skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How well did the algorithms detect insightful analysis, deep understanding beyond the immediate subject matter, factual correctness, salience and an ability to write to a specific audience?

When reading articles on the Internet I look out for superficial factors including:

‣ Misuse of U+0022 typewriter double quotation marks in place of U+201C and U+201D double quotation marks

‣ Misuse of U+002D hyphens in place of U+2013 en dashes and U+2014 em dashes

‣ Poor understanding of comma and semicolon usage

‣ Choice of typeface, use of ligatures and micro-typographical features, amount of leading used…

‣ Misuse of their, there, they’re, where, were, we’re, affect, effect…

‣ RAS syndrome (sīc)

These factors can assist with analysis of writing. An author can generate credibility in certain contexts by using triangular Unicode bullets instead of ASCII asterisks. Use of lengthy and complex words in place of simple English can also be mistaken for credibility. Analysis of these techniques will show that the writer is often attempting to belittle readers. Documentaries utilise similar tactics that the untrained eye will likely mistake for credibility. Soft filter effects, use of bookcase backdrops for expert interviews and silence have profound manipulative effects on viewers.

Grading algorithms will likely reward use of manipulative and belittling writing techniques and penalise honest superficial mistakes. I would rather read the honest opinion from an author that misuses their and there than have to carefully analyse the carefully crafted writings of a dishonest linguist.

As an aside, I recommend bookmarking The Browser[1] (Writing Worth Reading). It would be interesting to see the results of algorithmic essay grading against this curated collection of articles from across the Internet.

[1] http://thebrowser.com/
Miami Heat naar de NBA-finale na het winnen van de Celtics  
Miami Heat vanavond heeft zich geplaatst voor de finale van de NBA. Het basketbalteam mag zich kampioen van de Eastern Conference noemen na een hard bevochten overwinning op de Boston Celtics (101-88), waardoor Miami de reeks van wedstrijden met 4-3 om zich toetrok.
It's a time intensive thing and not illegal if it's your own code/implementation. The google/oracle case shows that the api is not copyrightable but the implementation is.
Cost is orthogonal to educational quality. As I said, this isn't an example of reducing costs so much as an example of the continual dehumanization of the education system. Any cost savings will just be gobbled up by the entrenched interests in the system, bureaucrats, administrators, etc. And any efficiencies making it easier to treat students like cattle and push "education" more and more toward useless rote memorization (teaching to the test) and busywork. These are not good things.
You're right. But I can't edit it now, too much time has passed.
Can journalism funded by donations compete?
if it ever turns over, does all the air bubble out of it?
Also see Pyvot, a similar tool that was created by Microsoft:

http://pytools.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Pyvot
Enron hid their massive debt to generate a positive cash flow. They were not sustainable towards the end.

Facebook, however, is actually generating value and income.

Comparing Facebook to Enron is essentially comparing apple to oranges
Even then, RMS has no problem people selling and buying software, he only cares that, once a user has acquired the software product, he can alter it (that's the "free as in freedom" part, as opposed to "free as in beer" which RMS — as far as I know — doesn't really care for).

Now building a business with these constraint is not — as far as I know — a solved business model in the general case, but saying that RMS wants developers to "give their product for free" is a complete and absolute misrepresentation of his position.
Added to my profile (at the very end). And thank you.
One solution is to not print, except when absolutely necessary for legal/financial events. Go to UPS or Staples to do the few printings per year that you absolutely must do.

My printer hasn't printed for at least a year. The scanner still works, and UPS/Staples is just down the street. Not for everyone, works for me. HP can die in a fire.
IMO Meebo for Android is a really good multi-protocol chat client. A bit like the Pidgin free software for the desktop.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
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I quit my job 6 months ago to travel and learn programming. And the greatest personal frustration has been staying productive in a work-from-anywhere, no-boss environment.

What I've realized is that discipline is not only about buckling down, but also about using mental hacks such as the ones listed in this article. Its also been helpful to realize that transitioning productivity from a cubicle to a self-directed path is difficult. It has also been the biggest surprise.
> While I realise you might have had bad experiences,

Chiming in on bad experience: Thankfully, I don't have CF or anything of the sort; I just appear to be statistically improbable. On way too many medical diagnostics, I'm in the 1% of the scale -- though everything about me seems normal.

Except weight; I used to be 100kg (220 lbs) on a 5'11" (1.78m) frame. Full, but not overly obese or really fat. But I was on a 800-100 calorie diet for years at that point. (Not because of trying to lose weight; I just didn't have the appetite, and would go days, and in a few cases, weeks, without eating anything).

I had responses similar to those described by Mz from practitioners - I've paid good money to consult with many, supposedly expert and the best around -- disbelief and general disinterest.

And then I became (mostly) normal by cutting out wheat. This was met by "oh, that's interesting" and "oh, that's psychosomatic" (Because the standard wheat allergy test came up negative), and general disinterest. I'm eating a lot more now (wheat excluded), and am down to 80-85kg range.

There's still a lot about me that is statistically improbable, including body temperature. I'm sure it's all related, but I can't find a medical researcher who cares, so I have to do my own "research".

> Many doctors would be very interested in proving how diet can help disease, and doing so.

I would be happy to meet those doctors. In my experience, however, they turn into your standard everyday doctor somewhere between the 3rd year of med school and the end of their internship.
Sorry for his loss. Maybe I'll stop skipping over his name now, which was my reaction to his work.
This is just good old fashioned corruption. God knows why these cities initiated the system back in the 30s, but they probably did it at the behest of the cab owners - back then medallions were cheap and cab owners just assumed they would own their own medallion and use it to protect themselves from "excessive competition."

Now there is a group of investors that are very well connected in city politics that own the medallions, so nobody can even think about changing the system. Medallion owners will always set the rules in their favor.

Cab drivers and operators nowadays are usually poor immigrants. They have very little political power. So they suffer long hours and stress. The average citizens that have to suffer high prices usually tend to blame the immigrant drivers.

Even citizens that know about medallions are not likely to use that as a major voting issues. High cab prices are annoying, but there usually are many higher priority issues in a voters mind election time. Especially in a city like New York.

It is good that slate is shedding some light on this issue. At least makes it less likely that other cities will go down this road.
This conversation is really boring. I'm downvoting it because I don't want to follow conversations like this.
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How much energy is used to support transactions in the current banking system? (not to mention physical branches, vaults, trucks, wars ... etc).
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I must break-out of my prison. My plan is to intimidate the guards with God until they wisen-up.

God says...
C:\Text\PILGRIM.TXT

a being in this town. Besides, he hath not
been afraid to rail on you, my Lord, who are now appointed to be
his judge, calling you an ungodly villain, with many other such
like vilifying terms, with which he hath bespattered most of the
gentry of our town.

{233} When this Pickthank had told his tale, the Judge directed his
speech to the prisoner at the bar, saying, Thou runagate, heretic,
and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have
witnessed against thee?

FAITH. May I speak

----

God says...
nerd poor this_might_end_badly Russia hit I'm_feeling_nice_today
I'm_tired_of_this special_case super_computer gluttony
Ivory_Coast If_had_my_druthers You_fix_it huh do_you_get_a_cookie
cowardice Tanzania what_a_nightmare end everythings_a_okay
let's_roll break_some_woopass_on_you
Since we got these new computers and internet and all city could just auction medallions in digital form directly to cabbies daily.
Absolutely!

We just graduated our first cohort, and after 8 weeks, they've learned enough to get entry-level ruby jobs
techcrunch.com/2012/05/10/dev-boot-camp-is-a-ruby-success/

There are also less intense courses out there like bloc.io
It's 50% of the network compute power (not nodes) which currently stands at 147.99/2 petaflops or more than the top 500 supercomputers combined http://bitcoinwatch.com/ http://www.top500.org/lists/2011/06/performance_development
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Bitcoin is like money, I mean real money, so there is nothing new and better with it. The problem with money is how the bankers corrupted it for their own profit. Banks created virtual money with credits and this speculation bubble is now exploding. Some countries try to stop it by creating more depths.

There is currently nothing that could stop anyone to provide bitcoin credits and make paper money for bitcoins. This is the mistake that should be avoided. If bitcoin really takes off, than this will be the real challenge we will be facing.

It's the paper money that ruined the system where states could print them at will. They decided to stop printing money to stop inflation, but then banks created money through credits and turned people, cities and countries to slaves. Worse than all, it's now the bankers who define the rules, not the countries. So they bent it to their own adventage. They are so greedy and selfish that they didn't care if it created a bubble that will explode soon or later. Bailing out banks is the most stupid thing we could do in such situation. We're just on for another tour on the carrousel.

This can all be reproduced with bitcoin.
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There's something to be said for the ceremony of grooming for work, travelling to your workplace, interacting with coworkers, during approximately the same time each day.

Work is the "2nd space" in the Starbuck's "3rd space" advertisements.

Have you tried working in the same seat at a library or other public place each weekday?
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Can you please rephrase your comment on the bias without the asterisk?
Unstallation in progress...
Attempt at humor: 640k users should be enough for anyone.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4085052
This is excellent timing for $work. We'll be needing push notifications for a mobile app we're building over the next couple months. How do we integrate Pushover in our app? Is there an SDK we include in the app, or would users have to purchase and install the Pushover app? Our app will be free, so we'd like to avoid pushing costs on to our users. But we would have no problem paying a monthly fee to you, in addition to any usage over 5k messages. The continued survival of your service is certainly in our best interests!

My email address is on my profile, or I can email your support address if that's better.
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Is the main point of this article, to work on unimportant problems as you can never know how important they may actually become, essentially the same as that of Steve Jobs in the Stanford commencement speech? E.g. at the time of of taking calligraphy classes, he could not know that this would majorly impact OS font handling? [www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA]
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> And our situation is highly temporary, I assure you.

On what basis do you say that? And how long do you expect it to last before things change?
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Show HN: Promo Codes for my first iPhone App
Hi.

I have read lot of great articles on HN and it has helped me a lot in my journey as an independent developer.

That's why it feels so good to share few promo codes for my first iPhone app.

Below is a small description of the app:

Calci - A simple and beautiful calculator that shows result instantly.

Features:

✓ A beautiful looking calculator that is fast and friendly to use.
✓ Saves your time as results are displayed for each keystroke.
✓ Automatically prevents you from entering invalid calculations.
✓ Clear and large buttons make it easier and faster to calculate.
✓ Swipe complete expression to check for mistakes.
✓ Beautiful background themes with Retina Display.
✓ Accessibility support for VoiceOver.
✓ And you will never need the "=" button again.

Itunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/app/calci/id532226932?mt=8

Promo Codes:

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Not the masters in education I have. I heard tales from very old timers about having to take "write on the chalkboard" classes, but that was never even brought up for us. Though frankly, that specifically should be. Maybe not a whole course, but a few days of it. There are a lot of ways to get that wrong.

But back to your point. My degree is from a university in Boston and helped me get my teaching license. Almost everything we covered was theoretical and, with a few important exceptions, utterly useless.
Its age relative to what? Python is older by any measure, and the first public release of Ruby was only 7 months after Java's. Java certainly had a higher profile than either at the time, but they're all from essentially the same period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28software_platform%29#Hi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_%28programming_language%29...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python
The legal route would to be to provide an installer that downloads e iOS frameworks from Apple, so you aren't redistributing anything. However, it would still be quite a bit of work: iOS has a not-insignificant layer of drivers in the not-yet-recreated IOKit kernel framework (although some are open source), and likely many other low-level layers that would need to be recreated.

However, it's certainly possible, but as 'mparlane says, it would be a lot of (difficult) work.
An update has just been posted, only for backers though. Anyone mind sharing?
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The effect of the European crisis on Apple
It's mainly the coolness factor. Oracle's ridiculous Java lawsuits also contributes to that.
you reach a belief of god by starting from an unfalsifiable conclusion

That doesn't pass the smell test. If that were true, no intellectuals would ever convert to Christianity. In point of fact, they regularly do.

Take Lee Strobel, for example. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Strobel). You can find his particular evidences unpersuasive, but you can hardly call his process irrational.
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I'm probably only moderately interested in the sword fighting game, but this is easily the most entertaining kick starter video I've seen so far.
You are forgetting the negative effect of the ridiculous ranking systems that determine teachers performance evaluations. Why would a school select software which will make thier grades go down? If your grades go down it decimates the schools ranking because these are based on year on year improvements. You would select the software which makes it easiest to teach to the test so the kids 'do well'
Framework of the month fatigue.
It's a pity that there isn't a wrapper for PolarSSL. I wrote a Lua wrapper for some PolarSSL hash functions and it was relatively straightforward.

OpenSSL is more of a framework than a library. If you crack open code that wraps it, there's an enormous amount of book-keeping that has to be done to do things the OpenSSL way. PolarSSL by contrast just makes everything standalone.

However, OpenSSL definitely receives the majority of eyeballs and the project team go to great lengths to improve crypto performance on many platforms and devices.
When starting web development, I found it easier to learn Ruby and the Rails Framework from scratch than to use Java which I had several formal classes in. I think that says something about Java's documentation/community support.

Ruby/Rails has railstutorial.org, tryruby.org, rails for zombies/code school, and railscasts. All these high quality beginner resources made using Ruby instead of Java an easy choice.

The other reason for me is that I find the code I write in Java to be too wordy and found the more concise syntax of Ruby refreshing and fun.
It IS used extensively for modern web application development just not by a lot of startups. In the enterprise space you really only see Java and .Net used for the core pieces.

One reason that Java is becoming less popular is that you don't need to use Java (the language) to be a part of Java (the ecosystem). You can use Groovy, Scala, Python, Ruby etc which are often less verbose and have more exotic features. So developers can try new languages out but don't need to abandon their existing libraries. Best of both worlds.

This is the approach that companies like Twitter and Etsy have taken.
I wish a psychologist research all the suggestions and laid out the effectiveness of each approach.

For now, I guess we goes with "whatever works for me".
Not really, the past few days, I've tried a few things. Wanted to see whether any ads (Google or Facebook) would allow me to calculate a solid sign-up / purchase ratio. But neither helped promoting the site at a sustainable/affordable rate, I stopped both since more people arrived at the site through pure searching on Google, friends of friends or reading about it on Twitter or a blog.

Also, I used Bootstrap as the foundation, it just helps a lot with getting things off the ground for weekend projects.
Not for the customers who will be paying artificially inflated prices and not for the aspiring drivers who have to pass ridiculous three-year hazing ceremony in order to be able to earn a honest living. Of course, once they passed, they have an incentive to make the others suffer as badly as they did.
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Yes, that's definitely an advantage too.
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I don't think that the Oracle lawsuits have made a single bit of difference to anybody.

Oracle isn't the only big fish in the Java space.
I work in an industry where C++ still rules. I haven't ever written more than a few lines of Java. However, here's a job posting from our web team: http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/posting.html?id...

Java is the only language mentioned by name. Last time I talked to them about a thing I was working on and mentioned I would soon have (now actually do have) a Python implementation, the response was basically "That's neat, but can you do it in Java too?"

So, in my little world at least, web development is the only place where Java actually does get used.
MacOS called programs "Applications" for years before NeXT existed. The four-character filetype for programs on old-skool MacOS is 'APPL'. The C++ GUI framework for building apps was called MacApp. It predates NeXT by a longshot.
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Google (at least Gmail), LinkedIn, etc are to me modern web applications & AFAIK they are written in Java (or at least partly in Java) and I'm not counting countless enterprise web apps.

Java is what they call mature technology. It's past the hype and language flame war phase. Those who know its value, just use it to GTD without any ceremonies.
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Social media bar floating above the article's text on my Android phone.

I cannot remember just how many articles I did not read because of this. Guessing one word per line lowers my reading enjoyment.
I don't think the problem is Java documentation/community support.

It's really that with the exception of Play/Grails/Vert.x the frameworks are horrifically over-engineered by developers who live and breathe in the enterprise space. Nobody has ever really cared much about smaller, more startup land developers.
So Java has required so much knowledge and involvement just to do the simplest things.

I would take a look at frameworks like Play for the future of the platform.
In the old days it used to be socially awkward kids who found solace in using the computer, because nobody would bother them there. Now it is being turned on it's head and the bullied kids are the bullies who mob against women? It doesn't make that much sense, imo.
Django and Plone are very tiny code bases compared with the projects I work with.

- Big consultancy company working with lots for Fortune 500 company groups;

- At least 3 development sites active at any time;

- Some projects can have 100+ active developers across sites;

- Several MB of written source code, plus many modules generated via specific DSLs or code generation tools

- The typical enterprise architectures

- Lots of crappy developers in some of the teams

The implications of static typing helps keeping the possible damages under control.
That's because UE4 probably contains a lot better quality of code (and better GPU acceleration) than the horribly slow and buggy Flash plugin that powers that video.
Modern web application development process is not limited to only one language or one framework.
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Enterprise world does not have the Phd developers that YouTube has.
Step 1:

Realize that if you don't work, you'll fucking starve.

Step 2:

Close HN.

Step 3:

Work like fucking crazy, to put as much distance between yourself and starvation as you possibly can.
Crappy developers for one.

Most enterprise projects with modules developed in offshore, suffer from crappy developers that barely know one single programming language.

Forcing them to write lots of unit tests as required by dynamic languages development leads to nothing.

The only way to minimize broken systems is to use languages that force them to stay on course.
If it's from Armani
The case you cited does not match what you claim.

The round time from SFO to Mark Hopkins San Francisco hotel (where the couple was travelling) is at least 40 minutes and the cab driver was driving from SFO, not to it.
The users are switched to Google services. They'll probably be privately emailed about it.