resorting to fonts to try and get resizable art assets is not a good thing IMHO.
That's why you use media queries to set display: none only for non-screen readers.

Of course, screen readers might not respect that, in which your solution would work.
I'm not sure if your argument is valid. The two seem very different from each other. One is the chance to save someone from prosecution, the other is a chance to take something from another.

I almost want to call this a Straw Man argument, you are using an argument that is unrelated but you draw up similarities to make it seem that my argument is wrong.

I might be wrong too though.
Haha. Yes, there were a lot of startups pitching traction on Demo Day, and that makes sense because strong week over week growth is impressive, and most of them probably didn't good enough month over month numbers to pitch.
Same situation here. Any ETA on joint accounts? I just realized that even after my hard-won invite appears, I won't be able to share an account with my wife... :-(
Agreed. The signal to noise ratio in my newsfeed is very low because of it. There exists some workarounds (e.g. https://www.codeshelver.com) but I'd like to see GitHub fix the problem.
Hey, no problem. I will send you mine this week. I don't have a lot of them, but still some can be helpful.
Why would you install Mercurial with Homebrew, it is a python package. As a rule, I generally install all python packages with pip.
In addition to Wolfenstein:

My first addiction: Space Invaders (1982-84)
Next major addiction: Test Drive (1989-90)
Thereafter: Hacking in some form or other... little time for games. :)
Awesome~ Thank you for posting this link. I had understood the use of wide solid borders with a 0 height and width div, but how the angle was being achieved was perplexing. I was imagining borders as solid rectangles that overlap each other at the corners. This has been a revelation! I have discovered an awesome new power. Thanks!
I think Jason deserves a big thanks from the HN community, immensely helpful stuff you've been putting out man!
I'd be more excited if they gave me the option to disable the annoying "spin the map when you try to pinch-zoom" feature. I've never wanted my phone to give me a map where north is some arbitrary direction spun with my fingers and it's difficult to zoom without accidentally rotating the map.

// I know it's off topic, but it makes the map barely usable and I can dream that some google engineer will see my plea and consider it.
It's funny, the path software technology takes. A Java clone of a fairly basic web engine (which is a fairly simple application type to begin with) convinces people to try the JVM which is the most performant managed runtime around and definitely one of the most advanced pieces of software ever created. I'm sometimes amazed that and people coming from easy-to-use web languages have never been exposed to it, and if they have they still have their doubts.

Dude, I've been developing real-time military applications and we've moved from C/C++ to Java and got performance gains (I'm not saying that C can't beat Java doing specific computations - of course it can - but when building a large application with millions of lines of code and a large team of developers, Java would be a safer bet than C++ if speed is your concern). In other words, no other environment can beat the JVM.

And, yeah, you should try Clojure. It's a cathartic experience.

EDIT: The only doubts I have about vert.x is that it can consistently beat "old" JVM servlet containers under heavy, real-world loads. That remains to be seen.
It's a little odd seeing the old stories about why poor nations fail to be popping up again on a forum of predominantly libertarian-minded hackers.

Lots of places have wealth; but some squander it and some don't. Lots of places have been touched by the smelly hand of imperialism, but some prospered and some are ongoing failures. Lots of places have driven out Western "strongmen" as one poster called them, and lots haven't, and they have succeeded and failed economically in various ways.

The Honduras experiment is an experiment in the latest theories of developmental economics, that arose as a reaction to the failure of the old stories. The idea is that some kinds of institutions are conducive to growth, and others aren't. Importing institutions from successful countries can be anti-growth but it doesn't have to be, nor does the absence of foreign investment somehow magically empower the citizens of a country.

The rejection of this charter city because it 'smells of colonialism' seems a dishonest reason to reject things--motivated by clinging to old, feel-good ideas; refusing to try things that might or might not work because one would rather see the poor definitely starve than give up one's sense of moral righteousness on a risky endeavour.
Excellent example of snake-oil seller (regardless whether or not the described techniques work (the author neglects such things as randomized trials)).
Great concept. Watching other people code is a great way to learn AND teach. Really would like to see this for Obj C / other languages. Python would be an easy one to do.
Bethesda is "proactively overly protective". All their sites have age-confirmation pages before any content. ALL their youtube videos are flagged as potentially inappropiate. I guess for some reason they think they are obliged to follow every country's laws even if they are an USAmerican company (I guess). It really annoys me and makes me think less of them.

As a german it is not forbidden to access such material from all I know. It is also not forbidden to own it or play it. You are "just" not allowed to promote/buy/talk/provide it to others.
I've read somewhere that kids keep asking "why?" because they figure out that it's an easy way to get people to talk a lot, and listening to people talk is how they learn language.
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. The beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.

-Neil deGrasse Tyson

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degras...
the market is effectively unbounded too, though - you just need better client-side filtering to remove what you consider junk products from your personal view.
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery (ebook)
Yes, portfolio diversification is investing 101 (kinda curious how most of us here, when working on a new startup, will invest close to 100% of our awake time for months with no diversification)

Your post is somewhat related to what I said. The point I was making was that saying that startups are getting funded because there are no better assets for capital preservation are misguided. You are talking about "making good returns across their portfolios", that's not the goal of capital preservation, that's the goal of capital appreciation.
I can't imagine how the government could possibly do a better job of encouraging piracy.
i know a lot of people get their daily news from HN, so i thought this was something the community would care about.
Great so now anybody who reads those court records can steal those 20 peoples identities?
Unless Obama decides to support virtual gay marriage, this doesn't belong here.
I wrote this a while ago, using some actual HTML elements—to get it to work super cross-browser: http://mrcoles.com/blog/callout-box-css-border-triangles-cro...
This may be relevant: http://www.rlynn.co.uk/pages/article_intelligence/t4.asp

See criticism of the above link here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn#Criticism
The flaw in your argument is that the server is spending 80% of its time reading a file from disk.

It's more than likely that it spends close to 0% of its time in disk access since its serving the same file, which will be cached by the OS in memory.

About the deprecated API. Earlier on I updated the results so they don't use that API, and I also added results for using streams. The results are slightly better but not by very much.
You get 'windowed queries into the channel history for free' on spire.io as well.
I think you’re responding to me? I never said anything about this charter city one way or another. I merely said that the analysis of causes of relative success of Honduras vs. Singapore, Hong Kong, and the UAE is facile and offensive, because it mostly ignores the context.
The Making Of Octicons
Designer like myself have been thinking about this for decades literally.

The problem is not photoshop. The problem is that playing a game is not the same as using photoshop.

Why?

Think about it it like this.

I could in theory create every possible frame of portal in photoshop sans the interaction.

I can't create photoshop in portal in any shape or form.

One is a world the other creates worlds.
This is not the first time[1] we've had issues with our products showing up in the news for less than stellar reasons - luckily nothing as awful as an explosive device. As Nate said in the article, we know our parts can be used for good or for evil. If only there was less of the latter...

[1] http://www.sparkfun.com/news/308
How One Form Field Killed 60% of Our Sales
+1.

The system is in steady state, i.e. queues of requests/responses aren't growing. Therefore it doesn't actually matter if you count the requests or the responses.
Two burning questions:

1. How much does the cost per mile work out to?

2. Is it really that smart to start a car-fueling company called "BP"?
Hopefully Scala won't be too long :)
It's to a general idea exhibited by several people in this thread, including in a post you made. But were it a direct response to you I would have posted it as a direct response to you.
I was wondering about that myself. I couldn't find a reference to the actual published rules on this, but I wonder why it is limited to just disks. Is it because they're a physical medium, or is it just a matter of time before we have unskippable segments at the start of itunes/amazon/netflix/etc videos as well?

Unfortunately Steve Jobs isn't around anymore to tell them to shove it...

"Will the two screens be shown back to back? Will each screen last for 10 seconds each? Will each screen be unskippable? Yes, yes, and yes."

ugh. I detest the start of watching video on bluray for the warnings already (to be fair, this is also from ads that are usually skippable but still delay proceedings). 10 more seconds on a screen that isn't even for me. Really winning hearts and minds.
Who cares.

Someone made a site, people liked it. I don't understand what there is to be mad about.
For anyone else who was interested, Yehuda Katz gave some more information on Twitter[1]:

bundler will give an error if your current Ruby version
doesn't match. rvm and rbenv support is forthcoming

Looking forward to it!

[1]: https://twitter.com/#!/wycats/status/200290806064623616
I thought exactly that! I almost wrote a post about it.
Worth watching, many words of Wisdom in there for aspiring game developers, or developers in general.

He talks about how he specifically designed wolf3d so that you could just "bang enter a couple of times" and be into the game while modern AAA titles can have complex interfaces.

Also how you should be able to hack together the core concepts of a good game with a small team in a few months (as they did with wolf3d).
IE8 as well.
I've seen the occasional clueless student tell me they didn't think it was legal for them to upload their own papers (they might have signed some contracts with illegal clauses to that effect for all I know). Counting on the authors to unbreak academic publishing works if you already know what you want and can deal with a bit of hassle searching and e-mailing, but it doesn't work at all for skimming or looking at complete proceedings.

I suspect the publishers are fighting a bit harder against competing archives. For example, because they are sometimes involved in organising conferences, they can entrench themselves by offering an archive to the participants (giving a small sponsorship in exchange for the understanding the organisers won't offer the same archive), locking out the rest.
The idea here seems to be to transition from a system focused on extracting wealth to a system focused on creating wealth.

This is definitely something that will have to happen in poor nations exploited by internal and/or external sources, there's no question about it.

Whether or not this particular plan can actually succeed at making the transition is certainly up for debate, but the goals it sets seem to pretty clearly be good ones.