skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if your response would be different if the language around the coupon code was different. Instead of just a "Coupon code:" label, something that deterred you from entering one.

"Slum it! Enter your poverty code here:"
> if (undefined = "something") {}

Seasoned programmers avoid the possibility of inadvertent assignment by reversing the order of the arguments as a matter of habit:

if ("something" = undefined) {}

If (42 = secret_of_the_universe) {}

Also, they try to avoid languages that use "=" as an equality test as well as an assignment operator. Early BASIC was infamous for this.

> This is merely a case of stupidity, not madness.

Must agree there. :)
Maltron offer rentals for £10/week (assuming from your use of ‘pounds’ that you're in the UK), discounted if you buy it. http://www.maltron.com/keyboard-info/keyboard-hire-uk-only

Kinesis' UK distributor has a 30 day 'sale or return' option (you pay shipping). http://www.ergonomics.co.uk/faq.html
Correct. It's not a guess: they need to own the market

If any space qualifies for Ben Horowitz's "Fat Startup" model, it's this one. [1]

Also, Nike is a public company with a $58B market cap. They can burn through money, lose, and still not care.

Jawbone has raised 2x as much money but (I think) they can still succeed outside of the health space.

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20100317/the-case-for-the-fat-startup/
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Yikes, that timed out. Interesting project though! A lot of sites I've helped administer in the past have used ChipIn, but that service has been sunsetted for some time. PayPal is always an option, but sketchy.

What are you using for the caching front-end?
Is Delaware a tax haven?
I currently use Windows 8 with OpenBSD running virtually. I intend to give Plan 9 a try again soon, probably in a virtual machine as well.
Nope, it's off. Anyway, who cares. The conversation is happening, that's all that matters.
San Francisco Chronicle quits its paywall experiment
> I use NoScript too and 99 times out of 100 when I do enable javascript for a particular site it is just froofroo crap that adds noise not signal.

Probably true, and as often as you say. Here are two counterexamples:

http://arachnoid.com/mandelbrot_set/index.html#Mandelbrot_Ge...

http://arachnoid.com/binomial_probability/index.html
So you run Plan 9 in a virtual machine? Any issues?
The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted Third-Party Encryption
Germany has 46 million english speakers. Canada and France have over 25 million. Australia has 17 million.
it's raising money and wishing you hadn't (wrong team, wrong idea/market, etc).

Great point, though from personal experience I think 1st time founders will never get this until things go wrong after you raise. Raising money is attractive, not just for the money, but for the validation it brings. One of the hardest parts of doing a startup is talking with non-founders about what you do .. it's so easy to say "I work at Google" or "I'm in med school". The closest equivalent, for founders, is being able to say "our investors .. ".

I remember PG mentioned this .. that one reason Y-Combinator was so successful is it gives high-acheivers "a program" to talk about, almost a vetted excuse for why founders who could be otherwise working at Google or Goldman, or studying at Stanford are instead living in a cramped apartment and subsisting on ramen.

But I think it's ok to get seduced by money and prestige for the 1st time. You learn, you move on and up and get better at this stuff. Mainly you learn that the most important skill of being a founder is separating yourself from how non-founders think. Then you no longer focus on external validation and start thinking about building a real company.
They are all back now.
I share your dislike for a central language authority, but I think there are non-authoritative solutions that are consistent with the missions and practices of dictionaries.

One possibility: dictionaries could report that a large fraction of English experts or teachers consider a particular usage incorrect. This would be a dispassionate reporting of people's behavior as well.

You may ask "How do you pick the experts?" Well, how did we pick the people whose diction the dictionary supposedly represents? :) We make do with approximations. I think that the OED could easily afford to sample 1000 English teachers ranging from professors to grade school, and ranging across many geographical regions and social strata. It would actually be fascinating data to see alongside a definition!

Edit: I had meant to add that the sampling for the words need not happen for every (word, expert) combination; giving each instructor 1000 words chosen uniformly from a pool of 10,000 words should get you reasonable coverage for almost all of those 10,000 words. So the costs of this sampling experiment on both OED and the expert volunteers would be quite low.
> But the dictionary didn't make a mistake. The word "literally" means what most people think, as well as its opposite.

The figurative use of "literal" does not mean the opposite of the literal use (it doesn't mean "not literally (in its literal sense)", it means "as if literally (in its literal sense)".)
I find I suffer from a similar problem. For me I figure the reasoning is based in learning potential; at the beginning of a project or piece of software you have the most to learn. As the project continues you begin to do more and learn less, and since I enjoy learning new things a lot I find myself less motivated to continue and more enthused to start something else (which also will not get finished).

It's a vicious cycle of incomplete work and hyper-learning, but I'm mostly okay with that.
I'm on Linode and just take advantage of their backup service (https://www.linode.com/backups/). It's pretty much just set it and forget it.
Could you provide an example scenario in which this would cause a problem? This has never had any noticeable effects in the 2 years I've been using Node and CoffeeScript together.
"completely incorrect" is useless prescriptivism. They can call it incorrect all they like, it won't stop anyone.
> One of the hardest parts of doing a startup is talking with non-founders about what you do .. it's so easy to say "I work at Google" or "I'm in med school".

Is it really hard to say "I founded and run a business which does <X>"? I mean, its more words than "I work for <foo>", but its not really that much more complex of an idea, or unfamiliar to most speakers and listeners.
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What's FreeBSD's adoption of llvm/clang got to do with Apple's non-adoption of GPLv3 ? (Linux is a GPLv3 holdout as well btw).

The *BSDs prefer a non-GPL licensed alternative if they can get one.
Anybody want to make a longbet against Musk?
Did it at Best Buy (pulled up Amazon).
I'm not sure the bigger number of nonstandard and noncompliant extensions is really a desirable attribute when comparing the merits of C compilers.
I see this reason a lot. Thing is, Bootstrap was never designed for your use case. It was always a framework to get started, meant for developers to build their designs upon.

Think of Bootstrap as a model car kit. Bootstrap 2 was a Porsche that had just enough paint that people ran with it in their showcase, but that was never Bootstrap's intention. You were meant to complete the kit before showing off. Version 3 is a Tesla, but this time no paint.
I just double-checked the pdf. It says:

"The capsules travel at 760 mph (1,220 kph, Mach 0.91 at 68 ºF or 20 ºC)"

1200 km/h is still subsonic
I see this coming too. On the go or sitting on the couch, your portable device operates largely like the smartphones we use today. In your pocket at your desk, it can seamlessly and securely interface with your other devices for a "bigger" experience.
It may be well-known among working journalists, but apparently not within its (presumably) target audience - readers of online news.
If you write every piece of code like how one would write hospital equipment or mission critical code, then you are wasting your time and money.

Just like I wouldn't expect a civil engineer to build a bridge in a suburb capable of holding 5 Tons because "NASA does it that way because their spaceships are heavy" I wouldn't expect the same guarantees from software engineers writing an image sharing application.
Great work on this. As someone who has spent countless hours slaving over contenteditable issues (even with the help of great libraries like rangy.js), I can definitely appreciate the work you put in here.

I did notice a small issue, which I've logged here: https://github.com/jakiestfu/Medium.js/issues/6
Just say "figuratively"; they will have swapped definitions.
Popularity is probably an aggregate of what you just mentioned

IMO, it would be more useful if Github told us what it means with some specificity. Maybe not every detail, if they want to avoid having people try to game the system... but a synthetic metric that no-one understands the basis of, strikes me as somewhat useless.
Sounds remarkably familiar...

"In the name of the general welfare, to protect the people's security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that:

...

Point Two. All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.

..." [1]

[1] http://conservapedia.com/Directive_10-289
In 1957, something like the Hyperloop was predicted by PopularMechanics.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/futur...
1. What is your standard for judging whether a definition is right or wrong? (What is the objective measure being applied?)
2. What is your justification for applying that standard to the dictionary in question? (Is it the dictionaries stated policy? It is broadly accepted as the right standard by linguists?)
3. Where is the evidence that the standard has not been met with regard to the definition in question?

If you want to make the argument that the definition was improper, make the argument, but so far, it just sounds like you are asserting your preferred usage as the only allowed one, as there doesn't seem to be anything else offered to support your criticism.
Figurative use of literally is somewhat annoying to me, but it's not the only English word with two opposite meanings.

"Cleave" means both split apart and stick together.

Edit: Maybe I should re-think my annoyance. Merriam Webster documents usage going back centuries. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai_VHZq_7eU
The misuse of the term seems to date back three centuries, and has been abused for literary effect by many notable authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Jane Austin and Luisa May Alcott. So it seems perfectly acceptable to use the second definition with a wink, casually letting your audience know you know they know.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check-with-polly...
If we are sitting together with a lull in the conversation and you check your phone, then that sends a signal to me that you are not interested in our conversation. I personally find it rude, and it impacts my impression of the other person.

But, let's flip it around. If your phone goes off and you ignore it then that sends a message that I'm more important than whatever else that could be going on in your life. That can even make our connection stronger.

I've personally used this to my advantage when talking to someone that I want to impress (e.g. a potential investor). If my phone is going off like crazy I simply apologize and tell the other person that I need to mute my phone because it's a distraction from our conversation and that his feedback is more important than whatever else is going on.
All I'm saying is that you should think about what's more likely--that people would rather get AIDS than work, or that work isn't always easy/possible to find.
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Prediction 1957: Pneumatic Tube Roadways
So if a tree falls in the forest literally, does it?
I suppose it depends on what your business does and/or where you live. I co-founded matchist, a site that helps people find web and mobile developers.

Not everybody who I explain what I do to knows what a developer is.
`ng-repeat` and `ng-include` work fine for recursive data structures.

http://jsfiddle.net/uXbn6/378/
> ..."completely incorrect"...!

So the person quoted doesn't actually know what a dictionary's purpose is. It seems there are still people who think a dictionary should prescribe, not describe.

This is by no means the only case where a word's meaning has changed over time, or even reversed its meaning. "Decimated", which now means destroyed or substantially destroyed depending on one's source, once meant reduced by a proportion of one tenth.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimate

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/decimate

Notice the difference in the listings between Merriam-Webster and dictionary.com. It's an old tradition with Merriam-Webster (and its predecessor Webster's Dictionary) to list the oldest definitions first. It seems newer dictionaries have reversed this practice. Speaking of reversals. :)
Yes, there are tons of complaints from users about sites "looking like Bootstrap"

These aren't complaints by users. These are complaints by developers and designers who often feel a little...perhaps...threatened by bootstrap and things like it.

Okay, I guess it could be users if you cater to those groups, but for the overwhelming majority of cases users don't know and don't care. They find a clean, modern-looking site that offers the functionality and information that they need, and that's all they really care about.
And naturally, it has been closed.
Senate committee wants to know how the feds are handling Bitcoin, too
But more, it misunderstands a dictionary's purpose, which is to dispassionately list how people choose to use words.
Presumably they used off-machine assemblers and/or compilers
Mach value is lower for lower pressure, about 250 m/s for hyperloop proposal
If you're going to be a pedant, get it right.

You have to license any code that links with GPL code under the GPL. This does not prevent you from dual-licensing your own portion of the code base, or shipping non-GPL, non-linked code as part of the same product (Although in the case of things like DLL plugins it gets a bit hazy)
It may be ineffective prescriptivism. The usefulness is in the fact that we should have a word that unambiguously means "in a strict sense, without exaggeration".

What is kind of useless is a word that can mean some thing or its opposite, and there is no way to tell from the context, eg:

"When the tiger went "Rawr! Rawrrr!", I literally fouled my breeches!"
http://xkcd.com/1108/
Pocketsphinx+Gst Race Condition? PS cant listen & record audio in Python script?
Hi guys,

I've been working on a Home Automation project in my apt since around July.Currently I'm trying to get pocketsphinx working correctly w/ gstreamer + python on my Raspberry Pi.

You can already see a couple of my posts in if you'd like the see the questions I asked and the answers I posted when I finally figured it out:

http://stackoverflow.com/users/814221/malcolm-jones<p>Does any one have any idea what's going in my Stack Overflow question?

NOTE: I wrote out my issue very thoroughly on Stack Overflow with the proper formatting etc. Figured it would be better to check it out there instead of trying to format it correctly here.

Link:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18220129/pocketsphinx-gstreamer-race-condition-pocketsphinx-cant-listen-to-audio-re

Thanks in advance for any help!
Existing discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6208967
a solution would be awesome, especially in javascript. i actually found a case where their linear algorithm, https://github.com/crispymtn/linear-partition, failed.
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I'm amazed at the price for that iOS app. Are there such fans that would drop that kind of money for what tends to feel like a disposable purchase?
Well the GPL technique is used elsewhere, in far more places that OIF...

For instance, there are laws constraining doctors from releasing sensitive medical information about persons for the greater good of society at large (since people should therefore not have to worry about their doctor leaking news of their embarrassing disease they are being treated for).

Something as simple as everyone paying taxes to provide for things such as air quality testing so we don't end up like Beijing are another example, along with mandating carbon controls so that we can at least try to arrest runaway greenhouse effect that would cause global warming down the road.

Sometimes long-term freedom does require constraint on permissible action. Sometimes it doesn't. But it's not sporting to compare someone who tries the former route to invading a country IMHO, even if you personally feel the latter is better.
That is a ridiculous comparison.
Good code documents the what, but it does not document the rationale.

"Why this way and not that way" is often important, and a comment to that effect can save future maintainers a lot of going down blind alleys.
This one should be fixed. Thanks for passing it on!
Must have been updated since as they posted at the bottom of the post,

"What makes repositories or developers trend? We look at a variety of data points including stars, forks, commits, follows, and pageviews, weighting them appropriately. It's not just about total numbers, but also how recently the events happened."
I don't really see why; GNUStep is already an established FSF project, and I see no need for a company. What it needs is a bit of attention, which is what this kickstarter will hopefully achieve.
You can't. That's why trust comes into play. Even if you can design such a system, you must still trust the implementer to get it right, and in the case of email, trust the receiver not to do anything stupid with the cleartext.
You can put a price on GPL software.

What you shouldn't do is to hope that anyone will pay you.

The first person who pays can offer exactly the same thing for $0.

It's impossible to convince anyone that they should pay you even $1 if exactly the same thing is available for $0 from somewhere else.

The ability to charge for GPL software is purely theoretical. In practice, you can't.
Wolfram Alpha disagrees. It says:

Mach(20 C, 1 atm): 343.051 m/s

Mach(20 C, 0.1 atm): 343.182 m/s

Not much higher, but definitely not lower.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=speed+of+sound+in+dry+a...

Unfortunately, it refuses to show Mach(20 C, 0.001 atm), since the lowest supported pressure is 0.098 atm.
It's no more or less stupid than recording the name of an person where the name is unknown as "Jane Doe" or "John Doe". If you're here to tell me that admin is surreal then, hey, I agree with you. But this here is as innocuous as bureaucracy can possibly get.
The paper on KSplice attached at the end is also really neat if you're into this stuff. It describes the design and implementation of a tool for applying binary patches based on normal source code diffs.
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> This is Elon's Segway - unproven, hyped up technology.

Hyperloop was definitely overhyped and the specific targetting of California HSR -- a comparatively near-term project using existing, well-established technology that involves deep transit connections throughout the populated parts of the State to support the main HSR corridors was a nonsensical part of that hype.

That said, the technology is interesting, and at worst Musk investing in developing a prototype will be a learning opportunity. We need more people with Musk's resources investing in longer-range, novel technologies.
Polymer Sandbox
Regarding point 2), I don't think it is very agnostic though.

Because ActiveSupport::Testcase is extension of Minitest. Thus, rspec won't be able to use all helpers of AS. I am fully aware of there are rspec-rails with equivalent matchers.

Sadly, majority of commercial companies are now using rspec/rspec-rails for the dev job, this makes AS::TS a second-class citizen. So if we could not abstractify AS::TS, my vote is to extract it to a separate gem and let user choose the test framework they want.
Thanks for that. I'm new to Go myself, and that's some helpful info.
That's not a problem with being a founder, that's a problem with the specific domain of the company. Someone who works for matchist would have the same problem compared to someone who works for Google as you do.
Yeah actually, it's quite hard unless you have traction, revenue or investors. At least it's hard when all your friends are working at <X> BigCo or doing grad school at <Y> BigSchool. And when your parents know that your friends are doing <X> or <Y> and the path you've chosen is so vague and uncertain ..
> I share your dislike for a central language authority, but I think there are non-authoritative solutions that are consistent with the missions and practices of dictionaries.

There are well-tested solutions. One is to have a language authority such as you suggest above, like the Académie française, which struggles against what it regards as erosions and distortions of proper French:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise

Another is simply to list definitions in the order of their contemporary preference, as dictionary.com does. Interestingly, Merriam-Webster uses the reverse order, listing the oldest definitions first, as in the case of "Decimated", which once meant reduced by one tenth but now means substantially destroyed:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimate

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/decimated

Note the difference in listing order.

> One possibility: dictionaries could report that a large fraction of English experts or teachers consider a particular usage incorrect.

Apart from the problem of choosing experts, I think this would only slow the natural rate of language evolution. I think the problem is deeper -- it asks whether language is (or should be) susceptible to evolution by means of natural selection as people's tastes and needs change.
>My son will never have a TV or computer in his room.

Just curious, did you?
I had that as a previous approach, actually. Creating two nested scopes for each item made debugging even harder.

It would also be nice if it just did the expected thing out of the box. I can accept that there may well be sound technical reasons for the way it is, but I haven't seen any. All that happens when you raise this limitation is one of three things:

1. "Use ngIf".

2. "Use ngInclude".

3. "Write your own directives".

I tried 1 and 2, that's why I'm on 3.
This is pretty cool! I have a dream about making small-medium contributing to tons and tons of random projects, just to learn and get to work with interesting people. The old search feature made it kind of hard to find cool repo's to work on that weren't seemingly saturated with contributors, I thought maybe I was using the "explore" feature wrong or else that you were supposed to find links on places like HN.

I'm hoping this one is better suited for such a purpose, but hoping even more that I find the motivation to follow through on the dream. No better time to start than tonight I suppose ;)
You might well be.
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In a word - Apple. IOS and OSX borrow heavily from BSD

Apple has made more money form free software than anyone else, and they can pressure FreeBSD to stay away from GPL3
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The other one doesn't matter as it was only for development and has been recreated.