skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's weird -- I used to feel I had complete mastery of writing. I had no problem getting A's on papers. I have forgotten things, but I sometimes find myself bewildered while writing, doing a construct I have no clue proper punctuation or grammar for.

The easy answer is just to rewrite and go with what I know. If I have to, I can do that.

stay with one tense -- past

don't use "I"

don't use dangling prepositions.

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What's awful is that I obsess on grammar while listening to radio interviews. It's a huge distraction. My favorite distraction is "me" or "I". Linking verbs use nomnative, but I think they almost never come-up. caring about grammar just distracts me. I'm an ass.

God says...
C:\Text\WORD2.TXT

een the Seven Whistlers, &c." Both these
superstitions are prevalent in the midland Counties of England: that
of "Gabriel's Hounds" appears to be very general over Europe; being
the same as the one upon which the German Poet, Burger, has founded
his Ballad of the Wild Huntsman.

NOTE V.

PAGE 128 (302).--_Song, at the Feast of Brougham Castle_. Henry Lord
Clifford, &c. &c., who is the subject of this Poem, was the son of
John, Lord Clifford, who was slain at Towton Field, which John, Lord
Clif

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God did some time travel -- Gabriel Giffords.

I'm Terry A. Davis, 1440 SAT, but don't give a fuck about grammar, anymore. I feel stupid writing full sentences. Bullet points, mon!!

You guys know that I pick from a fixed set of about 12 books?

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I wonder if this is true:

"A liar won't believe anyone."

It seems probably true.

I guess we could talk about Bible passages and passages that have become quotes from God. I don't know. I'm not in crisis. You'll have to work things out for yourselves.

God says...

C:\Text\HUCKFINN.TXT

's WELL for you to set
there and blubber like a baby--it's fitten for you, after the way you've
acted. I never see such an old ostrich for wanting to gobble everything
--and I a-trusting you all the time, like you was my own father. You ought
to been ashamed of yourself to stand by and hear it saddled on to a lot
of poor niggers, and you never say a word for 'em. It makes me feel
ridiculous to think I was soft enough to BELIEVE that rubbage. Cuss you,
I can see now why you was so anxious to make
I don't know if it is. I think it can be, but it's not just about who's foreign born. It's an interesting subject.

The US has been formed by immigration. Though at some point you should be considered assimilated. If my grand-grand parents emigrated to the US, are their descendants still Swedish? What about my grand-parents? What about my parents? What about me? From a generational standpoint that is.

I would say most parts of the US is very homogeneous. It's just that it's very segregated. Based on race and class. You don't see a lot of rich Caucasians in Compton.

I think homogeneity is about community. About feeling related. Relating to others. Empathy. State of mind.

Speaking a different language than the rest is definitely a barrier. But learning a new language doesn't take that long if you're being accepted by the community. Integration.

Immigration is not new to Sweden. Sweden is not a country built on immigration like the US, but I dare say that people have immigrated here for at least a couple of millennia. Look at the big picture. The native Americans immigrated too. All swedes did too. Is origin important, or assimilation/integration?
Very different issues you're talking about. It's disingenuous to equate them, but nice slip of rhetoric.
That's somewhat encouraging. I have not had good results with either ask or submit.
Immigration and growing inequality are making the Nordics less homogeneous
Backbone Patterns
This is a trademark, not a patent.
I agree with the sentiment to help and not just throw stones, but I think all the outrage and whatnot is very useful: it makes this kind of stuff less likely to happen.
How actively do programmers use refactoring tools?
What you say may be true, but I fail to see the difference. That is why I brought it up. I'm open to learning and understanding more about the subject, but simply passing it off as rhetoric doesn't really help the cause. Care to explain what you mean?
What’s the best 58 sec Elevator Pitch?
I'm not fool enough to say it can't be done.

I did want to see what the state of the art was though, and they use rigid steel on concrete foundations and "path compensation" to deal with the alignments problems (quotes because I am quoting from outside my vocabulary...).
after trying a few, I gotta stick with wunderlist
It would be interesting to study this. I wonder if there are ways to normalize the data and still extract some useful data even if the devices are in the users' pockets.

Longer term, I can see these sensors being embedded in glasses or contacts, which could be an easier problem.
Hacker Foods: Hard Boiled Eggs
I have successfully used Linkedin 3 times in last 6 years to secure a contract job.I was able to do that due to a very niche profile and well connected with similar co-workers in the industry. That is where the strength of Linkedin is: networking/connections with your co-workers. I can keep tab on my ex and present co-workers as to where they are, what they are doing and if they could be useful to me for a next gig or reference etc. The recommendation feature can be useful if done well. I have a decent number of recommendations but all are from actual co-workers I worked with on many projects and I ask them to be specific if they do want to give a recommendation. Generic ones are BS.

Everything else like endorsements (the most useless feature) groups, answers, job postings are mostly crap and does not really add much more value than other existing career sites.

For example, if I am interested in a person/company, I try to look them up on linkedin. Their profile tells me what I need to know if they have relevant information listed. To an extent, I could care about their "answers" or group activity but does it really mean much when the newsfeed says "X person just joined IT professionals group". Sure, other than the fact that I already know he is IT professional.
Dead Bodies - Estimating time of Death is hard.
Practical - "I do not think that word means what you think it means." COPPA has not forced Facebook, Google, etc to ask parents' permission. The practical result is that COPPA bans kids from these services.

BTW, your website is likely already collecting personal information, including name, email address, and web pages visited. And yes, as soon as you subsequently find out that someone is under 13, you're in trouble.
To be fair, when Google or [insert corp here] operates in France it is not a foreign company. Google could pull out of France if they wanted to, otherwise they have to respect local laws and regulations.

I don't agree with the French media co demands but then Google (and Bing) do exploit content in an unfair way, like showing full images on their sites, making a visit to the image creator less likely. Now that people use search engines to find content it's easy to say "block them"...
Boundary by the Numbers
We already parse that type of data, if it is from tendril connect.

Where you thinking about uploading a simple file?

If you would like to help us understand your use case, can you send a quick email to mail at unplu dot gg ?
Actually, I think it would. The problem is not too many types per se, but too many types without a good way of managing them. All a static type system is is a good way to manage types!
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Off-topic, but in Chrome I got the bar at the top saying "This page is in French. Translate?"

This mis-identification of language in Chrome happens to me probably once a day, though usually when looking at code.
Who Wants a Nice Tall Glass of Coca-Cola's Algorithmic Orange Juice?
I think one of the most important disruptive technologies I've noticed over the years is the production of electrostatically controlled nano-valves. This (in my limited opinion) is on par with the "trick" life got involved with many billions of years ago when it chanced on lipid bi-layers with embedded protein gates. It promises a level of material science that is ultimately a phase transition in complexity for life. With the Nokia/Graphene news recently I am confidently hopeful that this technology will produce huge advances.
The argument isn't about whether or not they're being degraded, but whether women as a group are being objectified by the people who organized the display. That argument is significantly enhanced by the fact that women were the only "objects" that were on display, especially when women were far from the only "objects" that were appropriate for this display. There's nothing about HyperMac's products that figuratively or literally only applies to naked, painted women. Naked, painted men were just as appropriate as women, but they were completely avoided for reasons that are unknown to the public.

Right now, the display is "naked women in body paint", but with men it would be "naked people in body paint." The gender neutrality of the display would exist in more than just a semantic sense, but also in a deeper sense that gender wasn't considered a factor when they were making this display. Right now, that's not how it looks at all. It looks like they only wanted naked women to be associated with HyperMac's products. And the CEO's comments do absolutely nothing to dissuade that viewpoint.

Would people have still complained about objectification of women if there were men in the display too? Maybe. But they would have a much weaker case than they do now.
>Actually, you did not ask about'what can't be done', but 'example of anything other than a game that is actually "taking advantage of the underlying hardware and OS"'.

You left off the rest of the sentence though, the part that said "in some way that the browser can not".

>Instagram takes advantage of the underlying OS and hardware when it uses photo filters. Same as native games do. Could it be done in browser? Probably. Same as games.

The difference is that photo filters can be done, quite trivially, in the browser. Many games can not, because the performance of the javascript engines and the limited hardware accelerated drawing.
HighTable: The Startup Network to meet new people
Business is like sex. You can't learn it in a book ;)
I like how they framed this: "It has also cut the top marginal tax rate by 27 percentage points since 1983, to 57%... This year it is cutting the corporate-tax rate from 26.3% to 22%."

You might also note their top marginal income tax rate is 22 percentage points higher than the US, and their corporate tax rate is 6 percentage points higher. As other commenters have noted, this is not a high point for The Economist.

EDIT: yup, completely wrong on the corporate tax rate. 16% was the _effective_ rate.
US News's rankings are based upon metrics like acceptance rate, retention rate, yield rate, charitable donations, faculty-student ratio, endowment, etc. These rankings don't predict the "best" colleges, but rather the most prestigious.
Kim Dotcom puts up $13,500 bounty for 1st person to break Mega’s security system
Except HyperMac worked VERY closely with their marketing company. AND the vitriolic response was posted by HyperMac's CEO.
Yup that post was awesome! Almost didn't watch the video at the end, but glad I did. Although there is zero chance I'm going to remember any of that when I actually need to land a plane :p (Luckily the chance that I need to land a plane is probably much lower...)
Do you want the system to edit out an address in a photo if someone takes a picture of a building that has an address on it? Do you want the system to remove EXIF data from images that didn't come from the camera? Do you want the system to remove location information from other files? Do you want the system to remove access to the IP and wifi information so that apps can't trace using that? Do you want the system to proxy requests from those apps so that other people can't trace your location from web requests submitted by those apps?

The on/off switch was originally designed for whether or not you wanted to give the app access to GPS information. Some people say no simply to save power. EXIF data and other types of data which can be used to identify your location are different.

If you want controls over location privacy you should build real controls over location privacy, not pretend that a control that's displayed only once the first time you use an app and only for apps that access GPS-like information is a location privacy control.

It's not.

You can identify a location from a bunch of different types of data. If you want to fix the bug you need an actual fix and that requires a better location privacy control.

(Also if you answered no to all of those questions at the beginning of my post, I'd bet you'd change your tune in an instant if someone at Path simply reprogrammed their stuff to geotag based on a geoip lookup from your submission. Then you and others would probably say that this control is supposed to prevent that type of location data too.)
Ironically, this DID get upvotes.
I also went to UCLA and second all of this. My undergraduate experience didn't feel at all like I was at a research university.
You're points are totally valid and I don't fault you for making them, but you are attacking an easy target, and your post has a much more men -vs- women attitude in it. All the articles posted on HN forget to make it obvious that women were behind this offense as much as men, and in many cases, the women were more responsible for the offense than the men.

I'm a marketer and I'm a male, thus I am a quant and have no sense of "creativity" or "feel." Women are more creative, do better at writing for social media, and are better with people. I'm a male that can't doesn't represent the flair culture a company is looking for. I hope you don't believe all of this is true and I doubt you'd be interested in reading about my plight, but I hope you find this attitude insulting toward both men and women.
There's more in the balance, Google is facing a huge tax case: http://www.france24.com/en/20121121-france-google-confident-...

I am far from understanding the details of this, but it involves channeling money and contracts to Ireland, where taxes are lower. French radio has been revealing that some of these operations are not fully legal.
"It also allows parents to send children to private schools at public expense and make up the difference in cost with their own money"

Theoretically this is a lot easier to do in the United States, where public schools cost much more than private schools on average. Washington DC was able to fund private school scholarships at 50% the cost of sending kids to public school, pocketing the savings.
Creating the Legalities of a WordPress Business — Adam W. Warner
Yikes. Any site with a publicly accessible swfupload.swf is open to XSS.

https://nealpoole.com/blog/2012/05/xss-and-csrf-via-swf-appl...
The Octodex
This is perception more than anything else. I don't see many people complaining that government was too big in the "golden age" of the 50's and 60's, yet total government revenue as a percentage of GDP has been pretty stable since then: http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/include/usgr_chart3p22.pn....

Indeed, if you factor out the huge increase in social security and medicare expenditures that result from the aging of the population between 1950 and today, the rest of government is probably smaller today than it was then.

Moreover, much of what seems to be "growth" in government is the result of transfer payments--things like Social Security checks that are taken out of one pocket in the private sector and deposited directly into another pocket in the private sector. In terms of bureaucratic machinery, at least the federal government has been shrinking: http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/wired-workplace/2010/09/....

In 1950, there were 1.44 million federal workers for 150 million people. The number of federal employees peaked in absolute terms in 1990, at 2.25 million, but that number actually represents a decline in relative terms, because by then the U.S. had 250 million people. Today the federal workforce is at about 2.15 million, while the population is at 310 million. That is to say we have twice as many people as we did in 1950, but the headcount of the federal government is only 50% larger.

As for your other points: collusion, etc. We are substantially less regulated today than we were in the 1950's and 1960's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation#Deregulation_1970-.... Many major industries (trucking, airlines, energy, finance, communications) were deregulated between 1970-2000. With decreased regulation came decreased opportunity for regulatory capture.

The idea that things are worse today than they used to be is a lot of "back in the good old days" day dreaming.
Just say stealing. Pedants say "stealing is to deprive a person of their property..." If you read the definition of stealing, it doesn't say deprive. It says take. You can't argue that nothing is being taken. It's ridiculous to pretend that either of records or intellectual property cannot be stolen.

It's not easier to steal a person's records when the documents are digital. Especially if it's done properly (the storage, the privileges, the interchange...)

What's easier in the digital case, that I will concede, is to steal the entire filing cabinet. It's easier to steal a piece of paper than to do either of these other things; breaking encryption to access the records once you've stolen the entire filing cabinet, or gaining unauthorized access on a system that is supposedly audited and access controlled.
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Ninja Block
I'm not saying the US is homogeneous, I'm saying it's not all about immigration, it's about integration and assimilation as well.

"there is probably a greater cultural distance between e.g. the Pacific Northwest and deep South in the US than there is between many European countries" Right. Making a comparison to the countries in the Balkans is very interesting here.
But sometimes it's a short post. I usually read everything, and with this particularity short blog post, I'd be surprised if it took me longer than 20 seconds to read the entirety of his post and close it out. I imagine you can glean most everything you want from the less beefy ars or tech crunch articles in 10...
I don't mean to come off as dismissive but the article seemed to be talking about communication within a team or with customers and users in a face to face environment. Being able to post on a blog well is not going to get you very far talking to project owners/users to understand business problems. I think social media has an extremely limited usefulness when it comes to determining how well someone can communicate within a real world face to face business environment. I would rather rate a potential employee's ability to communicate on the 15-30 minutes I have to talk to them rather than their social media footprint.
Jyu,

Thanks, that's a really awesome response. I'm grepping through the Victor article now. All the best.
I feel like 30,000 concurrent users is woefully underestimated. The article says "During the Super Bowl, the network will be able to handle up to 30,000 simultaneous connections, which should be enough." but I wonder where that estimate came from.

I would double that, in my estimates, given the kinds of people even capable of securing Super Bowl tickets. W're not talking about a fair sample of the US population here, we're talking about 80k at-least middle class fans, which I'd imagine raises the likelihood of a wireless-capable device being in their pockets significantly.

Again from the article: "As long as 100 percent of the people in there don't take out their cellular device and switch it to the Wi-Fi network, it should be fine."

Given the fact that it's an open network, why do these people even need to take out their device at all? Many phone will jump onto an open network if at all possible, won't they?

I'd be interested in a post-mortem after the event to determine the effectiveness of the Wi-Fi plan.
I wonder what the legal issues are for an American company having cross-border employees. How do they take care of national insurance and income taxes etc for their UK-based employee when (presumably) they have no legal presence there? How does this work for them?
It's (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal
I rarely upvote because doing so on HN automatically adds that article to your Saved section. I prefer to keep this section only for submissions to which I'd want to come back later (and I'm unsure if the "upvote to save" behavior can be changed).

Either way, view this as a great lesson in why getting conversions can be so tough. A person better have a very persuasive case for a stranger to go out of their way and click a button.
"Things like" would count things that mattered per category. If you wanted to go into pure science, most likely you'd be concerned about the freshman average GPA, the % of graduates who change majors, and the graduating percentage that find employment as researchers and educators.

Medical school costs (and the insurance load to practice medicine) are already tipping the scales against GPs (low return on educational investment), and many medical students already know this. The real looming healthcare crises will be when the margins on being a general practioneer sinks below the educational investment cost, and all we are left with are specialists.

As far as investment return on the cost of college education goes, earnings would be a useful metric, especially when one has to finance the education with student loans that have fixed rates of repayment. It is the most universally applicable metric, and although it may not make everybody's world go around, it does keep things from coming to a grinding halt (apart from coercion and intimidation).

In any case, I doubt the college U.S. News college ranking is the largest signal to where most incoming freshman apply.