skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently this theory's authors have also studied linguistics and multiple languages. So how do you counter their arguments regarding syntax and core vocabulary?

So far their publication on the contested point in discussion here is the press release submitted here. The field of linguistics has peer-reviewed journals like any other science, and it has authoritative secondary sources (surveys of world languages) and tertiary sources (encyclopedias of linguistics) and a large scholarly community of people who have more specialized knowledge than (apparently) any participant in this thread, including me, who know English, Old English, modern Scandinavian, Old Norse, and German well enough to dig into the data. What's more, historians have been publishing for generations on the general issue of how Britain was settled by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes after written history had already begun in Britain, and how incursions by "Danes" in Britain were responded to by the local populations. This is not a new field.

A new comment, more recently submitted than your reply to my comment, puts the issue well:

Having studied linguistics I'd say the claim is sensationalist rather than sensational. English is a rather wild crossbreed of many European languages, all of which share the same Indo-European roots.

Old English is very closely related to Old Frisian and Low German. Later on English has been heavily influenced by Scandinavian, Romance (mainly French due the Norman invasion in 1066 - Norman French to be specific, which differed quite a bit from Île-de-France French at that time) and Gaelic languages to some extent.

That's very familiar to all of us who have formally studied linguistics of English. What's also dismaying familiar to anyone who has studied linguistics is the attempt of nationalists who are partisans of one language or another to claim a connection between their language and some language that enjoys great prestige (here, English). I have nothing against Norwegian. I speak it (a little), and Norwegian was my late grandmother's native language. I have nothing against German. I speak it (rather more than I speak Norwegian), and it was the native language and sole language of schooling for two of my grandparents. I also acknowledge, as I did in my original comment, that BOTH the North Germanic and West Germanic branches of Germanic languages influenced English. My uncontroversial and non-extraordinary claim here, agreed to by most linguists, is simply that the weight of influence on English is such, and the history of English is such, that English is better characterized as a West Germanic language than as a North Germanic language. The most frequently occurring word in English, which is "the," is one demonstration of that. The word "the" is a West Germanic word.
Why I Ditched My iPhone (but probably not iOS)
> And it's not something you can really do if you loose your phone (i.e you need two-factor authentication to get there to disable two-factor authentication).

Backup codes. It's not the cleanest approach in the world, but it's still an actual second authentication factor.

How can you safely disable Authy if you lose your phone without risking someone else having the same ability to do so? This is a solved problem.

I agree that the process of switching phones sucks, but it almost needs to in order to keep the MFA keys difficult to clone.
I believe it's Windows only, but I'm not currently dualbooting to verify.
You'd be surprised by how many people won't do that. In my opinion, it's your job as a designer / developer to make sure your product works for as many people as reasonably possible, and not expect users to jump through hoops (no matter how small) to use it.
ExcelLink exists, but it inverses the flow of control - it spawns an inferior Excel.
An interesting point. Since you're speaking about strategy and honesty, I would defer to those who have done research, where I can only speak for myself. http://ScoreVoting.net/Honesty.html

I know I would not hesitate to vote my actual opinion and I suspect others would not either. I would be happy to give a score to each candidate, and it would not necessarily be binary. Just as I am happy today to vote for a third-party candidate though that is not a strategic move.

Again speaking just for myself, if nothing else, having the ability to score candidates would reduce my feeling of regret or disappointment with the outcome because it's less polarizing.
It only works in that case. What if there's another work that is called "Cezanne's Favorite Watercolor", and we're just in the beginning of search hell :)
Dutch and Norwegian are also closely related. It would be surprising if there weren't transitivity there—and IIRC there are examples where the relationship doesn't hold in both directions. I remember reading somewhere that Dutch speakers have an easier time understanding German than vice versa, despite both being similar.
I don't think you're the norm. I've read several articles where small business owners say that most people only come for the deal, get nothing else, and don't come back. It's a similar mentality that couponers have.
How is this different to HOTOL ?
I am curious where this will lead the next election, I think it is quite possible that 2billion mark will be broken as everyone is looking at this an will be getting ready for the next round in 4 years. It is quite depressing actually
Chris, it was not our intention to hide any contact information, but I agree that we could have done a better job of surfacing information about us. We did simplify the content of our public pages in the interest of moving quickly, but we will be addressing this shortcoming soon.

FWIW, the contact email address for our product, support@gethelium.com, can be found in the Helium management dashboard. Hopefully this addresses your concerns.
Not as fancy, but pretty good:

http://www.powtoon.com/
Yeah but for all the times when I really do want to leave, now I have to annoyingly click "Yes" in a dialog I didn't expect in the first place.

I like the localStorage solution for drafts much better.
Really happy you guys decided to finally implement two-factor auth! I had suggested this after the compromise you guys had a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4067190

I wassss kind of rooting for DUO Security (http://www.duosecurity.com/) to be the vendor you chose, but I guess you can't win them all. Do you think maybe you could work on login accounting and some alerting next? :-)
See if you can get your hands on a Symbian/WP8 device for cheap.

I have a Nokia 500, which is smart enough for my needs, and Nokia maps offers entire countries/states to download so that they are available offline. Offline landmark coverage isn't the great quality as online, but virtually any major shop/restaurant/street is present
I definitely agree (to a point...I don't test with IE6 or IE7 anymore unless budget and time is specifically allocated for them), but "make sure your product works for as many people as reasonably possible" is not to be confused with "make sure your product works the same for as many people as reasonably possible".

I'm happy to serve static images to older browsers with an unintrusive note telling them what they're missing and how they can get it.
At the bottom of the site I ask people to email me - mike@bootstraphero.com - with suggestions for additional items to add to the list.

I'm trying to make the list truly useful and not just a huge undifferentiated set of links, which requires editing. I've already had multiple people email me with things that just aren't even tangentially related or are of just such poor quality that I didn't think they should be listed.
I think he means to contrast English with, say, Spanish which has an actual governing, prescriptive body.

I googled to find the name of it for you and Wikipedia gave me a much better link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_regulators

As a primary English speaker, I find it both silly and abhorrent that they even bother but... eh. Whatever.
Agreed! If you aren't app crazy, just want basic email/calendar/contacts and maps, then Nokia is the best. Rock solid hardware and offline maps!
The Hunt for a Better Butter Churn
it's a pretty terrible thing actually :s bootstrap is great, looks awesome etc, but this is not the right way to go in the future
> There are a lot of things wrong with Google's Authenticator app, but the fact that it doesn't sync with a remote service is a HUGE benefit to security. I like the idea of a "revoke everything from this device" button, but I don't like having all my security eggs in one basket.

I strongly agree.
Cube: IDEO Office-in-a-Box
How sensitive is the climate to added CO2?
I am biased. I want Windows Phone to succeed. Mobile OS's in their current state, make me feel like its a two party system. I really want more options as a consumer.

I realized recently, that I use my phone to its max potential. And, the same goes to every phone before that. What I am trying to say is. If my phone can email, take pictures, open spreadsheets, I will. There more it can do the more I will work from it. The Galaxy Nexus has allowed me to read books and write blog posts. I have connected it to a monitor and a mouse.

I would love my next phone to be a great mobile computing device. Competition should speed up mobile's computational abilities.
It would be evidence but not conclusive evidence. In this case, we might think it was some sort of horrible prank played by a disgruntled scientist who hacked the instruments. But it might be enough for a second mission designed to conclusively verify the existence of life.
After Effects, Flash if you're desperate.
It's rather annoying it's modal but leaves most of the page visible and unresponsive to clicks. Maybe dim the background slightly?
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Numerous parameters in the sense in which Baker is using them in _Atoms of Language_ changed between Old English and early Modern English. The loss of V2 is controlled by the V-to-T parameter and T-to-C parameter, the loss of head-final VPs is a separate parameter, and so on. [Source: I'm a working linguist.]
If you frequently use VMs I suggest you checkout the example on their front page - it's super fast and I've found Vagrant to make a HUGE impact on my productivity and ability to use VMs for their intended purpose.
Bootswatch has the right idea but its templates are much too similar. And all the ones with any color have dark backgrounds.
No, I don't attribute it to being agile, I attribute it to dev being involved near the start of project planning and having input along the way. It just happened that when the company decided on being an agile shop this happened as well. Sorry that was not clear.
It's really just the buttons and nav bar. If you change the look of those then it doesn't look so... bootstappy.
> The only problem I have with google authenticator is that it's barely maintained. Even obvious features like rearranging order of accounts, haven't been implemented. http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/issues/list?ca....

There is also a weird bug in google authenticator (on ios) where the edit button in the lower left doesn't work until you hit legal information button, then go back. Very weird.
ipv6 enforces a minimum MTU of 1280? I've personally run into many VPNs with much smaller MTUs
Oh I agree that graceful degradation is a very viable option for older browsers.
This smells like probably-awesome news. Less bullshit spending dollars that can go to not-bullshit... more talent to hire for companies better-prepared to make a serious go of it.
>LEO requires about 7.8 km/s, Skylon's jet engines can go around 1.7 km/s. You are reaching 20% of your orbital velocity without reaction mass.

Unfortunately, kinetic energy scales as speed squared, so 20% of your orbital speed represents less than 5% of your orbital kinetic energy. To put this in perspective, the difference in gravitational potential energy between LEO and the earth's surface represents about 15% of your total on-orbit energy.

Now, it's true that an air-breathing engine doesn't need to carry reaction mass (and, sometimes, oxidizer), but the air engines add considerable complexity (which is always a bad thing) as well as weight (because you still need to carry a conventional rocket to finish orbit insertion). So what you need to do is ask how the weight penalty of the air engine compares to the weight penalty of carrying extra fuel in a conventional rocket (bearing in mind, of course, that there a pernicious positive feedback loops when scaling a booster).
I think the whole point of conservative is not changing, keeping things the way they are, as opposed to "progressive" ideas, which advocate change. I'm not interested in debating you about who is actually "establishment" etc. in that way, my point was conservatives have an "establishment" way of thinking: the tried and the true, the way things worked before, not necessarily the way they will work in the future.

I think you understand what I'm talking about.

Re the old white comment, look at the demographics: that was the only demographic republicans won. If you said democrats were just a bunch of black guys, then yes I would be offended. If you said the truth, that democrats were a coalition of young people, single women, and minorities, I would not. I'm a white male, and voted for Obama, so I understand that it is a generalization.

That link is irrelevant, I don't care if Obama doesn't like Xboxs and iphones, doesn't mean his campaign wasn't technologically proficient: whose campaign's tech broke down on election day and outsourced their development to contractors? Romney.

Who had a dedicated team of coders in house and everything worked well? Obama. Most startup guys will tell you that outsourcing their main product never ends well.
Continuing off-topic:

It's vandalism. I just did an hour of procrastinatory cyberstalking, it's the work of a high schooler in Ohio. Probably vandalizing articles they read for class.

Speculation: if not just out of frustration, perhaps sabotage against classmates reading later? Is that a thing now?

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Last good revision:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientific_managem...
I figured it would come across as at least slightly prickish because it was very very patronizing. I wouldn't say arrogant though, considering the majority of the comment was correcting the easily google-able falsehoods in the parent comment. Arrogant would be preaching your subjective political view while getting all the facts wrong.

I defend the use of patronizing mockery as a proper tool to discourage comments that smugly dismiss facts to push a political ideology.
What you want isn't blocking the UI thread but a stack of states where each state defines the current behaviour of the elements, with bonus points if states can be composed together.
What is a solution? AWS is a general use compute resource. There is no reason that they should enforce crypto anywhere other than SSH/etc. That is obviously in the domain of the dependent service to decide and implement. Encryption has a cost/benefit ratio that is different for every client, there's no reason everyone should have to pay and use encryption resources if they don't need them.

I find your observation that this problem is reflected especially in service oriented architectures questionable. By centralizing all resources (including documentation: http://aws.amazon.com/security/) It makes it easier to enforce best practices and standard interfaces. But just because they can doesn't mean it's always a good idea to do that.
Grats man. Happy for you.
That's not a new problem, right? Anyone can publish anything about anyone else, pretty much. That's the foundation of about 99% of celebrity magazines.
This should get voted up. This app is exactly what Skitch should be. Thank you!
A Cloud to Comfort Your Business in Times of Storm
Show HN: I built a wiki-style site for language learning and text translation
Yeah, I already mentioned above I finally found their names at the bottom of their press release on their company's website. Poor guy, I'm sorry I'm usually not like this, this is just my #1 pet peeve.
Yup... FindFaces is somewhat of a surface feature.

The image processing group thought about allowing you to use custom Haar cascades with FindFaces, and decided instead to wait another version and do a proper Viola-Jones detection function + training framework.

The thinking was that enough people will find some basic face detection useful to justify the early release of this particular facet of the whole object detection/recognition problem.

But, you are right. There is definitely a balance between 'solving' an entire domain at once or expanding the frontier to new domains. I think the Mathematica team is navigating that balance pretty well, though. My most common reaction when seeing new M functionality is 'wow, this is amazingly deep', not 'gee, this is a gimmick'.
Google's Horowitz: Facebook is social network of the past
What's with the comments on the article:

"johndurbinn • 29 minutes ago I'm bouncing on my toes wah me soopsoak dat hoe"

"Tony Stender • 35 minutes ago Fix this it needs word wrap and zoom capabilities"

I'd downmod them but I'd have to create an account to do so.
Just a heads up: Your favicon is almost identical to http://gree-corp.com/ , big social game maker in Japan.
I once had the idea of using markov chains to help build playlists. I find the order of songs can be very important, and that way I could build a more random playlist based liking song B after song A, and just keep going.

The problem was two fold, one, I really love whole albums when done right. So that most of the music I listen to is album based. The markov chain is pointless then. Two, I would need a really big data set to make it worthwhile. Rdio has that data set (or possibly even Echo Nest).
Related article on The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/27/3696704/funding-drought-m...
It started as a hobby, to automatically send myself short study emails once a day, but then I thought to open it up to anyone.

It's still very much a work in progress, but I'd love to find out what people here think!
> Oh and for those who can't or don't know how to upgrade away from IE7-10 there's ChromeFrame. That covers the remaining portion of the web.

Most people who can't or don't know how to upgrade away from IE7-10 won't be able to manage installing a plugin either. That aside, I don't consider a beta plugin to be an acceptable answer to this question in any context.
I think small businesses have always been hungry for more customers, so I believe the dynamic is something slightly different.

I think the Groupon space was basically a big many-sided bubble. Consumers loved the discounts and the urgency of it. Businesses loved the pitch, and the big response was spectacular compared with regular coupons. Investors loved the large user bases and the crazy growth. Groupon loved the high margins and the ability to make the books look great. And media had some great stories to sell.

But I don't think there was much real value there. Many businesses didn't really see long-term benefit from running daily deals. The traffic was large, but fickle.

The only reason this got so big was that Groupon deals had relatively long feedback loops, so it took businesses a while to learn that there were better marketing options. And there were plenty of businesses for Groupon's massive sales team to burn through before their reputation started to wear thin.
This is more, smaller boats leaving more quickly; the current model is more like build a big boat, ship (win2k), fire the captain, build a big boat, sink it (windows reset), build a huge boat, ship (vista), fire the captain, build a smaller boat, ship (7), build a slightly larger boat, ship (8), fire the captain. Now they propose to run ferries to the users every few months, with bug fixes and new features along for the ride.
Depending on the service, it may be that they shouldn't use it while at work in the first place.

Sure. But if you run an online store it doesn't exactly benefit you to tell people when they should shop with you and when they shouldn't. Supporting IE may well mean higher sales.
Well the Celtic peoples of Great Britain could arguably be called British...
This isn't just a problem of a tech curve or conservatism but one of exposure and marketing. There are a lot of great tools and systems out there that are pretty in your face and obvious to use in certain niches yet.. you'll still run across good folks who are new to them. Always plenty of room to expand! (And that's a good thing ;-))
Winning only 11 primaries, compared to 42 won by the nominee, is evidence of a regional/minority-factional 'outlier' candidacy. (And even for those wins, Santorum needed the 'anybody but Romney' dynamic: it was far from broad GOP love for Santorum. Though if you're suffering from the out-group bias I mentioned, it might look that way.)

And yes, a major party's Senate candidate can be an 'outlier'.

In the US, the parties don't pick the candidates, voters do through primaries. Only 36% of Missouri Republican primary voters gave Akin a slim plurality in a no-runoff 3-way primary. Two other candidates in that primary, each with a broader base of national Republican support, got a combined 59% of the GOP vote. So Akin is even somewhat of an outlier in his home, conservative Missouri GOP.

An bigger outlier was the 'major party' Democratic Senate candidate in Tennessee, Mark Clayton:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/2012s-wo...

Still, Clayton won the primary and got to run as the Democrat, over the protests of the state party, because that's how the system works. A plurality of voters who show up in low-turnout, often unrepresentative primaries pick the candidates, not the parties.

Yes, the GOP has lost a bunch of its moderate candidates, and that's a problem for the GOP and the country. The causes are both internal GOP malfunctions, and the portrayal-biases I've been mentioning from the media and casual poltical observers. (The moderates rarely get their due respect/coverage as equal Republicans, the Republicans don't get due recognition of their internal diversity. So the breadth of the party has decayed compared to the past, before year-round cable-news/internet politi-tainment narrowed and hardened the party identities.)
Do you notice the times when nobody mentions it?
That's what I hate about rails. You spend so much time filling out YAML and reading documentation and making sure you've got the right gems for the job and that you didn't accidentally go down a rabbit hole that by the time you're ready to build something it looks like the same bucket of sand everyone else is waiting for the tide to come and collect.
We all have a date stamp on our...
No BS Podcast #192: We-Tear-Through-Your-Questions Edition
I can say as a beta tester, this product has huge potential! Can't wait for more. Great to see Scoble covering this.
Love Gordon's rants
Avoiding banning certain ips (to avoid denial of service) is a form of white listing. So either you're open to denial of service, or you're able to whitelist all essential access paths?
What can be done to stop computer keeps rebooting
Computer keeps rebooting is a frustrating phenomenon that when we are using the computer.My Windows 7 keeps restarting when I was watching movie several days ago.I was at a lost before I found this article. Maybe it can help you when your xp keeps rebooting or Vista keeps rebooting.
Apple gets sales ban on some Samsung Galaxy products in the Netherlands
Announcing Google Drive Site Publishing
Similar to how IE's box model was deemed incorrect until fast-forward today and people realized that their box model was simpler and easier to use compared to the standard. See: http://paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/