jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I believe this phenomenon is called “linguistic relativity”, or “The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis” [1], which says that a language affects its speakers' cognition or even personality. I'm probably not truly bilingual, my native lanuguage is Ukrainian, but I too feel as if my personality and behavior is slightly different when I talk or write in English.

Further reading:

1 // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

https://qz.com/925630/feel-more-fun-in-french-your-personali...

Chen et al 2010, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014616721038536...

Chen et al 2013, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jopy.12040

Athanasopoulos et al 2020, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02643294.2020.17...

M. Keith Chen 2012, https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
I agree with you. In fact, it's glorious that trademark is qualitatively different from copyright. It lets us see what the world would be like if copyright degraded, for example.

In this case, we see that, because trademark does degrade if not defended, well, it has to be defended (no matter how silly it seems to do so). No doubt the Pork Board thought it was silly, but they really have little choice. If trademark was like copyright or a patent right, then they could have chosen to simply ignore this without much risk of losing their rights.
Exactly!

Because a few jokes about unicorn meat will degrade America's appreciation of pork. Certainly.
OpenRA on github [0] had that last I checked. See their BountySource [1].

[0] https://github.com/openra/openra

[1] https://www.bountysource.com/teams/openra/issues
The reason the place you've landed works like you want "now", is that people didn't do the same when it needed to change -- and generations by generation helped improve it.

If they just wanted to come, milk it, and leave on the first sign of trouble, it would be just like your country of origin.
It is very easy to learn and use. Well compared with java and objective c. Learn it and push the app with v 1.0 is a bit hard but it works. In fact the app still there. Great language.
How is it worse? I mean, personally I find it better, the real news isn't filled with Paparrazi/Celeb incidents, there are fewer creepy upskirt pictures and stalker photos plastered on tabloids, it's all moved to a nice bunch of communities I can ignore.
To quote

> "Don’t get me wrong with the title: Houdini is JS-in-CSS (allow JS scripts to be called from CSS). Here, it is more like JS-inside-CSS. You can write the registerPaint’s paint function, directly from CSS. You have access to:"
I played around with Julia a bit last year. One thing that stuck with me was the non-negligible start-up speed. If you want tight feedback loops you have to figure out a way to reuse a Julia instance (like Jupyter).

On that train of thought, how interoperable is preexisting numpy/pandas code with Julia?
Depending on the quality of the lock there is some play in the mechanism (that is also why lockpicking works). This reduces the number of combinations. If you can lookup (model type documentation) or learn (by feel) how the internal mechanism works you can reduce the amount of combinations to guess even more as you can approach the combination one 'layer' at a time.

I once witnessed someone open a safe in a few hours. It is truly amazing to see these kind of proffesionals at work. How they approach this puzzle and the knowledge they can acquire by just feeling. Especially considering it took me a few tries to open the safe when I knew the combination.
What are you talking about? I can get a €20 Samsung in any place that still sells dumbphones. I got a €30 Nokia 5 years ago and it still works splendid.
Truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense

-- Mark Twain
Standardizing is also the reason behind ES7 Observable as was explained in this talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqMFX91ToLw) from Jafar Husain (Netflix & ES7 committee) which explains very well ES6/ES7 features like iterators, promises, generators, async functions and async generators.
Can't you just run a regular phone without a sim and with a snipped antenna lead?
I'll give you $100 _dollars_ for it.
I work for the Microsoft Translator team...
I would appreciate you guys not giving away our future roadmap :)
Exactly, this idea that Apple have sacrificed things like useful ports and useful heat vents, for mobility, it's just flat out wrong. They have sacrificed those things yes, but not for mobility, for looking pretty.
Couldn't a tech company that is sufficiently determined and large enough to fulfill the requirements already try to incorporate a new city/county through whatever the standard method is to do that in Nevada? Does this "just" signal the state's support for companies doing so, or make that process easier / more likely to be approved? Or is it something qualitatively different? Like, would these city/county governments be able to do things that a normal city/county government couldn't?
Yes it's definitely Python. Not sure why I wrote Lisp (other than that my variants of Lisp look like that, with mixed fix notation).
Germans type Shift+7 to get /.

Imagine their horror when having to type AltGr+- to get a backslash. At least with Shift you can choose which of the Shift keys to use, but there is only one AltGr key (it is to the right of the spacebar, the US keyboard layout has the right Alt key there). It used to be you could use Ctrl+Alt+-, too, and at least those were available on the left hand side, too. But I do not know if Ctrl+Alt works nowadays.
What was your use case?
I'm so glad google locked me out of my account. Every day their service just looks more and more abusive.

Rip the band-aid off, your life will be better for it.
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> It's faster to read text than to listen to someone speak, yet speech remains popular.

I suspect there are a few reason for that beyond the explanations you gave.

1) Speech is faster to produce than text. Professional captioners are among the few who can challenge that. For everyone else, it's usually faster to give a speech or say what's on your mind than to type it all out.

2) Speech frees up the eyes. My vision is usually in greater demand than my hearing, so I prefer to avoid committing it to a single activity for a long time if possible. Unfortunately, that's not an option for those without hearing.

3) Speech is easier to attribute to individuals. I can determine who said something with minimal effort just by listening to the sound of their voice.

4) Speech is more immersive for narrative content. Movies and TV shows feel more believable when characters are talking with each other face-to-face like they would in real life.

Unfortunately, a signer in the corner can't make up for any of those factors.
Yeah but few people when asked think like that. It's just a type of "rich".
You could argue that they took something from other people by claiming a larger share of economic output for themselves. Something seems wrong when the largest share of economic growth goes to the top as we have seen over the last decades. And I believe this is not because of some economic law but because the top 1% have made the rules to their favor.
Well, sure. I suppose the canonical example is Ron Jeffries flailing around for several blog posts trying to write a sudoku solver without coming anywhere near achieving it. I still don't think it's helpful to uncritically repeat the stuff about "10X developers," though.
Granted this is anecdotal, but using a colleagues surface pro 2 recently was a frustrating experience. Keyboard had horrible response time and the device itself had a lag of a few seconds.

Couldn't see myself using one anytime soon. That being said, I'll give the Surface 3 a test drive as I don't want to write off a new product based on the failings of its older siblings.
Right now, Coursera offers certificates for degrees that cost money. They also use this to create capstones, consisting of 4 to 5 MOOCs and a final project.

I believe there was someone who completed all the necessary open courseware for an MIT "degree" (obviously substituting courses when not available) but can't seem to find the link.
I live in Pittsburgh, one of the hilliest major(ish) cities in the world, and commute to work on a bicycle.

It's interesting, for sure. I usually get to work drenched in sweat, and drivers in America are still pretty ridiculously hostile. Pittsburgh has a lot of promise, though, and a bike-friendly mayor who's putting bike lanes everywhere (so much he's getting quite a bit of backlash).

What I'm saying is, even if the culture and landscape seem to be unforgiving, with the right infrastructure bikers find a way.
There is. Worst case is 100% conversion of maximum power consumption to the heat. With 2W processor, you can safely assume overheating will not be an issue.

Other question would be whether processor is powerful enough to handle Windows 10 desktop applications (I am not talking about games, but even Skype is CPU hungry nowadays)
Well, her use case is exactly where this Surface would work well (and maybe a Pro is a bit of an overkill).
"Based on reports we've received, we believe the intent of this attack is to convince us to remove a specific class of content."

Does anyone know what that "specific class of content" is, or can shed some light over the motivation of the attacks?
The linked article is a bit biased.

Although I'm still vehemently against the item in question, the real bill in question is the "Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act" (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20023238-38.html?tag=cnetR...) which involves with maintaining a blacklist for domains associated with piracy. Although this is still clearly censorship, it isn't what the title led me to believe (across the board censorship like China).

Still, Dianne Feinstein just lost my vote for the coming election :(.
I read that this is an urban myth and actually only a few percent of the people who have ever lived are alive today.
Well, populations are typically modeled as a sigmoid function, they only appear to be growing exponentially. I think it's fair to assume total population will stabilise whilst we are still resource limited to Earth.
It depends on the site. I click on the penny-arcade ads all the time.

I'll click on google ads sometimes when I'm looking to buy something but that doesn't usually result in a sale.
You don't need a marriage to create a new familial bond. You can also:

* Adopt.

* Have a child.

Is there a third non-marriage event that creates new family member?
We know that short-term small doses of X rays results in increased probability of developing skin cancer. We know that prolonged exposure to low-level radiation sources increases your probability of developing skin cancer. We know that acute high doses of ionizing radiation leads to your skin falling off. Skin cancers are abnormally elevated in radiologists, survivors of Hiroshima who experienced even relatively low doses, radioisotope miners, and people who are treated with X rays for skin conditions.

I'll hazard a guess here and say there's close to zero probability that backscatter machines are lowering your risk of cancer.

Don't get me wrong: I love radiation. I think Cherenkov glow is the coolest thing about working in a reactor. I've handled more sources than I probably should have by this point in my life. At the same time, we should be honest that there is probably a small risk, and it is probably higher than currently stated.
My impression was that the increased radiation experienced on a flight was due to cosmic radiation, not radiation from the sun. So it shouldn't matter where you sit on the plane, right?
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Totally, but look at how smart (and evil) the tobacco companies were. They pivoted between strategies in smart ways.

Once reality started setting in and denial didn't cut it, they acted to protect the shareholders. Phillip Morris bought things like Kraft that they could spin-out later. They settled claims and paid states billions of dollars for healthcare costs a few years before healthcare started going up 30% a year... which capped their liability AND made it politically impossible to put them out of business.

Google seems to at least attempt to do something similar by entering and investing billions into businesses like Cloud, cars, etc. I don't see that with Facebook... Facebook digs in and spouts some nonsense about connecting people, like the capitalist version of Soviet PR people.
Every time you turn iPhone on it prompts to sign in to who knows what min 4x in a row.
Apple also insists that you must use their payment services, you can't use a competitor's. the policies are designed so that they get a cut of all revenue in the ecosystem, that's effectively a tax.
I'm still confused on why facebook needs to be an app at all. They should just make the mobile browser version of their website the best way to experience facebook and then have people add the facebook mobile website to their home screen.
When you're looking at policy to address lifting up the people struggling at the bottom in various ways the only reasonable course is to define it relative to local conditions. Looking globally ignores local prices and needs for example.
Good for iOS users. Rest of the developing world use cheap phones loaded with obsolete Androids. Facebook & Google can now leech on them.

Re: Indian full newspaper AD about Whatsapp privacy.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90593913/whatsapp-facebook-priva...
There is no such thing as a foreigner. The elites have been worldwide for ages, and they're still able to divide-and-conquer by convincing you of the fake idea of separate countries.
I am certainly on the Apple side of this spat but Stratechery wrote a rather compelling pro-Facebook article about this: https://stratechery.com/2020/privacy-labels-and-lookalike-au...

The gist of the argument being that, regardless of what you think about Facebook, hyper-targeted "lookalike audience" models to target ads against actually do level the playing field for small businesses who do not the resources to produce large scale ad campaigns. Highly recommended reading.
I was given a task to finish a webshop with online payments and hotel room reservations for a spa in 1996ish. It was started in perl, though I moved it to PHP a bit later.

I was 16 and was doing an actual summer job at the time (hard labour, 8-12 hours), so doing that was a good balancing thing. But the outcome wasn't very good, I had quite little concept of how to structure the program well. But I did finish it and the shop went into production.

I'm pretty sure, or at least sincerely hope they threw all of it away in the next iteration :)
Now that can't be bad for the CV: 'Helped design the internet'

Or do you just put that down as 'experience of implementing robust, scalable, distributed computing solutions for both consumer and business clients in a challenging environment using diverse technologies, including SOAP and JSON' ;)
Why not just use SQLite? Write a small wrapper around it to isolate each website off on it's own database or set of databases. Each site corresponds to a SQLite user with a password that ONLY the browser knows.
Why is that the correct interpretation of "better". That seems like the wrong sort of "better".
A) As mentioned, -ly is a terrible naming convention.

B) This reminded me of this: http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashio...

High fashion frequently succeeds on brand name alone. Knockoffs are allowed to completely copy a style - but since they can't take the brand name, they fail. People buy Se7en jeans because they're Se7en jeans - and that's about 80% of it. The other 20% is because they look good. This startup completely ignores that thought process.
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I agree, in my experience most funded startups (in nyc) are willing to pay at least 120K a year and you can make much more consulting. I would have thought these two companies, which are seen as the top of technology, would be paying much more.
I see the reasonings of both of your points. To me it seems in the old days, there was a lot of hindrance in reaching your potential therefore for those few to become geniuses, you truly had to be exceptional and since there was so few, your impact would be tremendous.

Now compare that to the modern day, where I'd say a lot higher percentage of people are hitting their potential as a genius. Therefore, a lot more people are coming up with new novel things, but since a lot of the easy major milestones in sciences have been attained, the impact of those single individual geniuses is much smaller.

Modern age Newton could be just a very good AI researcher from England. It's just impossible for humans to have devolved so much that the genius of the previous generations would be so much different than we have today.
For sure, it's just that this little bit could necessitate a pipeline stage if that was the critical timing path somehow already. Just trying to be as friendly to their argument as possible before taking it on.
Not really, it depends in the field. I have definitely met academics that after an early success just keep going. The extent to which they work in one area relates more to their initial success than any obsession. Similarly well established academics that quit to do something similar to their research but not very related and much better paid.
My biggest piece of advice is to roast your own beans. It's not that difficult, although you need a place where you can generate a lot of smoke.

Most of the price in coffee is distribution. Even fair trade farmers make very little money. There are some distributors who work directly with farmers and if you buy green beans from them, the price is not very high. There are many places on the internet where you can buy them.

You can store green beans for a whole year, or even more, with no problems. After you roast the beans, the flavour develops for about 5-10 days and then gets worse. After 2-3 weeks, the coffee isn't very good. When you buy roasted beans, often it is already 2 weeks old before you get it.

Some people like 2 week old roasted coffee beans because it is less acid and many unfamiliar flavours have gone away. But once you get used to freshly roasted coffee, it's much, much better and it's hard to go back.

If you know a place that roasts its own beans, you can usually ask to buy something that was just roasted (maybe only 1 or 2 days ago), but often it is expensive. I usually buy coffee beans in Japan at a company called Tonya. They will roast the beans for you while you watch (they have a nice fluid bed roaster that can do small batches). It's also not very expensive.

But, if you don't have that kind of place, it's best to roast your own. There are many websites on the internet that will show you how to do it.
Yes, they’re leaving the vast majority of apartment occupants (like myself) and probably other types of residencies in the cold. It’s not that oil doesn’t have a similar problem. A tank of gas easily weighs over 100lbs (per a quick search). It just benefits from being a liquid.
I've provided a link to a blog that goes in depth on the previous results in another comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21617254
Entirely agreed. I immediately thought this had something to do with Kx Systems.
In my experience with Roku TVs and the Pi Hole, this only works when the Pi Hole is set as the DHCP server. Otherwise, the TVs will only show up on the admin panel sporadically (meaning that blocking the requests that TVs make is not happening). Once I used the Pi Hole as the DHCP server, every request that the TVs make show up.
So you're going to drop the "essentially" and the fact that he's using it to talk about keeping kids away from the vulnerable? Oh, and putting something in quotes generally means it's a quote. A quote is not something which could be read as equivalent.

So, no, they are not identical.

And from context you can also tell he's talking about otherwise healthy kids -- the "essentially" part of the actual quote.
Where do you plan to get enough masks, given that hospitals have already run out? Let alone goggles.
We're doing the scraping ourselves. Just a single page per domain currently (so it's just links on the homepage), but we'll expand to a few pages per domain in the future.

We're also doing the ranking ourselves. We bootstrapped it by doing a regression against Alexa and other top 1m lists using a bunch of our own features (like number of backlinks, some content features, some IP address related features etc). We'll be sharing more details around this soon.
Precisely what I was thinking. Does anyone know if there is a reason Intel hasn't just acquired ARM? I assume Intel believes that they might still be able to compete and win in the market, but that seems to be less true every day.

(I assume the answer is that it would raise a bunch of anti-trust flags everywhere, but I'm not positive about that.)
The different between now and 1930 is that we were a creditor nation (like China), now we are a debtor nation. So in order to pay off our debt + interest, we have to hike up our taxes (or print dollars) to keep up, thereby suppressing innovation.
>> As a gathering of experts on startup and tech-related topics, HN is unmatched

Agreed. When people say co-founding is like a marriage, I think it's not much of a stretch to say that start-ups and hacking in general are a way of life. That's why I worded it as "lifestyle discussions".

One could say that intellectuals are similar to hackers in that both take interest in nuances of complex things, but imo, hacker culture is more individualistic ("let me do my thing") whereas intellectualism is more of conversational ("hey, here's another thing to ponder").
Great set of tips, thanks!

For those of you still at school doing your PhD or similar, I highly suggest to take on some teaching assistantship position, at least for 2-3 semesters. Nothing boosts your presentation skills than going in front of a bunch of undergrads to present hard material.
The Greatest Salesman in the World is still being published, I have a copy sitting on my bookshelf right now. It was a gift, and I never read it. If anyone knows, what are the difference between the two?
Kind of funny considering 37signals just invested a boatload in their new offices
I really hate the idea of "we'll do something not-so-nice and allow people to opt out". Most people won't bother, it doesn't scale (how many things do I have to opt out of, again?), and it's passing your problem on to me.

That said, "click here to donate your spare CPU cycles to awesomesite.com" would be just, well, awesome.
I'm not disagreeing but a couple of things.

- When living and interacting locally I think folks moderate their views a bit - call it "politeness"?

- Views locally are somewhat more homogenized?

- For better and worse, I'm not sure you'd last that long in Caribbean if you were just a twitter bomb thrower, even if justified - my impression was even things like whistleblowing would not be very well received (ie, if I'd complained about various govt officials not being at their desks when they should have been - it wouldn't have come over well). This may be wrong and certainly has changed as folks become more aware of what should and shouldn't happen.
Many UI toolkits use shared ownership and callbacks, and that's annoying in Rust. Some bindings make it work. There's a bunch of folks working on interesting architectures. But the classic styles just clash with Rust's default way of doing things.