skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such racist comments have a twisted relation to the truth: the US virtually criminalizes its Black population. It's public knowledge that no other country incarcerates its people as much. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat...)

Any honest person can see that those of us with more "respectable" US accents form the real criminal culture. We took the land from people we exterminated, took slaves of people whose dialects we still ridicule, and to this day imprison and war like no other humans in the universe.
A cautionary tale of squandered talent
Kudos for the apology, unfortunately it took for this to go to the top of Hacker News before an apology arrived.
This is an excellent example of a concrete problem with a foreseeable solution that will have tangible real-world effects.

I find your comments and the original submission inspiring.

I think that the reason why so many of these recognizable problems remain unsolved has to do with something of a snowball effect. The opportunity to do hard work that can be seen as purely technological innovation is often more appealing than retrofitting some technology to solve an existing problem.

To use the example you gave, _forms_ of online payment exist, and are growing. Products like Paypal have been changing the way many companies think about accepting payment from their customers for years; immediate online payment has slowly been adopted by the U.S's largest banks.

However, for most of their users, these technologies exist as innovations in luxury: they improve upon existing technologies in order to provide further ease-of-use. This is different, I think, than applying an existing technology to a problem: instead of _improving_ upon something, you are instead _applying_ something to a different set of circumstances.

I think many people do not think of that as a hard problem: since the 'hard' technology already exists, applying it should be easy.

I also think that for most ambitious people who have 'innovate' stamped at the top of their to-do list and have the freedom of choosing what they would like to work on, it then appears to be a choice between 'improve' and 'apply', and improve likely wins out for most.

EDIT:
I realize that I essentially re-make the 'iterate vs innovate' point the author makes in my above comment, but I am choosing to keep it there for the sake of coherence.
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I don't think you're wrong. But I see here a fantastic example of what's been going on since the Reader shutdown fiasco, which is people comparing RSS to services like Facebook and Reddit, when RSS itself, is actually just an interchange standard, and what you mean is surely RSS aggregators.

I only bring it up because I worry that people might think they should stop providing RSS on their blogs. I hope that isn't people's takeaway because RSS solves a legitimate problem with decentralized publishing in a machine-friendly way.
I would agree. I think using Latex for a brief is likely to get a deputy clerk sending you a notice. District Courts will have local rules on formatting (with California having the oddest one I have seen yet).
> so many startups get so excited about features and growth yet fail in their analysis of retention

I think it's just we write less about it, not so much that we aren't aware of its importance. "How we managed to retain our users for 4 months" sounds admittedly less sexy than "How we got a bazillion users in less than 72 hours", but the truth is a tech startup with no strong retention strategy is basically dead in the water, and generally folks know this.
We're a small media appliance start-up, we'd love some advice on new features
There are so many good reasons to avoid MySQL that one shouldn't even need to bring up speed.
The reason very few are truly innovating on a global level is because nobody wants to put in the decades studying to become an expert in any one field -- and I don't blame them. I've been seesawing between two life decisions lately: 1) Do I continue with medicine, become super-specialized and then look for a way to use my expertise to bring innovation to the world and become wealthy, or 2) Do I use whatever knowledge I've acquired now, play my hand at creating something that'll most likely not be deemed innovative and try to get wealthy that way?

There are good arguments to be made on both sides. On the one hand I'd love to create something truly groundbreaking, but on the other, I don't want to toil away my life for decades and finally reach success with only a few decades of my life to live. Who says I need to innovate in the first place? I've only got 80 years here to live, why not make as much money as I can, as quickly as possible, and live my life to its absolute fullest.

Of course, these arguments are based on the assumption that your goal is to become wealthy and to innovate. It's a time issue for me. I don't for one second look down on people working on the next hot social app because there's a chance they may cash out far earlier than had they labored away in a lab studying the subjects that'll really push humans forward.

In the end, there's no great metric by which our accomplishments wil be judged. If you wanna spend your hours on a new email app, fine, and if you wanna spend your years studying photosynthetic biochemical photomicroscopy, then go for it. There's no right or wrong.
It's all relative. One persons old-hat jargon is another person's "needlessly clever" is another person's "too explicit". Reminds me of when I was dating, when girls were telling me they wanted someone who was "nice, but not TOO nice." Ok thanks lady, you apparently feel like you just communicated something to me, but you didn't really at all.
I had the same problem so I went through the nginx.conf file supplied with PiUi and compared it to the default one in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf.
In the default one there's an _include_ line on line 71. This pulls in what ever .conf files from /etc/nginx/conf.d/
I then copied the lines 40-59 from piui/nginx/nginx.conf to its own file /etc/nginx/conf.d/piui.conf
and restarted nginx.
Now when I type in the IP of my Pi in my mobile webbrowser I get in to the PiUi site.
However this way does not provide the small graphics components in the UI components. Any ideas on that?
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From http://www.h5l.org/manual/HEAD/info/heimdal/Authorisation-da...:

The Windows 2000 KDC also adds extra authorisation data in tickets. It is at this point unclear what triggers it to do this. The format of this data is only available under a “secret” license from Microsoft, which prohibits you implementing it.

This makes/made? it difficult to have a Windows domain authenticate against an existing KDC; you needed to set up an AD server and then set up cross-domain trust relationships, which means you must have a Windows server on your network in order to support Windows AD clients.
Or we could implement micropayments and something like Xanadu.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
Awesome turn around on this one!
Or 19
This is the problem with being a "programmer" with no domain. This is sort of like the one true programming language debate ("blub") where people want to evaluate mathematical notation as to their qualitative worth completely devoid of any context.

Computer languages are not spoken languages. No one should accuse English of being "illogical" because it's redundant. It isn't as terse as mathematical notation because most people don't speak completely in mathematical notation.
And it's all very logical, actually -- just not in the way you might expect. You might want to look into the effects of redundancy on transmission errors in communications before you pass judgement. :-)
Those people are probably too lazy and high to edit Wikipedia.
Wow, that's an absurdly misleading headline.

Here's the editor's analysis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Colin/Introduction_to_Psyc...

I see 16 cited cases of supposed plagiarism. How did we go from 16 cases to claiming 85% of people in a 1700 student class are plagiarizing? No offense to the submitter, but I feel these kinds of things are best submitted after someone reasonably objective distills and summarizes the issue. Devoted wikipedia editors can be somewhat dramatic about things, so in cases like this I prefer to see other points of view.
I'm not sure I even understand your point. Bayer and Pfizer, for instance, do lots and lots of business in the US. His point is that Switzerland - like every industrialized nation in the world, with one exception - has a socialized health care system, and still somehow manages to have an economy that includes health care providers.
This is awesome, the Atari 2600 was my first ever 'computer' and I still can remember the thrill of finding and playing a new game (and of course blowing into the cartridge to get the game to load :) )

Its limited by todays standard, which makes me excited to think about the technologies we use today that will be obsolete in 20 years time.
I signed up last year for Express and it renewed (automatically) on the date that the screenshot shows. It's just showing the current active subscription. Sorry for the confusion.
Second french example is not a double negation. As for the other french examples, I'm ambivalent.
I consider myself a remixer. Related, I recommend this video series on the topic: http://www.everythingisaremix.info
Agreed with above. Salaries vary greatly by area. A dev in a non silicon valley type area could make 60% or less of these values. These look like inflated high cost area salaries. NYC, San Fran, Silicon Valley type areas.
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Usenet also didn't have a good way to deal with spam, at least not one that I knew about. It steadily became harder to find the signal in the noise.

It still had the best reader experience. I don't know why modern email clients, for example, don't look more like trn.
I'm curious, what is Facebook being abandoned for? I'm not aware of any social networks that draws users from Facebook. Google + isn't as capable as Facebook, and totally flopped their launch marketing (Standard Google launch -.-), so basically not used by anyone (atleast here in Denmark, and europe afaik).
Well, but that's exactly what A/B testing should be used for - instead of optimizing to a local optimum, you use it to verify if the 'new and improved' checkout or search or navigation is really an improvement, or is insignificant, or happens to make things worse.

"The obvious things I know will have an impact" sometimes don't have an impact and sometimes have a negative impact. Experience makes the chances better, but nowhere near perfect.
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The problem with loops in javascript is that, once you start doing more complicated things than accessing array indices, you run the risk of introducing bugs that don't exist when using a more functional style.

Once you're using closures in your for-loop to prevent everything referring to the last index in the array, you might as well be using map and reduce and all that. Otherwise you end up wasting a lot of time to come up with stuff roughly like this:

(function(order) {
// do something
})(orders[i])
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Because it shouldn't take publish shaming.
I agree. The article doesn't seem to consider that ultimately it is the mass market that decides which problems aren't trivial.

Not everything that can be done on the Web is worth doing, or in other words, not everyone is going to care enough to make an idea sustainable.
This is really great.

A massive limitation of Parse.com is with their Javascript SDK - you have to expose your app keys to the client and the SDK doesn't work at all on any version of IE unless you have SSL enabled.
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Only English language is logical, it's known. I mean, just look at the spelling...
It's thoughtful yet mistaken posts like this one that make it clear how early we still are in the Bitcoin game.

Capitalism doesn't need inflation. Capitalism works best with a hard currency. Money gaining 4% per year in purchasing power isn't "deflation". The notion of "4% growth" is ill-posed.

I could back these statements up with logic and evidence, but experience shows that virtually no amount of rational argument ever convinces anyone of these points. Luckily, rather than arguing till we are hoarse, those of us who have swallowed the hard-money red pill can now put our money where our mouth is and buy some bitcoins.
Also, some web apps are power tools for a specific group of employees, rather than a consumer-facing app. In college I worked on a dormitory reservation system that was fairly complex, and was only used by administrators and front desk workers (and they went through brief training for the system). I built a quick little "help mode" overlay system that worked well enough, but something like this would have been a great alternative.
Wow, that's pretty blinkered of you. Off the top of my head, it would probably be preferable to people with a physical disability, people with a sprained ankle/wrist, people with the flu, people with a hangover, people with two small kids taking a nap, people working from home with a deadline, busy people in general, people who live outside of a reasonable walking distance from a store (can include those who live close but in a difficult to walk neighbourhood), people who need to buy more things than they can easily carry...I'm pretty sure I'm well over 1% of cases already.
I can't suspect any bias from a site called 'Patently Apple' that claims to 'celebrate Apple's spirit of invention'. None.
There is, nonetheless, a HUGE difference between you pulling content (subscribing) and other people recommending or aggregating content for you. One is subject to the One Off Problem, the other is not. One creates incentives to sensationalize/exaggerate/selectively omit and the other does not.
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The psychology of language
"I ain’t never eat no sushi."
Does this means you 'will never eat sushi?'
I have always wanted to work for Mozilla. Are they not that popular among graduates or are they not in the survey for some other reason?
It is a great start. The passbook implementation looks to be basic right now. I would love to be able to combine this with https://github.com/frozon/passbook for passbook support and git@github.com:grocer/grocer.git for push notifications.

The code would have better test coverage and more people to support the project.
Less than 4 hours after finding out about the issue here's a complete explanation of what happened, a public apology, and an appropriate fix. This is good customer service.
Which was said first, ironically, in Yiddish (a language that gains its status as such through its connection with an ethnic group, not military presence).
Usenet had a strict definition for spam, which meant a bunch of stuff got through.

It was also under active attack from Hipcrime and similar.

And no matter how good the killfiles were there were people who wouldn't use them.

I agree about the clients - I really liked slrn.
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Spanglish is an interesting example of this, and I hear it quite a bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanglish
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Which starves the medical "industry" - an economic catastrophe, in American terms!
So should there be AAVE-English academic dictionaries with entries like "ain't: are not", etc.? What about l33tsp34k and txtng spk, u wnt 2gt dctnrz 4 it 2?
I do think services like RSS are strategically opposed to the vision of a lot of technology companies. The more ad-driven (or growth/hype driven they are), the more they embrace the noisy, chaotic one off model. Whereas other companies, designed to serve USERS, want to reduce noise and increase quality. Google may be moving towards that model.
It gets hairy if the person they're being asked to testify about is a client because that implicates the attorney/client privilege, which the article mentions.
I don't think there are any rules to "AAVE" either, one speaker of this dialect? creole? language? or whatever we're calling it, would not be able to point out grammatical errors in the speech of another. I think the following would all be considered valid AAVE:

I ain’t tell nobody nothing about no sushi.
or
I didn’t tell nobody nothing about no sushi.
or
I didn’t tell nobody about no sushi.
or
I didn’t tell nobody about sushi.

All are bad English, i have no doubt whatsoever, that all would be understood by a speaker of "AAVE". I am of the opinion there is no such thing as AAVE, but there is definitely such a thing as people speaking bad English, which is reinforced by peer pressure and cultural and historical factors. Also I feel like people (educators in Oakland?) just caved, and don't want to admit that they have failed to properly educate and include a huge swathe of people.
I've always thought of reversing a linked list in a visual way.

In my mind, a link list is a bunch of nodes with arrows pointing right. To reverse the list, all I need to do is point the arrows to the left.

6(ish) lines of code later, and I've got a recursive reverse method.
> I think AAVE is simply modern America's cockney slang.

Well, what linguists think is that it's at minimum a dialect with consistent grammar and using features of many other forms of communciation that you'd probably consider "real" languages.

Just because it's not what you were taught doesn't mean it's "bad" English or slang.
its actually a pretty good book - worth checking out.
When it comes to CDN, you really get what you pay for.
Do you have any more detail on this statement? I can completely see it, but I am really intrigued on how it might be used in practice.
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The problem is that you have to run the code in your head to understand what it means. It obfuscates the intent. Just read it aloud and you'll see what I mean,

"Once upon a time there was a variable named, totals that was initialized to an empty array. Next, a for loop happened and some var, i appeared (his name doesn't really matter.) i was initialized to 0. Enter stage right, totals's buddy, orders. orders has a property named length. i was told that it shall be incremented by 1 so long as i was less than order's length property. Sadly, the for loop was just using i. i didn't know it would be disregarded once for loop was finished.

Not surprisingly, what happened next was quite remarkable. The total property of orders index i lept onto totals. i was incremented. Then the total property at index i lept onto totals... i was incremented... Finally i was greater than or equal to orders.length, so the for loop ended. totals lived on, changed by its journey while i was never seen or heard from again.

Study guide question: how did totals's character change by the end of the story and what did this mean?"
"

The following code snippet means the same thing, but it's also self-documenting. Plus there's less accidental complexity:

var totals = orders.map(function(order){
return order.total;
});

Read it aloud and you'll see what I mean,

"Once upon a time, there was a var named, totals. It was a list of order totals. Fin."
AAVE is indeed spoken by people of low economic status, but is certainly not limited to them. I have met many, many African-Americans of high economic status who also do so, but informally and generally only with other African-Americans. I think the stigma is more closely associated with their culture than economic status.
Yes, but they aren't required to do it for college credit. They're just like any other troll Wikipedia is constantly dealing with.
First of all, misleading title. The professor simply offered student extra credit to add a sentence to a psychology article of their choice. The sentence is supposed to include references and is not supposed to be plagiarized.

I know this is beating a dead horse, but I get really sick of hearing about abuse from Wikipedia editors who have gone power-mad. Edit-wars, blacklisting, and more is an ongoing state of affairs on the site. The fact that they are considering blocking the campus and a large chunk of the surrounding area from editing wikipedia in order to punish the professor is just stupid.

I understand that editors put a lot of time in cleaning up wikipedia, and that is great. But wikipedia is a system designed for public use, and that use includes editing and updating articles.

The problem that they have found themselves in now is that articles slowly evolve their own individual bias based on the managing editors point of view. New users and counter arguments are lost, as it's rare to find someone to edit an article that has the patience to start an edit war with a moderator who has babysat an article for years.
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As counterexample I would still call American English and Brazilian Portuguese dialects, even though they have armies and navies. I'm not sure if I would call Afrikaans a dialect.
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Wow, I believe that was an overtly bigoted comment. So there is no legal commerce conducted in 'ebonics'? I had no idea when I was a kid that all those people making grocery purchases at the corner store were engaging in illegal activities.
Yeah there is some startup time required to get to know the tools. In my experience it's worth it, though. I've seen some absolutely mind boggling spreadsheets trying to do what is a couple of lines of work with numpy/pandas. Spreadsheets are dead simple, but get unwieldy very quickly as your data & problem become more complex.

I suppose you're right, Quantopian could turn into a galaxy-like tool, but I think there is a great deal of experimentation that goes on in finance that doesn't fit into the pipeline model very well. As well, a lot of the fitting routines run in finance are quite computationally intensive and wouldn't really work on a framework like quantopian. For example, good luck hooking your risk model into a recurrent neural network on quantopian. That isn't to say that bioinf. is not computationally bound, of course it is, but a lot of what's done is more oriented to data pipelines as opposed to fancy computations (correct me if I'm wrong), which is why a thing like Galaxy fits so well.
Think of the AAVE negation, not as an operator, but as a tense. It's like in Standard English when you change a sentence from singular to plural, or from first-person to third-person: several words are required to change in lockstep or else the sentence isn't grammatical. Negation in AAVE works like that.
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