skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I picked a bad example (which is an example itself of what I'm talking about; it's not specific to the rules of grammar...)

"How is babby formed" is still generally a bad question, marginally worse than "Where do babies come from?", in that it's unclear if the focus is impregnation or gestation, and "babby" could be potentially misinterpreted as "babble".

IMO OP was borderline "bad at written communication" too, at least if the goal was to convey factual details of the situation. It was entertaining, but unclear. Sometimes obscuring key details is the goal, but generally not in technical or business writing.
> it's likely there will still be a lot of CPU/GPU chatter

At least on today's consumer cards (admittedly I haven't tried anything really high-end), one issue I've had with this is that it gets even worse (by far) when more than one program is trying to use the GPU. If you're editing photos in Lightroom while alt-tabbing to a tutorial in the browser, and everything is trying to GPU-accelerate its operations, contention goes way up and things start blocking on GPU contexts and data transfers.
Self correcting doesn't need to include self correcting and inhabitable by humans.
Android-x86 4.4-RC1 released
Very interesting! My follow-up post to Moon is actually Alien, and I've come to a similar realization. I reckon the main reason that 2001: A Space Odyssey hasn't aged half as much as Alien, or Silent Running, or other 70s/80s sci-fi, is that in 2001, all of the monitors are flat-screen displays, not curved CRTs. Ironically, this is only because they didn't have the computing power to generate the HAL graphics on an actual computer, and so it was all hand-animated on film and then back-projected onto a flat display. This combination of flatness and high-resolution animation means that it looks just like the retina displays of today.
Forbes Website and Twitter Accounts Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army
That anonymity is important and is not about "being a jerk on the internet" and getting away with it.
What are the main differences between BSD and GNU/Linux userland?
OK, sure. I get it. I think this is a place to offer ideas great and small that might give each other a hand. If this kind of tip is not appropriate, I certainly don't need to chip in.

I agree with the other comment that this thread is toxic. I didn't intend that. I guess I learned a lesson.
var ‾ = require('highland'); // Meet overline, the new underscore
This is a political argument about taxes, and has nothing to do with either climate or science. If you want to tax these people, go ahead...get together a bunch of special interests and some money and go lobby the relevant folks.

"I was pointing out, that given it is a humanistic/moral issue."

It may very well be indeed. But in the context of the submitted article and its discussion, it is proving the point about the use and abuse of data and science. There is a difference between a "moral use of science" and dressing up a "moral/political special interest position" as a <position of science>.

As I am sure you would appreciate.
Adding i18n to a Cordova App
Throws a SSL certificate error on latest Chrome (32.0.1700.107) W7 64
alper slym
Believe it or not, there are people who consider evidence, logic, and consequences, and base their understanding off of that.
In the update it looks like the Color Run has a compelling story to tell as well. Whatever the full truth it is clear the legal system here in the U.S is completely out of control in terms of the cost and time involved.
Rafael, on iPhones you can enable VPN and get over the restrictions. My friends have been using superfreevpn.com with great success. It only involves adding some setting on the iPhone and setting the vpn password (it changes every 24h and is published on their website). This is for WiFi access of course. The mobile data is not censored (yet).

I suppose something similar can be done for android but I havent looked into it.
Gregor, get me in ...

Mail is <HN username>@gmail
Doge has random block rewards (which is not UNIQUE but is different) and is an inflationary currency, with no cap.
This old thread from stackoverflow has been posted way too many times to HN already:

https://hn.algolia.io/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/what%20is%20...
Idealogical Blogger says unrelated events long ago support his current agenda.
It is interesting (though not surprising) that Republicans threatened retaliation against Volkswagen if their workers unionized. (Volkswagen seemed to encourage their workers to form a union)

In any case, this is a big win for the conservative movement/establishment in the US. If the workers had voted to unionize and if the (Republican led) government had penalized Volkwagen (as they threatened), it would have been interesting to see whether Volkswagen might moved to a less union-unfriendly state.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/business/automaker-gives-i... has some additional details.
I know one young photographer that is going to be getting quite a bit of work after this is over.
Your Boss Won't Appreciate TDD: Try BDD
Yep, I do the same with 2, with Dropbox I can any device and it has the same workspace automagically and I can pickup where I left off.

Also has the added bonus of having "scratch" files.
You don't seem to want to have a discussion. So this is my last comment.

It was given all the possible traits. It didn't find a new category it had a collection of things with known traits. Google knew it would be able to find cats using the traits it was given. That's not intelligence on the computer's side.

If I tell you that there are things with lungs, things with gills, things with legs and things with arms, things with hair, I don't have to tell you there are mermaids and salamanders, you will figure it out when not everything fits in the bucket of Cats and goldfish.
>the constant irritation of Western restrictions on their freedom to spend their ill-gotten gains is believed to be one of the main factors behind the Burmese military junta's relatively recent acceptance of reform.

Believed by whom? That's just a make-believe success story of those imposing these policies. Certainly haven't affected any other junta with or without drugs.
DevOps Interview questions: Quiz on Minute details
Always thought it was weird that there wasn't a male form of "Miss."
I agree, and I wish I hadn't.

On your second point, I think there's a clear difference between consistent lack of capitalization that is obviously a stylistic quirk, and simply using a homophone because you don't know (or, I guess as it turns out, don't care) that you're doing so. This is a common mistake and not usually due to ESL/EAL.

But I won't do it again, as it evidently is not a net good in this medium. Sorry, folks.
You mean; like a world where men would be send to war and just very few women? or a world where most homeless people are straight males? Or a world where women get custody of the child on the majority of the divorces? Oh wait, that is this world; I guess you will have to pick your bias of what oppression actually means.
just curious, how far away are we from 4.5 and what will be the flagship features for it?
A nuclear warhead tipped Titan II ballistic missle blew up in its silo in 1980 after a maintenance crewman dropped a wrench and punctured the tank causing fuel to leak out.

The tank depressurised and the missile came close to collapsing because the tank could not support its weight. Eventually the fuel ignited and the whole stack went up. Fortunately the warhead didn't go off. The really chilling bit is that it easily could have.

The story is told in the book "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety" by Eric Schlosser. This should be required reading for all engineers, a textbook on how complex systems can go wrong.

If the book does not scare the shit out of you regarding the apalling standards of nuclear warhead engineering then you may not have a pulse.
This has been a knock-down drag-out fight and a lot of fun to watch. VW hates the UAW, but they can't say as much because being seen as anti-union would hurt their image back in Germany. Thanks to NRLB rules, VW can't make any statements about rewarding the workers for not unionizing, but that hasn't stopped Senator Corker from saying he heard it on good authority that VW would bring production of a second car to the Chattanooga plant if the workers rejected the UAW. That was a dirty/brilliant move on Corker's part, which both advanced his anti-union agenda and set the expectation that VW will add a second production line to its factory, which VW has been considering since the Passat hasn't been selling as well as they initially planned.

Framing the unionization effort as a "works council" was ingenious marketing on UAW's part, but apparently wasn't enough to persuade the Tennessee good old boys to take the Rust Belt gambit. If you've ever heard stories about how GM & Co. run their factories you'll be amazed anything gets built at all.
This breaks simple things, like trying to do multiple lines of four-space indented code formatting, for example.

It also breaks trying to type out quotes and nested quotes.
I built a small testing framework with a pry workflow as one of it's goals. It's possible to run the tests in pry mode which drops you into a pry session on test failure. I've used it on several small libs & the test+pry workflow is quite nice. https://github.com/hopsoft/micro_test
It's interesting reading about the labor unions in Germany. There, they actually seem like a useful abstraction for employers, at least in some industries. Not necessarily adversarial, and little of the crazy featherbedding.

I guess it depends on whether an industry is growing in employment and importance (where any union-based programs to recruit/train/regulate employees can be helpful to everyone), vs. in declining industries (ie virtually every unionized sector in the US, in total employment in most sectors or in retail price (for services)).
What's the point with this film? That just because the genders have been reversed, my sympathies would actually fall differently? Is this really still an issue? This seems like a student project from the late 80s. If there is an opposite to "poignant" or "relevant", this is it.
"After searching my huge personal archive of hacked cybercrime forums for Andrew’s various email and Jabber addresses, I found several private messages sent by different users on the Spamdot[dot]biz forum who recommended to other members the “ikaikki@neko.im” Jabber address as someone to contact in order to hire a service that could be used to flood someone’s Gmail inbox with tens or hundreds of thousands of junk messages."

several private messages sent by different users on the Spamdot[dot]biz forum who recommended to other members...

So, an archive of illegally obtained private communication? (Or, is it just questionably obtained by having several false identities across boards? The term hacked forums seems to suggest otherwise)...

I guess that by doing illegal surveillance, one kind find out things that aren't obvious. How surprising.
Really interesting story, haven't kept up with the series but definitely shows that "discount" customers are much different than "full price" customers in some cases.

I have to comment, I went to the home page and had a hard time figuring out exactly what they do. I spent maybe 30 seconds on the page and ended up almost leaving.

Turns out the letter from the owner at the bottom really nailed it home and I think might even be what our company needs right now.
Internet Explorer zero-day exploit targets US Military Intelligence
http://github.com/CrabDude/trycatch
UK backs huge US neutrino plan
Whats wrong with VW just having a work-council that's made up of workers from within the factory, without UAW?
Sony Shuts Down PC Business
Now watch all the HN men start to defend themselves, completely missing the message.

____

Preemptive: I know what's coming next. Don't even bother asking me what the message is. Doesn't matter what I say, it'll spiral into a mess of disagreements and pointless debate. Here's a hint though... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7204058 . Open your hearts and tone down the logic-machine for just a moment. Allow yourself to feel.
What did Persona get right? Why did Persona fail to gain wide adoption?
You can send spoofed packets from nearly every host.

However hosts like Ecatel are known to specifically allow their customers to send spoofed packets at full speed 24/7.

I think most hosts will notice heavy bandwidth usage, investigate, and then terminate your account. This is why people buy servers at Ecatel even if it is more expensive.
Ask HN: Indexing JSON data: thoughts
Are there any technical drawbacks if one should index JSON data in the following manner for storage in a SQL/NoSQL backend?

JSON:

{"user":"Jason", "skills":["combat","evasion"]}

Index:

depth | path | value | type
--------------------------------------------------
0 | user | "Jason" | string
0 | skills | ["combat","evasion"] | array
1 | skills.[0] | "combat" | string
1 | skills.[1] | "evasion" | string

Here's a sample code implementation in Python:
https://gist.github.com/johnwilson/9009797
CLAPPYBIRD is the new FLAPPYBIRD
The best clone to date, will be in the iOS app store soon :)
The Empire was always good at smashing worker interests. But, car manufacturers have no future anyway. The party is over.

> The vote had faced resistance from Republican politicians, who argued it would slow economic growth.

The problem is that we consider growth and consumption of cars and households as "a fucking dandy" (c, George Carlin) drivers of your economy. They are not a solution. They are deseases of our environment,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qGM9ypR-UI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPS1y81b1Bw

, including economy.
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=exponential+growth+oil+postcarbon

Your hoarse, Mr Oil, is over. You have finished him. Yet, you seem to with the continuation of the party. The manufacturers have no future. The sooner you understand this the higher is the chance that you will have one.
i wonder what it would cost to replace the painters with robots

this is basically color-by-numbers, no?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5pQnq...
I'm not sure that makes me much happier.
I'm torn between "The record for bug-free C or Java code are not exactly inspiring" and "Wait wait wait in a system with Bitcoin and Javascript you think Javascript is the probable source of problems?"
It was really not fun for me until I realized that once the window has focus any key press gives a little boost. Its much more comfortable to stroke each key on the home row in rapid succession than to pound on one key :)
Because humans cannot photosynthesize, hunger is a consequence of idleness in a subsistence farming economy. A modern industrialized economy isn't too different along that parameter.
I want to ask you. Do you know anything about Detroit? Everything I read from people who've left there blame the unions for driving out the industry through ever increasing pay raises to the point where industry can't afford to stay. You seem to be more knowledgeable about the unions so I figured I'd ask you.
The EU now includes a large number of ex-USSR countries and is not what most people think of when they think 'Europe'.
What they said on the PBS News Hour is that would be against the law.

Basically the law states that company unions are illegal and the work-council without an external affiliated union would be a company union.
Looks like no immediate fix either, which is a shame as I wanted to use it client side but (a) need SSL and (b) can't ignore Chrome (it fails on Chrome for Android latest too)..

https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip/issues/32
Asking for a flat rate of any amount I don't think is a good idea. Some apps / ideas just need some good direction and can be developed in a day if you marry the right programmer / marketer. Others might take weeks of sweat equity and much more time in the end.
I doubt that anyone who has their face painted into Dogs Playing Poker is under the impression that they're purchasing "Fine Art."
Show HN: SUMZU, safely share your cloud storage
It's almost impossible to imagine someone reading their comment and misunderstanding them, unless they were bad at reading English.

The point you're trying to make is based on the mistaken assumption that they were being unclear. They weren't. Nothing was obscured. No one seriously believed that they meant to imply ownership instead of "you are."

They also weren't doing technical or business writing. It was empathy, which is sometimes helpful.
> If paywalls are implemented by covering page content with a white rectangle, will viewing source be considered unauthorised access?

Viewing source in this case seems like it's bypassing DRM, which I believe is illegal under the DMCA in the USA.
Ugh. While I agree with some of his concerns about the ever-expanding scope of systemd, all of what he has managed to do during this debate is paint himself as an immature, toxic person, between his call to remove the head of the Debian technical committee and his "ultimatum".
Interesting, but does this scale?

Could a robot (CNC machine) paint it faster and cheaper?
I wonder if these people are indeed being themselves or playing the role of a troll. Or to put it another way, would they behave the same way "in the real world"?
There has been, and may continue to be in some places:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_%28form_of_address%29

I recall seeing a flight reservation form on a British Airways site that
had a pulldown menu for either titles or forms of address that included
"Lord" and various others. To a US American it was slightly surprising,
but to a native Brit it would probably seem quite natural. (Of course,
what airline would pass up a chance to bring back distinctions of class?)

I see the problem that the original post describes as a "value and a
half" issue - the client and programmer are trying to extrapolate values
for several ranges from the variable they have jammed multiple values
into: gender, marital status, title, and form of address.

Even if all your users are from one culture, you're going to have
unexpected corner cases - these pages should suggest some:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

http://www.cscyphers.com/blog/2012/06/28/falsehoods-programm...
It was one of the first things I tried and it immediately disturbed the normal flow. Markdown normally allows for a "one line per sentence"-style. If you are used to that, the current behavior quickly becomes annoying.
gun to my head: 40%
Open Mesh Network based on the Bitcoin Protocol
I have told you that chinees consume much less oil but produce much more than US citizen. The oil is consumed by consumer, not by producers.

The notebook is tens of times cheaper than car alone (needs tens of times less materials/energy to produce). It consumes tens of times less energy, which can be not oil whereas cars are addicted to oil. These are cars that deplete the oil and without it you won't have the gadgets.

You neither cannot think not read. You seem to be an ideal consumer. You do everything (and all you do is twisting, comparing incomparable) to have no gadgets in the future.
It doesn't matter all that much. Looking back at why I was motivated to offer a tip, I think when the poster pleaded "why did they treat us like garbage?" I wondered if his/her written communication could be contributing to that.

This:

> "it's the underlying thoughts however spelt that matter."

is not true. You didn't write your post in txtspk because that is not the locally acceptable way of communicating. It could be comprehensible, unambiguous and require less typing, but it just doesn't meet the tacitly agreed standards in this community and you would not expect your ideas to have the impact they deserve if you chose to write that way.
Have no idea. That's something my host is doing, for reasons they know. I've never had more than 120 hits in a day before this post, so not aware of any policies they may have with regards to this.

I doubt I'm banning "tens of thousands of innocent bystanders", however :-)
It is important to mention the context of situation in France. France ranks 57th in the world for women's equality, behind much of Eastern Europe, as well as Mongolia [1]. They are really a little behind...

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/10/25...
Viber acquired by Japan's Rakuten for $900 million
I'm surprised no one has made "Flappy [Lunar] Lander" yet.
Because clearly everyone deserves to live at whatever arbitrary standards the person complaining about "exploitation" thinks is correct. Nevermind the fact that if they weren't being "exploited" like this, they'd probably be illiterate subsistence farmers.
How is Sublimall not third party software?
https://whispersystems.org/ TextSecure / RedPhone and/or https://silentcircle.com/ are a good place to start -- but AFAIK might not provide all the protection you need in a case like this.

Assumptions:

* the government has (or can easily) link you/your associates to a SIM/Router/DSL/Phoneline

* link your ip to said sim/router

* the government probably already have you listed as an "enemy" (assuming you've ever said or done anything useful in terms of protest, aren't completely spineless or apathetic)

Historically (in Latin/South America), at least one group will have support from the US -- so assume all VPN traffic is logged for trying to match up things like twitter posts to in-country IPs.

The only reasonable action is to use TOR for onion routing, and encryption tunnelled through that. This will still show that you communicate covertly (covertly, being "not-open"). It will still show bursts of activity, and clustering of devices (Note that if you both have access to location meta-data, and have half a brain and a couple of informers/officers noting down where people are gathering, you can feed that back into lists of SIM/IMEIs to target...).

The best approach would probably be to generate a rate-limited stream of traffic over TOR, and allow that stream to be replaced by communication as needed. I don't know of any tool to do this for phones -- but layering TOR and jabber+OTR might be about as good as you're going to get for now?
Please consider rewriting this comment to be less flamebaity.
Not dealing with problem employees and allowing them to just continue muddling along sends a strong signal to the best people that their work isn't valued and tends to push them to leave. It's a huge part of the problem; people don't like to talk about firing people because it is socially uncomfortable but in the end it's better for both the workplace and the worker instead of just ignoring it and institutionalizing incompetence.
The problem with this idea, is the implication that Capitalism hasn't failed people many places in the world already.
this is a really great way of explaining how the language & compiler work, but doesn't really go into how easy it actually is to learn, syntax, etc
fI you unedrstnad waht eh is saiyng arne't you hte dmub oen to mkae a ibg dael otu fo ti.
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Assassinating elected presidents is so 1970s. Much better to corrupt the bureaucracy...
Where the percentage correct is significantly below 50%, it seems like there are very widespread myths being accepted, possibly dangerously. Malaysia scored 8% and Russia scored 18% on the second to last question (Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria) - that's scary to me from a public health standpoint.
this - I remembered when I tried learning Ruby on a Windows machine. Spent hours just trying to get everything compatible.

php on the other hand was easy to learn in notepad and run on my domain sitting on linux.
I feel, insulted. There is that good enough for you?
If you have the technology to build a Dyson sphere, you could probably put some transparent aluminium windows in it :-)
What makes this thread toxic, if you read closely, is your fierce defense of bad grammar all over it.