skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Communication is ultimately an expression of an individual's inner attitude, and to call this a quirk of language is focusing too much on the actions without giving any thought as to the attitude that produces those actions.

If one has an internally confident, go-gettin', "always be closing" attitude, all of their actions and communication will flow from that. It's a much better use of energy to focus on cultivating a quiet confidence, rather than attempting to build up a collection of manipulative "power tricks" to be deployed in an inauthentic fashion.

Another thing to recognize is that people who are confident will pick up on the motives of these power tricks, because they'll sense an incongruity in character during communication. When someone who is typically timid and passive acts in an aggressive manner, it stands out like a nerd taking a swing at the jock. Even worse, confident people will push back to see if the user of said "power trick" is for real, which requires the next "power trick" to keep up the act.

So yeah, these might work on some people, but I personally intensely dislike it when I pick up on these things. Not that I'm the paragon of confidence by any means, but I actively rebel & push back when I feel like I'm being controlled/constrained or "should-ed" into doing something. What ultimately ends up happening with these "power tricks" is you have people like Dustin Curtis writing about how "you should do X", and then a ton of idiots mimicking the behavior and annoying the rest of us.
> But it can't stop people from referring to things however they please

Even if they send C&D notes over improper usage?
"I challenge you to find a public company with a similar policy. I have been around a long time, and I've never found one.
"

Google's policy was, for years, identical to this :)

(It is only slightly more onerous now, in that we ask to see the first few patches you contribute, mainly the result of too high a rate of unreasonable judgement generating actual issues, which I chalk up to statistics and having a really large number of engineers now)
For something to replace Skype, the respective users have to be convinced to move other to the Skype replacement of the month.

For my contacts list, I am sure it won't happen unless they are forced to move away.
No. I couldn't stand him so I just let his reputation in the community self-implode until he moved back to the east coast. Dick move? Probably but he really got on my nerves.
Yes, after reading the article I'm not sure how they correct for the stark differences between places. Are the quintiles done locally or nationally? If they're done locally, then people who migrate are a problem for the statistics: it's very easy to move from bottom quintile to top quintile, just move from Palo Alto to rural Oklahoma. Or by excluding people who migrate, perhaps there are skewed effects.

But if the quintiles are national quintiles, not local quintiles, variation due to location still throws things off. The group of people in the 3rd national quintile living in Silicon Valley probably have quite different statistics than the group of folks in the 3rd national quintile living in a mid-size town.
Latest Sites of Breaches in Security Are Hotels
Posting that kind of research is needlessly creepy.

People claiming to have gone though YC on HN without a known name will get called out. Hang around HN long enough and you'll know who is who.

quietly using partner/alumni investment as a signal for VCs doesn't quite fit the "Startups are a perfect meritocracy" narrative I'd prefer to believe...

What led you believe that? I'd guess startup investment is 90% social, 5% metrics and 5% technical. Witness, for example, the YC investment thesis of it being all about the team applying. Team dynamics aren't a meritocracy (except in the most broad sense I guess).
These aren't executives & owners riding the bus; they're employees. Do the protesters think the answer to income inequality is paying lower wages, that an increased load on the public transit and increased cars on the road is better than private shuttles?
Amidst Drought and Growing Population, Water Tech Quietly Emerges
As a personal preference, I prefer an emphasis on the headlines rather than the section headings like 'Articles'. Once I am familiar with the newsletter format I sort of sense when the section changes based on the headline. The new design seems to have muted the headline colours and makes it look appear less of a hyperlink than before.

I love the new logo and open layout (that previously used to spill out of the container in odd places, for me). Truly appreciate the hard work in keeping these regular updates.
One idea is it might not necessarily be either/or -- I'd suggest that you first release one version, whichever payment model your gut is pulling you toward. Wait until you have some data, maybe 4-6 months of sales history. If sales are gangbusters, maybe you'll feel that you've already got the right sales model. If you have a hunch that sales could be better and that a different sales model may be a major driver of additional revenue, you can release another version under the opposite payment model, and observe what happens to overall sales.

Personally I've preferred the Paid model. I have one app in the store, and the main driver of revenue increase has come from delivering updates which give more value to the user, and increasing the price accordingly (monthly revenue is up 8x on average since a major update & a price increase from 2.99 to 8.99). I haven't taken my own advice above yet, though I have built the IAP version -- I haven't released it yet because so far other experiments have been effective in increasing sales and less risky. I recall Marco Arment mentioned a major source of revenue increase for Instapaper was when he killed the free version. [1]

[1] http://www.marco.org/2011/04/28/removed-instapaper-free
Time does not stand still, and to assume that China will is foolish. With wealth comes power, and China's military will likely be unrecognizable in 30 years. To underestimate one's enemy is simply stupid.
Personally I only care about JavaScript and am looking forward to ES6.

I don't care about transpilers and still looking for a use case worthwhile for Dart.

Unless Google pushes it, for example as Android language, ChromeOS or whatever might be the language killer application.
The studies I've seen suggest that the poor are more likely to suffer from mental disorders than the rich. http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=21121... estimates that 20-54 year olds making <$20,000 per year are 1.8x more likely to have a mood disorder and 3.7x more likely to attempt suicide than those making >$70,000/year. There is evidence for a relationship in the longitudinal analysis as well, so it's not necessarily a matter of upbringing.
Daft: Generate Beautifully Rendered Probabilistic Graphical Models w/ Python
http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/gnu-radio/gnu-radio-blog/464...

I think this is what she was talking about? Note to self: buy one! :D
The government is so evil and incompetent that it should never be allowed to provide broadband, because it will do so with such low rates and great service that it will put cable companies out of business!

Did I get that right?
http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop
Disappointing: Twitter Gives In To IBM's Patent Shakedown
I'm pretty sure that isn't the case.

US car companies seem to operate under this model, but in the rest of the world the financing income is seen as a useful supplement to income from selling cars.

For example, Tata's increase in profitability last year is attributed to increases sales of Jaguar and Landrover cars[1], not profits from financial services.

[1] http://www.industryweek.com/finance/tata-motors-profit-soars...
http://burnerapp.com/
There is no need to hash it. Just ask each student to provide a unique identifier that only the student would recognize, then post the raw grades along with the identifiers.
They still have a ton of users, doing a ton of impressions, and they have a ton of money to keep investing in the ecosystem.
I'm not talking about a god damned laptop. I'm not talking about morality or "what I think the government should be doing". I'm talking about the eventual certainty that intellectual property "rights" will be unenforceable in the (possibly near) future based on current trends. Piracy is only going up. Thus, the privilege provided by the government I initially referenced will be taken away by superior technology.

If a government was smart they would embrace this early on and learn to adapt before other countries catch on. And I guess we also get the benefit of a better and more prosperous life earlier, but that's just my opinion. Let's not get into that.
What WebRTC Node.js server library are you using? SimpleWebRTC SinglaServer or something else? Does it support ICE, etc?
This is hardly a Skype replacement.

I'd be impressed when someone gets VOIP working on WebRTC. i.e. supporting SIP logins. I tried Doubango Telecom and it didn't work.
The page is basically unreadable because of the white text on the light image, but I actually stopped cold when I saw an "i.e." where an "e.g." should have been. If you can't get that right then I have to assume you don't care about details (code, design, output...) or you just don't know any better.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Why do you know her?
I'm confused, how does this work? There is no raised type on any of my cards whatsoever, how do you take an impression of a flat card?
> they tend to be commercial pilots that joined the Air Force part-time because flying an F22 is the pilot equivalent of driving a Ferrari.

It often goes the other way. Becoming a commercial airline pilot requires many hours in the cockpit. A great way to accomplish that is to become a USAF pilot. Your flight training is paid for (in fact, you get a salary to attend). You have a commitment (if you did ROTC it works out to 7-10 years total, flight training takes up the first part of that). Then you can get out, join the guard or reserve and work full-time for 6 figures, and part-time to earn a second retirement (a modest retirement, but gov't service is one of the few remaining sources for pensions).

EDIT: Also, a huge difference between heavies (commercial aircraft, cargo aircraft, refuelers, bombers) and fighters. They handle very differently, and pilots confusing the performance of one for the other can cause serious problems.
And these guys are YouTube founders - pretty sure exceptions can be made for them. Also, they deserve to be in the photograph considering the relevance.
PikMoments: Take candid photographs automatically. (an autophotographer)
Well the Sino Indian war is much more a testament to the sheer incompetency and spinelessness of the then prime minister of India. He was caught off guard with the blatant abuse of Indian trust by China. There were no clear directives and because of this reinforcements were too late. The Indian Air Force at that time was vastly superior to what China had but again the fear and incompetence of Nehru got the better of him and the nation.

My point is that war doesn't show a strength of Chinese army as much as it shows the gigantic fail on the Indian side.
Very nice tool, talk anonymously and in conference. But my IE 11 does not pop up the flash screen.
If only Chrome had a feature of warning you when a website exceeds a certain size - I'm on 500MB of data a month!
For everyone who's trying to say this was a waste of fuel please think about the purpose of test flights. In this instance they were testing a new freighter variant. How else do you expect to test and tune new aircraft/parts? Besides it's Boeings money to waste even if it was.
One of the reasons it is easy to throw a stone at a big white bus is because it dehumanizes it's occupants. This makes it easy for people to treat them differently.

The target is not the employees. The anger towards the city, which has failed to provide good public transportation for it's residents.

The tech companies recognized that the public transportation sucks and built their own. The protestors could just stand outside of city-hall, but disrupting tech-buses is a much louder and more effective message.
Google demotes Expedia in search results, and whoops, there goes Expedia's stock
YC partners can no longer fund startups’ first $500K
Google paying $25M to Adblock Plus (German)
We Need To Get More Comfortable With People Dying In Space
OpenHatch – Find open source projects to contribute to; find mentors
Dart is basically a modern Smalltalk looking for a market.
I am going to a group discussion tomorrow about first-refusal rights in the NFL and happened to do a brief naive analysis of extra point vs 2 point conversions earlier today. In brief, the EV of a 2 point conversion was .91 while an extra point was .99. That said, for every 19 extra point attempts there was only one two point conversion attempt. Frankly, I am all for variance so I am rooting for the more ambitious two-point attempt.
Malware Attacks to 45 Retailers
> There is surely some crank out there patrolling a SAC installation on horseback.

Well, that's a bit of an anachronism, as SAC hasn't existed since 1992.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command
Show HN: crowdsource your planning (social list)
What Felix Baumgartner Saw During His 128,000-Foot Space Jump
Wow. People on HN do a lot of cool things but that really blew me away. It all sounded so casual too.

This is real Hacker News.
The thing I love most about her work is it's witty, but to the point and I can always understand it.

I'm not a big fan of the tl;dr movement, but I also don't like dauntingly long blog posts. Nails it every time. Hats off!
There is some game theory involved. If everyone ALWAYS ran for two point conversions, the defense could just ignore the pass and put 11 in the box and stuff the run.

The its most likely that the optimal solution is a mixed strategy; you're going to need to mix it up to keep defenses honest.
Yes. The point is that you can do it as much as you want without restriction from anyone. Whether or not that restricts your employment is irrelevant to the first amendment.
I won both times clients charged back on me, but I shipped physical goods and was able to provide a tracking number.

I thought it was common knowledge that it's nearly-impossible to beat chargebacks on virtual goods?
More like a bunch of people died in a bunch of different jobs this week, so lets make some faulty correlations on a small sample size.
So all the machine learning Amazon does in suggesting products I might want or like is "bad?" Give me a break -- I know there are a lot of Google Fan-folk on HN, but to say there's a "Good" | "Bad" advertising binary is just silly.
"Arctic Startup" published an article recently about the #estonianmafia hashtag that was coined by none other than Dave McClure of the PayPal Mafia:
http://arcticstartup.com/2014/01/28/tyler-crowley-dave-mcclu...
It's about time! This Skype is terrible, and WebRTC is amazing.
Yes, if you post "I bought two Macintoshes today" to your blog or write it in a commercial article or anything of the kind, Apple has no authority to prevent that (and a trademark likewise does not apply to such behavior). Their only authority is to stop you from using their mark on your unaffiliated products.
I don't see what you mean; could you spell it out?
Getting a new node project started with npm
So, this tool is OSS but appears to be dependent on a commercial service. Is there any chance that Plivo will open source the necessary bits to enable true standalone operation? There's a lot of potential for an application like this in parts of the world where open communication is restricted.
Additionally, it could be that the statistics show a result that is an artifact of coaches decisions. If a particular decision is chosen by the pro coaches extremely rarely, but has a moderately better expected result, it could be that the typical expected result is very poor, but the only times coaches make the decision is when they observe a decisive matchup or a special situation -- making it appear statistically like that decision is the better one. (Like looking at basketball shooting percentages, and wondering why centers don't take all the shots given how high their FG%s are.)
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> Time does not stand still, and to assume that China will is foolish. With wealth comes power, and China's military will likely be unrecognizable in 30 years. To underestimate one's enemy is simply stupid.

Said fantasies: also on HN.
I believe that many universities would employ this author as a "lecturer".
So the point of this is ... "Ideas are not important"?
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I am given to understand that British soldiers entering the army swear their allegiance to the Queen, not to the constitution nor the population. So?
So if its more or less impossible to have any kind of quality, and we can all pretty much tell crap like this is of very low quality yet we are saddled with it anyway as an intrinsic, unavoidable part of the system, is this a worthwhile system to perpetuate?
Not realistically enforceable.
I agree. I thought it was completely open-source. What's the use of open sourcing just a part of the code and forcing users to use a Plivo account to use the service (even if you self host it).
Pragmatic Programming Techniques: Text processing (part 2): Inverted Index
Harvard RSI Action: Preventing RSI
I am subscribed to both, its a weekly news letter so not much overhead, they are both good and do cover separate stuff as well as overlap. The best thing i have done is get weekly newsletters like postgres weekly, nosql weekly, javascript drips, datascienceweekly as i dont visit news sites during the week, just the weekends. The only thing i have struggled with is HN but i made a promise that when i hit 2000 Karma, i am out will switch to weekly. Today i hit 2001 so i guess thats it!
China has often been wealthy, but has rarely been able to conquer... anywhere. They're not the first, or twentieth, place I would look if I were worrying about foreign aggression.
1 in 8192 is the chance of encountering a wild shiny pokémon.
In this industry we are very good at "giving things name", most of the time giving new name to old things (aka creating hype, that's what we have been mostly doing for the last 60 years or so) and then doing long discussions around these names. I would suggest don't bother with this, it is completely a waste of time.
Turn a crowd and their devices into a huge stereo system
Ask HN: was there actually a language called C+? 
Google could not resolve this bar argument. Google has proved inconclusive since most mentions of C+ seem to be either typos or uninformed but my impression is that if it did exist it would have been pre Internet. After somewhat thorough searching iI've been unable to come to a conclusive result. Any input?
Technically, you only need exactly one rail adjacent to a zone in the first game to make it grow, so the entire traffic model can be essentially ignored.

Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEzzLXOs-iU
I know ES6 brings a lot of new shiny to the table, but JS is a poor language. It's riddled with traps and interesting stuff, and you have to put up with excessive differences between browsers. It's just stuff like

Object.prototype.hasProperty.call(my_object, "property");

or not doing

{
foo: 1,
bar: 2,
baz: 3,
}

or the truth table, things like `{} + []` and `[] + {}`, the insane implicit line joining… the list goes on and on.

I'm not sure Dart is the answer, but I welcome some competition. I think I'd be really interested to see a browser VM that languages could compile to, which would open the door to many languages. (I suppose asm.js might argue that they're this, and there is LLVM.)

Finally, I leave you with [1].

[1]: http://wtfjs.com/2012/08/11/Slashes!
US phone companies to explore replacing all phone numbers with IP addresses
Which, incidentally I find disgusting and patronizing and offensive. Maybe it's just me.
VCs Bet $100 Million That Health Catalyst Can Take On Oracle and IBM
Reminds me of the Pink Floyd MTV The Wall. Where lines of students followed each other into a meat process machine.
We do a similar thing here in Australia with states and postcodes. Except for a couple of unusual postcodes the state can be predicted with a 100% accuracy from the postcode. We found that if we didn't include the ability for the customer to select a state then they would do silly things like put the state in the street address or even their own names. We added a functionless state dropdown and these errors stopped.
Hong Kong should be a financial capital to all
I don't think democracy is God-given, but I think the idea is now deeply ingrained in (almost) all cultures on earth. Not necessarily as a reality, but as a possibility. It's not foreign to Ukraine, that's for sure.

In many countries that are now solid democracies, democracy has not evolved over a long time. It came with a bang and that was possible because the idea was already widespread.

Invading a country for whatever reason is a whole different matter. That's very rarely a good idea and certainly not to enforce or introduce democracy.

But if you find "rule of the people" too abstract then then I can remind you that "culture" is no less abstract. In a globalized information and media society with massive global migration it's not even clear what "foreign culture" really means any more.
Duff's device is certainly a very strange construct.

http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html#duffs-device
One of the most important aspects of modern warfare is the asymmetry. It's best to pursue small efforts that can have stupidly large and devastating effect on your opponent.

China is investing in sophisticated information attacks to steal military and industry capabilities, disable infrastructure and remove a communications advantage from an invader.

Their heavy submarine focus threatens to obliterate trade routes and defend their own, causing others to hesitate to attack or suffer economic devastation. And their precision missiles are a described as a pocket of excellence within the army.

They can use their missiles to destroy military satellites, taking away advantages like communication and GPS. On the ground, sending missiles directly into concentrated C&C centres like air craft carriers, command posts, etc can turn the enemy into a semi-organised mob. With the enemy taken down a notch or two, suddenly China's moderately trained but extremely numerous ground forces can start to look fairly intimidating.

They mention horses for surveying as barbaric compared to survey helicopters, but what a great asset horses would be when both sides have used their precision missiles to take out all of the supporting infrastructure. No maintenance or fuel supply line needed, they even double as their own horse manufacturing line.

Whether these approaches are enough to defend or attack, who knows, but the strategy is an excellent and efficient one that shouldn't be underestimated. You can't just look at what forces they have, but what relevant effects they can achieve with those forces.
The British don't have a constitution to swear on.
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Confessions of an airport security worker
Sure, but do they spend 40% of their time strengthening that allegiance?
DannyBee! Good to see you. Its been a long time.

I stand corrected, then. I had thought that Google's policy allowed contributions, but not under the employee's own copyright. I thought there was an additional step to get that approved.
Example:

package main

import ( "fmt"; . "linq" )

var Fibonacci Enumerate = func(yield Operate) error { a := 0; b := 1; for { err := yield(a); if err != nil { return err }; a, b = b, a+b } }

func main() { twentyFibs := Fibonacci.Take(20); twentyFibs(func(e Any) error { fmt.Printf(" %v", e); return nil }); fmt.Println() }

Output:
0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377 610 987 1597 2584 4181