skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you talking about? It is a new dialect. No, it wasn't a typo made at a rush, that is how I spell "tired" in my new dialect. Rather than ridiculing me you should tell me the difference between the dialect I speak at home and standard English which I imagine you speak.
I think I'm not being specific enough.

Suppose you want to make a self-driving car. It has to be able to distinguish between a stop sign and a red ball stuck in a tree. It has to be able to determine what color a traffic light is. It has to be able to account for a slick road surface. It should be able to parallel park. It needs to be able to merge into traffic on the highway. There are thousands of different things you need to engineer to make it work. Each of these things may have multiple sub-components that could be individually patentable.

If you tried to write a single patent with a claim covering every component, the claim would have thousands of elements and the permutations necessary to cover all the "broken versions" would require more dependent claims than there are atoms in the universe.

Naturally nobody does that. So instead of a patent claiming 'a self-driving car' comprising A, B, C, ... ZZZY, ZZZZ, you get a patent claiming A, a different patent claiming B, etc. Thousands of separate patents, each claiming a sub-component and its broken versions. So you get a patent thicket which is prohibitively expensive to enter not because any given patent is particularly great or difficult to work around, but because of the cumulative bureaucratic cost of identifying what needs to be avoided.
spolsky's "ben & jerry's versus amazon" post is relevant. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html

as someone whose psychology is more aligned with the organic growth model, i fully agree with you, but if you lean the other way staying privately owned is just passing up the opportunity to get big fast.
Rails is definitely the way to go. In fact, I would go far and say it may be the most popular framework with startups these days. Knowing how to design themes (I'm assuming you're a HTML,CSS,JS wiz), learning iOS and knowing Rails is the ultimate powerful skill-sets all combined.
"but this is not the opinion of, among many notable others, the Oakland school board since 1996."

Yes - and they've been considered a joke because of it since 1996. The decision was "derided and criticized, most notably by Jesse Jackson and Kweisi Mfume who regarded it as an attempt to teach slang to children". So my opinion is shared by many prominent black leaders.
Don't we just all need to put an appropriate JSON payload into '/e8f6b078-0f35-11de-85c5-efc5ef23aa1f/aupm/notify.do?dispatch=checkBulletin' on every web server we control?

;-)
Qt, Qt, Qt. Basically the only toolkit that gets native look & feel right.
What Big Data will never explain
This is ludicrous. The language spoken by Shakespeare was undoubtedly and clearly different from anything regularly spoken today, and nearly unintelligible to any English speaker without an interest in Shakespeare or older forms of English. If that is not a different language, then what objective basis do you have for saying that AAVE is a different language?
Your description matches every language just as well.

English is a nonsensical mess spoken by fools who couldn't keep their German, Latin, and Greek separate.
>...needs to be a precondition of the students' participating in the assignment.

I don't think it wise or fair to extort their consent.
coming from a student who did most of their learning in C++, this sounds awesome. period.
There's no sharp distinction between selling to the government as your sole customer, and subsidies. One bleeds into the other, and it's nothing like an efficient market against which one would hope to measure entrepreneurs.
You didn't answer the question. Why not Standard Redneck English? Is it not a different language? Isn't its lack of status due to the lack of status of its speakers? Other than race, how is this different?
The bank is going to charge Tesla for a repurchase option, but if Elon makes it himself no charge to the company. If Elon really believes in his product then that option is one that will never get taken up, thus costing him nothing.
And now for a counterpoint, we turn to our next guest, Andrew Mason.
How is it not secure to do that, assuming you have a sufficiently long decryption key? It seems more secure than what than having $8k on a single drive that can easily fail at any time.
You guys have been helpful when I've had problems, don't get me wrong. Sorry if it feels like I'm just dumping on your product. I just always assumed that since I'm just using aerofs from the AUR, it's not exactly completely supported, so I never bothered with sending in reports.
Or just read a book on the topic. Many of them are written in SE.
I see a mention of it below, but none in the article, and I wanted to highlight that there is a term for this: Diglossia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diglossia
Simply declaring that it is a language gets you nothing too. If every minor variation creates a whole new language, then almost no two people with a vocabulary of a few thousand words actually speak 'the same language'.
That's the household cost, not the per-car cost. Most households have more than one car.
Congrats AeroFS team!
I had a similar reaction - I read some negative coverage but actually am really enjoying the book. I agree as well that it's particularly helpful for hiring managers, who might not have any idea how very subtle these gender stereotypes/biases can be.
Chaucer would faint if he were forced to read this barely intelligible creole you call "English".
We'll have to agree to disagree. I will always fall on the side of companies not charging me unless I explicitly agree to the terms. Partly because I'm just wired that way and partly because I'm sick of companies trying to get in on that "gym membership"/AOL billing where they have a huge percentage of customers that don't even use the service but have just forgot they are being charged.

I've had it up to here with companies pulling shit like making joining one click on the web and cancelling a multi-hour phone call. So yeah I may be a bit sensitive and reactionary about billing matters but I believe it is justified given how poorly most companies handle these issues these days.
But that's how patents have always been. You can't patent an idea like "self-driving car" or "self-driving cars should stop at stop signs". You must patent the particular mechanisms. Someone who comes up with a different mechanism can patent theirs.

That it is expensive and difficult doesn't make the patent system wrong -- that makes it expensive and difficult. What makes it wrong is abuse.

Broken mechanisms are more of a problem in any system where you can have a degraded system that still "works". The classic is security mechanisms. You can patent a new kind of lock, but you'd also make claims over each part of the lock. It is the lock as a whole that makes the house secure -- but it is the claims as a whole that make the lock secure from patent shenanigans.

(IANAL, TINLA)
First you say:

> If you decide that anything a company isn't doing or stops doing must therefore be "not worth doing," you're going to wind up concluding a lot of things aren't "worth doing."

And then:

> Google - and Google alone - was uniquely positioned to make the most efficient, highest-performance RSS reader in the world.

In other words: the company that was uniquely positioned to make the best RSS reader, found that it wasn't worth doing. So, yeah, I'm going to call it. The idea, which seems good, is fundamentally flawed.

Progress is not "just keeping doing what we've been doing for a while because some people feel pretty strongly that we should keep doing it". Progress is recognizing the failures, culling off the dead flesh and seeing what grows in it's place.

Time for the next thing.
What's wrong with giving the tax credit to the leasing company? That just allows them to price it lower. (Similarly, it ideally doesn't make a difference whether you apply sales tax to consumers or sellers. The equilibrium will adjust so that the net money paid/acquired by each will be the same.)
Who takes 15 minutes to fill their car?
It depends on your goal. Even companies that stay privately held and turn a profit year over year end up in many ways being a lifestyle company; Often resulting in stagnation and then slowly erode from the inside. It can work, you can avoid stagnation, but only for a few types of companies / founders.

For example Valve can pull this off, they are a game company, always building the next great game, they always have something new to work on and have gone to great lengths to keep their employees involved and attract top talent. They have avoided stagnation.

On the other hand, many of the companies you see get acquired built one or two focused products, they don't have 'the next big game' to work on, that is boring for many people, particularly the 'founder type'. Boredom -> stagnation -> erosion.

You could say that company X could just define themselves as e.g. a 'mobile app' company the way that Valve is a 'game company', but in reality, 'mobile app' is way too broad. How is a 'mobile app' company any different than startup? The difference is that instead of investors taking the risk on the new product, the company takes the risk, which doesn't bode well for the constant year over year profit ideal.

The 'company taking the risk' model can work, e.g. Google, but you have to be wildly profitable to pull it off, that is hard, really hard, so hard that only a hand full of companies have ever pulled it off.

tl;dr Privately held long term companies can get boring quickly. It takes a very particular type of market, a founder who really wants a lifestyle company, or a company that is wildly profitable to avoid stagnation. All three options are relatively rare.
"In some ways the technology is transforming us into brilliant fools" - Nice sentence !!!
The Difficulty of Chaotic Good
I don't know the precise answer to the original question. But with regards to AppCode it's pretty much a standalone product that has features IntelliJ doesn't.

IntelliJ incorporates everything found in all the other IDEs like RubyMine and PyCharm but doesn't include the additional stuff found in AppCode.
good job, i want to try it
I've been using https://github.com/chjj/tty.js/ to vim on my pixel, with tty.js running on my linode.
New York / San Francisco / Silicon Valley

We are looking for a technical co-founder.

http://gethushmoney.com/view-public?id=j1R3qeOtCIS7Jd
When you can't spell a word consistently that you use eight times in one post --the most important word in your post-- we don't give much weight to your guesses as to who can spot inconsistencies in usage.
Could you share with us "videos of articulate, smart, (preferably math/science-based discussion in AAVE)"?

Perhaps this is the missing link for us sceptics - we associate it with poor uneducated individuals. Ie - by definition, if someone whose primary language was AAVE wants to sound articulate and smart they will resort to SE?
I assume it should work fine with something like "30 seconds" or "1 minute", right? It's moving very slowly. About 2 inches in the past minute (set for 1 minute).

Oh another thing, I like that you offer a snooze when the timer runs out. I think that you probably left it silent because noises may seem to defeat the purpose. It wouldn't be terrible to allow the user to browse for an audio file, though.

I want the subtleness of the gradually emptying menubar, with maybe pulse.ogg to play at the end, or something. Just an idea.
The best place to invest your money including tax dollars is in the company with the highest chance of success. For many reasons I believe Tesla will disrupt the car industry and lead the transition to making the electric car the new standard : amazing founder, 100% focused on the electrical car, the best technology (with a true viable range),a good financial situation, good early traction and a sexy car!
Real estate—whether renting or buying—is the killer. I moved from the Bay Area to Texas (Houston then San Antonio) and it's dirt cheap here. I pay $500/month for a great apartment in a nice part of town with hardwood floors, air conditioning and a covered parking space. Around 700 sq.ft.

Fuel is cheaper, taxes are lower (when I left CA car registration was over $400/year I recall, mine is $50 here) and housing is much cheaper.

Not sure if this link will still work for you:

http://bestplaces.net/col/?salary=80000&city1=54865000&#...

According to their stats I would need 2.3x the salary I make here for a comparable lifestyle in SF. Now, I'll grant you that could be mitigated by not living in SF but one of the cheaper suburbs. Mess with the numbers and see what it looks like.
Qt is great for getting the native look, but it's never mastered the native feel, at least on OS X.
> where it's been invited and approved.

I bet the permission to do it is part of the ToS agreement.
Supermarkets have absolutely tiny net profits, usually just a couple of percent. They have substantially greater labour costs than a wholesaler. They have higher rents, because their stores are less densely stocked and in more convenient (and more expensive) locations. They have high shrinkage on many products, losing >30% of their fresh produce and bakery goods to spoilage and a significant proportion of product to theft and employee fraud.

Food is cheap to buy from a cash-and-carry because it's cheap to sell. It's sold straight off the pallet, in an out-of-town warehouse with dirt cheap rent. Average SKU value is much higher, massively reducing labour costs. Shrinkage is tiny, because of the high turnover of perishable goods and the greater security possible in a warehouse store. Cash-and-carry wholesalers still have very tight margins, but they have much lower costs than supermarkets.

Food retail is ruthlessly competitive on price, because there are so few other points of differentiation. The idea that there's a malevolent conspiracy in food pricing is utterly farcical to anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of the food supply chain.
- Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.

WOW.

- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

No developer in their right mind would apply for this job.
This is exactly who wrote this code. I nearly accepted a job with one of Comcast's major consulting partners. My first hint should have been 2 technical interviews in which they were impressed that I used linux... and couldn't tell me a thing about what their day to day looked like. "Oh it's always different"

When I was issued my company laptop, the software had been installed by hand (OS and all). I offered to setup an imaging system for them... but the "IT guy" from the "IT consulting firm" wasnt exactly sure what that was and needed to find out who to get approval from first...
Hindi is written in Sanskrit letters and Urudu is written in Arabic script. The languages use same words. Hindi is the primary official language for India and Urudu is the primary national language for Pakistan.

Two dialects protected by armies navies and nuclear bombs.
Watch The Wire, through at least Season 1. Those guys ain't dumb. Most of the AAVE speakers are villains, though.
Ask HN: how do you know about China's Startup
i want to know more about China's Startup,expecially mobile startup.
Thanks!
Spend an evening playing Call of Duty on XBox, then extrapolate that experience to a lifetime.
You're kidding, right? They're making the best of a bad situation. They'd love to have a normal leasing program like all other car companies, but they can't--they cannot finance leases themselves and no bank wants to risk losing money reselling the car at the end of the lease. The best they can do is offer to buy the car back at 40% of the purchase price in three years--and you have to take out a five year loan, put $10K down, and get that $10K back one year later, with none of the lower monthly payments of a normal lease. This is strictly worse than the financing options from every other manufacturer.
IOS 5 is dead
MRI's are expensive (in the US). Specialist mental health care is not covered under most standard health insurance plans. How about you just fill out the questionnaire[1], and we'll match you with a nice (newly patented) pill?

[1] http://www.depressedtest.com

See also: Questionable sponsorship of online depression tests.

http://www.policymed.com/2010/02/letters-from-grassley-quest...
To be fair, people who speak ebonics do not want to sound 'white'. So both sides are doing this on purpose.
How do you do a corpus study on stress? Audio/Video, I guess.
I spent a while trying to work out where you are meant to enter them.

I like to think I'm reasonably clever, but apple's interfaces make me feel like a luddite.
I know you are but what am I....?
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Check your emails.
"Aficionado" != "scholar", which might resolve your confusion.
You didn't describe failure, you described Regret. As a young entrepreneur trying to do the same thing you did in the past (establish a company that is strong, independent, has great values) I can see how "abandoning" those values feels like failure. But it really depends on your definition of success and also what you do after. An acquisition could provide someone with the financial freedom, knowledge, and business network to execute an idea with even greater ambitions, values and impact on the world. That's why I don't think it's always a failure. It's only a failure if it was the best thing you could ever do. But to me, the best entrepreneurs are incapable of thinking like that. You can always do better, be better, make something better.
In the version I've come across, it's "I don't know; that's just how my Grandma did it."
I suspect so. But depending on jurisdiction it may not be waivable. Or the ToS may be drafted in a way that doesn't cover this.
With how many years of experience? Your data point doesn't mean much without that information :)
Linux support!?! <3
Originally I wrote a GreaseMonkey script to redirect me from their ad page to a Google search. At the time, it was better than nothing, but still not enough to keep me from dropping Rogers. YMMV, Last updated 2008: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30326
A full-featured refactoring tool should be smart enough to only rename functions/methods that belong to the same class for example. This is generally possible only when the tool "understands" the language. A search and replaceable can't do this correctly.
The more pertinent question would be an example of a good software patent.

IMHO there isn't any. At the very least there isn't any that benefited society as a whole.
(Again, I am only talking about software patents).

As I've written before, the point is not whether the patents covers a good idea, but rather whether the covered invention would not have seen the light of day without the promise of a legal monopoly (again, all in IMHO).
I watched the video. That's cool, but not what I had in mind — they're running Vim on a remote server, not in the browser itself.
You are very quick to dismiss psychological egoism :) (Not that it's a very useful hypothesis, really)

I'm undecided on the matter, but the $20 thing is clearly not self-less altruism. Someone willing to spend $20 to prove they're "right"? I'm just not convinced.

Your experiment sounds interesting. I worry that people would still expect to be judged for it though (I mean, if they know they're participating in an experiment, they're expecting the results to be recorded and/or being watched, as you say). Also I expect that decades of acting a certain way due to being observed by society will form some pretty strong habits. Sounds fascinating none-the-less :)
Check this out.

http://www.worldstartupreport.com/

Only resource I know of that may be on track with what you are looking for. Good luck!
"She is a descriptivist, like all linguists." Is that statement descriptivist or prescriptivist? ;-)
Oh, yes — Apple doesn't make this very obvious. Here's where you put the promo code: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/750911/Screenshots/f~aaa4t_5a2i.png
Presumably some codec patents (e.g. the technologies in MP3) would fit the bill, no?
Aw, thanks — I appreciate the kind words.
I think we're only disagreeing on a pretty narrow point. I basically define "free" in this case as "impossible in principle to definitely predict". That's why I'm resistant to the strange matter explanation, because although neutrinos etc do behave unusually I haven't seen evidence that they behave without any laws. I could be wrong about that; I don't know much about strange matter.

But re: my last sentence, the idea is that:

1) Free will cannot follow laws
2) All physical objects follow laws
3) Therefore free will cannot be physical, if it exists

And re: disproval, I kind of think my position may actually be testable. I'm not clever enough to think of an experiment, but my contention is that "will" can have causal influence on the world. And where there's influence, there can be measurement.
I think your armchair biology is not quite right too.
How to respond to overly specific technical questions in an interview?
Pageviews which are counted and monetized by Google's other services. There was another HN submission recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5476812) that had a great quote:

"I find that Google and SEO and tracking have soiled the web in unbelievable ways. Google has imposed a constraint on content through its ad business that I can't get away from, because content is trying to adapt to Google so it can be found, but especially because content becomes monetized in doing so-- to the detriment of us all."
I'm sorry, are you saying that stealing from larger companies is okay? Anyway, I'm done here. This behavior is scandalous, rude and shameful. I don't think I need to defend this view point anymore than I already have.
I connected an SNMP monitoring system using two socats and an ssh tunnel. One socat to forward UDP over TCP to the locally encrypted port, and another to take it off on the other side and forward it to a local SNMP listener. It was a for a control system we were building that could monitor temperatures and control fan speeds in a computer cooling system. We ran it across several states in the US, and it was just to get an early demo of how the system would work before hardware was more locally available and the damned thing worked...

This made a lot of people very happy and it was really crazy to be on the phone with the other folks and have them rev up the fans in our lab via SNMP through this channel.
Firefox 20 released: Here is whats new
Simple. Switch to VIM. Or, just write GTK code from scratch directly in the IDE.

It's not too hard. I currently use Swing in Java, all written from scratch - no IDEs to be found. I've also dabbled around with simple GTK+ apps. They aren't as easy, nor as efficient, to work with as the standard Java toolkit, but you get used to it.

I switched back to Swing because I wanted as few dependencies as possible.
So can having a black name or black skin. It is a bug in our society, and acting white is a workaround, not a fix.
Ah, I understand completely; no worries. :)

Officially, we only support Ubuntu, but in general we like to have things work for any setup that's not too exotic. Indeed, some of the more helpful bug reports I've looked at and fixed have come from Arch users.

Thanks for the feedback anyway, and let us know if there's anything else we can do. :)
Numbers might be a little deceiving but a huge move for Tesla.
thank you.i will get it
If someone here would stand up and say the Perl is a valid computer language but AAVE is not a valid human language, my head would explode.
That is utterly irrelevant to this conversation.
> Yeah, getters and setters are old school, but still necessary in C++

Why isn't operator= usable in this case?