skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is highly likely that this story is false.

https://twitter.com/steveliesman/status/402915551204638720
I would prefer government to spend money on feeding people, rather than killing them. For that reason, I don't think people should be ashamed of taking food stamps, they may be indirectly saving others by doing so, since money spent feeding them is money not spent on military.
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.84315 s, 279 MB/s

I was expecting it too be faster, actually. I get over 300 MB/s on a VPS with HDD at the company I work at. [1]

[1] https://true.nl
Running flash is a terrible security risk.

I won't disagree, but this is bobdylan.com and not free-videos-online.ru. Risk of a zero-day Flash Player exploit hosted from there is probably acceptable for most people who walk outdoors.
You'd be amazed at the variety of compounds you can pay to have synthesized.
You have downvote arrows?
I never said or implied any of that. I don't think you understood anything I said.

Firstly, I out lined a scenario where one didn't know the piece was an advert, and later discovered it was.

Second, I never said or implied an advert was to give pleasure.

If you want to call me naive, I then have to suggest you may be illiterate, or a at best imaginative.
And look at the tiny quantity of lithium involved. What could we do with, say, half-a-liter of powdered lithium?

I should shut up now. I'm probably already on an NSA watchlist for the search term I used to find that site.
That's pretty much it. The linguists just gave it a fancy technical name.

I wouldn't worry too much - this is just a fad.

People get bored and do weird things.
I use CSS to rotate the upvote arrow into a downvote arrow. Is it possible your browser doesn't support:

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You're exactly right. This is just leaving out the "of". The article interprets this to mean that the word "because" has become a new preposition used in place of the proposition "of". Another interpretation is that "because" retains its grammatical usage but a new sentence structure has become acceptable. I personally interpret it the second way. Each domain has its own grammatical structure.
It means sleep was the cause of lunch being missed. No more details are provided or implied. Off the record, one could guess that the speaker didn't want to remark on oversleeping due to the negative connotations, and is instead leaving the answer vague in the hopes of don't-ask-don't-tell. Depending on the audience, this may also be exactly enough information to be unambiguous with the fewest number of words; a friend may have had prior experiences that set the default interpretation and context of mid-day sleep.

TL;DR: Don't mistake dumb for compression.
From this language, it might not be released yet:

https://twitter.com/TrevMcKendrick/status/400348753670197248

This is the first I'm hearing about it, and I'm looking forward to it too. Trevor's blog is great.
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Have you earned your equity just because you put in the time, or have you earned it when you get to the finish line (when the stock is able to be traded for actual $)?

These tension between these two points of view is the source of the consternation in this area.
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Sounds like we could lean on the OLPC guys for that a little bit, at least in the research stages.

Kickstarter+Watsi+OLPC+Kiva = ?
Not a linguist, but wouldn't this fall under "pithiness"? I think generic brevity and succinctness would also describe this adequately.
To be honest, I would love to play a game out of this.
They could show the natural ones for the result of that search in India. (Perhaps that particular search results in no ads anyway? Who knows.)
I first released the game in 2010. There was originally only one small area to run around in, and it was running off my DSL line, so it could only support 5-10 players. Also, the client was only available as a Java applet. Websockets made it possible to create a Javascript client. There is also a mobile version available which includes controls for touch.
It seems that they mainly offer DNS and email hosting. A non-US DNS provider has benefits for controversial sites where you fear the US government will intimidate US-based providers into shutting the site down, but I don't understand how a DNS provider can be "NSA-free" for what is primarily a publicly-accessible service. Likewise with email, the Internet uses plaintext SMTP for email transactions, so it seems that most of your protection would come from using something like PGP, not from your ISP.
Just like Zimbabwe in the good old days of 2008, "updating" prices constantly would have deleterious effects on purchasing by normal people.

When prices in some system have to be updated constantly to reflect another metric (say, USD), it may be more efficient to just use that other metric in the price. This is what happened in Zimbabwe.
Maybe it's just me, but the "prepositional because" is usually deprecative of the subject. The article details the implications of the prepositional because:

"It conveys focus... It conveys brevity... But it also conveys a certain universality."

People use it when they're busy, drunk, or absent-minded to be self-deprecative. As in:

"Maxed out my credit card because too much beer!"

But people also use it to disparage someone else:

"Uptown a*&%$# voted against prop B because racism."

The article briefly hints at this when it says, "So we get comments like these, with people using 'because' not just to explain, but also to criticize, and sensationalize, and ironize...".

In fact, I'm having a hard time coming up with an example of a "because X" clause that has complimentary implications.

However, it's possible that the implications of this preposition has softened recently and I'm out of the loop. Or maybe I'm just overthinking it.

EDIT: Maybe it's just me but "because bacon" and "because awesome" do not imply that the subject of the sentence is a person with qualities worth aspiring to. Not that bacon isn't awesome.
Still doesn't make them a hater, at least not from the way I would use the term. A "doubter" maybe. By your definition all the Dragons Den are haters, because they say no way?

Regardless, i'm sure if you looked through anybody's comments in HN (including your own) then there is bound to be one that dismisses the next best thing as "no way this will work". Difference here, it's on a post with only 2 comments. If this had made it to the frontpage of HN then that comment would have been buried so deep no one would have batted an eye-lid.
I plan on setting up a vps at Gandi [0] shortly. Based on what I've heard they seem decent (not only as a domain registrar).

[0] https://www.gandi.net/hosting/iaas/buy
You're right - putting more emphasis on tools beyond Scratch and Codeacademy would be cool. And regarding the marketing I personally appreciate it. It's clearly prepared for nonhackerish people and does the job well - creates the feeling of accessibility and encouragement. That's something the tech world lacks generally (and often is proud of). Kano reminds me somehow what Apple did with iphone - bringing simple, easy solution that ordinary people love. And they were also criticized by pundits at the beginning.
accompanying HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6420546
Use something like Ansible (Puppet, Salt, Chef, whatever) to provision your servers, along with backups. You can also use DO disk images but they're not as good a solution; my Ansible playbooks will let me configure and deploy a fully functioning app or db server instance at the drop of a hat, on almost any infrastructure; a DO image is only good for deploying onto DO infrastructure.

If you're "in the cloud" (or hell, even if you're using your own bare iron servers), you need to be accepting that your server could just go away at any time (and Murphy's Law being what it is, probably at the worst possible time).

The real trick is figuring out how to handle backups and user data properly. It's easy to say "you need to plan for your main DB server going poof"; it's harder to actually make sure you can handle that without downtime and loss of user data. :)
Do you see any ads if you search for oldest sweet shop near mochi gate lahore? I don't.

I also don't get any if I search for nipplegate, for example.

You see, those ads depend on the used search terms. If no one bids on those words, you won't see any ads.
"'We have no reason to believe that there was a systematic manipulation of the data described in media reports,' the Census Bureau said today...

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Census Bureau, announced it will open an inquiry into the matter...

Jack Welch, the former chief executive officer of General Electric Co. who charged in October 2012 that the unemployment report had been manipulated to help President Barack Obama’s re-election effort, declined through his assistant to comment on the latest allegations."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-19/labor-department-sa...
51 FPS on new Macbook Pro Retina

It's gorgeous... reminds me of the good old "visualization" days of Winamp and MusicMatch
There are plenty of pricing cheat sheets out there, but we couldn't find a tool that would let us compare cloud providers while taking one-year or three-year EC2 reservations into account, or answer questions like "who has the best price per GB of RAM", so we built this. We'd love feedback -- what can we do to make this more useful?

For more discussion and some interesting results, check out http://blog.scalyr.com/2013/11/11/cloud-cost-calculator/.
The added inference I get is "that's just the way it is."

"Because politics" is like saying "because politics are just crazy like that."

It's a flippant way of saying something is simply absurd. Or an issue is pretty much binary.
One option is reverse vesting- there are no tax hits, and the company gets money upfront.
I've essentially left off contributing to SO because of the moderators/questions police.

I vastly prefer basically any other format (yes, even phpBB) to SO because of the mod squads.
Great article, because journalism.
I thought this was a good article until I re-read it to cite all the sources.

It cites a single blog post by one linguist and twitter and image macros.

That hardly constitutes linguists. It hardly constitutes linguist. This feature was longer than the original post.
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Hey John,

For sure it's a pain in the ass and we've been discussing another verification methods, as I'm sure you can imagine, with adding 100s of accounts a day we need to make sure the public internet and our internal networks are relatively protected from someone spinning up vms for DDoS but also from compromised boxes and accounts.

If we publicly revealed how to trigger our verification process (that genuinely does a good job of protecting our network and customers) I'd imagine people would work to figure out ways to circumvent it. Occasionally we trigger a false positive, but I really believe that it's important to have this system in place.

I appreciate your feedback, and I'll make sure your comments get discussed at our next product meeting.
There are people who write about stuff neutrally as part of their job as an expert in that area. Hence, we usually take care to distinguish "paid editing" from "paid advocacy".
It means the nature of sleep necessitates the skipping of lunch. This isn't actually true however, as we are all well aware. Sleep and lunch are not at odds with one another.

It's a poor use of the new word, as you've demonstrated. It doesn't mean the new word is therefore universally unclear.

But of course we're going to get into a pedantic and possibly violent argument over such a small and insignificant part of both our lives, because Internet.
I've been using the YouTube5 Safari extension. I find it a lot nicer than the flash player. Scrubbing actually works, you can expand a video to its native resolution, and fullscreen works better.
I'm glad Im not the only one that feels this way. The SE sites have become very fragmented and are extremely/over moderated. The combination of those two things makes it unwelcoming to participate these days.
That's one aspect to it. The article summarizes it well at the end:

> "It means something like 'I'm so busy being totally absorbed by X that I don’t need to explain further, and you should know about this because it's a completely valid incredibly important thing to be doing'"

Because brevity and wit.
I tried an empty string with no luck (had to enable the form button first).

EDIT: Not sure what you meant anyway, I don't see a pg on the top 100 list...
How are you pulling original data out of a lossy compression method?
Thanks, it's up now.
It would be interesting to see Rust bindings for coreboot's libfirmware.
While you may be kidding, such a thing with a drive by upload to a local wifi network might be possible (no opinion on practical) but basically a camera, gps module, altimiter, and wifi link. Put feeding stations on Starbucks or near other free WiFi hotspots that dispense seed if the leg unit uploads a picture.
Basically, if a third party hasn't created an article about you then you're probably not famous enough yet ;-)

The typical self-written company page gets people like me putting an {{advert}} tag on it.
I dont think Google is lying in this particular case. There are no ads what so ever for that search when I tried it out.
> this isn't caused by laziness or carelessness

Some of this might be caused by increased use of smartphones for posting on the Facebook, tweeting, and texting. I'm not sure laziness is the right word, but conservation of characters is certainly a goal.

As far as laziness, I'll disagree with you. Hardly ever is a "because X" clause well thought out or witty. I think it's safe to assume there is some serious mental laziness happening when you see a "prepositional because" being used.
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I will eventually, yes but I only just bought a PS3 and have quite a large catalogue of games that I still want to play on PS3 and Xbox 360, even though I've had the 360 for 4/5 years!

I've always been a gamer and even though I have a wife, 2 year old son and another baby on the way I can still find time to play.
> made it simple and beautiful

Which product has been simplified? Presumably not a pencil :P
I think people should, in fact, prioritize e. coli over NSA overreach. Worrying about being spied on is the sort of high-end top-of-the-Maslow-hierarchy luxury you can indulge in after you have reliable access to good food and such.

That's not to say that I don't think it's serious. But food safety is much more fundamental.

No, decisions will not be made based purely on death toll. But we must demand some sort of rational basis, and when it comes to terrorism, there is none.
I've always liked this story of Mozilla (a name for the dino):

http://www.davetitus.com/mozilla/
Although it looks cool... for my tablet... It doesn't bring the collaboration I still seek. I often work remote and do screen sharing of my laptop. I have a wacom tablet that allows me to draw on my computer screen which is then being shared to my team. It would be great if I could use my existing iPad and something cool like pencil to do my drawing and have it display on my computer so my remote team can see it.
My suspicion is that this evolved from the phrase "because f-ck you, that's why", which is pretty old (~5-10 years).

Edit: Oldest usage, as found by google:

http://www.dkvine.com/games/dkl3/ (2001), line 807 in the source; this is probably not the first usage in all of english.
Because that would create an endless stream of negative blog posts as the bleeding edge changes and breaks these people's software. It doesn't matter if they should have known better, it's still negative press, I wouldn't do it if I were DO.
Galaxies would require coupling of the particles, interactions through gravity... this would kill the efficiency of the solver. N-Particle simulations are always O(N^2) (or more).
Since a few weeks, I see the same problem in IE10/Win7.

It's ok in Chrome/Win7

See: http://imgur.com/Pe2yKe6
>Yes, but backlinks don't just come from marketing, which you seem to be presuming.

I'm not presuming that. If someone finds a piece of great content via organic search on page 10,000 of the SERPS and then links it, great. That's possible and I haven't precluded the possibility. I'm saying it's incredibly unlikely and rarely happens in reality.

You are technically correct that given an infinite span of time a blogger who puts no effort into obtaining links will eventually get linked to via users who hit from page 10k of the SERPs. For our purposes as humans who have finite and short lifespans I am not satisfied giving any weight to the presupposition of an infinite timespan. So I reject your argument and state that the vast majority of first backlinks come from marketing, including stuff like telling your friends on twitter that you wrote a blog post, which is marketing.

>tons of tons of blogs get the majority of their traffic from Google with no marketing from the blog owner.

In practice this rarely if ever happens. Show me a successful blogger who doesn't submit her posts to the aggregators, linkbait from forums, share posts on Facebook, do guest blog posts on other blogs, etc. first, before there is a loyal following to do the submitting themselves.

SEO and marketing precedes organic growth, always. And probably a lot of what you're terming "organic growth" falls under the umbrella of SEO and marketing.

>Good content will wind up on sites like this or reddit and backlinks will follow.

Once blogs pick up steam this indeed becomes a thing. Before blogs pick up steam it is generally the author or a marketing agency doing the submitting, e.g. marketing.

>Google's job is to find and display good content to their users

Based on a definition of good that Google has defined in a very precise way. Have you read The Paper? G draws the conclusion from a healthy backlink profile that since other people believe the content to be good enough to link to it is probably good. Hence the disproportionate weight placed on backlink profiles in ranking algorithms vis-a-vis other factors. Backlinks in themselves are a measure of good content according to Google.

>Good content is the key ingredient, not SEO and marketing

Only insofar as if you market a turd, it won't pick up steam. SEO is nothing more than following the rules to get indexed. If you don't follow the rules, you won't get indexed, and likely won't see organic growth from search. The rules state that in order to rank higher, you need backlinks. The backlinks preclude the higher ranking and thus as a logical necessity the growth.

>Backlinks are but one of many factors involved in ranking, and their goal is finding good content, not finding the most linked content.

For Google, finding the most linked content (combined with assessment of the link profile, e.g. good vs bad neighborhoods etc.) is a means to finding good content. Google cannot assess what makes content good without assessing the backlink profile heavily, because the entire philosophy driving the SERPs is that good = linked to.
I am a long time SEO. I do a lot less consulting than I used to because truthfully I can make more money SEOing my own content than what most companies would pay me.

Commodity SEO outsourced to India hurt the reputation of the industry. The Pump and Dump link building made people stop trusting SEO. With good reason in general, but the companies like mine that offered good results based on things like helping companies construct quality pages that worked for the bots and the humans alike suffered.

But I can tell you SEO isn't dead. Not even close. We are all just too busy to mess with telling all the Social Media Experts how to rank, because they don't invite us to their parties.
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Agree. My (one and only) experience with using Stack Overflow for Facebook questions was not especially positive, and after having my motives impugned and my question derided as purposeless I just deleted it. (No point arguing with the police.) Sadly this was not the first time I'd had this experience on SO, even if it was my first time using it as any kind of official-looking support channel, and I would therefore look askance at any organisation using SO proper for their support.

On the other hand, I've noticed a couple of companies using their own Stack Overflow install for their support forums, and I'm sure that could work pretty well. It's not a question of the software, just whether or not the community is right, really. SO's has ended up with too many volunteer bureaucrats, I think, and to make things worse there's even a meta site where they can gather and make up more rules for people to follow. You say organised, I say ossified... well, let's call the whole thing off. I stopped posting on SO after my last experience.

I don't expect anybody to care about one person leaving (and nor should they!) but if enough individual people leave, then I guess eventually nobody will be left.
This is a marketing problem.

For marketing purposes, Teslas must be perceived to as safe, if not safer in every respect than gasoline cars. So if they're more likely to catch fire when they hit road debris, that's a problem.
Yeah, I second this. When I was at Square (a year ago), we knew the banks' APIs would allow "refunds" of arbitrary amounts, but it was a sort of "gee, isn't that odd" piece of information - it certainly didn't occur to me that it would be reliable enough to replace ACH. I'm super-curious about who made the call to use it this way.
That is a well written demand letter. It is reasonably cordial in tone but it is firm and leaves no doubt what the "public relations" company is expected to do and why. My only thought, as a Wikipedian, is WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG? This kind of abuse of Wikipedia's reputation by violating Wikipedia's terms of service has been going on for years, and even if this group of paid meatpuppets is driven from the site, there are still thousands of articles on Wikipedia that are edited for personal advantage by people who desire to publicize their products or services. I basically can't count on any article about a psychological or genetic test on Wikipedia to be neutral, for example, because people are in the business of publishing or distributing those tests, and other people are in the business of administering them. To date, there are still far too few Wikipedia articles that are based on neutral sources such as graduate-level textbooks (preferably used in combination, to detect any bias that might be in one or another of those) and long-form journalism.

The only Wikipedia article I can recommend (barely) so far is one I have done a lot to edit.[1] It still needs a lot of work, as does just about every other one of the 4,381,166 articles on English Wikipedia. Editing every Wikipedia article to that standard takes a lot of work, and most people don't like to do that much work as volunteers without getting paid, but would rather edit to promote their hobby or their pet cause, or edit to promote their business.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification
If we really want to get on the conspiracy train. Perhaps Goggle turned off ads for that specific search phrase.