skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean... there are core things at the basis of what everyone agrees on in linguistics (language is structured, learned, and there is a defined syllabary of sounds that humans make and use in language, etc), but Chomsky's grand unified theory of language, and his ideas about how those mechanics function are not universally agreed upon.

Even within syntax, which is really the sort of core of what Chomsky has been interested in, there are other formalisms to represent syntax which differ from Chomsky's theoretical framework. You can read more about Chomskian transformational grammar on wikipedia with links off to other sorts of formalisms as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformational_grammar
Logically, it won't matter unless you die in the next few months.
>> embracing the fact that it is not truly productive to file every single e-mail into a purposeful folder

>That's the "Inbox"

In Outlook terms it's search folders.
I don't know about you, but testing on Chrome and assuming it will also work on Safari is far from "good enough" for me.
I hate people like you. People who feel the need to be so negative when others are trying to look on the bright side.

The olympics may be commercialized but they also featured amazing sports like swimming, running, gymnastics, weight lifting--- these sports aren't normally featured on TV and for 2 weeks, we get treated to the best these sports have to offer.

And people like you just have to ruin it with your 2 cents.
These two frameworks are so similar, and so close in developmental progress. Derby follows more closely the spirit of Node. Meteor's upper hand is its press/following/critical mass, Derby's its architecture and authors. There's some good discussion going on here https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/derbyjs/A...
It really is easy, took like 5 seconds yesterday
Nine times out of ten I want to know the weather X hours from now, not the current weather or the weather Y hours in the past.
Good on ya mate, I'm sure you're really proud of yourself. How does that pertain to Siracusa remembering pages better?
Google to help fight organized crime and terrorism
This looks nice, but doesn't strike me as a revolution.

What I would love to see is a mail client that does away with the antiquated inbox/sent paradigm. It would be replaced by active/archived. If I send an email, it would appear in my active list until the expected outcome is achieved (eg. a reply). At that point I archive it. Sent and received would sit in the same view (like Facebook, etc), why they don't already on clients is beyond me. I shouldnt have to manage 2 views to ensure I've acted on received and others have acted on my sent.
Parenting for its own sake and for the sake of the child rather than as the parents' latest hobby.
I would love to get a (digital) copy :) famoreira@gmail.com
Typically, MAC is assigned by the hardware manufacturer (sometimes you can change/spoof it). IP is typically assigned either by the network administratior or DHCP. If all addresses were based on mac, you could easily intercept the messages from anyone. IP allows a layer of abstraction in which you can group multiple subnets into the same external IP or set up subnets within those subnets even.

Another problem is that numerous devices will share the same MAC address, it's just statistically unlikely to find them on the same network. It's an especially big problem with cheap/knockoff network equipment. See: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/m...
Actually, Mail.app's lack of conversation view was one of its definitive dealbreakers for me.

In particular, it doesn't include you or your sent mail in the conversation (http://i.imgur.com/Atkcu.png). It only lets you expand the email quotation to let you dig through nested context (http://i.imgur.com/1Zj2e.png).

Compare this to gmail (http://i.imgur.com/mLel3.png) that actually handles it as a conversation. It's one of the reasons I use Mailplane (thin wrapper around gmail) instead of Mail.app.
Not surprising. Netflix lost their connection with their core business and stopped listening and responding to feedback. Ultimately, this will be what destroys them.

A few names come to mind: Polaroid, Kodak, RIM (ok, not quite yet but soon enough). Any others?
I am in the beta and it looks pretty heavily Java. Which I personally don't like as much as Sparrow being a native app in all OS's... I feel like the Desktop apps are going to be Adobe Air, or some web Java app as it is now.
It's usable but hardly ideal.
Sure, if it's not doing harm. But in this case, all this old data was really costing us:

- real costs - database storage, blob storage, (minor) perf impact

- hidden costs - tougher to create test environments that look like production if production is so large, but largely invisible / unusable.
I suppose it could handle some tasks that apply universally to one type of email message from a given source, but not for most that involve highly personalized/sensitive information – bank statements, scheduling appointments, etc.
How is this blog even worthy of hacker news?
Yes, yes, we all know how to size markets.

The point I was making is that the market is there AND there is considerable interest around hair texture and styling among diverse women. Those who have researched ethnic personal care (and related issues) frequently discuss the importance and ubiquity of social interaction among those sharing certain beauty attributes. Check google if you're interested in the research--it's out there.

$1.4m is a small risk for a company already getting 2 million uniques a month.

By the way, if you are looking for traditional metrics on curly hair, the most you'll get is general ethnic personal care market sizing--the numbers just aren't as granular for markets around hair texture, skin color, etc. Hopefully soon we'll get access to that kind of data.

ETA: ethnic personal care data can be used as a proxy for curly haired people, but any ethnic group can have curly hair.
Advances in JavaScript Performance in IE10 and Windows 8
Running Ubuntu with either Unity or vanilla Gnome 3 about 75% of the time on my MBP 13", after having switched to it from the increasingly ugly consumer-tailored, unstable Lion. Unfortunately, OS X still has a great lead in terms of input, particularly the trackpad. There are a few ways to make existence under Ubuntu more pleasant. Here is an article that helped me:

http://uselessuseofcat.com/?p=74
This is so stupid I don't know what to say.

If you believe in the charity then give them the money directly.They can find much more efficient and creative uses for it.

If you don't believe in the charity then don't give them the money and don't give exec to give money to give to the charity.

This is a gimmicky stupid idea that is just preying on your guilt.
I was delighted when Apple announced the Retina MBP; I suspected it would mean year-old laptops might hit eBay at silly prices as some folks scrambled to upgrade.

I was right, and have picked up two this month (one on behalf of a friend):

- A MacBook Pro 15" 2.3 i7 Quad Core unibody, antiglare. (Sold for £908, cost in March 2011 £2,169. 58% saving.)

- A MacBook Pro 15" 2.0 i7 Quad Core unibody, 8GB RAM, antiglare. (Sold for £950, cost in 2011 approx £1,500. 37% saving.)

Both of these represent considerable savings over the 17% median for a used model stated in the article.

Both laptops can be user-upgraded with a 512 SSD (approx £300 from Crucial) and up to 16GB of RAM (approx £100), even though Apple's advertised maximum is 8GB of RAM for 2011 MacBook Pros. Their Geekbench scores are pretty close to the latest i7 chips in the Retina MacBook Pros.

Although they're out of warranty, the savings and the relative reliability of nearly new Apple hardware makes these excellent value for money, in my view. And they're not atypical of finishing prices for this sort of kit in Britain at present; average selling prices are only £100-£150 higher. I got a good price by finding auctions with average photos or formatting that were listed with awkward finishing times (typical commuter home time/very early in the morning).

Is there a premium for used Apple kit? Well, sure -- even the old ones are desirable. But that doesn't mean you have to pay it.
Issue in Chrome [v 20.0.1132.47 m]

Focusing in the email textbox, followed by tabbing out causes the box to shift down (pretty sure that's not intentional)
Thats how I ended up with 700 versions of FW. If something is not in use, archive it and make it non accessible, or someone will come along and do things with it you never intended.
Very nice as a hack. I am not sure about the usability of it, and a lot of the comments already capture that. If you really wanted to hack this, how about the following:
1. You package it as an app (not that hard to do, from where you'll be starting)
2. You let people set parameters for how often they want to be notified, for which city and in which scale
3. You use the push notification feature to push them the notifications as per their settings.

But all that's just trying to create the better weather app/notifier. And there's tons of ways to do that.

What you've done is really cool with the icon becoming the widget, and for that, it is a great idea. Makes me think what else you could be using this hack for - not just weather. Imagine sponsorship space - share icon space with main advertiser for a content app. Or display your high score in a game. Or show the last badge you earned in a gamified app....the possibilities are endless. Very cool hack!
It seems as if there are still WebKit Nightlies being built for Windows, it would have been nice if they could tag which ones correspond to certain Safari releases for any Windows devs who want to test their sites in Safari.
Awesome! How does this service just keep getting better and better? They are really able to focus on building an awesome product!
I've never been a Safari user, on any platform.

Can you tell me if Safari on Windows was a reasonable way to test for Safari compatibility - or was it too far off from the 'real thing' so that you really test 'Safari on Windows or devices that weren't turned on for years' if you run it on a Windows based dev machine?
Plasmyd, a discussion platform for scientists
Never mind that it's plain distracting visual clutter and serves no purpose whatsoever. Design for the sake of design.
High lightning frequency leads to slow IT diffusion [pdf]
This article is bad advice for 99% of startups. It says "your API might become heavily used, so engineer for it up front".

I have an alternative suggestion: "Your API (even more so than your product) is most likely never going to be used by anyone, so engineer to get it out the door as quickly as possible and test the waters."

Authorization, throttling, quotas, and monetization are all things you can worry about in the happy-but-unlikely case that your API takes off. In the mean time, just get it out the door. There are some things you can do to future-proof yourself with zero effort:

* Require every request to submit a contact email address as a parameter. This gives you a crude way to find out who is using your API and how much, and gives you the ability to contact them when you make breaking changes. Clients who don't submit contact information have nobody to blame but themselves when you make breaking changes.

* Put your API on a different domain from your main site, ie api.example.com instead of www.example.com. This gives you more flexibility to move it around without breaking things.

* Documentation is critical, but easy - provide examples. Just a series of "Want to do X? Formulate a link like this" and make a real link that actually works.

* Don't overthink the API. Yeah, use REST principles and don't be a total idiot. But accept that your first API is just an experiment. If your API is successful, you will end up rewriting it. The most important things are that 1) it works, 2) it's useful, and 3) users can figure out how to use it from the documentation. Just get something out there, even if it isn't pretty. If you need to make breaking changes, that's what the contact email is for.

We (https://www.voo.st/) added an API in response to a partner who asked for it. It took a day, half of which was formatting the documentation (https://www.voo.st/developers). Guess what? It's never been used. Chances are, your API will be the same way.
I think these are applicable to any engineering interview. The key to every tech interview is most of the time is less about your actual answer but how you get there. If you code something that clearly would never work in any language, you won't get the job. If you code something decent, have a great thought process and in general communicated what you were thinking about the problem, you will most likely get the job. Remember the more you can demonstrate about yourself during the interview the better. The interviewer has a couple of hours to make a decision that can affect their bottom line pretty heavily. The more information you have (Github, Resume, references) the easier it is for them to feel comfortable with you and the easier it is for them to give you the yes.
This is a great feature but is older than GMail. Lotus Notes mail for instance allowed the same mail to appear in different views, including an "all documents" view that had, as you might expect, everything in it. This advance was rather let down by the rest of the Notes client interface however: http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/lotus.htm
This information inexplicably rarely comes up when people complain about the price of Apple products. I usually get 80 cents on the dollar for Apple notebooks but can't even give away a Windows machine. This makes it a no-brainer to buy Apple.
Wow! Thank you - let us know if there is anything more we can do.
Yup. We always thought that implementing drag drop uploads, even with jquery plugins, took way too much time and effort.

Plus we do cool stuff, like download acceleration by splitting files up and uploading in parallel.
> I upgraded to Lion and it took 8 hours off of the installation process for lxml.

Am I misreading this? It took 8 hours to compile libxml2, libxslt and lxml?

Surely that's not possible and I missed something, I just tried making a full static build (to ensure I'd have to build libiconv, libxml2 and libxslt as well) from the current HEAD, on 10.6, using the stock gcc 4.2 on a 2.4GHz 2010 MBP and it took 3:48 total including downloading the tarballs for libiconv, libxml2 and libxslt and cythoning lxml.
I'm not so sure the "next Ruby on Rails" necessarily prescribes a full stack framework like meteor.

They have an impressive demo that showcases what you can do with full stack javascript, but having spent a few years now in that full stack environment.. none of it is new. ie. all of this is out there, just not packaged together.

IMO the next Rails is anti-Rails. It's more about building from the ground up than having all your decisions made for you. (meteor packages?? Fibers?? no thanks.)
There are two possible ways to invent this kind of theory, the way I see it:

1.) Measure data, then make an educated guess.
2.) Make an uneducated guess.
No way... this must be a mistake. A 64GB Pro tablet for $1,800? Not even possibly close to realistic.
What I think is most interesting about this is how successfully implemented this PR campaign is. I think some of the criticism of the app is warranted: but we have nothing concrete to look at, and no real information about how the app will be developed. It seems likely to be a case of someone believing too much in the power of 'design' while overlooking the importance of 'implementation'. If I could somehow be convinced that these two things were conceived of holistically by the creator I'd be much more interested.

I do, however, really applaude the precision with which this project has appealed to people's desires.
I often wonder if Apple knew Google were working on their owner WebKit based browser? Safari was pretty pointless with the release of Chrome IMHO. It was never a very exciting browser.
Yeah, it works perfectly for me.

I'd tell you to try clearing cache, but I'd assume you've already done so. I can't imagine another scenario that would cause it. Though HN is often flaky, it seems to be running fairly smooth of late.
Thank you. Couldn't hope for a better reply.

(edit) I am honestly surprised to see a VC invest into (what amounts to) a fundamental technology. Though, given the valuation bubble we are in, it makes sense. VCs now have a choice between continuing to speculate by funding upload widget startups ($2-3M a pop, two years of runway) and putting money into the core tech. Fingers crossed, this becomes a trend.
It isn't all "black women"; it is a specific demographic of black women. The same way hacker's news isn't a website for people with computers or Spotify isn't for everyone with ears.

It's not that you are racist, and I didn't say you were. However, the reason you don't understand that "natural hair" is a unique identity within the African-American community speaks to your lack of experience, and that lack of experience probably has something to do with the culture you come from. That doesn't make you racist, that makes you ignorant, which is fine as long as you don't assert that your ignorance is more correct that statistics that contradict you.

This is why it matters that diverse people build businesses: there are people out there who's needs I couldn't predict because I don't have the experience to know what they are. It is incredibly arrogant, however, to assume that because something isn't a part of your personal experience it either doesn't exist, doesn't matter or is doomed to failure.
je-SUS. I felt sick just reading that...
These monitors a great deal. One thing that always bugs me on forums (or deal websites) where these are discussed is that people are quick to point out that these monitors have A- panels -- the rejects from the Apple and Dell supply.

While this is true for a few of the companies, it is not true for all of them. "Korean monitors" isn't one entity. There's a lot of companies selling these things, and a lot of them are A quality panels. (So the lesson is to not just repeat things you hear without finding a primary source first).

I believe most rumors point to Apple releasing a 27 or 30 inch super resolution display within the next year. I'll be waiting for these Korean companies to release their own version and then snatch it up for a cheap price.
Absolutely. E.g., check out the Ubuntu wiki:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro
> That doesn't really say much, at the range he was firing and for his skill level, a shotgun may have been the optimal weapon for "number of people hit."

And he hit a lot of people, but the AR-15 would have led to a lot more people dead.

> With training you can switch magazines fast enough that there isn't enough of a difference between a 100 round magazine and 3 standard 30 round magazines to matter.

But he wasn't trained. He tried to get a gun range membership, but he couldn't hold himself together enough to actually get said membership. Is it not reasonable to ask if a feel hurdles wouldn't have stopped him from buying the guns in the first place?

> But my argument is just that, it wasn't a large number. Even 100 people killed is barely a blip compared to the total number of gun deaths per year. You need to look at the whole picture, not just a single emotional event. If 10 gangbangers each killed 3 extra people last night you wouldn't bat an eye. This is a completely emotional reaction.

First of all, I live in Chicago, and I see such reports about gangbangers and the random people who get caught up in their wars all the time, and it always bugs me. I went to see the movie last weekend too, and even if I knew I was at greater risk travelling to the theater at all, a tinge of fear still entered in. Why does it matter if the reaction is emotional? I consider my abhorrence of early death part of my humanity, and I'm hardly alone in that. I would rather see 100 fewer deaths a year from guns than 100 more.

> I'll ask you this, if a madman drives a hummer into a big crowd of people and manages to kill 13 of them would you be calling for more regulation on SUVs?

You need a revocable license that requires a few basic competency tests to acquire in the first place. On top of that, you are required to have insurance to drive as well. It doesn't stop everyone from driving who shouldn't, but it certainly helps. I would be thrilled if the same sort of requirements existed on guns across the country. It is also worth noting that cars are much, much more useful than guns, even in places like Alaska.
It would be great if instead of having to build a new app ground up every time we want to add a few features, if we could simply add those features to the existing application.

This would be a lot easier if that application was open source, but having a modular architecture and malleable/extensible design would be more important.

Does anyone have thoughts on application that are designed such that features can be added to it easily?
Email the author, it looks like he thinks the image was made by someone else.
Why bad coffee makes you weak
Ever since Apple broke the time display in the menubar updating correctly when the timezone changes, I reboot every time I change timezones (or suffer with the incorrect time display). Which is quite a good bit.
Agreed. The thought process is very important. Will mention that in part 2 for sure.
There must be some analogies made to the much smaller field of chess computer programs.

From 1950s to about 1980 or so it was thought that the best computer chess program would approximate the way a human would think about the game. Botvinnik in particular was adamant that such an approach would be the right one.

However, most of the progress was made through brute force. Modern chess programs select moves in a way that is far removed from the way a good chessplayer selects moves, yet they can now produce games that seem very "uncomputer" like and "human".
Unless you have a W-2 or have substantial income or benefits, I don't think this counts.
Chinese Economist Xie Warns S. Korea of Chaebol Dependence
Or perhaps she read it elsewhere--there are lots of articles that talk about the Curly Hair Network. I saw an announcement about Paul Mitchell's investment on Twitter.
Curly hair isn't limited to one ethnic group. There is a actually numbering system for curls (1A-4C, with some permutations) and it traverses different ethnic groups. The numbers are used to make product recommendations, exchange info, etc.
While I was fundraising, VCs told me that DHH could easily have raised a lot of money for Rails had he chosen to. I don't know for sure that that's true, but it certainly seems plausible given Meteor's experience.

Even though we chose a different path, I really admire what DHH did with Rails. We studied the original Rails screencast very carefully when were making the Meteor screencast.
The Schwarzschild radius of the observable universe is 10 billion light years. Me thinks that for the mass to be compacted into a smaller space at some point in the past, it would have either had to escape it's own event horizon (since under most current definitions it would be a black hole), or the definition of light-year had to have changed from what it is today. In that regard, the only thing making up the definition of light-year is distance and time; so space-time itself was radically different way back then (from our current perspective of relatively low energy densities).
I think that confusing A, B or C with "the Universe, all of it" is hardly grounds to call someone an idiot.
The Making of Warcraft 1: Origin of the series & creation of multi-unit select
Cool - thanks - useful discussion I missed first time round.
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