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Hm, good point.

I suppose there are two parts to my assertion:

1. When you think of yourself as talking to an actual person, you are less likely to be dumb and/or mean.

2. As HN has grown, the degree to which the average commenter considers themselves to be talking to an actual person has decreased.

I was pretty sure I'd be able to find a psychology or sociology study somewhere giving some evidence on (1) or a more general case of (2) for large groups. Wildly, it looks like all of the interest is on how groups reduce your personal identity (deindividuation), not how they reduce the identity of others to you.

So I guess without an appeal to prior research, the best thing would be to develop a measure of "does this comment seem like it's addressed to a real person". You could do that by manually going through and rating them, as (I believe?) you already did with quality metrics.

You could also come up with some heuristics and cross-check them with your own assessment. Here are some I can think of:

* Use of parent's username

* Use of first names

* Use of other usernames

* Use of "you", "your".

* Email addresses, phrases like "contact me", "email me", etc.

* Questions.

* Comment reply chains (ie people replying to a descendent of their own comment)

* "Please", "Thanks" and "Thank you"

I'm not saying that I think comments with this quality are necessarily good, but my prediction is that per (2) the proportion of such comments correlates inversely with the number of active users and per (1) that proportion correlates with a drop in comment quality.
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Interestingly, they seem to only stop pre-installing Google Play recently and they claimed that it's due to Chinese policies [1]. According to my knowledge it should be more of Google policies...

In the same link [1] they also provided an (official?) installer for Google Play apps. Again, I'm not sure whether it conforms to Google policies.

1. http://en.miui.com/thread-3998-1-1.html
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Thanks to your cue, I found a candidate gene that might fit the bill called Medea [0]. Wolbachia itself won't cause catastrophic sex-ratio imbalances, so does not cause a "White Plague" scenario.

[0] http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bio2.0/engineering_in_th...
> The gap between rich and poor is ever widening,

The "gap" between the rich and poor is a function of possible productivity. As it becomes possible for people to do more, there will be more of a spread between people who do nothing and people who max out their potential. When all farmers worked farmed by hand, the "gap" between the lazy and the industrious was a few bushels of food. But now that there are tractors and financing available, the top farmers produce maybe thousands of times more than the little farmers.

The situation is similar in every field, especially those involving mass distributions. An interesting youtube video can get millions of times more views than an ordinary video. Is this a problem? Should we force people to watch uninteresting videos, or cap the interesting videos to reduce the viewing gap?

I don't see why increased productivity should be a concern, especially since being productive today generally means imparting benefits to large numbers of people. Larry Page is very rich, but he got that way by helping everybody with an internet connection to find useful information.

> . . . the middle class is eroding away, yet all the while production has been increasing. Wages are being driven down artificially low.

I don't understand what you mean by "artificially low" wages. Wages are generally set by supply and demand. As long as people are free to choose alternatives, they are not working for artificially low wages. An example of people with artificially low wages are prisoners who must take the work offered to them by prison officials. But the majority of people are not in prison.

> you actually seem okay with slavery

I'm all for stamping out slavery where it is committed by one person against another. No one should take away another's right to contract. But where a person voluntarily degrades himself, I see that as his choice, not mine.

> the right to freedom of movement is actually a far more fundamental and clear cut human right than the right to form contracts and do trade.

I agree that freedom of movement is a fundamental right. I'm not sure if it's more important that the right to contract or trade. I think it's less fundamental because there are a few situations where you could legitimately not have freedom of movement (while traveling in an airplane or trespassing), but I can think of very few situations where you wouldn't have the right to contract. (You might have contracted away your right to make future contracts for a limited time and subject-matter.)
Categorically, yes. But, you're only likely to succeed if you for one, question the fundamental assumptions on which things are built. Anything less is incremental, or so far down-track in clinical trialing that it wont get funded or wouldn't be sufficient, respectively). Questioning assumptions is fairly straight-forward because so much out there is high quality but seriously questionable bull. Not seeking to cast derisions, just that biology, by its very organic nature, is volatile and often uncooperative. The problem of course is that now we are talking about obtaining deep-domain knowledge, which can take some time, absolute minimum 5 years to read everything, condense and connect-the missing dots. My project, for example, has taken me literally a dozen years, in part, because I hadn't realized I'd started!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/28/us-science-cancer-... Accessed 28/04
Segmentation is a big issue for Chinese, but actually incremental parsers have been doing promising things here, because you can do the segmentation jointly with the parsing.

I'd start with Yue Zhang's papers for work on this: http://www.sutd.edu.sg/yuezhang.aspx
From all this, it sounds very much like a hobbyist industry in its infancy. At least for the cost-effective models.

I look forward to the Micro, but who knows it may suffer from any or all of the issues of its predecessor. Or it may rock.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/m3d/the-micro-the-first...
Lenovo didn't do it from scratch. Lenovo bought IBM's PC business.
And the FBI NEVER would abuse their power or use their access for other purposes. Same as the NSA.
There is no careful analysis. The graphs have basically 3 features: high inequality until the great depression, then low inequality, then inequality rises again. He doesn't have much in the way of graphs of r-g.

Rather than explaining why you need more than just a correlation, I'll link to the Lucas Critique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique

Finally, could you just explain this a bit more

Not sure I can explain better than the comment I linked to. If your capital and mine grow at the same rate, we'll have the same ratio of capital forever. I.e., my wealth will be X exp(rt), yours will be Y exp(rt).

This seems to be Piketty's implicit model in most of the book, though once or twice he calls it unrealistic. But he never actually states explicitly what his model is, so it's a bit hard for me to be sure.
vim is all muscle memory. You don't need to read any menus or icons. It is perfect for drunk coding with blurry vision. It just isn't ideal for casual use. This is the real difference.

Most web interfaces need to be immediately usable by a casual user to sell products or ad views.

Expert interfaces can be as complex as you like as long as they reward learning time with productivity improvements. If you are going to be spending the rest of your career writing text, spending hundreds of hours learning a powerful tool is time well spent. Not that vim is that tool for everyone but most programming editors will have a learning curve which is beyond anything a casual user would attempt.
http://www.archimodels.info

Leader blog in this niche. I don't want to sell but I would be interested in having a valuation.

Revenue: ~$100/month (adsense and amazon affiliates).

Costs: $0 (tumblr hosted) + ~2-4 hours curation/month.

Stable 4k uniques/month.
Java arrays, Wat?
you matt you lying * of

FREELANCER YOU ARE FULL OF CRAP, YOU HAVE BEEN IGNORING ME FOR A WEEK NOW, REFUSING TO LET ME WITHDRAW MY MONEY FROM MY ACCOUNT, CLAIMING THAT YOU ARE INVESTIGATING MY EMPLOYERn WICH HAS SENT YOU ALL THE REQUIRED DOCS SEVERAL TIME, JUST TO BE IGNORED, YOU ARE LYING TO ME? ABOUT HIS ACTIONS, AND ARE LYING TO HIM, ABOUT MY ACTIONS, YOU OWE ME 600$

AFTER MY PROJECT WAS FINISHED, AND PAYED INTO MY ACCOUNT, YOU REFUSE MY PAYMENT, ANDDO NOT EVEN INFORM MY EMPLOYER.

YOU ARE IGNORING ME ON EMAIL AND TWITTER, YOUR COMPANY IS A BIG HUGE SCAM !!!!

USERNAME ON FREELANCER WHITEWHIDOW !!!
And at that, they don't have massively high margins. Their marketing spend is absolutely huge, and would impede them from competing directly on price.
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"announced [...] that it is planning [...] this year." I'd be scared, too, about this vagueness.
Can some advertising or branding expert tell me why I buy iPhones and would never consider buying anything else?
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The Cython parser is basically an implementation of zpar, and achieves slightly faster run-times, and slightly better accuracy (I've added some extra features, and made some nips and tucks).

Note that the Stanford label set has 40 labels, so there are about 80 classes to evaluate. The Penn2Malt scheme has 20 labels, so you need to be careful which dependency scheme is being referenced when run-time figures are reported.

The way the run-time cost works is, if you extract f features per transition, for c classes, with a beam of size k and n words, you make O(cfkn) feature-lookups, which is the main cost.

For the parser.py implementation, most of the speed is coming from greedy search (k=1), and low number of classes (c=3, instead of c=80). Number of feature templates, f, is similar between this parser and zpar. We could add some more templates for label features, and do labelled parsing, and gain about 1% accuracy here, at the cost of being about 40x slower. The only reason I didn't was that it complicates the implementation and presentation slightly. The implementation was all about the blog post.

The Cython parser does everything with C data structures, which are manually memory managed. I don't think I'm paying any language overhead compared to a C++ implementation. So you're absolutely right that as more feature templates stack on, and you use more dependency labels, speed goes down. But, the Cython parser has no problem relative to zpar in this respect.
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I have no idea what the author rails (I'll get my coat) against in his blog post. I think he's being too passionate to be coherent. On a more serious note: I don't like the way he equates personal preference to job suitability - I don't think they should overlap (OK, in an ideal world).
Not sure what to explain. What implications do you believe I dislike?
Every time I see a blog post from the Cloudflare team I am impressed.

It isn't just their attention to detail that is impressive. They go out of their way not just to point out issue, but suggest fixes.

Too many Heartbleed blog posts from across the blogosphere, and sadly, HN comments, set out to criticize without suggesting something better.

Cloudflare has shown again that they are actively engaging the community for the communities benefit as well as their own.

This seems to be a very effective marketing strategy (I assume it is anyway).
Yep as I always tell nagging people; give me a laptop of Macbook (pro/air) specs and quality for less than the equivalent non Apple one. There isn't much and most simply are not on par; feel like they will fall apart any moment like the Ativ 9 plus, which is actually more expensive anyway.
>It's running Android - the closest equivalent product is the Samsung Galaxy S5

Kind of. It's running MIUI, which is like an iOS themed android (with some nice added extras, like the ability to block specific permissions on apps).

The closest equivalent product was the moto g. I was about to get one when they brought out the redmi (it's basically the same but cost $130).

>Speaking of ecosystems, does this thing have Google Play

Yep. All works fine for me.
Humans don't parse things byte by byte, his argument is perfectly valid. Yuo cna stlil raed tihs cnat yuo?
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I have to agree with what you posted, even though I'd like to know why the provided ID wasn't valid. A voice of reason like this is what the internet needs more of. Unfortunately the majority doesn't seem to understand the concept of objective reasoning.
Which makes sense for them, given that they can get away with it. They'd be well-placed to win a price war if one started, although it would probably hurt.
There was, at one point, a Twitter clone running at http://tent.is. But that now redirects to cupcake.io, which runs a tent hosting service.

There are some projects on the tent Github page but nothing with activity less than months old:

https://github.com/tent
Yes - we're currently building a multilingual site for an international NGO - but it doesn't currently do anything clever to link different language versions of the same content; in this implementation we're simply allowing editors to reference translated pages with a page chooser UI.
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N.N. Taleb has been seriously slamming this guy recently. I wonder if Picketty will respond

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm
Funny thing is, I can't find any laptop that's the same form factor as the Air that has a similar/better screen/RAM/CPU and with a price that doesn't include Apple's "premium". (I've been trying to find one for running Linux on for a few years now)
Good point, hadn't thought of that.
Found this one: https://github.com/syllog1sm/redshift
Unintended consequences, anyone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences

E.g. Rabbits in Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia#Biological...
I don't believe it's possible to tackle the gatekeeper or incumbents and win. You have to bypass them altogether before revisiting them. You have to, in Bill Gurley's words, have an orthogonal solution to the problem. My words, you have to be 100% disruptive. Or, you seek fast-track, accelerated approval, breakthrough therapy, and/or priority review, but then you will likely come across and have to compete against the incumbents, who've by the way woken-up on the orphan disease problem too. Truth is, we have bigger problems than orphan diseases in the world. Biotech startups should be tackling major diseases and focusing on transformative innovation, by questions the fundamentals.
There is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7390674 which is about http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2014/03/12/how-to-learn... - a different post on the same site about the same topic.
Read the Soliforums, disassemble the hot end and clean it with acetone and/or a torch. Worked for me.
Or consider ordering another hot end like the E3D one. Solidoodle support is famous for not giving proper advice out of fear of liability.
If you don't intend to keep it, don't forget that because of shipping costs and time delays, a solidoodle will still fetch a decent amount of money on the second hand market. Just contact your local hacker space and you will probably find someone to take it off your hands.
> Slavery is immoral because it takes away freedom of movement . . .

Here's a counter-example: the difference between a freeman farmer and a slave farmer is not that they don't have freedome of movement, but that the freeman has the right to sell the harvest to whom he wants while the slave does not.

It sounds like the definition of slavery as lack of freedom of movement was dreamed up by some law professor in order to avoid having to characterize the income tax as a form of slavery.
http://getforge.com/ - a superfast static web hosting service. Some clever tech, a bunch of users, very little support and brings in money. It's a nice project, but its success is more important than our owning it. Someone else will be able to do more with it than us :)
Weird. It's super smooth even in the Android WebKit control embedded in the HN app on Android 4.4.2.
It's been a long time since I switched to Chromium but I really thought Firefox got faster by now.

Quick screencast: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4MGwWE_SNv0elNfUVdmalp5NVE
these guys are the biggest scammers ever, i completed a project for +6000 dollars on freelancer, and after beeing payed by the amployer, and the project beeing completely finished, THEY WONT LET ME WITHDRAW THE FUNDS !!!

they now claim that the employer of that project is under investigation, but when i contact them, they know nothing about this ..

note that at this point in time, the employer has no reason whatsoever, to spend anymore time fixing this matter, as his work has been delivered, and he has already made payment to freelancer, released the milestone, and finished the project.

but now, I have to tell me employer, to ask freelancer whatsup ?

so freelancer told them they didint trust that the account was china based, yet logins where made from other locations.
so my employer explained why they needed a vpn in China, DUH

they then proceeded to request pictures of documents a copy of his id, AND a photo of him holding a printed out code wich they provided !! so he complied, but they them also needed a copy of hi's ENTRY STAMPS ON HIS PASSPORT? showing that he entered china ...

so my employer complied again .

(note that i knew all this from communicating with my employer at this point, as freelancer was ignoring me completely)

but now freelancer needed more documents, in english, wich my employer cant seem to get hold of in China (if i go to my Dutch bank and request chinese docs they wont comply either, duh)

anyway, so now we are stuck, beeing ignored, with +600 dollars in my account, wich they wont let me withdraw

notice the whole trivk here,

if you DO manage to get money from your employer into your account, they will simply refuse it when you try to wothdraw . at wich point you have to go haras your EX-employer, wich has not time for taking selfies, days on end, scanning docs, rescanning docs, over and over .

so their whole plan is simply for the employer to get sick of it, and stop trying, THEY HAVE NO REASON OTHERWISE, THEY PAYED AND GOT RESULT, DONE. and freelancer goes of with the money ..
Pixter: http://pixter.in

Like Instagram, but for more privacy conscious users. It's ad-free so users have to pay a yearly fee for using the app similar to App.net. Has support for comments, likes, push notifications and live filters.

We couldn't market it properly and also people were not as willing to pay as we had expected so we want to sell it.

Includes the iPhone app, the fully responsive web app and the backend. Code can be reused to make any type of photo/selfie sharing app.

More details: https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/717/pixter
Not to mention that:

1) Screen size is a personal preference, bigger != better. And even if it was so, Apple is preparing a new iPhone with a larger screen to be shown in June's WWDC according to all rumors.

2) Price is irrelevant if the devices are not comparable.

3) The iPhone regularly beats all other phones in camera reviews. If it's worse than anything, it is marginally worse. And after you get your photos in, the iPhone has crazy good apps for managing them, from VSCO and Camera+, to Photoshop and Lightroom Mobile.

4) And all that are for last years model. In less than 2 months there will be a NEW iPhone announced.
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Income isn't the issue and this is why income shouldn't be taxed. Rather, savings should be taxed.
you mean your fraud team right ? please go lay in the middle of the road, AFTER you release my money out of my account, wich you WONT !!!
Is that very different from any buffer-overrun bug? Isn't this a common problem in every browser?

The interesting bit is, its been around for so long in this product line.
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I wonder how much employment laws play into this also? I moved from California (born and raised) to New York three years ago and currently work for a "Start up". I've been stunned to find the differences in employment laws, taxes, non-compete, cost of living etc.
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I honestly cannot tell if I'm supposed to take this seriously or not.
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They're trying to build up their brand the same way as Apple - with big bang launches and limited sales.

It sort of created a buzz in Singapore and Hong Kong. Lots of people were talking about this super cheap high spec phone that sold out in minutes.

Who knows if it will pay off in the long run, though.
A similar, albeit private yet arguably more intuitive, Australian alternative:
http://nearmap.com/au
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Printf debugging and its equivalents is something that can be done in all languages. I use it in Erlang too from time to time in dev.

What makes it win is how easy it is to use. What makes it lose is how tedious and manual it is. And how it is restricted to an environment where you are allowed to recompile and load code all the time, and where the output is not going to mess up any other data stream.

I'm starting to phase out printf debugging in favor of tracing, because the tracing tools in Erlang are just infinitely better and more flexible, AND they can work on a production running system without impacting performance in any major way.

I'm able to match specific functions, with specific argument sets. I can see what they returned, and match only specific processes or generations of processes. I can do it from a REPL (because there is one, even in production systems, without needing to run stuff in a screen session), without messing up any related output stream.

Printf debugging is attractive because of how simple and minimally disruptive it is when you're already writing code. As much as it amazes me, it turned out not to be the most convenient tool available for most cases, even if I still use it from time to time.
Reminds me of the definition of pornography: you know it when you see it. Or Plato's man: an upright biped without feathers. Somebody plucked a chicken and said "Plato's man!". So he added "with broad nails".

Any time you try to create a minimal taxonomy you get into games like this. No malicious intent by theoretical law professors need be imagined.
Do you have an email to contact you ? Didn't find any in your profile.
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If you're looking for the academic papers, my Google Scholar page is here: http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=FXwlnmAAAAAJ&hl=... . The 2013 paper with Yoav Goldberg and Mark Johnson, and the 2014 paper with Mark Johnson are the two main things I've published with the system. I have another paper almost ready for publication, too.
If that overhead comes from Python then have you tried running either of the implementations on PyPy?
It's true that console.log is bound in FF and Node but that
s not the issue here. Passing console.log to then will cause the next handler to receive the return value of the console.log call, i.e. undefined.
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