skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I totally get where you're coming from. I'd say I'm young and figuring out what I want. After trying lots of things and learning tons, I've got a better idea of what I want. I'd like to believe that gives me advantage over other folks who took jobs as a matter of course. Mine is a choice, not a default.
There is only a common spelling difference in the written sense though. An American would not fully understand someone from Yorkshire speaking Yorkshire dialect, nor would they understand someone from Merseyside, Glasgow, etc. if they were speaking in their dialect.

I'm from Yorkshire originally, my dialect is totally different from those in Merseyside or the North East (for example.) How we speak and how we write is different. 'British English' only exists in the written form and I don't believe that is what this service is aiming to 'improve'.

UK regional accents/dialects are something which are favourable. The North East dialect, for example, is seen as favourable in call centres because the majority find it a 'nice' or 'friendly' dialect.

I don't understand the idea of 'if you're a start-up don't have an accent/dialect'.
The experiment really doesn't match up with what they're saying. It's certainly well studied that making difficult decisions taxes you mentally, and it's not surprising that spending $1,500 is a more difficult decision for someone with a lower net worth.

Where it falls apart is with the assumption that only the poor have to make difficult decisions. If anything, wealthier people spend a lot more time making decisions at work and receive commiserate cognitive load. Not sure working at McDonalds requires you to make any decisions at all.

Even if we're going to pretend that financial decisions are the only decisions in life, I still think the poor might expend less cognitive energy. Frequently they are poor because they specifically avoid making financial decisions. (Hence that's not a cognitive load.) On the flip side, people with more significant assets have to make more significant/difficult allocation decisions, etc.
Could you link us to a copy of the C&D?
The difference is the Visual 6502 team does it for fun. It makes me wonder what cutting-edge technology from today will be hobby projects 40 years from now. My predictions: scanning tunneling microscopy, lots of genomics / molecular biology, "big data", some current cryptography, a lot of AI.

And to reply to the parent comment - designing the calculator in the first place is much more amazing.
Since you're doing it full-time, how do you plan to generate revenue from it?
Trollers gunna troll.
Despite the name, there's nothing mystical about neural networks that make them not 'statistical based methods'

It's just a particular way of describing a mixture of nonlinear regression models. There are some nice, although very abstract analogies to biology, which is both a blessing and a curse.
no portfolio, no personal site, just a twitter and instagram and a few links to ex-employers and a history of bailing... hmm...
Chrome is a web browser created (largely) by Google. Google makes their money (largely) from web advertising. Web advertising is far more effective if you can use things like cookies to decide what ads to show to people.

So the claim is that Google has an incentive to make it harder to clear local browsing data than if they just considered it from the perspective of what users would want.
>Whoever "PG" is (you don't say),

Paul Graham of Y Combinator (i.e. the accelerator that runs this site). :)
What is it, then? Protecting the Government from Americans exercising their (Constitutional, and UN) right to Freedom of Movement?

Oh. Right. It's "Doing something." For the sake of the children, no doubt.
By definition, average is in the middle of whatever distribution they follow. Maybe median would be a more appropriate point to measure against though.
There's a paradox so long as you're still thinking time is some sort of constant and not just another compressible dimension like the others. Its hard to do this at first. Most people end up with a half-muddled "time 'goes slower' when" without fully getting the implications of time contracting as well. The ladder "paradox" is designed to illustrate this to beginners.
> Why would you do that? People like physical contact. Living in a Real Place is interesting to many people, living in Real Nature is interesting to many people, but the in-between of sub/ex-urbia has basically universally failed to please anyone in particular.

There are only 57.5 million square miles on Earth and 7+ billion people so us all living in isolation seems physically difficult.
Zac Franken and Adam Laurie are doing this kind of stuff and making tools for hobbyists (http://zacsblog.aperturelabs.com/2013/02/diy-decapping-machi...)
Good idea, unfortunately not everyone has access to native speakers in their social circles.

Another nice hack for practising speech is calling free phone support of various companies/products and tell them about your problem with their product/service. I learnt this from an Italian guy.
It's worth posting this to the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse at http://www.chillingeffects.org/ (go to http://www.chillingeffects.org/input.cgi to submit). They're run by the EFF, so they are indisputably The Good Guys.
One of the things that hastened Larry Summers departure from Harvard is the general public's sudden inability to comprehend the difference between average and standard deviation in reference to male/female intelligence.

http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=145
Oh, I'm not really disagreeing. The expression "a : b :: c : d" means a is to b what c is to d. There are just as many American accents as British accents, but Brits commonly refer to the conglomeration as American English, or to someone having "an American accent", and can have a similarly hard time differentiating between them.

So "British English" just refers to speaking English with one of many British accents, I'm guessing in this case approximately London English that is not Cockney.
Excellent analysis. I wouldn't have a problem finding freelance work, but as you noticed, that's not what I want. Naturally, I am freelancing to keep the lights on, but I've been down that road and it's tiresome.

The author of the book I quote is trying to elucidate the point that you should hire people who are better than you. Don't be afraid that they might leave. He drives that point home with the rule that anyone good will leave, so go ahead and hire 'em anyway.
"Something that can fit in my smaller pockets and has a great antenna would be amazing as a "going out" phone, even if it only did voice & SMS."

We (Nokia) did that. The Nokia Asha line hits price points way below the fancypants 515. The Nokia 105 goes as low as $20.

They're probably some of the most under-appreciated marvels of mobile device engineering out there.

</tootingMyOwnHorn>
I don't know anyone who sounds like the 'British' version I also doubt that that dialect would be preferred.

It would fall under the 'Queens English' or 'received pronunciation', which, in some studies, is considered less intelligent than Yorkshire dialect - http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/apr/04/6
Its not only the internet, All communication (mobile networks, landlines) are cut off as well (I lost contact with many friends in that city)

fortunately, the US will soon be bombing Syria to bring back peace and democracy to the country.
There is a "ferry" highway in Northwestern Washington, BC, and the Alaska pan handle. It is used quite commonly, especially for car/person transport.
Show HN: Real-time Q&A Built with Firebase
"Purpose of Hello world program may be to say hello to people or the users of your software or application."

No, purpose of Hello World is to demonstrate that you have everything necessary to write, compile (or interpret) and display the output from a program, and that you understand how to get it all working.
I believe it's for countries that value cost all the time, not just those of us who need a cheap phone. I don't think I'm explaining this properly.

Markets like Thailand, Philippines, Korea to a lesser extent, are interested in having cheap phones, but when that's ALL that they're going to have, they do want something nice, they do want that premium feel.

These are the same places that Nokia still has massive market share in feature phones, and this will only help advance those markets, I believe.
Kind of like Capitol Bells? http://capitolbells.com/#about-the-app

I recall the creator talking about this at length on reddit or somesuch in recent months.

Also Direct Democracy is a nightmare. See: California. Arnold Schwarzenegger outlines why his attempt at making most of his major issues ballot initiatives in his first term was a disaster in his book Total Recall.
There are many possible paths I can take, but the one I'm considering the most at this point is freemium with private/protected quests or realms being a paid feature.
Well the only evidence I have personally seen is the improvement of my wife's pronunciation.

She doesn't mispronounce the words she practised anymore.

Also I got positive feedback from the early beta users (other students & English learners) so I assumed it was useful in its initial state.

But yes, I will add additional information with benefits and comparison with other products.

Thanks!
"This issue has been discussed on HN before, and we had overwhelming response from people who actually worked for Congresspeople that the vast majority of letters and calls from constituents get either ignored, or given canned responses."

[citation needed]

I highly doubt this is what was said, because it's simply not true. I certainly don't remember it being said either. Certainly, if that was the the "overwhelming response", you should have no trouble providing links. If you do, i'm happy to admit I was wrong.
As far I know, having talked directly to legislative assistants of congressman, and chiefs of staff of senators, is that they are a huge input into how congressmen and senators vote.
Oh, good call! I've added that, as it's an amusing note to finish on
It's always been a matter of priorities. Travel has always been high on my list. A nice apartment, expensive things and a normal lifestyle have been at the bottom. Add freelance and startups into the mix and much of career life has looked like a travel album.
Our enemies are "the terrorists".

Fortunately for those in power, that term has a malleability that would make silly putty jealous.
How come the EFF are 'indisputably The Good Guys'? There are plenty of legitimate questions to be asked about the organization's and member's actual motives and/or agendas.
Show HN: 30-second Slideshows for Hackers
I would expect nano-printers to have the same effect as essentially free digital reproduction had on music, print and video. There'll be free stuff, and stuff you'll pay for. Why do people pay? Partly to be part of a community; partly because (hopefully) it's better if a whole lot of people worked on it to serve your demographic. I don't think it will change the structure of society, but will have pretty similar dynamics to present day internet.
Wonder how this ties in with the recent discussion over Data URI slowness on mobile [1] [2].

I have to admit I've not read all the articles in full so the question may have been answered. I see Pete did write in a comment to [1] "I haven't tried data URId fonts or SVGs but those are great ideas for follow on tests"

[1] http://www.mobify.com/blog/data-uris-are-slow-on-mobile/

[2] http://www.mobify.com/blog/base64-does-not-impact-data-uri-p...
I suppose that's why I wrote this piece. Solving a problem in a lateral way.
You'd be amazed how many people have trust funds or a rich uncle somewhere.

All it takes is for you not to buy this one car today at age 30 and the money will compound into a life of exotic beach vacations for all your grandchildren and beyond.

Edit: And for the people who don't have a trust fund, like me, you can always take a job with remote teams, which is what I just did.
Is this you?

http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...

If so, how do I end up end where you are, in regards to wilderness programming and whatnot? Do you have a book (of any sort)? That's my dream.
The best part is that even in the US, after a family of homeschoolers sought and obtained asylum from Germany here, our own Department of Justice appealed the court decision and asked to have them deported, making excuses about how the goal of the mandatory public schooling is so laudable (tolerance etc).

Other fun facts to point out:

* the German government is officially going to "look for possibilities to bring the religious convictions of the family into line with the unalterable school attendance requirement"

* the laws that eliminated the homeschooling option literally date back to the Hitler regime.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=brooks+hassig
My standards for Good Guys are pretty low when it comes to this sort of thing. Compared to who else is out there, I wouldn't nitpick.
I looked up the numbers recently. Combined, 14 of the world's largest space agencies (including NASA and Roscosmos) spend an Apollo program every ~3 years. A 33% funding boost consolidated into one effort could be a permanent Apollo program. It's actually pretty depressing to me how easy it would be given the political will to do it right.
Nano-factories are interesting but I think safe biological enhancement, especially of intelligence, is going to be even more interesting. Anyone ever see the Limitless movie? Sure, that's not possible today but we are quickly unraveling the mysteries of the body.
Coming this fall to the Mountain View Community Playhouse, a classic musical updated for today's Valley:

My Fair Founder

Can master symbolicist Henry Higgins (played by Paul Graham in his first musical-theater role) win a bet by coaching ambitious but crude-speaking Eliza Doolittle to be the toast of Sand Hill Road in three short months?

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll sing along to tunes such as:

The Gain in this Domain stays Mainly with the Brain

...and...

I've Grown Accustomed to Her Viral Growth Pace
Heh, pretty cool. Unfortunately it's not available for Android yet. But it seems to be basically exactly what I had in mind.
Just as with all the other such articles, there are probably going to be comments on this one talking about how interviews like this are the exception. That you just got crappy interviewers and as the article itself notes, you probably didn't want to work there anywhere.

If you are the kind of person who would write this comment, stop now. The truth is the vast majority of technical interviews for developer positions are conducted in this bullshit manner today. The only way to solve this is to do what this article is doing and continue to draw attention to the fact that the way people are hired for software developer positions is completely and utterly broken. We need to make shitty technical interviews the exception, not the norm.

I've been in interviews in the past where I've just wanted to scream at the interviewer - Why, why aren't you asking about my portfolio? Look I've built amazing things that people love. With my own hands. To a high quality. On time. You can see and touch them. And it's exactly what you want me to do here in this role. JUST LOOK.

Nope. Hey it would be great if you could please while standing on your head, design a spice rack for a blind person (I've seriously been asked this), with one hand touching your nose. Oh and can you wear this red clown nose. This shit's important.
On my Android 4.1.2 it has different levels for speaker and headphones. Maybe that's an TouchWiz addition but if so, that would be about the first useful one.
Some of the ideas & side projects you can take a look - http://sideprojectors.com (disclaimer, I run the website) :)
Statements like these are meant to justify inequalities. Keep hoping you will have a better life later while I will have a great life now and an even better life later.
He markets himself very aggressively, which I think is pretty good.

Last year he did the run across America with Regis and whoever he is with now. He has written a few books and is always at ultraraces...he was the starter for the most recent Ultramarahon that I did.
Interestingly, some classic monopolies, like the old AT&T and Xerox, innovated tremendously but would fail to capitalize on those innovations (Bell Labs & Unix, Xerox and the Mouse/Menu/etc GUI).
I see on the tab it gives the timer for currently playing song. Nice attention to detail there and good luck.
Somewhere along the way, we decided that the threat of terrorism outweighed our constitutional rights. In the heat of the moment after 9/11, it may have seemed right (to some), but the further we get from the event, the more people are starting to see that there is a problem.

These right should not be abridged for any reason. That, or they are not rights.
Nice theory, but even non-native people that have been living in their new country will retain their accent for a long time. Unless they make a conscious effort to get rid of it, that is; most people don't, though.
sorry, forgot the close the </sarcasm> tag ..
That is a very good idea, I will add this option to the current exercise flow. Thanks!
Perhaps the most frustrating thing I've heard all day was when Burke said it was OK to collect all the data because it'll be ignored when those who control it are not interested in it.

"They don't care about ME! They only take notice of people when they're connected to an group or event that is being monitored"

Well no shit. Thats like saying a tyrannical government only silences those who oppose them. They don't care about you today, but as soon as you stick your head up everything you've said and all your human connections are immediately tagged. I find that discomforting! And what a poor showing from the interviewer not to mention this.
She actually was black.
Personally, I think I initially leaned towards "building something cool" - which led me to build something which "I" thought was cool only to realise later that there aren't that many people sharing my same thought.

Above leads to an unprepared development of a product because you don't know whether there is a need/problem out there.

I think that's why it's so important to know the market + customers.

I think if you do find a problem to solve, then you can build something "cool" to solve that problem.

But if you have to compare the two, "solving a problem" seems objective, whereas "cool" is... just... too relative + subjective.
The site was more opinionated than your typical "isup.me" style site, so while I can't justify the C&D I can at least understand the motivation a little bit more.
On the other hand, soon you will be 45 with no debt, but not many interesting life experiences. You realized you spent all your time working and being a responsible drone, but then you look at your poor bankrupt friend who did so many cool things the last 20 years and feel like maybe your course wasn't the best course. Now you are getting old, have a family to worry about, and are not really able to do the back packer thing anymore.

Different strokes for different folks. Time is also a limited resource; be careful not to waste your youth on just work.
Having yet to see the C&D, the mostly likely reason for this would be utterly boring but entirely rational trademark enforcement/infringement. Odds are, a human only signed the letter without so much as reading it or asking anyone in management for a second opinion.
Thanks for the heads up, this looks OK to use on Android 4+ and iOS 6+, I've updated the post. Surprised to see 600ms for parsing a 20KB base64 on some older mobile browsers.
I'm curious what legal justification someone would think they have for preventing a site like IsTumbrDown from operating.
I wonder if this is a case of them requiring by law to defend their trademark, though then I wonder why they can't just license it for $1 per year for the exact use currently being used - so you can't then just go get a license and change everything to be different..
I've actually owned that phone. It really, really does not work well, even for just calls. My battery life when using it was atrocious. Also, send/receiving texts was a very difficult task.
Looks like this was a quick semi-joke website. If Tumblr didn't like what message it sent (which is understandable) ... they could have started with a simple email to the guy. Heck, they probably could have just asked him to change the messages so that it was slightly less snarky. If he didn't want to play ball, then sure ... C&D away. But what happened to plain old being nice?
Thailand is quite cheap actually. I holiday in Thailand to save money, not to spend it. This is quite true in Europe: half of Norway migrates to Thailand in the winter, its cheaper for them than staying in Norway! But also true for where I live in China. Just like Australians will holiday in Bali.
trademark I'm guessing ... they use their brand's name in the domain, which could lead to confusion about whether it was official or not.
On the other hand, if all it takes for the employer to be threatened is hiring one bright driven individual, than you don't want to work for such a business anyway.

If you limit yourself to teams with a product that has "moat", your entrepreneurial streak won't threaten them. (Although the churn concern remains, so a lot of talk is needed to see how visions and plans for the future collide.)
Non-Von Neumann Supercomputer in an FPGA
> One of the things that hastened Larry Summers departure from Harvard is the general public's sudden inability to comprehend the difference between average and standard deviation ...

Yes, but I would have said chronic and acute inability. What Summers offered in that unfortunate address was a perfectly reasonable explanation (concisely, same mean value but differing standard deviations), one that has a certain amount of circumstantial evidence and that in no way disparages women's intelligence or abilities, but all that followed from it resulted from innumeracy, not common sense.
Ask HN: What's the difference between a cool research project and a startup?
In academia I see many seemingly-useful research papers and projects where I think, "Damn, that could be pretty valuable! Why aren't they doing a startup?" It seems like there is much more "raw value" (if that makes sense) in these research projects than what others have tried making into startups (insert redundant "X for Y" or clone app).

Thoughts?
Because "Email us your answer to ZW5naW5lZXJpbmdAcm9ja3RoZXBvc3QuY29t" with no context as to what that means - on a SQL problem - isn't bullshit?
I had someone on HN trying to convince me that we should put up with the TSA because flying is a privilege not a right. I can't believe how many people believe this, especially in a country as big as the US.
Exactly what it is for is sort of up in the air, but it is clear that it isn't threat mitigation. As you said, it isn't actually doing something a thorough search could not and the people who make these calls, for all their numerous faults, are not categorically stupid; they know as well as you do that the Do Not Fly lists are senseless from a security standpoint.

My money on what it is actually for? Theater, or "Doing something" as you put it. Alternatively, perhaps it serves as a bogey-man; "now I'm on a watchlist" has entered modern parlance and with it, the mindset that one must speak "unapproved" opinions softly.
Hmmm, the white paper is not very encouraging:-

What is NOT in this document:

- Although most aspects of the algorithms have been implemented and tested in
software, none of the test results are currently included.

-There is no description of how the algorithms can be applied to practical problems.
Missing is a description of how you would convert data from a sensor or database
into a distributed representation suitable for the algorithms.

So until someone has tried it on something, we don't know how it will perform :s
It's not time to open source Windows
What a shame... What are they doing?