skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aesop is an excellent lyricist. In fact all the MCs on the Rhymesayers label are very talented: Brother Ali, Slug (of Atmosphere) etc.

One MC whose vocabulary always leaves me taken aback is RA Scion, who has been part of the group Common Market. Their song, "My Pathology" [0] is a shining example:

"Below the terra ferma's the murmur of many men
Resonatin' the predication of RA's eponym
It requires a higher degree of thought to transmit
Elevate above the base and retrace the semantics
Incommensurately we've been held incommunicado
From commoner to commodore – they breed bravado
I exercise authority over the lesser ranks
We rally and tally up at the shores of the West Bank"

[0] http://lyrics.wikia.com/Common_Market:My_Pathology
Surely I can't be the only one here who has dealt with actual flesh and blood average users?

This would do nothing form them. It requires that you pay attention to the tab, which most don't do, read where they are, again something the majority don't do, and be savvy enough to realize that "site.com" is now different to "https://www.site.com/somthing$%else/and&&a+lot_of[]crud" something that I doubt 1 in 100 will figure out.

Unless it's in red, has a klaxon attached to it and flashes enough to give you a seizure either the majority or a very large minority of your users will ignore it.
This is awesome. Reminds me of all the data viz they are doing on rapgenius. You forgot Atmosphere though (Slug)
They are also on the same same label. Definitive Jux has some quality product.

If you're looking for expansive vocabularies you should consider exploring other dorky rappers like Scroobius Pip.
That's just a matter of knowing the algorithm: If I know how you constructed the password, I know how to make candidate guesses. I don't even need to be able to work backwards; I just need to be able to reproduce one of your passwords (the same way you'd "reverse" a hash digest.)

The best solution is randomness -- that's why secure random number generators are so fundamentally important in cryptography.
So to everyone saying there is no good alternative - out of curiosity, what are other services missing?

Things like Gmail and Google Voice weren't a particularly big deal to me. Fastmail is more then reasonable of a replacement for mail, and in place of Voice, well, unlimited long distance isn't all that hard to get. In lieu of call distribution, I'll just forward them manually if I need to be reached somewhere else.
thanks for sharing! immediately engaging writing with timely and relevant information from the the very beginning, will enjoy reading through this.
Indeed, although there's one bit of jargon I recently learned that I think is really useful: financial repression (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_repression).

Ask anyone in the US trying to live off interest income right now, like my 77 and 80 year old parents. Aren't that real interest rates in the US negative or thereabouts, and I read that was true following the bust in Japan.

(Except of course in the US as of now our money isn't trapped in the country, unlike Japan's back then for individuals and small business as mentioned in the article, or China, who's currency wasn't even internationally traded until a pilot scheme started in 2009, and is still, in the scheme of things, taking baby steps.)
I never particularly trusted Google. Reader and Calendar are the only non-searchy products I've ever wanted to use. I had Reader backed up at pinboard.in, which was good because the Takeout for Reader was borked. At this point, 7+ years of my family's Calendar is the only thing I'd miss if Google disappeared, and the only product they make that I find useful. Thanks for reminding me to revisit my backup solution for it.

As for search, I stopped searching the web regularly in about 2008, directly searching Wikipedia, Youtube, Google images, Wolfram alpha, and Amazon directly from the URL bar with bookmark keywords.
In fact today the main problem with the 2.5" form factor is being limited to the performance of SATA controllers, not how much you can pack into the space.

There's little reason to pay a massive premium for huge SSDs if your controllers limits you to a small percentage of the potential capacity of the drive. So instead you get things like the PCIe cards with 4+ controllers that gets RAID'ed together by the drivers.

As the controller bandwidth catches up, I'm sure that'll change.
This is perhaps a bit greedy but not evil...evil is bombing an elementary school: http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/world/meast/syria-civil-war/
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What is your Digital Footprint?
I cut my teeth writing websites using PHP and MySQL, mostly around a computer game I used to play. I got a few thousand hits in the first year and plenty of nice email so I kept going with it and eventually studied software development at uni and have spent the last 15 years working as a developer.

I actually knew a heap of kids around my age (I started at around 15) who I met through my website who did the same thing and many of them also became developers or designers too.

I don't know if the web is still as accessible as it was back then when you could get free hosting somewhere like Geocities if you were just starting out, but I think HTML and javascript are a really nice starting point because it's fairly easy to cobble together something that works and you can get a fairly long way just by trying to make whatever you built just that little bit better. The web is also a good place to learn about the web, particularly since in those days it was easy to view source on anything I saw that I didn't know how to do myself.
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Lock cables definitely help in many cases, but it personally wouldn't have helped me as the thieves broke into my home when I was sleeping and took many more things.

What you are proposing is a good preventive measure, but stealing is a crime and we need to have better solutions to handle it whenever it happens.
it also uses a penguin as the mascot...
why don't you send an email to fotoroll at gmail dot com with your resume ?
Sounds like the core problem is just "Chinese web sites have yet to take full advantage".

I'm really wondering how many (or what percentage of) devices actually need "a special plug-in". Seems like it would be a very small - and shrinking - fraction, but I could be wrong.

If the user's device is (presumably) already set to use Mandarin (or any specific language), then I assume that would be the default input method, so why does that take significantly longer to use than numbers? I'm genuinely curious, never having experienced that use case myself as a native english speaker.

As for websites wanting to expand internationally and avoiding unfamiliar characters, that doesn't really make sense to me - if they want to expand internationally, I don't think the numeric domains are going to help much (they'd be just as cryptic to me as Mandarin characters), so why wouldn't they just register alternate domains in the target regions/languages as many already do?
Peter Norvig covered STUDENT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUDENT_(computer_program)), a program that solves algebra word problems, in "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp" back in 1992.
No big deal to you. Plenty of big deal to others including myself. I have no reason not to trust Google.
The comment about country codes at the end is interesting. Presumably it should be something like .zg
Are there really computer-literate Mandarin speakers in China who don't know pinyin? How do they input text? The only serious non-pinyin IMEs I'm aware of are the bopomofo ones for traditional characters in Taiwan.
> To the average user, the URL is noise. It's a mix of protocol, origin, and path. It's a terminal command, echoing it back to the user is weak UI. We should focus on the security of the URL, without harming shareability.

Powerful words.
No one is mimicking your bank by putting the info to the right of the domain name.

They mimick the look of the bank and pick a domain like your.bankofamerica.getreadygo.com
From google services I use only the search engine. So far I don't see any real alternative.
I don't want to trust Google with possession of my photos, but with Glass, there is no choice; it automatically backs up every picture and video to Google+, and you can't stop it from doing so, even with root.
Sample size is already controlled for. See the second paragraph, immediately before the graphic:
"I used each artist’s first 35,000 lyrics. That way, prolific artists, such as Jay-Z, could be compared to newer artists, such as Drake."
I think Rick Ross would give DMX a run for his money. I've heard him rhyme a word with the same word before (Atlantic).
Do you want to know a secret?
This looks like a very different implementation.
Plus: pink! :-D
Sorry, let me rephrase that. Finding an alternative to them was no big deal for me.
Don't call yourself a "Jr."
no it wouldn't. You might put that in an ad (and as people above note, this is already happening), but this only changes what's displayed in the location bar. It would be stupid to link to another site through a web search when you can just link to the site.

although, I'll note that once again, the internet is already on the case. The link you were looking for was http://lmgtfy.com/?q=keyword
Not particularly surprised at the list. Aesop Rock, the whole Wu-tang Clan, and guys like Nas, Wale, all near the top. DMX and Too Short at the bottom...

Definitely comes out in their music...
This is why it's "number of unique words used within the artist's first 35,000 lyrics." Sample size is held constant. (Except, maybe, those who haven't yet written 35k words?)
I really don't understand why someone would downvote this.
Yeah, part of me wonders how bad it would be / what would break if email clients banned outside links (e.g. beyond fragments in the email). My suspicion is that the only useful use of a link is a confirmation email which have other potential implementations...
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I thought Startpage was effectively anonymized Google?

I will say they kinda suck for searches with boolean operators, though. What with all the DMCA takedowns Google gets, that might be a moot point for some things anyway.
There is a swedish version of this at http://bokfynd.nu
I can't agree at all with the author's basic premise, which makes it hard to agree with the rest of the article.

>> URLs are the building blocks of the web.

The web has lots of building blocks (hyperlinks, requests, the underlying protocols, HTML, and on the modern web: Javascript and XmlHttpRequest). We hide most of that implementation detail from the user because it's non-essential to the task at hand.

How essential to the task at hand is the URL for most users? I may need a building's address to find it; once I walk into the building, do I need to continuously see that address?

>> Every page has a unique URL so that you can identify it and share it with other people.

That's a significant mis-statement of what a URL is. URLs have never been unique (witness www.foo.com vs foo.com), don't necessarily identify the page (witness dynamically-generated pages that are built with information from the client's cookies or state on the server), and their utility as a sharing tool is limited to what the server allows (witness access control). They're uniform resource locators... Nothing more, nothing less.

A URL is a tool. A useful tool, certainly. But I don't keep all my useful tools constantly on display on my desk; I keep them in toolboxes until I need them. So I'd say "See how this experiment pans out."
Evil is kidnapping a school because you feel that western education is against the rules of your religion.

Boko Haram kidnapped over 230 schoolgirls in Nigeria. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/hundreds-march-...

But even if we avoid extremists, it's easier to call people evil when they spy on their pupils using the webcams on the school provided laptops. And then, after people have complained, they do it again. http://www.wired.com/2011/06/webcam-scandal-resurfaces/
My email address is in my profile. Please send me a resume and a little more information about yourself.
+1 on this.

If you were hiring, you probably wouldn't choose someone who describes themselves as a novice. Don't focus on your lack of experience, but your other attributes.
In other note, I noticed that if you vote in poll but didn't up vote the post itself, it lowers the post ranking.
So when Google said their policy was 'Dont be evil.', they meant they would do their utmost to refrain from blowing up elementary schools?

According to Brin and Page:
"Don't be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served-as shareholders and in all other ways-by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company."
Are you looking at a different link than us? The intro reads "I decided to compare this data point against the most famous artists in hip hop. I used each artist’s first 35,000 lyrics. That way, prolific artists, such as Jay-Z, could be compared to newer artists, such as Drake." and the title of the infographic (if that's all you looked at) reads "# of Unique words used within artist’s first 35,000 lyrics"

This seems to address your concern completely?
look for a developer without startup experience and have you both forge ahead with a startup.
The lottery of life
I understand this, I was just stating that

1. people should compile their own binary, since there is no easy way to know if you actually made only those edits in the provided binary (don't take it personally, really)

2. it's sad that Apple forked OpenSSH, since I can't have their integrations with a recent version
This is an easily-pierced trope of this kind of discussion.

"But now that the majority of the movie-watching public has a pretty good idea of how computers work, having a "hacker" enter some kind of 3d virtual reality world to hack the NSA is perceived as ridiculous..."

Are we in the future? Or, are we trying to destabilize the audience's expectation of what's possible? Or, are we trying to communicate to the audience that computing is so ubiquitous and so disposable that society has spent its resources on superfluous displays? Is the protagonist a fish-out-of-water invited into an enclave of super-advanced geniuses situated in otherwise present-day America?

Narrative is craft, and it's subject to expedience. The question to answer, in any given instance, is not, "Is this use of technology realistic?," but, "How does this element of technological unrealism operate within the wider context of the (obviously unrealistic) fantasy world of the movie?"

Anyone can come up with an instance of how this has failed in a movie, but the title of the article is "Coding the Movies: Don't Fake It." This person wants code to look real in movies, and that's a profoundly stupid generalization to insist on.

It's worth noting, too, that the author's "blog post" is really an advertisement for his consulting service. In a Habermassian sense, we would be suspicious that this element of the Lifeworld, this Communicative Action, has been colonized by the System, namely his need to get work.

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
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Do Our Kids Get Off Too Easy?
This is a pretty good post: http://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2013/08/how-to-find-m...
I don't know how to answer your poll.

I wish that Google would respect all my different accounts and account names. Sure, have some page where they're all linked and shown in some tree and allow me to set privacy settings, but stop logging me in and out of different accounts.

I am a lot more worried about companies having access to my data. I trust Google more than I trust Facebook or a bunch of other companies. I would prefer to be a bit more anonymous though.
Everything I wish I'd known at 17 about social mobility
IMHO, for tools like that you should focus less on features and more on usefulness and easyness of the tool. For example, neither context menu nor keyboard shortcuts work in this tool.

If you give me just 5 features of photoshop, but which can meet my professional demand, I think that's a good to go.
https://github.com/owncloud

Shouldn't be too hard to make it supply you with the direct download link - it has to know it somewhere! Just fork it ;)
I'm an American, and I think a more important principle is you don't risk an encounter that may end in injury or death over mere "stuff". There's no justice in getting shot trying to recover a phone you were too drunk to keep in your possession. Replace your phone and be a little more careful next time you go out.
Maybe the VIC-20 was quirky, but the Pet used PEEKs and POKEs. Oh, the memories (32Kb fully loaded)
The Japanese are afraid of responsibility since what century exactly? I've never heard of that. I've only heard the opposite in fact: that being responsible is among the most important cultural things to the Japanese. You see it in the history of how they view employment between employers and workers for example. A general sense of making things right.

I think you'd be very hard pressed to find a people more responsible than the Japanese.
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if there's question about pronunciation, i find that putonghua (mandarin) educational material is very good and there are lots of references with clear pictures of what your mouth and tongue should be doing when pronouncing that make it just about impossible to make the wrong sounds (it won't fix your tones though).

it's difficult to describe and people pronounce english words differently so this isn't definitive, but

yao1 is like "yao ming", like if you stub your toe and say "owww!" in pain, or "yowzers!" -- those vowel sounds are all the same for me, so if they are for you too, that's probably the standard sound for "yao" in chinese.

liu4 is much more closed mouth. rather than opening your mouth wide, your mouth will be closed as if you are pronouncing the english name of the letter "e". the vowel sounds are roughly like taking the words "he" and "who", stripping the "h" sounds, and ramming the vowel sounds together. this (for me) sounds similar to the sound a child makes when he/she sees something disgusting and says "Ewwww!" or the english word "few" (the opposite of many). hopefully those 3 also sound the same to you.
Well, to me this is yet another reason to not use Glass.
If you want your developers to be productive, learn to draw.
Because developers who are familiar with these kind of bootcamps realize that the graduates that come out aren't going to be a net positive on the team.
I choose option E: none of the above.

I trust them (as much as I can trust any online service) with some of my data, but I have never trusted any of them with my crucial data. I host my own emails, I host (for most parts) my own git repositories, and I have made a conscious decision to stay as far away from social networking sites as possible.

As for the few concessions, I have simply made sure that I keep only a minimum amount of data outside my own control.
Making fun of Paris Hilton is still a thing? Come on...
I am moving over to VIM because I disagree with some of the design decisions - for instance, I don't believe in a single gatekeeper to a application that I depend upon.
>I trust Google to honor their terms of service which is all we can really ask for I think.

I trust Google to honor their terms of service (which are not the same as what I first agreed to) for as long as it doesn't benefit them more to break them and take the consequences.
Gotta wonder about the garbage-in factor of Rap Genius. From one randomly selected Aesop Rock cut:

"Please I want to donate my brain to the monstrous Panasonic profit"

I guess it could be. I always heard it as "monstrous Panasonic prophet." It would be in keeping with the previous lyric "Television, all hail grand pixelated god of
fantasy."
While the existing approach may have its flaws, the wholesale removal of valuable information and functionality from the browser UI very likely isn't the right fix, either.

In my opinion, this is up there with the removal of the URL protocol, the removal of the status bar, the removal of the menu bar, the removal of the ability to disable JavaScript easily, and the other similar changes we've seen from Chrome and/or Firefox over the past few years.

This useful functionality is removed under the guise of "increasing usability" or "improving security" or some equally vague justification. So-called "average users" don't even notice any improvement, while power users are forced to endure a dumbed-down, less effective browser experience.
This is a really interesting perspective. THe most important secret you have to manage is often the private key used for TLS, but in usual architectures, it must be present on all of your front servers.

This is a good way to compartmentalize the system, for a very small cost in performance.
I use rsync+gpg to sync encrypted files on a VPS. I use Twitter instead of G+. I share photos/videos/audio with MediaCrush.
Exactly. Right now, there's little or no difference between 'we the developers' and everyone else. Keep doing those changes, there will be one. Developers will be a privileged class. It's no surprise that some people may want to alter that balance.
Couldn't the browser easily slice off the domain and display that in a non-editable field somewhere to the left or right of the url? Seems like an easy solution, while not hiding the url.
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I'm a Ruby on Rails developer who's looking for Rails and light Ember.js work. I do prefer pair programming but can just as easily work solo.

In the past I've been doing a lot of the backend type of work but since I started to learn Ember I've been spending more and more time on the client side and I must admit it - I like it.

Here are some of the past projects I have worked on:

http://refinerycms.com - the most popular open source CMS built on top of Rails. I'm also the core team member behind this project.

http://reporeader.com - a way of tracking repository activity that are hosted on GitHub.

https://emberflare.com - a community driven place where everyone can share news related to Ember.js. I have open sourced this project and it can be viewed in my GitHub profile.

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Great idea! I'm an amateur chess player (1200 rating) looking to improve my blitz game. So I'm looking for 1 hour of chess coaching, in return I offer 1 hour of code review of almost any language.
I don't think this is true at all. Nothing about my experience suggests this is the case. There's a very specific stage of startup that usually has little use for Jr. Devs - growing from seed to A round requires onboarding experts. But going from 0->seed or seed->validation or A/B round -> larger round or IPO requires lots of Jr. Devs.
Yes, data entry is the gap. I have been thinking about that and it seems like there are a number of solutions that would allow you to read the text from a photo, vivino.com is an example of an app that does this very well with wine labels. I wonder if you could take a high quality photo of the receipt and the app would add the contents of the receipt to the db based on this? I know its not going to be seamless and may take a bit of manual work at the beginning. Partnering with a grocery store or multiple when the solution picks up traction could also simplify things significantly.
Keyboard shortcuts should work (Spacebar for Hand, Ctrl for Move, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, ...). I haven't added context menu yet. Which features do you mean?