skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think of a magnet link as hyperlinking to another, different, website which contains the actual downloads & download links.
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Did you see the bit about the DJ booth? That part pushed it over the edge for me.
> manners and rules of social conduct of rural African Americans are more complex than I am accustomed to

Is that increased complexity, or merely lack of familiarity? I imagine someone coming to a large gathering of your family would also feel like there were new subtle rules to learn, etc.

I know that I have to think more about myself when I'm stuck in an unfamiliar social setting than in one I've spent lots of time in.
Ident Enginge Framework: Profiles aggregator from across the Web
Oh, Gods, TvTropes. The only thing more addictive and time consuming than Wikipedia browsing.
As other comments have stated, it is so much more than a simple technical problem. An entire web of "ethics" rules and well-funded politicians presents a formidable barrier to change. For true blood-boiling outrage, read the very sharp analysis of how the industry is rigged in this report submitted to the FTC a few years ago: http://www.savvybroker.com/Nine-Pillars-Citadel-aRealEstateC...

As technologists, try reading each of the points in this report as network partitions, and design a solution to route around the information block. There are various approaches available now to bypass some of these rules.

Alas, they can rewrite the rules, too, as necessary. For example, in Texas realtors were taking bulk listings from builders and investors for a flat fee of $150 and putting the data in the MLS, but nothing else. Since this was a direct attack on the semi-fixed price of 6% commissions, the Texas Association of Realtors got their politician lackeys to pass a new law, requiring "minimum professional services" from all Texas real estate license holders. This fixed price posting still goes on a bit, but not in bulk anymore. Any technical routing around of the MLS must expect the Borg to counterattack.

The realtor associations even violate their own rules, and/or keep their rules vague, so when the time comes they slap everyone around by giving them days to comply or they are cut off from MLS. (That cuts off an entire brokerage when one agent is out of compliance.) With that kind of career-ending leverage, they are quite effective in keeping the sharecroppers down on the farm, and paid up on their dues.

I have never been a realtor, but I did follow a carefully laid out plan to be licensed and still avoid the Borg, which the realtor association ignored completely. Feel free to contact me if you want to share stories and ideas.
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Why should dictionaries and grammar books be any more authoritative than the way people actually speak?

AAVE isn't correct or incorrect any more than gravity is correct or incorrect. They both exist; it's our job to study them.

Putting AAVE into a box labeled "incorrect English" is just a way to avoid the hard work of understanding our world.

And yes, the "academic" understanding of AAVE includes the sociolinguistic aspects denoting class, race, education, etc.
I heard recently that Arnie offered to do the voice for the Terminator in the German dub of the film of the same name. They said no because his accent made the killer robot sound like a farmer or country bumpkin to German ears.
You should bear that in mind everytime you read anything.
I don't disagree with anything that you say here, and yet you seem to be disagreeing with me, which is odd.

You seem to think I'm naively making some argument that depends on the words breaking down at boundary conditions. Actually I'm not. I believe a language spoken by just two people (or even one) is just as real a language as one spoken by millions-- that the difference in the way they're treated is a matter of politics, not the intrinsic qualities of the language.
Have you spoken to a trademark/copyright lawyer about any potential infringement and/or brand confusion claims that PlentyOfFish.com will inevitably bring up against you?
The thing i liked most in the site

"Conceived Aug '09. Launched Oct '09. "

Great Start Guyz..Now Start Iterating..
This is why bugtrackers have separate "Accepted" and "Fixed" states. :-)
Oh yeah. Iterating my brains out to the tune of about 2-3 releases a day right now. :)
Thought about it, and have no reason to feel concern. In the worst case, the expression "plenty of fish [in the sea]" was around long before the Intertubes, let alone the PoF website.
I was listing the OS's I use mainly. I still use windows every once in a while (When I really have to), and obviously use Linux on servers, and occasionally desktops.

One of the key things that puts Apple in a different class though is that they create the hardware AND the software. That's a big bonus and gets rid of a ton of potential hickups.
Interesting retro style, but there's no explanation of why this forum is worth any attention, or even what it's for. Flagged.
For what it's worth, the first thing I thought of, from a naming perspective is "Tweeps" is very close to "Creeps." It was a very quick jump from reading "Plenty of Tweeps" to hearing "Plenty of Creeps" in my head.
Actual increased complexity. "Crossing in front of" someone is socially significant, where it usually isn't for me. Addressing people is absolutely required when leaving the room, not just a good idea. There are more manifestations of the difference between children and adults. There are more unspoken rules, not just different ones.
The Ubuntu page shows that fourth level characters are available as standard for © (AltGr+Shift+C) and § (AltGr+Shift+s.

When I was on windows I used the Alt+NumPad unicode method.

Anyone know how to set the compose key from standard Kubuntu 9.10?
Research should that's publicly funded should be given back to the public. To put it another way, the public should, as a condition of giving out money to researchers, require that the results of that research belong to the public.

If the public gives you an NSF grant then your papers/articles should be released via a Creative Commons license (or similar) in addition to being published in a journal. Your data should be immediately available to other universities and researchers. Any products you engineer should be in the public domain.
FreeBSD 8 released
I agree. But the fruits of the research should be available to all for immediate use.
Wow, great feedback, thanks csytan! And I think you just gave me an idea for what to do about those 3 navbar buttons before the user has logged.

Marketing it organically right now. Talking to bloggers, gradually spreading our PageRank wings, etc. Have experimented with some paid advertising, but it's pretty expensive for a dating site.
It also rhymes with peeps which is short for people :)
Heh, funny, you're actually that second person that has told me that.
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I'm not sure why you've been downvoted... the Windows experience has improved immeasurably in the last 3 years (even XP).
Ask HN: Getting Started With Machine Learning/AI
I'm a first year university student and I want to learn about AI and machine learning specifically. Where should I start? What sorts of resources should I use?
It's my little startup trying to make a difference :)
I just put a new button up now. Better or worse?
What about research that isn't successfully commercialized? It just sits there until the patent expires...

If someone gives you money to conduct research or develop a product, it's completely reasonable to expect that they will want to profit directly (not indirectly) when you succeed.

In this case, the "someone" is everyone.

If a university or researcher doesn't like those terms, that's ok. Just ask someone else.
Never worked in banking, but I'm having trouble imagining that. Are the bankers aware how often the phrase "undefined behavior" appears in the C++ standard? Do they have formal verification tools, like I used to hear rumblings about Ada? Or just a crazy high qa/dev ratio?
The text on this page is garbled. Here's an ungarbled copy (PDF).

http://software-lab.de/radical.pdf
"Newest Members"

Is there anything stopping the location having a hyperlink linking to a page with people by location? I like the authorisation using oauth - the simplest way for existing twitter users to sign-up. Do you think it's worth adding your own authorise system or are you sticking with using Twitter authorisation?
Ask HN: What is the best one line definition of a start-up ?
The word start-up seems to be pretty loosely defined, it would be nice if we could settle on what is a start-up and what is not.<p>What is the very best one sentence (preferably a short sentence) that according to you defines the word start-up ?
Good point in linkifying city names. (There and other places, probably.)

Sticking exclusively with Twitter for now, though may consider making it easy for non-Twitter users to jump right in too (like Zoosk makes it easy to join without using FB.)
For the majority of users, seek time is more important than how fast you can get sequential data off the disc.
The newest members list is 100% male :\
> Why should dictionaries and grammar books be any more authoritative than the way people actually speak?

Simple, because of perception. Whether you like it or not perception matters. If I perceive your car as worth your selling price, a deal happens - doesn't mean my perception over yours is any more "correct". Same happens with stock prices, or hiring decisions. In other words, the things that matter in the day-to-day life in which we currently function include dictionaries and grammar books.
To me a start-up is a company that has achieved a small fraction of its potential, where the owners know all employees by name, and communicate with them directly.
I believe a language spoken by just two people (or even one) is just as real a language as one spoken by millions-- that the difference in the way they're treated is a matter of politics, not the intrinsic qualities of the language.

I was also trying to provide support to the notion that, "the difference in the way they're treated is a matter of politics." Often, I'm replying to 3rd parties or countering common misconceptions in my "replies," which is probably trying to say too much in one post as well as leaving too much implicit.

In other words, I am grinding an axe here, but it's not directed at you.

A language spoken by exactly two would be very difficult to study. There are problems analogous to studying a species with only the last two individuals from which to draw data. I think there is some mechanism here that links the softer fields inextricably with politics. There is less academic "territory" to occupy, and so there is a handicap to the political power of academics who study that particular data, while at the same time, there's also often increased power that stems from scarcity. (Dead sea scrolls.)

EDIT: All human endeavors are linked with politics. "Softer" fields tend to be more encumbered.
This is not philosophy at all. This is purely technical. The differences between AAVE and standard English (or should I say American?) are consistent. They are spoken by a lot of people. They follow precise rules (a grammar, actually). They're not erratic. So you can't call them "errors". The only other choice is to conclude that AAVE is a language —or a dialect.

Telling that to kids can only have good effects. First, it is telling them that they're not retarded —and neither are their parents. Second, it makes a clear separation between AAVE an standard English. They are two separate dialects, so, students should learn both. Third, if speaking standard English is "correcting errors", it may be percieved as a loss of Identity, "acting white" or whatever. If it is "speaking another language", this can't really be seen as such. For instance, I don't lose my French identity by writing English.

If the entire world sees AAVE as incorrectly spoken English without investigating furter, the entire world is simply mistaken. Kids should learn to correct the entire world's mistakes, not to do them.
I really like the idea of Wave, which is probably why I feel that this person doesn't 'get' Wave. Many of the problems they had were mainly down to the fact Google let people in early while the software wasn't finished. It's not polished and it's not ready for mass-use.

Also things like "lock-in" for Google accounts, isn't this what the protocol (called federation or something?) was supposed to solve? I thought wave was simply a client to it and that cross-server sharing functionality would come soon.
Repeat after me: Trademark != Patent

It doesn't matter at all that the phrase was in use before. What matters is that you are offering a service that is similar enough to cause confusion. People could reasonably think that you are associated with Plenty Of Fish, because the name is similar and both your services involve internet dating.

I'd seriously consider changing names. They make several million dollars a year and trademark law pretty much requires that they vigorously defend the mark.
Why we're broke
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What this argument doesn't account for is that there are universal rules that underlie all human languages -- even so-called "idiolects". When languages mutate, as they do constantly, they do so only within these rules. I'm speaking here of X-bar theory, bare phrase structure, and so on.

In effect, we're hard-wired to process language, and so are constrained by the limits of that wiring. A mutation ("mistake") that violates these rules will not 'stick', because the resulting language would be unintelligible to humans.
There are a variety of different ways to try to win this competition but I'm sure most of them leverage, in one way or another, having as many people as possible know about the competition. Everyone should help spread the word!

We're trying to do that on Facebook and on our website:

http://www.redballoonrace.com

Check us out and shoot me an email! Tell me what you think!
Little World Gifts to bring virtual gifts to the iPhone in time for Christmas
"You may be skeptical about the biking but it's a fact, I work with these people :)"

Is it a fact? Who are "these people"? Perhaps there's a URL you could provide that tells authoritatively the story of how certain swimmers in Beijing decided to not ride bicycles?

"let's agree to disagree."

Nah. Your previous statements, vague evasions and dismissal of the obvious (even when backed up by evidence) incline me to believe you're merely stretching any truth you may possess and are not a reliable source of information. But then Robert Trivers seems to say we should expect that from everyone, so big dea.
Are you actually saying that our perception of the world is actually bending the world?

I agree that perception matters. For instance, a bad perception could mean you buy a worthless car, or make a bad hiring decision. It doesn't mean, however, that the car was worth your money, or that the bad employee was worth hiring.

Same thing about AAVE. If it has been proved that this is a dialect of English, it is a dialect of English. No matter how delusional the majority of the population can be.
Android is well positioned to dominate in this niche. I can imagine an Android distro optimized for accessibility. Someone should make it their business to provide smartphone hardware and software for the blind.
> Telling that to kids can only have good effects.

I disagree. I think the mistake you are making is the focus around what is or is not "error". It's not about that. My friend from Argentina constantly strives to improve his American English, rather than his AAVE, regardless of your insistence of the validity of AAVE. He now works in an office on the 17th floor where he hires people, and I knew him when he knew no English. Like it or not it does makes a difference.
I'll try to put it on my EEE 900 this weekend (which is running Arch at the moment)
It's not specific to Ubuntu, any recent version of GNOME will do.
This may seem like a dumb question, but what's the point? Is it just some kind of turtles all the way down exercise?
Yes - if he had chosen to improve his British English he would be on the 20th floor. Or doomed to always play the villain in Holywood movies
The "Press Esc to exit" message doesn't really give much away.
It appears to be an ASCII-art or -demo repository.
> And is 4 spaces the python way?

It is, see PEP 8: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
If they are consistent and understandable -

Rastafarian use of 'Me' for 'I' makes sense and is consistent.

Using 'bad' to mean 'good' probably isn't a good idea if you are an aircraft mechanic.
I'm guessing your friend learned American English in an environment that recognized that his native language was something else (presumably a dialect of Spanish) and took that into account. Should native AAVE speakers not receive the same treatment?
Should I approve this expense report?
There was a disturbing moment for me when a coworker just asked me out of the blue if I was for this Health Care Reform stuff. She had it all reduced to "you're taking money out of the pockets of some, and putting it towards the health care of others." Then when I tried to point out that 1 - that's how the current system works, and 2 - the disparity in prices shows that the free market just doesn't work for American Health Care (basic microeconomics) she just starts talking over me. Jingoism has replaced discourse. American Democracy no longer works. It's just a doppleganger of its former self.
I guess he has never called MT support before, the first thing they ask for after your domain is your account password.

A friend called Rackspace a little while back regarding one of his cloud servers and they asked for his account password as well.
> Yes - if he had chosen to improve his British English he would be on the 20th floor

Quite possibly, especially if he had the accent to match, considering the success of James Bond movies in America.
A standard joke about that: a dialect is an ideolect with a history and body of literature. A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. Language is an instrument of politics like any other.

Where my father grew up, the dominant language was not Spanish but Caló, which is generally (incorrectly, in my opinion) considered a degenerate form of Spanish. Later on he had to catch up a lot in order to be taken seriously in international business.

He also learned Brasilian Portuguese, which started out as a regathering of various dialects of Lisbon Portuguese. It is a defacto language, and may become be widely recognized as such, given the political weight behind it.
Me three. After the huge grid failure. Moved to Slicehost and Webfaction.
Yeah, I wrote one of these compose key intros a while back, too:

http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=814

. . . and it's not just for Linux.
I don't know what you mean by same treatment, as I'm sure any English course instructors told him it was incorrect to pronounce the "i" with an "e" sound.
> I've created tickets for real, technical problems with my account that were beyond my control and was treated like it was all my fault

This is exactly how they made me feel, constantly. I had complained about database performance (or lack thereof), sites not loading, etc and it was always my problem according to them.
According to wikipedia there are an estimated 40 million blind people in the entire world. If we assume a global population of 6 billion, that's 0.007% of people. And a large portion of those people live in a state of poverty. So, not a very big market. Doesn't seem worthwhile unless you can get governments or private charities to give you money to develop it.
Why would the law of economics work differently in medicine?
Of course perception matters.

But it's the difference between recognizing AAVE as its own thing, sociolinguistic warts and all, and labeling it as "broken English."

Linguistics isn't just about grammar (in fact, in linguistics "grammatical" is basically synonymous with "understood by a native speaker"), it's also about the signals we send when we speak a certain way (semantics and sociolinguistics).

Labeling AAVE as "broken English" is just a way of dismissing it and giving ourselves an excuse for not understanding it.

For example, I know plenty of successful people who have poor grammar. But nobody goes around saying they speak "broken English," and if I pointed that out everyone would think I'm an asshole.

Why don't people react the same way when we say someone speaking AAVE has "broken English?" Why is it ok to point out how "poorly" they speak?

Anyhow, all I mean to say is that the proper study of AAVE includes the idea that speaking it signals certain things about the speaker, not just its syntax, morphology, etc.

I recommend reading the research of William Labov, who has ton of work in studying the various dialects of American English.
Also, hashed passwords aren't all that much better these days - I know of a vBulletin forum that got penetrated recently, and did a bit of digging about how it stored passwords - MD5(MD5(password).salt) or somthing similar - doesn't seem to stop prople with something called passwordpro from bruteforcing passwords from hash:salt combinations - even things that don't look particularly prone to dictionary attacks seem to be getting answers in 24hrs or so on various forums...

I'm wondering whether I trust myopenid or google's openid service enough to centralise as much of my online authentication there as I can...
You can't even put in a fucking server name without giving it an email address, a password, and letting it fly off to the internet and bang on things it thinks* might be your mail server. Once you've got that, you can put in an incoming server and username, and an outgoing server, and then you wait while it fails to connect, automatically because it hasn't got the right port. And then you have to go back in to set your outgoing server's authentication. It takes a 3-minute process (laboriously hunt-and-peck your name, email address, password, and mail server settings) into a 15-minute process as it repeatedly "helpfully" tries things that you know are going to fail, but can't interrupt and can't cancel. So you wait for several minutes before it realises you really do need to use an alternate port and enable SSL.*

While this instance may be specific to the iPhone with screen reader and setting up wireless, this kind of make-it-easy-by-removing-options-and-attempt-to-probe-for-everything is especially frustrating when you know what the options are but the device or UI wants to do something itself in the name of helping you. I find these kinds of things especially frustrating because it's often difficult to verify the settings after it's been automatically set up.

No, you need to leave the Mail app, then find Settings, scroll down (see 2), select mail and other things, select mail, select this account, select this account, find the password field (without it reading the field names, I remind you), and put in the password, then save the settings and restart the mail app.

Finally, an example of "having all the settings in one place", but divorced from the place the setting is used is a bad idea. I never really understood the mindset that this is supposed to be easier. I know that the app needs the settings, I can find the app no problem, but its settings are some where else, with navigation totally separate from the app. I guess it makes accessing the settings consistent across apps, but this is a weird thing to optimize since you should rarely be messing with app specific settings, and when you do, you're already in the app.
No linguist would ever call the way someone speaks a "mistake," in the same way that a purple swan isn't a mistake. It's something rare and worth studying!
Now I'm guessing you haven't RTFA. The point of the exercise is to teach Standard English more effectively to people whose native language is AAVE, not to teach people AAVE.