jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
LibriVox has recordings of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" translated into many languages, including various Germanic ones. https://librivox.org/the-raven-multilingual-by-edgar-allan-p...

As a native German speaker who also knows English (obviously), I'd rate the comprehensibility of the others as follows:

Swedish: understood just a few words

Dutch: understood some entire phrases

Yiddish: understood entire sentences, but there were still some words I couldn't recognize, which I guess might stem from Hebrew or Slavic languages. (But I did know about some of the more regular sound changes relative to German before, like Augen → Äugen.)
Are you sure it was religion? Maybe you are mixing it up with something else, like ideology, language, or whatever?
I haven't heard that bit of AGW FUD in years.

There was no scientific consensus in favor of global cooling.

Quoting https://skepticalscience.com/What-1970s-science-said-about-g...

> A persistent argument designed to discredit the field of climate science is that scientists predicted an ice age in the 1970s. So popular in fact that it ranks an impressive #7 in the most cited skeptic arguments. The logic goes that climate scientists got it completely wrong predicting global cooling in the 1970s (it started warming instead). Hence climate science can't be trusted about current global warming predictions. Setting aside the logical flaws of such an ad hominem argument, was there any consensus among 70s climate scientists predicting global cooling?

They cite a paper which looked at the publications during that era, and describe the conclusion as:

>The paper surveys climate studies from 1965 to 1979 (and in a refreshing change to other similar surveys, lists all the papers). They find very few papers (7 in total) predict global cooling. This isn't surprising. What surprises is that even in the 1970s, on the back of 3 decades of cooling, more papers (42 in total) predict global warming due to CO2 than cooling.

Hardly a consensus.

And ... Leonard Nimoy, in 1978? What documentary was this, "In Search of..."?

FWIW, Nimoy was never a scientist, so how is that at all relevant?
I haven't mentioned async Rust on HN since 2015.
Two more thoughts:

- This is a bit like eBay or Amazon, arguably; except that the user profile and context is optional for the user to provide

- Addictive products could still be a loophole that bad advertisers could exploit to monetize users without providing them overall benefit; fortunately local regulations tend to cover that
If you actually read the thread, it is evident that the author is in fact well-known and has worked on this for many years.
Wow, he's game. I used to ice skate once but I'd never skate on ice quite that thin. Being black ice, it's likely freshly frozen so what would worry me would be coming across a thermally insulated area where the ice wasn't yet that thick.

I reckon to skate on creeking ice that made sounds like that would be most unnerving.
For me it's a very similar sensation to completing a Sudoku or Crossword puzzle.
I swear by Notational Velocity (http://notational.net/).
If you don't pirate software then there is zero reason to run anti-virus software on your Mac.

"visit torrent sites or security/hacker sites" + "I don't download random DMG files" don't go well together though.
So do Larry Page and Sergey Brin. I'm sure $1/year has extraordinary tax benefits.
https://twitter.com/patconnolly/status/517792555292164096

grugq removed the PoC repo in prep for a product launch, but here's a fork of a project that's a partial solution:
https://github.com/RagnarDanneskjold/darkmatter

Basically, restart an full-disk encrypted device when loss of signal or drop in temperature occurs. Have something similar on your desktop. Wear a BLE Android watch, and make sure your devices restart when they get out of reach, or when put into a Faraday bag, or when dropped in liquid nitrogen :)

Yeah, it's still possible to defeat, especially if someone knows your setup, but it's at least pretty damn close to foolproof. If you sense trouble, just run like hell and lose the signal
Running a site with 70M users/month and relying on the "majority" of new development work to be done by volunteers. I think that is highly optimistic.
Performance musicians can relate more. There are accessible programming tools, there really aren't any accessible instruments.
Superb article (and paper). In a reasonable universe, this would be on the front page of HN.
As a musician by training who was forced to take "any job" out of school due to lack of gainful applications for music skills who is now trying to reinvent himself as a professional programmer (a loved hobby), I feel that. I'm thankful for life, the universe, and everything.
In no particular order, I am thankful for opportunity. I'm thankful for most of the great things our nation has to offer, and how good it is overall even when parts of it are very, very broken. I'm thankful that there are (or were) people like Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman, to write words, thoughts and ideas that captivate, provoke and inspire me. I'm thankful for my family, and that none of them have any horribly pressing problems. I'm thankful that even in this economy, and with others in terrible plight, that I am able to afford and appreciate a meal shared with the people I love.
I have a loving family, great friends, and that I was born with exceptional talent.
I wish my employer would get Dropbox. Not being able to host it in-house is probably a dealbreaker though.
It used to be an ad box. Not sure why it's currently white.
Probing for as much 'open-ness' as possible is the #1 thing I'd like to see. Things like 'share your financial model spreadsheet' and other documents like this would be essential. I'm doing something similar with salon owners at the moment as I'm launching a small salon software kit in the next few weeks.

Will definitely check back every once in a while!
Depends. AFAICT it’s designed to be embedded in a c project; in that context, it’s merely saying “the wuffs part does not allocate; do that in the c code”.
You mean in the sense that it can be traced back to the originator, just like messages?
The significant new thing in this story is on the front page already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713827

The rest is a dupe-by-value, which is how dupuolity works on HN.
As impressive as Dean's technical skills are, there's a point where Google would be better off without him than without all the people who decided not to work for Google because of him.
Parallel to a quote from Tony Hoare's Turing award speech, I find it helpful if the code does what it says it does first.

You can hide a lot of bugs (including from yourself) by having the code that works quite differently than you would describe it. It's better if you rearrange the code the way you would describe it (and then you don't have to describe it at all).
Congrats on the success! I always like to see familiar faces when I randomly read HN articles :)
> Especially as a project scales, somebody who makes good technical decisions will only increase the productivity margin between themselves and others.

I once saw a customer obsessed junior engineer push out features that our users really wanted, but that none of the senior engineers had time for.

Half a year or so later one of the senior engineers was complaining that he had to rewrite everything that junior engineer did due to how poorly the code was written.

End of the day? The junior engineer's code is what got shipped and made the user's happy. Was it tech debt that had to be rewritten? Sure. Was my team happy with him for being willing to work with us to make the product better? Yup.

Perfect is the enemy of the good and all that.

(I've also seen code where changes took a long time because someone invented a DI framework and layers of XML configuration files when a single if statement with 2 branches would've done the trick. Was the solution well engineered? Yes! Very reliable, good quality code. Took me a few days to get ahold of it and add that 2nd conditional...)
That's my observation too.

At the senior level, folks have typically carved a path out for themselves. College is typically the oldest thing on their resume anyways.
You could say it's unreliable.
If you know anything about programming, skip this book. If you don't know anything about programming, also skip this book. It gives you drills without explaining anything. My SO started learning with this book and I could see the book only caused confusion. She completely misunderstood how functions and function invocation work. And his way of teaching boolean logic is to memorize truth tables, wtf?
Anecdote here: it took me around 3-4 weeks to get fully acclimatized to my standing desk, a period during which I was often tired and sore. However, once I got used to it, standing became a normal part of my day. Because I'm already standing, I have an easier time walking away from my desk - to get a drink, go to the bathroom, confer with a colleague, go for a walk, etc. - and I've also been incorporating squats, calf raises and stretches into my daily movements. Several months after going all-standing, I feel better than I have in years. My posture is better, my back no longer aches, my knees have stopped hurting, my mood is better and my productivity is as good as, or better than, it was when I sat all day.
If we can't all be on the same page with respect to Comic Sans, then how could one hope to find agreement about the design decisions made on this website?
This seems like such a small change, but it's the most important single contribution to adoption and usability that Ubuntu have made to date. Design matters.
I've used both Gist.com and Rapportive.com...
$650k according to CrunchBase on 5/14/2010 http://www.crunchbase.com/company/etacts

Depending on what they spent money on since then they could be reaching the next point of fundraising again and decided it wasn't the right thing to go do.
You're right, but Martin already said his team was working on things like scaling as opposed to iterating on the product. I think that's what every startup needs to do post launch: harden up the quality of their product before pushing forward with new user-facing features.
I know all of the MS Fulltimers had the option of getting a free one for Christmas this month.. Wonder how that bumps up the numbers :)
"We will remain fully operational during the transition"

Transitioning from operational to shut down...? That's odd word choice.
I guess what I mean is at a much larger scale. Like 1000s of networks or maybe more, like I presume you get in the brain. Is this already what’s happening currently?
>intentionally triggered by central banks with the aim of controlling inflation by putting a lot of people out of work

This is the top comment, while someone calling it a conspiracy theory is down-voted. That is sad.

The Fed was founded in 1913. The US had recessions in 1785, 1789, 1796, 1802, 1807, 1812, 1815, 1822, 1825, 1828, 1833, 1836, 1839, 1845, 1847, 1853, 1857, 1860, 1865, 1869, 1873, 1882, 1887, 1890, 1893, 1902, 1907, 1910.

Do you notice how frequent recessions were, pre-Fed? The average duration was also much longer. Blaming recessions on the Fed (who are trying to manipulate the business cycle) doesn't jibe with the data.
You can ignore all the non-responses or anything short of an interview. Sometimes listings aren't as real as they appear, and often it isn't you, it is them... simply needing something different than what you are. You cannot control that, and it isn't a judgment against you, so forget about all that.

What you should worry about is whether the hiring process continues after the first interview. You moved on to tech interviews in more than half, which is decent. Again, if half of them needed something different than what you are, that is fine. Let it go.

But you only moved to an onsite about a quarter of the time - it sounds like you may have a disconnect in the tech screen. It is difficult to say what isn't working there without more info, but I'd focus your attention on that step of the process.

And one side piece of advice - your blog posts, open source contributions, speaking engagements.... those all are commendable. But mean little when it comes to hiring you. Hiring managers want to know what accomplishments you had in your work. How did you improve the business results of your former employers?
I'm always amazed when I'm reminded of the genesis of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Whether you think it sprung solely from his mind or not, the thought experiment is so simple a young child can understand but look at the ramifications which follow. Just remarkable.
You may think there is some rational choice to be made about obsessive curiosity. Maybe not.
In 1960, my mom lived near a six year old who could fix electric stuff. Everyone in the neighborhood knew him and brought him things to fix. TV's were no problem; dead radios were great; telephones were cool. He was a super happy kid with a constant enthusiasm and a sparkle in his eye, running home from school every day to see what he could learn and what neighbors had brought for his help. He had thrown circuit breakers in the house many times. One day, there was a blackout and he came down from his room to apologize to this parents, again. They had an idea and they pointed out the window. "Well you really did it this time. Look, the entire city went down." And that was it. He stopped with electronics.
At first he was morose and anxious, but his parents figured he would get used to his new life. He left for college the same disconnected and subdued kid he became at six. My mom bumped into him again around 1990, when he was about 35, and he never did recover: still sad, puffy, disconnected from people, uninspired, hating his job, unhappy with friends.
> Our machines are still incapable of independently coming up with a thought or hypothesis, testing it against others and accepting or rejecting its validity based on reasoning and experimentation, i.e. following the core principles of the scientific method.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/robots-adam-and-e...

A prime example of this is "Adam," an autonomous mini laboratory that uses computers, robotics and lab equipment to conduct scientific experiments, automatically generate hypotheses to explain the resulting data, test these hypotheses, and then interpret the results.
Single handedly?
Although I agree with your conclusion, every adult I know takes either caffeine, alcohol, or cannabis. Calling it morally wrong seems off to me.
AirPrint is a local service; it doesn't do what Cloud Print does. (The name is a clue.)
This is the kicker here. Nothing else matters.

A business dedicated to privacy is completely incompetent if they can’t even use HTTPS.

I cancelled my sub minutes after learning about the news. I would hope the PIA engineer can see through what buyout propaganda they are being fed and see the writing on the wall.
It would be interesting if someone tried this in one of these larger cities with high rises like Singapore. You'd create a smaller groups with a sense of community while still giving members the benefits of living in a large city. The reason I thought of this is it reminded me of a strategy of using small bible study groups being employed in a large church that was part of my alma mater. The idea is that it was easier and more intimate in these small groups, so they'd have the ability to hold more personal sutdy sessions. Of course, they still belonged to the main body and had those advantages, such as a larger number of volunteers, etc.

Something like that could create the "small town atmosphere" many city dwellers seek without destroying the city.
At least in Bulgaria, there are a couple of famous Bulgaria-only sites like zaplatomer.bg (salarymeter) or jobs.bg. Maybe search more specific to your region instead of for the whole of the US?
> already uncommon

It's definitely not uncommon though. Just to provide one example: how often do you use all the arguments to `.map` callback?

Usually you'd write something like `arr.map(x => x + 1)`.

However, to spell out all the arguments you'd have to write `arr.map((x, i, arr) => x + 1)`.

And there's tons of other functions like that in stdlib or 3rd-party libs that people use without passing or accepting all the args. That's why this optimisation is so useful.
> It seems there would be a point at which you reach maximum information density with camera sensors. Not due to limitations of technology, but the nature of light itself and the optics.

That is true--with a single camera.

At some point, we will have so many cameras facing an objective that you can exceed the limits of individual optics.
> People pay taxes that pay for healthcare for every single citizen. No person is without care. (end of comparison).

The Netherlands and Switzerland have a system of compulsory insurance that's closer to PPACA than it is to "pay taxes that pay for healthcare for every single citizen."

Germany has a combination of sickness funds combined with insurance mandates.

Singapore has compulsory health savings accounts.

The US technically has "no person without health care" because you can get it in emergency rooms, and I'll have to spell this out that I think that's a horrible system, but it meets a "no person without health care" checklist.

I think almost any other system would be preferable to the American system, but again they do involve real tradeoffs for real again.

EDIT FOR PARENT EDIT It's definitely not true that no one pays out of pocket for health care in any other country.
> There's no technical or legal reason why N++ had to move off SourceForge; they're simply throwing a hissy fit.

What's wrong with moving off the server out of principle? While I'm American, I can't fault these guys if they suddenly felt less secure about the hosting of their work by a US company, especially if it's due to political reasons they'd have no recourse over if at some future point they risk being targeted (even unintentionally) by a future policy.
He was looking for gratification and external approval. The comment was designed for that, and his defensiveness and unwillingness to engage in a deeper discussion of the issues only proves it, because anyone who meant what they said would own up - "Yeah, I guess that's true, I can't get it right either. Like this one time I..." and instead we get "ho ho, no, you have it all wrong, grasshopper. The code is everything, I am nothing. armfold"

Yes, that makes it ironic.
> .co is a huge opportunity for squatters.

You can get them at under a $1 per domain too if you bulk order them. But since it's a pre-order, the people who pay $300 get priority.

I don't understand why they don't auction off the obviously desirable domains, like they're doing with the 1 letter domains.
I still can't send text messages over 160 characters to anyone not on my carrier (Verizon) so I'm not sure where you're getting that figure from.
The reason why I did this was because Apple is touting Safari 5 as being "The Worlds Fastest Browser" and specifically said "Powered by the Nitro JavaScript engine, Safari 5 on the Mac runs JavaScript up to 30 percent faster than Safari 4, 3 percent faster than Chrome 5.0,"

http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html#performance
Nope. It was registered April 26 2010 by ".CO Founders program".

.CO founders are hand-picked to ensure the domain will "contribute to the .CO community in a meaningful way." In return, they get get first dibs on a .CO domain name, which will be publicly launched in July 2010. (http://www.cointernet.co/domain/become-co-founder)

Maybe it is registered under the program's name instead of the actual registrant to ensure registrants under the program stick with their originally-submitted plan. Or at least they can't turn around and change it to a domain parked ad page.

Or perhaps the whois registrant name will be changed after the public launch.
That's funny. As a coder, it seems like EVERYONE around me is a coder, and I can't for the life of me find any people interested in bizdev/marketing/etc to partner with.
I don't think the point was to attack your example. I think the point was that some governments might be doing bad things, but why does this have to condemn the people?
The airlines did not "steal" the passenger traffic... they offered something people wanted... a journey lasting hours instead of days.
From one of the comments there:

"if someone (...) could explain why the line has always been "the metadata" when it is obvious that mass interception of content has always been part of the equation i would be grateful.

i would also be grateful if from now on every article relating to the NSA scandal will mention that fact that there is bulk collection of content.

i would also be grateful if from now on every time a public official is questioned or quoted the fact that content is collected in bulk is at the forefront.

every article should contain the fact that these agencies collect nude webcam images in bulk from people who are not suspected of any crime."
The ability to customize the type of auto-created primary keys is also one step towards fixing one of the long-standing issues in Django: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/56
When equity feels like oppression. No one is turning on the rich but the workers are certainly getting tired of the empty platitudes.
Don't you know that computers are services now? :).

(Yes, this sucks.)
Wouldn't it be a good place because of the proximity? Lower salaries, lower real estate costs, and access to both markets within a 2-3 hour drive if making sales presentations etc.
> This is very different than other eras.

Unsupported claim.
I don't understand how a serious effort would be required, even if the chosen delimiter being present within the data is an issue, the phone number is the first field.

I can get all the phone numbers myself with a simple `cat * | cut -d ":" -f 1`
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I hope it can be useful for you too. I find that being productive (and also knowing when you should rest) is a big part of one's well-being. Maybe Pomozzo can do that for you in some way.
Django has a substantial learning curve and you may need to spend more time to get started. But ultimately to do the same thing in Flask you have to spend comparable time to learn, except that Flask lets you start much quicker into your learning. As your Flask project grows you find out it is not actually that easy nor convenient.
This is of course my experience only. I decided to just stick to Django (and DRF) and I feel no need to use anything else.
For performant services I use Go.
Silicon Valley real estate bubble yes.

Businesses making use of modern technology bubble? No.
All that slagging off of Squid looks pretty stupid now that Varnish are implementing... their own OS independent disk and memory management! (see https://www.varnish-software.com/blog/introducing-varnish-ma...).

Maybe those Squid developers weren't such knuckle-dragging morons after all.
Privacy laws also protect the people who don't think about privacy. Those are the ones most susceptible to being manipulated by people tracking their activities.

See http://mathbabe.org/2014/02/26/what-privacy-advocates-get-wr...
Because given the poor.circumstamces we've succeeded in becoming an economic miracle where most others have failed..and we've been able to protect our turf through diplomacy and deterance without having to fight a single war. For every foreign
critic I meet I have only one advice... look at your own country and their leaders before u belittle