skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our early pricing was actually much steeper, starting at 1999+ USD setup and 649+ USD per month, so I'm quite happy we were able to bring it down a bit further with the automation.

Compared to other companies in the field it's competitive pricing for the extra-value it brings ( e.g. social connectors for lead aggregation instead of just emails, full background checks, standalone professional looking sites from the get-go, behaviour statistics on the slide decks, CRM connectors etc. )

Our early clients managed to raise rounds in the 8 digit values with the help of a more organized fund raising round, and then transformed their pitchdecks into investor pages to keep investors updated.

So based on those good experiences and seemingly no comparable product out there on the market I do believe strongly in our product being very competitively priced.
Good for the writer. I have written for Hufpo once before and soon I realized how their model works:

1 - get free content from the writers.

2 - get free marketing and traffic from the writers (who tell their friends and follower about their article they've just posted on the Hufpo)

Most of the articles you write are all hidden in some sub-pages that no one but your friends or google seo would ever find.

edit: formatting.
It is true that if you consider Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the situation has much improved since then.
I'd also guess that non-native speakers are less likely to say "yes" to fake words. Non-native speakers are, presumably, more self-aware of the extents and limitations of their English vocabularies. Native speakers seem more likely to succumb to issues of vanity, overconfidence, or bet-hedging on this sort of test.
I think that is very much up to the local political climate, whether there are companies/groups that want to protect the status quo, and so on. Uber is a global thing, it may have started because of local taxi regulation in the US, but all I'm saying is that it isn't necessarily the same thing everywhere.
So... it seems there's a lot of people that prefer to post 'me too, please fix' and 'Y U NO FIX GOOGLE' instead of actually dig into the code and look for the source of this issue; it's an open source project (or well, most of it), so people should propose fixes and point out where the error is, not that there is or may be an error. IMO anyway. I'm naive like that though.
By the way, many people make valuable content and support their work by ads. Ads are online currency. I am not using adblock because it is like stealing their work without paying.
Sounds like a 2014 variant of emacs' "M-x spook", for tracking rather than the NSA
Can't seem to progress beyond the initial press yes or no screen, with no js errors in the console. Odd.
If you are in an online chat, it may be the most practical method.
You don't really need any special ORM support -- even if you are using an ORM -- if you use appropriate views.
a search for ("blink") does not return any result, however a search for (blink tag) does return very good results.
Indeed, reality has a nasty habit of confounding our models.
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All the words I did not recognize were either absolutely British regional slang or they had one or more synonyms that are overwhelmingly more common in the US.

Examples: juggins, freeview, jackfish, redbrick

The US equivalents would be bumpkin, superstation (?), northerns, and ivy (as in Ivy League).

I sort of assumed that the nonsense word generator would make nonsense compounds from valid English words, which is why I rejected those last 3, despite that nagging feeling that they were so simple that someone, somewhere might have used them.
The Military-Industrial Complex is often brought up in the context of US capitalism, but was quite relevant to the USSR. In that case, a giant chunk of the country's economy was taken up for military production. The military commanders, KGB, and all of those employed by the USSR's Military-Industrial Complex had a strong interest in justifying their continued existence.
Non native, 73%. 0 non words.

accurse, glycol, propitiation, tumescence, landlocked, klystron, squab, blithesome, lacertian, dingbat, gradate,
adjudge, microsomal, latescence, intercut, aviary, semis, vie, dollarfish

But given that Shakespeare wrote all his books with about 1k5 words this test doesn't proof much :)
Works on a phone too. "ok google, do a barrel roll".
A more precise term would probably be snowclone.
Apropos, the title spells Ghent differently from the domain name.
I have to say, with this names, I thought it was a joke for a while...
I did quite clearly state, this information applies to PHP versions before 5.6 (which means that in practice, people need to be doing this for at least the next two years until 5.6 is widely adopted)...

The next article will cover the changes in 5.6 and why you don't need to set those ctx opts any more (and a few more you might want to set instead)
Chrome for iOS also had this "halfway mode" where the transport is compressed but the render is WebKit. In eagerly awaiting the speed comparisons...

Personally I had to turn it off in chrome as a handful of links stopped working (presumably due to abuse originating from the shared proxy IPs)
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I see what you mean, and it almost seems like the "sin" isn't the additional editing, it's the subsequent rebase. It's one thing to require contributors to rebase, but it seems like another to rebase for them. Maybe I'm missing something, but based on the "History Is Written By the Victors" section of TFA I would have been surprised to see anyone other than @ntalbott at the top of https://github.com/Shopify/active_merchant/graphs/contributo...
But they do counter with real-looking non-words, and you're penalized heavily for claiming to "know" one of the non-words, so that helps the accuracy of the test.

You can take the test on the site to try it -- here are some of the non-words I hit that looked real-ish (though I still clicked "no"):

rebrenningly
splaits
mangean
postock
acetylative
struffhold

vs. some of the real words I also clicked "no" for:

chrestomathy
fluoxetine
coffle
wedel
afterpiece
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Was just reading this today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7169299
Yes, if you click them it keeps track of your kills and actions-per-minute (APM) :)
Like all memes, it is mindlessly implemented to look "cool" or "clever".
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Marquee tags on fire off the shoulder of Geocities. I watched blink tags glitter in the dark near Tannhäuser.com. All those websites will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
That actually looks really promising.
The performance of the pokemon demo is really bad on Firefox unfortunately, but near perfect on chrome.
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I picture a huge sword with the prominent inscription on the blade "sharp end toward enemy".
I can understand the frustration of the author, however, HuffPo is not a government or social entity. It IS part of the free market. I am a huge proponent of the free market, however, that does not mean the free market will be perfect. In the short term, there are fits and starts and cycles that everything goes through, but it is only through the free market that we will progress over the long-term.

Writers are unfortunately caught up in one of these free-market tornadoes, and to survive, they need to transform.

The author, instead of looking at this as "writing for free", should look at this as an opportunity to create his personal platform. HuffPo is paying him by giving access to their audience. It is up to him to take advantage of that. Yes, it's not easy, but it's reality.
Agreed. Having a pull request go to a feature branch (or bug branch, or whatever your pull request is aiming to do) is the best way to go about it.

The issue described by the author is definitely more of a workflow problem than a technology or service problem.
It seems I know 90% of English language words and it is extremely unlikely that I know that many. I believe the numbers are off by a large margin. I would love to look how they arrive at those estimates.
I think it's an alert that is sent to a mod, but could be wrong - I had this happen to me a while back when I posted too much from my own blog. Any user that submits an inordinate amount of articles from any one site (regardless of their affiliation with that site it seems) will have their articles marked dead on submission, but may be able to get that lifted by the mods with a warning to spread their submissions around a bit.
The HN title is misleading. These are words with a large-ish difference between how many men and women know them, but there is rightfully no "only" in the original title. "codec" is the only word know by less than 50% of women (48%). Similarly, there's only one word know by less than 50% of men, "taffeta". In both, the bottom of the 12 words has a difference of 25%-points.

The "men words" seem to be videogames and war stuff (except codec which, dare I suggest, is an online porn word). Women words are in the fields of decoration, fashion and flowers.
And fill out those surveys on the back of the receipt where you would win $1,000 in gift cards.
The report raised warnings that other countries might adopt the same rationale as the United States has for carrying out lethal strikes outside of declared war zones. Using an example of a current crisis, it said that Russia could use armed drones in Ukraine under the justification that it was killing anti-Russian terrorists and then refuse to disclose the intelligence that served as the basis for the strike.

“In such circumstances,” the report asked, “how could the United States credibly condemn Russian targeted killings?”

Good question.
I wouldn't pay him either. I got bored after the second paragraph.

Before you downvote: I have hired hundreds of writers in my time, and am currently paying out hundreds of dollars/day to content creators at http://newslines.org/newslines-rewards/
Roll to save, man.
I didn't know bottlebrush was a word, but I can guess what it is.
Yes. We've had a number of large and small companies reach out to us (Sourcegraph) about this. It's definitely something we plan to support, after we make an awesome public product for open source code. Email me if you want to learn more (sqs at sourcegraph dot com).
I'm thinking that quoting "Sleepless in Seattle" probably isn't helping a man who doesn't already know what tiramisu is...
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I also have Glass and it is a similar paperweight for me. I'm a bit more skeptical about the watch since (a) companies have released smart watches in the past, and (b) I'm skeptical about the use cases tackled by Android Wear.
Of course population matters, but as more people are attending college (https://www.nacs.org/research/industrystatistics/higheredfac...) and as the baby boomers retire (http://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/icpGraph.html), the employment ratio would naturally decrease.

I like U4 as a good measure of unemployment since it also includes discouraged workers who gave up looking for jobs:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=Ehe

Obviously not a completely healthy economy, but a rate that's dropped 40% from the peak of the recession, and is back to levels comparable to 2003/2004 is a good start.
cURL has it's problems - one of them being a different kind of hateful API, another being the fact that you still need to actually configure it properly, which means you have to be approximately competent.

A major element of the 5.6 changes (documented in an article not yet written, but should be by early next week) is to protect Jimmy the junior dev from himself - chances are that an inexperienced dev, given the choice between a one-liner and several lines with a bunch of scary-looking options, is going to pick the former. I'm not advocating it, just stating it.
This actually gets killed by an upcoming iOS 8 update (which randomizes you MAC every time it searches for wifi networks). Big pro-privacy change from Apple. While it is problematic that this is iOS only (for now, at least), the large number of iOS device will introduce a ton of noise and make the tracking much less interesting for any company, even if they can theoretically still track Android devices.
This is the basic model of a lot of similar companies. Get people to provide content for free, then profit from control over the repository. If it weren't for copyright protections, HuffPo and its ilk would just copy your blog posts verbatim and call it a day. They're one step up from the sites that auto-generate product reviews or display reformatted Wikipedia articles.
Really helpful description for things to watch masteriung a shift to graphs. It really is a challenge. The 'triviality gap' was a heads up, especially for veteran IT staff.
Not before 5.6 (where CN_match is actually deprecated in favour of peer_name)
It looks cool but the pricing is huge. We're raising a round now and this looks like something that would be helpful but at $89 a month? Probably not, certainly not without a short trial.
I saw a TV interview with a Vietnam War American POW who said they would tap signals on the wall of cells, and to tell if the person tapping back was a prisoner or a guard, they would tap Shave-and-a-Haircut (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_and_a_Haircut ) because the guards just could not get it right. The WP page gives a link to this story.
Thanks for the link. I'll check it out after our soccer game today.
It makes me wonder if words like "bugbear", "kobold", "hobgoblin", "duergar", or "svirfneblin" were even tested.

Do girls play D&D? They didn't with my nerd crew.
On what do you base your fair certainty?
I'm glad someone said it, but I have the feeling that if anyone could have slowed or reversed the national infection, Eisenhower would have been that person. (It would have been unreasonable to expect of Truman, anyway.) It makes me wonder if Ike actually even considered the MIC a problem during most of his presidency, or whether perhaps it was only when they stopped taking his calls as a lame duck that he had his epiphany.
I write free articles only for marketing, and only on sites that will give me traffic that makes it worth my time.

This means that such sites will get only thinky veiled marketing.
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I can't believe how hard it is to find the link to add this...

Go to ad block settings. Add a custom one, give it any title you want. Put this in for the URL:

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/fanboy-social.txt
I agree with the writer's points that HuffPo seems like a pretty bad deal for the writer; but honestly how different is that from HN? Ignoring the fact that HN makes no money; the product they offer is obviously desirable or people would stop visiting. Therefore, it is worth something.

A large portion of the top content on HN comes from peoples' personal blogs. While these blogs often run ads, I seriously doubt those ads provide much income beyond covering the hosting bills. So people are obviously willing to write for free.

HuffPo realized there was a market opportunity in connecting people who were writing for free anyway with an audience for their content. I guess my biggest problem with their business model is that the offer seems like a freelance writing gig and could obviously dupe someone who doesn't ask the right questions.

So in the end I don't really have a problem with their business model, but their approach to sourcing content seems a bit disingenuous. If they were more up-front about the lack of payment, I would have less of a problem with this.
Apparently StartSSL does charge you quite a bit to revoke a free certificate. That bit a lot of people when Heartbleed happened. See https://www.startssl.com/?app=37.
> There is plenty of unique things about this new type of long-term warfare:

No, there aren't.

> a) every operation is conducted in total secrecy

Within the drone program, which is largely a secrete component of an overt global military anti-"terrorism" campaign, sure. But having a major secret component of an overt effort isn't new or unique since the inception of the drone program, its been a regular part of the post-WWII permanent war.

> b) most of it is executed remotely, or occasionally via Special Forces commandos on the ground when drones can't get the job done

Yes, the technology for precisely targetted remote attacks is new, though using whatever remote attack capability was available isn't. So, yes, technology advances.

Obviously, use of Special Forces is not new.

> c) they are (apparently) based off of a 'kill-list', which is essentially an assassination list

Assassination as a tool of state policy by the US in the covert portion of its permanent wars isn't a new product of drones, either.
I'd argue that it's more important to ensure competition between schools in the medical education pipeline. Competition downstream won't reduce prices unless we get X's boot off the hose feeding into the supply of medical professionals (where X is the AMA, congress, or whoever you believe comes out dirtiest in the "it's not my fault" game). We have 2/3 as many doctors per capita as other comparable countries. No amount of post-education market equilibration will suffice fix the fact that our doctors are (comparatively) overworked and overpriced.

The market is slowly routing around the problem right as we speak by promoting nurses and offering new certification pathways, but it's happening slowly. If the local politics I've observed are any indication, the doctors are fighting tooth and nail while loudly claiming that they aren't. There are policy decisions that could dramatically accelerate the process.
>Personally if I was getting data from HTTP in PHP the last thing I would ever do is use file_get_contents. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Why not? file_get_contents makes things much simpler, and there's nothing really wrong with it. Fetching a JSON file is simple, for example:

$file = file_get_contents("http://example.com/some.json");
if ($file === FALSE) {
die("Failed to get JSON file");
}
$data = json_decode($file);
if ($data === NULL) {
die("Failed to decode JSON");
}
echo htmlspecialchars($data->foo->bar);

To be honest, I think cURL is unnecessary in most cases. PHP's HTTP streams do a better job without relying on an additional extension (HTTP streams are in the PHP core, while cURL must be built separately and often installed separately), and the HTTP stream context options with their string key names are much nicer than the dreaded CURLOPT_* constants.
Did you ask money to prove a point or just to stroke more your ego?
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That is quite a long TTL!
Well, currently CACert certs are not accepted by any major browsers, so while it's a great idea, without funding it's dead in the water.
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For me, if I had to actually define some of these words, it would skew even more by gender, depending on what you mean by "define". For example, I know that a peony is a flower, but I wouldn't be able to draw you one, nor would I be able to identify it other than by process of elimination. Similarly I know that "taupe" is a color, but I don't really know which color (I mean, obviously these are now bad examples because I look thinks up when I don't know them, but the point is still relevant).

I'm not that surprised that many of the "female" words have to do with clothing that only women wear. Men don't tend to wear anything all that elaborate, and often it's unisex anyway. It's possible that that's an artifact of the fact that women tend to be more interested in fashion than men, though - I guess I don't really know the difference between Oxfords and boat shoes, so maybe the fact that there's no comparable set of fashion terms for men is because even men don't know the terms for the clothes they might wear.
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Or link aggregators who get others (for free) to submit links to freely (not always though) provided content.

It's all about the traffic.
No, I think the author has every right to be insulted and angry over the presumption that he should work for free. Just saying "well, that's the way it is" is intellectually lazy, and portraying a dominant middleman like HuffPo as a healthy part of a genuinely free market is simply wrong.
There was a lot of neat stuff shown off at I/O, but I was sort of bummed that they didn't announce a programming language update for Android. I'd been hoping that they were going to unveil a move to Java 8. I suppose the legal issues around that might prevent it from ever being feasible.
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"And as a hypothetical story-telling construct I created in my mind, Jane agrees 100%!"

That's a very strange way to end an article. Could have just stopped before adding that last line.
To be fair, one could also consider the media a leg of that stool. After all, has any journalist or pundit challenged the assumption that the goat-and-beard enthusiasts are as dangerous a threat as the Soviets were? Before that, did anyone challenge the assumption that the Soviets were as dangerous a threat as the Nazis were? The narrative is inescapable.
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If it weren't for copyright protections, HuffPo and its ilk would just copy your blog posts verbatim and call it a day.

They pretty much do anyway. Anything saying "CNN has reported..." is basically just a rewrite of the existing CNN article, to just enough of an extent that they avoid copyright issues. Do slightly better SEO (easy because huffingtonpost.com is more popular than cnn.com) and you get all the clicks. The organisation that spent money on the original reporting gets nothing. Yay.
The non-commercial clause indeed violates the Open Source Definition. They are NOT Open Source.
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The non-words are pretty easy to spot. On my first try I marked any word I was uncertain of as a non-word. I got a 75% with zero false positives. I looked at all the words that I marked as non-words and saw that most of them I had suspected were real words. Then I tried it again with an increased confidence and got 90% with zero false positives.
The Law of Armed Conflict exists because you can't stop war from happening, especially if you aren't willing to fight a war yourself to stop it.

It's also worth pointing out that war/conflict are not the same thing, the definition of who is protected during a conflict is much broader than members of the armed forces during a formal war.
What works best for me is to use a combination of the Pull Request button and to manually merge or rebase changes when necessary.

I used to strictly stay away from the Pull Request button, because it made my history "messy". Now I care less about that and more about the convenience (when it's appropriate).
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She was also married to a billionaire and got a nice divorce settlement in 1997.
This is not Open Source by the OSI definition, nor Free Software by the FSF definition. They have a problematic non-commercial license clause. So this is published source with some permissions that remains proprietary.
I use Marked and Sublime Text. Like peas and carrots.
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Actually, I don't lock my car because the crime rate in my area is pretty low. In fact the front door of my parents' house is unlocked during the day when they're not home. They've never been burgled.
Even if I did this, I'd be too embarrassed to put such a picture on the internet.
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I have up-voted your before your edit.