skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is more opinion than fact, as someone who's written professionally but doesn't understand the grammar of his natural language at any deep level: I don't think there are rules, only guidelines, just as there are no firm rules on when to split an infinitive or end with a preposition (those are usually bad style, but there's nothing grammatically wrong with them, and sometimes they're right thing to do.)

In fact, often there are semantic distinctions that ordering betrays, which obviates hard-and-fast rules:

* "A vegetarian Russian lawyer", to me, suggests an attorney of Russian law who is also a vegetarian.

* "A Russian, vegetarian lawyer" suggests a vegetarian lawyer of Russian descent. Ethnicity isn't as important as what kind of law is being practiced, so in this case it's looser-binding and farther from the noun.

I tend to put appearance-related (especially size) adjectives earlier, because it replicates an order of perception. "Big red coat." First, you see something (~5 ms) large (a blob, until it's processed) and then color (~10 ms) comes in, and finally (~50 ms) you focus on its purpose-- it's a coat.

Numbers always come first, for the same reason, even though the way we process small numbers (discrete, under 7) is different from the way we process large ones (continuous, 25+). Size usually comes second. However, there's an art to it, because presentation order also betrays order of impression. "Fat kids, of whom there were nine." You're focusing on them being fat, not how many there are. (You wouldn't say "fat nine kids" because that might suggest an age of 9.)

It seems, to me, like the pattern for appearance-related, concrete adjectives is to go first-to-last by perceptual ordering ("big red bike") but to go least-to-most by importance ordering for abstract concepts ("the new great thing").
It doesn't avoid freemium it just means that the points/memberships have to be externally purchased. You just can't charge for the app.

Anyways I'd be shocked if there weren't quite a few freemium apps. The limitations of the API and the device mean that there will be a lot more work done serverside. That costs money.

App development as a paid endeavor is a very sustainable ecosystem. I doubt anyone is going to target a pool of a few thousand potential users and plan on getting rich, but there are bills that have to be paid. Especially in the world of local services one often has to pay for datasets (say a database of ATM locations and the fees they charge for an app that showed you what your options were).
Just as a data point, to me, it doesn't matter which of those adjectives you think is more important, I think "the big red building" sounds much more natural than "the red big building." The latter sounds flat-out wrong to me.
Oh, so now the whole "we fucked up so let's blame the tools/methodology" has arrived at Lean Startup?

Plus ça change...

Here's a wonderful nugget: "too often Agile development methodologies are used to excuse lack of process and planning". The irony is strong in this one.

The next book on Lean should be a dictionary with just a single word explained in way even a 3 year old can understand: "viable"
So is it a policy decision to not allow browsing unless you're signed in? Or just a beta thing? Saying it's easy to register doesn't address the question of why it's necessary :)
Welcome to Medium — the new age blogger.
"it's inappropriate to sacrifice our own moral clarity everywhere else"

Sometimes pride interferes with the ability to do good.
I think the service aspect of *aaS businesses is literally half the game. Yes, you are delivering a product but the service aspect involves the monumental task of maintaining servers, maximizing uptime, being sensitive to security and anything else I've missed. If you want your product to have 100% uptime, that's the service you are performing.
I think this is absolutely awesome! Congratulations to all the startups who are pulling this off!

I do however think that when startups have proven themselves, and have a steady cash flow, but want to race to the top, VC funding may be the way to go.

I personally experienced this with a startup with a very healthy balance sheet. The reason for VC funding was pretty straightforward "We need money to expand internationally".

Local market dominance is usually quite possible with bootstrapping however international expansion poses a totally different challenge (first challenge: hire an experienced management team for it..).

VC funding plays a big role when it comes to the big guns. If you want to be the next Mc Donalds or the next Hyatt, it may be important.

Local market dominance is also great while being bootstrapped, if you want to play acquire-me, but that could just as easily be stomp all over me.

I guess that's what makes this business so exciting ;)
This would be an awesome application for google glass! Does anyone know if it's possible?

Imagine being able to look at someone and know their pulse. You'd have a wearable lie detector.
Peter Thiel's CS183 Startup Class Notes
What's even weirder is that some words have different meanings as pre-adjectives than post-adjectives. For example, I believe ancien means "former" in prefix position but "ancient" in postfix.
I think the target user is more like "we've got an existing codebase in C++; now we can run it in a browser".
I haven't downloaded this yet, but I certainly will. If it is accurate and reasonably precise (yea, what does that mean?), I'd like to have it running in the background, gathering data as I work, while also gathering statistics about my work. I, like most of the people here, am a productivity junky. I wonder if a heightened pulse could indicate mounting stress, which necessitates a break. Sure, I have other machinery that could indicate mounting stress -- like my mind -- but the quantitative, off-loaded metric shifts responsibility in a way that could be helpful. "I'm not really stressed," says me to my brain. "No, your heart rate is quite high," says my computer to me.
You guys should check out https://test.hypothes.is. Non profit open source project that does this for the entire web. Here's the github: https://github.com/hypothesis/h

Randall, the lead developer, is one of the authors of the open annotation spec: http://www.openannotation.org

Dan, the founder, recently put together the I Annotate conference, which brought together all the individuals and groups who have been applying annotation to their problem domains for the past few years.

I designed the interface.

Annotation should be open source, standardized, and portable, not locked into little silos. Also, I'm not pg, but if I was, I would find this a bit... odd.
> This is more opinion than fact ...

Can you provide evidence of this? Given the number of places I've found pretty much exactly the same thing being stated, I'd love to see evidence to the contrary.

Thanks.
this is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly and is well studied
"sales dude extrodinaire" I will be using that phrase a lot.
Marko Rodriguez  YOW: Solving Problems with Graphs [video]
Mission Statements: The ultimate guide
Poll: What industry/domain do you primarily work in
Just wondering what the HN demographics is in terms of industry/domain. I tried to list a few important ones and sure there could be overlaps b/w a few. feel free to select multiple options if applies. For example, I work in Financial Industry developing software. So I selected both Tech:Software and Banking/Finance.
Tech: Software
Tech: Hardware
Pharmaceutical
Banking and Finance
Construction and Mining
twitter doesn't make any money if you use their apis. in the same way google wound down google reader, i think you'll see the same neglect hit the apis. twitter needs developers focusing most of their attention on products that make money.
"If there were a better balance of stories in the media then this would be much less of an issue."

There's never going to be a "better balance of stories in the media" for many purposes, waiting for that is going to make you a very disappointed person.
If you hand it a single column of data, gnuplot just uses the order for the x axis. The x label in the first plot should be 'Row number' or something like that.
From the article, it would appear there is in fact an attorney in the loop - who doesn't appear to know that this is a mistake.
Pretty much what I was thinking. They're both useful charts, if you understand what is being charted.
I wonder how much work it would take to port cpuminer to this platform for use in mining bitcoins and litecoins. Probably not worth it for bitcoins with the new FPGA hardware but could be interesting for litecoin depending on the memory access speed to main memory.
A typical GPU can execute a small number of threads on a large number of streams of data carefully laid out in memory. Every time you want to do something conditionally on just one data stream, you waste a lot of capacity.

In contrast, the Epiphany chips can execute individual threads on each core in parallel on data either local to the core (fastest), on any other core, or in separate main memory.

The current Epiphany chips aren't too spectacular, since the core count is "low". They can "only" execute 16 individual instruction streams in parallel. But that's on a chip the size of your finger nail, and their roadmap is aiming for 1024 core chips.

They're effectively aiming for people to find ways of making effective use of simple, small, power efficient cores for problems that are not "data parallel" enough to be efficiently done on GPU's.
The slides for this presentation are available here:
http://www.slideshare.net/slidarko/yow-australia2012
And that's a really optimistic best case scenario. When developing Linux software you feel like you're giving something back to the community - here you are just working for Google for free.
These guys are completely dishonest. I saw their kickstarter video where they said that for $99 you could have "a computer many times faster than anything on the market ZOMG".

Yeah, maybe it's faster for all those times during the day when you calculate matrix chain products. But for largely single-threaded tasks, like EVERYTHING you do on a day to day basis, it's going to be significantly slower than your average dual-core i3.
I'm really disappointed about how shallow the discussions about Adapteva are, and have been, on HN.

To remind everyone, the H = hacker. This device is a godsend, as far as I'm concerned. For the first time ever I get fully documented access to compute array on chip. No the architecture wasn't designed for anything specific, like graphics, but that means I don't get bogged down in details I don't care about, like some obscure memory hierarchy.

The chip is plain, simple, low-power, and begging for people to have an imagination again. Stop asking what existing things you can do with it, ask what future things having something like this on a SoC would enable.

Also, you should really be thinking about the chip at the instruction level, writing toy DSL to asm compilers. Thinking along the lines of, oh yeah I'll use OpenCL so I can be hardware agnostic, is never going to allow you to see what can be possible with it. If you read the docs you'll see what a simple and regular design it is, perfect for writing your own simple tooling.

It's been a long time, but I feel like a kid again. Like when I first discovered assembly on my 8086. Finally a simple device I can tinker with, play, and wring performance out of.

Hallelujah! :)
This is what ii does: http://tools.suckless.org/ii/
Digression: That would be a single bluff.

Bluff: Saying one thing, doing the opposite ("our passwords are really long" (actually, they are short).

Double bluff: Saying one thing, and actually doing it, as everyone will assume we are bluffing. "Our passwords are really long, honestlyl! (and they actually are, but bad guys will assume we are bluffing and using a short password).
I just launched it a week ago. So, things will surely change with time. How about something like StackOverflow? You can view everything, but to vote or answer you have to login. All this feedback is really going to help a lot! :)
Octopart API V3
I think the constraints are great and make sense, given the philosophy of Glass that it should stay out of the way, and just be there when you want it. Everything about it should enhance your life, not get in the way. Simplicity is the key here. This isn't a desktop computer, or a smart phone. :)
What I tell a lot of people: Iterate on ideas, do not iterate on quality.
Just for the fun of it:
In french, we often put the adjective (like red, in this case) after the noun. The building red (La bâtiment rouge)

And in your particular case, where we want to also tell it is big, we do: The big building red (Le grand bâtiment rouge)

But we can't do the following: The red building big (Le rouge bâtiment grand)

Different language, different grammar :)
French is one of the most difficult language for these I think, a bunch of exceptions. It makes the language more "lovely" to hear but less "effective". Here we say English is made for business, it is one of those languages that just gets to the point fast and clear overall :)
Even if you stress 'big'?
NPR hacked by organization said to support Syrian president’s regime
I read this as:

Why do you say the Parallella is a 45GHz computer?

This is a Kickstarter project. In order to be successful, we need to attract as much attention from spam blogs as possible. To do that, facts are not particularly useful. What we need is something exciting. If we say we have 64 cores, that's not exciting. 64? I've forgotten how to count that low. Similarly, if we say we have a 700MHz processor, most people listening to us talk will actually start laughing in our faces. So that's no good. But thanks to our mathematical forefathers, there are many ways to make small numbers big. We could add the two numbers, saying we have a 764MHz machine. But that's not exciting, and the units don't work. We could divide the two numbers, yielding 10.94MHz. The units work, but that number is even smaller! Finally, we could try multiplication! And, boy, does that deliver! 45GHz!

TLDR: The only reason you're here is because of our misleading and dishonest claim. But now you're here. Please cough up your hard-earned cash which we might not use to go on a nice tropical vacation. You can trust us, we'd never mislead you...
8 double-precision flops/cycle/core is the correct figure for Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge. With Haswell adding FMA, that figure doubles again(!)
It's a developer board. The product is the chips, not this board. This board is there mainly to get a dev board in the hands of people who might want to build cool stuff with it.

That they've actually managed to get it price competitive with a lot of cheap ARM computers, despite sporting a Zynq (ARM SoC with built in FPGA) is amazing.
khan academy, among others, already addresses this
Looks good - I've signed up :)

I would say though that I think your articles and lectures could do with a bit more organisation. In both cases, the user would benefit from posts having tags denoting subject content, and from a search facility so that I can find things that specifically interest me. If you have five hundred videos about mathematics, finding one on Analytic Topology, say, by scrolling through them would be a bit painful.
I also think it would be good if the lectures had some way of tying subsequent videos together - it seems a tiny bit messy to have 'Cosmology - Lecture 1', and 'Cosmology - Lecture 2' as separate entries.
I'm also not certain that you want to limit lectures to being videos. A well-written explanation of a broad subject is sometimes better than a video that I can't search or skim through - and I think it serves a different purpose from the articles. It's also easier for your community to add written content than videos.

Hope that was useful to you - but obviously take it all with a pinch of salt. You know your strategy better than some guy off the internet who's only spent ten minutes on your site :)
The difference being FB home is software (which FB is clearly trying to monetize on), and glass is hardware that google profits from its sale and cba about 3-party devs livelihoods.

I don't think people won't develop for glass, I just think that start ups and the like probably won't come out in full force because the lack of business incentives.

TBH, I feel like trying to build anything on glass now (that isn't a hobby for devs) is pretty much a phishing expedition for google to pick up in an acquisition at this point.
No. Because Linode has been hacked before and exactly the same situation is playing out. Major compromise and selective release of information.

I really do wonder at what point people are going to realise that they aren't dealing with a company who cares about their interests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Jones_Barbarians makes a compelling argument that the Romans slurs on the "barbarians" were grounded in their lack of Roman custom and not based on the qualities we associate with "savages".
Can it mine BitCoin competitively?
Three myths about software default settings
(You go out to the Ebay store? Can you tell me where that is?)

My point was, just because something isn't for sale in stores right now doesn't mean it never existed. As far as I know, Steve Mann's EyeTap glasses have never been for sale in stores, but kaolinite's argument was just silly – hence my comment.

If you don't like the 'reel-to-reel tape recorder' example, imagine I said 'enriched plutonium'.
I think that we can all be pretty certain that inflation is not, and will never be, a problem with bit coin.
Have you seen mcdonalds.com on multiple Android's?
The Winds of Fate
The private key shouldn't be on any machine that it isn't used on.

If we assume that the key is used on that machine, and is password protected, and is used automatically, then the unencrypted key, or its password, must exist in memory, if not on disk. Perhaps they log in when the machine boots and manually enter the password once, so it is cached and can be used for repeat decryption processes.

If the key is in memory, then a blackhat who knows what he's doing can get access to it.
Gates Foundation & Facebook hosting a Hackathon in London, April 24
IOS game development or… How I learned to stop worrying and love the DOM
I found this [1] on their FAQ:

Can I wear glasses while using the Oculus Rift developer kit?

This really depends on the shape and size of the glasses. The developer kit is designed to sit as close to your eyes as possible which makes it a bit unfriendly for glasses. That said, we’ll do everything we can to make it as comfortable as possible for the developer kit and we have a lot of great ideas for supporting glasses in the consumer version (especially since huge portion of the Oculus team wears glasses every day!).

[1] http://www.oculusvr.com/faq/
That's what the scare quotes around "unnatural" are for. But it's hotly debated whether grammar does indeed originate in "years of exposure to other speakers of language". Certainly some aspects of grammar are language-specific, but many appear to be universal, or close to it. From the paper I linked above:

For example, adjectives that denote quality have been argued to precede adjectives conveying size, which
in turn precede adjectives conveying shape, and so on, in all languages (5). Similar claims have been
made for other adjective types, and the respective ordering restrictions are given in (6).

This is one of the founding principles of today's dominant Chomskyan linguistics, perhaps best argued popularly in Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct.
I'm looking for an e-mail address and can't find one in your profile or G+ or Twitter; this is probably too late, but if you see this send me a message at seligerj AT gmail DOT com.
Yes, a good example is with "grand":

* un grand homme = a great man

* un homme grand = a tall man

Something which can be funny is when you want to talk about a great man who is tall (e.g. Charles De Gaulle)
Sorry, I accidentally downvoted you.

I wanted to say yes, this. Allow viewing of everything but to participate, you have to register.
Well, I didn't express myself correctly, I agree.
I meant, for the purpose it has, it's just random but a NSFW or 18+ thing would have solve everything :) btw if there was a 18+ note I didn't see it. The NSFW has been added after I made my first comment, too.
My own recent-ish exeprience on this may be of interest - I was made redundant (worked in City) in 2008. I kept job hunting like a demon, and went through three jobs in 18 mths,
going from unemployed to 100K - but each time I moved companies, and I think I did not spend less than 4 out of 5 lunch hours glued to phones hunting down leads.

Not sure if thats of interest
What's a better response? Hiding?

It's pretty much the best option, under the circumstances.
I don't think the article makes this assumption. I'd say the general thesis presented in the article is in this sentence:

"Wall Street hedge funds rarely make their fortunes by placing sound long term bets about the proper allocation of resources. "

Now, there's a lot of wiggle room in the word "rarely." I think that everyone would agree that there is some rent-seeking behavior on wall street, and everyone would agree that the banking sector plays a critical role in the economy (moving money from where it is to where it is needed, and managing risk). So the real disagreement is about the ratio.

This article seems to imply that only a quarter of wall street's activities produce economic value. That's very low, lower than I've read anywhere. However, Paul Woolley at the LSE estimates that the financial sector would be a "third to a half" of its size (see link below), though, if it were limited to the wealth-producing activities. It's a controversial statement, of course, but he's hardly alone in this estimate.

For anyone interested in this topic, I'd recommend starting with a New Yorker article titled "what good is wall street?"

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_...

And follow the links to the researchers listed to read more about the details that are not included in the New Yorker article.
I love this board, but keep in mind that the entire premise of this board is parallel execution of _separate instruction streams_. From the performance people are getting from GPU's for bitcoin mining, I presume the calculations can be done extremely parallel with few instruction streams - for that a normal GPU is likely to be a far better choice.
I wouldn't call Inform 7 a programming language, so much as a DSL for entering fact-tuples into a graph database (though some of these tuples do attach "rules" [predefined functions] together using AOP join-points). When you actually need to tell it how to "make things happen", you basically break out into a separate, imperative programming language--which happens to be I7's ancestor, I6.
That they mobbed some soldiers who openend fire and killed five. With a real effort on painting the soldiers in a negative light, and the mob in a positive light.

My head was screaming: "in Vietnam, Iraq or Afganistan there would be medals for that, this is all about spinning the news".
Honestly, the gap can probably be attributed to them not knowing what exactly happened. Figuring out that you were compromised by a zero day vulnerability isn't an easy process to work through.
> Ok, so I have plenty of ideas for all levels of the stack, but not enough time to pursue them with sufficient rigor.

Did he publish those ideas somewhere?
This really limits my enthusiasm for traveling to NY/Chicago to pay $1500 for this device as a glass explorer.