skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely agree that Wikipedia has these problems - I would never recommend that anyone edit Wikipedia and it loses a lot of expert knowledge by having significant barriers to contributing.

But most users don't see this. As a source of information, Wikipedia is unparalleled. There is nothing in existence that comes close.

So, it's difficult to say that Wikipedia doesn't work.
Of course, when writing Haskell, you could always just wrap the individual operators in parentheses and get the prefix forms (as distinct from fully parenthesizing to disambiguate with infix forms). Getting others to do so (and getting them to merge your code) may be an uphill battle, though...
Why Sweden has so few road deaths
I'd accept every single spam email that includes $1 in it.
Seems fair.
When I sleep. When I get passive exercise like taking the steps instead of the lift. When I'm exercising with somebody else. When........
Mink is a 3D printer for makeup
I was one of the people disappointed with the acquisition.. but to be honest as long as they put out a decent bit of kit and I actually get to experience VR the way they're demoing it I'll be one happy dude
NSA fixes website security leak
That's not very useful for anyone else on HN is it? It's gotten to the point where I'm tempted to petition that sites with pay walls just get banned.
Shoot! I'll be able to retire http://ddgg.nfriedly.com soon!
Vision Zero [fatalities or serious injuries on Swedish highways]
I believe that Atom has been around for quite some time, but it's been internal at GitHub, so it's had time to evolve too.
Can't help but think some of the traffic engineers in the UK are a little bonkers, see Swindon's Magic Roundabout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)).
He ran into trademark issues with http://www.plastiq.com. Same payment space, and they beat him to filing a trademark by a year (by his account he was waiting to secure the domain name first, which cost him that year). Ended up getting a demand to transfer the domain to them for free [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/drewwilson/status/446708094911799296
Right - basically you musn't disagree with a woman, otherwise it is sexism and bullying.

What is your job anyway - how come you deal with so many obnoxious men? Do you also deal with the same amount of women, and they are less obnoxious? Or are there perhaps many more men, and you tend to remember the obnoxious ones.

I have the impression you don't have much self-consciousness either. How does that align with your theory about the world?
This is a problem with a lot of the enhancements that custom ROMs provide on Android. They break the API contract a developer has with the SDK and unexpected things happen. It's the reason all these ROMs aren't allowed to ship with Google Apps installed -- they fail the compatibility test. Most developer don't bother to investigate these issues and work around it because they're rarely documented and hard to discover.
If I may make a feature request: I would like some way to search that preserves symbols in the query. For instance I would like to be able to search for Lab* and not get results for L-A-B, L.A.B etc.
Sounds like an interesting webcast topic.
This. Definitely. Physical activity helps me survive my days so much more than coffee does. Even just 10 minutes of core exercises can give you a huge boost that lasts longer than caffeine.
Can you point me to some of those studies, please?

It sounds extremely sexist to me to make such a claim. My experience with men has been different as well. Also my experience with women (they are not all timid about their opinions).

In any case, I don't see the relevance of the theory to the Wikipedia incident. So why does she quote it? Because the Wikipedia editor happens to be male, and the quote is supposed to discredit all male opinions.

She wrote a whole blog article about it - is that an example of "an informative messages phrased as a suggestion, offer, or other non-assertive acts"? I don't think so - she disproves the theory, yet you defend it.

If you are a woman, you also disprove the theory, because you claim a fact: "But it's not drivel. Men and women communicate differently, that's supported by many, many studies." That's not a suggestion, offer, or non-assertive comment you made.
YC ready to accept more startups again
Unfortunately you'll also be automating away an element of driving that many people consider fun.
> So, it's difficult to say that Wikipedia doesn't work.

True, it would be more measured to say that some aspects of it don't work. Specifically, it doesn't really work all that well as a method of curating and incrementally improving content. That's because content is only a byproduct of what's truly happening there. Granted, it's a pretty awesome byproduct given the circumstances, without being facetious I would even say that Wikipedia should be considered one of the world wonders by right.

However, we're increasingly coming up against the limitations imposed by its horrendous culture. The reactionary nature of that culture will mean increasing calcification, and a high rate of actions that are net-detrimental to content quality [citation needed]. At some point, we'll need to move on and find better paradigms for content curation.
And here's mine, a shopping list app: https://github.com/gschwarzer/Shopping-List
UPS Just Delivered a $400,000 Drone to Some Dude by Mistake
print in Arabic should be اطبع not إتبع

إتبع means "to follow" while اطبع means "to print"
In 2 years, HHVM will perform so much faster than PHP 6 and Hack will offer so many added benefits that even the shared hosting guys will switch to it as it will make them serve more sites with the same hardware plus developers will push to have Hack in place anyway.
Maybe try increasing the PHP memory limit? I don't think Wordpress is causing the slowness you are seeing.
Haskell does have a pretty good C FFI, so it's not as if you're necessarily going to have to reinvent the wheel. I know precisely nothing about Clojure's C FFI - I'd guess it has a fine one, which of course means that this isn't an edge for Haskell per se but it does make the Java interop slightly less important.
Now two transactions of 0.0003 BTC
Point taken. I was thinking of the wheelchairs I've seen people pushed around hospitals in which don't necessarily correspond to what people buy for themselves for the long term.
Apple donates $500,000 to Silicon Valley anti-poverty group
I wonder what happens to speed limits when self driving cars are ubiquitous... I mean, once there are no more revenue from violations, and cars know ideal speeds far better than legislatures, should we just let the computers figure out what speed they want to go?
Many Bitcoin transactions do pay fees today because miners are deprioritizing no-fee transactions. But yes, each block contains a coinbase[1] transaction that creates 25 BTC out of nowhere.

[1] No relation to the company of the same name.
Indeed, but if you consider that plenty of cheap servers with larger links exist, and attackers aren't limited to using one...

Essentially, you'd run this across a botnet so that rather than focusing all the traffic at one target, you retrieve the massive amount of data much faster than your single system could.
> Nobody mentions how much or little the PHP community thrives. People point out how bad PHP compares against other languages.

I don't actually think that faults in a language matter that much if the people using it are competent. Both Javascript and Perl come close to PHP in terms of negative traits, yet a lot of good software was written with both. The same can be said about PHP, the only difference is that people on HN have very little idea about what contemporary PHP (language and software) looks like.
holy shit. I'd be furious.

In my case, I was pissed, but mainly due to opportunity cost rather than the trip itself.

By the way, you should email their founder and let them know. I doubt he/she is aware of this, and would be equally furious to know that their workers are burning bridges like this, because that's exactly what they did.

In my case, the company did actually burn a bridge. My much larger company was looking for a strategic partner with high levels of data science expertise on sensor based data. This particular company came into consideration, and I made sure to remove them from selection. Hell hath no fury like a geek scorned.
It could use laser eyes to blind the other drivers. :)
Not explicitly, but the difference in "assert their opinions as 'facts'" and "phrase their informative messages as suggestions, offers, and other non-assertive acts." is certainly, in my eyes at least, offering a judgement on which is better.
Joe is an expert on startups, I plan on learning a great deal from these webcasts. I've been asking him my startup questions for years and always got great advice.
You can read more about the ClojureScript compiler here: http://swannodette.github.io/2014/01/14/clojurescript-analys...
If you limit the world to Silicon Valley that's probably true.

With startup school coming to London accelerators elsewhere will definitely be starting to get worried, but for now YC is simply 'best of breed', not a monopoly.

Google has a near monopoly on search. YC definitely does not (yet) have a monopoly on the concept of acceleration or even the start-up scene in general.

The reason why they might achieve a monopoly at some point is because of the network effects in the alumni.
...(though neither exposes network sockets).

I'm not sure, but that may no longer be true with systemd.
It's not copy and paste. Stripe Checkout does not even take a payment. All it does is present the UI to collect information, then returns a token to your page via a hidden form field. You must then write code to accept the form submission, use Stripe's API to make a charge against the token you received, send receipts and deliver the product.

Here's the Stripe Checkout integration guide for Rails for example: https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/guides/rails
Off topic, but the scroll down to be slammed into a full screen slide show is quite disorienting.
The general premise is that in practice templates usually end up very tightly bound to the view using the template, so you're not actually gaining anything by putting them in a different file and there's a lot of downsides to using a different language for templating.
Bash and most of shell tools are UTF-8 aware if you use right locale. Shouldn't have problems. But I doubt those are bidi aware.

JVM is unicode-ready. So is Haskell, which benefits from having less text and more punctuation. I've been there with some code in Clojure where every identifier was named in cyrillic. All library and syntax are still in english so that doesn't look right.
There's a huge problem with the monopoly status of Comcast in this case: I'd dump an ISP for not quickly (ie, in a 3-4 month span) working something out with Netflix if I could.

Comcast's monopoly status is greatly impacting their negotiating position, and is core to this issue.

I mean, I'm trying to get a deal worked out with Netflix where they send me some information. For various technical reasons, this deal needs to go through a couple middlemen. Literally the only middleman I can hire is refusing to work out a deal with them that doesn't give an unusual benefit to that middleman (while Netflix's middleman is offering the standard package), and is screwing me in the process. I'd take literally any other middleman if I could, but this particular middleman has political connections, and stops that from being possible.
Pro tips for checking in dependencies
I'm not sure why you guys ganged up to downvote on something obvious - PHP is loosing grounds to HHVM already. I'm considering it for all my PHP projects already - it's easy to install and most PHP frameworks are well-supported already (http://hhvm.com/frameworks/). I can imagine HHVM having integration within Nginx a la HttpLuaModule, which uses LuaJIT and would eliminate going the FastCGI route.
It sounded from your original article like you were a director, in the UK I believe directors have personal legal responsibilities to ensure that the company is solvent. Without access to the accounts I would resign as a director even if I stayed as a technical lead or at least would get individual legal advice.

I'm sure that you will much wiser next time, I just want to help you maximise the benefit and was focused on an unambiguous red flag rather than the harder to spot issue of convincing people who shouldn't be trusted (and/or are out of their depth).
...or however you spell it.
The tone of the comments is actually really striking. It almost sounds like people are pleading with Facebook to get their act together.
Afterdark is still my absolute favourite. I believe it had/has a cult following in the Mac community that is probably larger than the Irix community.
+1 on the blue links. Sure, on most websites blue links might look like the 1990s are calling, but on a search engine with a list of results, there has to be /something/ to set apart each result from its neighbors. I also like the brownish urls on the current layout, just because it also serves to set apart each result.

Unfortunately, in terms of readability, the new layout is a major step backwards.
Tracy, that's a great initiative, I wish you all the best with the book!

I wonder what the thought process was behind the decision though - i.e. how did you decide to write a book, whether you tested/researched the market in any way?
Looking forward to the Facebook App Store launch. What do you think its name will be?
Thanks for clarifying. Registering and licensing are not same.
Ask HN: How do I quit?
I have been working for a small but funded company (6 people) for the past 3 and a half months and have come to the decision that the role/team and me are not a good fit. I have approximately 2 and a half weeks unpaid work. We work remotely so there isn't a chance that I see my boss soon, so over email would be the best, can anyone share best practices and how I should do it. (I am totally willing to give 2 weeks notice) Thank you!
I appreciate pg's lack of hubris.
Coincidentally also on the front page right now - realtime hex editing with NES hardware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7700990
I concur: low-contrast sites make reading extremely uncomfortable and gratuitous mouseover color changes make for a bad experience. Please don't!
The fixed header feels like a massive waste of space for me too, especially if I zoom in to increase the uncomfortably small font.
I like the idea and creativity of the project and find it ridiculous that people debate whether it is ok or not to have programming in another language. That is kind a arrogant...let it be guys. It will happen with or without your consensus. It is like saying pizza is ok but not kebab..come on come on...I like both ;)
I'm curious as to whether you have some further complication than spam filters here. I got as far in your pipeline as answering one email about what location I'm interested in, and then heard nothing more. This might not be news, but if you're having trouble getting other messages it also might be worth knowing.
New to FB platform work, eh?
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Supreme Court upholds legislative prayer in Town of Greece v. Galloway
David Nolen (@swannodette) has been doing some great work in Om with ClojureScript and React. In addition to the links posted - this is a link on why ClojureScript's data structures (functional with structual sharing) make implementing undo trival in Om http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/31/time-travel/ and this is a link on data binding in Om with :instrument http://swannodette.github.io/2014/02/27/taking-off-the-blind...
Feverish, I think it will depend upon the callers and email questions. Some specific "I'm having this issue with my co-founder or investor" and some general "how do I start a company." All are welcome! Be sure to tune in Thursday!
"Since the author used that statistic and didn't immediately launch into a justification of how it's not completely crazy, I can't trust this article enough to read further."

The methodology is in the footnote. But at least cancer deaths from smoking deaths lag by several decades, so I don't see why it would be at all unusual for there to be more smoking deaths than current smokers.
Particularly considering the original author is likely a female based on old talk pages.
Or if you're truely evil, you insert the zero-width space inbetween .supercool and .super᠎cool
Great comment! I'd like to add to the points you made based on my experience.

-To stay focused, I set and obey time limits on researching startup advice and studying the domain of my startup.

-Everyday I write in a journal, among other things, about one great decision I made the previous day. This has helped me to consciously make better decisions. Therefore, more often than not, I decide to act/build rather than just think about something relative to my startup.

-Fortunately I'm not a single founder this time, but I have been on multiple past projects. A great friend of mine from college has agreed to co-found my current startup with me. One of the most important advantages I've gained is having someone that I trust and respect who can discuss ideas with candor. Try to find someone like this, even if they're not your co-founder.
Apparently you must have a facebook account to read this. Does the link point to a status page or a discussion?
To my knowledge a JIT compiler is not being added to PHP 5.7. Can you clarify your comment or provide a link to the source where you heard this?
CS, thanks, you can ask your questions any time!
Thanks pviswana, I really appreciate it! Tell your friends please.
Apple (et al the total is $10M) is going to get some blowback for giving so little given their cash reserves. But it's a great gesture and a great start. The long term solution is going to require more vision than charitable giving in my opinion. How can tech meaningfully impact regular Americans in their endeavors? Awesome devices, free email and messaging is incredible, don't get me wrong. But, for example, the car companies of the previous century also lifted a middle class and gave them an opportunity to raise a family, send their kids to school and have a stake in the country's future. I don't have the answers, but I do know lots of working class folks need more (and better) job opps.
Where I live, signs that change to adept to the traffic flow a pretty common[1]. Also, sign for construction sites are not in gps databases.

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VBA_showing_100_kilom...
A unitasker (http://unclutterer.com/tag/unitasker/), And not the first attempt to sell a gadget to scramble eggs in the shell.
I mean, I hope things go well for them and their partnership brings nothing but good things. From what I've seen, they've put a lot of work in to their device and made significant gains.

But Facebook doesn't and won't have a device in my life, and I refuse to buy an Occulus product because I don't believe that Facebook won't get access to usage data (or be involved as a platform middleman).
Mobile friendly should be an important consideration also.
As noted in the comments, this is in stark contrast to Facebook's new SLA policy announced at F8, with the patch seemingly slated for release in Facebook's standard iteration rather than fast-tracked to "within 48 hours."

http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2014/04/30/facebook-announces...

It seems as though they're already playing the "it's not a major bug" triage game that most companies find themselves trapped in upon agreeing on an SLA.

Obviously depending on Facebook's APIs for your well-being has never been a good move, but this API seems particularly egregious to break as it's mostly used by branding/marketing managers, the very people who give Facebook their revenue stream.
Exploiting glitches in-game on real hardware is always cool, but not always ... convenient. ;)

This sorta reminds me of a story about Intellivision's hit game "ASTROSMASH!" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrosmash).

The game was originally meant to be a clone of Asteroids called "Meteor!", but Mattel cancelled the clone due to legal concerns. But there was still room on the cart, which the developer had been using to develop his own unique game called "Avalanche". This is what eventually became ASTROSMASH (my favorite game as an 8 yearold who never got that NES...)

The legend was that the code for the original Asteroids clone was still on the cart; people claimed that pressing the reset button on the console rapidly would cause the game to glitch into Meteor instead of Astrosmash, but I could never make it work as a kid.

Years later, I got my hands on an intellivision emulator that had really nice disassembler/assembler included (http://spatula-city.org/~im14u2c/intv/). By then I had also read online that the developer simply put a JMP instruction at the beginning of the cart to skip over the original "Meteor" code.

Sure enough, I found a ROM for ASTROSMASH, disassembled it, found the JMP in question and modified the assembly, reassembled, and suddenly I was playing "Meteor!"

Either way, it's a good thing that Mattel trashed the Asteroids clone; ASTROSMASH turned out to be a much better game!
I think the new look is awesome but I'd still use DDG either way.
Thanks!

I've been ruminating about the book for awhile now — first, after I learned to code, I got it in my head that I could teach it a bit differently/more efficiently for creatively-minded folks. I've also attended a lot of conferences with beginner tracks which frustrated me as I found they still weren't totally beginner friendly.

The book process officially started last fall — I made a survey to see whether designers (my original market) were even interested in coding, and started working on the book after I got good results. I shopped the idea to a few publishers, was accepted by one, but decided that I would rather publish it myself and turned the offer down. (Mainly keep control and additional potential revenue were my reasons, not to mention that the process looked fun.)

Continued writing until right before PyCon, which I realized that Kickstarter might be a good avenue to get an "advance" as well as being good marketing for the book, so I launched the campaign, and here we are. :)
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It's a mature, well designed and cleanly written piece of software that is very modular. It also has a great documentation and knowledgeable community around it.

Other PHP frameworks lack some or most of these features: some are either very opinionated and rigid (Yii, Cake) huge and sparsely documented (Zend 2) or just old and approaching abandonment (Codeigniter, Kohana).
Wikipedia has all these problems... and yet it somehow DOES work.

I mean, I choose not to spend much time trying to edit it myself, because of these issues. But I use it ALL THE TIME to look stuff up. Don't you? And my impression is I'm getting at least as high quality information as from traditional print resources. I suppose it's possible I'm wrong, but we get into all sorts of epistemological questions there.
"Like the catcall of 'whore' or 'crook,' the Facebook Platform passes judgement before you even signed up for it. ... If you were innocent, why did you start using the Facebook Platform in the first place? ... Maybe it's me, maybe it's me, Facebook devs whisper quietly, alone, every Tuesday, before heaving the deep, lumbering sighs of resignation beyond sorrow."

http://www.bogost.com/blog/oauth_of_fealty.shtml
The Atom Shell framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on node.js and Chromium and is used in the Atom editor.