skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback! Our motivation for this project was to accelerate the growth of PCs with Ubuntu pre-installed on them, particularly at a low price point.

We looked at the Raspberry Pi, but it provides too little CPU horsepower for most basic computing chores - its hard to run a decent GUI or browse the web on it. Not knocking the Pi one bit here (!), but we think a desktop computer would need a bit more firepower than the Pi.

Also, being a crowdfunded project, we're able to provide this at a price-point that System76, ZaReason and other pre-installed Linux providers aren't able to provide right now (they're great companies too, so do support them if you like Linux pre-installed on your desktops/laptops!)
The thing about languages is that they are constantly changing from generation to generation. Any official attempt to standardize a language effectively fossilizes it, and the disparity between the standard and the actual language that people actually speak, will grow greater and greater over time. And then if you're creating a standard for a large dialect region, the effect is even more exaggerated. So the standard is actually highly artificial--just through the process of standardization, you are artificially creating a language that no one actually speaks natively.
Watch Elon Musk Design a 3D Rocket like Tony Stark
Admittedly my source is Top Gear UK, but every time they review an Aston Martin or a TVR or another hand-built car they complain about the subtly misfitting finish.
Yep it's pretty common
Well, when they write "Like all start-ups Elite Daily is a mix of hustle, fibbing (or outright lying), and mismanagement. We’ve seen each of the best startups exhibit these traits." they are being a very poor shill and some might question the journalism given that belief.
NBC tried to license my photo for "credit." This is how I [not me] responded...
Not only are electric now superior cars but the restrictions on ICE are getting stricter and stricter to limit their damage.
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Techcrunch used to be my #1 go-to tech site a few years ago. After they switched to the Facebook commenting system, I stopped caring about it, because I found I didn't want to comment anymore. Also, if anything, I think Facebook comments were ultimately worse than the ones before.

I agree they made it even worse with Livefyre but not necessarily because of the system itself, but because they're requiring "Techcrunch accounts" for it. So they've gone from bad decisions to worse, for the commenting system.
It's not just ease of installation by sysadmins, but ease of use on shared hosting and ease of script installation by non-developers.

I can walk my mother through installation of a PHP script. I can almost walk her through installation of a CGI script in any language, really. But unless that shared host has already set up a Python or Ruby environment (few do; I can count the ones I know on my left hand), I'd never, ever dream of trying to walk her through setting up something in other languages.

Making running scripts as easy as dropping them onto a filesystem would be perhaps the killer feature for other languages to target, if they want to take a bite out of PHP's consumer market share.

Of course, then there's another battle: shared hosting providers. The vast majority are running some sort of third-party control panel software with very opinionated hooks deep into every bit of configuration on the machine. Unless that killer feature can be baked into that software, and unless the shared host actually updates their software, there's no hope.

You wouldn't believe how many shared hosts are running ten+ year old installations of everything, not giving a crap that they're out of date. And hey, that ten year old version of PHP still installed there is still going to work just fine with the majority of scripts...
The UN disagrees. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme
Every time I get an IE7 request I -do- picture myself standing in front of the user saying "Fuck you.". Hell, I fantasize about it.
How is it "rigged" in a bad sense? Isn't the point of trading that those who are "the best at trading" do the best? Sure, certain people have very real advantages, but it doesn't feel any more "rigged" to me than the other advantages, like having more capital to begin with, or having more knowledge of and experience and interest in markets.
I seem to remember a German wind turbine company applying for a patent and finding out that an American company had shortly beforehand registered the same thing. I can't remember the details of who the companies were though.
This board is pretty minimalistic. It has five general-purpose I/O pins that you can use to read and write logic-level signals (either 0V or your supply voltage, usually either 3.3V or 5V). Three of those also have analog-to-digital converters, so you can use them to measure voltages in that whole range. Two of these pins have hardware for generating PWM signals, making them useful for motor control. Three of these can be used for an SPI or I2C bus.
This doesn't matter as much now and will matter less and less since most developed countries are moving towards renewable energy. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#Sustainable_e...

And they are actually doing it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#Renewable_ene...

The share of electricity produced from renewable energy in Germany has increased from 6.3 percent of the national total in 2000 to over 25 percent in the first half of 2012. Renewable energy share of gross electricity consumption rose from 10% in 2005 to 20% in 2011.
There's very little evidence of their hybrid rocket motor being safer than liquid fueled engines. An accident at the Scaled Composites plant killed 3 people and severely injured several others during a test of the rocket system, for example.

Also, liquid rockets are not particularly prone to "go boom", the most likely failure scenario is a loss of control, but that can happen to any rocket.
Central America is, by any of the definitions used, a region of North America, so "Mexico is in North America" does not support "Mexico is not in Central America", as being in Central America requires also being in North America.

As most commonly defined (though there are exceptions, as in the UN geoscheme), Central America is North America south of Mexico, but that's not the only definition around.
You mean like at Toyota, which has the most popular hybrid in the United States?

Honestly, its Detroit that should be dead scared, the Volt is a piece of crap, and I don't see anything Hybrid that's interesting.
It's only universally deployable if the developers knew what they were doing.

The same can be said of any language, it just happens that PHP makes it a bit easier than the others.
Actually you've just made two fallacies -

The first is the use of conflicting judgmental criteria that constrain the question to favorable cases. If the idea of innocence is tied solely to the government's rules, then innocent citizens are not jeopardized, by definition. If there is an external concept of innocence, then it's possible for organized rule breakers to be innocent yet unjustly "eliminated".

The second is assuming that rules (and therefore (in)justice) apply stronger to larger organizations. In fact, the opposite is true - as an entity scales, skirting compliance requires a smaller fraction of its resources.
Non-profit does not have to be equated with near-zero-salary for employees. The cash in flow (the revenue part) for non-profit comes from patrons who are well-off and have desired to give away part of their surplus wealth. As the non-profit startup grows and shows results they can do rounds of funding from other patrons, institutions and government just like for-profit startups will do roadshows. The return of the investment is the positive impact they created on lives of disadvantaged people or future generation. The important thing to realize here is that for-profit and non-profit are not that different. Both have revenues, expenses, profits, return on investment, competitors, deadlines, talent acquisition, business plan, products, metrics, investor objectives and so on. The only thing changes is definition of profits and return on investment. There is a huge benefit in running non-profit just like for-profit organization.

I would highly recommend reading chapter on "Performance Philantrophy" from the book Richistan: http://www.amazon.com/Richistan-Journey-Through-American-Wea...
Start by avoiding anyone who gets a commission on anything they sell you, or a flat percent off the top of your investments. Find someone you pay by the hour.
>RFSs #9: Kill Hollywood
Reminds me of that foot note somewhere on the ycombinator website about requiring an army of lawyers to tackle music labels and how PG strongly suggests against it. Though the contents of this RFSs have little to do with directly killing the Hollywood industry, mind your step, heh.
> then why are they still called dialects?

Things have changed for Mandarin nowadays. But traditionally: Chinese dialects are only spoken and are regional, whereas Chinese the language (the written symbols) is national -- and very different from the dialects.

The case can be made that Mandarin is now a language and has subsumed Chinese; but the rest are still dialects.
(Well I suppose that is what you get for using a webclient that you are not paying for....)

What is the alternative here though? Instead of making it client agnostic, make it not client agnostic? How does that not make the situation even worse? Being client agnostic means that it doesn't matter if one particular client is discontinued. That is practically the entire point of being client agnostic...

Any solution that will be viable in the long-term needs to be decentralized and client agnostic. Otherwise you are not reinventing Usenet, you are just reinventing web forums poorly.

Edit: Aaaah, I need more sleep.
Municipal bonds can be good. They have a historical track record of being pretty low-risk. Detroit being a glaring exception, however. If you want something more high-risk, high-potential upside, might not be for you. But if you want something with a greater return than a savings account, might be worth investigating.
You're a special case, I think:

1. You've very possibly decided that e-readers are a win.

2. Amazon really really wants to convert you to their ecosystem before you invest "too much" into B&N's.
I have an iphone, but don't want a data plan. I pay $35 per month (Chatr, in Canada) for unlimited calling and texting.

I bought the phone outright. Most telcos would make me pay $80 per month over a couple of years to get the subsidized phone. A much more expensive deal for something I don't want.
Dear guy who just made my burrito
I'm currently considering Jenkins for my next project; what were its shortcomings for you?
To be fair, I started commenting on TC after the switch to FB comments from Disqus, so I can't comment on the before/after.

I agree that forced registration for "TechCrunch Accounts" doesn't help at all. One of the advantages of FB Comments was zero-click registration for new users. For better or for worse.
Mapping Silicon Valley's Gentrification Problem Through Corporate Shuttle Routes
BMW has already been researching electric vehicles for years - with the first one, the i3, coming soon. I personally don't like the i3's looks, but the i8 looks very promising. Anyhow, BWM has the relevant technology.

VW's position is more interesting. According to them, Diesel is preferrable over electric for a wide range of use cases. And I guess they are right as long as battery technology does not significantly improve.
But the Rapide does try to tailor to the sporty crowd. It is marketed as such. It is significantly lighter than rivals like the various Bentley and the Rolls Royce four-doors, and it was tested on the Nordschleife. It performs favorably compared to the BMW M5, and people have compared the two.

I don't think it's fair to compare the Model S with the M3. The M3 (well, the M4) aims to be a compact executive. In terms of wheelbase, the Model S is much closer to the M5 and the Rapide.
There's a difference between selling at a loss and giving something for free.

If you sell something at a loss, the consumer still had to put up some money and has a clear interest in using the product. That makes taking the loss upfront less of a risk since the consumer is more likely to use the product and eventually make a profit for you.

If you give it away for free, people will accept the product, whether they are interested in using it or not. That means a smaller percentage of people who take the product will actually be likely to use it. That makes recouping your loss much harder.
No, the Chinese written language is not common to all sino languages; most local languages are not written down, ever. People write in Mandarin. A century ago, people wrote in classical Chinese, which is an entirely separate literary language. When you go to Shanghai or Chenzhou you see signs, books, advertisements, etc. written in Mandarin, not the local languages of Shanghainese or Dzao Min. There are some exceptions -- Cantonese and Yi come to mind -- but these are very specific historical exceptions.

I purposely chose Swedish from the Germanic language family to prove a point. When this topic ever does get brought up, people usually make the comparison to Latin and the romance languages in Europe, harkening back to a time when all written communication was in Latin, and the vulgar or Germanic languages were spoken only. But would you seriously claim that Latin was the written form of Old German? Or that the Latin literary culture of the time was inclusive and representative of Germanic cultural norms?

Many (most, depending on how you count) of the local and minority languages in China are only distantly related to Chinese, in the same way that Swedish and Portuguese are both Indo-European languages. What we call China was a culturally, ethnically, religiously, and especially linguistically diverse place when it was politically unified by Qin Shi Huang 2200 years ago. Many of those languages still exist today, in the same regions. But thanks to 2,000 years of linguistic suppression these languages have no written form or literary culture, and very few people are even conscious of the loss.
Twerk.js
I've tried alternative input devices, but never can get the hang of them. Too many years of traditional mousing, I guess.

For me, I use a free app called Time Out Free. It does scheduled micro-breaks of 15 seconds every 20 minutes. I just stand up or lean back, do neck and arm stretches, and get back to work in 15 sec.

There are a slew of other apps that do the same thing. This is just one I found a while ago and it's free.
New AdWords Feature: Conversion Import
Don't forget: SSH is strong crypto too.
If you have a small team, why not ask them? Whatever answer here that you prefer, or that is theoretically "best," is statistically unlikely to be best for your 10 people, just due to individual preferences. :)
@jlgreco

I was actually just griping.
http://verdict.justia.com/2012/01/03/will-insurers-begin-to-...
from my understanding, western school of journalism is about providing both sides' opinions (like public's on molesting priests and the priests' on themselves), while i don't remember a techcrunch article simultaneously doing both - promoting a startup as well as providing an opposite opinion.

The original posts at "theawl" - i wasn't able to read it beyond the first couple of paragraphs, as it is sounds like an incomprehensible blabber to me, something along the lines of an anxious teenager describing his word argument with another teenager.
Agreed -- but even if someone is lazy, why would I want them to suffer needlessly?
Is this just a link to the Firefox OS marketplace? I had no idea these could be installed to the desktop, too.
There's a U+200E character between "www.cs.virginia.edu/~mc2zk/cs451/mco_P4.ppt" and "."
Will Insurers Begin to Use Social Media Postings to Calculate Premiums?
We use funnels as a measurement of product quality all the time, especially in the context of understanding task completion rates and discovering areas for UX/interaction improvement.

The "funnels" that Ben seems to talk about are more about sales funnels where you keep getting pestered once you're a lead but in the context of most e-commerce sites, funnels are a great way to know if there's something about the site that's not working for people.
The Apache evented worker is very new, just out in 2.4, so it's still standard practice to use the process model. The new way should bring it inline with Nginx but it's too new to say if it's as stable as Nginx; at least for me to say it.
How to design a hot LinkedIn profile [infographic]
bro, i think it's more of a

"up + separate from middle + outside
down + join in middle"

motion, not side by side windshield wiper mode
Or, this means that the same-day delivery radius is much greater ... as well as the subsequent tiers below that, regarding express shipping.
Holy god that's twice as expensive as it should be. Easily.

edit: Oh, it's the Atom. Why? You're in Linux land, get rid of that x86 garbage for that sort of form factor. When you can buy $75 HDMI dongles that run Ubuntu and have 2GB of memory...
Aside from the beautiful maps produced by Stamen, the underlying issue of why we are not able to know how many "big busses" are driving through our streets and where they are going is nacent. The impact they are having on SF's economy, housing and culture is becoming significant.
One annoying thing about Techmeme is the linked tweets, they are just snarky comments from famed critics on twitter. Majority of the time, they do not add any value but a tongue in cheek remark. I would like them to be more selective in linking tweets, and adding insightful tweets.
I heard a concern about the quality of the integrations that you might be able to make with Zapier and Glass.

Integrations are of course limited to what can fit inside the "trigger/action" model. However, most of the first-party Glass apps take advantage of Glass in about the same way and you can't extend them like you can with Zapier.

Glass is also a bit limited in how you can consume content. Right now you can read content from Gmail (only one inbox), SMS, CNN, New York Times, and maybe a few others. With Zapier you can push any content you want to the device in any format and filtered in any way.

Some of my favorite use cases while building the integration:

1. Take a photo on Glass -> Upload to Dropbox

2. Send RSS headlines to Glass, when I "share" a headline and add a caption -> Send to Buffer

3. Set up event reminders inside Google Calendar -> Send reminder to Glass when the event is about to start

All said, I'm super excited to see what others start building. Not just developers (we've had access to the Mirror API already) but what real users want to use Glass for.

Zapier users constantly blow me away with their creativity and given an open-ended device like Glass, I'm sure we'll see some super creative use cases.
It's also not just another drag race. Notice they did the race from a moving 30mph, while the Aston Martin was in second gear. The Tesla only accelerates after the Aston Martin starts spooling up. This is not a from-0-mph which would throw the advantage into the lap of the Tesla.

Maybe putting the Aston into 1st would be more fair, but that's not a realistic real-world test. You don't mill around town in 1st gear. It's a surprising result because having full-torque at all times still helps when you are milling around at local-town speeds. It's not just an electric-car pony trick.
You're right. That's a fantastically useless link. Here's some reviews:

* http://mashable.com/2013/09/04/specialized-turbo-review/

* http://reviews.cnet.com/search-results/specialized-turbo-ele...

A little tinkering with the crankset (which, unlike the cassette, looks accessible and nonproprietary) and removal of any speed limiter that might be in place could make for a 50lb machine that easily tops 30mph at a comfortable cadence.
Though, with every HTTP request, the client will be uploading the entire cookie. This could manifest as degraded responsiveness, especially for mobile devices.
It is impossible nowadays to become a new member in Reddit
I mean I work as a Marketing Manager for a website and we actually have more than 60 great authors. Our articles are so different and true that Microsoft wanted to be our partner this week. But I don't know why people won't click on my submitted links when I know they are really good.<p>And now, Reddit won't even let me submit any links saying: "you are submitting too much ...... another 1 hour..." and yet I can't submit anything anymore!!!!<p>Please help me to understand the new way new members can get Karma!
Thanks for posting this on Hacker News! :) This is our first crowdfunding project, and we're super excited to be putting together a low-cost desktop system with Ubuntu pre-installed!

Feel free to ask us questions here or on the Indiegogo page, as well as providing any feedback. We'll try our best to answer questions - even over the weekend if possible. ;)
Well, sure, it decreases the amount of "security by angry-mob-if-you-screw-up" you get, but it increases the amount of "security by inability to legally compel keys from the companies involved." I'm not sure whether that's positive- or negative-sum, actually.
Goes to show that if you have the means, you'll come up with the ends, eventually. I agree, a very good point.
I rather like the new board but since we're talking low-cost alternatives one thing to consider is buying Arduino-compatible boards directly from China.

My personal experience with boards roughly the size of the Trinket has been as follows: I have purchased a Pro Micro [1] compatible with an ATmega32U4 chip and an on-board MicroUSB port from a Chinese seller on eBay for under $9 as well as two no-name Arduino Pro Mini variants with ATmega328 chips from two different eBay sellers for around $4 each, all fully working. At their price point the latter can compete with ATtiny85 chips directly despite being noticeably more powerful and more convenient to use in many cases. I can't say much about the long-term reliability of those boards (my guess is that if you buy enough of them you'll notice that on average it isn't that great compared to that of boards with officially sourced MCUs) but the ones I got for myself and acquaintances (different models, six total) work as specified for now. The oldest one is over a year old and has been used in several different projects including one that ran continuously for 160+ hours.

[1] An Arduino-compatible board designed by Sparkfun, https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11098

[2] http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardProMini
Puppet, Now for Neckbeards: A Developer’s Thoughts on PuppetConf
Many moder programming languages allow arbitrary unicode symbols as variable names. I am now thinking about doing this in Python.
It's a little embarrassing that the Soundcloud screenshot is of Chrome.
For a moment there I thought they were saying that the site itself wrote its own headlines. You know, with artificial intelligence etc. That would have peaked my interest.

Alas, no. They use people.
"1) not saying words with inner voice"

That's been debunked a while ago. There's no such thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization
Profanity and RANDOM PARAGRAPHS IN ALL CAPS don't inherently make a work of writing funny. That only works in spoken-word.
I admit I never saw the quality of Apple products. They were well done but the sort design ideas where if they could get away with it they would be a solid block to prevent you from peeking.

I guy I know put it best with Apple products: With Apple things are either easy or near impossible.

I am the sort of person that will constantly but heads with the design choices so I avoid the products.