skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That's my hole, boy. What the fuck is your dirt doing in my hole? Get your fucking dirt out of my hole right fucking now!"

Anyone can claim ownership of anything. Doesn't make it so.
And yet it was unsuccessful on initial release, both critically and commercially.

(And while the same can be said of several films now considered classics, such films were generally unconventional (at least for their time) in a way that It's a Wonderful Life really isn't)
Higher-speed drivers use more fuel and produce more pollution. That's not a controversial argument. Whether or not it's the "current" reason for the 60-75mph speed limits we have now doesn't seem relevant. The question is, "should we raise the speed limit". If raising it increases the speed at which people drive, then raising it will increase pollution, and thus morbidity.
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> it does, you know, make sense to conduct society's business during daylight hours.

Not necessarily! In hotter parts of the world, they deliberately avoid conducting business during the middle part of the day. (That may come with earlier rising, offset by a siesta.)
In absolute life-or-death situations, yes. But as soon as we move even a tiny bit past that point, history shows we seek universally recognized, convenient mediums of exchange. And for every culture that has access to them, precious metals have fulfilled this role since year dot.
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You write that like it's crazy. But the data shows that when people drive faster on average, accidents increase.
A wee bit over the top there.
You usually see a gradient where the tract-to-tract variance is less pronounced. A city will almost always contain tracts where there is a 10x difference between the highest and lowest numbers, but it is not as frequent that those tracts will be located right next to each other. There are several other cities which are like this, Delhi and to some extent Philadelphia both come to mind and I think it is notable there as well.

And, for whatever it's worth, I also think the variance even when the tracts are not next to each other is equally worthy of examination. Just because it is common does not mean it isn't something we shouldn't talk about. In many ways, when the neighborhoods are next to each other it is a good thing for visibility.
> It's telling when writing a 3-4 paragraph article requires a ;TLDR section.

You mean humans are still lazy mammals as opposed to being industrious insects? Say it isn't so!

The rest of your post has nothing to do with the Internet. People read Maxim both online and off. We haven't changed.
The original US copyright act protected works for 14 years and was renewable for an additional 14 if the author was alive. I think that's reasonable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1790
Wrong. The kit lens is perfectly able to amazing photos.

This link contains nothing but photos taken with the Canon 18-55mm IS.

http://flickriver.com/lenses/canon/canonefs1855mmf3556is/
(just keep scrolling.)

There are a lot of amazing photographers out there.

In fact the newest Canon kits lens (18-55 IS STM) is extremely sharp. See:

http://www.photozone.de/canon-eos/831-canon_1855_3556stmis
Go on :) Lets see how long it will take, and how many times you will be able to reproduce it without error.

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Apologies, I meant "The 'Mobile' Startup";
Does HN spam people who sign up today? If not, my point is just as valid.
It's been said before and is worth saying again: Diamonds are bullshit. They're not scarce, they're not valuable, and worse of all, they are not forever. Which is incredible--every comparable gem, like sapphires, rubies and emeralds, are all "forever" in that they're stable, don't rust, or degrade over time. Diamonds 1) oxidise, losing their sheen, and 2) expand at atmospheric pressure, eventually becoming lumps of coal. Does this happen fast? No, but the ad says "forever" and the competing crystals "are forever." Such a scam.
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CircleUp just raised $7.5M from the backers of LendingClub, Etsy, and Kickstarter.

We are hiring Engineers and Designers, so please email evandekieft at circleup.com if interested!
Novel idea? What novel idea? There were apps that showed you bars, fast food joints etc. in your vicinity before. A lot of them are free, too.
Essentially, the article is saying that if you could save money by buying a physical product from a foreign country, domestic businesses would suffer.

Those conditions exist today with the ability to buy things from China, and all of the accompanying downsides will apply to buying something from Europe. It takes weeks instead of days to ship overseas at acceptable rates. Who do you call to complain/return/get service? Do they even speak English? Does this product meet safety standards? Do I even have legal standing to sue the company if I am defrauded/injured?

All of these go away buying domestically, and are not a fair trade off for a marginally lower price.
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I personally chose 'four' to write about on a whim, because 'cuatro' sounded different enough, but was relatively explainable in a paragraph. But this only goes back to languages in the Indo-European tree.

The paper addressed here says that these 'ultraconserved' words share an ancestor before Indo-European. Via page two:

In addition to Indo-European, the language families included Altaic (whose modern members include Turkish, Uzbek and Mongolian); Chukchi-Kamchatkan (languages of far northeastern Siberia); Dravidian (languages of south India); Inuit-Yupik (Arctic languages); Kartvelian (Georgian and three related languages) and Uralic (Finnish, Hungarian and a few others).

So, if you can imagine doing that process we did, but backwards, trying to take all these hundreds of languages, living and extinct, in the Indo-European family [1] and making one giant proto language that they all descended from, with a bunch of rules that determine how they morphed to become the child languages, then you get Proto-Indo-European. Now do that again for the other language families above. Then compare the resultant hypothetical languages, and see if they share enough between them to say that they are all children of the same language. This is a lot more controversial, see [2] (what this paper seems to subscribe to) and [3].

What the hypothesis seems to be here (this is speculatory; I haven't read the paper) is "If we look at these proto languages, there seem to be words that are similar enough that they probably are the last remnants of some ultra-proto language that all of these language families descended from".

And all words are coined and undergo evolution at some point, but often the popularity of words for the same thing can change, and not all words come from antiquity.

Inventions like 'piano' and 'internet' obviously haven't been around very long in the grand scheme of things. But we have other words like 'cater' and 'embrace' that are attributed to Shakespeare [4].
Some words that haven't been conserved: leafworm for caterpillar, wig for war [5], clepe for 'to call', except in the nearly-dead yclept [6], which also contains the ge/y prefix that makes past participles [7].

If you check out [8], you'll spot a bunch of words you probably know, but with senses they don't have anymore.

So words are always coming and going, and it seems that this paper is trying to say that certain prevalent words today statistically seem to be from a time before PIE. This reeks a bit of glottochronology [9] to me, though, which is fairly controversial.

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/IndoEurop...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasiatic_languages

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-World

[4] http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_to_Old_English_vocabula...

[6] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yclept

[7] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/y-

[8] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_archaic_terms

[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottochronology
This is what Syria leaving the Internet looks like
I've never checked references. The best test for a developer, after interviewing them, is to work with them, for pay, for a few days or a week. That should quickly reveal any character faults or inefficiencies with working with your team.

Hire slow, fire fast :)
The world, sir, will get along just fine as the US slinks into its sunset years. As an American citizen, I can assure you the writing is, and has been, on the wall.
It says Chinese wasn't included in the seven family of languages.

Yet, I, a english and cantonese speaker, couldn't help but notice these two words which sound similar in both languages.

Mother is "ma" in English, and also "ma" in Cantonese.

Father is "pa" or "dad" in English, and "ba" or "deh" in Cantonese.

Remarkably similar, considering both languages are considered by linguists to be practically completely unrelated.
"But it's not like taxing of import items is a new idea or a controversial one"

Different. You have to get those goods by customs.
If a foreign state I've never stepped foot in can set laws I have to obey, force me to remit money to them, and audit my accounting under penalty of imprisonment, it doesn't really matter who's doing the paying. Today, only people within the state can be forced to obey and be audited by that state. This bill gives the power for a state to create and enforce arbitrary laws on non-citizens. It's at least a sufficiently different situation to debate.

Boy would I prefer a single federal sales tax with the fed doing the distribution to the individual states.
The author and you are confused. There is no internet specific tax being discussed in the US. The "Internet tax" bill just allows states to require companies to collect state sales tax when they sell an item to someone in the state. This is the same tax which is collected by brick and mortar stores within the state. Currently if I buy items online each year when filing my state taxes by law I must declare the value of my online purchases and pay the sales tax on them. As you can guess many people don't declare the purchases as required. The "Internet tax" bill is really a bill to change allowed tax collection methods to ensure that all currently applicable taxes are collected.
I gave it as an example. The point is that there are many things you have to do everyday - some trivial, some not - that are not going to be spelled out in your offer letter. You can either do them, or find somewhere else to work.
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A federal law is in process right now to guarantee states' rights to collect tax on cross-state purchases. As of yet, it's been spotty.
Oregon [Senator] Jeff Merkley said he voted no "because the citizens of Oregon have said nine times that we don’t want our families or small businesses burdened with sales taxes."

"It’s a regressive tax. It’s an inefficient tax," he said. "And this bill would force our Oregon retailers to collect this regressive, inefficient tax for other states and municipalities. That is just wrong. I hope the House does the right thing and stops this legislation from trampling on Oregon small businesses.” [1]

The other Oregon Senator (Ron Wyden) was one of the co-authors of the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act[2] and is similarly opposed to this bill.

"Today the senate is voting to take a few more inches off the little guy," said Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), who has fought the bill hard. "You saw ads taken out by some of the biggest businesses in the country. It's easy to see why, Mr. President. With this vote, what you have is big businesses being given the ability to force new regulations onto the start-ups, onto the small businesses."[3]

1. http://www.ktvz.com/news/wyden-merkley-vote-no-on-internet-s...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Tax_Freedom_Act

3. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/senate-passes-int...

EDIT: don't forget to send a message to your house representative at https://house.gov/ if you haven't already.
Going to try it out. As an emacs user though, hard to beat vc-next-action and vc-dir.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ver...
> What will probably happen is that affected businesses will have to "eat" the tax and drive their margins down...

Or e-commers will do what they always have done when legislation change. They "move" their cloudy servers to somewhere where said laws do not exist.

We saw this exact thing each time EU passed some new data privacy law. People stayed in their country, but the servers suddenly poped up in NA, or Ireland, or some small Caribbean island that no one has heard of. Trying to enforce taxes or privacy laws on e-businesses is like trying to shut down the Pirate Bay. It simply moves on to a new IP under the same domain name.
If you enjoyed this, you might want to read this article:
Gödel Incompleteness For Startups
http://skibinsky.com/godel-incompleteness-for-startups/

Equally thought-provoking with regard to startups and how to approach them.
No, I didn't. I was pointing out the ridiculous nature of "implicit assumptions" arguments that can be taken to all sorts of extremes.
You have to remember that these bundles and sales are not launch events. Psychonauts is an 8 year old game, for example.

One of the biggest challenges of selling games is the sharp falloff of sales after release. The genius of things like the humble bundle and steam sales is that they leverage the low incremental cost of digital delivery to allow for game sales at vastly reduced prices long after release. And it works. These things generate millions of dollars of revenue. And they also put games in people's hands, allowing people to enjoy great games that they might have otherwise ignored due to the release date. Certainly not everyone plays all of the games they buy this way, but I think that's not a bad thing. The same effect happens with books, for example. People may buy a book that sits on their shelf for a very long time before it is read, if ever. And that's ok if it means that the reduction in price of the game (or book) has enabled thousands upon thousands of people the ability to enjoy that work who wouldn't have before.
Is the Internet tax on goods only? (This article speaks as if it is on services as well.)
Yes, the "internet sales tax bill" (marketplace fairness act) passed the Senate this week. It has White House support, so only needs to pass the House to become law.

A summary: http://www.dangrossman.info/2013/04/24/what-startups-need-to...
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Releasing that data publicly could be dangerous. Which kind of goes to show that the police shouldn't have that kind of data to begin with.

That's the point the EFF is trying to make, but it's also absurd. It would obviously be dangerous for them to release their donors' credit card details in public (or even store them in a non-encrypted database and non-PCI compliant manner), but that's an argument for limiting who has access to how much of the records and not an argument that credit cards and financial transactions data shouldn't exist.
Correct. Inspired by this I just made a tool that finds ALL remaining two letter .io domains.

Check it out:
http://framespersushi.com/lab/two-letter-io/
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Show me a truly original creative work and I'll side with you, but since nearly every creative work is derivative in one form or another, it is important to have a large public domain to draw "inspiration" from.
Here follow the opinions of a former yearbook photographer, hobbyist, and undergrad in physics. I have probably sold off or given away more camera equipment than most people will ever own. Every lens and body came from a pawn shop or eBay. Best photography lessons on the internet are probably John Lind (ref 1) and Bob Atkins (refs 2-5, many of his older articles are on photo.net)

Best pro tip I could offer is that if you think you're serious and going Nikon, spend the money to get a body with a built-in autofocus motor. That makes a vast number of great older AF lenses available to you on the used market, some of which are superior in very important respects to their current counterparts. This could save you tons of money. For example, I just got a 300 mm f/4 AF-D off eBay for $320 (after shipping). List price new: well over $1000. In the 1990s. The critical detail is that it's big enough that the lens is what you mount on the tripod, not the camera. The mounting collar on the new VR 300 is just a touch loose, but when you're moving this thing around to get that shot of a yellow-breasted Pacific flycatcher, a few minutes of wiggle is not acceptable.

I will also suggest not sweating the f-stops on lenses. "Fast" lenses were defined in a time when pros were making tradeoffs between film resolution* and speed at ASA values of 100-800. Any sensor you buy today will get to ASA 3200, probably 6400, without trouble, and with higher sensor resolution* than those lenses were ever sold for.

A great example: I'm very happy my first zoom was a Nikon 70-210 f/4, a budget version of their famous 80-200 f/2.8. Now I carry half the weight and still have way more speed (in terms of total available exposure value) than guys with a 2.8 had 10 years ago.

You gain a bit of depth of field with the smaller objectives, (so your background with the aperture wide open is more focused, which is not desirable in some circumstances) but 95% of taking pictures outside a studio is being there, and that's far more likely if your camera bag weighs less or has an extra lens.

Also: lens quality. Friends, lens quality and geometry was perfected 100 years ago. There was an advance in the 60s when they started depositing some salt layers on the glass but otherwise, you'd be hard pressed to get a meaningfully better lens today, optically, than you could in 1985.

(1) http://johnlind.tripod.com/science/

(2) https://www.google.com/search?q=bob+atkins+site%3Aphoto.net

(3) Very important: http://photo.net/equipment/digital/sensorsize/

(4) Hard to find: http://photo.net/learn/optics/pixel_peep/pixel_peep_part1.ht...

(5) Hard to put in context without (4) http://photo.net/learn/optics/pixel_peep/pixel_peep_part2.ht...

* I use "film resolution" as I don't recall if there's a particular term that otherwise nicely describes the important point when trying to compare film grain and pixel density. There's yet another issue of quantum uncertainty when the wells start getting very small, but I leave that to Bob Atkins to explain (above).
This post seems to imply that we're considering a special Internet tax here. Last I heard, the proposed bill was simply about removing the special exemption Internet and mail order purchases currently enjoy. Since when is there an additional, special Internet tax being proposed?
I think this is relevant, since it launched today and no one in the last 7 hours has provided context:

https://www.urbancompass.com/

http://www.businessinsider.com/ori-allon-has-hired-63-ex-goo...
There were two reasons I rejected the idea. Foremost was that my goal was code simplicity. Although true that most of the time you can run ahead without issues, it is no small feat to be able to serialize tiny deltas that can then be rewound when a synchronization error is detected (a full system state would be far too costly to capture and rewind.) Further that with all of the pain that traditionally comes with multi-threaded programming (especially in portable C++), and I found cooperative threading to be far cleaner and easier to debug, and thus, to refine accuracy on.

The second reason is that my approach ended up needing about 2GHz to run well for the SNES. Nemesis' approach needs about the same, but also needs a quad core to run well with the Genesis. Since I was able to pull off all I needed with a single core, why require a quad core system? Any quad core will have a fast enough individual core, after all.

That said, it's actually my approach that won't scale well, as mine is bound to one core whereas Nemesis' approach is not. It's part of the reason I haven't attempted the N64 or higher. If you ever want to see more accurate Saturn emulation or similar, Nemesis' approach is going to be the way to go.

As an aside, we've been hearing about the 'end of the free lunch' for a decade now. All I can say is my slightly overclocked i7-2600K runs my emulator nearly twice as fast as my previous E6600. And I hear the Haswell will be 15% faster per clock than the Ivy Bridge, which was 10% faster per clock than the Sandy Bridge. That and it's clocked higher. I don't foresee us running out of optimization potential any time soon, and by then who knows ... we may be able to create graphene processors or something even more exotic. Necessity breeds innovation.

The bigger concern on 'free lunch' is the push toward mobile devices and lower power usage (longer battery lives.) But for that I think you will always want a speed-oriented emulator, so programs like Snes9X and Gens are more appropriate there anyway.
The bill allows states to force out-of-state retailers to collect their sales tax, rather than requiring the end-customers report and pay them with a use tax return. Each state will still set its own classes of taxable goods, and services are already taxed in many states.
Asking $30 for a book is shocking? I expect to pay at least that for a good technical book. This is a book I paid $60 for: http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Programming-Interface-System-Han... I did so because the information in it is relevant to my job, it's unlikely to change in a significant way over the next decade, and I was tired of not having a single place to look up Linux systems stuff.

If I was a web developer using Meteor, I imagine I would come to a similar conclusion about this book - with the exception that because it's online, the authors can update it over time.
B-52 bombers will now be able to change mission plans en route