skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand, but my sense is that fundamentalists are separatists where evangelicals are communitarian and trying to build the flock, so to speak. Fundamentalists are "you're with us or you're with the enemy." Maybe I have only experienced relatively friendly evangelicals, though. :)
i think it's that cray-ahn rhymes with ann, and cray-awn rhymes with lawn. i'm a cran guy myself.
My intuition would say the former is spoken faster and the latter with more of a drawl, leading awn to sound like lawn.
Agree 100%. I am amazed by all the positive remarks around here. I understand the startup-vibe, but I would expect 'hackers' around here to take note of privacy concerns.
awesome. so how about the ability to add regexps(?) so that we filter people based on content? mentioning no names, but some users are great when they're talking about technical issues, but not so great on the social / political side...

also, have you consider trying to unify user ids across websites? http://www.acooke.org/cute/Automatemy0.html

oh - and another feature (now i open the site on my laptop) - sharing across computers!
They left the Pittsburgh "yinz" off question #7.
Hm, that's interesting.

What OS/browser are you on? (Feel free to email me at amber@stripe.com as well.)
This is exactly what https://www.bountysource.com/ does. Any number of people can contribute to the bounty pool. When a developer submits a solution that gets merged into the project and the issue itself is closed, that developer collects the bounty.

For example, here's an issue with 11 backers: https://www.bountysource.com/#issues/27-split-pane-feature

...and here's a bounty over $1100 with 5 backers:
https://www.bountysource.com/#issues/315019-add-a-tiling-win...
The argument against piracy is it reduces the amount of new content that gets produced.

If states believe this argument, they should legalise the distribution of child porn where no money changes hands. Alternately, if they don't believe it, they should stop trying to shut down The Pirate Bay and other Torrent sites.

They cannot have it both ways, without being hypocrites.
Speaking of pain points: I often have a X days and $Y00 free, and want to take a trip somewhere overseas without particularly caring where I go (though I do care about price). It would be incredibly convenient if there were a service that lists all international destinations for a given departure date, sorted by price. Approximating this manually is quite difficult.
>the conventional wisdom that "Emacs is a good operating system, it just needs a decent text editor".

If that's the conventional wisdom, it is not particularly wise.

Emacs is much more like a Unix shell than any operating system I have ever heard of. Specifically, both Emacs and the shell fork and exec other programs a lot; a significant fraction of those programs communicate with Emacs or the shell via a PTY or a Unix pipe. In contrast, Eclipse does very little of those two things, according to the OP.
I just unlocked my phone and switched from AT&T to T-Mobile and couldn't be happier.

Decent service, and the $50/month prepaid plan including mobile hotspot is a great deal.
In the peninsula where many Hacker News readers probably reside, their network is pretty great. In Austin, using T-Mobile is a lot like not having a data plan and having a phone with only moderately high probability. People who call you will sometimes get some message saying that your number doesn't exist.

The opt-out process for T-Mobile's DNS hijacking is not satisfactory:

> Note: In order for opt-out to work properly, you need to accept a "cookie" indicating that you have opted out of this service. If you use a program that removes cookies, you will have to repeat this opt-out process when the cookie is deleted. The cookie placed on your computer will contain the site name: "http://tmob.search-help.net.
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this is like a placebo pregnancy test. "oh... you are taking a pregnancy test? then you are probably pregnant."
Playing notes with the Web Audio API.
It's still on my list of possible projects. I kick it's tires every once in a while.
badass code. badass music.
Some natives of Bloomington, Indiana do that one, too.
Interesting, Fark has this built-in and it is sometimes really useful, but it does cause problems in some threads.

I've been thinking about something that would allow you take notes about other users and have those notes pop up when you hover over their name[1]. It is sometimes hard to remember who is who. It would probably be helpful to have a way to save comments that you thought were pretty cool.

1) I also thought this would be a great Google Glass app for older users (note about person or place appears when seen / there), but without facial recognition it wouldn't work.

[edit: with -> without]
No, I simply think it's wrong to, in general, generalize. I've read this thread, and see a lot of police bashing, it's wrong. My father is a good man and has done his duty to the State of Pennsylvania honorably and I don't take kindly to anyone who is not in the law enforcement field and criticizes the actions of those who are. Even more so when they're not at all involved in the situation, or the thread in question (discussion?) is intended to inform, not to inspire hate for law enforcement.

To put it bluntly Reisse was hit by an automobile by a criminal. Should the police have pursued the suspect through a crowded city the way that they did? No, however no one here was at the scene; maybe they HONESTLY believed they could end the ordeal without a lengthy chase and without the suspect getting away. That's a judgement call that every law enforcement officer deals with from time to time; with human nature telling us that we can't be correct all the time.
I can't tell if no one got your sarcasm or if they're admonishing you for it. I think it's spot on and great though.
No Facebook account, so no chance to evaluate.
I fully support this addon, I think it's the best way to do blocking, on the client. That said, I am not looking forward to comments that consist of nothing more than "blocked" "added to killfile" "plonk" etc. These are nothing more than implied calls for others to block someone. It encourages groupthink imo.
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I cannot share my new site on Hacker News,
My new site is http://thetrickcrunch.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-merge-blog...

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Thank you!
You're reading something I'm not saying. Germany is investing billions in its own networks to handle those issues, for example into 6 new large scale distribution lines from north to south. So yes, we want to change what energy we're using but we're paying the cost. And then, it's not like germany isn't the largest net-payer in the European Union. Certainly a small part of those subsidies could be invested in energy networks in need of technological updates - currently we're already paying to bring old east-block nuclear plants to more modern safety levels, so a couple of cables shouldn't be too much of a big deal.
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>something that would allow you take notes about other users and have those notes pop up when you hover over their name

On Reddit, you can do this via the Reddit Enhancement Suite.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-enhancement...
"Myo" is actually a fairly common prefix in biology, and (I think) is roughly equivalent to "muscle".
Great idea. At Bountysource.com we have a plugin for GitHub that automatically updates issues with bounty details when they exist (adds a link to the bounty in the issue body, bounty total to issue title and a special label). This needs to be installed by a project committer though. I'd love to see a Bountysource Chrome/Firefox extension, maybe we should put a bounty out for one :P
Last year I wrote a story based on my real life experience which revolved around my love story. It did contain some implicit references to the protagonist sleeping with his girl friend on a bed.

My wife however said that I should not publish this story as it was based on my life and I was a minor at that time and people might conclude that I had sex with another minor girl (which I did not).

The story is still in my drawer.

Off topic:

One thing about US that competently baffles me is that you pay a woman for sex and it is crime. You pay a woman for sex and film it and publish it as a movie and you are in porn industry.
This is why it's bad that virtually no net neutrality rules were implemented for the wireless market when the net neutrality law passed.
Yo RH! :) So do you do rails or still just frontend stuff? And do you do like angular / other JS frameworks?
No - I was remarking that my father was a good man and police officer, and I didn't appreciate the police bashing going on in a thread on HackerNews that served to inform the public at large of a devastating blow to the tech community.
Javascript is like a virus.
The one about "What word(s) do you use to refer to a group of two or more people" is missing an option or two. I often use "you lot" or "you kids". To be fair, the latter is more of a joking thing, like parting from a group and saying "you kids be good" or whatever.

The "you lot" bit is, I'm pretty sure, something I picked up from watching British television. Most people in my neck of the woods say "you all" or "y'all". Some use "you'uns".
Disagree with the crank lawsuit part.

Yes, the law is being metered out in a discriminatory fashion. No, this is the not the way to go about fixing it.
Working on Ubuntu 12.04 Firefox 21 and Chrome 27, AMD drivers.
Seems the answer is to learn International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Devpressed seems like a really good initiative! Looking at HN's submission history, and from personal experience, I believe such a forum is much needed. As a student or professional struggling with mental illness, having someone to speak to that knows your world, is extremely valuable. Keep up the good work!
You can apply the IPCC file without jailbreaking, although I believe it still requires erasing all your settings and contents.

The IPCC file is a ZIP file with a bunch of images and XML files with interesting settings within.

There's a lot of superfluous FUD ("iOS uses more data than other smartphones, even when idle", which is not true) regarding iOS in the article.
Yes, but the fact that they are being so difficult on such a small claim is not a good sign when you try to use the "Guarantee" on an amount that's actually substantial. Why am I supposed to believe that the Best Price Guarantee means anything if even in the most trivial case they try their best to dodge it?
I have had T-mobile for almost a decade and never had any problem with them. They are a GSM network so you can just swap out your sim card if you want a new phone, without having to jump through any hoops. They even went so far to correct problems that users were having with jailbroken iPhone on their network when they were still relatively new, which is pretty incredible.

I have never had any problem with coverage in major cities, if you get out of populated areas you will see that you are typically bouncing off partner towers, so you may lose data service, but will almost certainly have cell service. Basically as long as you live in a large city you will be fine. I never have had any problems (at least noticeable enough for me to remember) with dropped calls, or flaky service where I live.

I assume other peoples experiences may vary, but I think they are hands down the best cell provider.
I answered $100, but I am thinking more about Stackoverflow.

But I am willing to pay for someone fix my problem, not answer it. I mean, get access to my code and solve the issue himself. Like a micro-freelance job.

Thar way there is still incentive to answer doubts for free, in order to get more points/karma and attract more clients/charge more money.
If it's a scam, why are you only asking for advice on what to do for one year off? Presumably you're not going to go back in a year to get scammed some more?
I'm pretty sure I've at least heard that "devil beating his wife" thing once in my life, somewhere... but in terms of routine, daily life, I know of no term for that phenomenon that's common place. shrug
The best route would probably be to show that warning somewhere, but hide it using JS. That way it's visible in scenarios where JS isn't available.
"Dawn" and "don" are the same for me as well, although I have heard that some localities make a distinction between those two vowel sounds with a varying amount of "roundness" of the lips.

A lot of the pronunciation examples they gave made me speculate whether everyone even pronounces those words the same. It would be easier if everyone would just memorize IPA.
I also have http://makerops.com coming soon, look for the first videos 7/1/13
For #15 the Louisiana term is Poboy, despite the best attempts by Subway to convince us otherwise.
Having never heard the phrase before, "the devil is beating his wife" really stood out to me.
I am from India. Recently Indian government wanted to pass a law legalizing consensual sex between people above 16 years old (the current limit is 18).

I wrote a lengthy blogpost supporting the move.

I was also applying for US immigration during that time and my attorney advised me that I better take it off my blog before applying because if the US authorities search for my name on Google and find it they might think I am a pedo.
Wow that was very interesting indeed, thanks.
Cool idea, but don't pollute Github's UI with this feature. Developers rely on Github to have a consistent UI — I think we all hate when it changes a bit.

Another website managing this would be nice. It could tie into Github's API and offer this service.
I coded WebGL a little over a year ago on a Precision "laptop" under Suse Linux. What I needed: (A) up-to-date Nvidia proprietary drivers (B) "de-blacklist myself" somewhere deep in the browser's hidden WebGL config page (I think it was about:gpu or some such back then in Chromium, but I'm not really up to date).
Because for example plutonium has that nasty tendency to go boom once you amass a kilo or so, so safe storage is required to keep all lunatics at bay. It's also a very potent poison. It's also not found in natural deposits.
From Texas here - I've heard someone use it. Though their version was "God is beating his wife" instead of "the devil". I heard it as a kid, from my neighbor's dad, when my friend and I were outside playing and it started to rain while it was sunny.
I am firmly on the side of "y'all".
Awesome, the more people in this space the better!
Something that could be solved with better search would be group travel for people originating in different cities. Call it "travel search for LDRs". I am in city X, someone else is in city Y, what are some other cities that we can all fly to for N overlapping days at a minimum total cost?
As a Chicagoan, I've never paid the slighted bit of attention that, apparently, literally everyone around me doesn't say "sear-up" as I do. No clue how that came about, with no family ties to the east coast whatsoever.
rebase -i and add --patch were the dealbreakers

Also I have yet to see a hg tutorial that didn't at some point recommend making a second clone of the repo in order to do something complicated.
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$15
thats a very broad statement..based on...nothing?
Something like this, but with a progress bar instead of a generic loading thing, would also be very nice.
I always cringe when I hear or read a non-depressed person's advice to a depressed person. It often involves getting more exercise and going out in the sun. Getting more exercise and sunlight might help this person, but it probably won't be enough. The person will probably need cognitive-behavioral therapy and maybe even medication. Even then, a depression-free life is not guaranteed. Mental illness is complicated.
Agreed. I preordered one the day they announced it on HN, but they've been awfully silent since. After watching the Xbox announcement, the new kinect definitely seems more usable and interesting.
Oddly I got this in Chrome latest (Mac OS X) but it worked fine Incognito. Very impressive when it works.
From the video I see I will be able to:

1. Compare it to other similar dogs.

2. Show the stats to the veterinarian to get more input.

Using #1 and #2 should be sufficient.
"You attempted to describe the iPhone in 4 points. 2 of those points exactly described the LG Prada"

I was describing the Galaxy S.
I didn't realise party rounds were formed like this – if anything I thought the opposite, that if you had a lead then they'd help bring on additional valuable investors.

I thought party rounds were just when a company has 4 VCs + 20 angels = $1.5M seed, vs. a company that raises a seed where there is one clear lead.
If you look at the concentration of blue in the Bay Area, you can see that they need to add a city to "What is 'the City'?":

http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest...

Hint: It's not San José.
So why then does it appear that you have decided Samsung to be in the right?
Hmmm.... My 2.5Ghz Core2 Quad is sitting at 15-20%. Compared to watching the vid on youtube at 5-10% utilization.
I have hundreds of open source modules and I really hate this idea. It creates a monetary incentive for developers to keep adding more features even when they are bad ideas. Also, what happens when a paid issue/feature was a mistake and should really be removed later? The economic incentive does not align very well with creating the most appropriate set of features for the task at hand and you end up with bulky enterprise kitchen-sink software.
One of my foreign friends was teasing me about how English doesn't have a word for "a group of people" whereas many other major languages apparently do, and I replied "sure we do, it's y'all".
Hey Mooism this is the developer. The map was actually supposed to represent countries were are currently delivering emails to. But you've got a good point there!
> In which bit of math do people actually instantiate an inverse?

I am assuming you are being rhetorical here. I also think your working hypothesis is that the only use of a matrix inverse is to solve a linear system of equations. Under this hypothesis it does make sense that there is no utility to computing inverses. However, this hypothesis is incorrect. There are tons of cases where you would want to get at the entries of an inverse, but has nothing to do with solving equations.

Here area few examples: consider data generated from a multivariate Gaussians. Now you want to know which components are independent of each other. This is given by whether the inverse of the correlation matrix is zero or not. Another example, say you want to minimize a function defined over matrices, but want to minimize it only over the set of positive semi-definite matrices. One way of doing these is to use a barrier function: a function that blows up astronomically when you approach the boundary of your constraint set. For positive definite matrices such a barrier function is the logarithm of the determinant. I could go on...
If I was one of your friends, would you have liked me to have just treated you as I normally do? If I had someone close who was dying, when I'm seeing them I think I'd just interact with them as I normally do (though accepting and recognising they are, in fact, dying), and not let the fact that they were dying to get in the way of our relationship. I rationalize this by thinking people don't want to feel being pitied upon. They want to feel important; and seeing them just because I want to see them would help in that regard.

Am I doing the right thing?
Trust, but verify: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As6y5eI01XE
Reminds me of a dialect map that was done in Shiny: http://spark.rstudio.com/jkatz/DialectMap/
Thanks, I may try that.
The recent surge in physical shipping startups is interesting, but concerning as well. How can these new companies with limited funds afford to be sending drivers around to pickup packages and visit various locations? I think yesterday there was a company that would come pickup your mail from your mailbox. How is that possibly sustainable? And how can it scale to anywhere beyond maybe San Francisco? It just seems like a very lofty goal.
The difference would be that "ahn" is pronounced like you were saying "Ahhhh" and "awn" is pronounced like you were saying "awe".
https://www.catincan.com does something similar except that developers choose what to put up for funding and only the main devs can seek funding on the platform. Think http://www.freedomsponsors.org is the original as far as open source crowdfunding.
I find that I pronounce some words differently, depending on context (who I'm talking to). Also, I've altered my pronunciation of some words as I've aged. But, FWIW, when I say "syrup", by default it comes out like "sear-up" for me, but it sometimes comes out as "sir-up". Not really sure why. I'm from North Carolina, but never really paid much attention to how other people say this.
This seems like interesting timing - hopefully the announcements at WWDC are taking advantage of Thunderbolt 2. This might be what Apple was waiting for to update the ageing Mac Pro.
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Moreover, the only candidates who do take a stand as being of a specific faith are doing it to appeal to voters who largely fit the Young Earth Creationist/The Bible Is Literally True In Every Word mold, so that's the faith they profess.

Then, when they win, say, a House seat on the strength of a single district (a small part of a single state), they automatically have a national platform they can parlay into a global platform if they say something batshit crazy enough, thanks to the global 24-hour news cycle and the endless linking and repetition in the blogosphere.

It's a classic case of a very loud minority making the uncritical thinkers of the world believe "They're all like that".
Oh those Cajuns causing trouble, hello from The Maritimes.

I would say crayfish just as it's spelled. I have no idea what it is in Acadian French I'm not French but I know a lot of Acadian people.

It would be funny if the name came from little lobster, maybe "petite homard"? Not even close to crayfish.
>maybe for some it's solved by spending more time in the sun but for many of our friends it is a serious clinical issue

Or so a 21st century corrupt medical establishment, that abuses and neglects science in favour of greed (from inventing mental issues out of thin air to over-prescribing medication, to even advocating unnecessary operations) likes to tell people.

Depression sure is a true medical condition for some (relatively few) people -- but in the quantities and degrees it affects the general population though, it's anything but.
Some people in North Carolina use what seems to be a subtle variation from that... it comes out "you'uns". It's been a while since I heard anybody say that, though. I think it's more of a country thing.
Yes. Absolutely, absolutely, yes. What I want more than anything else: to feel normal. Even if it's just for 10 minutes while we're bitching about how bad some new album is, or playing a game. I won't say that's universal, but in my case I can't imagine anything better.
>> "Pedophiles are are a sociopathic rot, and should be treated as the worthless dangerous filth that they are. I'd feel worse stepping on a spider than I would putting a bullet in a child pornographer."

Who's the sociopathic rot now...? Well at least statements like that clarify whether the witch hunters are taking their stance because they're fighting for human rights and the alleviating of people's suffering, or whether their stance if merely about feeling good about themselves.
In my experience, shipping fast wasn't the determining factor. It's always been to build tangible features for feedback purposes, and to focus development efforts on the core of what provides the value. Shipping fast is a side effect of maintaining this type of focus.
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