skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comprehension is what saves readers time. Write as much as it's needed for your readers to understand.

If I opened a page and fell on author's last one-liner, I'd be inclined to dispute the statement. It's void of context and arguments and we can surely find countless examples to contradict the notion.

Fewer doesn't mean simpler. Maths or programming expressions can be terse, yet so packed full of information that they take hours to decipher. We can find the equivalent in literature.

Sometimes to get your point across fast you have to use longer, yet more accessible sentences. To save readers' time, just write simpler, not shorter.
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Thanks! And sorry: Which OS/Browser were you using?
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That's pretty cool. Just for the fun of it, I also did something along these lines, trying to make a model of human voice with stacked denoising autoencoders (SDAs, which were used in the image recognition originally) in the compressed audio domain (MDCT, basically MP3, but without Huffman encoding). It worked, but a simple nearest neighbour model was producing a lot more realistic voice.

Here's how audio data in that compressed domain looks like [you'll need to zoom in]: https://raw.github.com/dchichkov/DeepLearningTutorials/maste...
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I'd love to see a comparison of features between:

https://getanomalous.com
http://www.graphdat.com
http://www.datadoghq.com/
http://www.serverdensity.com/
http://newrelic.com/

There are lots of choices, and all of the above are high quality.
I've had many times where I swore that something was a compiler bug. I did hit one once with Haskell/ghc, but I think that is the only instance.
There was a lot of hype about it.
I don't think that would actually count as open source, at least according to http://opensource.org/osd
I can't read another piece on Karp. The guy is addicted to magazine/newspaper profiles of himself. Nary have I read an article on Tumblr that didn't focus mainly on Karp. I'm pretty sure if Ali G were still doing his thing, he could easily dupe Karp into taking an interview--he's just that desperate to be on camera.
I loved how AngularJS jobs have exploded!
Likewise, this would be great for academic writing, bringing up related journal articles of subjects you're writing about.
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There are many other avenues to explore; however, I'll mention one quick fix. A single dose of St. John's Wort can take enough of the edge off to enable me to fall asleep.

Quality varies widely. Look for one that is standardized against hyperforin in addition to the usual standardization against hypericin. Eclectic Institute is one quality brand that offers this.

St. John's Wort is generally considered quite safe (NB: I am not a doctor!). However, it does interact with / influence the rate of absorption and/or potency/effectiveness of some other medications and supplements, one example being birth control pills whose effectiveness it lessens.

P.S. I see further now that you are describing "pains". If these are actually physical, that's another mattter. I was speaking more to anxiety and... "busy" thoughts.
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That's a really, really specific judgement of what's going on. I really wouldn't put it down to active malicious intentions. As is so often the case, it's generally a more nebulous reason; in this case I think they're just posing him in a popular style for the young but successful. The writer is trying to convey a young male who's a tremendous outlier, so they describe him as being just as outlier-esque in his appearance and mannerisms.

The reasons behind why this is a popular style of portrayal may very well be as you say, but it could very well be just a deep seated need to mark those who have vast differences in ability as being of a very different social or behavioural group. This need to be different could stem from jealousy, and a general uneasyness about their own life acheivements.

After all if the tremendously successful aren't different, and are instead just like us, then how are they so much more successful? Why are aren't we all successful? That's an uneasy thought, so humans may want to dismiss it by saying "They must just be 'different.'"
> I'm having a little fun

These are peoples lives, you incredible jackass. Including the lives of my family. How much more inhuman can you possibly get?

> I'm old enough to remember these same arguments 17 years ago

So am I. I also know that the current law was their counterproposal 17 years ago. But now it's the end of the world.

> describing the folks your neighbors vote for in stark, black-and-white terms

I live in rural Washington. My neighbors are every bit the insane bigots they vote for.
Bingo.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." - Einstein
Shutting down the government, and the websites, isn't in any way about saving money.

It's about holding us hostage.

It's a power play: attempted extortion.

It's a childish temper tantrum, the kind a two-year-old throws when told "No."
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I'm sorry. I didn't mean to lay out any "theory". I really just meant to criticize. I'd suggest to just stick with the theories that researchers have come up with and improve upon them.
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> Some sites are blogs, others are small business web sites, others are photo galleries, others are one pagers of information, and some are pages that let you buy things. There shouldn't just be one tool to build all of these.

I find that above text a bit odd. Maybe I'm misinterpretting it, but why exactly shouldn't there be one tool to build all of those websites? It might very well be that Wordpress is not suited to build all those things, but it doesn't follow logically that there should not be a "mastertool", no matter what.

I understand the general sentiment of "horses for courses", but I also think that it's important to make sure that your tools are performing well, rather than trying to make a blanket statement about what web dev tools should and shouldn't do in general.
Aliens are advanced and have cloacking ability, the only proof we have are stories from abductee hypnosis sessions.

Professor Jacobs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Jacobs has researched the subject scientifically for decades.
Agree, it makes sense. But it's a real bummer that you're not allowed to work even if you really, really want to. Say, for example, you're an NIH researcher being forced to pull the plug on a long-running experiment that you'll have to start over again from scratch.
Their flight widget is the second thing in the search results (right under the ads) and above any actual results. That alone - says they're prioritizing the money-making options.
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When asked a question that bores him, his eyes go
unreactive, and there’s a nearly audible shutdown noise as
he disengages. Among the topics that bore him are cars (“I
don’t like cars anymore”); Internet comments (“Gross”); his
company’s colossally expensive infrastructure (“I have a
very rudimentary understanding of how Tumblr actually works
these days”); and management (“I’m not super-passionate
about how we run the company”).

So what does he... do? Count his money all day?
Julian Assange talks with Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Trend:

People who claiming $10,000+/mo from Adsense for some reason never share traffic stats or even website URLs.
I really wish someone would link the article that was yammering about the A7 and how it was going to lead to desktop/phone convergence.

The HN comments were very insightful and mocked it as it deserved to be mocked. Meanwhile, while people circlejerk over iOS + bluetooth keyboard and laugh at the Surface... Microsoft is, you know, actually working on an OS that will truly bridge the gap across devices.
>The striking thing is how the two companies peaked are almost precisely the same time and how that moment (end of 2010) was not related to the entry timing of their nominal disruptor[iPhone].

Could it be that it was Android that hurt Blackberry and Nokia more than the iPhone did? Low end Android phones definitely replaced a lot of Symbian phones in the marketplace. It would certainly explain the timing of the change.

>The idea that Apple is vulnerable to the low end is a relic of an idea.

Not seeing how this follows from the data and analysis and seems to be a rather bold claim. There is a real chance of smartphones getting commodotized and it has already happened to a certain extent in China and India, where local OEMs are calling the shots.

The reason it's not happening in the US to the same extent is that the carriers hide the true cost of the flagship phones into two year data contracts, unlike, say PCs. However, the contract free prepaid market is growing at a record pace [1] and we may see a real change in the marketplace if the trend continues. Is the upgrade to S4 or the 5s from the S3 or 4S worth $500?

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In my experience developing websites for clients, I've found the ones that ask for simplicity up-front (or ones I assume will need simplicity) end up requiring other more complex features down the line, making WordPress a great choice to start with and then expand into without much rework.
How so? Not that I doubt you, or don't have some idea of the distinction (I've done a bit of both, myself) -- I'd just be curious as to how you'd articulated it.
Completely unscientific test: if I load the following website in Firefox 24 (on Windows 8), the page scrolls very sluggishly (as it did in previous Firefox versions). The same page scrolls fine in Chrome. I don't know what is causing the difference. Is it the images? Or something else? For info, Firefox is my main web browser and I have never switched to Chrome (nor do I intend to).

Warning - the website is ridiculously image heavy (it's a gallery of Android app screenshots)

http://androidniceties.tumblr.com/
Hey, cool! Nice to get an attribution – is it OK if I add the citation to the post? Anything else you remember about it?
Just wanted to say: you've got yourself a pretty amazing promo video for Barley. Love the quote, song, style, everything really.
I can tell you after listening to one of his talks and talking to him afterwards: Reg is indeed a great guy! It is a good thing that JavaScript lured him from the Ruby world (bad for them I suppose).
Huh? Of course there is such a "crowd". Who do you think can be a journalist in this country? You need, at the minimum, a college degree. Since it is a rather popular field, you will need to do an internship for no or minimal pay (this pretty much disqualifies anyone without significant parental suppot).
And to get any of the previously mentioned qualifications, it will help enormously if you have been socialized/grown up in an environment that 1) speaks the correct dialect and 2) fosters interest in things like politics.

And then, of course, lots of publications have deeply ingrained political (even social) leanings that they more or less openly display; if you want to get a job there, you better share the mindset.
If you see one video of aliens visiting Central Park^, then you can probably be sure that it is fake. If twitter is suddenly flooded with reports about aliens in Central Park^, and dozens to hundreds of people all upload different cellphone videos of it, then something just might actually be happening.

There is still potential for mass-fraud, but repeated seemingly uncoordinated reports improves credibility. Maybe they're all Photoshopping the same thing from different angles, but that is less likely than a single person doing it.

^ I mean come on, if you were an alien, where would you go first? I'd totally go to New York. Here is another rule of thumb: if the aliens are doing something boring, like stealing cows or fucking with corn fields, they probably aren't real.
He flies drones in the office.
The most useful visualization of the thread.
Why?

Because the shutdown is political theater.

Hundreds of billions of dollars of contracts are still valid. Money that is being wasted on [name your least favorite gov't spending program] is not affected one iota.

Instead, the "little people" will be made to suffer so one party or another can score political points. These "little people" are both the designated non-essential personnel, and end-users of government sites and services like you and me.

That's why the President can take multi-million dollar vacations, but White House tours are cancelled. Embassies are staying open and the Secretary of State's trip to Asia is still on, but national parks are closed and NASA operations are all but dead.

Billions of dollars are still being wasted. The people in power will not only continue to be in power, but they'll collect a paycheck for this period.

This is a farce.
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Californians have this one covered.
Thanks! Some browsers render the cursor according to line height. Will ad shift-tab, the rest would need a proper line based editor, kept it simple for the first round of feedback. Same unfortunately goes for offline access, where conflicts are the challenge.
You can classify tasks on two scales - important vs trivial; and urgent vs postponable. This legal definition is about the second one; valuable tasks that aren't urgent are "non-essential", but a guard at the entrance of some useless warehouse is "essential".
I know right? I guess "interplanetary" still mean only US citizens even if you are highly qualified.
You could create plugins for existing editors like Vim, Emacs or Sublime Text 2. This way the users would feel home but with the semantic search service helping them.
You can check out code samples in a bunch of different languages here: http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/

Funny note: That site and code has been around since the early Actionscript 2 days, and I went to hunt it down as a reply to ledneb. It looks like easing.net might actually be by the same guy ;)
Obligatory XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/1235/
I mean a loosely defined aggregation of people who work in freelance writing, journalism, and content strategy who tend to be born into middle-to-upper class homes, are generally socially successful at high school and (often liberal-arts) college. They typically come from non-technical majors such as English Literature, "Communication", etc. Is there really no such group that comes to your mind?

Alternately, let me put it this way. Is there anyone on HN who has a job at NYMag?
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Good question, I have to check with HR.
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On release, people were saying it was unhackable. Molds were made that faked it within a week. You really want to bet that no one will make this work? With a target this high profile?

My 5 year old son was quite literally dusting for fingerprints at the local science museum last weekend. We have some shockingly high fidelity prints of both our thumbs showing all the ridges. And all we had to do was squeeze a piece of plastic. Fingerprints have even less identifying detail than faces. You've been hoodwinked by Apple's marketing, and I'm willing to bet this isn't the first time.
Consider Perch.

http://grabaperch.com/
I would actually think that on the whole this reduces the risk exposure for the data trove.
The reason this fills /me/ with unease is rather that it's all to compatible with cleaning out people from the organisations who might have conscientious objections what comes next.
Not the biggest fans of text safe search (too many false positives), but please excuse if anything was insulting.
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That is momentously bad science: X doesn't work due to the evidence, and to prove it, here's a paper on a different topic.
Oh, have them come to work but skip all their compensation until they pass a budget that includes it.
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It's much more than that. First of all, his "guesses" are based on extensive experience and a very deep knowledge of anatomy, pharmacology, etc. Second, whenever he comes up with a hypothesis, he always orders tests to confirm whether he was right (but sometimes, the only available test is to try something on the patient and see what happens). And he's a big fan of Occam's Razor (there's even an episode by that name in the first season, I think), always looking for the simplest hypothesis that will explain the largest number of symptoms. All of these things apply to debugging too.
> Why can't you? It's not like you have to quit your current job to find a better one.

Finding a job I love would require me to change my career and–in the best case–would most certainly offer a starting salary that's far less than I need, given my current financial responsibilities (e.g., my family and $130K in private student loan debt).

Furthermore, I would most likely have to earn another Bachelor's degree.

See where this is going...?
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> "Giant squid citings however are rare."

That's missing my question. Colossal squid sightings are rare, but "sea monsters" are sighted everywhere, all the time. And if we're expected to roll up the large bipeds (bigfoot, yeti, skunk ape, letiche, et al -- many of which with very distinct reported features) shouldn't we have rolled up "sea monsters" and dismissed the colossal squid until (almost literally) someone dropped it onto our faces? Granted, that isn't far from what happened, but shouldn't we have learned from that experience, rather than seek to codify the logic?

> "we've actually had credible physical evidence of giant squid for quite some time."

Accounts, but a dearth of specimen. Should someone discover the Orang Pendak tomorrow, surely hindsight will declare credible the records of the early 20th century dutch colonists. But as of this moment, it's far from generally accepted that these creatures exist, let alone that those accounts are actually credible.

And the logic of this article is literally arguing that we ought to weigh the likelihood of Orange Pendak, based on whether other creatures on other continents, that just happen to be roughly the same shape, have any credible evidence.
I have to say, at first glance this might feel like spec work, but it really isn't.

This isn't any different from what developers and all the other people put in to building and maintaining open-source projects such as this.

And especially being a developer myself, I believe that a lot of open-source projects can really use some love when it comes to visual design and UX, even big well known projects like Gimp can use some of that love.

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It's amazing. I currently use AIWriter and it's not available on web.

Hiro meets all my expectations. Great work. Thanks!
"Yes, it would, but that's not a very popular definition of science these days. If it were, psychiatrists and psychologists would be immediately excluded -- they make plenty of predictions, but the predictions don't work out."

It is a popular definition of science in some circles for exactly that reason. Psychoanalysis in particular is heavily criticized for this.
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Haha, well, I'm having to figure out more government mandates, procedures, etc. to abide by now, so as it stands currently, more.
Mr Lazaridis and the ridiculous dual-CEO structure are significant contributors to the failure of Blackberry. I have friends there and not one believed that he would be as prescient as saying "If that thing catches on, we’re competing with a Mac, not a Nokia".