skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have edited comments in some cases immediately after posting them, as I have a habit of noticing grammatical errors, typeohs, errors in punctuation, etc. only after posting.

I didn't alter anything that substantively altered or added to the meaning of what I said (when I have done that in the past I have marked the relevant text as an UPDATE so that the change gets noticed by anyone who may have already replied, but that wasn't necessary in this case), and I didn't edit anything any time after (or shortly before) you posted a reply. I find once a comment has been up long enough for people to read it, even in place corrections of gibberish to English increases confusion more than it decreases it.

If you saw an earlier version of an edited post you might have found a non-sensical phrase or two (e.g. I do recall one post where I fixed an accidental "maybe maybe" to just "maybe", I do remember my first post had something like "which just the many of few examlpes" and I'm sure there was one or two superfluous apostrophes in some of the comments which I later removed), then it's conceivable you read something that was later edited, but if it was fully legible (more like, as legible as it is now ;-), then definitely nothing was edited. I can assure you that the qualifiers were there in the original postings.

Truth is HackerNews locks down comments pretty fast, so by the time I might want to change/add/remove to what I've said in a way that even subtly changes the meaning, it's way, way too late for an in place edit.

UPDATE: Murphy's Law strikes again. I remember one edit I did do that might be deemed more significant than the others I mentioned. In the original post where I said, "..it is maybe possible that a language that had standard ways of working with bytes say within the first decade of popularizing it just might be better suited for talking to hardware", I had original used underbar instead of asterisks to emphasize certain words. Once I hit post my mistake became obvious and I went back and fixed it. I made the same mistake again when I wrote the comment where I was quoting myself with previous excepts (so I changed "with italics" to "with highlights" and then promptly fixed the rest of it so that "with italics" was if anything finally the more accurate phrase ;-).
My thoughts on Adobe Edge (Same points as for Google Web Designer)
And on day 41 the browser crashes. Oh well.
> In fact, I'd say it's more useful than the ipad considering that the pilots won't be using it to only watch netflix. The Surface 2 at least allows for a bit of productivity with the free office suite.

What? You realize you just said Pilots won't be using the pad just to watch netflix and then proceeded to applaud the free office suit for productivity, right?

In what way do you see Pilots using the office suit for productivity? I'm really interested in hearing this. Seeing as the main use for tablets is as an electronic manual for Pilots. So, all they do with it is mostly reading and referencing. Why on earth would you need a Surface for that? That is like you buying your mother a laptop with the highest specs you can find when she told you all she wants to do is write emails. Complete overkill.
NFC has no real world use-cases, and the implementation in Android sucks (no access to NFC from the Native SDK, not all card/tag types supported, and Google not being very helpful when asking questions about it) and compatibility of the NFC readers highly depends from phone model to phone model. Simple stuff? Sure that works. The interesting stuff? Or it should work but doesn't, or it's not supported. Source: I work in a company that specializes in NFC/RFID stuff for public transport, and we tried getting it to work.

Apple chose to take another path: they use BlueTooth, another standard. BT 4.0 can do everything NFC can (functionality-wise, tech is obviously not compatible), and then some. BT 4.0 is very low-power, devices only supporting subsets of BT4 can be made extremely cheap, and it doesn't require a huge antenna to be able to power nearby NFC tags or RFID chips.
I suppose the moment when there are only two questions to be answered before a non-developer's device is selected has arrived.

Q1: Does it run a mainstream, grade A browser?
Q2: Is there an adequate way of generating documents I can share with users of other devices?

Answer yes to both and it is down to price, convenience and aesthetics - with (for some) the added advantage of a selection making life tougher for inter- (and infra-) national spies.
My laptop can use both connection at the same time. Maybe you need a better OS.
Mark Jason Dominus also says the same thing about Perl in his Higher Order Perl book [1][2] and goes onto show that Perl has 6 of the 7 features that Norvig describes has making Lisp different [3].

[1] http://hop.perl.plover.com

[2] Perl is much more like Lisp than it is like C (from Preface)

[3] ... the book "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming", by Peter Norvig, includes a section titled "What Makes Lisp Different?" that describes seven features of Lisp. Perl shares six of these features; C shares none of them. These are big, important features, features like first-class functions, dynamic access to the symbol table, and automatic storage management. (also from Preface)
Central bank lending is collateralised with liquid, tradable securities. That's why the rate is low(er). Furthermore transactions are in large size, so the cost of overheads per $ borrowed are low. If private persons are wanting to borrow a billion at a time and have appropriate assets to put up as collateral, then ok.

Central banks are not in the business of retail or micro-finance. The clue is in the name...
I was referring to (c) in AJ007's comment.
I understand that you're on the front of HN and probably seeing a massive spike of activity, however with that in mind, the video doesn't load so I'm unable to see what your app does and why it's a different way of converting.

There needs to be more text.
Was this test with openvg?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVG
Using shapeless's Sized type to eliminate real world off by one errors in Scala
One reason could be that consumers aren't technically owning anything, but merely being sold a license to use an application/movie/music for some random amount of time.
This is nice & pretty UI, but I'd want to see the exact values. How many euros is $134.33? An app like https://sensortower.com/ios/us/tap-tap-tap/app/convert-~-the... would tell me the what I want to know precisely.
>The weakness of the iPad is that it is a thoroughly a consumer oriented product.

When it is supposed to replace paper manuals for pilots, all you need is a consumer grade tablet. Especially if it comes in a build quality like the iPad. And with the now free iWork suit it is not even exclusively a consumer device. But again, if you just use it as an alternative to paper manuals, where exactly is the need for a Surface? What feature of the Surface would be of use for the Pilots that they don't get with an iPad?
I would say that if I think it. If someone is a slobbering shit-wizard you are doing the humanity a disservice by not calling him that.

And there were debates in tech about rough language anyway.
I actually switched from my iPhone 4 and bought a Lumia 1020 to give Windows Phone a try. I can't speak to the technical camera jargon as I'm not much of a camera nerd (yet), but what I can tell you is that the camera is phenomenal compared to what I've used previously.

Of the two pics it takes, the 5MP oversampled pics look great, but still look like cameraphone pics. The 34MP pictures though are a different beast. I took a picture of some work colleagues in the office the other day and was able to zoom in and read the place names on a map pinned to the wall a few feet behind them. I took a picture of a crowd that was gathered across the street and was able to zoom in later and crop out some decent (slightly grainy - but not awful) looking photos of people chatting as if I were stood a few feet away. The detail really is amazing compared to anything (phone based) that I've seen before.

I have no idea what half the options on my 1020's camera do, but having the option of a manual focus slider is great too. The 1020 isn't a DSLR or even probably a decent point and shoot, but it's definitely not a sham. I wouldn't carry a dedicated camera around with me, and in my experience having the 1020's camera has been great so far (I've only had it a week).
No, this:

"You can go live in some kleptocracy in Africa if that kind of thing inspires you."

is

"exhibit 2736372 of "why political articles on HN are bad"."

What you have done is say some one must leave the country and cannot argue for some sort of change because you don't like it. That is the behavior of the quoted Africa remark. Which is a questionable remark in it's self.
Clearly you can't forget it. Some teams can succeed in a wide variety of languages, some organisations can fail in any language.

Given the number of teams that have succeeded with .Net, I'd say that organisational failings are to blame for this one. Have you already forgotten the reputation of the consultants hired to implement it?
He's not 'advocating change', he's saying a military dictatorship is better than a democracy. Do we really need to argue that kind of point?
Yep, exactly. And the video took a good minute just to show the first frame. They should really test the website experience under the load or over slow-ish links.
My (very vague) memory is that NGen is run at installation time

As far as I know, ngen is only used if you decide to use it. There's nothing automatic about installed code being ngen'ed.
Sometimes I'm trying to improve a step, and want to test a quick change. Going from Build Configuration up to Build Overview to click on Run Build is slow and easy to forget, and I don't want to check something in just o trigger a build.

Plus, TeamCity has 'Run Now' on every build-related page.
Counter-anecdote: I also tried to shift from my extreme night owl schedule to something more reasonable, particularly due to social reasons. I struggled with it for four years -- including dietary change, workouts and alcohol abstinence, and eventually gave up.

I managed to get myself into the lark schedule three or four times for various periods of time (2-3 weeks minimum, about 6-7 months in the longest streak) but it took a lot of energy to keep myself there. I had to get up very early even during weekends, and push myself to go to sleep around 10 PM, because a single hour off my regular sleep hour was enough to kick my schedule into chaos again. I wasn't drowsy during the day, but I wasn't too productive, nor too energetic, either, and overall my productivity plummeted.

I eventually gave it up. It reverted to more normal hours when I moved in with my girlfriend, who wakes up a bit earlier. Nowadays, I can typically wake up around 10:30 AM without an alarm (and would generally fall asleep around 4 AM), which is a lot better than before when, left to my own devices, I'd wake up around noon. During weekdays, I wake up around 08:30 (fortunately, my workplace is quite close to home -- it's a twenty minute walk); I need the alarm clock for that, but except for Fridays, I'm not too exhausted.
Disappointed that this holds for TR too.
Ask HN: Is "Moblish" a good name for mobile-first publishing startup?  
Moblish (www.mobli.sh) is the mobile-first, real-time news reporting platform for journalists I am developing at Stanford as a Knight Fellow.
http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/class-of-2014/eric-ortiz/<p>The platform will streamline the production, consumption and distribution of digital content from anywhere, at any time, on smartphones and tablets. The monetization plan includes selling content, mobile advertising, mobile money (using airtime as currency), syndication and a rewards system. The goal is to provide the tools and platform to sustain a free press and increase the breadth, depth and quality of information being produced and reaching citizens worldwide.<p>What do people think of the business idea and name "Moblish"? Any feedback is appreciated.<p>Thanks.
my (less experienced) team leader is always going for the "just get it working solution". I often fight back to take the time to produce something more elegant, knowing that in two months time, my solution will not need fixing a second time.
It's Apple that made PC synonymous with Windows machines (with all their "Mac vs PC" ads). Yes technically speaking it's incorrect, but that's human language for you, it just happens. Sometimes the other way round, eg. walkman was once Sony's tradename, but eventually all portable cassette players were called so.
It is impossible to read and understand text when there is something moving in the corner of your eye. The human brain was trained to do that for millions of years of evolution on the savannah. The moving thing might be a predator...
It's good to hear that some people find a way out.

I'm not sure it's 'owlishness' or if it's delayed onset sleep disorder, but my body seems to just want more hours in the day. More to be awake for (20 ish) and more to be asleep (10 would be good). If I was left to control my own schedule and didn't have to consider everyone else on the planet I'd probably get up six hours later every day...

I've tried making myself go to bed, and sometimes to sleep with chemical help, It doesn't seem to work for more than a few days. I don't seem to have a reset button I can find.

Getting up at 5am regularly isn't really a choice I can see making, however motivated, because 5am would come and my only thought would be how quickly I could go back to sleep, shortly followed by seething, loathing hatred for whatever had woken me. Similarly going to bed at 10 results in me laying there for several hours awake.

I envy people who regularly get tired in the evening rather than waking up and wanting to do stuff when the rest of the world shuts down.
Article talks about its usage during "all phases of flight" so I guess they will use it all the time.
YouTube gets its own music awards show
> The vast majority of the web developers I know use OS X.

That's what we call a filter bubble
Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages
I love this kind of thing - but I found that the compile times for types that require resolving more than about 6 levels of recursive implicits (i.e. lengths bigger than 6, if I'm reading the Nat source correctly) were just too long to be tolerable to the rest of the company. Is there any hope for improvements to the scala compiler or similar that will speed this up?
While concerns over an interruption in salary are certainly legitimate, just uncoupling health insurance from employment will decrease the barrier to switching jobs and increase mobility.

It's worth noting that the "job lock" that you're referring to is a rather recent phenomenon. Employer-sponsored health insurance was essentially an accident of WWII wage and price controls (source: http://www.nber.org/bah/2009no2/w14839.html). Because health benefits were exempt from WWII-era wage controls, employers used them to attract employees. Furthermore, because the employer contribution is paid in pre-tax dollars (i.e., employer-sponsored health insurance is effectively subsidized by the government), it became an attractive way to provide greater overall compensation to employees than otherwise possible.

However, the issue of coupling employment to insurance was quickly apparent, which is why we have COBRA (since 1985), but even that is more of a patch than a fix. Regardless of the merits or demerits of Obamacare, uncoupling employment from insurance is (theoretically) a positive outcome for everyone, whether one is an entrepreneur or not. We're already seeing firms shift their cheapest plans to exchanges (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230479580457909...). Increasing health insurance portability should make jobs less "sticky" and result in a more efficient distribution of labor.
I used to put blank paper on ads when reading printed magazines because ads distract me. What am I supposed to with web sites? Literally cover the screen with paper?
It’s no use, get a real keyboard
Nope, I'm using Ubuntu and instead of download link see this message: "Available for Mac and PC"
An acquaintance stated that he won't be able to enter campus to check on his live specimens. So they're going to die. I didn't get any details from him, but I'm sort of hoping he's talking about bacteria...
Depend on whether you are looking at the immediate time scale, (when "the best way" takes longer), or over the longer term, where it is often a lot better to sped the time up front, and have a good solution, rather than a quick hack.
I have heard a permanent jet lag explanation by a longer than 24h daily biological clock cycle. So a person has 8 hours sleep and can go on for 18 hours before she is tired.
This article seems to make a lot of jumps that I'm not sure I follow. E.g. it says "anywhere from 19% to 50% of non-elderly Americans have some type of pre-existing condition". 29% to 50% is pretty wide range, but what "some type" means? Is it a cold? Is it a case of acne? Is it cancer? Is it debilitating chronic disease costing hundreds of thousands to manage? Is it a trifle that no insurer would care about? No idea. This phrase is completely useless for me if I wanted to estimate if a lot of Americans would be denied coverage due to pre-existing condition or not.

>>> The average age of people who create a tech start-up is 39, and not 20-something

This may be true, but how many of these people can not afford any health insurance? I know a lot of startups created by millionaires, but also a bunch created by penniless students or completely middle-class people. In what proportion are they among startup founders? Again, if I wanted to evaluate how many startup founders benefit from ACA, I can not do it based on the article.

>>> There is a big difference between mortgaging your house on something you can control, and risking going bankrupt by an illness because of something you can't control,

This does not sound convincing - most startups depend on thousands of factors they can not control - from Google releasing competing product a week before their launch to sudden storm in East Asia taking out one of the vital suppliers to fashion change driving clients to or from particular product. Presenting it as if startup founders control everything besides their healthcare costs sounds very non-convincing.

Unfortunately, this article makes a claim that is not properly supported by the data in it and can not be evaluated by the reader due to low relevancy of data provided.
I just don't get it. Gamers are apparently very eager to play a new version of Half Life. Just like they love to play yet ANOTHER version of GTA (and it's selling!). Why not go ahead and create that game people are waiting for?

(yes i understand this message is fake, but considering the time it takes Valve to create HL3 i seriously doubt it will ever come)
Obamacare is NOT about health insurance. It's about catastrophic injury insurance, which you are very, very unlikely to ever need. In the past, in the event of catastrophic injury, you declared bankruptcy and the hospital ate the bill. Now, in theory, some insurance plan will be on the hook for those costs.

Because of the way co-pays and deductibles work, you have to be in the top 10% or maybe 15% of health care spenders before you even break even with what you've paid in on a Bronze plan (by far the most popular self-purchased plan). Catastrophic injury type health insurance has been available for awhile, at reasonable rates, unless you had a serious pre-existing condition. So there's not much new here except for improved access for the chronically ill (or their breadwinners), who seem unlikely to be prime candidates for entrepreneurship.

It's incredible how much disinformation there is around ACA fueled by political agendas on both sides, and how little most consumers understand of the law's actual impact on the health care and employment markets.
I got hooked on programming because the ZX Spectrum 48k my parents bought the family, at age about 12, came with a broken tape deck.

Instead of playing any of the bundled 12(?) games we had to wait for shops to open to get the drive swapped, and instead I read the thoroughly comprehensive manuals. Initially playing in BASIC, then later hand-assembling via the opcode table at the back of the book.
he is a good writer but he brings unscientific arguments in pseudo-scientific words. one should not trust his writings.
Note also that (as I understand it), if someone already has insurance they can maintain it through HIPAA. The main difference in that case from the new law is that they can't let their insurance lapse or there is no obligation for the insurance company to renew it.
Whoa, I welcome hn traffic! But yeah, it seems to put the site under pressure. Did handle similar traffic from reddit front page just fine though. Checking whether Rackspace is having issues.
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