skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Victorian-era translations of Jules Verne are very mixed.

Some translators just didn't bother to get the science right (this is evident in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "Journey to the Center of the Earth.") They would mis-translate units of measurement (using feet instead of meters) and just simply eliminate the "boring geology" that they didn't understand.

Verne was also a Frenchman and the English translators were mostly British. So any anti-British or liberal tendencies were removed so as not to offend Victorian sensibilities. This sometimes included racist stereotypes that Verne never intended.

Finally, Verne was (and is) not seen as a serious author by English readers (eg: your own comment dismisses Verne as merely "entertaining literature.") His works were frequently abridged and marketed as juvenile fiction. After a while, nobody bothered to translate his works because, the copyrights of the original translations were in the public domain, and they were "good enough."

This is slowly being corrected by some fine new translations (the 20,000 Leagues translation mentioned elsewhere is important in that regard.)

This was actually a very big problem with Russian Literature. Constance Garnett was a prolific translator of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekov. Apparently her speed of translating the massive works made her popular with publishers of the day.

Today her works are still being published, despite their clear inferiority to newer translations that are not yet in the public domain.
I remember last year at SXSW, I was taking my box of tshirts back to the hotel so I could sort through and organize them. I put the box down for a second to give my friend a shirt. A mass of people flocked around me and within 20 minutes my box of 200 shirts was gone. People didnt even have a clear idea of that the shirts were for, but it had a heart on it so that was cool enough.
For better or worse, disk manufacturers have been using base 10 megabytes and gigabytes for a couple of decades now. Sure, that switch was marketing driven, but criticizing Apple for eventually switching to the same nomenclature universally used by the storage industry qualifies as a "rant" in my book.

If Apple started doing that for RAM, which is still universally quantified using base 2 gigabytes, now that would be rant-worthy.
we should talk, working on something to do this. would love to find out more about how you do this http://swagmate.startupthreads.com
Yes, good point. Maybe Surface Pro is better value than some people think? ;-)
Javascript is the only language that runs in the browser. There are tons of great alternatives to PHP to run on a server.
$120B (and growing) probably goes a bit above and beyond "extra capital".
It kind of resembles of what a wildly popular javascript lib does isn't it?
Exactly. Pace the article, the reason that Lego seems expensive to us is that other toys are now much cheaper (in real terms) than they were in the '70s. If you corrected for "toy inflation" instead of "general inflation" this would be apparent.
>but the actual issue people were taking with the Surface is the fact that when you buy it it's packed so full of bloat and crapware

What bloat and crapware are you talking about? Office?

If the 128GB MBA is taking up similar space, does it mean that it too comes with "bloat and crapware" ?
the sanest thing ive seen about php in a long time.
Yes. And never mind the fact that he's stating what it would take for him to leave a job he obviously loves. Of course he is going to make outrageous demands. He doesn't want to leave! Hello.. is this thing on? I feel the message got lost on a lot of people that maybe haven't been inundated with recruiter calls and emails or had their time wasted talking about positions that they would never take.

I mean who here hasn't been contacted by a recruiter asking about a skill set you barely know or don't even have on your resume? Or their understanding of it in general is so far off you don't even want to deal with it? Or ones where they try to connect to every person in your company through you? I could go on and on. It gets maddening.
This library looks like it will make my life a lot easier. Many thanks, Joeri!
Is there a 11" MBA that comes with more than 128GB of space?
Sort of like how pandodaily "hacked" this article together and called it journalism.
Same for me. Been getting spam from several people's yahoo email. This is why I always think in the back of my mind that Gmail has it right since Yahoo and Hotmail i've known people getting hacked accounts.
Is Herbalife A Pyramid Scheme?
Most of those manufacturers sell crappy products with bizarre bits of brain damage in otherwise good machines. E.g. awesome Sony laptop that's got 2 hours of battery life, or great Samsung device that's a fax-aluminum plastic piece of shit. I wouldn't even touch a PC laptop from someone other than Lenovo, and judging by everyone else's sales figures, I'm apparently not alone.

That's the real hope of Surface--to free us from OEM's and their OEM crapware and OEM brain damage. Microsoft has a lot of money, but even it can't buy the Chinese/Taiwanese OEM's taste.

There is just a powerful marketing pitch in being able to sell a product "this is the one true way Windows 8 was meant to be experienced." There is a reason everyone raves about the Nexus 4/7/10. Surface is the only Windows 8 tablet on the market that can go toe to toe with Apple in terms of industrial design and vertical integration. The success of Windows 8 tablets lives and dies with Surface.
Any one know the available space(in GiB the 2 power number) on a brand new Macbook Air 64GB ?
Don't use the stock Ruby on OSX: multiplication is broken.
Well, this is basically obvious to everyone in the software industry, but it's been obvious for twenty years, and Congress doesn't seem to care. What can we do to make this problem more visible?
Better Specs
Er, I'm pretty sure fishes is wrong...

edit: I stand corrected! Thanks Google. :)
To even remotely consider Kerry Packer as an upstanding and completely above-board member of the community is just laughable from the outset. His persona lived large in the world of shady backroom deals, and he loved it.

Sure, everyone wants to minimise their tax, but what quotes like this do is paper over the loopholes available to the very wealthy, that allow them to pay far less than a fair share of tax.

Besides, using the argument of "but it's legal!" to end the conversation would suggest that no-one should ever make new laws, simply because anything that's currently legal 'must be right because it's legal'. A circular argument. For example: Should we make laws for greater transparency in government? No, because it's currently legal for them to hide their activities, therefore it must be correct!
Time for a Forward Thinking CMS
i have something similar on the back-burner that i haven't pushed public yet, but only a single, one-letter function like jquery that takes any type. there are soooooo many functions to abstract. even though most are one-liners, i ran out of steam :)

certainly not something to use all the time, especially in perf-oriented code, but it's nice sugar.
The main reason I actually completed the Stripe CTF was for the t-shirt.
4 Days Left: Fire Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann
Smart marketing move. LinkedIn just made 10 million people wonder, if they are in the top 5% of most viewed profiles, who exactly did view their profile? Curious to see how many users end up converting to Pro from this "spam".
Stallman is so ahead of everybody in terms of seeing, explaining virtual freedoms.

Check this article from 1997

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
NanoSatisfi Raises $1.2M To Disrupt Aerospace With Small, Affordable Satellites
I don't feel like I use it very much. I wonder how many of the 200M users are inactive. My guess is most of them. The top 10% is probably anyone who used LinkedIn more than a few times last year. Not to put a damper on your achievement :)
Because "the government" is composed of the same people being lobbied to by Apple.
He probably deploys apps from Xcode to his device. Since his computer can't handle the iOS6-compatible Xcode, he has chosen to not update the device to iOS6.
Ask HN: Where to get data files for teaching programming
Teaching command-line C++ and I need some data to teach file operations, parsing, tallying, plotting, etc.

Say a text file with 1 million random names, have the students read it, tally up how many times each name appears in the file, etc.

Stuff like this! Interesting data a plus!
Warner Bros. Targets Kim Dotcom’s Mega With Bogus DMCA Requests
Perhaps you should read my comment again and have another go at finding what it was that I thought was ludicrous.
My feedback would be that "free" makes me extremely suspicious. How do you make money? Selling my information?

I'm not saying you are, just that it makes it sound like some kind of scam.

I think you should charge a low flat fee. $15 perhaps. I wouldn't be surprised if you had more people using the service this way.
This comment implies like there aren't any other great alternatives for jquery in the browser.

What about dojotoolkit or YUI library?
I don't see how javascript is here to blame.
I think you make a decent point about the self-centered nature of the American economy and mindset – to some extent it does hinder the upper-bound of what we can achieve, as a society... however, the way it benefits us (or is supposed to benefit us) is through the action of a market economy – if we're all forced to pay for college, even if we don't attend, there's little incentive for colleges to produce a better value for the money paid... unfortunately, IMHO, with loans as they are, we effectively break the market economy by decoupling the payment from the experience so significantly.

Further, we have plenty of experience here with government run systems that are so highly inefficient that there's a (very warranted) mistrust in the ability of any government run system to deliver a superior product for a lower cost.

We temper some of those two extremes by allowing for nonprofit corporations – and that is where I believe healthcare should primarily be handled, rather than for-profit industries like we see now... but of course, educational institutions are nonprofits, in most cases and they are acting more and more like for-profit ones, so it's clearly not sufficient on its own.
This is a repost, already been talked about to death.

http://normanconquesttech.blogspot.com/2012/12/dealing-with-...
nice. packing and shipping tshirts is a real drag, so I could see this being a really great service. signed up!
If I was a start-up, and you gave me $10M seed money, and I gave it back to you a year later saying I don't have any ideas, would you call me fiscally conservative, or a waste of time?
Thanks, just checked the 128GB model and you're right. But the 256GB model costs $300 more and the 512GB one costs $800 more!

That means you can get an MBA 11" 128GB plus a huge 128GB iPad instead of a MBA 11" 512GB.
Well said, mate. The fact that big corporations can get away with this pisses me to no end.

I hope at least the shareholders will be paying some taxes :)
I recently purchased a 4TB external hard drive. It was the first hard drive I have ever come across that had exactly 4tb of free space when I opened it. Usually its a little bit less. I can remember my 80gig hard drive I spent all summer saving up for back around 2000 only have 66gigs and being totally bummed out.

I know with flash memory the units are more exact, but are they getting better with the spinning hd's with the space accuracy?
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I got this email (as did millions of others) but the real surprise is that it doesn't mean much to make that by actual profile views. Thinking back I don't remember a month where I had more than maybe 100 people view my profile, average month was probably around 50-60. If you think about it, most people get that probably weekly on facebook and daily on twitter.
it would be helpful if this article included some actual details about what doesn't work for people considering adding iCloud to their apps.
The website doesn't work in Chrome 25.x on OS X. No scrolling. Lame.
Yes meditation helps, but what helps even more is insight to meditation to gain knowledge, wisdom, understanding, and experience.
No problem. The goal is to be general purpose, though, and to that end we just added support for UnionPay, Maestro, and Laser: https://github.com/stripe/jquery.payment/pull/5.
> Microsoft has been pummeled by critics this week over supposedly inadequate storage space in its new Surface Pro.

It wasn't about the inadequacy of the storage space in and of itself – 25/64GB or 90/128GB is not decidedly inadequate for all users, and is (as the article explains) in the ballpark of usable space for comparable laptops.

There's a separate issue regarding the advertising of storage industry-wide that has merit, but this issue is about the amount of usable storage space in the context of the rest of the tablet market.

Sure, the Surface is comparable on storage space to competing laptops including those offered by Apple, but it's not even in the same ballpark as competing tablets.

Microsoft is pitching the Surface as a competitor to both tablets and laptops, separately and together. It therefore needs to compete against features of both, and it seems it can't when it comes to this specific feature.
So annoying I closed it without reading the article...
How good is PHP? I was thinking about peer review the other day, and how one measures peer review. One of the most important metrics is the number of citations an article acquires. If an article is published and, over the next 20 years, is only cited 3 times, we can say that it failed to influence its field, but if an article accumulates 1,000 citations, we can say that it definitely had some impact.

Then I thought about PHP, and how it compared with other languages. I went to Google and started searching:

influenced by gosling java

influenced by hickey clojure

influenced by matz ruby

influenced by Stroustrup C++

influenced by larry wall perl

and then finally:

influenced by lerdorf php

You look through some of those links and you notice a difference. A lot of people write about the brilliant things that have been said by Gosling and Hickey and Matz and Larry Wall and Stroustrup but no one ever cites Ramus Lerdorf as an inspiration, nor does anyone seem to think he has ever said anything especially brilliant or insightful. I'm sure if you dig you might find exceptions, but as a rough metric of who has influenced who, I think this reveals something important about how computer programmers perceive the quality of PHP and one of its core contributors.

(You could counter-argue that PHP has several core contributors, in which case, I would counter-counter-argue by asking that you please suggest a core contributor to PHP who is quoted with the same admiration expressed for the other architects that I've listed here.)
When reading the background on Graph from October (http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/10/1/prismatics-graph...), I came across this: Of course, this idea is not new; for example, it is the basis of graph computation frameworks like Pregel, Dryad, and Storm, and existing libraries for system composition such as react.

I wanted to point out that the programming model behind Dryad and Storm represent computations as graphs, but that the programming model behind Pregel is for computations on graphs. It's a subtle difference in words, but an enormous difference in what you actually do.
Not always. I am obliged to use PHP at the moment.
Coursera Wins Approval To Offer Online Courses For Credit For Under $200
Exactly -- that's why it's so scary to think that their testimony can be so pivotal in a criminal trial.
Symfony2 gets quite a bit of love here on HN... as much love as anything PHP-related can get.

Its creator, Fabien Potencier, is usually cited as someone bringing sanity and quality to the PHP world.
Note that the OS X recovery partition is only 650 MB, since it downloads the actual installation image from the internet on the fly.

Are you sure that the Surface Pro's disk actually offers 127.90 GB of block device? To my inexpert ears, that seems to imply that it's actually larger than 128 GB, which sounds wrong.
I am not surprised that shitty message board search functionality was not considered when naming the language (How do you even search for "C" with such a system?)
OK. Downloaded 4.0 to check it out. Some examples of what I find 'not nice' in half an hour or so of looking. None of them are showstoppers, but together, they give me the impression of "functional, but I have seen nicer":

Deviations from Mac OS style:

- application menu stays highlighted when preferences dialog is open.

- Does not use standard font and style dialogs => unnecessary learning curve; sharing styles with other applications does not seem possible.

- Does not use standard color dialogs => unnecessary learning curve; sharing palettes with other applications does not seem possible.

- Focus rectangles in dialogs even if that is disabled in system settings.

- OK button on the left, Cancel on the right.

- A setting for not aliasing screen fonts that are too small? Why not follow the system setting?

- Non-standard "Save changes before closing" dialogs:
- weird shape (wide and very low)
- incorrect order of buttons
- non-standard button texts
- non-standard 'Question' icon
- extremely little room between button texts and button borders

- I expect 'Spell check' in the Edit menu, not in the Tools menu.

- "Page Setup" is missing. Instead, we have "Printer Settings"

General

- Focus rectangles look ugly (should not use dotted lines; dotted line is too close to the text)

- Spacing of lines in tree view in Preferences looks too small to me.

- Way too many settings (examples: a toggle for graphics antialiasing?)

- Why is this still combined as a single application?

- In the Tools-Customize dialog, menu separator lines are drawn using hyphens, not by drawing a line.

- Striped dialog backgrounds in a Mac App released in 2013?

- Help menu's "What's this?" item does not appear to do anything (its feedback is a pointer change, but that change does not happen if there is no window below the mouse. With large screens, it is easy to get there (say when having a HN reply window side by side with a LibreOffice window)

- Help menu has 5 menu items and 3 separator lines.

- Try spell-checking an empty document. Dialog opens, immediately an alert pops up "The spellcheck of this sheet has been completed." If you click OK, both the alert and the spell check dialog close.

- When you make row height lower, row numbers should, at some stage, start using a smaller font. They don't.
The larger SSD is indeed a rip off.
open office plan is for grown ups. i wish we had an open office plan, i hate these cubicles and walls that divide.
Sort of like the OkCupid emails which tell you you're a sexier member than most and you'll be displayed more prominently in search results. Humanity.
In the case of systematic lying it'd be hard, but when the problem is definitions -- what counts as sex and sexting -- you just need to ask more and more detailed questions and then the reasons become obvious.
A five mile trip in SF by taxi would cost $16.70 plus tip while Uber would cost $24.50 tip included. An extra five bucks to have a hassle free experience does not seem that extravagant, especially considering what it costs to live in SF. Certainly not "super rich" territory, it's more on the order of staying at a 4-star hotel instead of a 3-star hotel. A nice perk, but the super rich guy is getting an amazing sweet you didn't even know existed.
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But then how will he really know it's you, Geoff? ;)

In all seriousness, you should consider posting a response like this in your FAQ/Help and linking at the install tutorial. I'm really sick of this knee-jerk security reaction happening every time someone builds an installer like this.
They aren't broken, they work exactly as intended.

They are more limited than similar constructs in some other languages, which compels using named functions in situations where in other languages one might use anonymous ones. On balance, this isn't really a big deal.

Also, its quite possible to support multistatement lambdas within Python's indentation-sensitive structure; the decision not to do so isn't a result of technical limitations but of aesthetic judgements.
Where Do the Millions of Cancer Research Dollars Go Every Year?
I am confused, does the Surface Pro come with a 128GiB HDD or a 119GiB HDD? I was of the impression that it was 128GB i.e 119GiB.
Well there is me. I wanted a dev machine that I could use as a desktop, laptop or occasional tablet. I ended up with a Sony Vaio Duo which is pretty good at what I want.

Or there is my (leaving) boss who has a laptop, desktop and iPad but is now going to a W8 tablet, probably a Surface Pro or Helix.

Or there is my (incoming) boss who has a desktop and an android tablet but would prefer a single device.

When I show my Duo off to people, no-one has said "what a bad idea". What they have said is "how much" and "can I have it".

While the surface pro itself may not be the right device, there are a lot of people who would like a good convertible device.
wow... just today I started looking for a wizard for a new project and this is exactly what I had in mind. will have to translate that CSS to LESS though.
Maybe, but if several people develop several APIs like this, it will mostly make everyone's lives more difficult. This should be a part of the standard distribution.
I did not copy off of you, I swear!

:)
Ask HN: What are the cons of the Seattle area?  
On paper, this city and state seems almost perfect. The government is solvent. There's no income tax. The housing is somewhat affordable. A rail system is actually being built. I hear there is a strong technical community there as well.

While Silicon Valley is definitely first, it looks like Seattle could be a good alternative.

So what's the cons of the place? The only ones I can think off on the top of my head is the lack of a non-compete agreement worker protection, less venture capital, and a giant volcano which gives me nightmares of Pompeii. Anything else?
Sometimes they do (cf Dreamliner battery problems).
On a similar topic, I recommend this article about how Tide (yes, the detergent that comes in the memorable orange container) became a drug currency [1].

[1] http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/
I don't mean to dwell on the technical issues, but I'd be very curious to hear more about the performance issues you encountered that the Rails Core members couldn't resolve. Was there ever any resolution apart from downgrading to 2.x, and are there certain things that should be avoided in Rails 3.x?
http://www.generatedata.com/
http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

Both have options to download randomly created data sets in various formats.
Yup, my friend's company gives t-shirt priority to people who've contributed to their open source project :)
Open sourcing open source license drafting
I've heard these rumblings for quite a while--haven't done anything with iCloud support myself--, and, yes, we need some details of what's not working.

Or maybe the article's implying no one really knows?
This is for people who want tablet + laptop but dont want carry+charge+pay for 2 devices. It's really not that difficult to understand, I dont know why HN has such a hard time understanding this.

"But the iPad is a better tablet!!!", yeh but the surface is a full system.
"But the air is better laptop!!" yeh but the surface has tablet capabilities.
"Buy an Air + iPad!!" I dont want to pay extra plus its a hassle to carry + manage 2 devices
That team is really amazing with data too. Their work is so impressive.
The position of his equipment suggests that the photo does not describe his actual workspace.