skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use an RDF datastore (OpenLink Virtuoso, clustered edition) as our primary datastore. We use it in combination with Apache Solr to provide fulltext search over various resources that we extract and pass through an Indexing pipeline to go from RDF Graph -> Search Document.
Experimented, I'm not sure I made it to 'helpful'....

https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll#q=conway%27...
This is weirdly ubiquitous in the RDF store world as well. I eventually gave up talking about 'triple stores' and called them 'RDF stores' instead :-)
The words "not known" by the other gender seem to still be known by 50-60% of the gender that allegedly doesn't know them. I don't know that that is a really useful test.
It's a meme, sort of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful.
> But Uber (and some others) try to undermine any kind of regulation and so cutting costs to enable cheaper service.

I can only speak for Cambridge, MA (which this article also mentions), but Uber has consistently provided a VASTLY superior experience compared to traditional Cambridge cab companies. Cambridge cabs are ludicrously overpriced; are frequently poorly maintained and old; have drivers who speak poor English, talk on the phone during the whole trip, and don't know where they are going; don't accept credit cards; have overpriced fixed cost routes to popular destinations (thanks government); sometimes won't even take a fare unless they judge it's worth their while; and are hard to find.

Contrast this with Uber where the vehicles come to you; the drivers are vetted and courteous (and can be punished if they are not); the cars are new and generally nice (I have even been picked up in Mercedes S500s and a BMW 7 series on Uber X, and my friend was once picked up in a Tesla); the payment process is simple with no bullshit about tipping; the drivers are about as knowledgeable about locations as traditional Cambridge cabs; and it's CHEAPER.

I don't normally care much about local government affairs, but if Cambridge tries to protect the inferior cab service by banning Uber, I will be at the polling stations come next election trying to vote out anyone involved.
>>You can sell apples without an "apple vendor" license.

You don't need a licence,but you need to make sure your apples adhere to hundreds of different regulations regarding food safety. The same thing here - people transporting passengers for money should adhere to regulations that make such business safe for everyone.
It might be interesting if it were possible to declare war against an organization, as opposed to a sovereign nation. The conflict between Western nations and Al Qaeda is complicated by the fact that it doesn't fit into previous models of military conflict, and there seems to be a reluctance to update those models. It would also be useful if a nation were required to control activities within its borders and not empowered to respond militarily to border violations in pursuit of combatants.
Playing devil's advocate a little, the value in the data from an intelligence perspective is probably in the network it uncovers. If you know a circle of people are regularly exchanging encrypted messages, then you can try to target one member and get them to compromise the group by turning them into an informant. Similarly, if you suspect someone, you can look at their records to discover the networks of potential conspirators, then fan-out for each member until you have a big picture of interactions between different networks.

There's a great example of exploiting simple person-person interaction graphs to generate this information here: http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metada...
The original title lacks "only". It's useful because these are the words with the biggest difference between men and women.
...and I believe the key word here is 'major'.

There are a lot of small, one-off, often very useful utilities that people are now sharing with each other via Github (I'm guilty/a participant in this phenomenon), and many noble users of these utilities want to help, contribute, and send PRs... a non-negligible number of them new to Git.

So, is it more of a PITA to set up a feature branch for a single python script and instruct users in your CONTRIBUTING file to 'make sure they submit PRs to branch XYZ!' or just deal with the odd occasional PR to master? Folks new to Git will probably just send a PR to master anyway (I believe OP addresses the 'new user' issue as well, having to explain Git commands to users in comments on a PR)

That all being said, I still typically follow the workflow shadowmint outlines above.
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That's cuz Linus Torvalds doesn't have much of a bedside manner. I agree with ya'll on the quality commit message stuff, but that last third was all conjecture from your part, homey.
What's the advantage of this versus just rate-limiting the number of requests per IP.
I think you are the one who doesn't understand how food supply works. Stores stock items which are popular - not ones which sell rarely. If disabled passengers are less than 5% of all taxi passengers, private companies might ignore them entirely because they are not worth the investment into their fleet.
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> yet somehow most businesses can still restrain themselves and do not follow me around

Hmm no. It's just harder to do but they are working on it. Any big shop uses tons of tracking on every level. Pay by CC or use your fidelity card, facial tracking, MAC address of your phone. In London a company was providing the phone tracking service on the streets, installed on their bins, until they got shot down by the government.
I saw it before on Marginal Revolution or somewhere and was impressed with its accuracy. I'm a guy and English is my second language. I knew all the words on the first list, and one from the second.
Will there be a tablet version as well (Nexus 7 2013)?
I found the vocab test itself [1] quite interesting, but without information about the distribution of scores it's difficult to interpret the "% words known" metric.

Is the distribution of scores publicly available anywhere?

[1] http://vocabulary.ugent.be/wordtest/start
http://love2d.org - see you there.
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Modded down because somebody can't take a joke? Truth hurts doesn't it?

If you want serious examples, look at OpenGL standardization and how every competent GL developer has to work around the standard via GL extensions because the standards body fails to deliver anything useful. Here's just one historical gripe.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/13/opengl_firestorm/

Or look to Douglas Crockford's snipes at the ECMA standards committee for JavaScript, such as how they failed to clean up known problems until only after the hilarious talk "WAT" (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat) went viral and really humiliated them.
"The free market will fix it" has historically not been an effective answer to problems the disabled have.
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Many do.
Wow this is interesting! I'm male and knew all of the male words (some thanks to RPG games :)), but only one of the female ones: mascarpone (because I made tiramusu a few times :))

Note: English is not my native language and what I use English for is probably not biased towards the kind of words in the female list.
It's a play on the classic Dijkstra letter, "Goto Considered Harmful." Also yes, I think it's harmful. A co-worker and I wanted to use a new up and coming FOSS project that's hosted on GitHub, but we needed a certain killer feature. Said co-worker worked for about 4 weekends in a row, and fully implemented it, with nice abstraction and separation of concerns. The code was then turned down because it was "too seperated, and unnessecarily abstracted" which we disagreed with. Thus the pull request, with an amazing feature, sits languishing because he nor I is going to spend another few weekends working on a project that won't integrate new features unless they're perfect and conform to the original author's idea of "perfect code".
You got me thinking... Combine this with something similar to Tasker, so it only works when you're in trusted areas (Office, Home - Not coffee shops, etc...)... This could also increase security if somebody was to somehow steal both your laptop and your phone...

On a tangent, I'm really excited about this and hope there's a Windows+Android version on the way (or clone)...
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Well, a stereotype is not necessarily unfounded. In the region where I come from (around a chemical factory), it wasn't hard do describe populations in a certain town as "chemical workers". You'd probably describe 60% of the population. And a country where only men were allowed into the military for ages also assign and teach those things based on gender.

The problem with stereotypes is that they are a very bad indicators to judge any specific individual now (both because they carry history and bad fit). You might miss important points or assume knowledge that isn't there on a regular basis. Gender stereotypes are especially problematic as they split the whole population into two and assign a lot of attributes purely based on one criterion.

The effects and conditions leading to a certain stereotype are also a fun thing to research.
> I miss the days of more regulation, but won't use Uber merely because they don't guarantee union wages etc like the other companies do.

This raises the question, do you refuse to use any service that doesn't guarantee union wages? If so, picking up an econ textbook will pay for itself in no time.
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Yes, that's how it works. If you want to run a restaurant you need to obtain a certificate saying that it's safe and hygienic, if you want to run a theatre you need to make sure that emergency exits are clearly marked and that there is sufficient ventilation, and also, if you want to transport people for money you need to have a certificate that says that 1) you are able to physically 2) your vehicle is in good enough condition. For all of those things you need the "higher authority" and it's a good thing.
Posted a few days ago, not much discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7896864

And a derivative with no discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7936589
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Fellow men, if you don't know what mascarpone is you're missing out.
More like the stereotypes are self-reinforcing via society, and this result (research is too strong a word) just reflects the cultural expectation ⇄ stereotype feedback loop.
My solution. Gmail Filter -> Forward to Mandrill Email Address -> Mandrill Webhook -> POST to HTTP endpoint that will issue a Twilio voice call to my phone.

I then have my Twilio number added as a favorite contact in iOS Phone app thus bypassing the scheduled Do Not Disturb feature. I will continue to get calls every 3 minutes until I answer the call and press 5. That's my "shit hit the fan" alarm.
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I will happily accept advertisements as long as they are self-hosted in a way that doesn't report back to any external entity.

The problem [for me] is not the advertising as long as it's reasonably done (static, textual, non-invasive). It's the fact that every third party has their own behaviours, and I have no idea what any of them are. I instead must rely on the judgement of the person running the site - and most of them appear fairly unaware of the privacy implications associated with both advertisements and analytics services.
I wanted to try MWO. I couldn't cut and paste my password into the game client. I sent them an email asking them to add support for cutting and pasting passwords into the game client.

The response was that they didn't want to encourage people using password managers. I pointed out that what they were effectively encouraging was password reuse which is far worse. And of course no two-factor and the forum password (same as account password) is not transmitted over HTTPS according to one thread.

I moved on to try Hawken. Hawken had the exact same problem and my support post in the forum elicited no response.

Hard to get excited about whatever they have to offer with my massive backlog on Steam. Warframe was a lot of fun for the 20 or so hours I typically put into a game.

When it comes to large projects I tend to generalize. Lack of attention to detail at any level usually comes from the top down and is pervasive.
Ugh, the way this blog post is written reminds me of all those fast-cut YouTube videos made to hold your attention by changing camera angles every 2 seconds.
Yeah, it really sucks for you that you work in an ever-changing industry that will keep you gainfully employed and professionally challenged for many years to come and has a history of paying well.

Sucks to be you.

WTF.
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It surprises me the word 'biped' being there. What's the reason behind men knowing this word way more than woman? I fail to find a stereotype answer for this (unlinke kevlar or taffeta)...
Don't you know almost every shop tracks you by your CC, and they literally put up fake wireless networks, so they can track your phone MAC address when you walk around a store?

The world on the street is exactly as cynical as the one online. It's the same world. Online it's just easier to track people even more, so they get tracked even more.
And you can combine different easter eggs: https://www.google.nl/search?q=%3Cblink%3E#q=tilt
Wow somebody get this lunatic lady out of power.

First of all 20 cases over 6 months is not bad however they neglected to say what the total amount of cases processed over these 6 months was. Was it 100 or 100000?

What is the reason they could not get the data did they not have enough evidence to get a warrant all cases are not created equal.

"She dismissed as "nonsense" claims that the UK's secret listening post GCHQ is exploiting a technical loophole in legislation that allows it spy on YouTube and social media messages that are routed through foreign servers"

Now that is just living in your own little bubble it's pretty obvious by now that this is true.

I don't want delusional people making laws for me.

Anybody supporting this will not be getting my vote that's for sure.
Author here. While Geocodio isn't my first side project, it is the first one that's a real product with customers -- and it's a whole different beast. (Other projects were ad-supported.)

Since there's always a lot of talk on here about side projects as an additional income source, I figured people might find it helpful or at least a starting point for sharing their own dos and don'ts.
Agreed, that isn't just London, in NYC it is the same way. There are seasonal changes in traffic that can completely alter the route you should take to different parts of the city that seem illogical. Navigation systems don't currently take that into account.
Very Neat! Fast search of src code is also a personal itch of mine - I also work on site/webapp at let you search source code with mouse click.

http://www.srcmap.org/s/sl.htm/p=about#c=ABOUT

It cross reference of any strings in any text files inside a project.

I indexed the linux, bsd kernel, android AOSP (JB), openstack, golang, raspberrypi_userland, elasticsearch, nodejs and few other projects with it on that site.
I've got a lot of background in RDF graph stores. It depends a lot on your usage, but I think for your typical web app, you'd be better off using a Postgres install, and making use of fancier features like WITH RECURSIVE as necessary. Graph stores often miss out on features like guaranteed relational integrity and guaranteed constraints, which I find invaluable for safe application development in the face of concurrent updates.

Graph stores are typically much slower for repetitive data that fits cleanly into a relational model. This isn't to say they're not useful - for more irregular data they're a fantastic fit - it's just that very irregularly structured data isn't the common case.

Of course, you can always use two different stores - much like many sites do with a separate lucene/elasticsearch index for text search - but your graphing needs must be relatively componentised for that to work well.
I think the vast majority of people would rather look it up on Google Maps for five minutes and save $5.
Agreed. But protecting property that you own doesn't seem all that evil to me.
I also walk around town completely uncamouflaged, voluntarily displaying my uniquely identifiable face and whatnot, and yet somehow most businesses can still restrain themselves and do not follow me around...

It's a matter of cost/benefit to the businesses, that's all. When a business can track customers cheaply and finds the data useful, they just do it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/business/attention-shopper...
I would love to have an in-depth conversation about the origins of stereotypes and how they relate to real-world examples, but HN is too politically correct to make an attempt. Which is sad because HN people are generally intelligent enough to pick stereotypes apart without devolving into ugly banter.
Did I miss the part about where we learn HOW he actually lost the $100,000 in cash? Or what specifically lead to that other than some vague BS?
Hey, terraTech designer here! Gear Up looks cool, but no we are in no way related to them. Cheers!
I still have a copy of a TI TTL Data Book, completely useless these days with the internet, LVCMOS everywhere, all in one microcontrollers and FPGAs, but it's still cool to flip through every so often.
I sense a disturbance in the force, as if google was suddenly hit by a million requests by people wondering "What in blazes is mascarpone?"
Terrorists often hit military targets as well (Khobar towers, Beirut Marine barracks, etc.). Throughout most of "the troubles" the IRA targeted the military or police, should they not have been considered terrorists?

The techniques of terrorists (say: car bombings) are shockingly little different in practice from drone strikes. Sure, certainly the intent is very different, but the result is nevertheless a disturbingly high death toll for innocents. And that should concern us a fuck of a lot more than it does today.
I was waiting for the "BUY OUR EBOOK NOW AND YOU TOO WON'T LOSE $100,000!" at the bottom of all the scrolling. I was kinda disappointed.
Doesn't the codename usually come before the project?
$1: top-up someone else's metro card, it will restore their faith in humanity

$10: find a neighbourhood coffee shop, buy a coffee, tip the rest, talk to locals

$100: Kindle/books

$1,000: Choose a trade, buy the tools, master them

$10,000: Travel outside your comfort zone, talk to locals, learn their language, get perspective

$100,000: Invest half, spend the other half on the previous items

$1,000,000+: Don't be a money-driven role model to others, study politics and people, use your financial cushion to do good in your community. Stay interested, stay awesome.
RIP <marquee>. I bet the geocities mirrors seem so lifeless now.
This is actually my take on things. I use Mou as a writer and I think the live preview thing helps me get an idea what the final result will be. Being able to set up the CSS based on a website is also useful for knowing how headlines will line up, for example.
I absolutely agree that in cases where it can be proven, or it is reasonably suspected, that there is criminal or terrorist activity afoot that the various law enforcement agencies should be able to get access to online communications.

Luckily, this is the case already and additional laws won't strengthen this - they will simply remove the need for the burden of proof or suspicion.

It all still boils down to a "trust us, we're on your side" refrain, yet at the same time there is no acknowledgement of the already exposed over-reach that is going on - and in fact, there is an explicit denial/rubbishing of one specific claim.

They can't have our trust and lie to us at the same time - what they're effectively saying isn't, "trust us, we're on your side", it's "you can't trust us, but don't sweat it we're not coming for you yet".
> I think you've confused what mutable state is.

Absolutely not.

Macros provide shared mutable state. Macros are used pervasively in spreadsheet programming. You cannot carte blanc ignore macros without some serious explanation.

> The modal of computation of a spreadsheet is pretty much stateless.

Relative references means semantics depend on code layout, which in most hygenic circumstances is an old-school GOTO. In truly awful uses, relative references recover the sort of code layout dependencies which even C avoids. This can definitely be even worse than shared mutable state.
It was in JANUARY! JANUARY! But in 6 WEEKS he managed to MAKE $100,000. CASH!

So to answer your question, you might need to buy the 2 day seminar, 8 tape set, and special VIP membership (available for 1 day only) to find this out. But it's worth it. You do like money, don't you?
You're essentially arguing that anecdotal data is more useful than aggregate data. I don't share that belief.

> That would be a much more interesting set of graphs if the Fed would let you in on how they compute the index.

The Fed doesn't collect either of the data series I linked either, FRED is just a useful tool for displaying various different indices.

Here's a 40-page PDF detailing the Case-Shiller Methodology:

http://us.spindices.com/documents/methodologies/methodology-...

Here's a 110-page PDF detailing the BLS's full CPI methodology:

http://stats.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/homch17.pdf

With a 20-page PDF addendum specifically detailing the Hedonic adjustment methodology for apparel:

http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/ces/ac.49...
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That might make sense for hailed taxis, in which there is a congestion risk, as drivers have to maintain visibility on dense roads.

It has much less relevance for a purely call-and-wait service, which is why application to services like Uber is questionable.
That might sound a bit surprising, but I found that feminist groups can be very pragmatic about this. Meet up in person, make sure there is no one trolling the discussion and that goes very well.

The problem with public discussion is that people don't want to give open flanks for troll arguments.
Some of them are effectively terrorist attacks. If anyone remembers that drone strike against Wedding convoy in Yemen. It's exactly the same if someone would bomb a wedding in US that had some military officers there.
Translation: "My co-worker wrote a clusterfuck of indirection spaghetti and the open-source volunteer refused to maintain it!"

Every PR that adds a feature adds future support and maintenance effort. If you and your buddy are unwilling to spend the time to get it right, why are you expecting the maintainer to spend the time to support it?
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This reminds me of a question I once posted on reddit, but never received an answer to: Given that a many jokes are based on peculiarities of a language (puns, but also unexpected uses of certain words), are there jokes that only funny in sign language? If so, what's an example?
I always found that type of argumentation interesting, war is a crime.
Hey, designer of the game here :) TT is not going to be an RTS game, it will just have RTS elements, the numbers of units that you create, control and maintain will likely be much fewer than your average RTS game. We've also got plans for the mid to late game where you upgrade parts of your base that would include an-auto repair station where your drones will move to when damaged and as long as you have sufficient resources in stock, the missing parts will be synthesised and replaced without player interaction. Cheers, for checking the game out :)