skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is Chrome's English dictionary so bad?
Chrome's English dictionary always seemed weak to me. A valid word that's not found is just a little pin prick of annoying, not a big deal. But for the last few days I recorded correctly spelled legitimate words it didn't have, in Chrome for Windows 25.0.1364.172 m. And came up with 17 words:

hypotheticals
anonymizing
dialogs
compatibilism
circularities
homuncular
squirrely
nauseum
vanishingly
anthropomorphization
unaffordable
logarithmically
relatable
epistemological
repurposes
smidge
relatedly

Which is not a huge number, but these are not obscure chemical names or bizarre words, these are pretty normal. I put the words into Word 2010, it flagged 5 of them, so quite a bit better but not perfect. Then I put then into Google Docs, it correctly knew all of them. What gives? Why is Chrome's dictionary so weak? This sounds like typical whining and complaining about a detail of someone's product that is otherwise very good, which it is, but I also really just want to know why it's so bad? We won't judge, just tell us, let us learn from it. It's ironic since Google brags that spelling correction is a competitive advantage of theirs. Plus we're not even talking about correction here, we're talking about a list of words. Are they trying to save memory? Save money? What is the deal?
I've wanted to like Ember ever since it was SproutCore, but man--it's hard to get into it.

That said, writing like this might push us in the right direction.
> So I guess my point is that shouldn't be your responsibility to make others feel comfortable around you simply because you are a woman.

> is an irrelevant conclusion to take from this event. You don't have to speak for your entire sex by being politically incorrect just to show you're not "one of those" women or that women aren't all the same

Well I said that somewhat tongue in cheek, i don't think its my responsibility to make people feel more comfortable around me because i'm a women, I was mainly commenting on how there is a noticeable difference when people find out i'm not "one of those women" and relax. In fact when it comes down to it its people not being uncomfortable because i'm a women, but because i may be "one of those women" and i can't blame them, if i was, one slip up and they could lose their job. And now it seems even if you slip up in public around one you could too.

I don't try and speak for my gender, or show all women aren't they same, when i show that i am ok with and enjoy 'inappropriate' humor, that's me and who i am. no one is going to think oh gosh all women are like this. When someone does what adira did and acts all righteously thinking they speak for all women it affects us all, and not for the better.

My argument is that anyone can be offended by anything and we have to realize this and behavior accordingly. What i am ok with is going to be differently they what she is ok with. She was bothered by it, ok, but her response was disproportional and out of line yet somehow its defensible because shes female and "did it for the young girls". it does women like me a disservice because now men are going to be even more cautions and uncomfortable around us because the huge risk of possible offending someone like her and it ruining your life. No one should lose their job over a stupid dick joke. period. People need to have tougher skins and not be so easily offended otherwise its going to be a sad sad world we live in.

> portray her as this basketcase who has no control over herself

well I do think she has no control over her self, She got angry and posted a pic on twitter about them and started a vendetta when she should have simply contacted the conference staff, something i would have done if people were actually being out of line and not just making the equivalent of a 13 year old boy's joke to his friend. If that didn't work then it was time to escalate, instead she demonstrated both poor judgement and self control and jumped right into the tweeting.
...on search results. Let's not split hairs.
I basically learned rails from the first tutorial.

Thanks for these!
In my case, I was lucky enough to connect with a distant relative who had done a lot of the research, and then confirm parts of it (I was at uni at the time - love a large library and databases!).

Her being a convict helped with the record keeping, of course - court records, ship records, habitation records on the ground. And even by the time she was freed, these were all tiny colonies* so recording everyone was pretty easy.

*How tiny? Well they evacuated the ENTIRE colony of Norfolk Island in about 1807, shipping them all to Hobart which was in need of a larger population. Even then, her daughter (my 7x great grandmother) was something like the 143rd wedding in the colony (now state of Tasmania). Compare that the USA circa 1807 which had 17 states in the union and a population of about 6 million.
I see how you got here, but that's not what I'm arguing. The parent's post seems to imply that anyone that would react strongly to a joke is a "colossal fucking idiot." This seems to imply that the joke's content has no relation to the reaction. So I was just wondering if that really holds. As per the parent's reply, it does. I'm not even barely implying that threatening to kill political figures is the next logical step. I'm implying that there definitely is some hard limit being ignored or maybe I'm wrong.
I mean he is likely to find another/better job before the end of the month.
right, i would expect 50% to go to the tax man, unless waiting long enough to get into long term capital gain. His 63% threw me off there, sounds like France!
> I made the assumption based on her responses to comments on her blog

Fair enough.
Chinese solar producer Suntech declares bankruptcy
How do you plan to profit?
> A take down notice that is so facially invalid may well qualify as knowing misrepresentation.

Or simply show incompetence that supports a claim of lack of knowing misrepresentation.
Practical File System Design [pdf]
Ah, I see. But, of course, the practical-engineer part of my brain reads that and says "well, if it's working on the FPGA, ship the FPGA!" =)

I actually see a lot of potential in devices like the aforementioned Cypress PSoC. If you're not familiar, the PSoC family involves chips that have a core microcontroller with ram and Flash but also have a number of analog blocks inside as well. ADCs, capsense, op-amps, logic gates, muxes, comparators, timers, etc. You can use the Cypress IDE to wire the components up and connect them to I/O pins. The IDE can generate your configuration, or you can optionally reconfigure the chip while running via internal registers.

So it's kind of like an FPGA-type solution as you suggested. When you start developing with these chips, you're really creating hardware from software. It's interesting stuff.
"We're not choosing your company because we believe in the right for men to tell dick jokes."

I'd quickly e-mail back: "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."
MIT Soph Delian Asparouhov Spoofs Email, Impersonates Pres, Invokes Aaron Swartz
The Secrets of Breast Milk
Would the lights dangle from the ceiling?
The unibody machining costs back when the MacBook Air first came out was pretty ludicrous too - $1800 for a MBA if I remember correctly.

Now it's $900, and the same process has been streamlined to the point where even mid-range phones have this sort of construction.

We just need someone to lead the charge.
You're right, of course, but it's not just that. In previous versions of Rails, the default page (a static file served out of the public/ directory) worked just fine on Heroku. It was only the magical “About your application’s environment” link that didn't work. In Rails 4.0, the static file is gone, and as far as I can tell the entire default page is magic, so on Heroku it breaks in its entirety, too.

It's not a big deal of course, as in any real app you'll quickly define a root route and be done with it. (I do consider it a feature, too, as I really like not having to remove the static file by hand.)
Shoot me an email. I'd like to talk about some potenti work.
well i could be a smart ass and say a world with face recognition & the internets.

Or just point out that in the photo https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/313417655879102464/...

you can clearly see both their badges (with names) and their are wearing their companies t-shirt. Also she really should have cropped it because the poor man on the left is going to be mistaken for the one of them now.
Radio. Voyager is nuclear powered (Thought not in the sense you're probably thinking. It's a nuclear source and a thermoelectric cell.), and many (most?) of the instruments are still functioning and sending signals back.

It really is quite astounding when you think about it! Launched in 1977, traveled through the solar system, and still functioning!
Sorry to hear you're so low. I'm concerned that you dismiss therapy and antidepressants so quickly -- I think combined they're a big part of the approach most people take to get better, so it makes sense statistically to take them very seriously, right?

I know that it's often hard to find the right antidepressant, though, and it can involve very painful steps backwards and waiting for something to happen while you're trying a new one. But if you can bear it, finding medication that works seems to have been a large part of getting better for the people I've known who've made it through.

I hope you make it through too!
New staff means lower wages and higher profit margins.
>> reading his list is a lot of capital to invest in a single employee

That single employee with his background represents millions of dollars per year in revenue, he should be asking for more and you should get a clue.
My favorite comment from the post:

"And by the way – how is this app strategic for you guys and Reader is not? A little clarity would certainly be appreciated."

I too would love to know what Google is thinking here.
I second rmrfrmrf here. People are acting like it's easy or fun to be the one to stand up and try to do what's right. It isn't easy or fun and part of the reason people don't do it is that when you stand up, you become a nice visible target.
She @-replied pycon staff. Compare that to the HN and Reddit communities out for Adria's head.
Anyone else think "Sweet Jesus" when this link turned out to be a list of very interesting and widely appealing Python-related videos instead of something to do with purported sexism?
the forking joke yea, but that was even more benign, the dongle joke occurred afterwards after i assume some time had passed.
When your community is getting schooled by a thread on reddit and a Forbes blog post, I think it's pretty clear you've hit rock bottom in terms of credibility.
Venmo Payouts
I see a number of people agreeing that this is a major overreaction. Are any of y'all willing to hire (or even interview) the man that got fired? I think that would be the action that would show independent thought on the matter. Until then, I'm not sure what a concord on this action would bring beyond posturing.

I hate to point this out, because I totally agree with the point people are making. If I were in a position to interview the man (and had the need), I'd probably do so.

Anyway, my two cents.
> Frankly, it's hard to understand her position when she made the same kind of dick joke on Twitter in public to a friend where everyone could see it.

Since when is Twitter the same thing as a professional conference? Why are the majority of the commenters on HN completely missing the point?
Why do you assume that some time had passed?

I did not get that impression from her article. (But it is not specified either way, so time might have passed.)
That's apparently his teacher. Watching this is more painful than watching Max performing an impromptu trepanning on his right temple with a power drill; at least his madness had an end.
Resurrecting the extinct frog with a stomach for a womb
Battle of the bots – Stanford students' robots duel amid raucous cheers
But why did this person's employer fire them? I certainly wouldn't fire anyone for this reason and I would hire someone who made dick jokes for sure.

Sorry, what? Two employees go to a conference, on paid time, wear your company's swag, and have around their necks badges which, if this is like other cons, has your company's name on it. Then they say something about big dongles and forking repos -- just gross -- at an audible volume, which has at least one person at the conference become upset to the point where she complains.

And you can't understand why a company would reconsider their employment? What's hard to understand about that?
Yes. I suffered from clinical depression years ago, and the number one thing that stopped me from ever harming myself was knowing that my cat was completely dependent on me. Even if I had arranged matters so I knew I would be found before she could starve or anything, I knew she wouldn't understand why I was gone. Those thoughts always triggered a huge sobbing jag, but they kept me alive.
Is this also a warning to Evernote to never remove features? I'd hate to be a company that makes products that Om uses.
The USA was settled much earlier and has turned out to be a much richer ground for british institutions -- particularly agriculture -- to flourish in.
I'm currently stuck in Singapore (well I'm actually traveling around SE Asia, since they don't have the draconian immigration policies of the US). But would def like to connect offline. email: deepak8612@gmail.com
The "For Funsies" are great.
A shady history of reselling has nothing to with a DMCA takedown. A DMCA takedown notice that says nothing about copyrights is a nonsensical action to take to protect copyrights. Further, if this random internet person's conjecture was correct, the takedown notice would be for the images and not the article itself. That is, it can never legitimately be a way for them to 'have the article pulled.'

Yes, doing something completely incorrect is easier than hiring an expert. But GoPro isn't exactly a mom and pop shop these days, do you think they use this same 'this was easier' philosophy on reporting taxes?
From the "Attendee Procedure for Handling Harassment PyCon 2013" https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/harassment-i...

"Note: Public shaming can be counter-productive to building a strong community. PyCon does not condone nor participate in such actions out of respect."
Keep is a feature, Drive is the App (apple/oranges).
I'm daxelrod on GitHub, and I would be stoked to get an invite. I've been in the early design stages of something similar to this. Thank you!
You're missing the point.

Men aren't normally afraid of sexual assault, because most sexual assault is perpetrated by men on women. If you want to the feeling of fear that a potential victim feels, you have to imagine a situation where you feel at risk of sexual assault.

If that story doesn't make you feel sufficiently uncomfortable to have empathy for women surrounded by a bunch of men when the context suddenly turns sexual, I encourage you to make up your own story.

For what it's worth, when I was imagining the story, the guys talking in the bar hadn't even noticed the straight guy in front of them.
Or would have to comply to gain safe-harbor against copyright infringement, if any copyright claims were made in the DMCA takedown notice. In this case, there were only trademark claims, and there is no DMCA safe harbor for trademarks.
Reminds me of the late 90's when, as a kid, robot death matches were the main highlight of my week.
I don't know any company who would remove features that millions of people use every single day.
Seven years, seven lives changed by Twitter
How much does a house cost where those startups are?
Please be kind and indicate where conference organizers ask you to:

1) post the picture on a world wide forum (twitter)

2) contact them via public channel (twitter)

Thank you
Yes well i don't really like it how some women seem to think its their right to feel uncomfortable at the drop of a hat, ruins it for the rest of us. Anyone can feel uncomfortable about anything for any reason. they should toughen up and say something when they are, it 'll make life easier for themselves and other women like me who have to deal with the stereotype created by it. I am not a delicate flower that must be protected from all the things.
Anyone else remember Google Notebook? Yeah, they killed that too. Pretty much Evernote before Evernote got big.

No thanks, Google.
I'm not personally insecure about it. Because my risk of sexual assault is tiny.

My point is not that gay people are bad: they aren't. My point is that to understand why women are uncomfortable when things suddenly turn sexual, you have to put yourself in the place of a potential victim of sexual assault.
andykram

Thanks!
Cheaper LED Bulbs Make It Easier to Switch Lights
Sapphire is aluminum oxide. The transparent aluminum you're talking about was invented in 2009.
We are talking about removing products that are widely used. Reader was not just a feature but a full product that Google killed.
Pretty much any solid can shatter if enough force is applied.

Case in point: Take a frisbee, lay it on the ground, and smash it with a sledgehammer. It will break or burst suddenly into pieces, i.e. shatter[1]

[1]http://www.wordnik.com/words/shatter
It turns out when you sell products near cost to gain as much market share as possible, not only do you shut them down, but you will eventually get shut down. Who would have thought?
Auto-generated code ftw!

Pretty sure twitter also used to have the same thing for time conversions as well.
if the company were pressured into firing adria in order to get their customer base back, would you feel justice had been served?
Don't you log into Facebook with an email address?
They already killed Keep the first time. It was called Notebook.
Are These Lines The Same Height? Your Answer Depends On Where You're From
Try reading books on how to be happy. I know it sounds dumb but I've been pulled out of some dark depths by reading the material of Tony Robbins, Eckhart Tolle, and others. They really are good at what they do, I'd urge you not to write it off.

There are methods of attaining real fufillment and not fleeting happiness.
Enormous global embedded device botnet built
Thank you -- all of these hate-laden comments are making me lose my mind.
> Going to an early stage startup as a non-founder is learning

Really? So startups do not need any experienced developers and architects? It's the other way round, the founders usually need to do the learning (fast!) and they'd better hire experienced people who can teach them something.
github: visualphoenix
When I fail to learn a new technology, I prefer to say the technology sucks than to say I'm too stupid to learn it. In this case, I do not really want them to success...
I hope I am not asking a dumb question but would there be any complications with capacitive touch using sapphire glass over currently implemented gorilla glass? The video didn't demonstrate actual phone usage with the sapphire glass overplayed on top of the phone.
extra $100 in the retail price amortized 24 months = $4/month on a cell plan that subsidizes the phone purchase.

even less when you prorate the difference in retail price by the "up front" cost of the phone ($50 or $199 or whatever)
I fully agree with Om here. In fact, I have found myself avoiding Google services as much as possible now. GMail is the only one I am using regularly and which does not have good alternatives.

I also agree that Google is becoming like Microsoft, trying everything.

I'm going to stay with companies like Evernote.
> Delvarworld's tone strayed into territory I don't think remains civil

> violates community norms I'd like to uphold

> I don't feel that I can be helpful when people approach with sarcasm

> places like hackernews, where a playful, sometimes discouraging culture of dickitude is acceptable and encouraged

You definitely have the most ridiculously uptight worldview of anyone I've ever met. If you're expecting any more than a tiny fraction of the people who adopt Discourse to come anywhere near your norms of "civilized discourse," then you must not be very familiar with the interwebs.
One bulb is missing here: Switch LEDs, which have been much-hyped (see http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/11/... for an example) but are also very nice (I have two). At $50 a pop from Amazon, the 75W version isn't cheap, but it's probably the nicest LED bulb I've seen.
I wasn't drawing an equivalence between the situation I described and Adira's situation.

Joeboy said he couldn't understand why sexual comments could be a problem. One reason guys can't imagine that is that they don't see sexualized situations as risky situations. Many women do. Not always, certainly. But I know a number of women who have been raped, and I don't think I know a woman who hasn't been discomfited by unwanted sexual advances.

I invited Joeboy to put himself in the shoes of somebody who was scared. If the scenario isn't to your liking, go ahead and write a different one.

And as I've explained elsewhere: no, I don't think straight people should be generally scared of being raped by gay people.
github: donspaulding
Google Keep. Is it just raw input for Google Now?
And as is to be expected with Rails at this point, point releases break apps.

As a primarily Django guy with an interest in Rails... is this hyperbole/overstatement or is this a common perception?
A major factor you have to always consider when reading HN comments on stories like this -- and I'm not even kidding here -- is that a large percentage of the HN population has no idea how to convince women to have sex with them. I mean, among online forums, I would place good money that HN's readership has one of the highest ratios of adult virgins (non-elective, i.e. not by choice)

Why do I think this? Because I've worked in SV and gone to one of the CS programs which is a major feeder into the SV engineering pool (Cal). And I doubt that the engineering programs at CMU, Stanford and other schools differ so wildly in social aptitude.

These guys are so bent out of shape over simply not understanding how to do it, the frustration and resentment is as thick as concrete. Every time one of these stories pops up, this place becomes indistinguishable from /r/MensRights -- the most entitled victims you've ever heard.

I mean, if you can't understand why someone would get fired for making gross, wildly inappropriate jokes within earshot of other attendees, while wearing their employer's name on their shirt and around their neck -- well, you must have a gigantic axe to grind.
Products are different than features.

And the point is, if Google is "going social" and streamlining everything to Google+, why did this product even get released? Why isn't it just some new social storage feature on Google+?

The reality is that Google is the new "Old Yahoo". New product come out with a big fanfare, some techies get excited for a month, and then 2 years later it gets unplugged for some "bold new direction."

The point is, every product costs a user something. If not money, then at least their time and energy learning to use the product. When a user comes to rely on that product and it gets deleted (especially when the company is making money like crazy), users lose faith in the company.
So 420,000 "Swartz level" crimes? The US DOJ just vibrated briefly at a large, imperceptible frequency and then evaporated in a puff of irony.