skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be considered competent in written English you also have to master a system of orthography so preposterously inconsistent and divorced from the spoken language that native-speaking kids have competitions to show off their prowess at rote-learning spellings of words; far more challenging than remembering whether the nouns are der, die oder das. In many other languages, literacy involves memorizing a few basic rules and knowing how words sound.

Given the vast amount of energy wasted on memorizing spelling quirks, compared with nearly all other languages, it's not surprising that many people, including you, frequently make other mistakes in their written English. When a language consists more of exceptions than rules one can't be too harsh on people for wrongly applying a rule.

To use the programming language you used elsewhere: English is PHP... it's easy to use as badly as everybody else uses it.
They've never skipped an os version to my knowledge. For at sure, but that was to bring it in line with the whole x thing in the os
look at the transcript. these people are just passing around emails, not "solving problems". i see it as a form of mental illness
Related, and pre-existing.

http://jnordberg.github.io/gif.js/

http://hdragomir.github.io/facetogif/

http://gifmebro.com/

etc.
You might want to check your spelling in your signup.

You put 'you' instead of 'your'.
indeed. erdos is an extremely unfavourable comparison...
Not being a feminist doesn't make you sexist, last I checked.
> I just can't see how a judge or jury would let it go that far

Oh they will, and in a few short years this will be the new status quo, and people will be wondering how we used to allow child pornographers and drug traffickers to hide behind encryption. YOU don't have anything to hide, do you?

Besides, when was the last time government-induced fear mongering failed? Not in the last decade.
yes. you're not doing work of any real substance if you're habitually pinging emails around into the early hours of SUNDAY morning
you're right, thank you!
The most fail-safe way we protect against that kind of blatant fraud is by incentivizing our users to transfer us their ticket electronically. When they do that, they get paid immediately (versus 1 biz day after the event) and they eliminate all previous instances of the bar code.

But even in instances where a user does not elect to transfer us a ticket, when they accept our offer we scan the web for all potential listings of the ticket. In every case to-date, if a ticket remains listed it is because the user forgot to pull it down. When we remind them, they do.

We have processed $100s of thousands of dollars in tickets so far and we have encountered two cases of potential fraud to-date. In both instances, the users exhibited shady behavior, operating from various email accounts & IPs (among other things), not responding to our additional requests for information, etc. We were able to catch them BEFORE the event and immediately cancel their accounts & transactions. Unfortunately we saw those same users operating on a couple of the large marketplaces.

Hope that answers your question.

Ant
This is one of the scariest buttons I've ever seen: When would I ever want to email everybody in my Gmail contacts list? everybody??
Awesome!

Although I'm not a believer in generic but I think it's a bfd in the programming field which will be as important as the REST thesis, or ror.

How about a service with similar approach that offers Parse to appengine migration: user calls a rest point like: generics.io/parse/github.com/crazychrome/package/user to configure fields and types requirements, then the service generate a repo contains codes can be deployed to appengine and 100% compatible with what Parse offers.
So, what kind of crypto currency would this be? Does anyone know if there are plans for a mining operation like bit/lite/doge coin that one could participate in, or is it just a block chain that is allocated to reddit "shareholders" by some other means? (all of this is assuming that "considering a cryptocurrency" == "planning to implement a cryptocurrency")
But what about bonuses and other forms of compensation? I know of a number of companies where the executives and senior management make nominal amounts in salary but very large amounts in performance based compensation tied closely to certain metrics that the business has decided are important. Most significantly, these bonuses are not guaranteed, but are only given out if certain expectations are met.
Mods don't decide to make a subreddit a default, admins do.
Genius (YC S11) – Full Stack, DevOps, Android, iOS
Brick is for reusable UI elements; unlike Polymer, it doesn't use custom elements to solve non-UI problems.

Brick uses vanilla syntax for the creation of custom elements, where "vanilla" means "as defined in the relevant standards." Brick uses the platform.js polyfill from the polymer project.

From http://brick.readme.io/v2.0/blog/welcome-to-mozilla-brick

We have very specific goals for Brick- to make building
webapp interfaces easier. There are other projects that
use the same technologies (like Google's excellent
Polymer) that provide a more complete web application
development solution. The motto on the Brick project is
"strong opinions, tightly scoped"- meaning we don't
intend to solve the problems of code stucture, module
loading, data binding, or really any other problem other
than webapp interfaces.

... the rising popularity of Google's Polymer and its
syntax for describing Custom Elements grew, and when
users came to contribute to Brick and x-tag, they found
themselves facing an unfamiliar syntax and an underlying
library that was frequently not well documented. The
decision was made that if users encounter Custom Element
registration syntax, it should be the standards-based
syntax. Brick components are now written in a 'vanilla'
style, using the standards-based APIs directly.
US has strange views on a lot of things, including the one in question – privacy.
Yes, the disconnect extension has a bug that breaks the site JS. It's on our to-do list, but working around extensions that are doing funky things has not been our highest priority.

Update: I've got a fix for this going out now. Let me know if it's still broken.
Chase.
Leslie Lamport's Thinking for Programmers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nhFqf_46ZQ
So in the process of making it level, the playing field is being changed to be favorable to certain individuals?
If something changes by giving away opportunities to less qualified people, because their predecessors had been systemically repressed, it is probably the ego/guilt of the perpetrators. Provide extra opportunities to the current generation to develop and improve , but don't take it away from qualified people in the name of diversity/inclusivity.
If a man and a woman apply for a job in all male startup, hire the most qualified person, not the person who makes your workforce more diverse.
eBay's acquisitions have rarely made sense, PayPal being the only one I can think of that had synergy. Does anyone understand why they bought Magento, for instance?
Not identifying as a feminist or not being a feminist?

You can identify however you want, but if you're truly not sexist, you're a feminist as far as I can tell.
This is what they repeatedly did to collective farms mid 20th century in USSR. Nothing helped. One can only wonder why :)
Windows 10 command prompt finally gets dragged into the 21st century
>'Melton: Yeah. And it was sometimes a roll of the dice. Like, you get the email from your boss, like from Scott, and you would not be quite sure about [the answer], and then you would reply or forward, include Scott so he gets a reply, and you would send it to one of your people. And the death was if that person didn’t reply until the morning. Then that person has a black eye and you’ve just given them, made them look bad in front of your boss.'

As stated, that's very typical but no less appalling non-management.

Cover yourself with a speedy reply while deflecting onto a sacrificial subordinate in one move.

It only takes a few minutes to ping your reports and determine which of then can/will reply before CC'ing one of them a grenade.
Shellshock Recommendations
I was under the impression that the admins consulted with the mods before doing so, but I could be wrong; how the front page has worked has changed many times over the years, and I haven't been keeping very close track.
They have three main buttons on the taskbar now (start, search, workspaces) - anyone remember the Chicago betas? http://i.imgur.com/MZoowWG.jpg
This is nice and all, but I really hope nobody who has me in their contacts ever clicks that button.
Ask HN: Are you using Swift?
I'm planning on starting a project soon and was wondering whether it would be a good idea to learn Swift or stick with the Obj-C I already know.
Sadly I bet most people would just shrug and say "well they are doing it for our own good".
Great format! And Ruby source is good for learning C. I really got into it with Matz ruby source code.

For anyone intersted how Ruby parser works, I've written small article about patching ruby syntax: https://zarkzork.com/extending-ruby.html
> That's the big advantage of CPAN. CPAN is the de facto owner of the modules in CPAN, and those modules can be maintained.

This is just false. The CPAN maintainers (really PAUSE maintainers) can transfer ownership of modules away from totally AWOL owners, but it's not like this happens all the time.

There's plenty of bitrot on CPAN because the original owner went AWOL and no one else has been motivated enough to ask to take the module over. There is no "CPAN group" who maintains modules.
Is it really so different from sharing something on facebook?

From my experience regular users sometimes prefer sharing with everyone instead of taking the time to select specific contacts. They don't really care, it's just email...
Possibly reminiscent of the Freakonomics suggestion for terrorists to buy life insurance from their bank.
One of the insights of remote sensing has been that, if you look for changes, you will tend to find them. And generally you are surprised by the things you discover.

The linked article is one, and various Martian phenomena are another - @varelse linked the landslides, but there are also dust devils, winds, and ice caps. The geysers on Enceladus are another example.

Nighttime astronomy has also had these surprises -- supernovae (leading to the discovery of dark energy), gamma ray bursts, blazars. All because we had the computational and data-gathering machinery to compare observations from surveys.

In retrospect, it perhaps wasn't surprising, but I think discipline scientists have indeed been surprised by the variety of phenomena observed.
Thanks! You can open fairly large lists (thousands of items). 1,000 items works with no problem. I currently have one open with 10,000 items and it renders. At 10k there will be some performance issues related to rendering that many items in the DOM but it works. In the future I'll probably add a way to detect the number of nodes and intelligently render only items in view to increase performance.

You can insert Vulcan directly into a webpage by following the directions here: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-website. A future feature will be detecting the Firebase URL being used on the page.

You are correct I technically do not need all your security permissions to install vulcan. I plan on fixing this notice, it seems to be the default in the chrome store.

Thanks for the feedback.
This polite yet sexist and racist comment is exactly the sort of civil discourse I'd like to see more of.
They will probably be using colored coins (assets issued and exchanged on the Bitcoin blockchain), not their own blockchain/altcoin. Otherwise, they would have to worry about keeping enough miners to make their blockchain secure.

Colored coins also offer some cool features, such as trustless trading. It's possible to construct a transaction that sends Alice's Reddit shares to Bob, and also send's Bob's Bitcoins to Alice. Since they are in the same transaction, either both sides of the trade happens, or neither do.
I don't get it, you spend all this money on card readers, they've got all kinds of anti-hacking software/hardware/sensors, but the scanner sends the cards as plain text to the register?
SwatchMate Cube – a device to capture color
I've traded with people who I barely shared a language with. I could probably go buy weed today if I wanted to. I've watched thousands of dollars of business transacted in situations where enforcement of the deal was in practice impossible (offshore developers). Primitive societies without governments still understand and desire trade.

Again, the understanding you're talking about doesn't come from the sovereign.
> How RAM Scrapers Work

> Once on a targeted system, RAM scrapers work by examining the list of processes that are running on the system and inspecting the memory for data that matches the structure of credit card data, such as the account number, expiration date, and other information stored on a card’s magnetic stripe.

No hooking, sounds exactly like they're looking through the memory assigned to each process looking for the right looking data.
I see that you are a new user here. Good. Leave. Now.
> Although with that community, I seriously have to wonder why reddit would want it to be a default, or why the moderators agreed.

I assumed that reddit admins made /r/twoxchromosomes a default because it was a good subreddit and wanted to expose better content to the default users.

Also, I thought that subreddit moderators don't have input regarding whether the subreddit is made default.
You need to think about it from the perspective of site-owners, not of email recipients ;-)
That is a neat profession
The Guardian. You can sign up for emails which arrive every weekday morning, summarising relevant headlines. If you like a story you can click it to learn more. This mail arrives just in time for my morning commute so I can read it on the train, or at my desk before I start work.
No Linux didn't exist, but workspaces did.
Let's not overlook the fact that the law doesn't actually have to be applied, it can be a bargaining chip. The prosecution mentality is to 'throw the book' at defendants and then the defendant has to try to negotiate down from that starting point.

Firearms might be a good analogy here. You don't need to actually shoot a robber for your firearm to be effective. The mere presence of it is often enough to scare them off.
Until Apple promised it so explicitly, I'd have said you might be right. True, Google and Facebook make zillions off of monitoring people for advertisers. That will make it harder for them to follow suit, there will be far more weasel words and such when they try.

I think those of us that are willing to pay the premium for something that promises more have higher expectations. If they are lying, I believe we'll know within the next year or two and we'll get to find out if you're right.
"I'm curious why the mods decided to let it become a default."

Seeing as reddit is just usenet of the 80s and early 90s on a web page in 2014, both in application, discussion topics, and more or less in culture, one lesson from usenet readers of the dark ages was there are or should be no default groups.

I don't remember any default usenet groups in nn, tin, gnus... The same social pressures that lead to no defaults then, most likely apply now, even if the tech is slightly different.

"a sub that's supposed to be by and for women."

I lurked there and read a lot. Interesting to see their opinions vs mine. Eventually it got boring. Encouraging half or more of the new user population to lurk before posting was another usenet thing. So looking at it that way, it might be a good idea to force noobs to read, at least till they learn how to remove a default subreddit.

So I've presented two arguments, one for and one against. I think the argument against is slightly stronger although I could appreciate a good alternative interpretation.
Good job dude it's my favourite subreddit.
Time for a hierarchy on reddit. I suggest:

comp.* – computer-related discussions (comp.software, comp.sys.amiga)
humanities.* – fine arts, literature, and philosophy (humanities.classics, humanities.design.misc)
misc.* – miscellaneous topics (misc.education, misc.forsale, misc.kids)
news.* – discussions and announcements about news (meaning Usenet, not current events) (news.groups, news.admin)
rec.* – recreation and entertainment (rec.music, rec.arts.movies)
sci.* – science related discussions (sci.psychology, sci.research)
soc.* – social discussions (soc.college.org, soc.culture.african)
talk.* – talk about various controversial topics (talk.religion, talk.politics, talk.origins)
I don't think the US's views on sex and the US's views on privacy are quite comparable, given the 500 year history that comes with our weird prudishness.
That is definitely impressive of the Node.js community! Good on them. Also great to know Elixir is working well on Windows, yet another feather in its increasingly-well-plumed hat!

I remember a get-Windows-working-better rallying call at a Ruby conference I was at 4 years ago, and as far as I can tell, things have not changed much since then. The OSX thing isn't quite fair though - everything works on linux too, because that's what people deploy on. In fact the trend seems to be toward developing against containers running your production version of linux, rather than OSX directly.
Well, it's a wonder that you're speaking English then, since English is routinely extended by means of new words and metaphors. Look, you just used "DSL" and "code", words part of a domain specific language that regular folks do not understand, plus "subset" / "superset" which require basic knowledge of set theory.

Besides, every time you create a new type or interface, you just extended your language with a noun or adjective and every time you come up with a function, you just created a verb. And I have to learn your nouns and your verbs to understand your code, even if you try explicit naming that don't really say anything (my personal favorite being variations on "processItems").

Go is not the first language to take this approach, it won't be last last either. Unfortunately people never learn and it feels like groundhog day, the movie.
Wikipedia is pretty confused about what it wants to be. On one hand, "the sum of all human knowledge" includes a lot of minutiae that WP doesn't consider worthy of its servers. WP expresses that with notability guidelines. On the other hand, the extant notability guidelines means that a media blackout on you or your cause can keep you out of an encyclopedia that you really deserve to be in.

WP is an extremely political place. I was a relatively early editor and co-founder of an early Wikiproject. Ridiculously unnotable things like Unidan can slide because nobody really cares, but if you try to put something notable and controversial, but not necessarily widely known, in, you're going to have a bad time fighting off deletion requests and vandals.
Nextdoor’s Ideal New Users: Cops and Firefighters
Halfbike
The repo now contains a link to a POC.
https://github.com/mubix/shellshocker-pocs/commit/43592293f9...
Microsoft unveils Windows 10 system with Start Menu
Remind raises $40M Series C
> some kind of a package manager for programs

Microsoft's Windows Management Framework v5.0 will include PowerShell OneGet [1]. This is probably the closest thing to a package manager in Windows.

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2014/04/16/wha...
CheckBo – Custom Checkbox and Radio JQuery Plugin
Gifshot also includes getUserMedia (webcam) functionality, is a full client-side solution, and has a simple API (easier to use than gif.js)
I can only see the code, without blocking anything. Should I sign in or something?
I should have known better than to turn down a road that would inevitably lead to semantics.

Suffice to say, to me a feminist is a person who is actively part of the movement. I've never heard "feminist" used to mean "believes in gender equality".
I've opted-in to be friends with someone on Facebook. I've opted-in to follow someone on Twitter. I have not opted-in to be in someone's contact list on Gmail. That's the big difference.
I usually use the following code for this purpose:
public void testBatchInserts() throws PerformanceTestException {
SQLiteStatement stmt = db.compileStatement("INSERT INTO "
+ EmployeeDatabaseHelper.TABLE_EMPLOYEES + " VALUES(?1, ?2, ?3, ?4)");

db.beginTransaction();
for (int row = 0; row < getNumInserts(); row++) {
stmt.clearBindings();
stmt.bindString(2, getEmployeeName(row));
stmt.bindLong(3, getEmployeeAge(row));
stmt.bindLong(4, getEmployeeHiredStatus(row));
stmt.executeInsert();
}
db.setTransactionSuccessful();
db.endTransaction();
Yeah, It would be nice to have things like CPU usage and RAM available at a glance sometimes.
I find it very unlikely this will happen, for legal reasons- They want to link their currency to shares in reddit corp and the SEC isn't going to be happy about that. (Though if they can pull it off that would be positive development in my book.)
So, it's all justified if your work outlasts you? Such work is impossible to know in advance when you are working on it.
A simple video link when you make a new account works.
> It just smacks of fear-mongering. "They'll literally lock up your children!"

Prosecutors had every intention of sending Aaron Swartz to prison. We don't need more stupid laws, we need to remove the existing ones.
The app looks pretty useful to me. Will definitely give it a go. Thumbs up from me!
Google has some pretty good software for this, thought it might be internal. When they have their "Talks at Google" events, there's a screen off to the side that provides real-time translated subtitles.

There's at least one talk where the speaker addresses this system, and tries to get it to transcribe funny stuff. Can't remember which one exactly, but it might be this one with Randall Munroe (xkcd).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24&list=UUbmNph6atA...
Yes, but... the law is not rational. It will execute the code you give it.
> The Internet is the glue that is turning us into a super-organism, for better or worse.

Nicely said, and to the extent this is true, people, organizations and governments seeking to damage the Internet for growth and short-term profit are literally cancer. Yes, that includes both the NSA and (black-hat) SEO industry, among others.
Something is wrong with their pricing, since a server with twice the RAM, bandwidth, and disk is $5/mo. It's too bad you can't combine two or more of these $1 servers in order to get just the right amount of VPS.

This low price makes me wish that RAM and CPU could be added to cloud servers on an as-needed basis, i.e. hot-swappable RAM. That would be much more useful than autoscaling since it could react to traffic very quickly. You'd need live-migration behind the scenes to make it work, of course.
Technically we're still waiting on Windows 7. ;-)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms72...
The word "feminist" is more commonly understood to mean a supporter of the modern women's advocacy movement, rather than anyone who believes in equality of the sexes.

Imagine a Republican telling you that "Republican" is defined as someone who supports natural human rights, and therefore anyone who truly supports natural human rights is a Republican.

The feminist definition of "feminism" is inaccurate for the same reason.
You may be right, I don't know enough to say. Perhaps it was wishful thinking in retrospect. (He said it in the 1960s when the nuclear genie was definitely out of the bottle and causing major headaches for everyone.)

There is a 1950s fictional film by Akira Kurosawa called "I Live in Fear" which tells the story of a man driven mad by fear of radiation from a nuclear war. For better or worse it is easy to forget now what a catastrophic thing the introduction of the bomb was for everyone.