skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, in Scotland it can be heard as a term of endearment.
Peak seems to be good enough for most of us and Keon for our kids, most likely. I don't even care if it's out of stock or has errors buying it, what I care about is what does it _feel_ to use a Firefox OS. Can it compete with Android / iOS? Does it have potential to ever becoming a competing OS?
They're not actually being sued, are they? That part seemed a bit dishonest to me. It looks like so far they have only been served a particularly obnoxious cease and desist letter.
I haven't sworn prolifically in almost 30 years ... right around the time I decided I should attempt to use the most obscure words in the dictionary. The strange thing is, I think swearing (or not) is simply a habit and that, if you want to, you can change your habits.

I should also note that there has been plenty of swearing at the places I've worked over those 30 years, but I've only found a very small percentage of it offensive, so I'd suggest that the article is reasonably accurate.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...
Galaxy Nexus is specified as a Tier 3 device. :)
Ask HN: Congress is Passing an Internet Sales Tax: Why Doesn't HN Care?
This seems like a pretty big deal for a lot of startups. The compliance requirements alone sound like a nightmare. I'm curious why none of the recent articles submitted to HN (from very legit sources like NYT and WSJ) are getting upvotes. Also, it's not like this is a hypothetical - it looks like it's going to be railroaded through very quickly.

EDIT: Here are some links:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/technology/internet-sales-tax-gains-ground-in-senate.html

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324493704578432961601644942-lMyQjAxMTAzMDIwMTEyNDEyWj.html

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/295431-internet-sales-tax-advances-after-obama-endorsement-

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/22/carney_internet_sales_tax_is_simply_about_leveling_the_playing_field.html
You can get away with 'Cunt' in the UK but its something you would only call a close friend, not a new acquaintance (whereas calling someone a fucker with a grin is almost always fine)
Show HN: The Headline Blueprint (How to Boost Your Blog Traffic - Guaranteed)
Whoa am I posting late sorry.

There's a simpler way to do the analysis which doesn't require heat of combustion of typical gasoline analysis and flowrates and such.
Assume it takes a KW for a horsepower (perfectly accurate for 1 sig fig) and it takes a couple horsepower (kilowatts) to go down the highway on a long road trip. To at least one sig fig this is correct. Also it takes about 3 times the chemical gasoline energy to generate electricity because IC engines are not terribly efficient. We'll call it 10 KW gas equivalent to drive on the interstate at a constant-ish high speed.

Now what fraction of the time of a road trip do you spend pumping gas vs driving? Well it can't take more than 4 minutes to fill a 10 or so gallon gas tank, and on cross country trips I can get a good 8 hours or so outta one tank, so to one sig fig I spend WAY less than 1/100th the time pumping gas vs driving.

So multiply 10 KW by 100 times the flow rate (conservation of energy and all that)

Another way to look at it, is think of the flow rate, lets say 5 gallons per minute. The kind of engine required to burn a couple gallons per minute resembles my uncle's hospital UPS backup engines, certainly in the megawatt class. This is also in the thousand horsepower (aka megawatt) class airplane engine and race car category.
Something like a Hidden Markov Model might be better then? That way you can can keep the information about word order.
We curate the initial set of gifts, the father's day set isn't quite done yet but will be in the next few days. Thanks for the feedback!

edit:
Fixed that popup. We rushed to rip out some bootstrap transition code recently, missed that media query.

And I didn't consider your tone negative at all, the feedback is much appreciated.
Clickable link: http://thb.jovicailic.org/
Quick popularity like making it to the front page of HN, Reddit, Slashdot, etc. can become quite the curse when you're running a small app on App Engine. Of course, after throwing a few buckets of money down the well, you'll quickly learn to start optimizing for the platform. I don't know what this framework does, but it might be useful to link to a static page in the interim and then have people click through to your app.
Answer here: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Windows-7-Discussion/Windows-7-S...
That cunt nailed it. To some degree anyway.
If I could add a 12th item to this list, it would be that one brother accidentally killed the other by running him over with the stolen car while trying to get away.
Reddit has a history of apologizing for witch hunts. What's going to stop this from happening again? Nothing. They just hope that, "Boston will also be where reddit learns to be sensitive of its own power." I'm sure that will solve itself.
An interesting aspect in Denmark is that English profanities don't really raise eyebrows in professional settings (or at least "fuck" and "shit" don't), but swearing in Danish in a workplace or university has to be done much more carefully, and can come off as either offensive or crude or both. By swearing primarily with loanwords, it seems to come off as somehow softer or less "really" swearing.

edit: Was googling to see if I could find a good link on the subject. I didn't, but did find this event I'm now sad that I missed, http://nordisksprogkoordination.org/dokumenter-til-download/...
Thanks for the feedback, harsh but totally fair.

Like I said, we tried to keep it as vanilla as possible to cultivate a sense of familiarity. We actually did look into getting a better logo but have yet to see a designer produce something we like better than the basic font-awesome gift. We genuinely want something we could eventually trademark but we're not going to rush into something just because its not a stock image.

As far as the bootstrap stigma, I may be mistaken but from my experience it seems to only exist in technical circles.
One chapter is available for free download: http://thb.jovicailic.org/images/TheHeadlineBlueprint-Free.p...
I've been spending a bit of time on a building site recently. The brickies. Oh fuck... it seems one of their job functions is to lower the tone as far as it will go.
>And that has led us where.

Here. A thriving web, mobile and native application ecosystem.

>Class-based OO approaches became popular in the mid-90's as a panacea of maintainability and code reuse. This has taken us to "enterprise" frameworks and layers of abstraction that offer very little actual value, and huge amounts of maintenance overhead.

Yes, only that has nothing to do with the classes. You could do the same bloated mess of enterprise layer upon layer, XML configuration, boilerplate etc, even with prototypes, if anybody cared about them.

And you can do perfectly clean designs, also with classes. Not even need to use Smalltalk, CLOS etc, you can even do them in Java if you take the necessary care. And lots of people do them in Python, Ruby, etc too.

>JS doesn't have those levels of restriction, and doesn't need those levels of abstraction and inheritance. You can utilize other patterns and practices... there's more out there than Class based approaches.

Nothing in using class based approaches necessitates those "levels of restriction, abstraction and inheritance".

People use Coffescript (which has "classes") and do perfectly lean work, without it looking like Apache Struts or something similar.

>As for "but the overwhelming majority of frameworks... use class-like approach" .. arguably the single most used framework/library in use today is jQuery.. and that definitely does NOT use a class-like approach.

That's because it is a DOM manipulation library, not a code structuring library itself. And people writing plugins with fuller functionality on top of jQuery (as jQuery/jQuery UI plugins) have been using OO styles on top of jQuery since for ever.
Its all very easy with words like fck and cnt, best avoid unless you are very sure of it, but the problem I come across is defining what actually is a swear word. Where is the line drawn? A particular issue being words that offend religious folk. "oh for god's sake" is to me completely soft, but I have come across some people who are upset by that. But, is that swearing, or just offending? Which is worse?

Most of the time I find that once you get to know a work place, you find that it varies, as you would expect. Different people have different standards so you need to get to know them. I don't think any one starts off swearing in front of a boss, but if you work on say a building site, you'd probably get swearing quick before the other decide you are a posh git who needs de-bagging, or something.

The only time I personally think it really matters is when dealing with the public, customers or clients. But if you man a phone, or are out in public, swearing is a total no no. But, I suppose even then, there are loads of exceptions. In the work place I see it as a personal 1-2-1 negotiation over time. Or to put it another way, we individually learn when, where and who to swear in front of.

To be honest though, I wonder if you are at more risk by offering opinion in the work place. I know I would find it harder to work with people of certain political views than any one who swears.
This also made ABC news in Australia.
I think App Engine can be just fine depending on your needs. It's great for prototyping ideas. I just find that at some point you have to draw a line as to whether you're going to pay GAE to serve your project or if you're going to take care of that overhead yourself.
I suspect datadial know exactly what they're doing here - as revenge for this alleged petty act by the lawyers they're now google-bombing the term shopzilla (by deliberately including so many refs to shopzilla in this new blog post), and hoping to teach them a lesson about who is in control of links. They're already on the second page for a simple search for shopzilla, and I'd expect them to move up closer to the top if this gets more publicity and links in from other sites. Does it deserve it?

A very strange attempt by Shopzilla in the first place to control links to them, so it would be interesting to hear their side of this story. I looked up datadial - they're a London SEO shop, and their original blog post is typical of SEO blogs - lots of links to random sites strung together into a blog post to boost their blog's ranking for that topic - ecommerce in this case. I have to wonder if this little storm in a teacup isn't more beneficial to them the more absurd it sounds and the stormier it gets - even if it dies down later the benefit will still be there for them.

It's strange to see the court of public opinion function on sites like reddit and HN - the more controversial and snappier the original post, the more traction it gets, and nuances and truth are lost in the rush to condemn based on a very limited set of facts.
I'm able to avoid profanity while conveying my thoughts.

But sometimes I quite like using profanity when expressing how utterly full of shit the "only stupid people swear" theory is.
I can't excuse all the nodes in that traceroute, but the ones with a domain "direcpceu" are Hughes Communication satellite ISP nodes. Their satellites are geosynchronous, so, for two legs in each direction, those packets went a very long way before reaching the ground and coming back to the plane.
Why j for imaginary unit?
That's because the cable bundling agreements they have make them obscene amounts of money. Those people are overpaying for the service, and that makes them more money than opening up HBO Go would.

It's not hard to understand, they're not idiots at HBO, they crunched the numbers and figured out how to get the most money.

In the future, there will be a tipping point when enough people have tired of "cable teevee" that the numbers will fall the other way, and when that happens, they'll leave the cable companies behind and push as hard as they can on HBO Go globally. They're already testing the waters and rolling out the infrastructure for it.
admiration !!
5 hours and now completely sold out. Ow.

I know there would be demand for these, but that much demand? Sounds promising for the platform :)
If I were to venture a guess, I'd say it's because we are mostly all too young to remember a small government and too time-poor to do much about it.
For some people swearing is natural and cultural. For me it's just part of my vernacular, and to varying levels that's true of all my colleagues and most of my friends. I don't stop to plan when swearing would best fit or use it tactically, it just comes out in sentences. When I'm hungry there's a good chance I'm actually "fucking starving", and if I'm referencing someone who can be a bit annoying there's a good chance he's "a bit of a cunt".

However I do have an automatic filter to tone down or remove swearing based on who I'm talking to. Around a new person, especially work-related, I'll cut it out completely until I have the feeling they're comfortable with it. In particular around clients, there are some who I know well enough to swear at my normal levels around, others I know well but still keep swearing away. I guess sometimes I think about this stuff but for the most part it's just my subconscious knowing when not to swear. Interestingly I very rarely swear when talking to my parents, despite the fact that my mum reels through "fuck bugger damn shit" when something goes wrong (so not regularly but maybe once every few days) and my dad swears... a lot.

When someone swears a lot it just removes the strength of that swearing. When I call someone a cunt or someone calls me a cunt we judge their meaning not on the word but the tone of voice, most of the time it's not at all offensive - but obviously I wouldn't just hop onto HN and type "you're a cunt" to somebody as contextually it's completely different.
> because otherwise turning on my phone will cost $2

What kind of insane operator charges you for turning on your phone?

Receiving an SMS while roaming is usually fee. Just turn off data and don't answer any calls.
That's interesting because so many Danes speak English. It's less interesting to swear in Danish in the USA, where to a first approximation nobody within earshot will speak Danish.

(Circumstances will vary wildly, of course.)
CSS: The Good and the Bad
> most educated people are able to avoid profanity while conveying their thoughts

Just because you can, doesn't mean you have to. This idea that swearing means you must somehow have an insufficient vocabulary or IQ is absolutely ludicrous. Language is there to be used.

It's true that some people use swear words as the bread for their vocabulary sandwich. I prefer to use them more like a fine mustard.
Intriguingly the advice given to British officers is not to swear at those under your command.

That is what non commissioned officers are for. And they are much better at it.
JQuery.Shapeshift
I know that HN likes to solve problems, but I don't think spending time debating the best mechanism to provide internet access to a population that many of us don't understand is worthwhile.

How about someone spend some time learning about best ways to rehabilitate criminals and whether internet access should be a part of that? (I'm poking fun that most of us have science, engineering, design backgrounds instead of Criminal Justice degrees).

It's easy to armchair quarterback a two sentence solution, but I doubt anyone leaving comments is going to change career paths into 'Correctional Facility IT'.
Sure but reading a code dump of a (potentially) complex algorithm is far from the best introduction to a subject. Especially given no other context whatsoever.
On the other hand, you can swear by saying things like "Ravioli di prosciutto e mortadella" and sound like you are really quite mad, if you just make the consonants hard enough. Particularly the R's need to cut like a chainsaw.
> If it gets popular, I’d love to create an iOS app. The web site works on iOS in a minimal capacity, but it’s slow and not at all fun to use. Sculpting with light on the iPad seems like a natural fit.

Why not instead make it animate to music and turn it into a good old Winamp or XMMS plugin? :)
> I don't know what this framework does

Excerpt from my browser cache:

"The circuit extends the reach of Go's linguistic environment to multi-host/multi-process applications. In simple terms, the Go Circuit was born from the desire to be able to write:

feedback := make(chan int)
circuit.Spawn("host25.datacenter.net", func() {
feedback <- 1
})
<-feedback
println("Roundtrip complete.")

The Spawn operator will start its argument function on a desired remote host in a new goroutine, while making it possible to communicate between the parent and child goroutines using the same Go code that you would use to communicate between traditional goroutines. Above, the channel feedback is transparently “stretched” between the parent goroutine, executing locally, and the child goroutine, executing remotely and hosting the anonymous function execution."
As much as I find Reddit useful but this time around, I really hope the owners get sued by the innocent people.

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So does this mean that HN is also apologizing? I think they should because there was enough carried over witch-hunt here as well.
Given that there is common law "duty to serve" protection, how is it that many electric utilities are now offering discounts in exchange for installing devices that give them the power to throttle your air conditioner during a heat wave?
Play by your own rules — on startups
Working on a trading desk is a great experience in creative profanity - as well as discussion of the various things that dildos can do to various parts of the body, fecal expulsion, and so forth. It's tons of fun.
He's the fella who shutdown the Atlanta engineering office and killed the projects that were being developed there. Not a big fan.

Edit: He's also responsible for the CalDav fiasco.
https://github.com/tumblr/gocircuit
In Scotland you can get away with using it to the police as long as you inflect it in a half decent way.

You'll be told to fuck off mind you, but it is all banter.

* I accept no responsibility for any foreigners who get locked up on this advice. Do not try it without a Scottish accent.
Animal-rights activists wreak havoc in Milan laboratory
"Some of the mice they removed were delicate mutants and immunosuppressed ‘nude’ mice, which die very quickly outside controlled environments"
Sheesh
>"If some cunt can fuck something up, that cunt will pick the worst possible time to fucking fuck it up cause that cunt's a cunt."

Oh Malcolm!
I had a Thinkpad with a 15.4-inch 1920x1200 screen, back when such wonders existed, and I had no big problems with its 150 DPI running Windows XP, even less with Windows 7. Yes, there were some really old applications that wouldn't react to system-wide DPI settings, but that was a small minority.

I think there is simply no excuse for the regression in laptop resolutions - I can't even find a laptop that will give me 1200 lines anymore, they give me "full HD" at best, which is less. And we can see proof in all the comments saying that they would buy this guy's hack to plug a hi-res screen into a laptop.
Show HN: automatic detection globals in js
This is the distinction I often find between Europe and America, the range of understood swear words up here - and the myriad ways they can be combined, means eloquent swearing is far more possible.

One of the most glorious scenes in the Matrix is the Merovingian swearing in French.

The Wire's "let's do a whole scene of F-bombs" was an amusing one off, but mainly as satire of the overwhelming nature of its use on the other side of the pond.
As a resident of the USA, I have to express how much I love the English (UK) swear words. Unfortunately, I think calling someone "a bit of a cunt" here would be taken somewhat more seriously than across the pond.
In my (deliberately) limited C++ experience, I'm basically able to dream up how a program would work in a scripting language, translate all of the datatypes that I'm used to like growable arrays to STL equivalents (std::vector< ... > and std::map< ... > cover most of my use cases), and then after much verbosity and debugging, I get a magically fast program.

However the biggest frustration for me (aside from the verbosity) is that things work until they suddenly don't work, and then it isn't obvious why they don't work from the debugging stack you get back. They often don't work for good reason - but unless you're a C++ expert you don't know that reason.

For example suppose that I have a class that has reference members. Those are fields specified with & - they are kind of like a pointer except that you can't change them, and you use . instead of ->. Because you can't change them, operator= is not generated for you. I didn't notice this until I tried to use one in an std::map< ... > and everything blew up.

However luckily confusing backtrace message plus google usually leads to a useful stack overflow answer, else I'd find this process much more painful.

My one remaining frustration is that I hate how the STL did iterators. In the STL, if you have a data_type< foo > template, you iterate over it with a data_type< foo >::iterator. So you get a std::vector< foo >::iterator, a std::set< foo >::iterator, a std::dequeue< foo >::iterator, etc.

This is great for the compiler, but as a programmer it is backwards. I don't care what kind of data structure this came from, I care what kind of data type I get out. I'd like to see those three examples produce an iterator< foo >. And then you can dream up things like the ability to take an iterator< foo > and a method on foo that will return a bar, to get an iterator< bar >. I am used to having map/grep/etc, and it would be nice to be able to translate list-oriented thinking into C++ with less verbose boilerplate.
URI Template
Nice! Shared it with all my poet friends.
So why not sue pg for the "carried over witch-hunt" here on HN, if site owners are responsible for those now? Or m00t over at 4chan?
Is it me or did the prices of these two phones jumped? I remember peak being like ~173$ (or was that euro).
Same old reason. Members of HN voted up because they found it of interest.

Now, tell me, did you really honestly not know that? I bet you did ;)
Did you mean skinhead?
Hypothesis Driven Testing
Some thoughts on what 'hypothesis driven testing' might be or look like.
Honestly, Hacker News... What the fuck. This wasn't just reddit. We did this too. I come to HN for the intilectual stimulation and then I find this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5562909 in the top thread.

This disappointing me on so many levels. No it is not everyone's fault but this sort of witch hunt is wrong and I'd suggest we downvote any sensationalized idea that 4chan or any other hacker can find the one or two guilty parties through online means.
Which C word?

Edit: link instead http://www.noswearing.com/dictionary/c
Flowchart for movie time travel
Keep Your Eye On Norway - A Startup Scene Is MESHing Together
Shopzilla probably has bad links that are driving down its SEO and page rank on Google and they are trying to get low quality sites to remove those bad links. It is totally OK for them to want to have links removed to their site, since some of them may be damaging their SEO and hence their earnings. Maybe the method used is a little over the top, but there is probably nothing wrong with their intentions.

If someone asks you to remove a link to their site in a post where you criticized them, I would feel uncomfortable with it, but in this case you and them are acting in good faith, just remove the link. That they used a lawyer just means they really want you to remove the link.

Edit: Uh oh, looks like this innocuous reply is not compatible with uncritical outraged HN readers looking to punish someone, anything for all the bad things Shopzilla has done to them and the world. Let the downvotes commence I guess.