skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New phonetic alphabet
Just for fun
Who are using Haskell as their primary programming language?
If possible please state, if you are earning money with it or not.
Even if he gets accepted directly into a graduate program (I think this is very rare but he may qualify), the first couple years are not going to be dedicated to research. I agree that there would be a lot of value there for someone so young - what's the rush? - but I've never heard of a quick PhD.
Make both install-able and working and pick automatically at install time?

When running on old hardware offer something light (all the way down to text, say for mainframes).
Yes, this. There have been 800,000 bugs filed for all groups within Mozilla. We use bugzilla for managing projects and tasks (ex: a request for the Firefox 8th birthday cake graphic in the blog post). It's not just for tracking Firefox bugs. We use it for just about everything.
I quite like the suggestion at the end of the article, that there may be benefit taking some user-centric design methodologies and applying them to API design. I wonder if there are any APIs that already do this and what the general consensus is on their perceived quality.
If you're not looking at this through our team vs. their team glasses, you might notice that the study didn't discover that racism was deplorable. It makes speculations about where racists among the twitter demographic in the US live, by taking advantage of an event which was bound to bring them out in force.

Caring about threats to Romney's life doesn't even make sense in that context. Caring about threats to Obama's life doesn't even make sense in that context, unless they called him a monkey nigger while doing it.

Please stop dividing the world into things that are for or against your football team.

>Raising the alarm about one type of racism while turning a blind eye to other types of irrational hate smacks of hypocrisy.

Are you seriously trying to say that paying attention to anti-black discrimination as a subject separate from anti-Kurd discrimination is hypocritical? I bet you wouldn't be saying that if the OP was about the distribution of anti-Kurd tweets.
Emit the headers to stderr?

curl -v -s "$url" | python -mjson.tool
curl -D /dev/stderr -s "$url" | python -mjson.tool
The Pro Micro (http://sfe.io/11098) does have on-board USB hardware that requires no USB-TTL converters, no matter how fancy. We added it to the SparkFun site in late February.
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I might do this, think of all those communist countries out there that are unable to use this software due to this stupid clause! :-)
But there are a lot of complaints in a lot of different places.

I'm sure complainers are probably over-represented in public fora, but not to the extent you seem to think.
Thank you very much for making it public.

Is publicity the only reason? I thought it was because you take pity on those born with the unfortunate curse of being constantly curious.
Clip the Trip crowdsourced travel platform with revenue-sharing model launches
To me a PC is really just a smartphone in another form factor.
TVs are the same. TVs are big smartphones.
Computers are kind of medium smartphones.

if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a ... smartphone.

At least he didn't said:

"servers are just smartphones with noisy fans",
"datacenters are just clusters of smartphones" and
"blade servers are just a large chocolate form-factor smartphones without screens".

Seriously Moore's Law is still relevant. Here just a few things that todays technology not able to do very well:

- Super-retina displays and 4K TVs (QD - Quad Definition), 3DTV, 50-100Hz frame rate

- Advanced natural interfaces: speech recognition, augmented reality, realistic video rendering
This would be amazing for code reuse when integrating with a Cocoa app front-end, much as using node.js can let you reuse JS code between server and client.
So... universal health care then :P

An organization that receives all your medical bills, keeps you out of debt/bankruptcy, and charges you an amount that it determines would not cause undue hardship? Like insurance, except everyone qualifies!

Slight side note: this whole discussion is somewhat depressing, but I've come to expect this from HN lately. This whole thread is divided into two rough parts: people addressing legitimate questions about the legalities of this venture, and people clucking derisively at the stereotypical straw man of the poor.

Whether it's sexism in tech, racism around the world, or the plight of the American poor re: medicine, there are always a ready army of the privileged ready to attack people for imaginary and insultingly intellectually lazy stereotypes.
The Minerva Project and the Investment Bubble in Online Education
Presumably, though, a competent programmer would include the effort required to produce well-engineered code within his original estimate.
"How about communicating to distributions to fallback to gnome2"

Because Gnome 2 is officially deprecated and abandoned. The G3 team pretty much deliberately set out to destroy it and make the new stuff as incompatible as possible AFAICT. MATE is becoming a possibility but debian don't seem to want to take it on.

Xfce, yes, that works fine.
May I ask why? What benefits does HTTPie have?
There's a major moral hazard around the Federal Reserve bailouts ("too big to fail"), no?
Luckily JSON 3 exists! http://bestiejs.github.com/json3/
Hey HN, QuotePress is a very early version of a new startup we are launching. It originated from a problem that we had: we asked customers "how is everything going? Give us some feedback" and they would simply hit reply to an email and we ended up with a bunch of happy customer stories sitting in our inbox that never got added to our website.

They were also ugly and we sometimes neglected to get explicit permission from customers to post their comment on our website or social media pages.

So, this is a very early beta of what we are planning. We're not quite ready yet to take on new customers but we are interested in hearing your feedback, thoughts and ideas on the concept.
Sometimes I drink one or two small cans of beer (269ml) after dinner while playing diablo. Usually this is what happens next day:

- I wake up feeling like crap;

- Can't work until around 9:30am;

I also run 5k at least 4 times a week, this is my next day:

- Wake up 40 minutes before alarm rings;

- Longer stretches of concentration all day;

I quit smoking 1.2 years ago. At that time I thought that cigarettes made me more productive, specially when I had to work longer. This is how addictive drugs work. They will make your brain tricky you into thinking you will be better when consuming them.

Be careful. Drink sometimes and for pleasure only.
Does anyone support anything but H.264 on mobile hardware yet?
>People have decided the term racist and racism are too detached and not emotionally impactful, so now we have "hate speech" which is more forceful.

This isn't why the term hate speech came about. The term hate speech came about in order to have a word applies not only to racism, but also to sexism, anti-semitism, homophobic language, etc. It is an umbrella term that refers to speech that is directed towards people solely based on the (usually immutable) group to which they belong.

It is not a synonym for hateful speech. Hateful is its own term. E.g. "I going to kill white people because I hate them so much" == hate speech (and also hateful). "I'm going to kill that guy because I hate him so much" == hateful (but not hate speech).

For the record, I come down firmly on the side that both are wrong. But bringing up one when the conversation was originally about the other tends to lead to derailment.
It seems to me that creating several dozen subscription plans on Stripe is indicative of a deeper problem: that you have several dozen different prices consumers end up paying. How about instead you advertise the prices that consumers will actually have to pay? Bump up all of your prices across the board by the expected cost of taxes to even out the cost.

(Unless there's some law about not charging consumers in different provinces a different pre-tax cost, or some province charges so much tax that to make other provinces eat a share of that cost would be unreasonable.)
File a bug to request that :) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
Thanks....

Btw, do you use haskell as your primary language?
Not great UX on a site priding themselves on UI.
Are you still using plasma-desktop with xmonad? Do you have some pointers on how to do that? As an xmonad user, I'd like to try it out.
Disrupting Conversations
It's amazing that they can do this, yet there is still no high-quality solution for changing a male voice into a believable female voice. (For example, making a 40 year old man sound like a 16 year old girl)
Right, but you're light skinned. Imagine that, in addition to all the hardships you probably had to overcome, you also had to deal with systemic racism because you had dark skin.
I would say this map only shows areas where its socially acceptable to openly vocalize racist thoughts in a public forum.
Fusion at 14 was just a hobby. Cheap sensitive detector and isotope production method are innovative achievements.
Of course large corporations have lots of lawyers to protect against this (and of course they hire enough engineers to rewrite the thing to begin with), which means I didn't illustrate my point very well. The point is that there is potential negative impact on free software as a result of a "cute" addendum like this.
Fairly pricey. Even at bulk and without the built in donation they are $15-$20 in bulk.
Say Bye-Bye to Scratch Cards - Go Green
Or you know...many of the middle class Chinese that work in the offices that already speak English. Honestly, when I've walked into a Chinese office I've never had the "noone speaks English" problem, while the big boss who doesn't speak English would prefer to have one of the younger guy/gals around anyways as a sign of status.
Nice!!! Here is one more when it comes to working with the Internet Of Things: http://cosm.com/docs/quickstart/curl.html
And using this I was inspired and managed to do this: http://www.agilart.com/blog/agilart-programs-using-cosm #YAY
As a society, we expect people to follow norms of behavior; we usually call them laws. Driving without insurance is breaking the law. Driving impaired in the case of alcohol is against the law. Driving impaired because you're tired and exhausted and stressed about life and then striking a pedestrian is usually going to result in either criminal charges or civil charges at the minimum. You might even have to wear a sign...

http://fxn.ws/SwNfY1

EDIT: Here's a link for people who think that anything coming from Fox should be dismissed out of hand immediately:

http://security-today.com/Blogs/REACTION/2012/11/Woman-Sente...
interesting. my education is as a biochemist, and my interest was in protein dynamics. i knew the x-ray guys were trying to get to this, and it was only a matter of time before they could image and compute fast enough. i had expected the NMR guys to get there first, however.
This is sort of how collection agencies work, although the discounts here seems to be even steeper.
Refusing the money and sarcastically thanking the donor for "ruining animal shelters" are two drastically different reactions.
This probably would've been the best idea really. And at the end of the day, if revenue grows at a break neck pace you can always swap out Stripe for something like Recurly.
Fair enough, but maybe he is not blogging it for himself. Sometimes this kind of thing is good to hear and motivating for those making their way up the ranks (so to speak).

We can't all be brilliant programmers. Heck I'm not, but I've been in the industry a long time, and know the difference between when to write good code at the expense of time and when something is unlikely to see the light of day/prototype/one-off.
I totally agree with you. People do not realize that it was Firefox that made an open web possible, as well as a viable Chrome.
How to Build a High-Performance Sales Culture: Keep Happy Losers Happy
You're _also_ making assumptions though. The ingredients in Heinz ketchup are pretty banal. The most "chemically" thing I see is high fructose corn syrup.
Show HN: Side-scrolling 8-bit site using HTML/CSS/JS
Semantic wanking. If a conversation about Free Software was filled with discussion of Visual Studio Express, it would be just as silly as this.

"Hate Speech" was a term cooked up to bundle homophobic, racist, and anti-religious speech together. It means whatever the people who came up with it and publicized it want it to mean, and pretending that one doesn't know in order to have a strawman debate for you is a waste of everyone's time.

(Not that I don't find the term distasteful. I find the idea of criminalizing both internal states and speech pretty vile.)
Perhaps not home ownership - but in many (most?) parts of this country a reliable vehicle is an absolute requirement for holding down a job. A bankrupt person, if anything, is in greatest need of a trustworthy car, and is also the most likely to require a loan to do so.

There's also the notion of rent - people who've always had good credit don't really know how different renting is like for people who have bad credit. I came to this country a few years ago with zero US credit rating, and even with a high salary, offer letters, etc, had one hell of a time finding a place to live. Many landlords simply will not consider you, while others charge exorbitant deposits to cover the risk.

The recently bankrupt are also the least able to afford a security deposit several times higher than what everyone else pays.

The reality of credit in the US is that your life gets exponentially harder as your credit worsens, and the difficulty in turning that ship around increases dramatically. People who've never had to suffer from bad/no credit really need to examine this before clucking judgmentally.
No, I'm saying that will not solve the perceived problem.

I suggest more information, such as "Be aware that this software is licensed under a custom license. Click here to view the license."

I don't think the author of the article suggests that evil should be allowed, but that it is very hard to define evil, and that this clause makes the license non-free software.
EVE roleplay inspires dude to tone up to be more like his char
It's not a market failure because it pisses off one person. It's a market failure in that the long-term sustainability of a fundamental component of the ecosystem is in question. Potentially, Douglas Crockford could hire a team of lawyers and go after every single software engineer or company that he disagrees with by claiming they are "evil" (never mind the ontological questions and somewhat inherent contradiction such behavior would represent).

Yes, the license terms don't matter to 95% of all software developers. So what? Care to guess at the percentage of brokers that made out like bandits trading CDOs? My point is exactly that an ecosystem where the bulk of players can benefit by optimizing for the short-term at the potential expense of the long-term will fail to find the long-term optimal solution (at least, not without significant upheaval).

But then, I suppose I am completely free to till my own back yard, grow some vegetables, and raise chickens so...yeah, complete market triumph!
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Wittgenstein received a PhD from Cambridge solely from his book Tractatus, which he wrote during WWI.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein#section_6
If your financial circumstances are bad enough that your creditors would sell your $14,000 debt for $500, you can probably do that deal directly with them. Try giving them a call and talking about a payment plan.
SRI spinout Desti builds a Siri-like personal travel assistant
I have the exact same problem, I'm sure that there are many racists in our country, but this graphic is pretty garbage.

1) There are about 35 to 40 million Americans on Twitter, (15% of the 78.1% of online Americans).

2) Does the percentage of twitter users per state factor into this, it seems not.

3) "A score of 1.0 indicates that a state has relatively the same number of hate speech tweets as its total number of tweets. Scores above 1.0 indicate that hate speech is more prevalent than all tweets". This makes no sense to me, unless a single tweet somehow counts multiple times, e.g. "obama monkey monkey monkey monkey". There are more racists tweets than tweets? How is that possible?

4) Is every instance of "monkey" racist? Is it racist to call George Bush a monkey?

5) Was context applied, or is simply using certain word combinations racist? Go to twitter and do the search yourself, many of the tweets are responses to racist tweets or not racist at all.

I'm sure there are many racists in America, but this graphic is painting a very misleading picture.
And no metrics on how many of those tweets were from the same people.
Where does that end? They're taking your payments, making your invoices, why not be an OAuth provider for your users? Host your app? Store and ship your physical products?

I love Stripe. They do one thing well, better than anyone else I have used. It's not perfect for everyone, but anytime someone tries to be perfect for everyone they stop being perfect for anyone.
I prefer HTTPie because after years of using curl, I still have to Google simple use cases. HTTPie has a very simple a intuitive api.
> Nor are they racist in nature.

I think that's exactly the point: why limit the analysis to racist speech (when the idiocy hurled on one side will be racist) and not equally bad - or worse - speech (when that other type of speech is on the other side).

It's sort of like tracking all the cases of food poisoning from pizza and ignoring the food poisoning from fish.

"Hey, I've got data that says that people get poisoned from other foods too."

"Shut up. That other food isn't pizza!"
I do.

Yes, I earn money too.
That they use the licence makes this undeniable, right? This is the ultimate proof we're after?
Exactly. Stripe can't support every bit of functionality out of the box, because then the API would get really convoluted. Just think about what sort of discounts are commonly use: absolute discounts, percentage discounts, coupon codes with expiration dates, conditional coupon codes, bulk discounts, discounts that only apply for the first month. And so on. When dealing with billing logic there is a tremendous amount of accidental complexity.

Stripe offers a low-level API and a higher level API and framework can be built on top of that. So what we really need are some high-quality django/rails modules that deal with all the mundane bookkeeping. Then you can easily fork the module to make adjustments where needed.
Mostly agree, in the same way that HuffPo isn't, but they provided direct links to the tweets, and with a little searching on twitter.com, it wasn't hard to find tons of tweets in the same vein.
Recurly doesn't support sales tax(tax rate varies by location) as well. Easiest solution for both providers is to generate an invoice item called "Taxes" and add it for each bill cycle. There are many SaaS tax providers out there.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4759620
If you're going to be pedantic, then you might as well at least go all the way. The sport is called "association football". It is correct for Americans to call it soccer because, well, that's the most common name for it here.
With All Due Respect: The Patent System’s Not Broken
Robot Photographers Tour the Solar System
And I believe Bush Jr had one of the most diverse cabinets as well...
Mind-bending. Especially condition for violation to be criminal:

1) for commercial advantage or private financial gain

or

3) by distributing copyrighted work where the infringer knew or should have known the work was intended for public distribution.

Does that also cover non-American authors? And distribution of works of American authors abroad?
Teen Nuclear Scientist
If any of you is ever in Uganda hit me up for a game of football. That aside i wish this had come when i was still younger. I remember inflating polythene that was used for packaging 1ltr milk sachets and using tyre tubes as strings for holding up these packagings and for football we lived. I should post a how to video for that come to think of it.
The first thing I thought of when reading the title of this post is Adaptive Optics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics). When I was told the idea of using a mirror which could reposition itself thousands of times a second to correct for atmospheric disturbances I had an initial gut reaction of "this will never work". There just seemed like there was too much which could go wrong or would have to be compensated for. Of course I was completely wrong - the technology works brilliantly and along side telescopes is now being used in microscopes, medicine and weapons!
The GitHub page does a good job of highlighting all of the benefits HTTPie has if you're already familiar with cURL. But for me it's the design of the interface with syntax highlighting being the sugar on top.

See:
https://github.com/jkbr/httpie#interface-design ,
https://github.com/jkbr/httpie#redirected-input ,
https://github.com/jkbr/httpie#usage
A better way to view only the header of a response is using the flags -o to redirect the body and -D to redirect the header of the response. When I want to print only the header to stdout I do

curl -o/dev/null -D- http://www.example.com

-I does not work with methods other than GET. This does the job.
Which job are you working?
...?

Stripe is a payment processor. If you want invoicing, use (FreshBooks|Xero|Blinksale|etc).

"It would be nice if" is often the death of good product design.
I agree it's really pricey. I remember when I was a kid, a lot of times we didn't have a ball and we used whatever round thing we had and still had A LOT of fun.

Let me tell you that scoring a goal with a can of coke it's priceless!
What is sad as well is that that epithet is often aimed at Republican or right-leaning politicians of colour such as Condie Rice, Herman Cain, Colin Powell etc.
And shipping outside of the States doubles the price. The high cost makes it even more important to donate.
I just wanted to be another person to chime and say I enjoy gnome3. Sometimes a good product is best when you build it for yourself instead of trying to please others.

Thanks!
Speech recognition breakthrough for the spoken, translated word
Is Google really offering to foot the bill here? I don't see anywhere that says this is sponsored/paid for by Google, although maybe I missed it.

It seems like the mobile carriers are footing the bill for this one. Or, for now, one mobile carrier in the Philippines. It looked like it still costs money for 99.5% of all mobile internet users.
Being and entrepeneur does not require you to approve the actions of other entrepenuers. Surely you can be an entrepeneur and have higher moral standards than Donald Trump.
Ask HN: Best example application to build to master a web framework?
Hello HN,

I am in the middle of planning to write a book around a rails-like web framework/technology, and I was wondering what would be the best example, for you, for mastering this kind of tech.

- A twitter clone ?
- A tumblr clone ?
- An amazon clone ?
- etc.

This is kind of a poll, but I am new to HN and couldn't see how I could do that.

Thanks in advance
It's the equivalent of buying out a debt collection agency and shutting it down (just on a smaller scale). Moral hazard aside that seems like a decent enough cause.
This is a really good point IMHO. People say all sorts of things behind closed doors. But self-censorship in public is almost certainly more common in some areas of the country than in others.