skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe it's a matter of how you think, but I can "see" the changes when I adjust the frames, colors, padding, resizing masks, and that's basically all IB will do for you.

I know what you mean. I'm not an iOS/Cocoa dev by any means, but when I write CSS I typically know what the outcome is going to be in my head because I've done it so many times.
One point to bear in mind in discussing this issue is that not all natural human languages reach the same result in ordering adjectives. For example, speakers of Chinese (Cantonese, specifically) have to be taught English adjective order

http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/exercises/adjectiveorder.h...

and it is generally familiar to persons who have had a strong first-year linguistics course at a university or who have studied a modern foreign language in depth that adjective order varies from language to language. So the one thing we can be sure about here is that the grammatical sense of native speakers of English (or native speakers of Chinese, etc.) does NOT reflect some kind of underlying universal rule of human thought.

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Grammar-English-Language/dp/...

is an expensive reference book well informed by worldwide investigation of English as it is actually written and spoken. It is a useful tool for informed discussion about the interesting issues brought up by the Stack Exchange question kindly submitted here.
This is absolutely awesome. I'd love to see EasyPost integrate/replicate Microsoft Office's mail merge functionality for commonly used label templates. For instance, you could `GET api/labels/ids=id1,id2,id3&template_provider=avery&template=15664&format=pdf` and you would get a pre-filled PDF with 3 labels that would print directly to an Avery 15664 label sheet out of an inkjet printer. If EasyPost doesn't do this, we'd probably end up replicating this in-house, but since every self-fulfilling online retailer (a) needs to do this, and (b) would probably just buy these label sheets from the local Staples, it just makes sense for you guys to offer it as well.
Waitin the VPS one...
Pretty similar to my workflow, but why do you destroy the box after every session? `vagrant up` on my laptop takes a few minutes at least to build and provision a vagrant machine.

Usually I just use `vagrant suspend`. Seconds vs minutes. Time > organization IMHO.
I ponder this often because the order of words changes the interpretation and my understanding of writing:

"green great dragon" - the dragon is green and happens to be great

"great green dragon" - the greatness of the dragon comes from the fact that it's green
Sorry, the interface should be more explicit. Hit enter to select the first result and the help box should pop up.
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A key argument for offshore outsourcing is to take advantage of a lower cost base so you can price your finished goods more competitively.

Apple have managed to keep prices high and thus maximize profit. If Mac manufacturing returned to the US, where Victorian working conditions are banned, it would probably be hard for Apple to keep those fat margins.
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Where I bought a MacBook for the hardware and immediately installed Windows 7 because it runs the best productivity suite for stuff that matters in my personal life: Visual Studio.
When I was a kid, I experienced the explosion at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Definitely changed my life. Did anyone else here go thru that?
Your maths are correct. I started selling the book in January 2012. However, I think I could have achieved this number of sales much faster if I dedicated more time to marketing (e.g. if I published the same number of posts in half the time).

Pricing is something I learned about from 30x500 as well. I looked at the anchors my potential buyers might have (C++ books are often around $50).

I looked at what else they buy and at what price (courses, software etc.).

I also considered the value of the book to them. E.g. for a C++ contractor, the book would pay off very quickly because of the time savings it provides.
He should consider making the emulator able to read .fcm input logs from a TAS.

These runs usually serve as good tests of an emulators compliance. Particularly the runs that were verified on the actual console.

though... there are some cartridges that have random (read: not psudo-random) behavior, and can't actually be tested. (or tased at all)
I really appreciate your feedback. I didn't think you were overly critical at all :) I post my stuff to Hacker News so I can get tough reviews from smart people.
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At my school, it depended heavily on what your focus was. We had three professors, each focusing on their own area of specialization: American politics, international politics, and theory.

The American politics professor had an academic pedigree and insisted that Political Science could and should be a hard science backed up by facts and numbers. In his papers you need statistics, studies, and graphs. He focused very much on the methodology of your research and how well you could back up your claims with solid evidence.

The theoretical professor appreciated hard facts but it was much more important to him that you had a well-reasoned argument, and as _delirium said, would much rather read a 10-page paper full of epistemological debate than one twice that filled with detailed Bayesian analysis.

The international politics professor didn't care because he had tenure.
Yeah you're right. To wonky. Its to ez for j6p to equate the household budget/debt analogies with that of the Federal government. Especially with the false analogy reinforced every 5s by politicians/pundits on Fox News/CNN.
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>The consequences you describe are a result of the system, not the willful action of the buyer.

And if you take that action as a buyer, you are either ignorant of what that negative feedback entails (which is understandable, eBay doesn't go out of its way to post this except on seller only pages.. they DO however say that you are supposed to contact the seller, and in fact if you attempt to leave negative feedback, they stop you with an "are you sure you haven't done X Y and Z" page before actually submitting it)

Or, the buyer knows, and decides that these consequences are worth ruining someone over a dollar.
Depends what your goal is. Your approach is to optimize for developer productivity. Mike's is to optimize for machine productivity.

The question is whether it is possible to do both at once, hence Mike's point about the ideal language needing to find the right high-level abstractions (machine-efficient and developer-intuitive). What we currently have is somewhere in-between, but more towards the machine-efficient side. It's quite easy to produce inefficient code, without realising it, in today's high-level languages.
Not just support - they are generally a drain on resources. The people who keep asking for discounts/lower price also often end up not buying in the end, in my experience. So I waste time talking to them and see nothing for it.
Is this dark magic? :) How does it do oauth without a domain? If you build an apk for Android how does the authentication step grant your app an oauth token?

Does it use a shared firebase server to grant access? If so, how is that secure between unrelated firebase apps?

I tried the demo but it didn't work when running file://.../index.html. The login buttons did nothing.
I love my Retina MBP. I had a 13" Air before.

The Air was great for most things but too many tabs or certain websites with intense Flash movies or Javascript would send the fans spinning and really make it churn. This rarely happens on my rMBP.

Also I spent close to $1800 for a top of the line 13" MBA. My rMBP is the base model and cost me about $2200. I feel it was easily worth the $400 difference.

The rMBP is heavier though, and sacrifices some portability. A retina MBA with more power to avoid the chugging would be my first choice if it were available.
IOS vs Android by the numbers
Not according to http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=121

"7) Basically then the MM05 criticism is simply about whether selected N. American tree rings should have been included, not that there was a mathematical flaw?

Yes."

"8) So does this all matter?

No."
By "almost ready to launch" you mean "they abandoned that idea 2 years ago"? At least, your link suggests that (last post in the group dated by 2011)
Interesting - compare your current EC2 to the recommendation..
Reindeer Stroganoff sounds delicious.
Snake Plisken? I thought you were dead!

Seriously, in English "green great dragon" is simply wrong - there's no semantic distinction here. Size before color, so it's "great green dragon." Just in case anyone is wondering "great" has the literal (non metaphorical) meaning "large in size."
How can huge government debt not cause slower economic growth? At very least all of the money wasted on debt repayment could've been spent on incentive programs. Unless the borrowed money is invested in something that consistently returns more than the debt financing, I don't see how one could think a high debt/gdp ratio would be okay.
Why the fuck is this considered acceptable? Why should I listen to any boffin who refuses to release his data? It's not exactly difficult to upload a couple files to your damn website. I've been in the exact same position and I did it in 5 minutes. But it took them THREE FUCKING YEARS to release this shit. What a joke.
Its a good idea, we can do a HN meetup in future, I'm working on making that possible somehow.
> surely they could order some sort of ham radio shutdown as well?

Yes and no, only to the extent that some hams would respect such an order. The practicality of actually preventing someone, especially a ham from broadcasting ^H^H^H communicating via a radio is a dubious prospect.
There is a huge difference between academia and real world products shipped by teams w/real world experience w/academic backgrounds.

Stanford academic guidelines endorsed and supported by Apple, Inc.

I wonder what approach Evan Doll uses at Flipboard...hmmm?
AsK: Would you pay for a locker to hold stuff you sell online?
Would you pay 5-10% for a locker to hold a book, cd, other used stuff you sell on craiglist/online? So that someone can buy it and pick it up with out having to meet up with them.
Imho. npm really isn't very good for finding libraries. I generally google for them instead and check out the first few hits on github. Perhaps that's why the writer of the article was so exited about the github monoculture.
Leave ads to Google. But those aren't ads, they are useful (to Google's bank account)

Let's see: How should a serious developer or company make money for putting resources to develop Google Glass software? Not everyone has Google money to be able to wait for the rest to go bankrupt and then fill it with ads or raise prices. Good software, in most cases requires good programmers that got "mouths to feed"
This is a great idea! I haven't seen anything like it and also I think you kill of the forum to discuss photos and just attach comments to photos directly (sort of like instagram). Wonder if there is anything legally against chipping in like this?
I enjoyed LA Noire except for the conversations. Maybe there's something wrong with me, but I could never figure out the right responses when interrogating someone.
Amazon Mechanical Turk has been used for this type of thing (specifically attempting to find Steve Fossett).
Could you share the source of this statement?
"We all just meat bags."
No.
Can we stop with the nerd reductionist attitude so prevalent on sites like this? The majority of people don't consider human life to be simply "just meat bags."

Sorry for the loss of your friend.
Same here. I spent several minutes in awe at the audacity to charge $999 per platform per developer per month for this.
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There's obviously some point where having too much debt is bad, but if we go back to the classical "country as household" oversimplistic analogy, I doubt you'd find evidence that people who have mortgages over some magic value relative to their income suddenly start getting smaller annual raises.
They'll say nothing at all.
Interesting concept. Design could be improved a little bit. Great to see an app that works on all platforms. ;)
How could the ether not exist? All waves must have a medium!

When the data doesn't fit the model, it doesn't matter how pretty the model is, the model is wrong.

The right way to answer these questions is to say "The data contradicts my intuitions. How could my intuitions be wrong?"
Is there evidence for or against the existence of multipliers? Sorry if this is a basic question.
And he likes gold, which just crashed "After Gold Crash, Experts Point to Central Bank Manipulation - The New American"
There's always work to be done in digging a deeper hole?
Non-Recurring Engineering (cost). It's a common acronym for manaufacturing, meaning any upfront design costs. Often a fee attached to a custom product.
I guess it would use a provided intermediate server like the one Facebook offers: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/login/login-for-...
Exactly. We had two extremes at my department where one professor felt PS should be regarded as a hard science, and one that felt it belonged in the Humanities department.
Anyone has experience using Vagrant with VMWARE?
Thanks, we've looked at rotating images and combining them in pdf but haven't pushed any of this yet. If you drop me a note to j at easypost dot co I'd love to find out more and let you know what we're working on
They accidentially, the whole economy.
Looking forward to it. Great work on the responsiveness of large projects by the way! It runs much smoother now than it used.
A similar technique was used to identify suspects in the 2011 Stanley Cup Riot in Vancouver, Canada.[0] With people using the footage and pictures of the riot and submitting identities to the police. I'd be interested in seeing similar techniques used else where. It seems to have worked extremely well in the case of this specific riot.

[0] https://riot2011.vpd.ca/
Normally I'd prefer a B2B/B2D type thing for practical reasons, but it's a consumer fashion thing.

Discovery and recommendation oriented, designed to get the rather large percentage of the young population that isn't dressing as well as they could on board. Especially young professional-age men.

It's an itch-scratching problem that is dear to me. Even if it doesn't develop into a sustainable business it's worth it to me to attack.

I'm in Mountain View right now, consulting after my stint as a non-founder CTO. Not going non-founder route again.

I'm bootstrapping at least initially so I get more utility from cheap land and nice people than I do accessibility of seed money.
It's used to describe the actual construction of at least one (and probably both) of the bombs. What are the alternatives?
It's called an opinion. This isn't a peer reviewed paper we're talking about. And his opinion is that merging Nibs is a nightmare. Does he need to document how he did it, when, where, and what the room temp was at the time to "justify" an opinion? Hardly.
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Of course, but if you do that please also use a CI tool (such as Jenkins) to ensure the Vagrantfile stays valid. It's actually good to rebuild that VM regularly, especially when it's almost time to deploy.
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And that ability is infinite in the non-convertible floating fx currency regime that we have today. I'd say there is a free lunch to the extend that foreign countries such as China and Japan prefer to export to us more than import from us. Therefore they must save in our currency (USD) in order to maintain exchange rates at levels that support export desires.
Oh nice, I didn't realize those work for these size labels as well.
Worse than that: the people who like a Ryan and his type actually respect gut feelings better than wonky data.
That one's always bugged me, because it's easy to imagine a Keynesian household budget, too. Imagine a multi-generational household where the patriarch has savings but where the living expenses are covered by his descendants. Then the banking system go crazy for a couple of months - a kid has a business idea that will make money but has lost bank funding. The patriarch has the choice whether to invest savings to get the business off the ground (increasing the probability of the kid contributing to living expenses in the future), or instead just tell the kid to tighten his belt, at the expense of the patriarch's own future living standard.
I'll have to get more info. I interface with their support team frequently, have a Simple account, and use it on a daily basis. "Abandoned" wouldn't be the info I've heard.
XIBs are great for user interfaces that use components that are not table views. XIBs are completely unnecessary and actually a hindrance for view controllers whose primary UI element is a UITableView or UICollectionView.

Most apps, most of the time on iOS make heavy use of these two classes. Even if you're building a data entry form, you're likely to place the text fields inside of a UITableView.

For subclasses of UITableViewController, you actually have to do more work to use a XIB than not.
Master Pages might help here. We're also planning to add Master Objects to make this even easier.
> Can you name a few major projects, preferably on the same kind of scale as the examples that have been mentioned in other posts in this discussion, that were built using TDD?

Operating systems? No. Sorry. Operating systems, as a rule, predate modern practices by some 1-4 decades. Making a kernel like Linux, Darwin, or FreeBSD testable would be a task somewhere between "massive headache" and "really massive headache". I've done some in-kernel unit testing, but only on our own driver subsystems that could be abstracted from the difficult-to-test underlying monolithic code base.

Outside of kernels/operating systems, just Google. Unit/automated testing is prevalent in just about all modern OSS software ecosystems.

A few examples, off the top of my head.

Apache APR: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/apr/apr/trunk/test/README?revis...

Clang: http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/test/

Go: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/pkg/math/all_... (see all *_test.go files)
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Nah, the package isn't weighed twice. More likely than not the seller weighed it themselves and used a calculator (either on eBay's website or with an app like Stamps.com) to figure the amount, which was off by a bit.
My point is that the data she is protecting is not just the crossword data, but that it also includes the users' passwords. Protecting that data is always worthwhile, because those passwords are so frequently reused. This is not "security for the sake of security". It doesn't matter if the passwords are protecting the most unimportant thing on the planet, the passwords themselves still need to be protected.
Thank you all for such an overwhelming response! I will deal with the sign-up issue ASAP. All other suggestions would also be implemented soon. :)
Interesting insights on the natural conflict between standards and innovation from the node community. While standards have benefits they also have costs: any innovation that requires breaking the standard will become very expensive. It's somewhat surprising how often these situations arise.
How does government debt slow growth? Explain the mechanism. (Bear in mind that "growth" is in GDP, a dubious measure in the first place. Hurricanes and cancer add to GDP.)

It's easy to see how slow growth can increase debt: expenses grow through inefficiency, inflation, or whatever, but revenue fails to keep up. So we get low growth driving up debt. I can buy that.

If you have a big mortgage to pay off, will that slow down your salary increases? How? Why? You may lament the fact your salary goes to paying interest on your mortgage, but if anything you're more motivated to increase your salary (the proportional benefits from raises are greater!)
Is there evidence to the contrary or are we back to people yelling past each other with unsupported theories?
What has been your experience with docker? I've been meaning to check it out but did not get around to it yet.
WOW! This is absolutely incredible. I can't believe no one up voted it here!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless
No particular reason other than freeing up the disk space that the VM uses (which admittedly not much).
I think I would. It would save quite a bit of hassle. I think it would be nice if you could ship it to the locker then it auto mails it (or allows someone to pick it up)
Corporate controlled media ?
Yeah, close to deploy is different. What does a CI tool do in this case? I'm somewhat unfamiliar with the concept.
>if you think about the fact that many bombs are remotely-triggered using a cell phone. Kill the network, switch off additional bombs.

Okay, I'll see your cell network shutdown with a slight change to the bomb trigger logic. Now it they're triggered if they receive a trigger signal OR if they don't receive ANY signals for some time.
This actually isn't news. Questions have already been raised as this paper was never peer reviewed [1] (Jan 2013), which states:

> According to their C.V.s [2], it's been published in the May 2010 issue of the American Economic Review, which is a special non-reviewed "papers and proceedings" issue.

So I really don't know why anyone listened to this in the first place other than it furthered their pre-existing political agenda.

This is why any paper should be required to release:

- the raw data supporting it;

- the assumptions, exclusions and weightings made to produce the final data; and

- any code used for a model.

All of these issues are particularly problematic when it comes to climate science.

[1]: http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/no-90-percent-debt-thre...

[2]: http://www.carmenreinhart.com/c.v./cv-in-pdf/
It's called World of Warcraft.
He/she was pointing out the fragility of our bodies, not making any sort of value judgment.
The hardware cost of TrustZone is rather low and vendors of "compute SoCs" have no reason to ship hypervisor software on their chips.

And Raspberry Pi probably doesn't run any secure mode hypervisor as well.
I think Machinarium is a good example of how you can preserve the fun frustration of adventure games without pushing people to cheat. They would allow you to play a mini-game in order to reveal some extra hints which would push you in the right direction enough to figure out the rest on your own.

In Monkey Island I would sometimes get annoyed and google for what to do out of angry frustration. It was easy for me to throw my hands up and say "I don't give a shit any more, time to move on!" Lots of times the solutions made zero sense to me. In Machinarium I still got a sense of frustration and puzzlement, but I would try to forego the hints out of pride for as long as I could which made for a much more enjoyable experience.
There is a great gap between saying "I will not shop with you" and "I wish nobody ever shops with you". I wasn't bothered by GP's desire for accurate feedback, or for consequences for mistakes; I was appalled by their callous attitude.
The most poignant aspect of the article is when they talk about words sounding judgemental. This was something that was stressed in my Sociology course - how practices and beliefs of other cultures should be observed but not judged, because those practices "work for them".

Like the author, I agree that this shouldn't be the case. There are specific things groups like Amnesty International are trying to change - and if you're trying to change those things then you've already passed judgement on them.
Thanks for posting this, I didn't see it when it was first published.