skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a fact that some people have the opinion that there are hard rules to language. Better?

More seriously, I think we're in violent agreement, the difficulty is how we parse the word "rule".

If rule means "something that must be done or you'll be a bad person and the world will end" as many language prescriptivists like to use, then it is a fact that languages do not posses rules of this sort.

If rule means "a mutual set of understood guidelines" then yes, I'm in full agreement that languages can have sets of customary rules that aid construction and understanding, but this set of guidelines is incredibly fluid and can change as you've described including temporal, generational, socioeconomic, ethnic, fluency and other sources of variation that can alter the set so profoundly that two speakers of the same language can be more or less unintelligible to each other yet still be said to be speaking the same language!

Back on topic: "a green great dragon" sounds awkward unless we're having a discussion about the colors of "great dragons" in which case it's perfectly ordered and "a great green dragon" makes no sense since we're not talking about sizes of "green dragons".
Real people have jobs writing clojure. I can't speak for Rust.
I would venture to guess that they'd be entirely incompetent at whatever software they attempted to use.
Don't underestmate the power of propaganda. Need to look at the overall picture of free communication and the extreme religious pressure in 1940s Japan, and the economic/social situation of the pilots.
Someone please tell me what this is and why I can't click anything.
But the result wasn't discredited: there was in fact a normalization error in Mann et al's original findings, and we didn't find out until 8 years later because the data manipulation code was "proprietary."

Meanwhile, everyone proceeded as if it were fact.

We need to raise the bar of skepticism and with it the burden of proof. Show me your raw data. Show me your code for manipulating that data into the final result. I'm honestly surprised that publishing data + paper + a source code repository isn't required in order to be taken seriously these days.
So, where's the Bank or Credit Union that has an interface like this?
OK so it would be solved if money could magically clone itself? Imagine that the fed could press a button that would make all USD in existence (physical or digital) suddenly split from $1 into 2x$1. Would that work?
Adobe Illustrator all the way.
verification? yes

check it out here https://geteasypost.com/docs
Even better, #2 is unclear if the person practices Chinese law or is Ethnically Chinese.
10 reasons MySQL active-active is hard
Writing to two masters - everybody wants to do it, but no one can make it work. Hear are the ways it breaks and what to do instead.
So that provides evidence that it doesn't work?
I enjoyed reading "This Time is Different" I think their discussions of debt has motivated us to look at this concept in more depth. Maybe we can improve on their crude excel spreadsheet analysis. Then someone should do it!
Bingo! This basically changes everything (or at least disproves the major argument against the deficit issue, since there is no proof that economic growth will be negatively affected by the debt).

Too bad this can't be used more publicly in the political arena, since if anyone so much as mentions the economic theory people will be like "Reindeer-Stroganoff what?"
The general idea is similar - lots of cores with distributed SRAM memory and some shared DRAM, all sitting on 2D mesh network. The main difference is that Epiphany is made of custom simple RISC cores, while Xeon Phi uses 1st gen Pentiums with huge SIMD FPUs slapped on for higher FP throughput (and TDP).
Are we there yet? (The traditional YC "waiting for the acceptance mail" thread)
Did you submit to YC? What did you submit? Do you think you'll make a chance? Have they sent out the mails yet?
I lived in Minnesota for 20 years and just got back from Portland. I'd say Minneapolis is average-nice but not "beautiful." The Grand Rounds and city lakes are great. The actual city parts, however, are nothing special and I would argue are actually kind of ugly, especially in late winter and early spring when there's a layer of dirty ice crust covering everything.

Portland's weather is truly miserable during the winter and is rated #1 in the country for seasonal affective disorder. The summers, however are beautiful.
I (mostly) write Scala and have never used a debugger. I'm not aware of any of my immediate colleagues who use one either.
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The URLs are all variable size (do not truncate) and the "Browse more" content follows the variable length url. This means the Browse More section does not follow any pattern and just appears at the end of each link.

Because of this, every single quote appears different. For some reason, I think that standard content like read more should be standardized to help me find easy anchors while browsing quickly.

That way, when I look at a quote, the only deviating part of the design is the unique content itself, and I can be sure that if it's deviating, it's the content I'm looking for.

As it stands, it's difficult for me to parse the whole list as identical elements with differing content, and instead I'm seeing them all as different going down.

EDIT: I also do not like that you preserve tabbing from the users input. It's useful in theory but since your url content relies on a tab as well, it creates a very weird dynamic while looking down the page where a tab doesn't really mean anything, because it means something different everytime I see one.

EDIT2: I'm not a designer (but I fancy myself an amateur) and if I was in charge of the layout, I'd probably have done something like: http://i.imgur.com/o0s9UZl.png -- The subtext is noticably smaller, the url is shortened for consistency and length, and the two aspects of the subtext are floating left and right for solid, consistent anchors.

EDIT3: Coming back to it, I went a slightly different direction: http://i.imgur.com/jfFcB1N.png

I know you're not looking for design advice, I just had fun playing with someone else's work. Thanks :)

Just my opinion, however, take what I say as a user story and nothing more!
There may not be empirical evidence for the magical 90% level, but we don't need empirical evidence to know that at some point interest payments will require highter tax revenues which will reduce disposable income and hence consumption.

Obviously someone is on the receiving end of those repayments, but if that someone is not putting money in the pockets of those same taxpayers and instead decides to finance a power plant in Thailand then GDP will inevitably suffer.

I'm not a government deficit scaremonger by any means. I think Krugman's (and others') argument that the U.S. government can borrow very cheaply and should therefore act in a countercyclical manner for the common good is plausible. I'm also convinced that the crowding out argument is bogus in an economy that suffers from too little demand whilst corporations are sitting on tons of cash.

But we should not lose sight of the fact that interest rates are a highly psychological affair. Once trust in the ability to repay debt gets eroded things can get out of control very quickly. So we should be scared at least a little bit.

That said, the U.S is probably the one entity on this planet that is furthest away from that point. Even Japan with it's 245% debt/GDP ratio can borrow at 0.5% for 10 years whilst their currency is crashing and the central bank is announcing a massive QE program twice the size of the U.S one.

But if the U.S ever gets to the point where Japan is now, that's when I'm starting read up on agriculture or the hunter-gatherer diet.
This is a great piece.

Conveys the harsh cold ground reality of a bomb blast. I lost a good friend in the German Bakery bomb blasts that struck Pune, India in 2010 and this story made me well up. We are all just meat bags held up with a few bones and an explosion is capable of ending all the life we have spent years building around ourselves and our loved ones. Terrorists truly suck.
Really. The bitcoin software is open source, isn't it? Just read the source! (Or rater, have someone read it and explain it to you, since the writer doesn't seem to be a programmer.)

And transparency? The protocol os very clear about how new coins are created. All nodes on the network een has to agree about creation of coins. How could it be more transparent?
I am finding Azure really great,the platform itself has good integration with publishing from both github and tfs.... The setup with .net solutions is tight obviously.

I am using SQL azure, blob storage for files, persistent queues for background processing, tables for diagnostics,
MVC 4 webapi restful services and a custom built single page app hosted as web role with automatic scale out cloud services, plus worker roles handling background queue processing, so all in all, scalability as a service, hard to beat... I couldn't imagine doing this without Azure with such a small team. Yes I work mainly with the Microsoft stack and this kinda ties me a little for now, but that shouldn't be an issue if the business succeeds as it has economies of scale.

Price reductions are always welcome..
There's no guarantee of safety in non-free societies either.
The Wikipedia page also notes that the Octonauts are based on books published in 2006, 2 years before the founding of Github.

While I am not a lawyer, I do not think there is very much similarity between the two. Github's Octocat is half-octopus, half-cat. The Octonauts are 8 nautical animals (including an octopus and a cat).
Simple is almost ready to launch it's API: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/simple-ap...

And Dwolla already has one: https://www.dwolla.com/developers
Great.

Your service is doing more than simple verification. Verification by its nature would result in a boolean. Your service is suggesting a better address (which is what I'd call normalization). e.g.

curl https://www.geteasypost.com/api/address/verify \
-u cueqNZUb3ldeWTNX7MU3Mel8UXtaAMUi: \
-d 'address[street1]=388 Townshende Ave' \
-d 'address[street2]=Unit 20' \
-d 'address[city]=San Francisco' \
-d 'address[state]=CA' \
-d 'address[zip]=94107'

yields:

{"address":{"street1":"388 TOWNSEND ST APT 20","city":"SAN FRANCISCO","state":"CA","zip":"94107"}}

Anyhow, semantics aside, are you going to make it fuzzier or this is based entirely on USPS' api?
Unfortunately this high school civics version of the U.S. criminal justice system is not accurate. "Mens rea" comes from the traditional common law, which is now increasingly divorced from actual federal criminal statutory law. An increasingly number of federal crimes say unlawful intent may be presumed or is even irrelevant.

Note I'm not taking a position on whether any possible TOS violations rise to the level of a CFAA violation, or whether DOJ would care, just that waving around terms like "mens rea" does not an actual rebuttal make.

Or, if you prefer a high school civics sur-rebuttal, "ignorance of the law is no defense." :)
Cool, that is an improvement.

Does this allow for incremental refinement/iteration of the mockup? My problem with duplicating pages is basically having a bunch of shared components on the same page, and then having to make a change to one of them... across the dozen different pages representing the states... so it was still an insufficient method for me.
Indeed, much easier than cURLing

Thanks for the awesome work, Nick!
I don't have a formal definition of a string reduction language, so maybe I'm mis-generalizing. That said, J's parser (http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dicte.htm) looks like what I imagined the phrase meant.
It probably feels weird saying something like, "I crave reading first-hand accounts of near-death experiences." It indirectly implies that you derive pleasure from people being in these situations.

I agree that if someone went to the trouble of writing and sharing their experiences, being touched/affected by it is a complement to the person.
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We're an SMS-first startup in Pakistan since 2009 doing a billion+ SMS every month (pringit.com). Supporting SMS is key considering 120M cellphone users and 25M internet users.

The blogpost is well meaning but its certainly wrong/naive about a number of things:

1. You don't bypass bandwidth and latency issues; you're a hostage to them. Want to get more SMS/sec capacity? Well, you need to renegotiate your terms with each mobile partner. If you have a shortcode, you can't negotiate because the operators own the codes, the tariff and the capacity and you have no alternative. Contrast this with internet bandwith which is 1,000x cheaper and easier to get a hold of.

2. Similarly, you don't "Own the network", you are at the mercy of your mobile operator who has near absolute control. The operator is a party in your commercial decisions, on your rev-share model, on your product behaviour (so it doesn't compete with existing services/investments), bandwith etc.

3. There is no rich media. MMS is a different beast altogether and has very very tiny adaption (<10% of mobile internet users).

That being said, there are 6Billion mobile users and 2.2Billion internet users. This gulf will exist for a long time to come and it is unfair to limit innovation, information and access to just internet users and in that, the article is spot on. My company specifically focuses on creating a social network that covers both these spectrums in a way that doesn't exclude non-internet users from the national debate and the only that is possible is via SMS.
Ask HN: Anyone going to OSBC 2013?
https://www.etouches.com/ehome/50794
Because the alternative is to build CRUD app startups like Basecamp, with no dependencies on any API or 3rd party data. Useful, no doubt, but a saturated market.
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Thanks for this link, it is useful for beginners to understand. Comments are even more interesting.
Feedback:

The music drove me nuts within seconds, and upon muting it and watching, I couldn't figure out what was going on, and decided I really couldn't care.

Maybe it's great, don't know, but there's absolutely no hook, no reason for me to watch.
This surprises me - Reinhart and Rogoff are both very well respected economists, and neither is a culture warrior type - they've published enough (Including "This Time Its Different", a great book to understand the history of financial crises) that I almost wonder if there's more to this than meets the eye at first glance. I realize the first tendency is to "burn the witch", but I'd like to learn more.
Do you use Auto Layout in code?
> We're not talking about users here

Yes, we are. Flattr works fine without Twitter. The Twitter connection is "just" a way to get more users. Flattr is not going to go bankrupt because Twitter blocks them (or, at least not as a direct result).

Therefore, in a thread about Flattr (or any other business that uses the Twitter API but does not vitally depend on it), a "devs that still talk to Twitter are stupid" rant is completely misplaced.
DYMO printers are pretty standard and come in different sizes. The 4XL would certainly fit this use case:

http://www.amazon.com/DYMO-LabelWriter-4XL-Label-Printer/dp/...
I essentially agree with you.

Here's my input on the "need more women"/"female unfriendly" work environment in IT debate:

There's nothing wrong with working with and coding with only men. That's been my only experience so far as a noob who's had two programming internships.

I think most men are easy to get along with and I enjoy their friendships. The only female unfriendly experiences I've had on the job have been due to sexual harassment (as in someone actively trying to sleep with a person, not a stupid off-handed joke). In class it's been the more condescending "you only got that job because you're a girl and you look like this". I think that needs to stop. It's completely fucked up behaviour. But being on an all male team is fine. I think to say we need to get tech to a completely even score is pointless. Most nurses are women and a few are men and they carry on fine? Not a lot of girls are into coding (at least as of yet) and that's fine too. They're being influenced at a younger age to have an interest in tech now by different organizations and that is great, but if after campaigns such as those are completed and women still don't get to 50% of IT - meh, who cares. Given most women who get into tech enjoy tech related hobbies (video games etc.) it's easy to be friendly to coworkers and others in the industry. It's not like women in tech all feel completely disconnected from the men. The women in my class and I have spoke about this and we generally have all had the same experience (unfortunately that includes the sexual harassment too though).

tdlr; most women are not overly sensitive like Adria Richards and we'll be fine. We're too busy coding up stuff to care about this (minus the sexual harassment - which is commenting on boobs and trying to sleep with the girl etc., not dongle jokes lol but actual serious stuff)

/rant
IMHO anything that cost-effectively shifts the responsibility for the actual driving from "me" to "somebody else" is almost automatically more disruptive than anything that doesn't. (Note the cost-effective requirement, which is important.)

Uber, Lyft are in the "self-driving car" category, not in the "more resource-efficient car" category. Put another way, they conserve a resource (attention) that is far more scarce than fuel, cash, etc.
The most incredible and depressing aspect of this is that it will have no impact whatsoever on policy makers, leaders or their supporters.

Can anyone imagine Paul Ryan or Cameron/Osborne coming out and admitting their policies are based on nothing more than gut feelings unsupported by anything? What about the countless pundits who've spent years squawking about austerity? The notion is laughable.
Which is only a problem if you can show you're forgoing vital services for it.

Example: 30 billion, at say, 2% interest per year (which a government could easily get, and the US can currently do much better then) is only 600 million interest repayments. And remember, this is before accounting for inflation, since the loan can be repaid with much cheaper dollars in the future (i.e. inflation usually sits at around 2%, and a government can tweak that as needed).

US debt servicing currently compromises about 7% of the annual budget. So there's no imminent risk that interest payments couldn't be paid for out of general revenue.

Even if the US really needed 600 million per year of some service, it would _still_ make more sense to take out the 30 billion loan, plough 28.8 billion into infrastructure or other investments, then spend 600 million on those services, 600 million on financing the interest, and repay the entire thing with simultaneously cheaper dollars in the future _and_ the new revenue they've generated from growth.

The only _real_ danger, is the risk you may have to run a larger fraction of your annual revenue into debt servicing if you can't refinance. But you can put money aside to account offset that contingency, and still borrow.
Putting on my tinfoil hat, I wonder if this error was intentional or unintentional? Was the errant conclusion known to be false by any who propagated it? If so, by whom and to what end?

For example, perhaps the US and Euro governments wanted to justify some tough measures of fiscal restraint and increase public support, and they wanted to keep it from being delayed until collapse was impossible to avoid. (See, I'm not totally jaded. But I can think of plenty of worse scenarios too.)

The "flaws" seem to be too large (and some deliberate) to be unintentional, but maybe I give too much credit. I've just noticed too much misinformation being spread by those who should know better, and coincidentally seem to benefit the most from it. I'm suspending my judgement until I learn more, but anyone else have any insights?
If you have a point, make it clearly instead of hiding it.
That actually helps, thanks!
So, when he says that HYPE is subject of discussion, that means that other companies are looking at this factor as a winning factor? What is your reading on that?
If you download the mark, it's a .zip including some smaller versions without suckers on the tentacle.
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Is he more special than other people, or should we ALL have been informed properly?
Intel platforms have a very similar risk via SMM and the platform code & controller. It's less advanced, but it can easily exert full control over the system without the os allowing it, minus access to some registers and on die cache. It could DMA in or out of the gpu memory as well.

Whether your soc vendor forces a secure supervisor to load is up to them, and i'd be surprised if an HPC builder had trouble finding vendors to supply parts with a totally controllable boot chain.

I'm sure there are ways to obscure it, but there are just as many ways on x86 platforms, the only real difference being that you could pull the eprom and reflash it and inspect the other board components. There's also plenty of evil things you can put in a soc without relying on trustzone.

Bottom line is you have to trust your vendor. If you want a soc integrated and fab monitored by a business/state that is politically aligned with yours it is probably just a matter of paying a premium.
I use Uber when I'm in SF. It seems like a very San Francisco specific service. I would never use it in NYC because I've never had problems getting a cab and the cabs already take credit cards. I would also not use it in any other city I've been in the USA because they are so spread out I always have to have my own car, anyway.

Uber mostly seems like a better way to hail a cab in SF because hailing a cab there was previously next to impossible.

I am not sure how relevant it is in other cities but it will be interesting to see how they do.
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Ask HN: Can we help the police sort through the photos of the Boston Marathon?
The police are going to need to sort through and catalog thousands of photos and videos. They may not be prepared or have the infrastructure to do this efficiently. Maybe we can build something to help.

Some ideas:

- A central place for people to upload photos and videos from the event

- A system to sort by time and location of the media

- Duplicate detection of photos and videos

- A forum to discuss the photos

- A way to crowdsource tedious tasks. For example: See if person X or item Y is in any of the photos of videos.

I'd love feedback on this idea. Would this be helpful? Does it already exist?

Edit: Getting lots of great feedback. If you're interested in helping, e-mail jon@jonb.org.
They should add whiskers to the new logo.
"True, I wouldn't raise huge sums of money or break any records . . ."

Haha.

Come on.

I'd wager that MI 3 would far and away be the #1 all time Kickstarter fund raise, starting with my money:

"After its release on Steam, the Special Edition remake topped the sales charts for the week ending July 18. On July 20th, the Xbox 360 version had already sold over 38,000 copies" (1)

I bought the SE on iPad the day it was released, and still haven't played it - that is how strong the nostalgia is with me . . .

(1)http://www.miwiki.net/The_Secret_of_Monkey_Island:_Special_E...
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