skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're paraphrasing, then you could direct-quote a critical part of the text so that a reader knows what to search for.

A writer could also adopt page-neutral paragraph or sub-paragraph numbering. This is common, for instance, in classical texts (where such numbering has been done retrospectively, by scholars, because of the difficulties of citing passages with so many translations - the same general problem that paraphrasing has). To cite a few major examples, Plato's and Artistotle's works have such numbering, as does Hobbes' Leviathan.

Page numbering has poor granularity for citations in real scholarly work (where you'd ideally want to be able to cite within a few lines at most), and it prohibits flowed text. If someone has some case where they think they need page numbers for citations, they should figure out an alternative (a few of which have been outlined above).
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Here you go.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/574869/137419114-Introdu...
That's what I use spamgourmet for. I give out a different address to various sites without fear. The address you give out includes a number which is the number of emails you will allow them to send to you at first. You can reload that number whenever you want to allow them to send more messages, or you can whitelist the sender if you want to keep receiving messages without it counting down.
"Now, you picked a more flexible language first in your example, but how about "programming Java like it was Clojure" or "programming BASIC like it was Python"? Doesn't sound so negative anymore, does it?"

Yep, sounds just as bad. You are programming for something other than the language's strengths. You are also doing something that makes your code different from its conventions.

Plus, you aren't learning a new way of expressing the code or why the language designer did what they did, so you won't see the solutions a new language affords.

Cross compilers generated code is not meant to interop with hand written code. That is a different game.
How does an article like this actually get points on HN? It's called "Things I set on new servers", but it should really be called "Things That I Configure in Apache", and the suggestions aren't even anything all that interesting or useful. Do people really even use Apache any more?

What?
I thought the video was of high quality relative to most online videos. Also, I don't know how many of these you've done, but it is extremely hard to do scripted video content convincingly.
Unfortunately, this hoax is easy to believe. Hollywood has screwed writers out of their royalties in the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_gump#Author_controvers...
I cant vote down and Ive been here for about a year.
how i can see name of user who committed this?
You should search twitter for your site right now. It's blowing up haha

https://twitter.com/search?q=ismytwitterpasswordsecure.com&#...
I actually think he's pretty moderate. His views are not mainstream, but I would expect someone like him to think in those terms.

OTOH, his pal Peter Thiel is pretty extreme. That's someone I'm not comfortable with.
What are they going to do with their massive bank account?

Maybe something in the services sector (not directly dependent on a piece of hardware)...

Do a GE? Become a bank? Buy Disney?
Is it harder to find Python devs in Seattle than other devs - Ruby, .NET, etc.?
Or alternately, manufacture the illness, then sell the cure.

Although that would probably look a bit shifty hanging in the lobby.
The law may not be simple and people may not be laid back about their legal issues, but most people are extremely haphazard about selecting counsel. Really, most people just don't get counsel at all. And those that do tend to get them from the phone book.
It's not original, because it was a pastiche of a whole bunch of preexisting cyberpunk, anime, and sci-fi stories. It was a tribute to a lot of them. That's why it feels so familiar. There was no direct plagiarism necessary to create a pastiche.
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>The rumor would presumably help him because it would discourage his clients from committing crimes,

That rumor would most likely discourage people from becoming clients in the first place.

While "getting out of the building" and talking to our assumed target demo, one of the reservations people had was the belief that we were working in concert with law enforcement.
…and generate tens of billions in free cash flow per year!
I wrote that income from Mac sales is not significant, looking at the whole of Apple’s income. That’s not to say that Mac’s aren’t critical to Apple’s philosophy. It’s hard to see the ’Digital Hub’[1] without Mac computers.

[1] The Digital Hub (2001): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9046oXrm7f8
This is like suing because someone did a profile on you and published it on Yahoo.
Note that the "download" attribute is extremely useful when the href is a data or blob URI [1]. This allows you to construct the file that the user is going to get in Javascript, rather than server-side. For example, if you wanted to write an image-editing web app and didn't want to round-trip to the server to allow them to download a copy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
I'd say so... The rails community is generally larger than the Python community (at least in web-specific stuff), and there are tons of .NET folks due to Microsoft.
I've found Unix Text Processing (http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/) to be very very helpful when trying to some data processing I would normally do in excel.
Oh, dear. I hope no one thinks he's a hacker now.
Amusingly, we (BugHerd) have exactly this sort of system in place. Almost universally our users prefer to get individual messages. For a lot of these notification emails, just the subject line is enough for most people to know whether an action is required or not. Grouping the notifications means you _must_ open to the email to see what's going on = more work.

Possibly the biggest complaint is that if you're collaborating on a project, you never quite know when someone knows what you want them to know...meaning you have to pick up the phone to notify them yourself.

We're removing the feature and defaulting to instant notifications. We'll also offer the users the ability to skip instant notifications in favour of weekly, daily or twice daily summaries depending on what is appropriate for their role in the project.
Ask HN: Client Isn't Paying Their Bill, What Should I Do?
As of this Friday it will have been exactly 6 months since the first invoice. The client is in the hospitality industry so it's especially troubling that they're not showing us any of it.<p>We were hired for a small but time-consuming and time-sensitive project at the end of last summer. We performed our work up to the high standards that we hold ourselves to, and subsequently invoiced them. (Now, I never do work before getting paid, which is an unfortunate consequence of others breaking my trust).<p>After a few months, they informed us that they were not going to pay us until they used our work to sell one of their hotel properties. This was not the agreement. We did a job, provided an asset, and expected to be paid for that asset. They have been saying for months that they'll pay us when the hotel transaction closes.<p>On Saturday we gave them a final notice to pay by this Friday or we're going to turn it over to collections and file complaints with the Better Business Bureau and Dun & Bradstreet.<p>I'm not in the business of harming others' reputations, but this seems like the only negotiating power we have left. And the fact is we did a job and have not been paid for that job.<p>The final straw was when we contacted the Chicago office and they informed us that our agreement was with the Denver office, even though one of our contacts on the client team works out of the Chicago office. They are requesting we not bring the Chicago office into this dispute, even though their company name and the Chicago office address is the contact info listed on the company website.<p>The worst part? We were hired by our friends. I've lost respect for them as business people and as friends.<p>I'm reminded of this quote from Game of Thrones: "A Lannister always pays his debts". Clearly, we're not dealing with that House.<p>What do you guys and gals think we should do?
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Or put it another way, parachutes are generally less effective than using a system you already have for other purposes. A parachute probably beats a rocket engine if your only task is landing, but when you already have the rocket engine, you're better off using it for landing than building a completely separate landing system.

In short, same basic reason why we use wings and wheels to land airplanes rather than dropping them from a parachute when they reach their destination.
Less than 1% seems low to me. Also, we'd be talking about options or stock (likely RSUs) not cash. GOOG was trading around $390/sh 4 years ago. So, if 4 years ago you were offered $150K (which I still think is low) in RSUs @ $390/sh for your start-up equity with some small vesting tranches each year and a large full vesting at the end of 4 years (and you held onto it all), you'd have a little more than $310K today plus your GOOG salary and bonuses for those four years. Not bad for doing ~5 years as dev ops at a start-up like Wavii.
If you completely abandoned the project as it currently exists, do you think your income would drop off sharply?

In other words, how much of an ongoing effort is it to ensure your income stays high? Does search favor apps that are being updated constantly? Or is there any reason not to eventually just stop working on the app?
Perhaps the most important thing to remember from today - the CFO said that Apple, for the first time, will take on debt.

In a nutshell, a company with around $100bn in cash (and equivalents) held offshore[1] would rather raise debt and pay interest on that debt, than repatriate funds to the US and pay corporate income tax.

[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/im...
Is Steam actually using BitTorrent? I thought they were using something proprietary.

If they are not using BitTorrent then Sync would provide a new, plausible way to stop ISPs from blocking that specific protocol.
That lock-in is on the bonus Google offers, not the payout on equity. At least in the two acquisitions I've been privy to details about.
> The test itself becomes a learning experience

Maybe this sums up the entire article. Many of us in lower-status teaching positions than UCLA adopt this attitude, especially when we're in the situation where the grade we give can be changed by our employers for various reasons.
Yes. It's exceptionally hard to find developers of any kind in Seattle, but it's even harder to find Python/Django developers because a smaller set of the developer population is familiar with those languages. Often, Python is used in academic settings, and many of those people aren't seeking to leave academia.

As a side comment, there are billboards in Seattle recruiting developers. Today, while getting a coffee, I noticed a truck driving around with a billboard on the back...advertising developer job openings.

It's crazy! And, what's crazier is that there are people out there who can't even find jobs! It's like that presidential candidate talked about a few years ago..."there are two Americas"...the America where people can't find a job, and the America where jobs can't find the people.
This screams bad idea to me...
Everyone who maintains the HTML5 spec. is named Mike.
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Shipping software to paying customers who don't have hard deadlines is the exception, not hard deadlines!
1	int x = 10;

2	&x = 20; // this doesn't work

3	* (&x) = 20; // this does work

Why does line 2 &x not work but line 3 does? Because &x returns a pointer, a number representing a memory address. This is an important distinction. A pointer doesn’t hold a memory address, it holds a number that represents a memory address.

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No, that is not why. Note that the following does work:

int * x = 0;

and the following works, though typically yields a warning:

int * x = 20;

Line 2 fails because & doesn't give back an l-value.
The code is not minified or obfuscated.
Tell me about it. Never been more glad to have used S3 to host some files. Instant scaling...
Don't forget the numerous other accelerators which follow the YC 3-month spring, money, and mentors method. If we include those who have been inspired to do YC-alikes, the numbers would become huge.
Loved that simile: setting an artificial deadline is like setting when your team will score its next goal in a soccer game.
>News departments are lazy and don't want to pay for real news

Neither do users.
Did anyone else find the style of this article distractingly idiomatic and puffed up?

Anyway, this is a great move for apps like Uber and taxi drivers as well. Considering the article about the low limits on the taxi medallions that was posted here on hn the other day, this looks like it will benefit everyone but the taxi corporations.
Seems like a horrible and arbitrary idea. What is it meant to achieve? Send a bitcoin to an address? View a block?

HTML5 started off well, but is beginning to morph into a cargo cult of 'cool': the return of mystery navigation, "swipe to navigate", many others.
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Integers are the simple case, but you really haven't grasped the C memory model until you're comfortable handling text strings at any length, calling functions by pointers, working with structure pointers, and knowing when you need a pointer to a pointer. Part of it is understanding variable scope, local vs global vs stack frame memory. It's not rocket science, just takes practice, and the courage to segfault your way through it.
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The iPod mini, nano, and shuffle didn't devalue the iPod brand. The Mac mini didn’t devalue the Mac brand. Apple didn’t simply slash the prices on iPad 10" devices, with the iPad mini they added choice. The iPad mini isn’t underpowered and plasticky, its build quality is at least as high as the larger model. The move is very much like how Apple introduced the iPod mini, 2 years after the first iPod.
Yet, NASA plans to use them on the new Space Launch System (SLS). Lobbyism?
I certainly don't agree with the way the doc has chosen to handle this, but I sympathize to a degree. There's no shortage of ignorance about how the Internet works among otherwise educated people.

Also, the author seems a bit disingenuous.

>The web site in question is Retraction Watch. I recently discussed other foolish threats made against them, and discussed their mission: offering a "window on the scientific process" by which scientific articles are criticized, retracted, or modified."

The full statement is "Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process". This is a 2200+ word post, seems unlikely those three words had to be clipped in the interest of brevity.

>He's acted like an angry blustering oaf who is pathologically intolerant of criticism. Ask yourself — how much do you trust the work of a scientist who threatens to sue for true reports of peer review of his work? Would you feel comfortable ingesting a drug developed by a chemist who threatens criminal charges against someone who reports — truly and accurately — that other scientists have raised questions about his conclusions? Would you hire a consultant who makes foolish public legal threats without first acquiring any grasp whatsoever of the applicable law? Would you invest in a pharmaceutical company whose Chief Scientific Officer utters civil and criminal threats against reports of scientific dissent?

That seems unnecessarily nasty.
According to the link in the comment:

"The purpose of this URI scheme is to enable users to easily make payments by simply clicking links on webpages or scanning QR Codes."

Source: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0021
Sure, but those issues are orthogonal to ones I'm responding to, and at any rate this prank does nothing to alleviate the problems you identify, either.
The name is always "Ian Hickson". He's the only committer on the HTML5 SVN repo:

$ svn log -q | egrep "^r\d+" | cut -d "|" -f 2 | sort | uniq -c
7850 ianh
Chances are that he's thinking in a civil law mindset, seeing as he's from Argentina. Some other countries have far stricter laws on defamation than the US. Indeed, I actually think US laws are a bit too weak, resulting things like exploitation of mugshots for commercial profit and so on.
In the commit-watchers mailing list: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/commit-watchers-whatwg.org...
DDoS dossier, reddit suffers 400k requests/second DDoS
That's not really "preferential treatment" in any sense. That's exactly how the store would ideally want to treat all of its customers.

Retailers don't want to expend money and other resources on security personnel and equipment. Unfortunately, they have to do so because certain individuals do partake in behavior that harms the store in one way or another.

If a given store repeatedly has trouble (or a lack of trouble) with individuals who have certain traits in common, perhaps even including skin color, then it's understandable that people exhibiting such traits may be treated with a certain degree of suspicion.

The store is merely trying to manage risk in an efficient manner, rather than intentionally giving people with one trait an advantage over others without that trait.
I am using Everpix at the moment, but Flickr seems like a better deal and has much more features.
Except for a critical one....auto-uploading from pre-specified folders & Photo Stream. Do you manually upload all your photos, or is there a better way?
Proud to be the 4th comment on team jacob's HN posts.
You have given reasons that support the idea that this is arbitrary, but why is it horrible?
That hub gear is worth nearly twice what I paid for my bike. And I think I paid a lot for my bike.

Good to know Dropbox can host some of the steamiest bike porn I've ever seen.
'Interested' is a hard to prove word. The best one can really say without statements from Google VIPs is that acquisitions frequently do not seem to lead to successful services and so they're probably better seen as either expensive acquihires or gambling on hits.

(I have an in-progress analysis of Google service/product shutdowns at http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns and one of the solider looking results so far is that even being generous and marking as 'alive' any acqusition's products which were merged into something like Maps or Google+, products which were part of an acquisition are much more likely to be shutdown than internally-developed products.)
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This is great news: it will allow new education startups to run for a whole year to validate whatever they've built in real classrooms. Because of the cyclical nature of the K12 school year, it can be hard to demonstrate traction without the means to operate for a full school year, and this new start fund move solves that problem.

I went through the first iteration of Imagine K12 with ClassDojo, and every member of the team was incredibly valuable in helping us launch the company. If you're doing an education technology startup, or thinking of starting one, I highly recommend you check them out.
Prank? It's a funny ad. It's not a prank.
The plugin system for Xcode is definitely opaque. This is a fantastic fix for that.
"a generation of intellectual sluggards incapable of moving beyond the Internet"
Awesome, purchasing mine now. I did a similar design (based on Alexis' marketing course) recently that failed (http://teespring.com/mspl) but may try to bring it back.

Props for hand screenprinting these, that takes some effort!
Although some of the premises of the story (eg using humans as batteries... Or was it power sources?) seem illconceived, there we numerous memorable scenes from the film which didn't have anything in particular to do with visual effects, just great film-making. Like Smith's virus speech, or the costume styles, or the invocation of lots of different types of philosophy.
Mostly I just stopped caring because I already knew EA was horrible, Origin sucks and people only use it when forced by EA, and SimCity is a crappy game (even independent of the DRM issues).

Bioshock: Infinite came out and was good. Other than that, I just sit and wait for Civ V's next expansion, GTA:V, etc.
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It is absolutely prejudicial. Citing a case where I benefit from it doesn't make it right. Why not randomly give a beer to every 1000th patron, or every 10th shirt with lettering, as a conversation-starter?
bitcoin is not the first whitelisted scheme [1], we already have irc, geo, mailto, magnet, mms, news, nntp, sip, sms, smsto, ssh, tel, urn, webcal, xmpp.

[1] http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps/index#whitelisted-scheme
New York. Between jobs, have offers, still looking for a little while. Strongly considering a move outside of NYC (sick of having an impressive city on my resume be my savings; would like actual savings savings). Boston, SF, and Austin are main candidates. SF is still expensive but my pay would go up.

Also, doing a talent scan for a startup concept. Possibly a Hail Mary pass because I don't know if anyone can meet the standards for the business co-founder, but worth a shot. http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/seeking-co-fo...
I could not agree more. Why, why, WHY don't people set metadata fields for PDFs (and other documents, but especially pdfs) and why don't websites use/require that metadata? We could be running a semantic web right now and be a year or two ahead of where we are if people would actually think more than one step ahead.

/fume
Awesome fiddle! Thanks for sharing that here, it's definitely a unique solution.
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Boston Bombing and the Internet Mob
My point is that pointer-or-not is irrelevant and muddies the issue. The problem is entirely that it's not an l-val.
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Good citizenship = giving away your hard work for free?

Good grief.
OK, if I understand correctly this is the WHATWG HTML5, not the W3C HTML5. Are there any browsers actually using WHATWG's spec?
SkySQL, MariaDB to merge
BitTorrent Sync: this is huge (and it’s not about dropbox) | blog.vrypan.net
That sounds like a brilliant thing for free speech, but watch out, I'm not sure there's a guarantee of anonymity in crowds for people who have read-write access, they may be identifiable.

Still reading the analysis of the system. Have to read through the spec.
Scopes of identifiers, linkages of identifiers, name-spaces of identifiers, storage durations of objects, types, and representations of types.
Patio11 has argued forcefully that developers systematically neglect women and underserve that large market; I wonder if we can add to that 'and developers also ignore religious markets too'?
I was with you until you said that amazing profits aren't a good thing, even for Apple.

Its terribly difficult to judge Apple or compare them to "normal" companies but there's a prevailing sentiment in some investment quarters that if your profits are too high it means you're not investing enough back into growth. In this case apple gave back 2 billion in profits but gained 4B in revenues. In a lot of cases this is a growth tradeoff many companies would take.
From what I have seen Lift performs much better than Rails except in the benchmarks where there were errors running the tests.
Why can't our GPUs be as powerful as our CPUs?

Simple, they make different tradeoffs to target different tasks. GPUs are horrible at code that is branch heavy, CPUs tend to be much better at that kind of code. GPUs make trade offs for fast memory access, ever hear of a GPU with 32GB ram? and vice versa.
Is there a manual on writing plugins somewhere?