jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm bilingual portuguese/english, and two completely different personalities. I have a really hard time flirting in english, for instance, when in portuguese it's very easy. Also I always write perfectly in portuguese very rarely mispelling a word, whereas I'm a full blown dislexic in english. I think it only shows how much language is the code of learning.. I learned to read and write both in E|P at the same time, and spoke english daily for 2 years as a child in Africa, but after that I went back to speaking only portuguese in Brazil, and having english mostly for the sole purpose of entertainment. Another notable differences I could notice is that with English I have a much more flexible accent, which can easily vary after spending a few days speaking it on travels.
This was published in November, weeks before the big shake-up at the New Republic [1]. It will be interesting to see whether or not the new New Republic will publish articles that go into an issue with this much depth and consideration.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/business/shake-up-at-the-n...
I agree - I don't feel picked on :D I guess my point is that it's overly dismissive to say "no free work for companies on niche architectures" when projects backed by the same company were a bit blind-sided by this and a bunch of people lost time chasing down what happened and why. To me that's a sign that this isn't just a mismatch of ideology or someone wanting free work: it was a failure in communication and mismatched expectations. If it had just been on a major version bump, I wonder if we'd even be having this discussion.
There's an explanation here: https://beepb00p.xyz/unnecessary-db.html (the link behind "Against unnecessary databases")
My BTC brings me joy.
Ehh, sort of. Volume is highly correlated with return due to the wealth affect. When crypto crashes people stop trading.
I don’t get it. Use ssh keys with a passphrase? Then stolen keys are useless?
I see this argument a lot. I understand it, but I don’t agree with it.

One issue that I see is that the UIs where this is rendered, render the utf8, ie the look alike code points. So if it’s to protect users, then we’d need to present the puny-code and not the rendered native language text. But, why would do this? It would defeat a primary reason for DNS, to bridge humans to networks. So I just don’t buy it.

So the look alike issue is still there. So if it’s not the users, then who are we protecting from the look-alike characters? It’s definitely not a benefit for those of us who’ve written the code to parse and store DNS names (at least from my personal perspective).
http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/ <- good doc system AND documentation
Great! For me turning off Twitter and news helps a lot! And watching comedies instead.
In the PC world, 2-1 like the Surface are taking over classical laptops.
Metaphorically, "field" means the group of people competing, and "big tent" means an inclusive group. So there's a natural interpretation that doesn't mean they all gathered in one place.
Downvotes wont change the fact that mass psychology is at play. Not invidual psychology, like people in jail.

Those are two different things! Most people think they are the same, but they are not.

Nonetheless,thats why i wrote, soon or later we accept the dead people as part of doing "business"
You can usually find the manual online very easily, just search the model number.
> Germany regularly uses riot police against civilains if they threaten public safety.

That's about "threatening the building of a train station", not "sitting in the sun in a park".

Regarding Merkel's speeches, I'm sure there is universal agreement within the main stream media, yes.

> She also never said her decisions would be "without alternative". This is a deliberately misleading quotation that right-wingers love to use against her.

I mean, she's literally on the Wikipedia page for Alternativlos as somebody that loves to say the word. It's so much her thing that she became the poster child.
You could look for coaches who train actors AND singers. But my coach trains singers primarily, and it seems to me that the techniques are the same.

I wanted to work on my enunciation as well, in addition to loudness, cadence, nasality etc. My speaking style is staccato, and I emphasise too many words. That she corrected by telling me to read from a fully prepared script if I could help it, which is useful for recordings in these times! That got rid of the staccato, because my low-bitrate brain was freed from having to figure out what clever thing to say next :)

Then to work on the cadence, I had to underline at most two words per line, which would most effectively deliver the import of that line.

Finally, breath control. "Speaking from the diaphragm" is a real thing. There's a daily regimen of vocalization and breathing exercises that I do. My neighbors look at me oddly. But these exercises do help. Good breath control allows you to deliver a long line, with appropriate pauses and cadence, without feeling your tank is going to empty soon.
My partner's cooking is so good that restaurants food taste like paper to me.
It has its downsides as well, I am eating much more and gained weight and getting into diet is hard.
I think he's saying he doesn't want it to become the only store. Lots of other stores are hurting.
> A technique I use is to use the thing I'm avoiding to make progress on the 2nd thing I'm avoiding.

This is called structured procrastination.

> I've also found that if I work on something and finish it, the next day I bumble around when getting started.

And this one is called Ovsiankina effect.
The other kind of vandalism has happened too, where houses were requested to be taken down / pixelated by someone other than the owner or tenants.
There was a news report about this happening to the Green party headquarters last week, and according to Google, it couldn't be undone because Google had deleted the data (imagine that).
Interesting problem. Well explained.
It happens. According to Google Analytics a website I built had 14.4 billion in revenue one day in November, 2008. While I wish it was true, the bigger problem is that any chart that includes this datapoint is essentially useless since it dwarfs the daily revenue of every other day.
We use Wave in our 3-person team (and very seldom, for outside contacts).

Forgot whatever you heard about what Wave is supposed to be. It's only a tool for small project collaboration.

Here's our use: a new Wave for anything we need to talk about, which is its own subject (e.g., talking about a specific feature for a project.) In that wave, anybody who wants to say anything just adds more messages. For some things, the topmost Wave contains a "summary" of everything said. For example, we have a "Schedule" Wave where we write our schedule. The top Wave contains the actual schedule and is hand-edited whenever we need, and additional messages are added to discuss anything that needs discussing.

This is great for collaboration. Any time I want to add more information to a subject, I add a message. If there's something I need to edit (a list of clients, etc.), I can edit any Wave I want. It works perfectly with multiple people editing anything they want, even at the same time. It even works for real-time talking, which helps if you happen to be updating the Wave at the same time.

All in all, if you completely forget what Wave was supposed to be and only use it for small-team collaboration, I think it's a great tool.
Fantastic, but that amounts to an ad-hominem attack on Snowden that doesn't reduce, in the least, the impact and validity of the data he released.

We could do with more "attention seekers" willing to blow the whistle on illegal activity.
>So I find the whole first half of the text to be a flabby way of saying that the arguments of dishonest people need to be evaluated more critically than those of honest people. But I find that the arguments of honest people need to be critically evaluated too.

You over-simplified the argument here, I think. I read it more as a person's motivations need to be considered, not particularly honesty. And nearly everybody has motivations that may influence how and what information they present to you.
Are you slightly angry at the outside world? Whenever I hear someone ranting about teenage girls and "hipsters" I think "social issues."
permalink: http://rdist.root.org/2010/12/27/building-a-usb-protocol-ana...
or even Django, which after-all is just a framework to python's language..
I'd get rid of the 'node.js runs everything in parallel' BS unless you can back it up with facts and numbers. It reads like complete rubbish atm.

Also I have no idea what you're talking about with 'connections to the OS'. Sounds like more FUD to me.

The code that makes up node.js is carried out by the V8
javascript engine. This engine (read: the component that
processes javascript so that it can be understood by your
operating system) is the same one Google uses in Chrome,
which makes the processing of node.js very, very fast.

It should also be noted here, that it makes it very, very fast "when compared to other js engines", however, it makes it pretty slow when compared to a ton of other languages/runtimes. It's just misleading marketing speak to omit that.
Build businesses, not apps.

But hey, whatever floats your boat is right.
No it won't make a bad experience for anyone. See the AllthingsD video interview with Andy Rubin for a demo. GMail app on the tablet is displayed taking full advantage of extra screen real estate by placing its views side by side. Same app goes on a phone and places its view once screen at a time, new view (view mail for e.g.) activated by click for example. This is exactly what iPad apps do, only that in case of Android one binary will do the right thing on tablet and phones.
so, the conversation is all about how useful/useless this.

Anybody know what stack are they using ? For e.g. Paypal Beacon used some combination of Go running on Arm5
There are propagandist on all corners of the internet. Many people on HN are blind and willfully ignorant that our community is infected to some degree.
Sounds like "pushing abstinence education to end teen pregnancy" is not like adults making sensible decisions about what they put in the hole in the front of their face, then.
is the budget yearly?
You're conflating internet interactions with real interactions.

I don't drink at all. Never done drugs and have never been drunk or anything. When I go to bars with friends I find that as the night goes on people become complete drunken idiots and are impossible to deal with. There's no polite way to tell a guy to stop talking to you about his chia pet collection or to keep someone from puking on your shoes or trying to start a fight. Best solution is to just not go to bars, which is what I do. If I need to fit in for some reason, I usually just pretend I'm kind of drunk like everyone else, which I haven't done since I was in my early 20s.

Twitter, these HN comments, IRC, the whole internet is like a massive bar full of drunk idiots. Especially toward the end of the day. Something about the internet makes people turn off their rational mind and just spew hate, stupidity, propaganda, and lies. In this case, it's the same interactions and I get tired of it. You can't tell a belligerent drunk to politely stop smashing your car any more than you can tell a belligerent twitter user to stop talking to you.

So, your comment amounts to judging my interactions with people professionally based on my interactions a bunch of drunk idiots at a bar. Nobody is a saint, and expecting me or anyone else to take abuse and poor behavior like Jesus before you'll think they're a good person is wrong.

And, the fact that you are actually spending your morning (day/night) telling people how I'm a fucked up asshole because of how I deal with fucked up assholes kind of says more about you than me.
Piketty's big contribution is the creation of time series of top wealth distribution going back to the ~1850. In the linked paper, all the time series start at 1960 at the earliest, thus dismissing most of the new empirical data.

So whatever technical merit the critique has, it doesn't seem to concern itself with the big picture results since it neglects the empirical work.
The logo makes me think of Greece's flag. Good/Bad take that as you will. :)
The graphs near the bottom of that page look very useful for understanding how density and other compressors compare. But, they also look dramatically different each time I refresh the page... Reporting from iOS8 Safari.
One of the most important challenges I have undertaken in the past several years.
The problem isn't extended characters in your Python script, it's how your Python script handles extended character data. Scripts written in Python 2 that ignore the existence of Unicode won't always do the right thing when they encounter non-ASCII strings in the wild.
Very excited for this, just from the GUI point of view it's a big step forward.
Dvorak said the same thing...in 2010

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372729,00.asp
While Armenians bore the brunt of the Ottoman brutality, there were Assyrian, Syriac and Orthodox Greek massacares/genocides too but for some reason these are much less known and rarely talked about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_genocide
Only in London and for good reason, having people pay by cash each stop takes up a ridiculous amount of time on popular routes.
> and a web browser

The Facebook app, on Android at least, uses a built-in browser when you click a link.
If you want best practices on ecommerce on UX
http://ecommerceuxdesign.com
I don't agree, unless your definition of modernity is the set of unfounded and unvalidated beliefs that have been largely imposed on people against their will for the last 100 or so years.

I agree though that "moderation" is not going to change any of this. What we are witnessing though are the trows of a transnational regime (liberalism, globalism, social democracy, whatever you want to call it) that is inherently schizophrenic and is trying to desperately maintain its slipping grasp on power and control… and reality for that matter. They reject reality and substitute their own. That can only go on for so long, but it cannot go on for ever, even if it can outlive all of us. It is an attempt to violation of the laws of natural order and life, and it will always fail eventually.
In Italy, debit cards have numbers that are not embossed (however they are slightly "engraved" i.e. the number forms a slight depression on the card - basically the opposite of embossing). IIRC I've seen the same in other EU countries. I now live in Australia and in my experience, here all cards are embossed, no matter if they are credit or debit cards.
Go ahead and play stupid. Maybe that works on Face**, but I think people here are more apt to see through your silly games.
Is this the reverse of the Gambler's Fallacy? Instead of "The numbers haven't hit in a while, therefore they're going to hit soon." it's "The numbers haven't hit yet, therefore they're never gonna hit."
A note on Afghanistan, the military started the war paying farmers to stop growing poppy in an attempt to defund the Taliban. The next season farmers planted more, expecting to be paid to burn thier crops again. No dice. Crop production ramped up, flooding the market with Heroine and subsequently rounding out the pain pill opiate crisis in the US with a swell of Afghanny (circuitously routed through south American drug Lords) heroine. And the Taliban got funding for decades. Now the media is aghast at how much regular people hate the government now. Trump support is just a big fat middle finger to an inept establishment that currently has it's pants down around it's ankles.
One can write fluently on half a pill, which is quite handy.
It is theft whether your door was unlocked or I break your window and then steal your stuff.
I mean most people I know that are "very smart people" including myself regularly exercise the cool customer vibe of "yea right, that'll never happen." I think it's a good parable. I mean, it's not really important, and I didn't learn anything, but it's a good reminder that "probably not" is a lot different than "definitely not."
It really depends on how much you do. On a sufficient dose of LSD or mushrooms, you can lose all connection with physical reality for (what seems like) eons, and "travel to" (or construct?) arbitrarily weird places. But for those substances, it may require more careful setup (quiet, dark room, eyeshades). With DMT you don't have much choice.
> I don't think any private company should have any interference by the Govt. BUT every founder/owner/CEO should think about their people first.

This amounts to an ideological viewpoint, however it doesn't map to reality. If the government doesn't step in, the worst of the worst will sift up to the top, and the most complacent will sift to the bottom. It's how things naturally fall into place.

Exploitative people in an unchecked market have an unmatched advantage. If you believe in real market competition, then pure capitalism cannot work because it stifles competition by creating unfair disadvantages for CEOs who think about their people, discouraging them from acting benevolently.

The problem is that you see the government as this authoritarian beast who must be kept in a cage for the safety of its people, when in reality a healthy government is its people. Government regulations in a free market are a result of the consumers who participate in the market wanting protection.

In the end, you either favor consumer protection or corporate protection. Which seems more moral to you?
>In the end this will stop future cases of investors trying to jam garbage companies into the public markets, essentially stealing money from retail investors who don’t know better

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. I wish I could have hope that this wouldn't happen again in the future (banks selling an overvalued business to the public markets via IPO) But really, this has happened before and it will happen again. Human irrationality knows no bounds.
The speculation on Deepfakes in politics reminds me of a particular period in Russian history known as the Time of Troubles, when numerous people claimed (called False Dmitris) to be the heir to the Russian throne. I believe a similar scenario happened a few times in the Ottoman Empire but I’m having difficulty finding it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Dmitry
Please don't post duplicate comments to HN! It lowers signal-noise ratio and makes it hard to merge threads. Now that the threads are merged, I have to go find the other copies and kill them, and if they have replies, move the replies to the surviving copy. That takes quite a lot of REPL work.

Here's what to do instead: when you notice that a discussion has forked and your comment is languishing in the losing branch, email hn@ycombinator.com and get us to merge them. Then your comment will get moved to the winning branch, and you've benefited the whole community with an un-split discussion.

(I appreciate your mentioning the duplicates, though, because otherwise we wouldn't have known about them. Maybe there's a software idea in there.)
SDRAM is cool but DDR3 is better! With LiteDRAM there is even an open source controller. LiteDRAM also works with SDRAM too.
I'm not expert but I have a feeling this article will age poorly.
Zombocom
My response to this: http://swombat.com/2010/12/14/hot-markets-flying-turkeys

I'm not convinced that following trends is a bad idea for everyone. It all depends on how much it costs you to back that turkey.
Because it's simply more painful to do many things that should be trivial. I have about 8 years of java under my belt and I rarely use it anymore (only a few times in the last 3 years). Instead I use one of those trendier languages... all of which you list are long past the possibility of being only a trend.

There are definitely some great reasons to use java for certain tasks, specifically due to the wide range of library support. If I had to use Java for a greenfield project though I'd probably take a serious look at groovy.
For those interested in IVR monitoring services, you should check my recent blog post where I describe what should be in a good monitoring report.

What’s in your IVR application monitoring report?
http://blog.nuecho.com/2010/12/14/whats-in-your-ivr-applicat...

Enjoy!
We said we came from Protx (which we did) and got matched pricing, i.e. a low fee per month up until 250 transactions., then 10p per transaction.
That's the problem in a lot of places. The highway I use most often is the 401 in the greater toronto area -- the busiest highway in north america. Stopping on the side of the road is extremely dangerous at the best of times, and walking along it, even worse.

However, I have called 911 on occasion. It always amazes me how few people call in collisions and accidents. On a recent road trip to the US, I was travelling North from Indianapolis to Chicago, when I see a huge cloud of dust appear ahead of me. As I drive towards it, there's a car flipped upside down in the center ditch. 4-5 cars had already stopped, but I stopped as well, as fast as I could, and called 911.

I was the first that called, out of nearly 10 people on scene.

Please, people, don't assume someone else has called 911, ever.
I think the classic in this field is 'The Toyota Way':
http://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Way-Jeffrey-Liker/dp/0071392319
I instantly assumed that improvement quote must be from some study by VeriSign.
I felt like that until perhaps 5 listens of Feed The Animals, after which it became a solid favourite.
Flagging, because this leans much more political than technical. It's more about Michael Moore than anything else.
This is not at all the same thing. Ancient medicine was pre-scientific method and therefore they were throwing things at the wall and seeing what would stick with no eye to all the problems of informal research (confirmation bias, survivor's bias, correlation!=causation, etc.)

Modern Chemotherapy isn't someone just presuming something works through informal testing, void of any understanding of the fundamental mechanism by which it works.

It is a necessary evil. Chemotherapy is more akin to amputation of irretrievable mortified flesh than to blood letting.
I'm privileged enough that I can afford this without seriously impacting my lifestyle, and I have a sinking suspicion that if more millennials could, they'd also be car owners/drivers.

At 34, I'm at the upper end of the millennial age range, and I have had a car for the past decade. But I'm paying about $500/month extra rent for the privilege of living close to mass transit, and if it could efficiently get me everywhere I needed to go I would ditch my car in a heartbeat.

Or to put that another way: I would pay extra for the privilege of not owning a car. I suspect that in Vancouver at least, 20 years from now the strongest predictor of car ownership will be "too poor to live close to mass transit".
William S. Burroughs

Dead City Radio (1990)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pn79iNS-Js

Discipline of Do Easy (1982)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pjQ0FNzkLQ

Ah Pook (1979-Poem, 1994-Animation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3kz4AUHe1M

One of the 'beat poets' and pioneer of the "cut up", a semi-randomized collage of slicing, duplicating, and splicing media. The effect seems to create awareness of the medium itself.

(The Cut Ups, 1966)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq_hztHJCM4

Speaking on his Cut Ups (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NU3dIdqIBw