skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding of the feature is that you can focus on a specific syntactical category and dim everything else out while you edit. This will let you focus solely on adverb use (for example) and make changes accordingly.

Phraseology 2 has a similar feature but with highlights instead of dims. Also more than one word class can be selected at once. https://twitter.com/phraseologyapp/status/413825814145556480...

It's one for the lawyers I suppose. As far as I see it the only reason that I would buy writer pro is for the syntax control (and I want it). If an app came out with the feature for less money I would probably buy the cheaper version.

I think it's fair enough that they have attempted to file a patent here. Their business model relies on having no one compete with them on this feature.

That said, I think they could have handled the announcements with a little more grace. Maybe it's just the adrenaline of launching a 4 year long project?
Did you even read the article? It's not about "information architects" in general, it's about the company Information Architects (iA).
Is pretty simple really.

Nothern Ireland is a part of the UK. So it definitely did not seceed from the UK.

The Republic of Ireland, is a seperate country with completely different government and currency, that used to be part of the UK but isn't any more, so it has definitely seceeded.

That county in Iowa, it is actually still part of the USA and has not managed to separate itself either legally, economically, or through force of arms. It is clearly not a separate sovereign nation. It has not seceeded from the USA.
Me to OP: what's on?
That sounds exactly like disagreeing with the patent system in principle.
Yea so much for the inevitable 'it's a bubble' arguments. Stocks like Facebook, Linkedin, Zillow, and Trulia that the pundits called 'obvious' bubbles are trading 50% or higher than their IPO price. This throws more water on Garry Shiller's argument that bubbles can be predicted or that betting against 'obvious' bubbles is profitable. Only in hindsight can we proclaim something a bubble. Even if an overvalued stock does fall you can still lose all your money shorting if you get a margin call, because the price can rise much longer than you can remain solvent as attributed to John Maynard Keynes.

Personally, I'm long Twitter by selling covered calls. Pretty much if Twitter stock stays above $70 I will make $10k by the end of January.
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The Matrix, released in 1999, is 14 years old.
Where'd I say "let's punish them"? I'm just accurately labeling the situation.

Google's dominant position constitutes a 'monopoly' and 'monopoly market power', in a common understanding of those words, and in the senses often used by economists and regulators. Their search market has very high 'barriers to entry', in terms of costs-to-compete, ability-to-reach-customers, returns-to-scale, and network-effects. (Separate from all the specific things I mentioned which make it extremely hard for entrants to get a foothold, you can also just look at the profits. Whenever there are big profits, there are business 'moats', or else someone else would grab a bunch of those profits themselves.)

This makes them a likely target of government antitrust action – an observation which is true whether or not such antitrust laws, and related enforcement actions, are a good idea or not. Again, I'm interested in accurately describing what exists, not making moral or policy judgements.

Qwiki? Really? They never offered ranked search, abandoned their 'visual explainer' product long ago, and are now part of Yahoo with their multimedia storytelling app.

DDG, Blekko, and all search sites other than Google/Bing/Yahoo/Aol/Ask are together less than 0.3%-1% of the US market. And yet this market is wildly profitable for Google – and almost no one else. (Bing, the distant 2nd-place, has lost hundreds of millions every quarter since 2007.) That's not an indication of vibrant easy-entry competition: one company dominates market-share and profits, and the number of competitors and new entrants have been declining over time.

By the way, the founder of your 'compete easily' example Blekko also disagrees with your assessment, and has since the outset of Blekko. In this 2007 post he describes how it's impossible to compete for market share head-on with Google due to its "immense and amazing power" in a "winner-take-all market":

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/01/winnertakeall_google_and_the_...
I can't help but feel that this will turn out the same way as how HTML5 is used on mobile phones for native apps right now, where your app ends up not looking native to any of the devices, despite the benefit of one code base for the app.
English is not my native language. I can agree I sometimes write in a rather "pompous" manner but it's not my intention.
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Seems like this can only be good for consumers.
I don't blame you. The title is misleading. I didn't even know about this company until I read the article...
I do have an issue with this line "Ultimately, infinitesimals were discredited and discarded by mathematicians (though they continued to be mentioned in some physics books many decades later)"

Infinitesimals have been made rigorous with modern mathematics.
JetBrains JetPad Projectional Editing Framework
No public speaking required - demos can be code, writing, or whatever mediums you are comfortable with.

The idea is influenced by various stories I have heard over the years about Valve, Pixar, and Apple. Not sure if any company currently implements such a system.
There's far more harm to be found in the article.

For one thing, Snowden wasn't a "CIA agent". He was a contractor working for the NSA. There is NO evidence he ever "worked" for the CIA or the NSA directly. All of his work was via third-parties.

In journalism, the facts are what come first. If this author can't be bothered to confirm basic facts about Snowden, then we are left with little choice but to disregard the rest of the article as poorly researched.
"First of all, writing in JavaScript doesn't make the app easier to clone"

Yep, shipping the source code for your entire application IN the application doesn't make it any easier to clone. Somebody better tell that to the Phonegap users who are dealing with knockoffs:

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/02/17/ripoff-apps-plague-some-ios-d...
I'm saying I've never gotten a traffic ticket from LAPD. In my experience traffic enforcement is pretty lax in Los Angeles.
a real number is "a point on the number line"

These posts are always stimulating.

My understanding of a line is that it is delimited by two points, but does not contain any points. To elaborate, no point could be "on" a line because a point has no extension, whereas a line does. This is the crux of the matter. Therefore a line is not "made up of" points. (By analogy a plane could not be made up of lines.) This begs the question, what are lines made up of? Are they made up of anything? Is a point really where two (or more) lines would intersect if they could intersect. Is this what is meant by a Dedekind cut?
This is why Santa Monica and Venice are much closer to the startup center of gravity than Los Angeles proper is. My parents have been visiting here (Santa Monica) for Christmas and it has been very easy to do everything without having a car. The neighborhoods along the coast are very walkable, and when you infrequently need to change locales there's always Über. I only have a motorcycle to commute a few miles to Century City, but on the weekends it stays parked and pedestrian transport reigns. Googlers are even luckier with their Venice office, it's smack dab in the middle of a thriving pedestrian neighborhood.
Astronomers Discover New Kind of Gamma-Ray Burst
And as a spur to kick scientists in their own rear, I'd also link to their own lab websites. It might be a bit of a shit-show at first, but we/they really need to get with the times, and this is a good place to start.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths#Bitcoin_is_backed_by_proces...

What backs the US dollar? Sure, you've got FDIC insurance and all of that, but it isn't backed by anything in the sense that many people are thinking.
Majority of users (almost 75%) today are on 4+ versions (http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html) which was released 2 years ago. Are you developing next facebook?
I agree that it would have been better to put more of the burden of the housing bust on bondholders. However, Ireland has benefitted tremendously from Europe over the past decades.

It has received tens of billions in direct financial aid (and I don't mean the loans that were part of the current bailout). Its European neighbors have tolerated Irish tax policies that have put Ireland squarely at the center of the most fanciful tax evasion schemes used by both European and US corporations.

But it hasn't just been shell companies and tax evasion that has made Ireland rich. There's also genuine success that wouldn't have been possible if Ireland hadn't become a gateway into the EU for US corporations like Google.

So before choosing a path that was possible for tiny Iceland, Ireland did have to ask itself whether a move that could have destabilized the global financial system and threatened the existence of the EU was consistent with the solidarity it owes to those who have supported it in the past.

Ireland made the right choice at the time, but I also think that as things stabalize, it would be a good idea to renegotiate some of the bailout terms. After all, some of the foreign counter parties that were effectively bailed out by the Irish government benefitted greatly from the Irish housing boom while it lasted.
This thread is making me seriously concerned. Do this many people just not know basic traffic laws?
I think we could have a good discussion around a lot of the issues you raise here, but I want to just focus on what I think is the most worth talking about.

> and especially the deduction from A is A to objectivism being true

This is a very understandable, but major, misconception. Very understandable because Atlas Shrugged is a novel, not a formal philosophy treatise, so how would you know any better? (Without spending a crap ton of time studying other Objectivist literature, that is, like I did.) Major because Objectivism is induced from reality, not deduced.

For instance, take ethics. The Objectivist ethics looks at the nature of man and then figures out what man needs to have a happy life. Well, how do we know about the nature of man? We don't deduce it from A is A; that would be impossible. Rather, we look at lots and lots of examples of men and determine what is always common vs. what differs from one to the next.

Almost everything in Rand's philosophy is very bottom-up, based on looking at tons and tons of examples out there in reality and then forming a generalization that holds in a specific, delimited context. But that isn't evident from her writing, at least not at first. And our whole intellectual culture today is very top-down. So it's easy to think the Rand is a top-down thinker and not a bottom-up thinker.

By "bottom-up" I mean starting with concretes in reality. "Top-down" is starting from intellectual abstractions, like A is A, or God, or "a society is only as morally good as its worst-off member," or the libertarian non-aggression principle, or "from each according to his ability," and so on.
It really depends on the size of the project. Having used CodeIgniter for a few projects, and Spring extensively for 2-3 years, there were projects where I really appreciated CodeIgniter - basically self-contained CRUD apps with a bit of originality layered on top - but other times where the CI approach would have led to a lot of pain, as in multi-layered applications that relied on legacy integrations.

I don't think it's unreasonable to prefer the simpler projects that the smaller frameworks are a good fit for, of course! Sometimes though the project is big enough that something like Spring is going to save you time and headaches in the medium and long run.
One wonders if describing JS as a pidgin for mobile dev would be more accurate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin

"A pidgin is not the native language of any speech community, but is instead learned as a second language."
My problem with that argument is that it's like a yogi berrism: "no one wants that anymore: it's too valuable".

To the extent that a currency becomes unusable in trade (perhaps as you say too illiquid due to hoarding), then that bids down its value, thus counteracting whatever problems arise from having excess value.

Generally speaking, arguments that it will fail because "deflationary currencies fail" are saying that it will be worth so much that it will be worthless. Even in the often-cited examples of deflationary currencies causing problems, the currency itself did fine -- people were still willing to "buy" it on favorable terms; it's just that the associated economy did poorly.
There are portions of society that believe, sometimes with good cause, that bringing police into an interaction will result in a negative outcome for all involved, not just for the perpetrators.

That said, please stop perpetuating a strawman argument. You've taken the most extreme interpretation of the original statement, propped it up and vilified it. Considering all the possible ways you could have interpreted the statement, I think you are doing the writer a disservice.
Thanks for posting the link to the video. Just watched it, total of 1 hour - was really worth it for me. Increased a bit my love for JavaScript.
it makes the page less sluggish. it's impossible to disable double tap zoom without disabling pinch zoom, and while double tap is enabled, browsers have to insert a tap delay. this is because every single tsp could be the beginning of a double tap, so the browser waits until 300ms after a single tap to respond to it. this delay isn't perceptible as a delay, but it does make the entire page feel less responsive. disabling zooming disables the delay and makes the page feel quick again.

also disabling zooming makes it feel more like a native app, which some people like.
Override your user agent with Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html). You'll see that both a regular user and a google bot are getting served a 301. So I don't think it's cloaking by definition anymore. However if you go to:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

You'll see that you get redirected. But disable javascript in your dev tools, and you'll see that you no longer get redirected :)
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If you test small features, you get knocked for concentrating on microbenchmarks which don't have any real-world meaning. If you test whole applications or frameworks, you get criticised for benchmarking that rather than the language implementation.
As I understood from the original blog post, it identifies bad syntax more easily, enabling you to correct them. In programming terms, it would be a macro that finds code smells and lets you refactor easily. The example he gave was identifying excessive adjective use.

Imaging writing a 100+ page document and doing Menu > Syntax Control > Adjectives and seeing all the places where you use unnecessary adjectives. Or really long, run-on sentences. Or extra semicolons. These may be correct grammatically but they might lower readability so you want to minimize their use.

I could be wrong but I think this is what they meant by Syntax Control - ability to detect syntax use in English and not highlight/fading text color. If it is the former, I can absolutely see why it took four years to create.
I'm guessing you've never actually seen/heard any of the propaganda they hurl over the NK/SK dmz border via massive loudspeakers have you? It is pretty blatant indoctrination to a level we don't remotely come do in America.

The most "indoctrination" we do in America is perhaps having children in school recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag every morning.

I'm sorry, but America doesn't "brainwash" people remotely to this level:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2307937/North-Korea-...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/north-korea-death-ca...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4885931/north-...

If you think America does, you are mistaken. I'm not judging right or wrong, only that people often don't choose in their own best interests. Especially if their frame of reference is horribly skewed from blatant government brainwashing.
I agree. It would be truer to say that infinitesimals are studiously ignored by modern mainstream mathematicians because they feel that Dedekind and co. have put the calculus on a firm footing way back when.

Anybody with a small bit of curiosity or a dashing of non-conformity will be suspicious of this narrative.

If anything, infinitesimals in their various guises carry a certain explanatory heft, and are quite beguiling little creatures if you take the time to get to know them. I'd be happy to elaborate or leave a few links here if anybody is interested.
While I'm sure it's not the aim of this site, there is some small value in knowing what sort of performance you get with a naive, untweaked deployment.
I've been living in LA for a while now and one thing I've noticed is that the area commonly referred to as "LA" is huge and that things can vary considerably from one part of town to another.

The real "startup" hub in the Los Angeles area seems to be in Santa Monica, far from downtown LA, where the crackdown in the article seems to be taking place, and outside the jurisdiction of LAPD. It's home of many startups, near UCLA and home of at least one incubator (Mucker Lab).

I've worked in Santa Monica during my time here and it's surprisingly bike and pedestrian friendly (as are most of the beach cities). I don't currently work at a startup, but the my current employer has indoor bike rakes that are well used as did my previous (startup) employer. Startups chose this part of town over downtown LA, or other parts of town for many reasons, in spite of high rents for office space. They do so for many reasons, but I have a feeling that one is the ability for folks to get to work in a variety of ways, including on foot or by bike.
Screw you, bud.

Hindsight is always 20/20, especially when it involves obvious things that somehow nobody managed to combine in a certain very useful way before. You can slap a piece of fried squid on a bowl of risotto, but that doesn't make sushi an obvious derived work.
Why not buy phraseology 2 instead, if the features are so similar?
It's quite fashionable these days to hate xml configuration, and abandoning xml seems to be the way even Spring development is going (Java Config, spring-boot, etc). However, I've found some good points with it too. When you have less java code and more xml, it is often faster to come up to speed on a new spring project because the xml more quickly describes how the project is integrated - maintenance and tweaks can often be more straightforward. In contrast, Java code and annotations often feel friendlier for the actual process of developing.

I do think I prefer the java way more, because it's a bit easier to debug. But once I have some solid java code, I can be tempted to lift out 30 lines of code if it has an analogous 5 lines of xml config.
Ben Silbermann’s Lesson for Start-Ups: Go Your Own Way
End of the year tech deals
I thought it might be interesting to highlight tech deals available for the next week or so. You should probably disclose your affiliation with any provided link just to keep things honest.

I just bought a couple of hundred bucks of eBooks at $5 each, here:

http://www.packtpub.com/

Not affiliated in any way.
Well they made a mess of their desktop moving to Unity (in my opinion). Hopefully it works better on mobiles.
Kidding aside, I would be extremely unlikely to resort to a violent act in the case of a stolen wallet. If a_hole won't give it back, it's really not that big of a deal. Reprint photos of wife and kids, Visit ATM, Cancel some credit cards, register a hold with a credit bureau, and move on with your life.
> That's debatable given that both approaches have been around for about the same length of time with different outcomes in terms of adoption.

If unix had been created in LISP or ML, I believe we might be in the opposite position. Though that hinges on a LISP unix being as successful as the C one.
This Uruguayan had the opposite to say: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6905503
What happens when non-tech people discover web developer tools
I agree 100% with you. The best response is always to call the authorities. I really don't see the benefit of going toe to toe with a criminal.

Also, I'm shocked by the responses you are getting telling you that you are wrong. Do people really want to confront a criminal. I grew up in a ghetto in Brooklyn, NY, I'm Hispanic, and my family always calls the police.

Getting into an argument directly with someone has too many times ended with somebody in the hospital or the cementery.
How many are founded by Native Americans?
A comment response by the top poster [1] deserves a full read as well, for observations of behavior, motivations, and recidivism by others in the system. On the latter note, there is also this sobering paragraph:

...Here in Colorado we have what is called "mandatory parole" - which is probably not what you think it is. It does not mean that it is mandatory to release you early, it means that even if you are released after serving your entire sentence, you will be considered "on parole" and will have a parole officer assigned and live under the threat of being sent back to prison (even if you already served your entire sentence). Hence, you could do almost 15 years on a 10 year sentence because if you are released after doing the 10, you will still have to do 5 years of "parole" and could be sent back if you violate any of the terms of parole. In fact, nearly 40% of the intake into Colorado prisons is from "technical" parole violations, which are violations of parole conditions that are not felony crimes. This system has created a terrible sense of hopelessness among those caught up in it. My assessment (admittedly based on anecdotal data) is that Colorado parole officers think it is their duty to try and find reasons to violate a parolee and get them sent back to prison. They seem to go out of their way to make success difficult for a parolee, rather than just expect compliance with the law.

[1] http://www.quora.com/Prisons-and-Prison-Life/What-is-it-like...
That's really because web apps are just slow.

Intel mistakenly believe that they'll have an easier time by forcing ARM to compete at full speed, which is brilliantly ignorant of history. The very first ARM outperformed contemporary x86s at computation, and just happened to be low power, it's that they've been diverted off into low power as their reason for existing for 20 years.

ARM can, and will, redefine their instruction set dramatically to suit their needs at any time, so while the x86 world is stuck with x86 the mobile world has been through several major changes to the ARM ISA since just the original iPhone.

The Intel PR has persistently been saying "but our next one" for the last few years, and each time it's gone nowhere. They are merely performing the role of a stick device makers can hit ARM with to control prices though, but seem oblivious to this.
Oracle and affordable in the same sentence?

Sure Ellison, sure.
Ya, I did the user agent testing three weeks ago and got the same results I am getting today. I'm certainly not keeping close track of them, so maybe they did change something, but everything I see is 1:1 as it was when I first saw it. Perhaps they are detecting Googlebot via IP instead of user agent. I dunno.
I'm not perpetuating a strawman. The reason why there's a secondary justice system (normally in which the aggressors are the victors) is because people allow it to exist.
Appropriately, I think that was Terry Pratchett